Bonjour mes amis, comment ça va? Well that was an exicitng episode with quite an unexpected outcome and it was always fun to see Paris featured in a TAR episode especially since I have lived in Paris - it is a city that I know extremely well and adore. I was a university student there in the period 1999 to 2000 and then I worked there in 2014. There's so much for us to unpack in this episode so let's begin, as always, with the average rankings. And yes before you say it, I know I had made a calculation error in last week's post when it came to these averages - my bad! I put my hands up and say, I'm sorry - I totally suck at math thus I have carefully double checked the calculations below before publishing them.
Average rankings after leg 5 in Chantilly and Paris
- Hung & Chee 2.4
- Riley & Maddison 3
- Will & James 3.2
- Michelle & Victoria 4.8 (eliminated in Paris)
- Leo & Alana 5.4
- Eswar & Arpana 5.6
- DeAngelo & Gary 5.8
- Kaylynn & Haley 6.8
Firstly, I am super happy that I was correct in predicting that Riley & Maddison were long overdue to finally win a leg - they are a very strong team and had their share of bad luck in previous legs that denied them a win but they not only won this leg in Paris - they demolished the competition. But let's not forget that Will & James did them a huge favour in holding up two other teams when they couldn't even drive out of the car park at the airport - so I hope they would at least buy Will & James a lovely gift from Vietnam when they enjoy that trip because really, they owe Will & James big time in this leg even if it wasn't a deliberate favour on their part. Likewise, I have to point out that Hung & Chee were on the later flight, but they caught up with the teams on the first flight and jumped all the way to second place because, well, they're Hung & Chee - that's exactly what they do and I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think they are the most likely team to win this season. But I am also keeping a close eye on Leo & Alana, sure they had a slow start in this season but they finished in 3rd place in both this episode and the previous one - if not for Will & James, they might have even challenged Riley & Maddison for first place so they're definitely a very strong team. I like them, I said that already after the first episode, I think they are the kind of team who will definitely do very well in TAR and it is great to finally see them finish near the top of the pack in this leg. So statistically, not that much has changed near the top of the pack but what was interesting was the fact that the team that got eliminated was not by far the weakest team! Even with their disaster in Paris, Michelle & Victoria got eliminated with an average ranking of 4.8 which still made them much stronger than four other teams still in the race but good grief, where do I even begin with Michelle & Victoria? So what happened?
What happened to Michelle & Victoria in Paris?
They were doing pretty okay at first - they seemed perfectly fine driving themselves to the castle in Chatilly and did both the roadblock and the whipped cream task with ease. In fact, they left Chantilly in fifth place and when there were eight teams including a team with a speed bump, that's a pretty comfortable position to be in. But then that's when their nightmare began: the drive from Chantilly to the museum is 51.2 km (31.8 miles) and should have taken about 50 minutes or so (depending on traffic conditions) - it really isn't that far. They seemed to have found their way back to Paris and then spent a staggering 6.5 hours driving around the neighbourhood, at times being painfully close to the museum. I happen to know this area of Paris really well as my old office used to be not far from there just on the other side of the river. At one point, they were driving along Rue de Charenton and passed within 300 meters (328 yards) of their destination. So what would you do in such a situation? And as for all the people at home saying, "don't judge them if you've never been in such a stressful situation before", I say to you - I have actually. I often travel with my partner (I've been to 71 countries in fact) and we often rent a car to drive if we're exploring a rural area where public transport is limited. Usually he would drive and I would navigate because he is the better, more experienced driver and I am the one who is good at reading maps as well as asking for directions. If I was lost and didn't know where to go, I would stop and ask for directions - if I was still lost or if I wasn't totally sure, then I would stop and ask again. However, Michelle & Victoria were literally driving round in circles for 6.5 hours, I was amazed they didn't run out of fuel. Just to put things in perspective, here are some cities in other countries you could have driven to in/under 6.5 hours from Chantilly in France.
Geneva, Switzerland (5 hours 30 minutes)
Zurich, Switzerland (6 hours 30 minutes)
Stuttgart, Germany (6 hours)
Frankfurt, Germany (5 hours 45 minutes)
Amsterdam, Netherlands (4 hours 45 minutes)
Groningen, Netherlands (6 hours)
London, England (5 hours including using the Channel Tunnel)
Oxford, England (5 hours 45 minutes)
Birmingham, England (6 hours 30 minutes)
Brussels, Belgium (3 hours)
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (4 hours)
I could go on, but you could drive a ridiculously long distance in 6.5 hours. The streets are clearly signposted and if they knew they were already fairly close to their destination, why didn't they ask for directions more often? We saw them ask for help twice (once with a guy in the street and once they went into a shop) and perhaps they did ask for help more often than that but it wasn't shown. I've lived in Paris and even back then, I would ask for directions if I didn't know where I was going because it was far easier to get help than to wander around aimlessly. Likewise, I often helped foreign tourists find their way around the city - Paris is a very friendly city and despite what you may have heard, many of the locals would gladly speak to you in English if you are clearly a tourist who is desperately lost. I remember once meeting some Mexican tourists in Paris and ended up walking them to their destination because I was keen to have the opportunity to practice my Spanish with them - that's just how easy it is to ask for help in a city like Paris. Unfortunately for Michelle & Victoria, blind panic had set in and common sense went out of the window - that led to their elimination despite the fact that they were not a weak team. I can imagine a team freaking out and succumbing to the heat, exhaustion and stress after many legs in a place like Russia or Vietnam where there is a massive language barrier, but may I remind you that Michelle & Victoria had their mental breakdown in Paris, France, not Dakar, Senegal or Dhaka, Bangladesh. This is a very modern, Western-European city which is extremely tourist friendly. Paris welcomes about 30 million tourists a year and tourism is big business there - the French love making money from you English-speaking tourists. That is why I was surprised Michelle & Victoria were defeated by their mental breakdown in the most unlikely place after having done well in Paraguay. But then again they did spend 34 minutes looking for the clue box in Manaus that was right in front of them.
Has a strong team ever been eliminated before?
Yes, this is rare but it does happen. Even with their disaster in Paris, Michelle & Victoria are still currently the fourth strongest team with an average position of 4.8 in spite of their elimination whilst some of the other teams still in the race are much weaker than them. In TAR S29, Seth & Olive emerged as a super strong team, winning the first leg in Panama and finishing a very respectable 4th in the second leg in Sao Paulo, Brazil. So when the U-turn presented an opportunity to get rid of a very strong team in the third leg in Tanzania, they were targeted and were eliminated with a very strong average ranking of 4.67. Then of course in TAR Australia S4, the strongest team Tom & Tyler were eliminated in leg 11 with an average ranking of 1.636 after being the target of a U-turn in Bangkok, Thailand. They had won a staggering 8 out of 11 legs they ran, being undoubtedly the strongest team not to reach a final. Then in TAR Asia S5, Treasuri & Louisa were eliminated in the penultimate leg (E9 out of ten legs in that season) despite having an average ranking of 2.44 - once again, they were a super strong team that dominated the race having won four out of the nine legs they ran, but when the U-turn emerged in Glagah, Indonesia in E9, they were taken out by Eric & Rona. Of course it sucks for the viewers when strong teams get eliminated, but that's all part of the game - you don't want to race against a stronger team in the finals. The key difference between Michelle & Victoria and these three other strong teams is that these other teams were eliminated because they were targeted by the other teams using the U-turn. However in the case of Michele & Victoria, they weren't targeted at all. They simply self-destructed and crumbled under pressure - they were spared both the yield and the U-turns in this season; in fact Will & James chose to target Leo & Alana with the U-turn instead when they had the chance -presumably that meant Will & James didn't see Michelle & Victoria as a major threat this season.
Let's talk about the other teams who had major problems.
At this stage of the race, you could still get away with terrible mistakes as long as there is one other team that is doing worse than you. Let's begin with Kaylynn and Haley who had their share of problems with the car and navigation, they got awfully lost trying to find their way to Chantilly and struggling with the car slowed them down even further. It also took them an awfully long time to make their way back to Paris from Chantilly; under normal circumstances, this would have been enough to get them eliminated. But then again, DeAngelo & Gary took ages finding their way from the airport to Chantilly as well - to put things in perspective: by the time DeAngelo & Gary finally showed up that the chateau in Chantilly, Riley & Maddison had completed the first roadblock at the chateau, completed the whipped cream challenged, drove all the way back to Paris and had already started their second roadblock at the museum. The one other racer that really struggled on this leg was Arpana - she was the only one who had a really difficult time at the chateau. It was clearly a case of more haste less speed as this wasn't a difficult challenge, unlike say assembling a cello out of recycled materials, the other racers got out of there fairly quickly, often taking no more than two attempts to find the right guest to match the character in the painting. Arpana seemed to struggle focusing on the details of the costumes in that roadblock. Let's contrast that to Will & James who had a disaster just trying to drive out of the airport car park, but once they realized what they were doing wrong with the gears, they quickly learnt their lesson and moved on. Usually, any of these other mistakes would have probably led to an elimination however thanks to Michelle & Victoria's epic mental breakdown in Paris, these other teams got away with their mistakes and only the top three teams avoided any major errors in Paris.
Has this happened before in TAR?
Talk about more haste less speed, of course it has. The one that stands out was in TAR S29 E8 in Greece when Liz & Michael made a huge navigation error - Liz had missed a turning and told Michael to turn around, however, Michael decided that they had gone too far down that road and would lose too much time if they turned around, so he refused to do so, instead asking her to find an alternative route. It was a massive error of judgement that led to their elimination on that leg - he was angry about being behind, he was worried about being eliminated so he made a rash decision without even seeking her opinion. What they should have done of course was to stop and ask for help - even if rural Greece, there's always a house or a shop where you can find somebody whom you could ask for assistance. The locals don't speak much English but are always very helpful. However, I am glad that the teams were at last made to navigate in this leg because in all previous legs in this season, the teams were simply all put on the same flight and made to use taxis to make their way to the next destination - the outcome of the legs were hugely influenced by the taxi drivers which was very unsatisfactory for the viewers because if a team fell behind because they got a terrible taxi driver, that's not really their fault. But in this case, whilst it was painful to watch Michelle & Victoria drive around Paris for hours without getting enough help, at least one could say, "that's entirely their fault, they messed up", rather than blame a taxi driver for the mistake that led to the elimination. I would like to see teams made to use public transport instead of driving themselves or using taxis though - Paris would have been the right city for that because they have a superb public transport system.
Ah Paris, j'adore Paris, TAR adores Paris too!
Paris has been visited by TAR US many times before - in seasons 1, 4, 10, 7, 21 and 27 so this is their 7th visit to Paris. Paris has also been featured in TAR Australia S2 E7, Israel S3 E5 and Canada S2 E7 & 8 as well and of course the one season of TAR France which started and ended in Paris (as you would expect) but interestingly enough, they also visited Chantilly as well in TAR France on the way to the pit stop. Likewise, TAR France E1 also featured a task on Pont Des Arts, the pit stop in this episode. Bear in mind the fact that TAR US has visited France a grand total of 12 times (including season S22 when they went to French Polynesia which was in the Pacific ocean but still French sovereign territory and thus counts as a part of France), but in only half of those visits did the teams either pass through Paris or did tasks in Paris. I suppose this is a deliberate decision on the part of the producers of course - your average viewer would be very familiar with the sights of Paris like the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, the Notre-Dama cathedral and the Moulin Rogue just to name a few of the most iconic sights of Paris but France is a massive country with so much to offer. That is why I am glad that TAR US also visits smaller towns in France and use more unusual locations in their visits to France, such as back in S30 E4 & 5 when they chose to visit the beautiful south coast instead of going to Paris again. Nonetheless, whilst I was of course pleased to see the lovely chateau in Chantilly, I felt quite let-down by the whipped cream task. Seriously? So they whip up some cream in a restaurant, only to get cream pies in their faces? And did you think that the slapstick nature of hitting the racers with cream pies was original or funny? No I wasn't impressed.
Chantilly or whipped cream?
Ah, as someone who has lived in France and a big fan of French cuisine, allow me to explain. What the French refer to as Chantilly is sweetened whipped cream, it's like when a product is synonymous with the region that produces it that most people know it by the name of the region, just like champagne. Whipped cream is simply cream that is whipped, so the air bubbles trapped in the whipped cream gives it that delightful, light, fluffy texture but it is not necessarily sweetened whereas Chantilly made in France is usually sweetened with a lot of white sugar and also flavoured with vanilla as it is used in deserts like cakes, pies, pastries or liberally, decadently piped on top of your ice cream. Therefore Chantilly tends to contain more sugar as the sugar makes the Chantilly even more appealing in the desert, so yes you could say Chantilly is sweetened vanilla whipped cream - loads of fat and sugar, really terrible for your diet but it tastes very good.
Wait, why did everyone look so clean after the pie challenge?
The racers were pelted with so many cream pies, some even complained of having cream in their ears. But when they left the challenge, they looked as if they had the chance to clean up. Whipped cream is messy but it almost looked as if the racers have had a chance to clean up and get all that cream out of their hair before returning to Paris? Riley & Maddison certainly had cream in their hair and beards but when they picked up their bags and ran back to warn Hung & Chee and Will & James about being attacked by cream pies, they looked really clean. This is puzzle me because teams have gotten wet, muddy, dirty, sweaty and disgusting in all manners of ways during TAR and have rarely ever paused to even take a few minutes to clean up because you don't want to lose those precious minutes but it almost seemed that there was a mandatory clean up after the creamy mess they had to endure. What's going on then? Did the producers decide that it was too unkind to make the teams complete the leg whilst being sticky with sweet whipped cream all over their ears and hair? Were the teams given the chance to clean up with showers or at least a sink with towels to clean themselves before they left the restaurant? Oh this reminds me of the incident in TAR S12 E6 in Dubrovnik, Croatia when Nathan & Jennifer were in the lead and all they had to do was to get a taxi to the pit stop - however, the taxi driver noticed that Jennifer was wet (as they had just done a detour which involved swimming a short distance in the sea) and refused to take them, causing them to fall from first to third eventually. So Nathan & Jennifer didn't get a chance to clean up or dry up, they were so wet after the detour, they just kept racing. Jennifer threw an epic tantrum when that happened!
Snow in Paris? Il neige à Paris?
I noticed that it was snowing in Paris when they filmed this - in fact this was highly unusual. The information that I have is that the entire season was filmed from 10th November to the 3rd December 2018, so given that this was the fifth leg, it was probably the second or third week of November. Whilst it can snow in Paris during the winter, getting snow this early in the year is extremely rare. I would say that Paris can see some snow every winter, but it is not like Toronto or Anchorage where snow is a regular occurrence every winter. Even if it does snow in Paris, it usually doesn't stick around - the snow flakes will hit the streets and instantly melt in most cases, unless it is really bitterly cold but when the conditions are right, it can transform Paris into a winter wonderland and Paris is especially beautiful under a layer of fresh snow but that doesn't happen very often. You need to be much further north to get the colder conditions for proper snow.
What a bland speed bump.
A speed bump is meant to be a penalty for a team that has been spared elimination in the previous leg but TAR production teams often use it to introduce another aspect of the country's culture. In this speed bump, Kaylynn & Haley had to clean some riding gear before they can continue racing. What a bland and boring task - good grief, who chose this task? What a dumb decision. You're at a stunningly beautiful French chateau in the middle of stunning French countryside and you're telling me you couldn't think of a better task to show case French culture than to make Kaylynn & Haley do some cleaning? Oh please, that's just so lame. How hideously stupid of the production team - I will not hesitate to insult the production team if they make dumb mistakes like that. The actual roadblock at the chateau was actually really well put together: it was imaginative, it had a massive cast in gorgeous French period costumes and did showcase an aspect of French culture that we have all come to expect when on holiday in France. But it almost seemed as if they ran out of time and budget whilst planning that incredible roadblock and decided, oh we still have to do a speed bump? Oh well - we'll just get them to do some cleaning then. It was unimaginative and lazy on the part of the producers. I would have made Kaylynn & Haley memorize some French poetry or make them learn a French song - after all, hearing American struggling with the French language and mangling my second language is always painful, but it does offer some comedy in the form of public humiliation. That would have been far funnier than pelting the teams with cream pies.
Oh and typically, none of the racers spoke any French.
Good grief. Seriously? Most teams could manage no more than bonjour and merci - that was kinda it. The Do they not make you do French (or any other foreign language) at high school in America? Even Michelle & Victoria who kept using the word 'merci' in South America didn't actually speak any French when they arrived in Paris. This was disappointing. Okay, I speak French because I studied at a French university, I have lived and worked in Paris but even before I moved to Paris, I had already studied French to a high standard. This happens to be quite a monolingual cast - which is frustrating. The racers are off to Berlin, Germany in the next leg and I'm going to guess that none of them can speak any German either. And yes of course I speak German. Whilst it's not as fluent as my French but I certainly do speak German as I have worked in Germany on three different contracts and I have indeed thrived in a German-only work environment.
A quick French lesson.
There were two words that the racers struggled with and they are similar: merci ('thank you') and Bercy (the neighbhourhood in East Paris where the museum was located). DeAngelo pronounced merci like 'mercy' which is wrong: it should sound more like mare-si. Likewise most racers referred to Bercy as "Ber-si" when it should be more like bear-si.
Go away yield, nobody likes you.
When the teams arrived at the Musée des Arts Forains, the yield sign was there and once again, none of the teams yielded anyone. Not even Leo & Alana even thought about using the yield to slow down Will & James - all Alana said was, "oh you have to do this one Leo" because she had already done the previous roadblock at the Chateau at Chantilly. There wasn't even a discussion about payback for Will & James' U-turn back in leg 3 in Manaus. Are they really that kind and forgiving? Leo even helped Will & James when they were in a total panic in the car park at the beginning of the leg. Or did they not even notice the yield sign? And in any case, it would have made little difference at that point to Will & James given how far behind the last two teams were - a yield at that stage would have made no difference apart from annoying them. Ironically when both Kaylynn & Haley and Michelle & Victoria got to the Musée des Arts Forains, both teams were convinced they were in last place so it didn't occur to them to use the yield at that stage. Hence I hope this reminds the production team that the yield is totally pointless and neither the racers nor the viewers want to see it again.
Are you going to bitch about the racers struggling to drive stick shift?
Actually, no. I know what it is like to freak out under pressure despite having prepared for something, so I am expressing my empathy instead. Look, I can drive stick shift but since I live in central London, I got my license way back in 1998 and hardly ever driven since. When I did a reality TV programme in 2015 in London, the directors told me, "we need you to drive for this sequence today." Oh boy, I was worried because I could count on one hand the number of times I have driven since I passed my driving test way back in 1998. One of the nice producers told me not to worry, we would drive around the block a few times in the car I was supposed to drive so I could get plenty of practice - I was perfectly fine during the practice run, traffic was heavy but I was calm, I knew what I was doing and I felt in control. It had been a long time since I had driven but all I needed was a bit of practice to remember what it was like to drive. The producer who was with me was happy enough, his only criticism was that I drove a bit slower than most people because I was so careful, "but it is good to be careful! I'd rather you be slow and careful than have an accident, otherwise the insurance would be a nightmare for production to deal with. We like careful drivers!" So we got back on set and I thought, yes I can do this, I remember how to drive - but the moment we started shooting and I got into the car with so many cameras pointing at me and people watching (we were shooting in a street in West London), I did exactly what Will & James did in that car park in Paris - I panicked under pressure, I freaked out, totally forgot what I was doing and stalled the car. The fact that most of the cast and crew were falling over in hysterical laughter did not help. Perhaps people who drive almost everyday take it for granted that driving is easy - all I am saying is that if you have not driven for a while because you don't have a car, then it can be confusing in the first instance, thus I'm going to be nice to the racers who struggled with driving stick shift.
They didn't drive to the pit stop.
I noted that when Riley & Maddison left the museum in Bercy, they yelled 'taxi!' Thus we can conclude that the racers left their rental cars at the museum in Bercy which makes sense because it would have been a nightmare trying to find a place to park the cars near Pont des Arts which is right in the middle of Paris, whilst Bercy was a quieter neighbourhood in East Paris. However, the taxi ride to the pit stop didn't make the final edit - one can only presume that it wasn't that interesting or exciting and that the taxi ride didn't alter the order of the teams in the race. It was a short 5.4 km (3.4 miles) taxi ride that would have taken about 15 - 20 minutes depending on traffic conditions so that really isn't walking distance.
Was this a well-constructed leg?
Oh there were some really awful mistakes like that stupid cleaning speed bump, the yield that all the racers chose to ignore and that fairly inane whipped cream task. Then there were stunning moments like the roadblock in the chateau which was like a scene out of a period movie and I actually like the 19th century carnival games which did showcase a different aspect of French culture that even I, as a former resident of Paris, wasn't familiar with. I also liked the choice the pit stop - the Pont des Arts is a beautiful bridge, one that I had crossed many times before when I lived in Paris. So on the whole, it was average: some brilliant moments along with some hideous mistakes on the part of the production team.
Who will win in Berlin? Who will be eliminated next?
Well, I certainly think that Riley & Maddison have hit their stride and have a very good chance of winning the next leg in Berlin after their outstanding performance in Paris. However, statistically, the strongest team is still Hung & Chee and they have only really made one costly error so far back in E4 when they switched detours, which dropped them to 6th place in that leg but otherwise, they are stunningly consistent in the other legs, always finishing either first or second. As for who will be eliminated next, that's hard to say as the team that got eliminated in Paris wasn't the weakest team - not by a long way, but Michelle & Victoria simply had an emotional meltdown in the car that led to those awful navigation errors. The weakest team so far is Kaylynn & Haley - this next leg involves driving a Trabant, a classic East German car from the communist era, the preview showed Will & James struggling with it. The second weakest team DeAngelo & Gary have had their share of emotional meltdowns as well, such as in the E1 in Tobago and they were terrible at navigating in this leg. I am going to thus guess that DeAngelo & Gary are probably the ones who will get eliminated next, though statistically speaking, Kaylynn & Haley are the weakest team left and most likely to go - but who knows? The trailer suggests that Hung & Chee and Will & James are the ones in trouble in this next leg, though Hung is seriously bad ass, even if she had to do a terrifying task like an Australian rappel (face down abseiling), she may cry, scream or protest but she would still get the task done much faster than anyone else, because that's just the kind of awesome racer she is.
A brief reminder of why I write these blog posts.
I occasionally scroll through the Facebook groups and see some of the discussions there - I refuse to take part in those discussions because they can be downright frustrating. This is exactly why I want to have my own platform to discuss TAR with genuine fans of TAR. I see people posting questions on the Facebook groups which can be easily answered if they simply took a moment to look it up on the internet. Let's take something simple like, "when was this season filmed?" or "What was the name of the French castle they visited?" A Google search for TAR S32 would take you to the Wikipedia page which will give you that information. In fact, I timed myself opening a new tab in my browser, doing that Google search to find that information and it took me about 8 seconds to do that - but let's say your typing speed isn't as fast as mine and your internet connection happens to be a bit slow, even if we doubled that to 16 seconds, surely that's still so much faster posting a question on a fan forum and waiting for someone else to do the Google search for you to get you the information you wanted. What is it with people who don't know how to use Google to find simple information? Seriously, it is that hard to do a Google search? That process literally takes just seconds. There is a massive difference between seeking a fellow fan's opinion on an aspect of the race such as whether or not TAR has done a similar roadblock in the past or if one side of a detour was significantly easier than the other. Now seeking someone else's opinion is really quite different from asking a straight forward question like "when was this season filmed?" which can be easily answered through a Google search. I don't want to make enemies, offend people by telling them that they're just too lazy or stupid to look stuff up on Google, but that is exactly what will happen if I ever answered their inane questions.
My colleague emailed me something unfamiliar at work this morning - do I tell him, "I have never dealt with something like this before, I need someone to explain to me what this is." I would lose my job if I had that kind of attitude, if I showed that level of incompetence and laziness! I simply looked it up on Google, figured it out for myself, got the information I needed in order to effectively deal the issue that I was given. Then again, I am a highly educated professional in a senior position in banking, that's simply how I would deal with an issue whereby I don't have the answers: I would look for the answers myself and when all else fails, only when I simply cannot find the answer, then I would start asking for help. Then there are all the inane posts about "I love this team so much, they are so cute, I hope they win etc." And I'm like, since when did your opinion influence the outcome of the race? I understand of course that building a rapport with the fan base is an important facet of any reality TV programme but I have to just roll my eyes when I read posts like that - it is a race, it is not a popularity contest, the clue is in the name of the programme. It is the Amazing Race, hence you can be a hugely unpopular team, doing all kind of nasty crap to offend everyone from the locals to the fellow racers to the fans but as long as you get to the pit stop first, you win. This is so different from the other kinds of reality TV contests like AGT, X-Factor, American Idol or The Voice when viewers are involved directly when they get to vote to support their favourite contestants at various stages of the competition. We have absolutely zero influence over the outcome in TAR, yet some fans seem to totally forget that? So I don't even want to engage with people like that - where do I even begin with them?
Okay, so that's it from me on this episode. I'm really looking forward to next week when we shall have two episodes. I'm still stuck in lockdown mode here in London so TAR is indeed reminding me of the amazing and wonderful world out there and I really can't wait to start traveling again. Please feel free to leave a comment below - many thanks for reading!
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