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starrynight:
It's true that it is better to go with other teams than alone. However at that point at the end of a leg they had to either follow the other team immediately or go in the other direction. If there wasn't another taxi available at that point they would have had to wait for a while and probably wouldn't have been able to catch up with the other team anyway. And assuming they were going in the right direction (being positive which people here apparently wanted them to be) they would have had a head start on the other team. I suspect they didn't go very far in the other direction anyway and the editing just seemed to make it look like that.
And of course the editing isn't really very clear in this program anyway. We don't know exactly how many problems they had, exactly what the problems where with the taxi drivers and at what point they changed etc. So much of this is actually complete speculation. But normally an eliminated team won't be shown in the best light in the program. And I definitely saw them getting out of a taxi at one point to get another, I'm pretty sure they didn't stick to one taxi all the time. Indeed with their frustration over the taxis the likelihood of them just keeping with one through the leg would be very remote. Looking at the interview apskip posted: Brittany "We just had a day of bad drivers." And that interview also shows that he had taken them to the pitstop before so it really was reasonable for them to think he knew where it was.
Jobby:
...nvm, I don't think you get it. :lol:
theschnauzers:
Keep in mind that the editors do tell you things by implication; if a team keeps having problems with one taxi driver (or a series) they may show a couple of quick clips of those without beating us over the head about it, especially in this phase of the Race with a lot of teams, and multiple locations to cover. The blondes were shown making all sorts of mistakes before that last ride to the pit stop. They wasted a lot of time trying to find the location for the U-Turn, and kept going over the same (incorrect) territory without thinking it through.
I can;t believe they didn't ask locals about the location they were given, because it seems to me any resident would have recognized the intersection with little trouble. So their elimination was due to their making mistakes that were even bigger than Gary-Will, who seem to make enough of them as it is.
starrynight:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on October 15, 2012, 09:36:47 PM ---Keep in mind that the editors do tell you things by implication; if a team keeps having problems with one taxi driver (or a series) they may show a couple of quick clips of those without beating us over the head about it, especially in this phase of the Race with a lot of teams, and multiple locations to cover. The blondes were shown making all sorts of mistakes before that last ride to the pit stop. They wasted a lot of time trying to find the location for the U-Turn, and kept going over the same (incorrect) territory without thinking it through.
I can;t believe they didn't ask locals about the location they were given, because it seems to me any resident would have recognized the intersection with little trouble. So their elimination was due to their making mistakes that were even bigger than Gary-Will, who seem to make enough of them as it is.
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I don't trust the editing anywhere near as much as you. And I think it is very likely they did ask people for directions (every racer does), and the people who take them around in circles are the taxi drivers. That's what taxi drivers who are lost do, gets them more money often as well. And the editors very often like to beat the audience over the head with their 'themes' lol, that's been one of the weaknesses of the program in the past.
supah:
After re-watching the episode, they definitely could've made some minor improvements to make the challenges better.
Egg Head - I think they did everything they could do, but they could've made teams balance the coconuts on their heads instead of letting the team members' hold them?
Lion's Head - They should've made teams memorise the processional steps. They had a choreographer in from of them the WHOLE time instructing them what to do.
I did enjoy both Detours, but these ^ are some things they could've done to make it just that little bit harder.
and my favourite quote of the episode would have to go to Brittany - "For the love of God, CEPAT!!!!!" :lol: :lol: :lol:
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