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news-today.world | Nei hoh and hello everyone and welcome to the final blog post on TAR S30. I got the feeling that Jessica and Cody were going to win this because of Sod's law - the one team I don't want to win will usually end up winning something like TAR, but hey that's reality TV for you and if I can't deal with that I really shouldn't be even watching it in the first place. I am going to do something slightly different in this post, I am going to put the producers in the spotlight instead of the racers. I don't believe that we should put the producers on a pedestal, as if the decisions they make are always perfect and beyond reproach. Many of us hardcore fans of TAR are well-traveled, we have visited many of the locations featured in the series and some of us have not just worked in TV before, we have even been involved in the production of other realty TV shows before! Anyway, not that it matters anymore, but for last time - here are the average ranking statistics:
Team BB 3.42
Team Yale 3.5
Team Extreme 2.17
Team Indycar 2.91 (eliminated in Hong Kong)
So in the end, the statistics didn't mean much because team Indycar was the second strongest team going into the 11th leg in Hong Kong, but they still got eliminated in the end after failing to figure out the last task on Lan Kwai Fong (more on that later). Team Extreme were the most consistent team in this season but in the end, their luck ran out in the last leg, on the last challenge. I won't be just dealing with the faults in the last two legs but on the entire season as a hole and I shall explain to you why we the fans have been let down by some pretty poor decisions on the part of the producers.
The casting of quasi, semi celebrities
So many of the fans have been upset by this aspect of the casting from the beginning. TAR doesn't quite know whether to do a proper celebrity edition like Celebrity Big Brother or stick to casting ordinary folks in the show - instead, they have gone for B-list celebs like team BB, team Extreme, team Well Strung, team Indycar and team Chomp who already have their own fan base. I realize that TAR is in a ratings war with other popular shows and the clash with the 2018 Winter Olympics has made it even harder for this season to get more viewers but this mix of B-list celebrities with ordinary folks like team Yale, the Firefighters and team Goat Yoga has not worked. It was almost as if they had cast these teams and then struggled to find a theme to define them - has it been the most competitive season ever? Well, not at all! I've said this quite a few times already: celebrities like team Well-Strung are already so rich and successful, they were more interesting in having fun in front of the camera and raise their profiles - they were far less interested in winning a million dollars. I'd like to see a season of racers where they are all pretty desperate to win a million dollars - that would mean avoiding casting all these B-list celebrities in a bid to gain viewers and casting real people who really need the money.
Let's cast more hardcore fans of TAR who understand the race
I have said this before as well, I can't help but feel that many of the racers do not understand how TAR works. I wonder how many of them have actually watched every single season of TAR? I say this because most of them do not understand how the U-turn works - many racers were reluctant to use it because "we do not want to put a target on our backs if we U-turn another team". But that's not how it works! You automatically put a target on your back when you do well and you can be as sweet, friendly and helpful as you want to the other teams, as long as you have keep performing well, they will still want to U-turn you. I was also disappointed to see how many of the teams didn't understand that you want to eliminate your strongest opponents and take the weakest teams with you into the finals - that boosts your chances of winning a million dollars. Instead, the way the three teams ganged up against team Yale in Hong Kong felt like Mean Girls all over again - they turned it into a popularity contest when statistically, team Yale was the weakest team at that point (well, before they won the leg in Hong Kong) it would make complete sense to want to take the weakest team with you into the finals whether you like them or not. This is all about having a good strategy to help you win a million dollars, again - this is the kind of issue to do with strategy that a hardcore fan of TAR would totally understand. So many of the racers in this season were clueless, which makes me think that they weren't even fans of the show but got invited to take part based on their celebrity status. Can you imagine watching the winter Olympics where you have celebrities who can barely skate or ski representing their counties, just because it would be much better for the ratings?
Let's talk about the task at Lan Kwai Fong
When the racers got to Lan Kwai Fong, they had to search for three symbols to represent various legs of the race to decipher a code for their briefcase which contained their next clue. So many of the fans thought that task was way too difficult given the way there were more than three symbols on that busy street that could have related to something on the race and that the instructions weren't that clear what they were looking for. In the end, it boiled down to the locals on the street pointing the racers to the various locations where the other teams had successfully opened their briefcases. That task was poorly organized and once something comes across as unfair, you will upset the fans. The fans like it when the contestants are challenged in a task which requires either brain power or physical strength - but when it comes down to something as random as spotting three symbols on a crowded street that weren't even that clear, then the fans have the right to be pissed off. Credit to the three teams who managed to somehow figure out the combinations to their locks, but many of the fans did feel that team Indycar were unfairly eliminated in Hong Kong. The task could have been improved with much clearer instructions about what the teams were supposed to look for, because it is fairly pointless to give them a 'needle in a haystack' kind of search challenge. Team Indycar were a good team who were plain unlucky.
Jessica didn't pull her weight at all in team BB.
It was clear also that Cody carried Jessica all the way to the pit stop at the end, he contributed far more than she did. She was utterly useless in Chiang Mai, having whined and moaned all the way at the frog-catching task whilst Cody caught all the frogs - it is notable that she only did 3 roadblocks whilst Cody did 6. Many fans felt that if they had a 4-5 split with the roadblocks like team Extreme and Yale, then they may not have even made it to the finals if Jessica was forced to do something like eat the scorpions in Chiang Mai or smash the electronic goods in Hong Kong. For some reason, the producers decided that it was 'acceptable' for Jessica to be spared the hassle of having to pull her weight in her team and allow Cody to do 6 of the roadblocks. This reminds us fans of Zach & Flo, the winners of TAR S3: Zach did 10 toadblocks whilst Flo did only 1. Flo moaned, whined, cried and irritated Zach (and the viewers) every step of the way and really didn't pull her weight at all - she was definitely one of the most loathed winners of TAR and whilst Jessica & Cody's ration of 6 and 3 is not as ridiculous as Zach and Flo's 10 and 1, many fans felt that this is the kind of thing that should have been disallowed after TAR S3. The fans do expect every racer, male or female, to pull their own weight.
That last task on the USS Hornet
Urgh. We have talked about fairness in any competition and how important that is to the viewers, remember? Now firstly, we would have liked to have seen the team that got to the USS Hornet first to have an advantage over the teams that arrived later - that was clearly not the case. Secondly, we would have liked to have seen some element of intellectual prowess and memory skills involved in the task - again, that wasn't the case. The three teams were stuck on the task for a ridiculously long time, simply swapping parts around and asking for a check every time they thought they had a new configuration. There was no penalty for simply asking the judge to check every time you changed a part and it then became a random game of chance to see which team would get it right fist - that seriously pissed off a huge number of fans to see the outcome weigh so heavily on luck rather than skill. The task could have been improved by making the symbols a lot more clear, there should have also been a five minute sit-out period every time you ask for a check and get it wrong, forcing the racer to think properly before asking for a check. Ironically, Henry could have asked for a check when he finally got it right, but alas, it was not meant to be for Henry. I must admit, I was so disappointed by the outcome.
Ignore me but don't ignore the ratings.
Oh the ratings for this season were poor. The number of viewers per episode fell steadily from the first episode (7.33 million) to the seventh double-episode (4.12 million), it recovered slightly for the finale (4.34 million) but it was still way down. Many have pointed out that the 2018 Pyeongchang winter Olympics started on the 9th February, thus affecting the ratings for the last two double episodes which were aired during the Olympics. But can you blame the poor ratings on the winter Olympics or have the poor casting and planning in this season left many viewers so unsatisfied that they stopped caring who would win and decided to watch some curling or ice hockey instead? Just to put things in perspective, 13.65 million viewers tuned in to watch the grand finale of TAR S1 and even during TAR S15, the finale attracted 12.32 million viewers. The latest figures are shockingly low and I certainly hope the producers don't just blame it all on the Olympics - they have made some fundamentally poor decisions this season and I do hope that it is not too late for them to fix it, otherwise we may not see another season of TAR US. That is not an outcome that hardcore fans like me would want.
Back to basics for the next season
Here's my wish list for the next season please: firstly, strictly no celebrities, not even minor ones! Just cast ordinary folks who have proven to be big fans of TAR, who well and truly understand how TAR works. No more partner swapping and certainly no more head-to-head type challenges, that just didn't work. Allow the racers to arrange their flights from one city to the next rather than just putting them all in the same plane. Ensure that all challenges rely on a certain element of skill and/or strength rather than just plain dumb luck. Check that your racers can actually read a map and drive confidently, because it is just frustrating to see racers struggle with something that fundamental and basic. And of course, reinstate the rule that both members of each team must do the same number of roadblocks, to avoid the situation whereby Zach and Cody totally covered for a much weaker team member. Bring back the fast forward (but make it very difficult). The viewers who watched the earlier seasons of TAR are still somewhere out there, but they have abandoned TAR S30 for some reason: reverting back to the original format may help woo them back since the latest changes in S30 have failed to win the fans over. Fair enough, so you have tried something new but at least admit that it just didn't work.
Finally, the nasty, sexist people on social media
Holy crap, there are some pretty awful people out there on social media giving Evan a lot of crap for simply being loud when cheering Henry on. Look, she was just trying to encourage her partner but what about Jessica who did not pull her weight at all, whined and moaned all the way and spouted so much hateful, racist rhetoric on Big Brother? Where is the hate directed at her? It seems that a lot of the people on social media simply don't have their priorities right - so it is not acceptable for a woman to be loud, women are supposed to be demure and ladylike, so Evan gets hate for not confirming to that stereotype whilst Jessica is hateful, bigoted and racist but somehow that doesn't bother the people on social media? What is going on - just because Jessica conforms to some kind of old-fashioned, sexist stereotype of a woman who stands behind her man, allowing Cody to do all the hard work and acknowledging that he is the boss in the relationship? Good grief, which century are we living in? Why is Evan getting so much hate for simply asserting her status as an equal in her relationship with Henry? All I can say is that this is a reflection of an America who would gladly elect a creepy, sexist man who said, "grab them by the pussy" instead of a woman for president. Evan, if you ever get sick and tired of these sexist Americans, come and live and work in Europe. We respect women and I am proud to say that I live in a country where the two most powerful people, the prime minister and the Queen, are both women. Come to London Evan and Henry, I'll personally welcome you here. Okay, I'm not saying that all Americans are misogynistic sexists, but there are a lot of nasty bigots out there on social media who happen to be TAR fans. How utterly disgraceful.
So that's it from me on this season, overall I was rather disappointed but I hope you have enjoyed it more than I did. Will we see a TAR S31? Who knows. I am not holding my breath, but I do hope that TAR Asia would come back for another season soon. Hey, if there is no more TAR, what will you be watching instead? Survivor perhaps or is it time for the producers to come up with a completely different concept? Please let me know what you think. Many thanks for reading.
Team BB 3.42
Team Yale 3.5
Team Extreme 2.17
Team Indycar 2.91 (eliminated in Hong Kong)
So in the end, the statistics didn't mean much because team Indycar was the second strongest team going into the 11th leg in Hong Kong, but they still got eliminated in the end after failing to figure out the last task on Lan Kwai Fong (more on that later). Team Extreme were the most consistent team in this season but in the end, their luck ran out in the last leg, on the last challenge. I won't be just dealing with the faults in the last two legs but on the entire season as a hole and I shall explain to you why we the fans have been let down by some pretty poor decisions on the part of the producers.
The casting of quasi, semi celebrities
So many of the fans have been upset by this aspect of the casting from the beginning. TAR doesn't quite know whether to do a proper celebrity edition like Celebrity Big Brother or stick to casting ordinary folks in the show - instead, they have gone for B-list celebs like team BB, team Extreme, team Well Strung, team Indycar and team Chomp who already have their own fan base. I realize that TAR is in a ratings war with other popular shows and the clash with the 2018 Winter Olympics has made it even harder for this season to get more viewers but this mix of B-list celebrities with ordinary folks like team Yale, the Firefighters and team Goat Yoga has not worked. It was almost as if they had cast these teams and then struggled to find a theme to define them - has it been the most competitive season ever? Well, not at all! I've said this quite a few times already: celebrities like team Well-Strung are already so rich and successful, they were more interesting in having fun in front of the camera and raise their profiles - they were far less interested in winning a million dollars. I'd like to see a season of racers where they are all pretty desperate to win a million dollars - that would mean avoiding casting all these B-list celebrities in a bid to gain viewers and casting real people who really need the money.
Let's cast more hardcore fans of TAR who understand the race
I have said this before as well, I can't help but feel that many of the racers do not understand how TAR works. I wonder how many of them have actually watched every single season of TAR? I say this because most of them do not understand how the U-turn works - many racers were reluctant to use it because "we do not want to put a target on our backs if we U-turn another team". But that's not how it works! You automatically put a target on your back when you do well and you can be as sweet, friendly and helpful as you want to the other teams, as long as you have keep performing well, they will still want to U-turn you. I was also disappointed to see how many of the teams didn't understand that you want to eliminate your strongest opponents and take the weakest teams with you into the finals - that boosts your chances of winning a million dollars. Instead, the way the three teams ganged up against team Yale in Hong Kong felt like Mean Girls all over again - they turned it into a popularity contest when statistically, team Yale was the weakest team at that point (well, before they won the leg in Hong Kong) it would make complete sense to want to take the weakest team with you into the finals whether you like them or not. This is all about having a good strategy to help you win a million dollars, again - this is the kind of issue to do with strategy that a hardcore fan of TAR would totally understand. So many of the racers in this season were clueless, which makes me think that they weren't even fans of the show but got invited to take part based on their celebrity status. Can you imagine watching the winter Olympics where you have celebrities who can barely skate or ski representing their counties, just because it would be much better for the ratings?
Let's talk about the task at Lan Kwai Fong
When the racers got to Lan Kwai Fong, they had to search for three symbols to represent various legs of the race to decipher a code for their briefcase which contained their next clue. So many of the fans thought that task was way too difficult given the way there were more than three symbols on that busy street that could have related to something on the race and that the instructions weren't that clear what they were looking for. In the end, it boiled down to the locals on the street pointing the racers to the various locations where the other teams had successfully opened their briefcases. That task was poorly organized and once something comes across as unfair, you will upset the fans. The fans like it when the contestants are challenged in a task which requires either brain power or physical strength - but when it comes down to something as random as spotting three symbols on a crowded street that weren't even that clear, then the fans have the right to be pissed off. Credit to the three teams who managed to somehow figure out the combinations to their locks, but many of the fans did feel that team Indycar were unfairly eliminated in Hong Kong. The task could have been improved with much clearer instructions about what the teams were supposed to look for, because it is fairly pointless to give them a 'needle in a haystack' kind of search challenge. Team Indycar were a good team who were plain unlucky.
Jessica didn't pull her weight at all in team BB.
It was clear also that Cody carried Jessica all the way to the pit stop at the end, he contributed far more than she did. She was utterly useless in Chiang Mai, having whined and moaned all the way at the frog-catching task whilst Cody caught all the frogs - it is notable that she only did 3 roadblocks whilst Cody did 6. Many fans felt that if they had a 4-5 split with the roadblocks like team Extreme and Yale, then they may not have even made it to the finals if Jessica was forced to do something like eat the scorpions in Chiang Mai or smash the electronic goods in Hong Kong. For some reason, the producers decided that it was 'acceptable' for Jessica to be spared the hassle of having to pull her weight in her team and allow Cody to do 6 of the roadblocks. This reminds us fans of Zach & Flo, the winners of TAR S3: Zach did 10 toadblocks whilst Flo did only 1. Flo moaned, whined, cried and irritated Zach (and the viewers) every step of the way and really didn't pull her weight at all - she was definitely one of the most loathed winners of TAR and whilst Jessica & Cody's ration of 6 and 3 is not as ridiculous as Zach and Flo's 10 and 1, many fans felt that this is the kind of thing that should have been disallowed after TAR S3. The fans do expect every racer, male or female, to pull their own weight.
That last task on the USS Hornet
Urgh. We have talked about fairness in any competition and how important that is to the viewers, remember? Now firstly, we would have liked to have seen the team that got to the USS Hornet first to have an advantage over the teams that arrived later - that was clearly not the case. Secondly, we would have liked to have seen some element of intellectual prowess and memory skills involved in the task - again, that wasn't the case. The three teams were stuck on the task for a ridiculously long time, simply swapping parts around and asking for a check every time they thought they had a new configuration. There was no penalty for simply asking the judge to check every time you changed a part and it then became a random game of chance to see which team would get it right fist - that seriously pissed off a huge number of fans to see the outcome weigh so heavily on luck rather than skill. The task could have been improved by making the symbols a lot more clear, there should have also been a five minute sit-out period every time you ask for a check and get it wrong, forcing the racer to think properly before asking for a check. Ironically, Henry could have asked for a check when he finally got it right, but alas, it was not meant to be for Henry. I must admit, I was so disappointed by the outcome.
Ignore me but don't ignore the ratings.
Oh the ratings for this season were poor. The number of viewers per episode fell steadily from the first episode (7.33 million) to the seventh double-episode (4.12 million), it recovered slightly for the finale (4.34 million) but it was still way down. Many have pointed out that the 2018 Pyeongchang winter Olympics started on the 9th February, thus affecting the ratings for the last two double episodes which were aired during the Olympics. But can you blame the poor ratings on the winter Olympics or have the poor casting and planning in this season left many viewers so unsatisfied that they stopped caring who would win and decided to watch some curling or ice hockey instead? Just to put things in perspective, 13.65 million viewers tuned in to watch the grand finale of TAR S1 and even during TAR S15, the finale attracted 12.32 million viewers. The latest figures are shockingly low and I certainly hope the producers don't just blame it all on the Olympics - they have made some fundamentally poor decisions this season and I do hope that it is not too late for them to fix it, otherwise we may not see another season of TAR US. That is not an outcome that hardcore fans like me would want.
Back to basics for the next season
Here's my wish list for the next season please: firstly, strictly no celebrities, not even minor ones! Just cast ordinary folks who have proven to be big fans of TAR, who well and truly understand how TAR works. No more partner swapping and certainly no more head-to-head type challenges, that just didn't work. Allow the racers to arrange their flights from one city to the next rather than just putting them all in the same plane. Ensure that all challenges rely on a certain element of skill and/or strength rather than just plain dumb luck. Check that your racers can actually read a map and drive confidently, because it is just frustrating to see racers struggle with something that fundamental and basic. And of course, reinstate the rule that both members of each team must do the same number of roadblocks, to avoid the situation whereby Zach and Cody totally covered for a much weaker team member. Bring back the fast forward (but make it very difficult). The viewers who watched the earlier seasons of TAR are still somewhere out there, but they have abandoned TAR S30 for some reason: reverting back to the original format may help woo them back since the latest changes in S30 have failed to win the fans over. Fair enough, so you have tried something new but at least admit that it just didn't work.
Finally, the nasty, sexist people on social media
Holy crap, there are some pretty awful people out there on social media giving Evan a lot of crap for simply being loud when cheering Henry on. Look, she was just trying to encourage her partner but what about Jessica who did not pull her weight at all, whined and moaned all the way and spouted so much hateful, racist rhetoric on Big Brother? Where is the hate directed at her? It seems that a lot of the people on social media simply don't have their priorities right - so it is not acceptable for a woman to be loud, women are supposed to be demure and ladylike, so Evan gets hate for not confirming to that stereotype whilst Jessica is hateful, bigoted and racist but somehow that doesn't bother the people on social media? What is going on - just because Jessica conforms to some kind of old-fashioned, sexist stereotype of a woman who stands behind her man, allowing Cody to do all the hard work and acknowledging that he is the boss in the relationship? Good grief, which century are we living in? Why is Evan getting so much hate for simply asserting her status as an equal in her relationship with Henry? All I can say is that this is a reflection of an America who would gladly elect a creepy, sexist man who said, "grab them by the pussy" instead of a woman for president. Evan, if you ever get sick and tired of these sexist Americans, come and live and work in Europe. We respect women and I am proud to say that I live in a country where the two most powerful people, the prime minister and the Queen, are both women. Come to London Evan and Henry, I'll personally welcome you here. Okay, I'm not saying that all Americans are misogynistic sexists, but there are a lot of nasty bigots out there on social media who happen to be TAR fans. How utterly disgraceful.
So that's it from me on this season, overall I was rather disappointed but I hope you have enjoyed it more than I did. Will we see a TAR S31? Who knows. I am not holding my breath, but I do hope that TAR Asia would come back for another season soon. Hey, if there is no more TAR, what will you be watching instead? Survivor perhaps or is it time for the producers to come up with a completely different concept? Please let me know what you think. Many thanks for reading.
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