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Would another Family Edition ever work?
wcpamotm:
The Family Edition's problems were IMO partly structural and partly self-inflicted (with a dash of bad luck tossed in). With that many contestants running around, often not referred to individually by name, it's difficult to get to know em and relate in any way to them. (I still can't name any of the Bransen sisters, and they finished the race!). Also, so few teams relative to the number of legs led to a loooong time wandering around the west without an elimination.
As to that route, TAR Canada showed me just how compelling a journey that never leaves a country could be, and such a route mostly in the USA should have been at least as interesting. Instead we got the world's largest office chair and the a red Lodge Mountain Golgotha Course.
We'll not see another family edition. But if the producers were for some reason determined to make it work:
1. Make it a completely separate "series"' like the international versions. That might reduce unflattering comparisons with the original. maybe a summer series, although Big Bother seems to claim much of the CBS summer timeslots.
2. Spoilers be damned. Pick the most interesting route, regardless of who might spot the racers along the way.
Vitoko:
--- Quote from: WCPAMOTM on October 25, 2013, 10:49:15 AM ---The Family Edition's problems were IMO partly structural and partly self-inflicted (with a dash of bad luck tossed in). With that many contestants running around, often not referred to individually by name, it's difficult to get to know em and relate in any way to them. (I still can't name any of the Bransen sisters, and they finished the race!). Also, so few teams relative to the number of legs led to a loooong time wandering around the west without an elimination.
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I never notice that but you are right... I can name a few racers back of Family Edition, Bill, Billy, Carissa and Tammy Gaghan for example but I couldn't tell you the name of the Linz family or the Godwlesky family (I'm totally butchering that name btw)... I think you strike the point, too many people for the amount of air time....
Platrium:
--- Quote from: Vitoko on October 25, 2013, 04:01:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: WCPAMOTM on October 25, 2013, 10:49:15 AM ---The Family Edition's problems were IMO partly structural and partly self-inflicted (with a dash of bad luck tossed in). With that many contestants running around, often not referred to individually by name, it's difficult to get to know em and relate in any way to them. (I still can't name any of the Bransen sisters, and they finished the race!). Also, so few teams relative to the number of legs led to a loooong time wandering around the west without an elimination.
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I never notice that but you are right... I can name a few racers back of Family Edition, Bill, Billy, Carissa and Tammy Gaghan for example but I couldn't tell you the name of the Linz family or the Godwlesky family (I'm totally butchering that name btw)... I think you strike the point, too many people for the amount of air time....
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Geez... you're right. I had to go to Wikipedia just to find out their names. :funny:
Platrium:
--- Quote from: WCPAMOTM on October 25, 2013, 10:49:15 AM ---We'll not see another family edition. But if the producers were for some reason determined to make it work:
1. Make it a completely separate "series"' like the international versions. That might reduce unflattering comparisons with the original. maybe a summer series, although Big Bother seems to claim much of the CBS summer timeslots.
2. Spoilers be damned. Pick the most interesting route, regardless of who might spot the racers along the way.
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Hmmm... interesting. :umn: :hrt: :colors
AmazingRace:
I actually really enjoyed TAR 8 very much!
I mean 1 out of 23 seasons where we didn't have that much of International travel, can't complain. The Americas is very interesting too! :)
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