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Why the Amazing Race has lost its magic
smiley:
--- Quote from: RichInSydney on December 29, 2009, 12:20:16 AM ---
--- Quote from: smiley on December 28, 2009, 11:03:03 PM ---OMG! "Person 1 & Person 2, currently in last place"
They use the Free Pass
"Person 1 & Person 2, currently in 1st place"
AHA! All in a matter of seconds LOL!
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Ummm not quite... if they were the last 2 teams that means all the others could have finished that task already and already heading towards the next pitstop so how could they get to 1st place?
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Not true. What if all the teams are pretty close together...and the team that uses it are last or whatnot and use it and they skip ahead.
RichInSydney:
--- Quote from: smiley on December 29, 2009, 04:54:40 PM ---Not true. What if all the teams are pretty close together...and the team that uses it are last or whatnot and use it and they skip ahead.
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Well then the other teams will see that they are going to skip so they will have to decide whether to use their free skip or not. If they do, then it will be a close race to the finish line or to the next task.
They only get 1 free pass remember in the whole race so it brings a lot more strategy into it.
theschnauzers:
The amounts of money the teams seem to be getting nowadays doesn't seem to be enough as it is, as teams appear to be begging for cash, and I hate, hate, hate, teams having to beg. I didn't like stripping teams of their cash as an NEL penalty, so I don't like it for any other aspect of the Race.
Another name could be "Bypass."
Mister RC:
Fair enough. But there has to be something else that the racers could do to earn Fastrak, bypass, etc. I personally do not believe that these things should come to them for doing nothing. IMO, they shouldn't automatically get it at or near the start, they need to earn it.
They could do a small questionnaire. Could be a multiple choice on the events that has happened during the AR series so far, or during their race (as future teams would catch on). Whoever gets it right (the fastest) get the pass to be used whenever. Or if all the teams get it all right, then all the teams can claim that pass (with one team using it per leg).
Or, if that doesn't work, it could be like Survivors Hidden Immunity Idol, where teams would have to search around the area to find it, which would bring in "real" clues more often during the course of the race. BTW, I also think that it shouldn't be made available until the third leg or until they lose two teams, whichever comes second. With 10+ teams, if you can't beat at least one of them, then you don't deserve to continue racing. Yeah, bad luck happens and someone has to go first, but OTOH, the bypass or whatever won't guarantee a win, the F3, or a high finish outside the F3 (5th or 4th).
slayton:
What makes a season magical, special, or memorable, to me, are once-in-a-lifetime spectacles where real-life or real-emotion takes over and reality-tv or the race becomes almost an afterthought.
Locations, tasks, and race routes only meant something to me in TAR1. After the first season, I never cared much about where they went as long as I saw a spectacle somewhere along the way.
Even though I might not be a huge fan of certain seasons, like TAR2/TAR4/TAR6, I give them credit for at least being memorable to me because they all had an event or moment that I consider to be unique.
I appreciate TAR1-TAR7 and TAR14 for having these special moments, and that's how I remember seasons.
[*]TAR1: Everything was unique.
[*]TAR2: Oswald & Danny go shopping.
[*]TAR3: Diesel-gate, and Andre & Damon getting what I consider to be the scariest and worst taxi ride in the history of the race.
[*]TAR4: Female racers getting molested on Indian trains.
[*]TAR5: Colin and the police.
[*]TAR6: Jonathan & Victoria's blow-up.
[*]TAR7: Brian & Greg flipping and crashing their vehicle, and Meredith & Gretchen getting bloodied and battered.
[*]TAR14: Margie collapsing at the Pit-Stop, Margie & Luke and Kisha & Jen's physical and verbal explosion, and Kisha & Jen taking a bathroom break.
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I thank TAR13 for having Toni & Dallas lose their passports and for them to not be able to recover their passports in time to avoid elimination, but it's no longer unique because the same thing happened to Zev & Justin in TAR15.
The problem that I have with TAR8 to TAR12, TAR15, and TAR16 through 9 episodes, is that I haven't seen anything new that I consider to be on the same level as the events from TAR1 to TAR7 and TAR14. To me, the TAR8 to TAR12, TAR15, and TAR16 casts were/are just going through the motions and mailing it in.
I'm not expecting, and I don't want, another Brian & Greg-level crash every season.
I want to see fresh and exciting moments, which is what I love about TAR: US and TAR: Asia and what I think makes the show special and magical. If nothing happens in a season, then it's partly the fault of the casting directors, but the rest of the blame is entirely on the cast.
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