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TAR 21 or 22 Suggestions
balfour:
--- Quote from: Cocoa on May 30, 2012, 08:47:20 PM ---3. The host's narration. Well, Phil Keoghan is unbeatable, but Phil's voice in narration and description and voice overs nowadays are seriously annoying. I love Phil, but hey, stop being enthusiastic. Grant Bowler, on the other hand, sticks with the more 'cool and slow but mysterious and exciting' narration voice, which gives me the chills and thrills. The way he described the first task was epic, which adds another element of excitement.
But I know Phil Keoghan is unbeatable. Phil, please bring back the "epic and cool and slow but mysterious and exciting" narration, which you did best during pre-HD TAR Seasons (I think he did it best in TAR 17). And also, please narrate all the tasks. Some tasks/destinations in TAR20 did not have an any voice over whatsoever, which is kinda boring and not memorable.
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Grant Bowler is absolutely boring. He has the personality of cardboard. (He might be a nice and funny guy, actually. But I'm just saying what I see from the show.)
I agree about not being too enthusiastic. Phil has been able to bring measure of uncertainty to the upcoming tasks. But Bowler seems to take things to the extreme--being too cool, measured, and slow.
Sorry, I hit the snooze button.
balfour:
I think I was being too hard on Grant Bowler. He seems to have made a massive improvement for season two. As for Phil, I never noticed the change in his recent narration until it was pointed out here. I went to youtube to check and wow what a difference. I prefer when he was a little more mysterious instead of sounding absolutely excited about everything.
I don't really miss the Eat Sleep Mingle.
But I miss the elimination stations. Bring it back!
Casting is a huge issue though.
The cast for the past 2 seasons have been bad and also boring. The producers seemed to made it a goal to cause maximum friction in TAR 20 between teams and even teammates by casting so many hard-headed contestants. I find this type of thing annoying. All this drama between the 3 bickering couples (Brenchel, Dave & Rachel, Vanessa & Ralph). Plus petty squabbles (Vannesa vs Rachel, J.J.'s lame attempts to "stir the pot" while alienating every team, and feeling victimized that Dave & Rachel didn't use the U-turn). Clearly the producers wanted to create "good TV" but I'm sorry, it's just bad.
So far TAR Australia has done a good job casting interesting and likable teams. The cast at TAR Australia 1 was well balanced. There was only 1 bickering couple (Chris & Anastasia), and only 1 "villain" team (Richard & Joey). Paul & Steve are definitely that team of season 2. The so-called Alpha Males that are jerks. Still they're the type that you love to hate. Some might see Dave (of Dave & Kelly) from Season 1 as arrogant and grating but he's nowhere near Art & JJ or Laurence (of Zac & Laurence) in that capacity. I found him fun to watch actually.
So moderation is the key. Don't go overboard in casting a ton of unlikable and bickering teams.
Cocoa:
Is it just me, or are the HD cameras of TAR Australia better than TAR America? The footage of all the scenes from TAR Australia (especially in India) is quite amazing and stunning to look at... while at TAR America, it just seems so.... empty.
Right now, I hate to say it, but TAR Australia 2 is better than all the episodes of TAR 19 or 20, editing wise.
TARFansurvivor:
I would love to see a season, where they not go to Asia.
TAR 1: No South America and Oceania
TAR 2: No Europe
TAR 4: No Africa
TAR 8: None of the above
They have always went to Asia, went they have travel around the Globe!
I would love to see this in a season, South America to Europe to Africa to Oceania.
It could be epic if they did Sydney to Los Angeles on the last leg. :tup: :tup: :tup: :tup:
Air:
I really like the route info thingos down the bottom of the screen in TARAus, it would be good if TAR21 did this.
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