If they did go by the actual arrival times, Dandrew would have been many hours behind.I don't think that's true - they bled time at the fort, but it looked like they were only 1-2 hours behind Nick/Star.
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Posts: 7069 (12/01/08 7:56 AM) Registered User |
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Posts: 45 (12/01/08 8:02 AM) |
This didn't work for me. I guess all the suspense went out in the first ten minutes. It could have been a great episode.
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Posts: 4913 (12/01/08 8:10 AM) Registered User |
craig wrote:Funny you forget to mention PARKS as there were about a gazillion of them being featured in this episode alone. |
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Posts: 741 (12/01/08 8:24 AM) Registered user |
Here's the problems with legs like this one...
While Amazing race nerds like the people in this thread may have enjoyed it for it's "mistakes, locals, transportation playing a big role, etc"....for a casual viewer since as the people I watched it with, it was boring as shit. "Why are all the tasks so boring!??" "Why aren't they paragliding!?" "Why aren't they scaling a mountain?!?!" "Why aren't the teams arguing?!" "Why haven't they skydived?!" Fact of the matter is...a lot of people watch this show to see normal people have to do crazy stunts...and sorry, but riding a train back and forth doesn't cut it. So while we may like it, I think this has been a dissapointing season for a casual viewer. Have they really done any exciting tasks??? The only one that comes to mind is the biking tasks where Kelly/Christy fell all over the place. Other than that, the tasks are pretty lame. Like last episode...what is a casual viewer supposed to enjoy about people marching, pouring soup, and carrying heavy bags (roadblock)?? Anybody could do that. |
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Posts: 4914 (12/01/08 8:45 AM) Registered User |
ryanne35 wrote:apparently Dan couldn't. but yeah this leg was boring as the Shetland pony's shit. |
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Posts: 7070 (12/01/08 9:29 AM) Registered User |
Other than that, the tasks are pretty lame. Like last episode...what is a casual viewer supposed to enjoy about people marching, pouring soup, and carrying heavy bags (roadblock)?? Anybody could do that.The trouble with those tasks is either: a) Anyone can actually do them, so they're too easy, which provides no challenge b) They're so incredibly hard that they massively slow down the "underdog" teams who are usually favourites of the casual viewer (i.e. the bull-run) Almost all the "extreme" tasks keep the team order exactly the same, so there's no competition. The last one I can remember which resulted in any change of position was the incredibly easy bike-ride in Leg 1 of TAR12, and that got Nate/Jen ahead by about 30 seconds. |
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Posts: 53 (12/01/08 10:21 AM) |
I do have to question the pony lady refusing to give T/D their clue because they didn't arrive by the correct transportation? I don't think that was in the clue to refuse them (?) and wouldn't the normal way to handle it would have been to allow them to continue and give them the standard "wrong transportation" penalty at the mat?I don't think we've ever gotten a complete explanation of the penalties on this show. We've seen teams (this season!) use improper transportation mid-leg and have a penalty assessed at the mat. We've seen teams screw up near the end and be told to go re-do the thing they screwed up before they can check in. It would be interesting to know how long the Shetland Pony screw-up cost them. If it was more than 30 minutes I don't think that's fair. (not that it would've mattered ultimately) Also, I continue to think that these tasks that are based on a local judge's subjective determination of whether the teams have "satisfactorily" completed the task are bullshit. It was clear to me that the Speed Bump judge was told to make the team do the dance twice and then wave them on. |
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Posts: 1539 (12/01/08 10:23 AM) Registered user |
Speed bump judge- now SHE had a rack!
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Posts: 9873 (12/01/08 11:43 AM) Registered user |
albertjoseph wrote: I've never seen a clue not given to a team for a transportation mistake mid-leg. Hell, we've had teams miss clues and have to go back to get them and no one told them to go back. I wondered if that was a production decision so that they wouldn't have to worry about Toni and Dallas being in the running because of the passport issue. |
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Posts: 7075 (12/01/08 12:07 PM) Registered User |
I've never seen a clue not given to a team for a transportation mistake mid-leg. Hell, we've had teams miss clues and have to go back to get them and no one told them to go back.Not many clues get handed out by actual human beings, though - I think they're fairly consistent that whenever there's Phil, or in this a local, at a checkpoint, they'll stop them if they've made a mistake. If there's just clueboxes, they can't do anything to regulate it. |
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Posts: 255 (12/01/08 12:27 PM) |
I was thinking how great the design of this leg was too
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Posts: 2329 (12/01/08 12:45 PM) Registered user |
My only gripe with this leg was that they stayed in Moscow for a second leg instead of going elsewhere but I have to admit that the tasks were pretty awesome.
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Posts: 186 (12/01/08 1:23 PM) |
sammyhain2364 wrote:I have a gripe with that too, because the 1 leg where Dallas messes up, it's in the most expensive place around  
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Posts: 138 (12/01/08 1:54 PM) Registered user |
Aside from good design and the ability to see a bit of Moscow, it seems to me the tasks are getting much more difficult than in previous seasons.
I was a week in Moscow in 1974 - my how it appears to have changed in 34 years! |
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Posts: 808 (12/01/08 1:59 PM) |
I like the more difficult challenges and ones that involve thinking
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