Look, I'm not saying TV is less cool now than it was 20 years ago, I'm just saying The Amazing Race used to end like one episode a season at a genuinely world-famous landmark and we all just kind of accepted it as a perfectly normal thing to do? - ThreadSky

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thegrimrecapper.bsky.social • 74 days ago

Look, I'm not saying TV is less cool now than it was 20 years ago, I'm just saying The Amazing Race used to end like one episode a season at a genuinely world-famous landmark and we all just kind of accepted it as a perfectly normal thing to do?

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onvavoir77.bsky.social•74 days ago

Like, episode 2 was the Arc de Triomphe, ffs

thegrimrecapper.bsky.social•74 days ago

There are SO MANY in the early years (Sydney Harbour! Neuschwanstein Castle! Venice's lagoon! Blue Lagoon! Pathfinder! Panama Canal! Red Square!) and then they just... stopped. Still do it every so often (Atomium, Bolshoi Theatre, Acropolis, Petra) but not as many or as well as they used to.

onvavoir77.bsky.social•74 days ago

Season 1 of course needed to bring out the big guns with the Coliseum, Great Wall, Taj Mahal, Central Park

Can't debut a show called Amazing Race and, like, ignore the Eiffel Tower

thegrimrecapper.bsky.social•74 days ago

Yeah. 1 hits a lot of big places (the least touristy leg is the one with the Star Wars set?), then 2 does the best it can right after 9/11 (literally all of Rio's landmarks, Robben Island, Hong Kong, Sydney), then 3 and 4 improve the tasks at the expense of highlighting huge landmarks. 5 does both.

jfarbzz.bsky.social•74 days ago

…lets try not to remember what actually happened at the Brandenburg Gate though 😬

taroutofcontext.bsky.social•74 days ago

Right, but it could have been nice in theory

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