The Amazing Race - 3/8/2009 - (Live Commentary/Discussion)
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I would of gave in and try to help him
if I were there.
Good fun episode, the wood challenge looked seriously difficult and time consuming. I did find it odd that teams who had no clue about Chekov came up with the name in short order. Makes me wonder if there was some assistance unseen.
Next Week - bikinis and goosebumps!
Next Week - bikinis and goosebumps!
Chekov - Enterprise Ensign (misspelled by Roddenberry)
Chekhov - Russian playwright
Chekhov - Russian playwright
I am just surprised no one first new the russian name (well one racer) did. And that no one made the connection with Trek (different spelling and all). Oh well, the trekker in my was hoping.
Speaking of assistance, I thought it was pretty obvious for the cameraman to film the shutter-house-hunting group looking down the street towards him then pan right over to the house.
Considering all FOUR men were looking other directions than the cameraman (and there OTHER cameramen around as well), I didn't think there was any kind of tip-off.
--Ted
In an interview someone asked past racers why they don't pay more attention to where the cameraman is looking to find out where the clues are, and they basically said that the cameras are pointing all over the place, filming everything, so you wouldn't know which is the right way to look even if you tried.
Since each leg takes usually two days, the first is often three, most of the racers have talk about how unless the they are being asked questions by them, which does happen during airports, train rides, hours of operation waits, driving ect) they tend to forget about them. When they get to a task, usually thats all the y are focused on.
Sorry, but you're wrong. I just re-watched the sequence.
It's Mel & Mike, Mark & Michael and Kris & Amanda standing there so that would be SIX people. Mark & Michael are facing directly towards the cameraman in question. Amanda & Kris are too but Mel & Mike are sort of in the way. When the second stuntmen (not sure if it's Mark or Michael) finally turned his head slightly away, the cameraman immediately panned to the house and sign. OK, so technically no one appeared to be looking at the cameraman at that exact moment, but it would only have taken a split second for one of the contestants to turn back his way. At the very least, it was a very risky move by the cameraman.
After a Luke scene, we return to the group. Mel says, "I'm suspicious" while looking up the street towards where the cameraman is standing by the house. Next we see the "Repairs Needed" sign and the cameraman pans over to Mel & Mike starting to walk towards him and the house! It doesn't get any more obvious than that. Kris can also be seen looking over his shoulder in that direction. We see the teams walking up the street. Mel approaches the sign, sees it's what they've been looking for and says, "Oh, [bleep]!" and calls to the others. He clearly did not know that was the house until he got there. Therefore, when the cameraman panned from the sign to the teams walking towards him, the teams DID NOT ALREADY KNOW that was the house.
This was a question I had, do the cameramen KNOW where all the task stuff is already and what the tasks are and stuff to know where to film? Cause you always see them like focus in on a route marker if a team misses it or something.
They also said that some of those scenes where it looks like the cameraman is pointing right at a clue/sign, were actually filmed separately when the teams weren't there. Of course sometimes this isn't the case, like when you can obviously see the camera pan from the racers to a sign, but often it is just good editing.
Were the teams tipped off by a cameraman, the show would have ACKNOWLEDGED that fact on the air, just as when there's a mechanical failure which causes delays and so forth.
It ain't the "21 game show scandal" days of the 50's anymore.
--Ted
It ain't the "21 game show scandal" days of the 50's anymore.
--Ted
