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Best Amazing Race Season to Date
mswood:
As for the seasons I like, well it's funny my favorite racers are not in my favorite seasons.
I have a hard time picking between seasons two and five. And in both of those seasons I never really liked two many of the teams, he'll in season five I disliked a lot of the teams.
Then it would be between seasons one and three. Season one also featured a lot if teams I really didn't care for, but race itself, locations and newness were excellent. Season three I really started warming up to the racers, and there seemed to be a lot of internal interaction with teams.
Next would be probably season ten, seventeen and fourteen. All three had interesting tasks, locations and enough racers and their unteractjns for me to really love.
Next would be season seven. I hate Rob and amber, but they were entertaining, but I really felt their status gave them a significant advantage over other teams. At least with the two teams from big brother, they aren't going to be recognized as big brother us doesn't play much overseas and also has a much, much smaller audience the survivor.
Next would be season six, which had some great legs and one of the worst designed legs, one had what three or four full points of equalization. Yuck! But it also had my second favorite team, of course it also had the team I hate the most.
Next would be seasons nine and four. I really loved the course and tasks of four, but I really disliked having what six thousand all male teams. Just as I complained about season 17 having too many female teams, even if I liked them. Season four is the same just with men and even more of them. Yikes. Season nine I liked it had several legs I loved but Eric and Jeremy and to a lesser degree, even though they did win, BJ and Tyler just wiped the floor with the other teams. My favorite racers, Eric And Jeremy because they always raced. It didn't matter if they were a day ahead they still ran from point A to point B. I wouldn't be friends with this team, but s racers they were tops.
Next would be season fifteen, I truly disliked the two known teams, and yeah when you get recognized in public then I hate it. And a fairly paint by numbers course.
Then we have all stars, hated how they cast, hated that alpha male teams were never considered, hated the episodes ruined by travel issues. It's one thing when a team takes travel risks, but it's another when productions plains or poor. Plus the course just wasn't that good.
Next would be seasons twelve, first of the shorter seasons so that already posses me off, and disliked that racers actually new each other. Didn't something like four teams have a prior history of some sort. Also hated it due to the u turn. I don't carre which team wins or loses, but I hate it when production allows teams to deliberately impair another team. Just nasty, nasty behavior and this applies as well to the yield. I liked it when this shows was above such manufactured drama.
Then that's leaves us with seasons sixteen and thirteen. thirteen I liked several teams, didn't care much for the course. Just didn't care for it. sixteen I like a few teams a lot, but I hated that so many mistakes were made, hated the behavior of a few teams, and i hated that so many teams just didn't seem to go all out.
That leaves us with the family editn, here I like almost every team. Three of the teams i utterly loved. But with four racers on a team it was very difficult to get a read on individuals. Also hated, hated all the points of equalization, worse then any season. Had a few really nice legs, and I loved the final leg, it actually had some difficult tasks to it. But the negatives really over power the positives.
mswood:
One other thing, something that really makes a difference for me as a fan. It's a race, being able to go from point A to point B is huge. So seasons with little self navigation are not going to be ones I like. Seasons one through eleven feature a lot of driving. Teams having to get themselves from point a to b, it's one of the things that has really hurt modern tar in my opinion, though thankfully the last two seasons have had some.
Jobby:
I like your analysis mswood. It's always good to see what different people have different perspectives with regards to different seasons.
For me, Season 7 was the worst for me to watch. With teams like Susan and Patrick, Ray and Deana, Rob and Amber, Ron and Kelly, Lynn and Alex who were all so quarrelsome, it became hard for me to watch them.. if Uchenna and Joyce didn't win.. i would have hated that season. The route was lame (route was like travelling in a circle??) and there was barely ANY asian countries (which i think all race should feature at least one Southeast Asia leg) as well as a LAME finale.. remember Little Havana?
But for me, the worst season for me would be Season 9. I hated Alpha male teams and it was hard for me to watch Eric and Jeremy. They weren't as bad as BJ and Tyler though.. these two are NOT hilarious at all and plain annoying for me. I'm SO GLAD they were not invited back for ANY of the Allstars. Had they not win, i think they would have a chance of coming back.. and i'm glad they won and stayed away from my TV screen. The teams were bad as well.. so many teams quarreling internally within themselves. It makes me think the only nice racers on that race would be Dave and Lori and Wanda and Desiree.. all who were eliminated early.
Season 16 was somewhat hard to watch as well. After Steve and Allie got eliminated. The only team i really cared for were the cowboys. But even with the cowboys, i didn't actually like them and wouldn't have cared if they won or not. The rest of the teams in the final five were just not as nice as the other seasons. You know, you can have internal rivalry within the teams and the race still interesting? TAR 16's internal rivalry was just plain pointless, stupid and childish. They should learn from TAR 5, TAR 7, TAR 8, TAR 10, TAR 11 and TAR 14. All these seasons had internal rivalry within the final few teams but it was at least interesting and not painful to watch...
inomu:
I'm probably only one whose favourite season is season 6. Don't worry, I will explain. First, I think that locations in that season were perfect. They visited in 7 new countries! And in previously visited countries they visited places that weren't visited before and I think those were interesting places: Xian, Shanghai, Corsica and Berlin.
And of course the teams of that season were very interesting. Season 6 is known for it's fighting couples of Johnathan & Victoria, Adam & Rebecca and Lori & Bolo and for crazy females of Hayden and Kendra. And then there was calm and cool couple of Kris & Jon and all-female favourite Lena & Kristy. I think all these teams made the season very interesting, there was always drama and teams were far from boring. The happiness of Kris and Jon always reminded that there's also goodness in this world :lol:
And the teams didn't never fight against each other, there was only conflicts inside the teams. So the chemistry between the teams was friendly (most of the time, there were yields and Freddy's head injury).
Only thing that I don't like in that season is that it had wrong winners but you can't always get what you want :D
mswood:
No actually purely on route and tasks, season 6 is one of my favorites. Unfortunately for me the teams were often too caustic for me to stand.
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