MacGuffin
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Watched last week's ep this morning and....yeah. Some improvements but that race could have been so much better. Did they not bother showing the hosts interacting with each other for a reason (ie. because there's no chemistry? or to make more time for the "Stars" segment?) or was that their way of showing the program is 'different' from the CHM version? I will say this about the "Stars" segment, at least the guys this week didn't seem as awkward as they read the cue cards to say what the other guy had been doing. Still, I couldn't tell you what their first & best cars were (and I just watched the show an hour ago) - that bit just is not at all interesting to me.
Nicely observed.
As I mentioned before, they now seem to avoid putting them together in one film. Probably because it becomes really awkward when they have to interact with each other. Instead they let the crew in the cutting room do the messy work of making a film from all the bits and pieces. Sadly it didn't work.
The recipe was always: Put 2 guys into a fast train, on a quick boat or an airplane, let them bicker all the time, while putting 1 person into a fast car and race against them. Make sure the race will be close. That worked, it was a proven formula.
What we were given this time, was 3 persons in three old vehicles racing 1 person in a very slow train. The 3 persons didn't interact (because they weren't together), didn't bicker and had to do some stupid challenges in order to be artificially slowed down. Meanwhile, the 1 person on the train was constantly seen eating fancy food and demonstrated that he can be annoying by using a spoon for something other than eating soup.
I can literally see the guys in the editing room tear their hair when tasked with making a coherent film out of that.
The end result was ill-paced, dull and boring.
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