The Amazing Race > The Amazing Race Discussion
TAR17 starting line/finish line cities?
georgiapeach:
TOTAL AMEN TO THIS!!!
mswood:
Well with all the time for research people of done (tips, calling for permits, taking scraps of data to narrow down time frame and location sites to playing phone and email tag, to the actual physical time Chateau spent going through the airport, talking to the Shuttle services (and their workers) for tips and contact info.
Now that doesn't mean if they had a different location we wouldn't also be blessed with a resident in the area who would go that extra mile and do all that leg work (but I think we are very, very lucky) and get us things like pictures, talk to racers (buy them books) to get info for things like flights and next destination.
But clearly just the luck of the draw random camera/phone person who posts and tweets isn't going to do all that.
I mean seriously look at season 15, and the excellent footage chateau got. With all the behind the scenes detective work to get him to the actual starting line. To get the coverage he got there, to actually getting to the airport and get the coverage there as well.
Its extremely impressive.
DrRox:
+1
Dånooky:
--- Quote from: chill_sd on April 13, 2010, 09:01:15 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dånooky ✟ on April 13, 2010, 12:29:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: chill_sd on April 12, 2010, 05:08:02 PM ---I was just thinking, it would be interesting to see a new twist at the start, like putting a Road Block between the starting line and the airport.
--- End quote ---
License plates ring any bell? We all know how that turned out. :lol:
--- End quote ---
Oh, I completely agree. No eliminations at the starting line. My thought was something like this: They start at the Rose Bowl, and teams must make their way on foot to the Norton Simon Museum and locate a piece of art, which they have a detail of a face to match. Then they must correctly identify the city in the artwork. When they have correctly identified the city to a museum guard nearby, they are given their next clue which includes flight information. The first teams get the early flight, but no elimination. Then they pick a Mercedes from the parking lot and head to LAX.
--- End quote ---
The problem is, unless it's a two-hour opener, we get another " only 10-minutes in Japan" situation were the first destination is practically non-existent.
Caelestor:
I wonder why they don't bother to have 11 legs, but make the first leg slightly longer (not a full double-length) and make it two hours long. I'd much rather see more of the first country (provided it isn't a country that's constantly being reused) than the last. Another provision: don't hold two legs in the same city :groan:
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version