That’s. The. Point.
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Are we still talking about this b-grade Jerry Bruckheimer show
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A B-Grade producer, expect for Pirates of The Caribbean franchise (which coincidently aired on Seven this week).
Ah yes, Bruckheimer famously regarded all around Hollywood as a B-Grade producer.
Never mind that he set up one of the biggest TV drama franchises in all time (CSI) as well as other big drama shows of the early 2000s. (Cold Case, Without a Trace). Never mind that the Amazing Race is of the biggest reality shows of all time.
Plus you know, a pretty impressive film producing career on Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, Con Air, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Remember The Titans and even though they’re not my cups of tea, the National Treasure films.
Oh and the 32 major awards projects he’s worked on have won.
B-Grade indeed.
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Bruckheimer can’t be much chop if he never created a competitive cooking show franchise. Perhaps Luke will elevate him to A-Grade when he manages to do that.
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Just caught up with this week’s episode. For the first time, a team with an express press in hand, did a fast forward (skydiving from a helicopter), but did not finish first at the pit stop. In hindsight, Becca and Floyd should have used the express pass at the detour which would have guaranteed them first place.
Most of this episode centered on arguments between Vanck and Ashton, and Liz and Michael. It was not good look when Liz and Michael had a verbal stoush right until the pit stop and in front of Phil and the two locals. They may be strangers but they had done five legs so far, so they should have had some understanding of each other.
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Great news, the show has been renewed for a 30th season.
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Regardless this means they still have the express in hand for a future leg, right? So they made the right decision.
No, the express pass expired at the end of the episode, so the team could not use it anymore.
I’m glad someone has mentioned the Fast Forward because I have a question…
The FF was fairly straightforward time-wise, yet two teams beat them to the pitstop. Would this have been simply because the other two teams were able to get through the tasks quickly? Or perhaps because Becca and Floyd chose to drive to the pit stop, just as Liz and Michael did, and also found they couldn’t access the pit stop from the parking area?
Apparently it has to do with the safety training involved with them skydiving out of the helicopter. I read somewhere that it involves a couple of hours before the task is even doable.
That would make sense. You’d think that as a Fast Forward they’d give them a task that could be done quickly, seeing as the object is to get them to the pit stop before the other teams!
Caught up with the two episodes in Italy at the weekend. The scenery at Lake Como looks spectacular. Most of the tasks were relatively straight forward but required physical work (climbing a cliff face and delivering a trolley of suitcases through the bridges and alleys of Venice to a designated hotel).
Caught up with three episodes yesterday as the teams travelled from Venice to Greece then to Vietnam. I feel sorry for Becca and Floyd (Team Fun) who had an up-and-down journey. They came second last in Athens, won the leg in Hanoi, then were eliminated in Ninh Binh in northern Vietnam after Floyd suffered from heat stress, because twice he dropped baskets on the road during the roadblock. Until the incident Team Fun was favourite to win the race and the US$1 million prize.
Seems that small things like missing a turn off or a detour could lead to friction between team members, such as Liz and Michael in Greece and Brooke and Scott in Vietnam.
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Brooke and Scott are doing my head in.
Felt bad for Becca and Floyd. That was one hell of a physical task, especially in that kind of climate.
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It’s probably selective editing but Scott has the patience of a saint!
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Who would have thought the final spot in the bottom 3 came down to a game of Street Fighter V? Matt and Redmond fell behind the other three teams in Seoul after they decided to take the subway instead of taxi from the airport to Gangnam district. It was not until the second roadblock that the boys caught up with Tara and Joey. Tara was really struggling trying to beat a teenage e-gamer (I think she spent at least an hour). It took 30 rounds before Tara won her bout and she and Joey arrived third on the mat.
Both roadblocks required fast fingers and quick reactions. Only two teams managed to do that (Brooke and Scott, and London and Logan) and both deserved to be in the top 2.
I’m not sure if this is still happening, but years ago if you won a prize on a TV show you didn’t get the prize until the episode had screened. Would this be the case with TAR? Aside of the long wait, imagine keeping your win a secret for so long!
I think thats only the case in Australia not the US.
I have heard that winners are under strict conditions of not revealing the result for fear of forfeiting their prize, so they could be withheld until the show screens there too.
The final leg of season 29 was filmed in Chicago on July 2 last year but only aired in the US on June 1, so there was an 11 month gap.
It was relatively straight forward final leg. The toughest task was at the speedway where one team member had to change a tyre at pit lane while the other had to drive a lap in or under 48 seconds. The final puzzle at Wrigley Field was just too easy, the teams just had to remember where they finished each leg.
Interesting that a public park on the shores of Lake Michigan and with the city in the background was chosen as the finish line, so a lot of people would have seen the three teams arriving and heard the result.
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