The Amazing Race: I should have been a Boy Scout
February 13, 2016 8:57 AM - Season 28, Episode 1 - Subscribe
11 social media “stars” mug their way through the first leg on a trip around the world. This season kicks off with a phone message from Phil telling them to get their butts to Mexico City.
This episode featured departure tears, 11 tiny boxes with contemporaneous activity, introductions, lots of cross-team pre-knowledge, mariachis, faking it, paper mache bulls full of fireworks, mass confusion, screwing with contestants, folks being lost, folks being dumb, faux archaeology, masks, caves, claustrophobia, multiple pieces in the dig sites, a discussion of giving up and taking the penalty between two different teams, broken speedometers, and a constant unerring knowledge of where the camera is.
This episode featured departure tears, 11 tiny boxes with contemporaneous activity, introductions, lots of cross-team pre-knowledge, mariachis, faking it, paper mache bulls full of fireworks, mass confusion, screwing with contestants, folks being lost, folks being dumb, faux archaeology, masks, caves, claustrophobia, multiple pieces in the dig sites, a discussion of giving up and taking the penalty between two different teams, broken speedometers, and a constant unerring knowledge of where the camera is.
As a late baby boomer who rejects the concept of social media stars, I'm gonna hate this season. Haaaaaaaaaaate.
Now allow me to resume monitoring the perimeter of my lawn.
posted by pmurray63 at 9:28 AM on February 13, 2016 [3 favorites]
Now allow me to resume monitoring the perimeter of my lawn.
posted by pmurray63 at 9:28 AM on February 13, 2016 [3 favorites]
What is it about YouTube and other online personalities that requires them to SCREAM EVERYTHING? It's annoying enough online when they suddenly need to YELL IT ALL OUT AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAAHAAHAAHHAAAAOHMYGODAAAAHAAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!! I can't stand it when my son watches these videos in the other ROOOOOOOMOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODDIDYOUSEEEEEEEETHAT??!?!????!???!!!AAAAAA, so I suspect I will not be long for this season.
Not sure what was more idiotic, screaming at the mariachi players and asking them if they're the ones faking it, or picking up random stones in the grass for half an hour instead of going to the sand pit containing the stones as indicated in the clue.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 9:38 AM on February 13, 2016 [2 favorites]
Not sure what was more idiotic, screaming at the mariachi players and asking them if they're the ones faking it, or picking up random stones in the grass for half an hour instead of going to the sand pit containing the stones as indicated in the clue.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 9:38 AM on February 13, 2016 [2 favorites]
To be fair, the Doctor's dumbness was in thinking he needed to go back outside to try to fit his pieces together and then not paying attention to the fact he was dropping his artifacts all over the place. He was picking up pieces he dropped for a half hour! Ridiculous.
The weeping son youtube star is remarkably unbearable. And his mother has already started blaming herself for messing the race up for her son, which is not an archetype I enjoy watching.
posted by julen at 12:22 PM on February 13, 2016
The weeping son youtube star is remarkably unbearable. And his mother has already started blaming herself for messing the race up for her son, which is not an archetype I enjoy watching.
posted by julen at 12:22 PM on February 13, 2016
I'm still willing to give this season the benefit of the doubt. The ratio of annoying teams doesn't seem too much worse than normal.
What is it about YouTube and other online personalities that requires them to SCREAM EVERYTHING?
Ugh. I actually liked the frisbee guys in the intro when their videos actually looked fun. But the constant screaming is awful. Now they're just two bros who need to get off my screen.
Sheri & Cole & the constant crying can also go.
picking up random stones in the grass for half an hour instead of going to the sand pit containing the stones as indicated in the clue.
Those weren't random stones. He took his 13 stones outside looking for the drums and then somehow dropped them all over the grass while he was looking. That man is a medical doctor.
posted by Gary at 12:25 PM on February 13, 2016 [2 favorites]
What is it about YouTube and other online personalities that requires them to SCREAM EVERYTHING?
Ugh. I actually liked the frisbee guys in the intro when their videos actually looked fun. But the constant screaming is awful. Now they're just two bros who need to get off my screen.
Sheri & Cole & the constant crying can also go.
picking up random stones in the grass for half an hour instead of going to the sand pit containing the stones as indicated in the clue.
Those weren't random stones. He took his 13 stones outside looking for the drums and then somehow dropped them all over the grass while he was looking. That man is a medical doctor.
posted by Gary at 12:25 PM on February 13, 2016 [2 favorites]
That man is a medical doctor.
AND a lawyer!
Since I have absolutely no idea who any of these people are, I am totally unaffected with the slightest pre-conception of their personae, so they're just like any other set of TAR contestant to me, which takes some of the curse off. But the hyper-awareness of performing for the ever-present cameras is going to wear thin, I think.
posted by briank at 6:58 AM on February 14, 2016
AND a lawyer!
Since I have absolutely no idea who any of these people are, I am totally unaffected with the slightest pre-conception of their personae, so they're just like any other set of TAR contestant to me, which takes some of the curse off. But the hyper-awareness of performing for the ever-present cameras is going to wear thin, I think.
posted by briank at 6:58 AM on February 14, 2016
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Structurally, I liked the setup of this leg, the challenges, and the fact most of it was designed to happen in darkness. However, there is already hate in my heart for some of these contestants.
Also, I will root for anyone who will invoke Teenage Jesus on this race. Why should the baby incarnation get all the love?
posted by julen at 8:57 AM on February 13, 2016