After a day of miscues, the Football Players are flown out. Now it comes down to the final three teams. They will be finishing their expedition in the ancient city of Marrakech. The Gypsies, who had a big lead, got gypped! The teams end up going in a caravan in the same order they had earlier finished. The Fab 3 reach the next checkpoint with instructions first, with the Gypsies right behind them. The teams run through the Marakkech souk marketplace and look for the location of their next checkpoint, the Saadian Tombs, which is written in Arabic instead of English.
This calls for getting some help from the locals who can read the location in the instructions and point them in the right direction.
Meanwhile, we get some shots of some snake charmers playing their flutes with heads-up cobras coiled on the pavement. The Gypsies and Fab 3 run one behind the other and they reach the Saadian Tombs checkpoint at the same time. From there, they wander through a maze a narrow streets and walks to the next checkpoint. The Gypsies and Fab 3 are running together as they pass by the first identified door, a diamond 1. Meanwhile, the No Limits team begins their weave their way through the souk, well behind the other teams.
Having split up along the way, the Gypsies and Fab 3 are both asking locals to help guide them to the door locations on their maps. But the Gypsies find themselve getting lost. The Gypsies ask some uniformed guys at what appears to be a secure area for directions and the Fab 3 realize the Gypsies are lost as they are.
They take this opportunity to try to split from the Gypsies and look on their own, but the Gypsies catch up with them. This might buy No Limits some badly needed time. Now we see the Fab 3 well outside the city walls where they should be wandering through some narrow alleys somewhere inside them.
The Fab 3 realize now that they have to find their way to the original checkpoint and start over. They find the archway they need to pass under and then pass by the other doors on their map successively and successfully! They ask some locals if they know where the doors are and a little girl tells them she knows where that door is!
They go up some stairs and then down some ladders to reach the next checkpoint. The next task is to go through some subterranean tunnels and look for a special kind of box. The Gypsies methodically search the tunnels and quickly find the box. The Fab 3 are… somewhere. However, is this really that uncommon within reality competition programming?
What was the last original idea that was turned into a successful reality series? This is especially true in the case of an aging show like The Amazing Race — although I still watch and enjoy the series, and will likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future if only for the travel porn of it all, there is no question that improvements could be made.
If someone intelligently considered the appeals of The Amazing Race and devised a similar show that spoke to some of these issues, I would probably welcome that show with open arms.
Expedition Impossible is not that show. Instead of taking the basic structure of The Amazing Race and building a different kind of show around it, Mark Burnett has taken the basic structure of The Amazing Race and tweaked it just enough to avoid a lawsuit.
The problem is that none of these changes do anything to alter the basic formula. Expedition Impossible isn't a fresh air for reality competition programming: It's just a race from Point A to Point B with less taxis and more mountaineering. The next generation of bubbly Save time, money, and ultimately help save the planet by forgoing your La Croix.
And even if we consider the areas where they did make changes to the formula, some of the decisions actually create far more problems than they solve. Along the way, teams have challenges that they must complete before moving on.
These challenges can move a team from 1st place to last place if they are bad at it. This gives teams a chance to catch up if they are having a bad day. The problem is that teams can be eliminated just for bad performance on a challenge. Details Edit. Release date June 23, United States. United States. ABC United States. Expedition Impossible: Kingdom of Morocco. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour. Related news. Jul 27 Sydney's Buzz. Sep 13 The Wrap. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content.
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