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Why the Amazing Race has lost its magic
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--- 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.
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Ashe:
To state that Ken/Tina at 7 to 10 minutes behind at the Finish Line or Toni/Dallas sucked is pretty blatant. I thought AR13 was plenty competitive even though Nick/Starr won the majority of the important legs. I will guess that you must have been thinking aobut Dan/Andrew, whose main function was to provide comic relief.
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Coutzy:
--- Quote from: apskip on April 13, 2009, 08:54:37 AM ---
--- Quote from: Ashe on April 12, 2009, 02:26:05 PM ---
--- 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.
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Ashe:
To state that Ken/Tina at 7 to 10 minutes behind at the Finish Line or Toni/Dallas sucked is pretty blatant. I thought AR13 was plenty competitive even though Nick/Starr won the majority of the important legs. I will guess that you must have been thinking aobut Dan/Andrew, whose main function was to provide comic relief.
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hear, hear.
Kenny and Tina were (for me, anyway) The BJ and Tyler of TAR 13, always just behind the dominant force.
And Toni and Dallas were a well oiled racing machine, miles better than Ronald and Christina, who made final 3.
The only teams in series 13 that put in really forgettable performances were Dandrew, Anthony and Stephanie and Aja and Ty. All the other teams had distinct high points in their race.
Dånooky:
--- Quote from: mwoden on April 13, 2009, 08:27:10 AM ---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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If you call bribery, strategy...I think that ain't gonna happen anymore, you see how negatively peple here react to Mark & Michael's pump hiding last leg and while some people still criticize the use of the U-Turn...Actually, now that I think of it, it's sad that most of the time teams in TAR strategize they're showcased like "evil"
Neobie:
I heard this analogy on TWoP way back in Season 2: TAR should be run like a marathon or a motor race - you should do everything within the rules to get yourself ahead, but not anything to put others behind.
TAR7 Rob crossed the line from time to time, but my favourite racer for fourteen seasons? Still Blake and his zany schemes by a margin! (Metal detectors in the night, rhinoceros gifts, shortcuts to the mat...)
Oh how I took the Peruvian trucks for granted back in TAR7... OK the locals were planted, but... they give such a warm fuzzy feeling that's so hard to come by nowadays!
And TAR:A? Pfft. It takes the weaknesses of TAR and then magnifies them! (Adopting the U-Turn and placing it at the worst possible place, culturally-comatose tasks like paintball in Thailand, taxi-taxi-drive-taxi-drive...) It seems like the producers aren't trying very hard - I've seen school races organized by grade kids that are that much more professional - and I'm not kidding.
Dånooky:
TARA usually gets better once they reach the final 6
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