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rewatching TAR 10... |
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Posts: 1192 (02/24/08 12:27 PM) Registered user |
I just downloaded all of season 10 which along with 9, i didn't see on first airing, and wow, i gotta say, apart from the double elimination, I really like
this season, which is sad since I gather that the general consensus around here is that the season wasn't very good, or am I wrong?
oh and this thread is dedicated to oh ehm gee
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Posts: 3134 (02/24/08 1:09 PM) Registered user |
I think most people here hated TAR10 because of the elimination order. Duke/Lauren was an extremely sad elimination and three out of the final 5 were
completely boring (Romberly, Chos and Tyler/James).
Personally, I initially liked the first half of the season as we never had a season heavily emphasize a variety of Asian countries before. However, the Europe legs are completely forgettable (Except the tomatoes). |
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Posts: 13978 (02/24/08 1:16 PM) Registered User |
Why are Duke/Laure sooooooo praised here? They were just another blah parent/child team in the vein of Dennis/Andrew and Susan/Patrick (almost) with the
"OMG! I'm gay! Will my folks accept me? Hopefully it works out on the race!" angle....
TAR 10 is just a middle season for me. Not bad but not quite good. |
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Posts: 5464 (02/24/08 2:11 PM) Registered User |
Of all the seasons, it's by far the one I care the least about - it wasn't as depressing as TAR4/7 because I actually cared about the early boots a lot
more. Duke/Lauren were the only team who were particularly interesting (though more for their potential of having a great long-term story arc, though they
were one of the few sympathetic teams) and all the all-male teams turned out to be colossal duds (except maybe Bilal/Sa'eed, who had about 1 minute of
airtime cumulatively).
It also had a reverse of TAR9's problems - the first half was unpredictable, but after Peter/Sarah leave the arrival orders are basically the same for four episodes straight (BQs & Models, Romberly, then Backpackers). |
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Posts: 6706 (02/24/08 4:03 PM) TAR Moderator |
roadblocker wrote: I agree with the last comment.
Mongolia was great. Vietnam was fine but not up to TAR3's visit. The David & Mary storyline was ok but then that was all there was other than
Peter as a villain. Peter goes out followed by Team Kentucky and then we give way to bland Europe. Thus ensues a terrible second half of boring (drug boys)
and annoying (bickering generic couple) Racers who dominate a bland second half. And since I didn't like the queenies, it was a terrible second half
indeed. The Big Fizzle.
As for the Duke/Lauren thing I think it was that they raced so well the first two legs. They seemed that they were the strongest parent/kid team they had ever cast at that point and were touted as such on the boards. So their elimination was not only a disappointment but also a shock as in how the hell did one of the strong teams just go down the tubes? And the one parent/kid team that seemed to finally break the stereotype of "cannon fodder." |
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Posts: 193 (02/24/08 7:23 PM) |
I don't think anything can top the first Vietnam leg - the acceleration of Flo's descent into madness, the poignancy of Ian returning to Vietnam after
the war, the bittersweet battle between the twins and K/G, the humor of Ken unloading baskets of fruit on the cheap, and of course, Flo helping her boyfriend
get eliminated. My personal favorite leg ever.
I liked TAR10 because it was such a reversal of previous archetypes. The alpha males were on the brink of elimination multiple times, a couple of beauty queens turned out to be not only alpha females, but the second villains of the season, Bama went to F3 despite being pretty much cannon fodder, even outlasting the Chos, and organic storylines (the Back Pack forming in Mongolia, the BQs sliding into villainy, the breakdown of Peter and Sarah's relationship, Bama's journey into competence). Plus, there were actual clues - "find the white angel", the picture of the Kuwait Towers, the Roadblock clue in Arabic, the clue to the Ukraine in Cyrillic, the hunt for the News building in New York - it seemed harder than most other recent TARs as well as less in the way of hours of operation bunching (compared to TAR6 and TAR9). EDIT: And thanks for that, survivorjordan. |
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Posts: 1177 (02/24/08 7:41 PM) Registered user |
oh ehm gee wrote: I loved this entire post until Bama and competence ended up in the same sentence. 
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Posts: 194 (02/24/08 8:48 PM) |
kmill wrote: What I meant was relative competence - going from placing near last to getting 2nd (out of 4, yes, but that was what happened to the Bowling Moms as well). Not to mention they would've won the leg in Morocco had it not been for the (appropriately used) Yield. Why the models and R/K didn't yield the BQs at that point is a mystery to me. |
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Posts: 2952 (02/24/08 10:03 PM) WRP Official Spokesperson |
I remember watching TAR10 few years back, on the first episode two teams were eliminated, Bilal/Saeed eliminated halfway in Meridian Gate, Beijing on that leg
and Vipul/Arti eliminated in the pit stop after the episode ended.
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Posts: 362 (02/24/08 10:24 PM) Registered user |
Apprentice Talker wrote: Why do you always post the most obvious and irrelevant comments? |
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Posts: 10 (02/24/08 10:27 PM) |
well here's how I rate the teams
12.Bilal and Saeed-they had an unfair elimination and were pretty strong until some stupid chinese taxi driver brought them to the wrong way they get an 8 11.Vipul and Arti-they loved each other more than the race and were nice people just had the same bad luck as Bilal and Saeed so they get a 9.5 10.Kellie and Jamie-Remember Lena and Kristy who didn't quit at the roadblock same fate for these two girls they were pretty strong but not strong enough they get an 8.5 9.Duke and Lauren-pretty much like Susan and Patrick only better......9 8.Tom and Terry-ZZZZZzzzzzz what sorry I mean 6 7.Peter and Sarah-Peter=JERK Sarah=anything but bitch....9 6.David and Mary-well they did annoy me at time but never gave up they got a 10 for being my faves this season 5.Erwin and Godwin-boring and TOO nice-7 4.Dustin and Kandice-Likeability-1 Skill-10 3.Lyn and Karlyn-seems Like their the only ones I like in the F3-8.5 2.Romberly-bickered throughout the whole race course 0 1.Tyler and James-Boring alpha males -100 |
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Posts: 2956 (02/24/08 10:29 PM) WRP Official Spokesperson |
Erwin/Godwin eliminated in Ukraine because they drove on a streets in Kiev and Chos questioned by police.
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Posts: 2957 (02/24/08 10:31 PM) WRP Official Spokesperson |
David/Mary eliminated in Madagascar (leg 8), they arrived 5th in pit stop and they marked for elimination causing Lyn/Karlyn arrived 20 minutes after them.
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Posts: 195 (02/24/08 11:41 PM) |
Apprentice Talker wrote: Which is why the Intersection sucks following an NEL and why I'm glad it's (Intersection) gone. It wasn't nearly as bad as in AS, but after all the tweakings with the NEL penalty, letting a team get off scot free for coming in last is really lame. On the other hand, Bama was one of the only teams keeping the second half alive (along with the BQs). And I suspect that had the Chos not been such crappy navigators, that they would've aced out Bama. If I remember correctly, they had trouble finding the
location for every route marker in Kiev.
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Posts: 1937 (02/25/08 2:55 AM) Registered user |
Apprentice Talker wrote: And Tyler & James won! ZOMG! I liked season 10 for the most part. But there were so many teams that started off (Maddicts, David & Mary) or became (Chos, Romberly) so unlikeable that season. |
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Posts: 875 (02/25/08 3:41 AM) Registered User |
I think it hurt that the first teams to be eliminated after the split into "backpack" and leaders were the most benign, and therefore likable, of
each group. Many people still hold Duke & Lauren in high regard despite their early exit. Kellie & Jamie weren't very good racers, but they were
kinda silly and they were cute. It's not hard to be likable when you're compared to the rest of that group of sanctimonious assholes.
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Posts: 5468 (02/25/08 5:16 AM) Registered User |
as less in the way of hours of operation bunching (compared to TAR6 and TAR9).TAR10 has the worst single example of unnecessary bunching ever: making all the teams wait before they could use the yield. Teams were almost always bunched after flights - other than India, the first 15 minutes of the episodes were irrelevant - Duke/Lauren's problems with that Vietnamese woman lost all suspense for me as I knew they'd make absolutely no difference since they would obviously be bunched up by the next morning. |
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Posts: 90 (02/25/08 5:30 AM) |
i quite enjoy this season, except for the crappy double elimination on the first leg (bilal/saeed had the potential to be both funny & annoying) & a couple of bad leg planning. but i liked some of the clues & challenges. |
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Posts: 13 (02/25/08 5:32 AM) |
That Vietnamese woman was a bitch
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Posts: 196 (02/25/08 7:04 AM) |
A Dying Clown wrote: I have to defend bunching - some legs wouldn't be nearly as good without the constant team shuffling (first Switzerland in TAR3, what would occur in
Vilnius in TAR12, and Mongolia in TAR10). Not to mention it prevented Tyler/James from forming an unshakable lead. I do agree that the bunch before the yield
(and the bunch before the maze in Barcelona) were both unnecessary though. Compare that to TAR9 where a leg had either no bunching (Italy, Greece) or lots of
it (Darwin, Thailand) and TAR6 where there were multiple bunches in an episode.
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Posts: 5471 (02/25/08 7:29 AM) Registered User |
Bunching's definitely a good thing, but only when it's unpredictable - all the TAR3 teams being forced to go to the soccer field at the same time
worked out well despite not being intended and the TAR4 Venice Roadblock was good in theory (except for the cameramen fucking over Amanda/Chris). The
ridiculous saminess of TAR10 (and of TAR6, since teams kept being stuck together over and over) is far more annoying to be than some of the problems in TAR9.
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