Amazing Race is based more on travel skills, and local traditions, tourist's activities, and isn't always as physical. The shows are similar but not the same. This is not a rip off of Amazing Race.
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Maybe I saw a different show, but what I saw was a pretty distinct rip-off of Amazing Race. While EI may not travel to multiple countries/continents, it still appears to be following the exact same format of Race, from teams starting en masse, finding route markers, getting instructions, performing challenges, checking in and finally last team being eliminated. How is that not Amazing Race? Granted, they may ultimately make the challenges more strenuous or the mode of transportation more dangerous, but if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
I felt bad for the host because you could tell he wanted say something like "latino girls, you are the last team to arrive, I'm sorry to say you've been eliminated" wait, oh crap the other guy already says that ok "um,it's late, I'll helicopter you out tomorrow, your gone". Pretty lame.
"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows him" ...Obi Wan Kenobi
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nonamerican
13 years ago
So any race is a rip off of amazing race using your logic. Anyone saying this is a ripoff of amazing race didn't see one of those shows obviously. Where Expedition Impossible is more challenging and seems like an endurance based race, Amazing Race is more about travel experience and decisions/game plan.
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jossynda
13 years ago
I think those similarities you mention are mostly cosemetic, though. And for every similarity they share, they also have an equal number of differences:
1. teams of 3 vs. teams of 2
2. racing around the world vs. staying in one country
3. having to deal with multiple cultures vs. having to deal with one
4. teams not knowing until the next day who was eliminated vs. teams being present to watch the eliminated team take a "walk of shame"
5. depending on the luck of plane/train/bus/taxi vs. not having ANY of those things
6. no roadblocks, detours, speedbumps, express passes, u-turns
*edited* 7. They don't necessarily leave the "pit stop" in the same order they came in; they leave in groups.
...castles made of sand slips into the sea... eventually
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sandifay62
13 years ago
That's the facts, jossynda. But people who need to see the show as a rip off will never change their minds even when faced with the facts. This show is as much of a rip off of Amazing Race as the Amazing Race is a rip off of The Eco-Challenge. All they have in common is a similar theme. The details are different.
They will still see and rationalize absolutely every aspect of the show as a direct rip off of The Amazing Race. But at least most of us can see how they are different shows. Some people just like saying something is a rip off no matter what.
It's like, we explain that something is plaid, they'll say still it's stripes, even though stripes don't cross each other. If it's important to them to see the show as a rip off, eventhough it's not, I'll just let'em have their fun. The truth is out there if they're interested. I don't think they are, though. Lol
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hsox09
13 years ago
Pretty much everything you said are minor difference. Adding another person to the team doesn't make it any less of a ripoff. And TAR had a season where it was teams of 4...
It's a VERY similar show. It's much more about your conditioning and ability to travel across many terrains as opposed to your ability to travel well. There's probably a little less luck involved in Expedition Impossible, factoring out delayed flights and bad taxi drivers... but there are quirks in this one too, such as finishing second doesn't give you any advantage over finishing 4th.
I don't know why you can't enjoy both. There's no point in hating it because it's similar and there's no point in denying their similarities. So far, I enjoy Amazing Race more... but this show has its merits, too.
I'm STILL always right.
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