I have been an avid Amazing Race fan for every season of the show. I have watched every episode of every season and thanks to the Gameshow Network have almost watched every single episode twice now. If there is one thing you come away with from watching all these teams run all these legs, and complete all these road blocks and detours, it is that teams should READ THE DAMN CLUE!
I am amazed that season after season there are teams that wonder around like cast from "Lost" looking for clues in the wrong place, going the wrong direction, failing to complete a road block, all because they didn't take 10 seconds to actually carefully read a clue. How hard can it be? It is the most basic and simplest task of the entire race. I mean with $1 million at stake you would think that someone would realize that a minute or so spent on carefully examining the clue and continuing to refer to it, would be time well spent. But NOOOOOO, as John Belushi would say.
This season is no different. Multiple teams in just the first two episodes have failed to carefully read the clue and have paid for it by wasting hours searching for something in the wrong place. I have a hard enough time accepting that adults can't read maps, but not reading a clue? I think I will conduct a map reading for dummies class in my city and make a fortune if these contestants are any indication of the kind of map reading illiteracy there is out there.
So please do me a favor people. Read your clues. Yes we like watching these shows so we can feel superior to the parade of morons, but at some point I'd like to watch intelligent people compete.
As a little postscript, my memo to CBS and the producers of The Amazing Race is that you will probably loose your Emmy over this "Family Edition" decision, so hopefully that will be enough coercion for you to give us back the format we fell in love with.
And a memo to persons living in New York, "Lon Guyland", and Boston: If you continue to speak with those accents and display the same obnoxious attitudes we see portrayed in every single reality show, then don't expect the rest of the country to have anything but abject hatred for you.
Evan is a Web Designer and Corporate Training Specialist by day, and a Reality TV junky, author, and movie reviewer by night.
You can write to Evan at Evan@RealityTVCalendar.com
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