Yes, I will be watching this season

[james_davis_nicoll]

CANADA'S WORST DRIVER SEASON SEVEN!

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[maruad.livejournal.com]

I found I can't watch these or the worst handyman shows any more. It is like watching stock car races when you know you are only there for the accidents.

Now they should bring back Junk Yard Wars or Robot Wars.

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

I still question the wisdom of shows dedicated to hazardous conditions.

Especially ones like 'driver' where it will engage the general public in the possible area of effect of the death and destruction reigned down by the participants.

Is there a correlation between the casual disregard for fellow citizens health and welfare shown in the mindsets of the show's writers/directors and the ease at which free health care is available?

Or did the producers say "Hey! Let's shoot the doom-show-on-wheels to Canada! They have free health care! If we break them, they can be fixed for free! *BRILLIANT*"

- krin

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Handyman keeps them safely contained in a workshop.

Driver inexplicably allows the candidates on the public roads at least twice, at the beginning and at the end, but they've begun to step in to stop obviously unsafe drivers from continuing (at least in the opening episode).

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Actually, as far as I can tell Canada was an early franchise for [Nation's] Worst Driver but most of the countries involved so far (with one exception) have universal health care. The US, on the other hand, where health care appears to consist of having one's home taken by an insurance company while one waits in the emergency room, only got its own version late in the game....

The US version has some interesting twists to make it more interesting to US viewers than the Canadian version would be. I think each episode has a swanky prize (like a day at a spa) and a punishment: the loser gets their car crushed. Plus they play regions off each other.

[bwross.livejournal.com]

The US one was bizarre. The episode I saw had the water tank challenge, but it was entirely a timed event... so instead of being a test/way of promoting smooth driving, it was really a "how wet are you willing to get" event, because there was no time penalty for spilling water.

[woodardp.livejournal.com]

I truly feel for Aaron this year. Having been broadsided by someone running a stop sign, it take s a long time to truly get your confidence back.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

No stereotypical queer couple this time around, but the rest of the usual cast of idiots is still there, from the bimbo with an attitude, to the clueless grandma to the hyper aggressive male driver.