I feel like there's been a shift in tone over the last few seasons, beginning more or less when they started stunt-casting entire seasons. My assumption is that it's an attempt to "keep it fresh", even though I suspect that most of the fan base would be perfectly fine if Phil read out "The detour is a choice between two tasks, each with its own pros and cons" verbatim every week as he did early on.
One of the nice things about this season was that, after the first few episodes, they more or less stopped talking about the "everybody is internet famous" theme and just let the race be the race, and the teams that made it that far were more or less standard-issue race teams: a few long-term couples, a couple parent-child teams, and a couple teams of platonic best friends. Also, it was nice that nobody got a villain edit or even the "ugly American" edit -- the closest anyone got to that was the double U-turn usage that was universally (among the contestants) considered strategically sound but not very nice. On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 9:49 PM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the problem (if you can call it that) with TAR28 is that the > finishes of many legs - particularly in the later stages of the race - were > determined by a matter of minutes (or even moments), where in the past > they've had more time to spend with tasks because the finishes were more > staggered. The production has also tightened up certain elements of the > show over the last few seasons (e.g. having Phil present at the Detour clue > box to do the front end of the task reveal, rather than having the leading > team arrive, find the clue, rip the clue, then cut away to Phil), so it may > just be the cumulative effect of many small changes, compounded by how this > race season played out. > > I have to say, coming into this season, I was expecting the > Internet-famous racers to be insufferable douchbags, and that didn't turn > out to be the case. That being said, while I thought all three teams who > got to the finale ran good races, I wasn't pleased with the result. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
