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TAR 18 Ep. 4: This is the Most Stupid Day Ever (Lijiang, China)
theschnauzers:
Teams were probably told that flight was mandatory so that production could get ahead of them to Kumning and Lijiang.
DrRox:
apskip..........did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe that Production got the teams to Kunming, EXACTLY when they wanted them there?
DrRox:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on March 16, 2011, 02:30:50 PM ---Teams were probably told that flight was mandatory so that production could get ahead of them to Kumning and Lijiang.
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Since they had about a 28 hour pit stop. I would assume that all the production crew, except the one's sheparding the teams along the way would have already left Japan the day before the teams did.
BayBay:
I think the teams connected via HK.
And I agree, co-ordinating shuttle buses and what not in Lijiang would not be something that could just be rescheduled. The mandatory flight arrangements must have been made weeks in advance, because as far as I know finding close to 40 seats on a flight last minute is quite hard :lol: the plan being that teams were in Lijiang on a specific day (28th Nov I believe) with the plan to manipulate the pitstop for Japan as necessary.
apskip:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 08, 2011, 07:21:41 AM ---
--- Quote from: The Prophet on March 07, 2011, 08:22:47 AM ---
--- Quote from: kikisak on March 07, 2011, 04:45:24 AM ---The scenes with Kent & Vyxsin are obviously from japan. They are driving on the right side of the road and also we know that in China they are going by train from Kunming to Lijiang and then they are going around the old town probably on foot.
As for them being safe, didn't the witnesses say that this leg is a NEL?
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Yes, kikisak, spoilers indicate that Kynt and Vxysin will be NEL'ed in Lijang.
If they are driving the wrong way in Japan, then they may board a later flight to China than anyone else.
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Everyone is entitled to their own interpretation, but this seems obvious to me:
1. Kent is driving a right-side steering wheel car. That is possible only in Japan, as several before me have pointed out.
2. Although it may appear that Kent is driving in the right-hand lane and thus vulnerable to oncoming traffic on a 3 lane road, it is pretty obvious that the car ahead of him in that lane is going the same way as he is. That means it is one-direction travel on half of a 6 lane expressway.
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It is also pretty obvious on episode 4 as telecast that there were fast-moving cars on the other side of the barrier to the right going the other direction. Also, in the Video Extras, Vyxsin made it clear that their compass was pointing west when they were driving the opposite way instead of to Narita. That means that the hypothesis made somewhere on this thread (I cannot find it) that they kept going north and failed to turn east is incorrect. They actually turned in the wrong direction (west instead of required east).
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