[MysticCat]

I was hoping to like the show better than I did. It seeks to be okay summer entertainment -- I'll keep watching it -- but I was hoping for better.

I’m mainly disappointed that The Unnamed Talking Head calls them with Motorola Messages (product placement is really running amok -- Ask.com's "unique" seach functions?) to tell them what to do next, what they’re looking for, etc. I was really hoping for something a little more Da Vinci Codish – you have to figure out the clue to know where to go and what to do/what to look for when you get there, which in turn will lead you somewhere else, and so on. I want them to be told a lot less and have to figure out a lot more.

And I wish that when NBC is doing shows like this, they'd get producers who can do a better job of producing -- filming, editing etc. It feels less like The Amazing Race and more like Fear Factor, Joe Millionaire or Average Joe.

'Course like I said, I'll keep watching.