In TAR 25, I find myself remotely rooting for the wrestlers for being funny and being evil but not too smart at the same time, surfers for just completely being lovely dovey, Misti and Jim being competitive but NOT bringing the other teams down (by saying who can't beat them or what and they got much more humble after the NEL SAVE LEG), Amaya for being the cheerful underdogs and Kym and Allie for being the really athletic female team that the race more than often lacked.
And the locations were fun, amazing, remotely interesting and tasks were, good.
This season, I find myself not finding anything to love about Logan and Chris, Tanner and Josh are slowly becoming meh, Justin is extremely annoying, Tiffany and Krista are inconsistent but acceptable (but still meh as compared to Kym/Allie or Amaya), Cindy and Rick are boring and Kelsey and Joey wants to be competitive but are just not that good. The focus of the reporter's edit is always to just try to beat the green team, and that takes whatever fun that they may have out of them. Only Denise and Earl James are delivering <3
And the locations are good so far... BUT THE TASKS? Of so many cool things to do at a windmill (produce something local, make a pair of clogs and paint it, produce some cheese, make dye etc...), they have to find PAINTINGS OF VAN GOGH? LIKE SERIOUSLY? Even trying to reproduce a Van Gohg painting may be remotely interesting. But no, they have to put an unrelated task with an unrelated location.
That's akin to asking a team to go to a shrine in Japan and instead of performing a ritual, eat a piece of sushi? DO YOU SEE THE LINK THERE? The link is they're both related to Japan (going to a shrine and eating a piece of sushi), but the task and location does not match!!
And i'm annoyed by the Rotterdam leg because Rotterdam is FAMOUS... Like really FAMOUS for their artistic designs in their buildings. Even the Rotterdam Central station is extremely frontal looking, but no focus has been placed on the cool designs of ANY building. Like, isn't TAR all about highlighting the physical features of different locations around the world. It just seems like they're visiting Rotterdam because oh... they've been to Amsterdam so let's just go to another dam.
When has it become a... oh green team is not first, oh green team is struggling, oh we have to beat the green team, oh the green team is first, oh the green team won the leg... excuse me while I go and barf.
Kthxbye.
