Amazing Race All Stars...Too much of a good thing?

[BFlix]

Stay tuned for Season 11, an All-Star season during which you'll get to catch up with America's cutest couple, Rob and Amber, and some of the best-loved teams of seasons past. http://blog.meevee.com/my_weblog/200...e_mo.html#more

Okay....in many peoples opinion All-Star editions are usually the signs of age. Personally, I enjoy them.

So my question to you all is this.....Should this All Star season be the end? I know, more than likely it won't be, but do you think they should end the series on an All Star high note?

I'm not going to sit here and say I'm tired of it, because I will probably watch it till the day it actually does end. I even sat through the **** fest that was Amazing Race Family Edition!

[Vidiette]

hmm...

Well, in my opinion, an All-Stars edition is definitely a sign of maturity, because a show has to have been around for a while to generate enough 'stars' to pull a cast from.

But All-Stars editions are notoriously over-hyped and therefore usually a disappointment. So I don't think the series would end on this "high-point" you speak of

I think of All-Stars editions more as turning-points and place-markers. Usually it means the staff has run out of casting twists and resorts to an A/S edition. When that flops, something happens (maybe they fire and then hire new production staff??) and the show gets revitalized for a time with new casting twists.

Or at least that is what seems to have happened with Survivor. We'll see about Big Brother next summer.

I would hate to see the end of The Amazing Race. But I would like to see a shake-up or two. They had a couple of new twists this season, but I don't think either of them were so drastic as to change the basic game play.

My favorite thing about the game play this season was the elimination of racers begging locals for money. I always thought that this was in extremely poor taste and morally suspect.

[Rhonby]

IMO, the All-Stars won't mark the end of The Amazing Race. I agree with Vidiette that they produced enough "stars" and that tipped the producers to come up with the all stars thing! Besides, they're just jumping on the bandwagon of these bringing-back-the-bests season like Survivor and BB.

But I really am excited about the All-Stars!!