Topic: TAR 33 (2nd Try!) Bitch, Moan, and Squeal HERE! (Spoilers)

[Joberio]

I know it was an extraordinary and unprecedented situation, but it just feels wrong that only 5 of the 9 teams were able to return. If 7 or 8 can make it, you live with it and proceed. But 5 feels too low, and that it maybe should have been rescheduled, or the season redone with new teams. Just my opinion.

I fully disagree. These teens put in the time to be here on the race. They deserve to resume where they left off.  For the teams who can't come back, it's terrible, but it's tough cookies.  This was the only apparent time they could do it, and they couldn't. Not the show's fault.

That said, I hope that the teams who couldn't come back can at least be given a second chance on another season.

[Cybersst]

Does anyone know why Anthony and Spencer were unable to return?

[Linda BC2]

 I'd like to know what the teams did in those 18 months to prepare better for the race, seeing as they've tasted 3 legs already. More stick driving lessons? Musical lessons? Up their gym workouts?

[redwings8831]

Does anyone know why Anthony and Spencer were unable to return?

One of them was injured

[theschnauzers]

Does anyone know why Anthony and Spencer were unable to return?

While there are things that happened with Spencer later in 2020 after production was suspended, it’s not possible from what is available in online searches to say those things were related to the team not returning to resume filming.

[Parasparopagraho]

I can’t believe TAR hasn’t done an Outlander-related task, although they did use a location for Phil’s announcement that was used as the 1968-era Harvard University for Brianna and Claire, if that counts.

It's probably not cheap to get the rights from Diana Gabaldon and Starz, but yeah. I was thinking the same thing.

Then a MacBeth reenactment and/or a shortbread task with a Queen Mary Stuart impersonator should've been done instead of rehashing the lameness of Season 22's visit.

[I ♥ TAR]

Apparently they are casting Tough as Nails season 5 already. Season 5. Isn't that crazy considering that the 1st season premiered in the summer of 2020?

Is someone actually watching that show? I never seen much discussion online about it. Is it that popular rating wise that they are filming more and more seasons in such a short period of a time?

I wish they would treat TAR as this Tough as Nails show.

[Cybersst]

Does anyone know why Anthony and Spencer were unable to return?

One of them was injured

I saw someone else say Spencer was stuck in France trying to renew his Visa and could not get it done in time

[Parasparopagraho]

It just dawned on me that a bullet was dodged insofar as the Train Boys' advantage in Corsica seeing as they would easily breeze through the Swiss leg(s).

[theschnauzers]

Does anyone know why Anthony and Spencer were unable to return?

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One of them was injured

I saw someone else say Spencer was stuck in France trying to renew his Visa and could not get it done in time

We have never seen any reporting other than Spencer was hospitalized for some undisclosed reason in Paris while waiting to give testimony in the trial of the terrorist and his accomplices in August or September of 2020. I doubt there would have been a visa issue in any event as both Anthony and Spencer are naturalized French citizens as well as American citizens and could have traveled using that status. We simply have no available public information out there.

[Parasparopagraho]

These upcoming Swiss tasks look as recycled as from previous visits to the country as the Glaswegian ones were from Season 22.

[Cybersst]

Ok, Thank you

Does anyone know why Anthony and Spencer were unable to return?

. 
One of them was injured

I saw someone else say Spencer was stuck in France trying to renew his Visa and could not get it done in time

We. Have never seen any reporting other than Spencer was hospitalized for some undisclosed reason in Paris while waiting to give testimony in the trial of the terrorist and his accomplices in August or September of 2020. I doubt there would have been a visa issue in any event as both Anthony and Spencer are naturalized French citizens as well aAs American citizens and could have traveled using that status. We simply have no available public information out there.

[redskevin88]

These upcoming Swiss tasks look as recycled as from previous visits to the country as the Glaswegian ones were from Season 22.

Well due to a certain pandemic that was going on, the TAR team has bigger and more important things to do than put on their thinking caps and come up with creative tasks and legs. I think we should be thankful given that we know in hindsight the race had a narrow window to film before the coronavirus situation got worse and could have gotten dangerous and difficult to film.

[georgiapeach]

I saw someone else say Spencer was stuck in France trying to renew his Visa and could not get it done in time

This makes no sense. Spencer would have nothing to do with this. WRP arranges all visas well in advance.

[Parasparopagraho]

These upcoming Swiss tasks look as recycled as from previous visits to the country as the Glaswegian ones were from Season 22.

Well due to a certain pandemic that was going on, the TAR team has bigger and more important things to do than put on their thinking caps and come up with creative tasks and legs. I think we should be thankful given that we know in hindsight the race had a narrow window to film before the coronavirus situation got worse and could have gotten dangerous and difficult to film.

Quite frankly, that's a cop-out defence mechanism seeing as the Canadian version has demonstrated how tasks can transcend the limits of their locations.

[LandonM170]

These upcoming Swiss tasks look as recycled as from previous visits to the country as the Glaswegian ones were from Season 22.

Well to be honest the RB from that leg I would love to see again as a switchback. I thought it was a very cool task.

[Parasparopagraho]

Anything good about the Edinburgensian tasks was negated by the atrocious proto-Mine5 gameplay; the best Scottish episode remains a tie between the original half-leg in Stonehaven from Season 3 and the (admittedly RB-lacking) Shetland visit.

[Jobby]

I love the restart! And how they invited (is it official? it seems so on Wiki) the eliminated teams back. A little sad Anthony and Spencer can't return because they genuinely have a shot of winning, but the other three teams don't really have much editing from the start for me to know them that much either. Happy that one of them got a baby boy though!

I've been very uninterested with the tasks so far. I don't know why but it doesn't feel magical anymore. Hopefully the pace picks up!

[Jobby]

I take back my words. Just saw the first roadblock of the restart and!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Parasparopagraho]

Hopefully, either the flag Detour or the other vegetable-Zorb side makes up for a guaranteed linear RB proverbially chewing the scenery.

[Jro]

I love the restart! And how they invited (is it official? it seems so on Wiki) the eliminated teams back. A little sad Anthony and Spencer can't return because they genuinely have a shot of winning, but the other three teams don't really have much editing from the start for me to know them that much either. Happy that one of them got a baby boy though!

I've been very uninterested with the tasks so far. I don't know why but it doesn't feel magical anymore. Hopefully the pace picks up!

The eliminated teams running in was shown in one of the sneak peaks

Edit: Nevermind you probably saw it by now lol

[Parasparopagraho]

Here's hoping that the second Swiss leg does justice to the country's Italophone region(s) unlike Social Media Edition's treatment of Romandy (versus Season 3's actually good one).

[Malcooolm]

You know it's rough when Lulu & Lala are better than 3/7 teams!!

[stunami]

I really don't understand why they made this first leg an elimination leg... I mean the next leg is also in Switzerland... Why not keep all 7 teams, For the first time in Race History, we have 6 teams left at the start of leg 5...I guess we will have for the rest of the season : NEL or KOR/EL in alternance...

ALSO, while looking on google Map, I noticed the pitstop was like 6 km from Austria, and that the direct self-driving road to Lugano (Our next leg) passes really close to Liechtenstein...
I don't know if it's only me who thinks like this, but I would love to see them have a task in one of the other countries, to up a bit the # of countries visited.
I don't think visas would be a problem to just do a quick task in either of those countries, right? 

[Parasparopagraho]

You know it's rough when Lulu & Lala are better than 3/7 teams!!

More like amusing, but okay.