Yeah but you can edit it to create tension/drama where there isn't any. You can make a five second argument into a blow up that lasts an entire episode.Tanooki wrote:The amazing race isn't scripted, it can't be due to the randomness of what can happen on the abilities of the players to the crap that can go wrong in transportation too. What is scripted are the sappy stories and the cheesy music when they talk up something, or how they always seem to have an old/young group, a pair of lesbians or flamboyantly gay dudes, someone with a disability or cancer and stuff like that. Its not like CBS can call ahead and make sure a flight is delayed or a fool misses a ride, or a car gets a flat.
You can also make the whole "our flight's delayed" or missing a taxi thing look like more than it is. The flight gets delayed but they go to the counter and get it changed in five minutes, but on the show there's clips of them staring into space seemingly waiting and the narrator describing how critical the delay is. Then with ten minutes to go, whaddya know? They're back even with the other groups!
