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TARaus2 EP 6 Show Discussion! **Starts Monday at 730PM (aus)**

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Glamazon Racer:
I definitely agree with howie_2010 that TARAus should use Speed Bumps. It's my favourite NEL penalty, and even though most Speed Bumps in the US TAR series have been borderline abysmal, I still like the idea of the Speed Bump over the MFE penalty. :tup:

Honestly, I wasn't expecting Gallipoli today, because I think that if they did visit Gallipoli, it would have been all over the promos for this week. :tup: It would've been a good location though.

Dånooky:
I personally believe the producers just put the Yield just to mentally torture the racers, just the way it happened:
"Ha! You Yielded the second place team? Now wait for them and see if they want to work with you..."

I personally think the design would have worked well enough had there been no quitters in the previous leg, or more than two.

Best Loser:

--- Quote from: racer on July 02, 2012, 08:11:57 AM ---The Roadblock was pretty pointless, too. It was better than some of the other tasks for cultural relevance purposes, but it was not difficult and had no skill involved, preventing any chance for teams to gain or lose significant periods of time.

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Oh I disagree, I thought this was the best task of the episode. It was better than just walking through a room with them in it to receive the next clue.


Also, regarding the preview: (100% based off the preview. I don't read spoilers, it's just in spoil tags in case you don't want to see episode predictions.)
Show contentIt made a big deal about going to Paris, but then it also shows things that had to have come from Cuba. Why are they even going to Paris then? I can't imagine that they'll just skim over a city of that size. Maybe there's just Che Guevara stuff in France for some reason.

Topita:
Agreed with most all of the comments here, kept thinking: What's the point of a yield/intersection design like this..  :duno:
So either it was indeed poor design after things went differently than expected, but in that case it's kind of odd they didn't have a plan B or didn't see this coming in combination with the NEL/MFE of the previous leg.  :duno:

I'm starting to think these twists are there more to create drama's and frictions rather than actual twists that make a difference in the order of the teams - especially since some of the tasks have little to do with showing some skill/patience etc.

I did enjoy the tasks for what they were for the most part, though tbh stacks of carpets vs 10 pairs of shoes to shine is a pretty simple choice, even on paper I'd say. It does seem a bit out of balance but you see that in the US TAR happening too, where almost all teams end up doing one over the other because it's far quicker.

I did enjoy watching the episode but mostly because there weren't any real drama/annoying moments and the teams all seemed to be in relative good spirits which was good for some amusing moments. Especially with the sisters being over the moon of some Turkish men.  :lol:

Maybe also because I love Turkey and the Turkish people in general, been there so many times so I just have a bit of a bias there maybe just for seeing it.  :hearts:

Not too sad to see the father/daughter couple go, they had their run and as has been said before, didn't match up to the rest of the teams. And as I mentioned before some people really still need to make that switch and realize this IS after all a race. Being civil is fine but on the other hand, some people still don't seem to realize this enough. There is such a thing as too laid back as well.  :res:

The preview was confusing indeed. 'The biggest leg yet' - I wonder if they mean it's two episode leg maybe? i.e. keep on racing?
Otherwise the bits of Cuba make no sense to me because it would be a very brief stop over in Paris, indeed.

Still entertaining enough to keep me watching, but yeah the awful leg design does annoy me to some degree, because it has too much of an effect.  :(

tarflyonthewall:

--- Quote ---The preview was confusing indeed. 'The biggest leg yet' - I wonder if they mean it's two episode leg maybe? i.e. keep on racing?
Otherwise the bits of Cuba make no sense to me because it would be a very brief stop over in Paris, indeed.
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I doubt it - Grant definitely said there were twelve legs this season at the start line (and we know from last year the two-part leg is counted as two legs), and that Istanbul was the first of two non-elims. Add in the Salvage Pass leg and there's no room for a TBC.

The other issue is apparently the UK was confirmed as a country at the launch party, which would mean we have to go from Turkey to Paris to London (or wherever, but probably London given the new Tower Bridge shot in the credits) to Havana in the space of a leg. Especially considering we know there's at least one task in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu (plus probably whatever's going on with the trucks and shipping containers or whatever it was), it doesn't seem likely. I think the editors just stuffed up.

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