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Why the Amazing Race has lost its magic
georgiapeach:
You might what to take a look through the home page, claudia? We have a whole list of reality and non-reality shows to follow. :jam:
docol:
The Amazing Race has NOT lost its magic..! IT's the best rality ever...!!!!!!!! Go TAR.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :hearts: :jumpy:
Jobby:
I thought TAR 15 and TAR 16 went downhill.. but i gotta give credit to the finale of TAR 15.. it kept me on the edge of my seat.. it was so exciting and you really didn't know who will win until the last 5 to 10 minutes. But the entire season was hard to get through, i gotta admit.
TAR 16 was boring as a whole for the entire season. The only storyline that they can focus on was the fight between the lesbians and the detectives + CAITE. All the other teams lived in their shadows. As compared to TAR 14 where although there was animosity between Kisha/Jen and Margie/Luke, Margie/Luke, Cara/Jaime, Tammy/Victor had their own individual stories and also all the other teams had their fair share of edit and story as well.
I still believe in TAR, having waited 7 seasons from Season 7 to Season 14 to find back my passion for the show.. what's 2 seasons of downhill?? :lol:
Mister RC:
I'm in pretty much total agreement with Joab. At least as it stands now. It's funny, because I didn't think TAR14 was super-awesome when it aired. It was very good, but nothing like TAR7 or the like. Of course, fast forward to a year and 2 seasons later, and TAR14 looks like super-awesome. Following a season full of one team dominating most of the race and another team dominating most of the other part of the race the winning team didn't dominate, it was pretty competitive, while full of back stories and very awesome people (who were very awesome outside of the race).
Then came TAR15, and yet another season where one team dominated. I guess I enjoyed it before the season since Maria & Tiffany were racing. Sadly, they got screwed as much as they got very lucky to survive on a couple of occasions. TAR16 was okay compared to 15, as it was a spring season and it was a near-even level playing field. What sucked was the bad blood that was injected into the season; the very end was pretty much the last straw (which I meant so much upon the conclusion of TAR16, more than today). Fortunately, we're at the 10th anniversary of TAR, or will be sometime this TV year.
Now, what am about to say might sound dumb, but I think TAR needs to lose the Emmy in order to win in the long run (like losing the battle in order to see and fix what went wrong so that you can win the war). What I mean is that there hasn’t been a lot of effort put into the show over the past few seasons. However, if TAR keeps winning, no one is going to change anything because they think that they're doing something right. OTOH, with a loss, it might be a sign for the producers to restart and put a spark back into the show to best bring TAR back to its glory days.
Of course, TAR would be on life support if they lost tonight (8/29) or whenever. However, an Emmy win doesn't guarantee its survival, but just helps it a lot (and has 7 years later after nearly getting canceled).
ETA: Should've been clearer on this elsewhere, but when saying TAR needs to lose the Emmy, I didn't actually mean I want to see TAR lose (in order to win). I just think it's necessary as a wake up call to get the show back to better days. Hopefully there are other ways to get this done, sans losing the Emmy. Of course, with mswood reminding me of something I've made mention to in the past, if the criteria is based on what you submit, then TAR really can't lose. If it's the overall picture? no guarantees.
Cocoa:
--- Quote from: revengefullycreative on August 29, 2010, 12:57:55 PM ---I'm in pretty much total agreement with Joab. At least as it stands now. It's funny, because I didn't think TAR14 was super-awesome when it aired. It was very good, but nothing like TAR7 or the like. Of course, fast forward to a year and 2 seasons later, and TAR14 looks like super-awesome. Following a season full of one team dominating most of the race and another team dominating most of the other part of the race the winning team didn't dominate, it was pretty competitive, while full of back stories and very awesome people (who were very awesome outside of the race).
Then came TAR15, and yet another season where one team dominated. I guess I enjoyed it before the season since Maria & Tiffany were racing. Sadly, they got screwed as much as they got very lucky to survive on a couple of occasions. TAR16 was okay compared to 15, as it was a spring season and it was a near-even level playing field. What sucked was the bad blood that was injected into the season; the very end was pretty much the last straw (which I meant so much upon the conclusion of TAR16, more than today). Fortunately, we're at the 10th anniversary of TAR, or will be sometime this TV year.
Now, what am about to say might sound dumb, but I think TAR needs to lose the Emmy in order to win in the long run (like losing the battle in order to see and fix what went wrong so that you can win the war). What I mean is that there hasn’t been a lot of effort put into the show over the past few seasons. However, if TAR keeps winning, no one is going to change anything because they think that they're doing something right. OTOH, with a loss, it might be a sign for the producers to restart and put a spark back into the show to best bring TAR back to its glory days.
Of course, TAR would be on life support if they lost tonight (8/29) or whenever. However, an Emmy win doesn't guarantee its survival, but just helps it a lot (and has 7 years later after nearly getting canceled).
ETA: Should've been clearer on this elsewhere, but when saying TAR needs to lose the Emmy, I didn't actually mean I want to see TAR lose (in order to win). I just think it's necessary as a wake up call to get the show back to better days. Hopefully there are other ways to get this done, sans losing the Emmy. Of course, with mswood reminding me of something I've made mention to in the past, if the criteria is based on what you submit, then TAR really can't lose. If it's the overall picture? no guarantees.
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GOOD JOB. NOW YOU GET YOUR WISH. :res: :res: :res:
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