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Blaziken posted...

My God, watching Claire slowly die inside is amazing.

what happen

Though... I don't really care for Amazing Race anymore. Honestly, watching just the recap, the fact that they're equalizing teams even further now isn't helping - unless of course they combine this with the "no NELs" and allocate one task's difficulty on each leg based on which group they were in.

My problems with TAR are:

1. The locations are more redundant than ever and COVID certainly made that even worse
2. They seldom cast interesting people with interesting stories, and when they do there's hardly a focus on them. Rarely do we get teams with an evolving relationship.
3. The editing is annoying with how many "race to the finish" endings they falsify (often twice an episode, for both first and last place) - when the teams are over an hour apart, and it's obvious.
4. The leg design is so formulaic, and the fact that equalizers are so commonplace really takes away from it feeling like a "race."
5. There's a focus on menial tasks over culture, and what made the show "Amazing" for its first seven seasons was partly the way teams' eyes were opened to the world.
6. It's really just a timewaster. I would get more out of it if it felt like they were really racing OR really spending time appreciating the culture, but it does neither. So, without the "Race" and the "Amazing," the show is really just "The."