Surprised not to see a thread already started, but I admit I had kinda forgotten myself the season was starting this week until I saw it on my DVR.
Enjoy all the Youtube and Vine stars… I only know one (the Rooster Teeth dude), and even my friend who’s super into that stuff and even goes to Youtube conventions only recognized about three teams.
Was happy that the challenges were actually challenges this time around after the number of wet farts we had last season. Hopefully that holds steady.
Dear lord was that dad a doddering old coot…
Pretty pointless episode in the end, though. First place didn’t get a prize, and it was a non-elimination leg!
I find most all of the teams to be insufferable attention whores, much moreso than the standard reality competition show fare. I almost had to FFWD from douche chills during the various teams screaming at the mariachi dudes “Are you fake playing?!”
So far the only team I’m rooting for at all is the pair of black dudes. They seemed like normal people, and unlike the other teams they didn’t have an uncontrollable need to shout “Look at me!” every moment with obnoxious mugging.
I liked the asynchronous start, with all the teams starting from their own homes. Yet they all somehow managed to get on the same flight to Mexico City. Hmmm, maybe that wasn’t such an asynchronous start after all.
Yeah, I feel I will quickly be rooting for various teams to be eliminated. OTOH, I liked the tasks this time – nice feel for the country, decently challenging, and you’ll notice that there was actually shuffling in the order of finish between task one and task two. So I’m slightly hopeful.
I made it about three minutes into the episode and that was enough for me. Can’t take the screeching and “Look at me!”-ness of everyone. See y’all next season.
Yeah, “The teams have no idea that they are about to start racing.” Yet they have a cameraman & sound guy, are already packed and are wearing matching outfits… :rolleyes:
The teams were much less insufferable than I first feared. I can do without the pointless models who have literally nothing to them other than “I look good in a bikini.”
I almost turned it off. In fact, I didn’t even bother watching it when it aired, but found myself with some spare time on Saturday afternoon so I decided to watch it on the DVR. The first twenty minutes or so showing what all the contestants do on YouTube was irritating, but it was fine once they got to the actual race. (My wife, who watched it when it aired Friday night, told me that she turned it off after 15 minutes and watched a rerun of “Bones”. :D)
I’m rooting for the two black brothers too. They actually seemed likeable and not self-absorbed like the rest of the teams. So yeah, they probably won’t last long.
Ugh, apparently since these people are social media celebrities, that means they aren’t really celebrities, and so that means the show is getting desperate and this season is just awful and the show should die.
At least, that’s what I’m reading in other forums.
I didn’t care for the beginning, but the rest of the show was pretty good. The challenges for the first time in quite some time were interesting and had some challenge to them. Maybe this season will be a bit better then the last few.
Aside from the teams’ origins being similar as far as how they were sourced by the show, I’m not seeing much difference. If you take YouTube out of the description, it’s a mother-son team, a gay couple, a married couple, a father-daughter team, etc.
The only real difference I’m seeing in how the teams play is that some already knew each other before the Race. That’s the only difference I’m seeing in how things go down between the teams, which could be really interesting when eliminations start and they get more competitive. Could be a good thing.
I already certainly like this first episode better than last season.
I haven’t watched TAR since it moved to Fridays. I caught this episode only because our local watering hole had it on when we went there for dinner, LOL. The sound was turned down so I had to rely on the tasks themselves. I thought the cave one with the mosaic mask was cool, btw.
But yeah, whenever they flashed a team onscreen with their Twitter handles, I was like, Seriously, TAR? You’re so desperate that you’re resorting to Twitter to generate buzz?
Then I remembered that Top Chef started doing the same a couple of seasons ago.
The Amazing Editors are starting to really annoy me. Perhaps it’s been this way since Day 1, or maybe it’s gotten worse, or maybe I’m getting old and cranky. But the frenetic cuts – especially when they’re showing the teams arriving and trying to find a clue – have gotten unwatchable. Two seconds, cut, two seconds…and they insert “whoosh” noises between cuts. I can’t take much of that crap.