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HaMerotz LaMillion 7 (TAR ISRAEL 7) Ongoing SHOW DIscussion
ImANewUser:
the random tasks right before the Pit Stop (which wasn't always luck, right?) <3 <3 <3 I love how it usually throws a wrench in otherwise predictable legs (though this leg wasn't that really) <3
G.B.:
--- Quote from: ImANewUser on July 21, 2019, 03:40:59 AM ---the random tasks right before the Pit Stop (which wasn't always luck, right?) <3 <3 <3 I love how it usually throws a wrench in otherwise predictable legs (though this leg wasn't that really) <3
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I don't so much see it as throwing a wrench into legs. To me, it feels more like invalidating everything that came before. Look at Nisim & Orel... They bombed the Roadblock completely; Orel took the longest out of anybody to finish it, dropping them all the way down to "last" place. But then, oopsie poopsies, they find a lucky pearl and rocket all the way up to 6th. So, their struggle at the Roadblock ended up having no consequences. (I really like Nisim & Orel, I'm just speaking unbiased here). The Instagram girls fell down deep into last place, and I feel they were quite right to say "Ze lo fair".
It's really dumb. It boils the entire leg down to a simple roll of the dice. A team can dominate the leg and be in first the whole time, then suddenly get eliminated because they can't pick the right paella cube or whatever. As a viewer, it feels like there's no stakes in anything. If I see a team ahead, I don't cheer for them and believe they will win. If I see a team behind, I don't get worried that they won't catch up and will be eliminated. Not when there's a dice roll at the very end that can change literally everything.
ImANewUser:
--- Quote from: G.B. on July 21, 2019, 06:32:31 AM ---As a viewer, it feels like there's no stakes in anything. If I see a team ahead, I don't cheer for them and believe they will win. If I see a team behind, I don't get worried that they won't catch up and will be eliminated. Not when there's a dice roll at the very end that can change literally everything.
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IMO, on the contrary, I feel like it ups everything, because *anything* can happen and I am gonna root for the teams I like to get any advantage they can because they're gonna need all the help they can get
Musicon:
I don't really like things that are too chance orientated on elimination legs. I remember the Ukraine version had a very good example of that with some coconut cracking challenge, it was a great season but that was a sour point I remember.
In this case it may have been possible for a team to miss the pearl, we saw two teams managing to find it after searching through the remains of what they had, so I wonder if Michal and Omer might have missed one. A cute team though, Omer seems steadier, though I noticed she shook a lot at both the opening heights challenge in Israel and at the hospital fakery. Apparently she was in the army so I thought she'd have less nerves.
On the elimination
Show contentI was sorry to see Noy and Hadar go too, yes they were loud, but they had some funny moments (I can see why they were apparently involved with children's tv). They stopped to have a picture taken with some children in the first leg
I'm not that bothered about Nisim and Orel, they are an underdog team but I'd rather support others who have more character, such as Tali and Gili. The interaction with the taxi driver was funny, and it shows how interesting it can be when people are outside of their normal environment. There's more interaction with the locals, this is what the Canadian and Viet versions can miss out on. And without subs it's obviously easier to watch with more English spoken, and just more different situations and locales.
(I did wonder whether, with the Israeli subs, it's possible to capture the unicode hardsubs using programs like AviSubDetector, Videosubfinder, esrxp, ABBYY FineReader or subrip - has anyone tried)?
With their English, it's generally ok, though sometimes, like with Gili in the taxi before that funny Nisim/Orel incident, it was hard to make out all she was saying, and the taxi driver probably didn't understand all she said like me.
Tia (the straight haired one I think) has some sassiness to her and I'm sure that appeals to some.
It's nice to see a team of different generations with the mother/daughter.
Bahira seems to be smiling most of the time, and she has that funny staring puzzled look at the mat.
Aviad and Eden look a strong team, but she also gets dramatic at times.
The newlyweds Ariel and Karin seems pretty good, he seems stronger though he also looked in despair in the first heights task in Israel when they got it wrong first time.
Eyal and Sid and Haviv and Itzak may be the strongest teams but the latter could be the most boring one to me. Two sets of twins in this season, but I thought Haviv and Itzak (the two strong guys) looked more like the identical twins, surprisingly to me it's actually Nov and Hadar who are identical.
One of Ran and Ben described the other as his partner to a local, but I'm assuming the are just co-workers as advertised.
Maanca:
And there's the penguin bumping task. Man, imagine if it actually could have been Antarctica...
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