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TAR 17 EP 1 "They Don't Call it the Amazing Race for Nothin'!" (Premiere)
Slowhatch:
All the cars had Michigan plates. I'm sure it was a sponsored plug, but still...there are plenty of smart-car dealerships in Mass. where vehicles could have been arranged at a much lower cost.
The plate numbering looks non-standard, and I'm not sure about the yellow letter decals.
Dånooky:
--- Quote from: Slowhatch on September 27, 2010, 09:45:39 PM ---and I'm not sure about the yellow letter decals.
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I think those are used to keep track of which team drives which car, I remember seeing something similar in TAR3 during the dieselgate episode
Chateau d If:
Mat location for this leg of the race:
Chateau d If:
Thanks to Jill:
This shot was taken between 11:16 and 11:28 am (assumes May 27th).
krabbe:
cuse.
--- Quote from: slayton on September 27, 2010, 06:24:40 PM ---I thought the episode was well paced, which always makes an episode appear good on the surface.
After thinking about what actually happened on the episode, however, I thought it was only decent.
The boat task was the only thing that I liked.
I didn't like that teams went to Stonehenge just to grab a clue.
It didn't look like teams had difficulty with climbing a ladder and getting doused.
If someone didn't get hit in the face with a watermelon, I wouldn't have found the roadblock to have been that interesting.
I've never found it to be interesting when teams get lost while driving on maintained roads.
I love it when teams get lost while driving in the middle of nowhere, like the desert in TAR1 & TAR2, or when they're traveling by foot.
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Now that I've rewatched it, I agree. The producers got lucky with the watermelon hit, because it was such a random task. The boat thing was good because it wasn't as easy as it looked, it required skill and patience. As for Stonehenge, I think it's a logistical nightmare to have a task there. But I find it weird that the teams had a hard time finding it. They're in an English speaking country, the motorways are well marked, & they had maps. Being "on the wrong side of the road" is not really an excuse. Still an exciting episode, though.
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