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When did The Amazing Race decline, if at all?
Jimmer:
I haven't really seen many older seasons of the Amazing Race from 1 to 11, but after recently watching TAR5 and rewatching TAR13 I noticed that the editing towards the end of the leg they really drum of the suspense with the "old-style music" and then show very quick montages of team after team after team completing the penultimate task (with not a lot of dialogue) and it just goes on for what seems to be several minutes. They really build up the suspense right up to the elimination. I don't remember recent seasons doing that.
RachelLeVega:
--- Quote from: dryedmangoez on May 02, 2020, 04:32:59 AM ---I agree about the editing. That has made Legs and episodes also feel less exciting and interesting.
Certain editing techniques lately have also made the show actually feel dated instead of modern/contemporary. They use, to be frank, very cheap transitions. Definitely nothing cinematic about it. When earlier seasons were able to be just as stunning and visually exciting even without high definition or "cute" editing/transition effects.
Part of the questionable editing can also be blamed on them having to work with less. That is, less exciting and dynamic teams doing less exciting and dynamic tasks.
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This part I don't agree with. I've seen a lot of helpful, and even at times more important, scenes being left for CBS extras that would've brought much-needed character to those teams like Dessie & Kayla's intense search for parking that ultimately sent them home, London & Logan's funny and minor tiffs that would've elevated their presence on the show, and I don't even remember a thing about Burnie & Ashley from the social media season despite them getting to final 4 but I'd think Burnie would at least be interesting since he did say he is a comedian. The editors didn't even fabricate a storyline for any of these teams unlike in the pre-18 seasons where everyone, even the boring teams who didn't having a good performance showing like Marisa & Brooke, Anthony & Stephanie, and Garrett & Jessica, had a particular storyline and character to them.
dryedmangoez:
That can be true. Last season, they left out a scene of Rachel & Elissa jumping out of their taxi to direct traffic in Uganda. It was a great scene and would've added to the tension and excitement since they were fighting for last. Great character moment for them as well, but instead they left it out. Partly because the Head to Head negates pretty much everything else in the Leg, but that's a whole other story.
Still, I stand by the idea that casting and Leg design has been absolutely lacking as the years go by. And they can't blame the budget for poor tasks and stuff like that when other TARs around the world can still be fresh and creative. And they have a fraction of TARUS' budget.
Lmh1988:
Firstly I’ll say that The Race will always be my favorite show and every season is amazing.
With that said, I do wish the show would go back to some of the things they did in earlier seasons. Like I liked when Fast Forwards were on every leg, I like the strategy of teams trying to decide the best time to go for it.
I also liked in earlier seasons when the teams mingled at the Pit Stop, I felt like it built better relationships (and drama) between the teams.
And the last thing I’ll say is that I feel like a lot of the earlier seasons just had much more difficult tasks which I appreciated too. I feel like a lot of international versions do well at making very difficult tasks (like the most recent season of Amazing Race Australia I thought did really well with having quite difficult tasks).
I will always love the Race in any form we can get it, but I’d like to see some of those earlier things reincorporated into the Race again.
zacz:
A lot of the detours in earlier seasons took much longer. Tasks often took hours - Most new seasons the tasks can be done relatively quickly. The legs were also much longer but this was mainly due to a lot more self driving and inta bus and train trips. Nowdays teams rarely travel more than an hour or so from the closest major airport. It means that we don't see more rural locations anymore - And when they do use a rural location it is usually just the outskirts of the city.
I feel that the race started to decline after (and possibly even during) season 11 (all stars). It was a slow decline and did not happen quickly but it is easy to see. The tasks became quicker, the travel less and casting began to suffer from mactoritis (not that mactors were not cast before - I mean look at season 6 - but there used to be more 'normal' teams mixed in than there is now. Now they are all in their 20's and fit. We don't get older or unfit teams anymore.
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