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BlueCrystalTear posted...

I can compare this to the gamebotiness on Survivor. It's not fun to watch nearly every player on Survivor be the same analytical, strategic, wooden, soulless individual. It's a lot more fun to watch people from different backgrounds yell at each other while someone else just sits back and cries.

TAR is the same sort of thing. It's not fun to watch the physically stronger teams beast their way through tasks. I'm bummed that Caro & Ray didn't get to race together for long because watching them learn each other's boundaries and weaknesses would have been fascinating. Akbar & Sheri and Arun & Natalia were/are frustratingly incompetent, but at least that elicits an emotional reaction, unlike the same three teams finishing on top.

Part of why I'm bored with reality TV is because of the change in direction editing-wise. We don't get the compelling personal moments or the conflict that we once did. We get redundant episodes that are indistinguishable from each other.

I think this season in particular was hurt by the blip both eliminating teams with potential for conflict, and forcing the producers to dumb down the course/tasks. There's only so much drama you can elicit when every task is in the safety and security of western Europe.