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HaMerotz LaMillion 7 (TAR ISRAEL 7) Ongoing SHOW DIscussion
ImANewUser:
--- Quote from: G.B. on August 07, 2019, 08:25:38 PM ---ImANewUser, I respect your differing opinion and I'm not going to be ridiculous and say "I'm right you're wrong" or anything like that, but I just cannot see where you're coming from at all. Nothing matters until the very end. Literally nothing matters. There's no point in being skillful. There's no punishment for being unskillful. Nothing besides GOD decides who wins and who is eliminated. That is not interesting to watch.
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I actually get where you're coming from and I get your point; the thing for me is that there is *no* elimination thus far that hasn't felt telegraphed that it feels odd to blame the season's lack of stakes on the end-of-leg luck tasks now of all seasons when every other season has had the luck tasks be far more consistently impactful on the boot order (the luck tasks actually do their work and shake things up; the problem is just that the shake-up basically reverts things back to where teams were at the end of the prior episode :groan:)
Noy & Hadar lost due to injury, and Kamle & Bahira, Yehoudit & Zohar and Ran & Ben all telegraphed to me as teams doomed to lose early with or without the luck task so even if, in the case of Ran & Ben, they would have survived without the luck task it doesn't bother me because they'd be gone soon regardless (and also I can't in good conscience actually root for an outcome here that leaves us with Aviad & Eden eliminated in 9th place)
PS: yes Tia & Fay were robbed of first place, but I wouldn't feel bad about it at all if it was, like, Michal & Omer / Gili & Tali who managed to nab first place instead
tatasport:
Now as far as I understood, for the next leg...
Show content1. It'll be aired next Wednesday.
2. FIRST DETOUR OF THE SEASON! (I understood from the part of "pa'am rishona baonah, mashimet tzomet (?)" Oh Detours, where have you been; the last time I watched there are still some of it. Shall I expect a U-Turn voting now?
Welp, season 7, just welp :v
PAHC:
Hi, recent discoverer of this forum and an Israeli here.
Some notes about the prevalence of luck tasks at the end of legs:
We in Israel have a tendency to root for the underdogs, whether it be in a reality show or otherwise - as we can personally relate to them on some levels. Luck tasks bring a fun twist to the legs, as they help underdog teams such as Tali and Gili or Nisim and Orel catch up and pass some teams.
Besides, luck tasks are a way to spark some drama. If a team sees a team which yielded/U-turned them in the final task, there's usually a lot of tension between the two as they race to finish the task and to reach the pitstop, which can lead the yielded team to "break" if passed by teams which yielded them.
Show contentAlso yeah, Tata, there will be a detour next leg. Between some sort of a task with armadillos and bananas, and a task with turtles, it seems?
Maanca:
--- Quote from: PAHC on August 08, 2019, 10:32:34 AM ---Hi, recent discoverer of this forum and an Israeli here.
Some notes about the prevalence of luck tasks at the end of legs:
We in Israel have a tendency to root for the underdogs, whether it be in a reality show or otherwise - as we can personally relate to them on some levels. Luck tasks bring a fun twist to the legs, as they help underdog teams such as Tali and Gili or Nisim and Orel catch up and pass some teams.
Besides, luck tasks are a way to spark some drama. If a team sees a team which yielded/U-turned them in the final task, there's usually a lot of tension between the two as they race to finish the task and to reach the pitstop, which can lead the yielded team to "break" if passed by teams which yielded them.
Show contentAlso yeah, Tata, there will be a detour next leg. Between some sort of a task with armadillos and bananas, and a task with turtles, it seems?
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Welcome :)
That's a very good point, actually.
Musicon:
I think some of the more normal tasks have helped create drama anyway, if they want to make tasks less physical and to have more mental elements there are ways to do that. The head to heads seem to be made too physical for Gili and Tili for example. Yields are already a means to go after a stronger team, though they are getting repetitive in this, double u-turns are one of the other ways to do that. Self navigation is a great way to create natural drama based on mental and not physical strength but it isn't used. The luck based task is becoming a repetitive formula when put in at the end of every leg. There's definitely some support for underdogs here, including from me. But those at the back haven't really lifted themselves up much in this race so far.
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