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TAR 27 Ep 1 LIVE SHOW Updates and Commentary! Tonight at 8PM EST
RaceUntilWeDie:
This was definitely an interesting premiere in terms of how the flights went down. With Justin & Diana landing in Brazil at basically the same time as the other 10 teams, all 11 teams were on equal ground right from the airport. I've always thought TAR should get 11 teams in one flight to keep the competition close, and here, we basically got that in this episode. However, the helicopters basically split everyone individually and lowered the level of intensity greatly. So if a Roadblock had taken the place of the helicopter task, we would have had a pretty tight first episode.
The standouts for me were Denise & James Earl, Justin & Diana, and Tiffany & Krista. I was so rooting for Jazmine & Danielle to randomly win the leg, but Tanner & Josh don't seem so bad. As for the other teams... they either were not shown much or I just don't really like them :lol:
I love the new text/team captions at the bottom of the screen. I never thought that needed a change, but the fresh new look looks great. That, to me, is a sign that they are still somewhat trying in their editing. And is it me, or are some of the shots (especially in the intro) extra picturesque this season? They look like shots from the TARAus intro, which is a good thing.
I am not a fan of how Phil came out to eliminate them. What, did the crew not want to wait? Sure, Team TMZ was taking too long, but the sun has barely set. At least let them finish the FIRST leg. If this were a case like Dana & Adrian's, I'd understand...
And what's with the way they introduce teams these days? Why did they have to proceed to the Starting Line when they did not even finish introducing all of the teams? It felt very choppy and rushed. I miss Phil saying "The 11 teams are..." They could have introduced the teams like old times and cut down on the helicopter shots (which got very repetitive if you ask me).
This left a better taste in my mouth than TAR 26's premiere. But nothing can beat TAR 25's premiere, which was excellent for a recent season.
redskevin88:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on September 25, 2015, 08:59:31 PM ---The puzzle shouldn't have taken 4 hours for any team. It seems to me many teams did not play off of the one piece that was painted onto the open space, and logically you would have matched the right side, the left side and the one blow that painted on piece first, and it would have made solving the puzzle a lot faster. This is where teams ended up shuffled up the order, especially if a team decided to switch detours.
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Wasn't the puzzle detour a repeat of Amani & Marcus's speedbump in Season 19?
Slowhatch:
Sort of. Both were 4x3 variations of the "15" puzzle (google 15 puzzle and you'll find solution methods and online practice). A/M had the flag right in front of them, making it easy to resolve colored squares to number places. The calçada puzzle required a good pattern memory, even if the pattern was at their feet. This--to me, anyway--made it deceptively simple and the only clever part of the episode.
theschnauzers:
--- Quote from: Slowhatch on September 26, 2015, 12:25:45 AM ---Sort of. Both were 4x3 variations of the "15" puzzle (google 15 puzzle and you'll find solution methods and online practice). A/M had the flag right in front of them, making it easy to resolve colored squares to number places. The calçada puzzle required a good pattern memory, even if the pattern was at their feet. This--to me, anyway--made it deceptively simple and the only clever part of the episode.
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Just the fact that it was the national flag of Malawi that they could see made it easier. What I don't know or can't remember is if that puzzle had the open space painted as was this detour option; and the source was much hard to remember and match up the pieces correctly. But still, solving that puzzle should not have taken 4 hours, and it is clear some teams that struggled with it and/or switched detour options really lost time compared to the beach volleyball. IIRC, the Rio beach volleyball task in season 2 was also relatively quick as well. The fact that #thecousins accomplished the volleyball task contrary to intuition, is also a confirmation that the puzzle was in fact the more difficult option.
bottle:
I just loved that in this episode the team that made some kind of mistake was able to come back usually that doesn't go like that (Natalie and Nadiya,Hoskote and Naina, Misa and Mayia, etc...) :trampb: and that was the team I'm rooting for so that's great too :D
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