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TAR Australia 8 (Celebrity Edition 2) Ongoing SHOW Discussion

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Bookworm:
While I came into Episode 6 knowing either Havana & Steph or the Tillies would leaving, I can't help but feel that Havana & Steph were screwed by the leg design. A midleg equalizer into a luck Roadblock was just awful design for a leg following a KOR (if anything, this and Soweto could've been switched in order, seeing how much daylight teams had after arriving to the Lodge). While it seemed there was some level of technique that changed efficiency, and eyesight played a role, the Roadblock was too luck-based to be the only determinant besides driving before a Pit Stop. Havana & Steph were a surprisingly strong team, especially in these past legs in South Africa; I don't know how much they lost by, but if they had their lead from the previous day, I'm sure they would've beaten Peter & Bridget.

Aside from this gripe, I've been really enjoying the tasks this season! I was at first skeptical of doing Incan tasks in Argentina, as I thought they'd be better in Peru or Bolivia, but seeing the people of Jujuy, there's undeniably an Indigenous presence. Beyond that, I've been impressed by the eating challenges! In the past, The Amazing Race has relied on eating challenges to mock or elicit a "gross" reaction, but the two tasks thus far have relied on less-than-usual parts of animals ordinarily consumed (per an Anglo-Western perspective). As someone said in Johannesburg, "it's just chicken." While the use of heads and feet added shock value, the tasks highlighted the resourcefulness and aversion to food waste, rather than making the local population seem weird or exotic for their dietary culture.

Looking forward to Namibia!

Xoruz:
It's no surprise that this production included a safari, but what holds this leg back is that the Roadblock was the only task that was after it. If the safari was the first thing teams did, I don't think we would be complaining as much. (I mean we still might comment on how short the leg was.)

They really did Pete & Bridget dirty with the "Currently Lost" chyron.  :funny:

NumfarPTB:
Pretty but messy leg, it didn't help that I was really tired while watching it. It seems that a lot of time was spent on teams downtime at the equalizer.

BourkieBoy:
Episode 4 Thoughts

Finally got around to watching this episode! (Also watched Episode 5 last night and plan to watch Episode 6 tonight, so that I'm all caught up and ready to go for Episode 7, which is airing tomorrow night!)

I think this was my favourite episode of the season so far! I love South Africa and to see Johannesburg again after so many years was wonderful. I really liked how the episode started, with the teams needing to travel via train from Sandton Station to Park Station and then search around the station for their next clue. I really enjoyed the Healer side of the Detour, especially the twist of needing to add all of the items on the ground to the stall, which tripped a few teams up (also really enjoyed how the labels were in the Zulu language and teams needed to ask the locals for help). I found the Styler Detour to probably be the worst task of the leg, but maybe that's because I'm just not interested in anything to do with sewing?  :lol: :funny:

Gotta love how the Roadblock was yet another eating task! I love my chicken, but I would have personally found it really hard to eat both the chicken feet and the chicken's head. The Rand Club looked like an awesome location and it was quite a unique challenge having to search around the club for the "Big five". The Pit Stop location at night also looked awesome (there's something about night legs and TAR that are very special)

As for the eliminated team, Show contentI'm quite sad to see them go. Jett is actually an Ironman and surf lifesaver in Australia, so he's extremely fit. Lily was always the "weak link" of the team and I knew that they weren't going to go very far

BourkieBoy:
Episode 5 Thoughts

This was a very inspiring leg (you knew it was as it was taking place in Soweto), but I thought the leg was our second-worst of the season so far. I found the way the Pit Start was delivered was unique (teams receiving their clues via the clues being posted under their doors  :lol: :funny:). I found the bike building Roadblock to be extremely hard and all credit to the teams who managed to complete it. Great idea to use Mandela's House as a clue location, but I thought it was maybe a missed opportunity to maybe have the teams spend some time at the house, looking through it?

I personally found the song and drum routine to easily be the worst task of the leg (maybe because I have zero interest in musical tasks on TAR) and I thought the editing of the task to be terrible (the segment went for far too long and took far too much for the episode - the mid-point of the episode was extremely boring). However, it was great to see the teams interaction with the local kids. I found both of the Detour tasks to be the best tasks of the leg - the Burgers side (how delicious did those kota burgers look!), was quite tricky (especially remembering those picky orders from the customers and then having to remember how to put the burger together) and the Beers side would have been extremely physically demanding (that route looked longer than 2 kilometers on the map) - I'm not sure that beer would of tasted very nice (not a big fan personally of home brewed beer), both when the teams had to sample it at the start of the task and when it was delivered to the backyard party (after being in the hot sun!)

Show contentVery glad that this was a KOR leg and that Peter & Bridget survived. Peter is one of the most entertaining Racers I think we've ever had on the show

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