I appreciate that they need to leave many hours of coverage on the cutting room floor in order to fit the travels of 5 teams over a week each into an hour of TV but there are still some annoying unexplained gaps. For example, the two young lads were stuck in Kobe hundreds of miles behind and then suddenly they are on the first ferry out of Japan
I also find the heavy edit annoying.
It's a shame they don't do an extended version with 'unseen footage' like they do for some other reality shows, for those of us that want more than just a 1 hour fix each week.
Less of a challenge this time. Hanoi to Phnom Penh is a well trodden backpacker route and the language will be less of a problem as English is widely spoken.
The trailing team 'only' being 30 hours or so behind the leaders is actually better than I thought.
I assume China was part of the original plan, but the producers encountered difficulties in being allowed to film there, so opted to just skip it.
Yeah hopefully someone asks Richard Osman on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast to see if he can find out the backstory if China was the plan and why it didn't happen.
I don't think a sleeper train is as good as Alfie thinks it is. All the YouTube videos I've watched of people taking sleeper trains have resulted in really poor night's sleep.
Well if going through China was no longer a viable option I guess they didn't really have much in the way of alternatives.
Any other mode of transport would have been better than a plane imo.
Is there even another option though? A ship would seem to be the only option. But given the distance by sea from South Korea to Vietnam, I'm not sure such a service even exists.
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I also find the heavy edit annoying.
It's a shame they don't do an extended version with 'unseen footage' like they do for some other reality shows, for those of us that want more than just a 1 hour fix each week.
With an elimination in the offing, one team a long way behind, and the leading team continuing to overspend, it promises to be an interesting episode.
Lets cheer them on so we don't need to have anymore of Stephen lowering Brits reputation abroad even lower
I assume China was part of the original plan, but the producers encountered difficulties in being allowed to film there, so opted to just skip it.
I don't believe there are many/any railways in Cambodia so it'll be busing it if they cut across early.
Well if going through China was no longer a viable option I guess they didn't really have much in the way of alternatives.
Yeah hopefully someone asks Richard Osman on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast to see if he can find out the backstory if China was the plan and why it didn't happen.
Visa and filming restrictions probably. In the first series they went through China but a lot of it couldn't be filmed.
A reason wasn't mentioned, but I reckon it wasn't part of the original plan and the producers just had to make it work.
And going through North Korea and Russia wouldn't have been possible either.
Any other mode of transport would have been better than a plane imo.
deffo not
Probably because they didn’t want people from another country running around their country with cameras, filming.
It doesn’t surprise me
Is there even another option though? A ship would seem to be the only option. But given the distance by sea from South Korea to Vietnam, I'm not sure such a service even exists.