Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-1037137-20150912070117/@comment-1037137-20150912172511

This sort of thing just puts me off, when a contestant is put on the spot and then made an acceptable target through the whole episode whether it's derailment or just straight up abuse, not unlike the episode you say this one reminds yourself of, possibly the worst offender there. That kind of crap does not fly with me, seeing Laurie's swollen face is not pleasant. Yes I know, comedy, slapstick, but there have been plenty of points in the newer seasons where the slapstick crossed into character abuse territory. Something that they again, apparently don't see it as. This elimination is certainly not up there with what we got in TDAS or even TDWT and ROTI......But it's still not pleasant to see her banged up or emotionally drained. I don't find that funny. And it's much less amusing after the aforementioned seasons have already taken that sort of thing too far.

I know, and that played a huge part in making the eliminations unpleasant to watch and something to dread. In TDI, and in TDA, you left with dignity and you were definitely going for home or more accurately, with the others who lost somewhere on the sidelines where they were all okay. In TDWT, we get the Drop of Shame. And then we got eliminations like those of Gwen or Tyler, where they left severely injured and humiliated, or Bridgette who was left with a mark of shame, I.E. that stupid flag pole. And a character being ditched out in the middle of nowhere is already questionable enough as actually being "funny", but throwing them out the plane is pushing it. Then we got the Hurl of Shame, how the hell do you survive that? And there was the very similar Cannon of Shame, which I recall you disliked. But none of those have anything on the Flush of Shame. Where we got some of the most unpleasant and least dignified eliminations, like what happened with Heather, and especially, ESPECIALLY Gwen, Scott, and Courtney. And again, mark of shame like with Courtney and that disgusting sundae, that sort of crap just rubs salt on the wound. And then they are flushed through miles of pipeline and we're expected to accept that they do not drown for the who knows how long they're riding through those things to locations where we saw some of them get further humiliated or even nearly killed like in Gwen and Scott's case, or Heather's. And I hate that! I hate that it ever got to a point like the Flush of Shame. Even after they lose, they don't catch a break and those clips only added to the truckload of unpleasant scenes that marred TDAS. And I don't like the elimination methods that risk death and play the chance of that as a joke. Wasn't funny in TDWT but by TDAS it is firmly tasteless. There's a difference between slapstick and unpleasant, and they are too often in the latter in their misunderstanding of the former.

It is a relief to see that they are not catapulted, flushed, thrown out, or whatever in Ridonculous Race, I prefer the eliminations where they can leave with their dignity and with the means to get home. That's something the entire show needs to get back to doing as the previous methods have run their course and really were just plain nasty. I mean that's at least one positive thing, that they are allowed to leave in one piece and there isn't someone there to ensure they leave as broken as possible. That is totally unnecessary and frankly, unfunny. I don't want to watch this so I can feel bad for the contestants, if that's the feeling you get or the feeling you dread getting the whole way, then what's the point?

Tone it down with the physical injury and perhaps it would've been passable.