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What ruins a season for you?
Parasparopagraho:
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24 has to be the poster child.
Zack.:
--- Quote from: Jai Ho on June 18, 2023, 03:46:43 PM ---This might not be the right place for this post (either here or general TAR discussion)...I don't know about you all, but is anyone else a) tempted by spoilers and then b) kinda underwhelmed when the season actually airs months/years later? Don't get me wrong, it's exciting tracking the teams and their activities, and reading spoilers is a choice, not a requirement-
...could the producers split the group up on 2 different routes and then "merge" them at some point (like Australia 6 in reverse, although it would interfere with a final memory task)
...could the producers send the eliminated teams on a race of their own instead of sequestering them?
...could the producers sprinkle in eliminated teams doing tasks at random with the racing teams to add suspense to the spoilers?
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I think there's two separate cases here:
- if you're accidentally spoiled, either by CBS screwing up or by someone posting a spoiler in the public domain, then I can see how that would definitely sour the experience and the way to prevent it would be on production to combat this during filming
- if you intentionally seek out spoilers just to know what happened and then get disappointed...you said it, it's on you for wanting to read about the still filming season, but also what would cause someone to be disappointed in a season without actually seeing any part of it. 11 was fully spoiled before airing and yet was fairly enjoyable for the most part, and several other seasons were almost fully spoiled (25, 29) yet the episodes and season were sufficiently entertaining.
Production has been trying to evade spoilers since early TAR - they've had decoy teams run the race and complete the tasks as late as TAR 21/22 (if not later) and the existence of Sequesterville is to prevent people from spoiling their elimination by flying home from whatever country they were eliminated in. Short of filming in places that don't really know much about TAR or filming in more enclosed, private spaces I'mnot sure there's a foolproof (and cost-efficient) way to get around this, especially with social media as it is.
Also regarding the topic, I think a bad cast drags down a good route (and sometimes good boot order like Asia 2) more severely than bad tasks (moreso than a bad route) impact a good cast.
Parasparopagraho:
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31 (Reality Clash/Showdown) was just as spoiled as 11/AS1 and even more enjoyable.
cbacbacba1:
--- Quote from: Zack. on June 28, 2023, 12:42:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: Jai Ho on June 18, 2023, 03:46:43 PM ---This might not be the right place for this post (either here or general TAR discussion)...I don't know about you all, but is anyone else a) tempted by spoilers and then b) kinda underwhelmed when the season actually airs months/years later? Don't get me wrong, it's exciting tracking the teams and their activities, and reading spoilers is a choice, not a requirement-
...could the producers split the group up on 2 different routes and then "merge" them at some point (like Australia 6 in reverse, although it would interfere with a final memory task)
...could the producers send the eliminated teams on a race of their own instead of sequestering them?
...could the producers sprinkle in eliminated teams doing tasks at random with the racing teams to add suspense to the spoilers?
--- End quote ---
I think there's two separate cases here:
- if you're accidentally spoiled, either by CBS screwing up or by someone posting a spoiler in the public domain, then I can see how that would definitely sour the experience and the way to prevent it would be on production to combat this during filming
- if you intentionally seek out spoilers just to know what happened and then get disappointed...you said it, it's on you for wanting to read about the still filming season, but also what would cause someone to be disappointed in a season without actually seeing any part of it. 11 was fully spoiled before airing and yet was fairly enjoyable for the most part, and several other seasons were almost fully spoiled (25, 29) yet the episodes and season were sufficiently entertaining.
Production has been trying to evade spoilers since early TAR - they've had decoy teams run the race and complete the tasks as late as TAR 21/22 (if not later) and the existence of Sequesterville is to prevent people from spoiling their elimination by flying home from whatever country they were eliminated in. Short of filming in places that don't really know much about TAR or filming in more enclosed, private spaces I'mnot sure there's a foolproof (and cost-efficient) way to get around this, especially with social media as it is.
Also regarding the topic, I think a bad cast drags down a good route (and sometimes good boot order like Asia 2) more severely than bad tasks (moreso than a bad route) impact a good cast.
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Agree. Some seasons have really bad route and legs (TAR 21 notably) but very interesting teams can keep the entertainment gold. Whereas a season with good route can be ruined by bad teams and plot development (TAR 32 notably)
Parasparopagraho:
Both 14 as well as 15 showed even earlier on that good casts can save bad routes, whereas 10 and 22 did the antithesis with poor boot-orders on stellar courses.
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