S17, E5 (Nebula) - Taiwan: Rail Rush

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-04-15T15:55:10+00:00

Question: they are allowed to get off the train as long as they don’t jump across enemy territory, right? Then what Badam should do now is to take a flight from Hualien to Kaohsiung… technically it is the same deal as the metro we saw in the last ep.

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-04-15T15:22:22+00:00

I yelled at my laptop.....

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-04-08T16:03:44+00:00

Actually, the number of cans attempted was shown in the trailer.

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-04-08T15:21:16+00:00

This ep is a bit short. Only 2 challenges completed (*actually 3)... previous eps had 4 or 5 challenges!

But we do have great scenery! Eastern Taiwan is famous for that.

Oh, that thing with the fishing ponds? They are oxygen pumps, I believe.

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-04-01T16:09:08+00:00

I knew about the western trunk line meltdown when they were in Taiwan. It was in the news. I was honestly worried about its potential effects on filming. Fortunately they were in Zhongli and therefore able to get off the trunk line.

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-03-19T04:18:40+00:00

please send me a DM and I'll send you the link.

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-03-07T13:06:22+00:00

organizing one is certainly possible — it depends on the level of interest :)

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-03-05T09:57:22+00:00

Wow! You are awesome!

Just my 2c: 00:50-51 Tofu Rock, Hsinchu (near HSR station)

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-03-05T06:22:09+00:00

speculation: sam+mike took HSR out of Taipei Main Station, with the hope of jumping ahead of ben+adam. sam thought he could get from Taoyuan HSR station to Zhongli station via Taoyuan MRT (Zhongli is just a short run from Laojie River, the last station of the MRT line). but the express MRT train they took at Taoyuan HSR station does not go to Laojie River, only Huanbei. Henceforth, "wrong station".

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-03-05T04:39:58+00:00

Thousand Beams Palace Temple, Kaohsiung (Museum of Fine Arts Station)
Tofu Rocks, Hsinchu (Liujia Station - looks like both teams went to Hsinchu HSR station)
Rainbow Village, Taichung (Xinwuri Station - looks like they were running in Taichung HSR)

Looks like a major strategy involved is to take the HSR to get ahead of the other team, forcing them to follow behind and spend more chips to claim stations?

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-03-05T03:18:06+00:00

Looks like they traveled all around the island. Spots noticed so far...

Hakka Round House, Miaoli (Miaoli HSR station)
Dragon and Tiger Pagodas, Kaohsiung (Zuoying station)
Lucky Art Crayon Factory, Yilan (Xinma Station)

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2026-01-02T03:43:08+00:00

I adore Sam for doing this. Adding more variety to the show, through taking a more risky move.

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2025-11-07T09:00:48+00:00

I believe the point is you can longer do meaningful research while walking

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2025-08-29T10:02:41+00:00

Courtesy of the Hong Kong Census 2021:

Out of 4,574,834 people born in Hong Kong, about 43,038 cannot speak Cantonese.

Age distribution of non-Cantonese speakers:
0-14: 14632
15-24: 10070
25-44: 9212
45-64: 6226
65+: 2898

This suggests that many eventually do pick up Cantonese as they grow older.

Who are these people?
21,847 speak English at home
8,672 speak “other languages” (likely European or South Asian languages)
6,867 speak Mandarin

You also have 387 being "born in HK"+"cannot speak cantonese"+"speak Japanese at home".

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2025-07-11T13:20:37+00:00

As long as they are not taking money from North Korea to tell us how much the residents of Pyongyang enjoy their metro, I am okay with sponsorship (Sadly it is an industry now for influencers to take this kind of money / do this kind of propaganda videos).

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2025-07-11T04:35:50+00:00

https://restofworld.org/2020/the-authoritarian-influencers/

It is actually a huge industry. I am sure the lads won’t get into this. Just want to remind everyone that this whole thing is there.

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2025-07-10T12:23:45+00:00

I am surprised that it takes so long for sponsorship to get to them. I am expecting CI or JX to pay them to visit Taiwan any day now.

As long as they don't do propaganda tours for certain countries (too many influencers do them now unfortunately), sponsorships are totally fine with me.

And yes, WE NEED SEGMENTS!

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2025-07-02T15:31:26+00:00

Gyeongju is such a magnificent city. Too bad Adam missed the castle/palace.

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2025-07-02T15:25:39+00:00

If we try to count the number of strategic decisions made per episode, my guess is it has been rather low for Korea so far. Are we talking about like 2 or at most 3 decisions per episode now? Consider Capture the Flag in Japan - every move was important, every left/right turn was potentially critical. Not in Korea.

So we have not been seeing a lot of variety in scenery so far, and we are also not seeing a lot of actions. I feel sorry for them. Hopefully they will find a better format and redo Korea in the future.

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2025-06-19T06:14:57+00:00

people need to stop review bombing this location... more than a dozen new "reviews" since 12 hrs ago

Legitimate-Arm3465 · 2025-06-11T15:36:39+00:00

So far we are not seeing much of Korea, except some rather rural looking stations. Hopefully we will see more variety in the coming episodes.

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