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TAR 22 Ep 5 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
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--- Quote from: racer on March 17, 2013, 07:49:43 PM ---Really surprised by some questionable U-Turning decisions... :stare can kinda understand why Joey & Meghan chose Chuck & Wynona, but they would've been better off with another team imo, and the big alliance wants to get rid of JJ's minions instead of stronger teams... :crazy:
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This happens in a world of imperfect information. Traditional wisdom holds that the sure thing for U-Turns is to attempt to discern who the team in last place is, so that there is more breathing room between Joey/Meghan and them. Their guess of Chuck/Wynona was correct. In my opinion, they made the best choice possible. Who else were they going to UTurn? Joey/Meghan didn't know where either Max/Katie or Caroline/Jennifer were and they would not do it to their Alliance partners Mona/Beth.
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--- Quote from: Theodorus on March 17, 2013, 08:19:09 PM ---Whoa! I saw a lot of meltdown in Facebook page. They all complain about the communism thing. I'm not really good at American history, and it must be related with Vietnam war, what's actually happened? I'm afraid people don't want to watch TAR anymore because of it.
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To make a brief summary of it, the U.S. mistook Vietnam's anticolonislist sentiments from fighting their French through their surrender and withdrawal at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. We escalated our involvement in the late 1950s and 1960s because we thought we were holding the line against communism in Asia. In fact, the Vietnamese did have a relationship with the Chinese and USSR communists but the Viets were basically Socialists throughout that period and remain so today. They are a fiercely independent people, so the U.S. 's assumptions about them being communist were misplaced.
starrynight:
The big problem with u-turns is that teams don't often know if other teams have passed it or not and so can't use it as they might want to. If it's meant to be a tactical part of the race that makes it difficult to use properly.
I've never seen the point of having them blind. Incidentally Chuck and Wynona appeared to think that the board showed Joey and Meghan had u-turned them, so they read the sign wrong anyway.
I think the memory task could have been made more difficult, they only had about 5 words. So I think the ease of tasks is still something that is stopping it from being classic, but definitely much better tasks and cast than the previous season.
The race seems to be about alliances as much as individual teams in recent seasons. Personally I'm a bit tired of that and it feels a bit fake anyway like that's what the production are pushing at us.
I kind of expected a non-elimination leg after the rather quick exit of the injured team. Glad taxis still haven't had too big an impact in this race.
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starrynight,
Actually it's 9 Viet words, which is not close to 5 words in difficulty of memorization. I have no idea whether the accent marks, which are much trickier in the Vietnamese language than in French (the language I know that uses a lot of accent marks) played any part in the difficulty of the ROADBLOCK. If we have any RFF members who are fluent in the Vietnamese language perhaps they could comment on that.
starrynight:
Ok, still they only had to remember it phonetically to compare it to the cards didn't they? And all of them did it within 2 attempts I think, so it can't have been that hard. There have surely been more difficult memory tasks. The way it was setup was ok, I just think it could have been more difficult.
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