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paperchaseguy posted:4. Jordan K: A question for Blair. What moment did you really have a gut feeling that you and Hayley weren't a match? We all did.
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On her RHAP exit interview Hayley came across like a nice person and all the other contestants seem to like her a lot. The post-show stuff makes Laura come across way worse than anyone else. Hayley said Laura & Tyler would make fun of other teams a lot, specifically Mike & Rochelle. Laura seems like a lovely person.
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I was a late starter to the amazing race (season 12 was my first), so have gone back and watched since old seasons in hulu,so far watched seasons 6 and 7 First of all a couple observation, the tasks were a lot more physical and a lot less talent based, there were absolutely no singing or dancing. So I kind of like that as no one gets caught in a task they just can't do. Second, it's obvious the rest periods were a lot less, simply by the fact of the lack of any makeup on any of the racers. Not sure how Kynt and Vixon would have survived these early years. The 1 thing I can't stand is the non elimination penalty, I can't stand the begging, especially when it happens in undeveloped countries. What season did they end the begging aspect of the show? I know speed bumps sometimes are pointless, but it's a lot better then begging. I don't even mind the taking of possessions, but the no money sucks.
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Jul 13, 2015 15:52
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There was a racer named Kynt? Please tell it's pronounced how I think.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:28
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Not quite, but he acted like one. I think the begging for cash thing stopped after the terrible family edition. It was changed to having the last place team in a non-elimination leg having to finish first in the next leg or face a time penalty at the end of the leg. It didn't last long before being changed to the current system where most of the tasks are just a glorified time sink anyway. The Amazing Race Canada just started last week. It's too early to see if there are any standout teams yet but I'm hoping that the course goes more than a couple of legs outside of Canada since they've pretty much covered the 9 interesting places to go in Canada already.
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Jul 13, 2015 18:00
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I want to say the first superleg was because they were in a country where begging was illegal. I actually really like where the rules have ended with non-elims and double u-turns. I think they've done a great job of refining the race basics. But the seasons haven't been as great because of not enough variety in casting (where's my Gretchen and Meredith?) and poor leg design (not giving as many ways to change the order people finish, not traveling after a non-elimination leg).
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MrDingleDangle posted:I was a late starter to the amazing race (season 12 was my first), so have gone back and watched since old seasons in hulu,so far watched seasons 6 and 7 The begging penalty was from seasons 5-9. In seasons 1-4 there just straight up wasn't a penalty and in seasons 10/11 there was a 30 minute penalty for not checking in first the following leg. If you're looking for suggestions of what seasons to watch, I'd recommend 3 and especially 5.
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Jul 13, 2015 19:52
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You're actually recommending the season with Flo?
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Jul 13, 2015 22:19
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Is there an amazing race canada thread? Cuz I just saw that its back on!
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:There was a racer named Kynt? Please tell it's pronounced how I think. I've met him in person a few times. He's tiny.
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Andorra posted:The begging penalty was from seasons 5-9. In seasons 1-4 there just straight up wasn't a penalty and in seasons 10/11 there was a 30 minute penalty for not checking in first the following leg. Wasn't there something about having to start the next leg with nothing but the clothes on your backs, or was that part of the begging? I distinctly remember a team who knew they would finish last putting on every single piece of clothing they had.
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Aug 5, 2015 14:22
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Is there going to be a thread for Amazing Race Season 27? First episode aired on Friday.
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Sep 28, 2015 04:38
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Don't see a thread for 27 but the first episode is not too bad, although the teams seem a lot more gimmicky than the previous ones. Green Team sounds like it's gonna have a lot of overzealous enthusiasm/tears if they last, although lol at TMZ which has the potential most bitchy interviews getting kicked out due to loving up a sliding puzzle.
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Sep 28, 2015 05:48
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Seriously how do you not practice sliding puzzles before going on the Race or Survivor.
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Sep 28, 2015 12:55
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I know it's super cheesy, but I love seeing the teams dress up each leg. While casting seems to have gotten very lazy ( a lot of media types), the cinematography seems to have improved.
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Sep 28, 2015 13:01
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This is definitely the most uninspired casting I've seen on the show. I liked the idea of the unacquainted teams last season (sans the forced romantic angle) because the heart of the show is really the intra-team conflict and seeing how pairs weather the stress; watching a new take on that angle at least felt fresh. I'm not sure if it was the (extremely) truncated introductions or the 'type' of people they cast this season, but none of the contestants resonated with me at all. Most teams got a pretty unfavorable edit, to boot.
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Andrew_1985 posted:I know it's super cheesy, but I love seeing the teams dress up each leg. I took a few season break from the show, but decided to get back into it this season. It's one of the few shows my wife and I both really enjoy. I agree on all counts -- the casting of news anchors and TMZ types is kind of lame. I like to imagine these are normal every day people who are being run through the ringer and the camera is catching them at their best and worst. The fact that these are seasoned media professionals is annoying. They're used to putting on a fake face for the camera....
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Sep 28, 2015 14:13
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I'd like to see an all Survivor cast on the race. Or just nobodies. No more cheerleaders, paparazzi, nba/nfl/mlb and their wives, etc. Basically no more people in the industry.
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Sep 29, 2015 15:31
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It's absurd to have papparazzi AND tmz people in the same season. Thankfully the latter got boned by that puzzle
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Sep 30, 2015 17:52
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The green dude is like a real life Andre from The League.
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Oct 3, 2015 18:47
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he's real annoying, but not as bad as the dudebros are pretending he is
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Oct 7, 2015 21:53
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This week's episode was a lesson in reading the whole clue
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Oct 11, 2015 02:49
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I can't believe Mr. I've Seen Every Episode Of The Show Like 5 Times Each thinks that using U-Turns is playing dirty. Oh wait, yes I can.
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Oct 11, 2015 02:58
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One of these days I want to really dig into the concept of morality on a reality/game show like this. Big Brother and Survivor get it especially bad, with people getting bent out of shape that their opponents in this game for a huge sum of cash use the mechanics of the game (alliances, backstabs, Vetos, Immunity Idols, U-Turns, etc etc etc) to win. I mean, seriously, who is honestly expecting to show up to a game and not play to win?
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Oct 11, 2015 03:01
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It makes a certain amount of sense on Big Brother and Survivor where you spend 1-3 months in close quarters with someone and the emotional hothouse causes you to lose perspective. It doesn't make any sense on Amazing Race.
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Oct 11, 2015 03:11
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jivjov posted:I mean, seriously, who is honestly expecting to show up to a game and not play to win? Well there are always three or four Big Brother contestants each season that do exactly this.
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LostRook posted:It doesn't make any sense on Amazing Race. I don't see why it doesn't. There's no strategy to Amazing Race, but if there's a team consistently placing first, why wouldn't you want to trip them up? It's a fun mechanic and I enjoy seeing it used, but I hate the inevitable whining about how unfair it is. You know it exists coming into the race, you can't act surprised when it happens, so why put other players down for essentially playing the game the producers are telling them to play? If it's unfair to trip others, it should be unfair to jump over others, too (fast forward). But no one gets upset when a player uses a fast forward and calls them cheaters.
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I meant the whining about unfairness and taking things personally doesn't make sense, other than people on reality shows just being terrible.
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Oct 11, 2015 07:42
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To be fair, I'd probably be irrational about it as well if I were competing for a million bucks.
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Oct 11, 2015 15:32
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I think this episode secretly required each team to have a stray dog with them at all times
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I don't personally think the U-Turn is "unfair" but I"m more sympathetic to people saying it is than on Big Brother and Survivor. In the early seasons, Amazing Race stood out as the only show of the big 3 where your standing in the game depended entirely on your own efforts. There was no interfering with other teams because there was no mechanic to do so, and the game had a more positive feel than the other two. Then the Yield (and later, U-Turn) were introduced to deliberately undermine that, and I do think that those twists interfere with the underlying spirit of the show where you could survive based on your own actions. It also doesn't help that the U-Turn almost always ends with one of the U-Turned teams being last and then eliminated, especially in the modern Race where the legs are super short and once you fall behind it's very hard to make up that time within that leg. That said, it's weird when teams take out their frustrations on other teams just for using the U-Turn when a million dollars is on the line, rather than the producers for leaving an imperfect mechanic in the game.
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They should really introduce that heads-up thing from the Canadian version, where two teams compete in a task against each other and the loser has to compete against the next team arriving etc. A thing I miss from earlier seasons is involvement from locals. Remember how Boston Rob used to commandeer people to show him around? Maybe I have rose-tinted glasses and stuff like that didn't happen all that often back then, but it doesn't seem to happen at all anymore (unless I'm misremembering the last few seasons).
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Boston Rob managing to get a starstruck local to sit in a cab with them for almost the whole episode is pretty funny and I wish that happened more often I tried watching the new celebrity Chinese version of Amazing Race but holy crap, the first 30 minutes are devoted to taxi drama and they have yet to leave the loving airport. It really shows how editing is crucial for these shows
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brocked posted:I think this episode secretly required each team to have a stray dog with them at all times Between this and previous seasons in Chile I think South America is actually ruled by dogs
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I loved seeing all those dogs. The formerly homophobic mum is a bit overbearing. They come off a bit Bates together. Also, hope you all got the memo that Justin is this season's villain. He's pretty annoying. The limping texan guy is pretty hot too.
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that express pass/u turn drama is so cringeworthy and long drawn-out, at least Victoria Falls is pretty! wastedexpresspass.com
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The inter-team drama sucks and is not why I watch the race, as mancalamania posted, the Amazing Race was originally all about surviving or failing on your own skills, and there really wasn't any big drama or fighting between the teams. The super leg is pretty great, though. Along with a completely wasted express pass.
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Yeah this is not an alliance game and generally it doesn't come into play. I am glad their plan failed, and I don't think the other teams would have even cared if not for the express pass promise. That needs to go away.
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If the Amazing Race were to go back to its roots with no U-Turn or gifted Express Pass, it would need to also return to a time of better casting and more likeable teams. The only entertaining part of these episodes is the drama at this point, because I hate every team and can't really root for any of them in good conscience. Most of them look like they're about to devolve into screaming matches at any moment (Paparazzi, Estranged Mom, Chacattack(?)) or are so seriously deficient that they never stood a reasonable chance anyway (Little People, Homeless Dancers, ATHLETE Cheerleaders). So I encourage them to amp up the rivalry between team God and Country and team I Am An Obsessed Lunatic for now, if they could please re-evaluate their casting choices and reinvigorate this show for the future.
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oh my god teams, stop whining and whinging about the goddamn uturn. This is for a million loving dollars, if you win and they don't then awesome, and if you won because you uturned them... Then awesome. Don't go on the show if you can't make a minor choice like that. All this coming from the self-professed expert on the green team. If he really knew anything about the show he'd know that it doesn't loving matter if the uturned team survives, it's not like they have to live and work together on an island, it's not like they have any control over your race whatsoever except by retaliating the uturn, if even possible.
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