Reviews

Stunning & vivid imagery of places around the world--great escapism for those of us who can not travel.

My only criticism is that they don't indicate where these scenes are from, and that major enough for me to knock off 2 stars. For example, I'm looking at an absolutely gorgeous waterfall in episode 3. Is it in Hawaii? A rain forest somewhere else? Maybe this would be a place I'd like to go, or at the very least learn a bit about the world around me that I don't see every day.

Here's a thought: 1) Cut the lengthy video montages for a special few and dedicate that time to the sport itself.

2) Post a leaderboard online showing all the competitors, their stats, their background and any videos (emotional and/or competitive), if applicable.

3) Once the playing field is down to a handful, THEN run the video montage of what they had to conquer (physically, emotionally, whatever) to get this far. At this point viewers should recognize the competitors and have picked favorites. This is the appropriate time to dedicate a minute to each player's backstory.

Again, it's just a slap in the face to those who have trained so hard just to get on the course only to be granted a 2 second recap after commercial because the producers chose to air long background videos on competitors who ended up disqualifying themselves on the first challenge.

I wish I could get access to the original Sasuke competitions.