For me, this season isn't the best... and probably the worst.
Here're the things pulling TAR24 down. (IMO)
1.) Two-thirds of the race visited 4 countries only.
2.) Three continents for an
all-star season.3.) Even though I liked almost all of the teams towards their respective ends, the cast from the beginning wasn't very...
*sigh*
4.) The flights in legs 3 and 4.
(I don't like TAR doing the flights for them, but if they have to, I hope they wouldn't pull the teams too far apart.)
5.) Leg 1 task design.
6.) Hybrid team
downfall. (I'm not against all hybrid teams.)
7.) SLT without a little penalty or big time consumption. (at least the latter, like the one in TAR20)
8.) Lack of new countries.
9.) Some of the tasks are pretty boring.
10.) Shortened intro in all episodes save the first and the last.
11.) 3-peaters. (I like them all towards the end, but I would definitely want to see the "other" teams more, or their racing experiences wouldn't be equal at all.)
What made the season a little better (but still couldn't make up from the season's bad burns): (IMO)
1.) Drama, which is always lurking around in almost every season.
2.) Some new records in TAR history. (definitely there almost all the time)
3.) The great locations: Orvieto (not the leg drama please), Switzerland, Seville, Malaysia night leg, Finale night leg
4.) The close pit stop finishes.
5.) Leg 10 is the best. (IMO)
6.) Finale as night leg!
7.) Some tasks are good. (Unfortunately, most of them are bad or boring.
)
What TAR
should do:
1.)
Make Leg 1 better!!! (I hope a member from the task design team sees this, at least this.)2.) Make new twists and bring back the great classic twists (midpoint elimination (even if it's not in leg 1), yield, intersection, etc...)
3.) New NEL penalty, (I'm tired of the speedbump, who isn't? They changed the ones from the earlier season, so I think they should change from time to time.)
4.) A better penultimate leg. (I got bored with that episode I wasn't able to write a commentary/review for it.)
There's a lot more and I can't remember all of them. I know most people here will add the winners which they don't like (and which I'm fine with) and Leg 6 (which is just an "okay" leg for me).
For me TAR24 is the worst season.
But I hope TAR25 will be great!
How about you? How's the season overall?