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DISCUSSION of TAR 33 SUSPENSION DUE TO COVID (may contain location spoilers)

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Parovic:
 So how will they redo the season?

I mean,they will continue as 9 teams (starting from UK)?
Or a completely new set of teams

CoriSanchi:
I’m choosing to remain optimistic. They do 12 shows in 21 days, they’re 3 shows and 6 days down. They only need 15 more days to film, that’s reasonable for the cast to be able to take off of work. And I bet they could make an arrangement where people can return home/to work if they’re eliminated and just have them return for the finish line. It’s no sooooo unreasonable to think they could make it work

LandonM170:
I kinda want them to continue normally, but have the already eliminated teams in sequester.

claude_24hrs:

--- Quote from: cerealking on February 28, 2020, 08:18:19 PM ---They could also take a couple of weeks to figure out a Southern Hemisphere route. Then again by the time they do that, it’ll be Spring officially and the virus will likely have mostly died off. I guess they’ve learned to never do a peak flu season (February) filming ever again.

--- End quote ---

When March comes as spring will go on, hopefully the race might get to start reshooting the first two-three legs all over again. Southern Hemisphere will go on autumn (fall) in the coming weeks and Europe will start DST in the last Sunday of March.

dryedmangoez:
I guess we can go through the different options they would have. These would be hypothetical situations based on an assumption that 2 teams have been eliminated in 3 Legs.

1. Continue Race where they left off, same cast
Have the remaining teams continue Racing starting at Leg 4.
"Roadblock": Teams may no longer be available for a one month shoot whenever production restarts.

2. Restart the entire Race, same cast
Roadblock: Unfair for the teams that survived the first 3 Legs. But argument could be made that unfair for the eliminated teams who had to compete in the difficult circumstances.

3. Restart the entire Race, "new" cast
Include teams who would be available when production restarts, fill remaining spots with new teams. Any original TAR33 teams can be held for possible future season, per availability.

4. Restart the entire Race, ALL new cast
Clean slate, brand new cast.

How to deal with the already filmed Legs and episodes?:
For option 1: Start the season off specifically mentioning how the Race was to originally occur in the midst of the outbreak. Then during Episode 3, include the discussions and process over which the decision was made to suspend production. (Would be a very dramatic episode) Episode 4 would begin with essentially summarizing the events between suspension of and restarting of production. Would be a fascinating documentation of the world at this present time.

For options 2 and 3: Start the season normally, then the Episode 3 explanation of the decision to suspend production.
OR
Air a special premiere episode in a sort of documentary style chronicling the series of events from the decision to start production, the production itself then the decision to suspend. Then proceed the season as normal.

For option 4: Turn the already filmed Legs into a sort of miniseries/documentary. Perhaps still consider the season as TAR33 and any restart of production and the next fully complete season will be TAR34. It will be a fascinating moment and document of the world to have TAR33 be a sort of "lost season". But obviously still air it.

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