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Casting for Season 18?

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Coutzy:

--- Quote from: georgiapeach on July 21, 2010, 03:03:26 PM ---

Oh, I am pretty sure there is going to be a TAR 18. :tup:

But I have been hearing lots of "smoke" about some sort of atypical season...former racers??  but perhaps not an AllStars??  :duno:

Which could explain why no new applications have been released.


--- Quote from: K2Review on July 06, 2010, 02:00:02 PM ---It's feeling like it's very late to have not released season 18 applications.  Is there a chance that they're not producing a race for airing in Spring 2011?


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Champions Edition???

Cocoa:
hmmm... perhaps the reason why Bertram van Munster (or Jerry Bruckheimer?) tweeted days back asking people regarding their favorite task in the race.

kadilahopper:
I hope that  "smoke" is quickly extinguished Peach.  And I truly hope that there is not an all-star or a "past racer" edition coming up.  The first all-star was a fiasco for me.  The first time all those particular teams were on the race was really great.  The frat boys bickering, team guido's competitiveness, Rob's  little boy mischievousness. I could go on and on.  Each of the all-star teams were uniquely entertaining in their original season, but when they got to the all-stars, all their appeal had been lost.  They had lost that first season excitement.  I may be wrong, but it seemed that the teams were quite blase' about the all-star race.  Maybe they suffered the "been there, done that" mentality.  I definitely do not want a repeat of that season.  I want to see the excitement on the faces of ordinary people who have never been in front of the camera.  I want to see the race through their eyes, not through the eyes of someone who projects what they feel the viewer will like to see.  Keep us updated on any grapevine news Peach.  I appreciate your efforts.

apskip:
kadilahopper,

I agree that one of the worst seasons ever was AR11. These teams underperformed based on the expectations from their prior season:

John Vito/Jill
Kevin/Drew
Rob/Amber
Ian/Teri
Uchenna/Joyce

I would say that David/Mary did about as I expected (little) and Oswald/Danny and Eric/anyone(in this case Danielle) the same as I expected. Joe/Bill did worse in actual results but I like them a lot more in AR11 than I did in AR1, so they achieved some redemption away from their villain role.

Teams that did better than I expected were Mirna/Charla  and Dustin/Kandice.

mswood:
Apskip

See I have to disagree (not about the quality of season 11) but about how the teams performed.  Really only three teams surprised me at all.  I expected John Vito & Jill to go out about 3rd or 4th (they never raced that well in their own season) but I was surprised to see them booted first.  I was surprised that Teri & Ian did as well as they did (they started exceptionally poorly and took nearly 2/3rd of a season to get good the first time though they did get eliminated about where I expected).  ANd I was surprised that Rob & Amber were gone in leg 4 (I would have guessed leg 7).  As not only did they race teams with experience, but the world has gotten a lot more wise to TAR and its cast.  So their fame wouldn't be as much as a factor as it was the first time.

Really for myself the problems with season  11 are four fold.

1.  Knowing in advance the boot list of every single team.  That really killed any drama.

2.  The Poor planning with flights (not poor choices like Uchenna & joyce's) that effected in reality three episodes and took even more drama away from each of those episodes.

3. The use of the extra tasks.  Having teams able to use a Fast Forward more then once.  Yuck.  Having an Intersection on a leg that already features a 4 hour separation.  Yuck.  And the unusual placement (if legitimate) of the Non eliminations.

4.  The casting.  For something that was promoted as the Best of the Best, they weren't even close.  Based on performance not even half the teams should have been cast.  And in trying to create a Best of cast that also came close to the typical cast of a season (An older team, a gay team, an african american team, fir female teams, an everyman team, fit younger teams, ect) they didn't real cast that well. 

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