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Jobby:
I would use it at any one point when i know i'm in dead last and all the other teams have already somehow started on the task and looks like they're going to complete.

And yes, i know the simple morse code, but if you do a google search on how many percent of the Americans actually do know how to use the morse code.. i don't think you'll be pleased with the results. When teens can't even locate the US on the map.. *cough* Caite. LOL.

Mug Costanza:

--- Quote from: Joab on July 27, 2010, 10:17:30 AM ---As i've said before, I like U-TURNs but they freaking have to be side by side each other like in Season 12 (Lorena and Jason's) U-TURN. The team will already be losing undetermined amount of time performing another task, why make them lost more time travelling? And also, the other side of the U-TURN must be something that can be done and completed.. Seriously, who knows MORSE CODE? It made me piss when Joe and Heidi got eliminated and it is not because i liked them but because it is not their own fault that they were gone.
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I agree. The best U-Turn I can think of was the un-aired one in TAR13 at the Moscow military camp (Boots or Borscht). Both Detours were in the same compound, so teams wouldn't have wasted loads of time travelling between tasks.

For Express Pass, I think it'll be an actual, phyiscal pass that they can trade in for the next clue, as opposed to teams just looking in the camera and saying, "We choose to use our Express Pass." I mean, we're all just kinda guessing what it will do exactly, but we still don't know how to get one, how to use one, or even what it necessarily does. But if it does do what we think it does, I would hope that there would be a limit on a number of teams that can use the Express Pass on any give task, preferably 1.

Caelestor:
I do like the concept of the U-turn, but like the FF, it has to appear more frequently to have any sense of strategy, and the two tasks should be located near each other.

I personally think that Joe and Heidi had ample amounts of time to solve that Morse Code and beat Jeff and Jordan. It was only 25 characters, and they had the translation book. They just didn't tackle it methodically because being U-turned messed with their minds. My issue with that leg was there was only one major task, and there was pretty much no way to recover.

In classic TAR, the producers would have made the teams go on an epic 500 km+ drive from Hamburg to France, not use some mobile pitstop as a cheap way out. That alone would have made the episode more fun to watch.

The express pass will be a physical item that allows a team to bypass any one task up to a certain point in the race (Leg 8 maybe?).

Mug Costanza:
Caution!  :ot: Ahead.

In reality, I was really glad Joe & Heidi were U-Turned. I hated the way Joe interacted with his wife. Saying, "I'm the team leader" is fine with me, but saying that Heidi should do the Leg 2 Roadblock because it involves her being in the kitchen is pushing it. Then saying "Why would you U-Turn a guy with a busted knee and a wife?" over and over again at Elimination Station made me angry to no end. The way he said it made it seem like he thought of his wife as nothing more than an incumberence, that she was going to slow him down and keep him from winning the Race. I know people give Louie & Michael a hard time for doing it, but I think Joe needed to be taken down a peg.



Okay. Sorry about that. :)


I think it's good that the producers are still finding ways to implement new things into the Race. It keeps the Race from stagnating, and we haven't really seen anything new since TAR12. Express Pass sounds awesome, regardless of what it ends up being. I have yet to meet a twist I didn't like.  :tup: (Except the reduction of number of Fast Forwards, but that's not really much of a twist.)

georgiapeach:

--- Quote from: walkingpneumonia on July 27, 2010, 11:24:06 AM ---
--- Quote from: Joab on July 27, 2010, 10:17:30 AM ---Seriously, who knows MORSE CODE?

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I know morse code, as does anyone who was in the Boy Scouts or was an ham radio enthusiast (pre-internet nerd) during the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
Most people know at least 2 letters - s and o - so they can send an sos when their ship starts sinking...

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Detectives with skills...I love it!

I once knew all the semaphore signals...thanks to reading Arthur Ransome! But they are "Gone with the Wind" now  :'(

And just a reminder...we now have a thread available for Discussions of previous seasons...

http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,22643.msg540607.html#new

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