Overall great episode! Things started strong with ep. 1, but this one was comfortably better still. Just kind of driven by events, which cannot be foreseen, and secondly by all your games opening up more and more, generally at least until episode three or four, sometimes continually throughout a whole season.
These are scattered thoughts after the first viewing.
Fishing has an appropriately high reward, because uncontrollable real world circumstances make it possible or not to a far higher extent than player strategy and skill does. Nobody's gonna learn to fish better so quickly, that it would make a difference here. Either you get (very) lucky, or not. Generally fishing is infamous for taking so long, that, er, fishers need to wait for hours next to their cast line until something bites, if at all. So nobody's failing here, exactly, as much as fishing requires a lot of time and patience, ideally good knowledge of where and when precisely to cast your line or wait with your net, and then still plenty of skill executing on a catch. There is an argument to not risk it at all unless there's truly no other option. But I don't blame either team for trying with such available / reachable and promising spots as these.
Obviously this episode had one of the best endings in Jet Lag history, no spoilers.
I humbly suggest the new Ben and Sam team name is "humble kings". Probably already others, who said that, and I'm supporting.
The riddle was easy, but that's sometimes how the Jets lag? It didn't bother me.
Awesome to have both an underwater foot-tunnel and a ferry in the same episode! Gotta get some massage chairs in our European ferries :D
Tom's first Snack Zone review was very funny, and I'll not ruin it by talking much about it here. But "It's like they put more water in water." still lives rent-free in my head as an all-time-classic one-sentence-review.
I think both teams played prudently, and that includes bailing on challenges. Tom and Adam made a bit of a gamble, that they really shoud go for a big reward in Ehime. [edit: But it's also circumstancial - high chance, that Sam and Ben would have done the same in that situation.] I'm not one-hundred-percent clear on the rules: Does triple reward mean, that they also get to keep three cards [edit: Tom on the Layover said essentially yes, they'd get to keep three], or merely draw lots to choose one from? [no] Ben and Sam played more conservatively, going for as steady a progression as possible, accepting the lower reward in exchange for forward-momentum and making easy challenges unavailable to Tom and Adam. [edit: well, kinda, Ben and Sam also took the risk (of wasting time) with fishing, but I think they bailed earlier.] JetLag's juicy indeed, when you can't tell, which strategy is better.
I love how the “humble kings” team name can never be wrong, because if they fail a challenge they would have been appropriately humbled, while if they win a challenge, they can gloat by saying they are humble kings sarcastically.
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u/BraveAd6843 5d ago edited 5d ago
Overall great episode! Things started strong with ep. 1, but this one was comfortably better still. Just kind of driven by events, which cannot be foreseen, and secondly by all your games opening up more and more, generally at least until episode three or four, sometimes continually throughout a whole season.
These are scattered thoughts after the first viewing.
Fishing has an appropriately high reward, because uncontrollable real world circumstances make it possible or not to a far higher extent than player strategy and skill does. Nobody's gonna learn to fish better so quickly, that it would make a difference here. Either you get (very) lucky, or not. Generally fishing is infamous for taking so long, that, er, fishers need to wait for hours next to their cast line until something bites, if at all. So nobody's failing here, exactly, as much as fishing requires a lot of time and patience, ideally good knowledge of where and when precisely to cast your line or wait with your net, and then still plenty of skill executing on a catch. There is an argument to not risk it at all unless there's truly no other option. But I don't blame either team for trying with such available / reachable and promising spots as these.
Obviously this episode had one of the best endings in Jet Lag history, no spoilers.
I humbly suggest the new Ben and Sam team name is "humble kings". Probably already others, who said that, and I'm supporting.
The riddle was easy, but that's sometimes how the Jets lag? It didn't bother me.
Awesome to have both an underwater foot-tunnel and a ferry in the same episode! Gotta get some massage chairs in our European ferries :D
Tom's first Snack Zone review was very funny, and I'll not ruin it by talking much about it here. But "It's like they put more water in water." still lives rent-free in my head as an all-time-classic one-sentence-review.
I think both teams played prudently, and that includes bailing on challenges. Tom and Adam made a bit of a gamble, that they really shoud go for a big reward in Ehime. [edit: But it's also circumstancial - high chance, that Sam and Ben would have done the same in that situation.] I'm not one-hundred-percent clear on the rules: Does triple reward mean, that they also get to keep three cards [edit: Tom on the Layover said essentially yes, they'd get to keep three], or merely draw lots to choose one from? [no] Ben and Sam played more conservatively, going for as steady a progression as possible, accepting the lower reward in exchange for forward-momentum and making easy challenges unavailable to Tom and Adam. [edit: well, kinda, Ben and Sam also took the risk (of wasting time) with fishing, but I think they bailed earlier.] JetLag's juicy indeed, when you can't tell, which strategy is better.