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Are tasks too easy
Rogue:
--- Quote from: slayton on December 16, 2010, 07:32:45 PM ---I will say that the task of installing a TV antenna wasn't particularly difficult on TAR17, because I've watched my neighbors install bigger antennas on the pitched roofs of their 2.5 story houses. If my neighbors fell off their roofs, they'd likely be going to the hospital. The TAR17 houses might have required ladders, but they didn't look dangerously high to me.
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Ask Conner and Jonathan how hard it is to install an antenna.
Caelestor:
Actually, when you look at the earliest seasons, the tasks were in general far easier than they are now. Detours were a choice between a fast but scary way vs. the slow but safe way; plus, there was no roadblock limit. The only difference was that the route infos were actually clues. I believe the hardest tasks came during TAR 5-10. It appears that as a tradeoff, the tasks have become slightly easier, but there's more indirect clues as a callback to TAR 1.
Besides, not all tasks have to be difficult to be good/memorable. I mean, Count the Money or Run the Numbers was actually a pretty simple task, no extreme logic involved...yet, it's still arguably my most favorite detour in TAR's history.
krabbe:
I agree that the tasks have been getting repetitive. I'm getting bored with the bungee jumping & rapelling.
Overall I prefer TAR to have a good balance of brains & muscle tasks. I also like clues that are not straightforward, like the finale Don Quixote clue or the Black Angel route info from S10.
But most of all, I like it when TAR makes the racers interact with locals and/or do tasks that have something to do with the place they're visiting. It's just a waste to have them go to Kazakhstan to drink milk or find an egg, for example. That country is very unique & has so much potential.
kadilahopper:
I, personally think that the problem is ingenuity. The tasks are becoming mundane because we are so jaded by seeing over and over again what has been done before. We see repeat tasks, what I call "duh uh" tasks, and just down right idiotic tasks. I just put on our annual "Amazing Grace Race 2010". The tasks I had my boys do was funny, fast and had a twist. But it is hard to come up with something new every year. The only thing that can make a difference in TAR is the people it casts. The most boring task can become memorable by the reactions of the people doing it. Otherwise, we will be smiling while yawning. And so it goes! Thinking up new ideas is not easy. But a fresh set of ideas could go a long way. TAR needs to call me and hire me. I have the most off the wall ideas. But then again, they might not be legal. :<)
Reilly Queens:
I do think the tasks are being too repeating.
But whats on screen isn't what actually happened.
I do think the last leg from TAR17 was easy peasy.
I say the bridge could of been a roadblock and you had to dive down and try to grab a clue before you get yanked up or something like that, so it isnt like when you arrive is the time you left!
The final memory task could be more interesting instead of apple advertising their iPad...
There could of been some action like being hooked up and flying around like BB7 HOH part 2 or a thing like that :cmas5
I did like finding the right greeter for the right leg.
It is two seasons where the winning team took notes through the race :cmaslol
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