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EP 12 East Coast FINALE updates and commentary **please read the rules**
furybaby:
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--- Quote from: Joab on December 12, 2010, 08:33:07 PM ---I'm still busking in SHOCKED & HAPPINESS right now! Best finale ending EVER! It beats all the exciting finishes or what!! :cmas26
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Really, seriously. Now obviously you are pleased about the results (and I can certainly understand being jazzed for the team you want to win), but dramatically there wasn't much real drama as the race wasn't close.
I think most seasons have had more dramatic endings (even when I really didn't like the team that won at all, and god knows thats happened a time or two), this very well might be the most boring finale for a cycle.
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It might not have been ur favorite but at least u can still compliment on
it, i feel like ur bashing on it, just be happy an F/F won, it might not be
the BEST finale but it is a finale and it's NOT boring -__-
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I have already stated that the team did a great job, and that I like all the teams (so I had no issue with any of the teams winning, as I usually judge based on racing average and all teams were very close), but I found the episode to be possible the most boring finale TAR has produced. Is it the first final episode where at no time did the team in first not remain in first? Possibly.
This is nothing to do with who won, are how teams behaved (I already sad I loved that about this season), I also comment that I have only disliked one task for the full season, so I didn't dislike the tasks here.
I just found the episode lacking drama or tension.
Take season 15 (a season I didn't like that much) but I at least liked all three teams in the finale, but I found that episode far more appealing as it was neck and neck, all three teams at some point in Vegas were in 1st, and all three teams were at the final task directly in competition with each other. I find that dramatic.
It's like watching sports. I don't want to watch a one sided game (of whatever sport it is), no matter who is winning. I am a Raider's fan and tehy killed Denver earlier this year scoring more points then they have ever done so before in history (and Denver scored poorly), as much as I wanted my team to win (which they did) I was so bored I turned the game off. It wasn't dramatic. It's the same principle.
Season two for example had the famous foot race, and that was a nail bitting finale and I didn't like either team. But I was on the edge of my seat watching the whole time. That didn't occur for me this episode, and not even just at the end but pretty much from leaving the bungee.
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I see, I'm not sure if there is actually a way to make it more dramatic, they even let a confessional before B/C comes.
mswood:
--- Quote from: TARAsia Fan on December 12, 2010, 11:06:02 PM ---I've only seen the first two episodes and the finale tonight and this was the result I was hoping for.
Hopefully, I'll be able to see TAR18 in its entirety. Unfinished Business isn't the best title, but I like the teams there.
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That would explain why we haven't seen you much.
AmazingRace:
--- Quote from: Joab on December 12, 2010, 08:21:24 PM ---First time we got eliminated teams got screentime?
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In Season 16, Louie & Michael and Jordan & Jeff also gave some words at the Finish Line.
All-Stars 2 would have sounded much cooler! Unfinished Business is just so...ugh.. :cmas5
Too bad they did'nt use the dramatic music for the race to the Finish Line this season. :cmas4
mswood:
furybaby
Yeah Nat & Kat just ran a really strong leg, factor in everything else and teams just weren't close. With nearly twenty minutes of footage left we all should have been able to see not only who won, but also how 2nd and third would fall.
I don't think any finale as ever been that way before. Earlier season always had an some form of designed bunching (even when it didn't always bunch teams together, season 4 is a good example). And once they moved to having all tasks after you arrive in the final city (thank you), we have never had such wide distance separate teams. Even last year, with the big lead Dan & Jordan got out of the gate, Jet & Cord caught up (and then fall back behind). But even then, all the teams didn't have such a wide level of separation.
And make no mistake, I would have a hundred finales like this, then going back to having designed bunching in the final episode. I always, always hated that. THis way the team that raced better wins. In early seasons as long as you got to the bunching point in time, you only had to perform great in a small part of the leg. Here for example Nat & Kat did great all through the leg with only a couple tiny hick ups.
This way a team wins or loses based off their performance, their choices and of course luck.
Even if I would rather see a close race (in legs designed like this) I would never change the format they have had since season 12.
DrRox:
--- Quote from: AmazingRace on December 13, 2010, 12:47:33 AM --- All-Stars 2 would have sounded much cooler! Unfinished Business is just so...ugh.. :cmas5
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Amazing Race...........just how would you define an Amazing Race All Star........what attributes would they possess to be called a TAR All Star?
Or anyone else can answer also.....just what would be a TAR All Star.....
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