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Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« on: March 14, 2015, 10:34:18 AM »
What makes you cringe/annoyed? Something about the teams? World Race Productions' decisions? Anything? I'll start:

-when teams like Chester/Ephraim (TAR23) Jon/Harley (TAR26) fall so far behind and kill all suspense, but both instances saved some likeable teams imo!
-when they decide to make the first legs as linear as possible (TAR26 and basically any other recent premieres)

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2015, 10:53:57 AM »
TAR24


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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2015, 11:02:09 AM »
When non-eliminated teams have very slim chances to catch up :groan:

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2015, 11:39:58 AM »

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2015, 11:43:55 AM »
Making hard & intriguing legs NELs.


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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2015, 11:48:38 AM »
Making hard & intriguing legs NELs.
TAR 21 Leg 5 - a physically demanding leg.
TAR 24 Leg 9 - I remember this leg having so many random ARI's and tasks?
TAR 25 Leg 4 - hard/great challenges.

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2015, 02:28:05 PM »
The fact that production has been cutting out all of the ugly American moments.

Granted, being an ugly American is not a good thing and people shouldn't do it, but people do still do it and I thought that it made for good television. At this point, it seems like we'll never get a repeat of TAR10 Rob yelling at his Vietnamese taxi driver, because everyone is now picture-perfect to foreigners.

At least we still have goofy American moments
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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2015, 02:42:28 PM »
Making hard & intriguing legs NELs.
TAR 21 Leg 5 - a physically demanding leg.
TAR 24 Leg 9 - I remember this leg having so many random ARI's and tasks?
TAR 25 Leg 4 - hard/great challenges.

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2015, 07:00:00 PM »
Bringing back teams that don't deserve to be brought back and listening too much to the casual fans when it comes to recasting of teams. So basically TAR24 in a nutshell.
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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2015, 07:12:20 PM »
Boring all-male teams like Bates/Anthony, Chester/Ephraim,  Art/JJ, Brandon/Adam, and many more.

We need more all-male teams like Leo & Jamal, Bopper & Mark, Joey & Danny, etc.


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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2015, 10:00:55 PM »
CaroJen & 2nd EP :gaah: (:;)

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2015, 10:29:46 PM »
TAR24

THIS.  :funny:
+1

The new editing. :gaah: The editors have discarded pieces of TAR tradition like Pit Starts, Phil announcing Pit Stop placements, and suspenseful music. I still can't live down "Season 18" (TAR24 ref).
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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2015, 10:47:15 PM »
Bringing back teams that don't deserve to be brought back and listening too much to the casual fans  SPONSORS when it comes to recasting of teams. So basically TAR24 in a nutshell.

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2015, 12:54:52 AM »
TAR24

THIS.  :funny:
+1

The new editing. :gaah: The editors have discarded pieces of TAR tradition like Pit Starts, Phil announcing Pit Stop placements, and suspenseful music. I still can't live down "Season 18" (TAR24 ref).
Also not all teams are shown actually departing. And the new way of introducing tasks on the spot sucks.

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2015, 02:56:26 AM »
Introducing tasks on the spot <3 Teams not actually shown departing </3

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2015, 06:30:05 AM »
make the first legs as linear as possible (TAR26 and basically any other recent premieres)

I thought TAR26 premiere is not that linear  :)
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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #16 on: March 15, 2015, 09:31:49 AM »
When teams hop on the mat together with both feet. I honestly have to turn away when this happens.

Casting models, actors, semi celebrities, or any on the spot casting from SoCal. Give me some real people!

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #17 on: March 15, 2015, 10:27:05 AM »
I have so many TAR Pet Peeves that I want to bitch and moan.  :gaah: :gaah: :gaah: (:;) (:;) (:;)

Route: Lackluster route like TAR21 (First half was all basically third world countries scenic leg.) and TAR24 (First 8 leg was the 4 consecutive double leg in one country).

Task: Uninspired, unbalanced, ridiculous, boring, dull or easy task like TAR16 Chile 2, TAR16 France 1 WW1 Detour, TAR18 Austria Chimney RB, TAR20 Tanzania 1 minute Jumping, TAR21 Indonesia task, TAR21 & TAR24 Spain bull task, every Switchback task so far (except My Ox is Broken switchback IMO), and more...

Cast: I have problem with the cast especially on the M/M team and M/F team.
1) Rude, Douche, or Obnoxious: Reichen & Chip, Jonathan & Victoria, BJ & Tyler, Eric & Jeremy, Globetrotters, Cowboy Jet, Louie & Michael, Art & JJ, and more...
2) Boring: David & Jeff, Kris & Jon, TK & Rachel, Toni & Dallas, Gary & Matt, Jeremy & Sandy, ...
3) Please no/less gimmick or (semi) famous celebrity/mactor into TAR, we want more normal and real people in TAR. (Eg. Linda & Karen, Oswald & Danny, Tammy & Victor, Nat & Kat, JenKisha, Chuck & Wyona, Shelly & Nici, Amy & Maya, Hayley & Blair, CJ & Lebya, Jeff & Lyda, ...)

Editing: Editing was gone down south since TAR18 or TAR19 (Background music has been cheesy & fun and not dramatic, anticlimactic editing, Pit Stop editing, TBC editing, ...)

Twist: U-Turn (Placing RIGHT before the Pit Stop or placing in the leg that U-Turned team was 100% impossible to catch up), Speedbump (90%++ was too easy, while the other was ridiculously tricky that the Speedbump team was impossible to catch up).

I'm done. :lol:
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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #18 on: March 15, 2015, 06:03:03 PM »
Making hard & intriguing legs NELs.
TAR 21 Leg 5 - a physically demanding leg.
TAR 24 Leg 9 - I remember this leg having so many random ARI's and tasks?
TAR 25 Leg 4 - hard/great challenges.

Kuala Lumpur Leg in S24

Nah that leg was a terrible design with the bunch, wtf

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2015, 02:25:22 AM »
Making hard & intriguing legs NELs.
TAR 21 Leg 5 - a physically demanding leg.
TAR 24 Leg 9 - I remember this leg having so many random ARI's and tasks?
TAR 25 Leg 4 - hard/great challenges.

Kuala Lumpur Leg in S24

Nah that leg was a terrible design with the bunch, wtf

What I meant was the Detour in Kuala Lumpur was very hard and then it was a non Elim


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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2015, 03:08:03 AM »
When a team falls behind and kills all of the suspense, that is the WORST case.
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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2015, 03:30:27 AM »
To be fair, the editing DID try to show teams extremely behind that they still had a shot no matter how small. Sure, a team really behind kills suspense, but you can't say the editors didn't even try (ignore TAR24's entirety).

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2015, 04:48:15 AM »
When detour sides aren't designed equally.

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2015, 05:04:23 AM »
When detour sides aren't designed equally.

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Re: Your Biggest TAR Pet Peeves?
« Reply #24 on: March 16, 2015, 06:07:23 AM »
People on RFF making up their minds on a season after only four episodes in  :funny: