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It’s cool that they tried something different with the game show, but I just couldn’t get engaged with it. Jetlag is really cool though. Hope they do more runs like the NZ one. Roadtrip with alternative routes and challenges.
Norway is a long country with epic nature. Totally not biased though cough
I have to be honest, I did enjoy NZ, but I think it was probably the second-worst of the recent (basically, post-Battle for America) seasons, just ahead of Arctic Escape.
If your other bit was about The Getaway, I kinda agree. I loved the premise, and it had some brilliant moment-to-moment bits, even in the last episode. But the arc of the show just didn’t land with me. The ending felt incredibly unsatisfying, and all the weird distractor stuff with Ms Terry and the dressing up in disguises just felt like distractions for the audience, too. A good premise and I think if the show gets more seasons they might be able to do something good with it, but this one didn’t quite work.
Oh, what turned you off about the NZ season? I think that was one of the best ones. Ben and Adam are just brilliant together in all seasons though.
Yeah I meant The Getaway. To be fair though, I gave up after the second episode. When the best bit is the reveal (not gonna spoil anything) at the end of each episode, then I guess it’s just not for me.
I think the problem for me with NZ was its linearity and the degree of independence between the teams. It was fun, but there was so much less room for random chance to get in the way, or for teams to interfere with each other.
Yeah I watched The Getaway to the end, but found it obvious by episode 2 that there were big structural problems. The conceit if them travelling along in the van never made sense to me.
The last episode was worth watching just for
The Getaway finale spoilers
the bits with Foreign on the drop ride with Sam
The llama challenge in episode 3(?) was also great. As I said, a lot of great moments and some fantastic editing, it just didn’t piece together very well imo.
I initially thought Sam was a fool for taking the hint on the puzzle box, but after I saw the solution…I don’t think I would have figured that out either.
Go Team Ben!
Yeah, that was a shockingly abstruse solution to the puzzle box. I understand that puzzle boxes often are that way, and it reminds me of old-school point and click adventure games where you just have to be ok with making wild leaps of logic and pressing on everything, rather than the solution being something that with careful analysis you can come across.
But that doesn’t mean it made for a good puzzle on a travel game show.
Apparently Amy showed it to a few friends who all solved it in a few minutes, which is why it was (a) included, and (b) not worth all that many coins.
