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Why the Amazing Race has lost its magic
Ashe:
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--- Quote from: Snooky101 on April 05, 2009, 08:41:02 AM ---
--- Quote ---Just a question and something to ponder on... Don't you think that this season's TAR is kinda following the editing style of TARA? I was rewatching the 3rd season of TARA and have found completely similar editing sequences (especially LONG PREVIOUSLY ON TAR...), minus all of those split screens, new music etc...
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Ya, I think it is a little similar. I also think that they might be using different cameras this season. I have never found TAR Asia to have as good editing as TAR though.
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I must agree that TARA editing is miles below TAR's supremacy in reality television editing.
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Gee, I don't agree at all. Sure, it's sometimes confusing, but unlike with U.S. TAR, at least TARA tries to give everyone else as even screentime as possible and let you get to know all the teams as much as you can, whereas TAR only gives the bulk of the airtime to the longer-lasting teams and almost completely shafts the earlier-exiting ones. (Case in point: Preston & Jennifer, Brad & Victoria, and Amanda & Kris this season. Of the early-eliminated teams, only Steve & Linda got mondo screentime.)
Hooky:
--- Quote from: Ashe on April 11, 2009, 09:28:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mooyou on April 05, 2009, 09:35:04 AM ---
--- Quote from: Snooky101 on April 05, 2009, 08:41:02 AM ---
--- Quote ---Just a question and something to ponder on... Don't you think that this season's TAR is kinda following the editing style of TARA? I was rewatching the 3rd season of TARA and have found completely similar editing sequences (especially LONG PREVIOUSLY ON TAR...), minus all of those split screens, new music etc...
--- End quote ---
Ya, I think it is a little similar. I also think that they might be using different cameras this season. I have never found TAR Asia to have as good editing as TAR though.
--- End quote ---
I must agree that TARA editing is miles below TAR's supremacy in reality television editing.
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Gee, I don't agree at all. Sure, it's sometimes confusing, but unlike with U.S. TAR, at least TARA tries to give everyone else as even screentime as possible and let you get to know all the teams as much as you can, whereas TAR only gives the bulk of the airtime to the longer-lasting teams and almost completely shafts the earlier-exiting ones. (Case in point: Preston & Jennifer, Brad & Victoria, and Amanda & Kris this season. Of the early-eliminated teams, only Steve & Linda got mondo screentime.)
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Yeah, I agree. I would rather have fairness in editing even if it's slightly confusing. It makes it harder to predict and more interesting. I was really unhappy about the imbalanced editing in this season, but it's not over yet.
Of course, all the teams they ignore except Kisha & Jen are gone so it's too late to make up for it now.
Dånooky:
--- Quote from: Ashe on April 11, 2009, 09:28:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mooyou on April 05, 2009, 09:35:04 AM ---
--- Quote from: Snooky101 on April 05, 2009, 08:41:02 AM ---
--- Quote ---Just a question and something to ponder on... Don't you think that this season's TAR is kinda following the editing style of TARA? I was rewatching the 3rd season of TARA and have found completely similar editing sequences (especially LONG PREVIOUSLY ON TAR...), minus all of those split screens, new music etc...
--- End quote ---
Ya, I think it is a little similar. I also think that they might be using different cameras this season. I have never found TAR Asia to have as good editing as TAR though.
--- End quote ---
I must agree that TARA editing is miles below TAR's supremacy in reality television editing.
--- End quote ---
Gee, I don't agree at all. Sure, it's sometimes confusing, but unlike with U.S. TAR, at least TARA tries to give everyone else as even screentime as possible and let you get to know all the teams as much as you can, whereas TAR only gives the bulk of the airtime to the longer-lasting teams and almost completely shafts the earlier-exiting ones. (Case in point: Preston & Jennifer, Brad & Victoria, and Amanda & Kris this season. Of the early-eliminated teams, only Steve & Linda got mondo screentime.)
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I'd say the prime example of this in TARA would be the end of Season 3, even though Sam & Vince had already won, they took time to show Ida & Tania's leg instead of the U.S. version who totally forgets about the 3rd place team mid-episode.
Ashe:
--- Quote from: Coutzy on April 05, 2009, 01:24:16 AM ---You need the Colin and Christie/Nick and Starr (Anybody else notice how the two most dominant teams in history aren't M/M teams?) teams to keep the unexpected results in perspective, and to keep them that much more amazing.
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Nick & Starr dominated only because all the other teams sucked. They were merely lucky in that regard. Were they up against way more competitive teams, they would've been out long before the F3.
woden:
Watch the first ep of TAR 7 where the teams are riding in the back of trucks through backwoods Peru with locals. Nothing like that happens on TAR anymore. That's why it's lost it's magic -- it has a pre-packaged feel from the tasks to the means of travel to the teams to the locations.
Also, love them or hate them, TAR has not been able to recreate the casting magic of Rob/Amber, who turned race strategy into an art form.
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