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What ruins a season for you?
Wadsy:
Yes! I forgot to mention TAR 11 suffering the same fate as well.
With Season 7 it was really the fourth leg where I felt "hey this is one too many".
I felt the same with Botswana by the seventh leg but I guess a lot of it was because the teams really hadn't been that many places to this point.
With TAR 11 I disliked leg 2 - poorly designed. Again, too many legs in South America, Asia and not enough Europe.
zacz:
For me the teams aren't so important as long as they are actually trying. The route is more important to me as well as things such as artificial chokepoints and Hours of Operation. I would prefer a team to get a long way ahead or behind to having everyone reequalised multiple times per episode.
TARstorian:
1) No new countries/major regions. We're at the point now where watching TAR explore Paris is a big TV draw anymore.
2) Linear setup. TAR has put in so many rules to avoid specific situations that are inconvenient for Production from happening that refining the rules over and over for 32 seasons ensures seasons play out in a very linear manner. This is perhaps TAR's biggest weakness over the past six years or so. Unorthodox or intriguing situations no longer happen on TAR because Production wants things to run as smoothly as possible. Easier for Production but not as great of a TV product.
3) A pandemic. That has ruined TAR 33 for about 16 months now and counting, sadly. I'm very curious to see where the franchise goes from here after such a long break. Nobody has crossed the finish line in like 3 years now or something ridiculous.
claude_24hrs:
1. Some seasons don't have any new countries visited
2. Linear setup including airport drama
3. Replacement location of legs during production (in case such as natural disaster, civil unrest, safety reasons and even terrorist attack)
NELs:
--- Quote from: claude_24hrs on June 07, 2021, 08:51:17 AM ---3. Replacement location of legs during production (in case such as natural disaster, civil unrest, safety reasons and even terrorist attack)
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So you're saying a season is bad just because production had no choice to change locations mid-filming due to unforeseen circumstances? :groan:
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