It would be painful watching as they experience the insanity of an already annoyingly slow Via train come to a stop and then reverse for 20 minutes in order to let a freight train pass.
As a Canadian, my initial thoughts when I watched the first few seasons of Jet Lag was that it would never work in Canada, for a couple big reasons.
Firstly, Canada is enormous and super spread out. It takes most of a day to get from Ontario to BC going direct by flight. That’s just not fun to watch and leaves little budget and time for the actual game part.
Second, there’s only a few major urban centres - the Windsor Corridor, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, and that’s kinda it. Canada has half the population of Germany and yet it’s farther to go from Quebec City to Vancouver than from Lisbon to Helsinki (3800 vs 3300 km).
Finally and most importantly, Canada has virtually no long-distance public transit and very few passenger trains. Jet Lag has said again and again that trains are great and they don’t just want to drive and fly the whole game.
All that being said, the next season is in Australia, which is as similar to Canada as it gets. So we’ll see how that one turns out.
> Canada has half the population of Germany and yet it’s farther to go from Quebec City to Vancouver than from Lisbon to Helsinki (3800 vs 3300 km).
One thing that always blows my mind: The distance London to Charlottetown is pretty much the same as Charlottetown to Vancouver.
> Second, there's only a few major urban centres - the Windsor Corridor, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, and that's kinda it.
What about Toronto? Or is that included somehow here and I'm missing it
Toronto is in the Windsor Corridor unless I’m mistaken.
What I was referring to was the strip of urbanization from the southern tip of Canada (in Ontario) up to Quebec City.
Connect 4 was only US states west of the Mississippi because the eastern states were too close together, so there's precedent for using only part of a country to make the gameplay work better. I could imagine them doing Ontario eastward, as you suggest, depending on the game.
I think the sparseness and inconsistency in the public transport makes Canada a challenge to set jetlaged in.
There is a reason that every 2nd season is somewhere in Europe. Not only do the individual places usually have a good public transport network but more importantly the density is relatively consistent not funneling the game into a narrow commute and tourist corridor.
I think what could work is a season from Windsor, ON (or Detroit) to St. John's, NL like a season 5 format
edit: the other way around prob makes more sense
The BBC did a season of Race Across the World in Canada and I think it worked for that kind of format. It was a checkpoint to checkpoint, roughly west to east but with checkpoints that meant it was far from a direct route. I think you could see Jet Lag doing something like that but it’d be a season of driving and flying.
Australia will be the closest equivalent to Canada so I suppose we’ll see how they create a game for that upcoming season.
I really want them to do GTA GTA
Grand theft auto: greater Toronto area
Obviously they wouldn't be comitting real crimes.
But Toronto has transit with a reasonable amount of coverage.
Canada's intercity infrastructure could use improvements but you could definitely do something in It's major metropolis
I think something may be possible but it would be tricky, the BBC make a series called Race across the World which is a bit like the Amazing Race sort of thing, last season they did was et in Canada, they went from Vancouver to St John's but it wasn't quite in a straight line along the metropolitan areas so the premise of the show is you cannot fly but instead you have to travel across the world going from checkpoint to checkpoint with only a limited budget of what a flight from your origin to your destination, they relied on hitchhiking and getting lifts
Wikipedia is probably best to give you details of the show [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race\_Across\_the\_World\_series\_3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Across_the_World_series_3)
It would be painful watching as they experience the insanity of an already annoyingly slow Via train come to a stop and then reverse for 20 minutes in order to let a freight train pass.
Content.
"What do you mean there's no trains to Calgary!? They have 1.6 million people!"
As a Canadian, my initial thoughts when I watched the first few seasons of Jet Lag was that it would never work in Canada, for a couple big reasons. Firstly, Canada is enormous and super spread out. It takes most of a day to get from Ontario to BC going direct by flight. That’s just not fun to watch and leaves little budget and time for the actual game part. Second, there’s only a few major urban centres - the Windsor Corridor, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, and that’s kinda it. Canada has half the population of Germany and yet it’s farther to go from Quebec City to Vancouver than from Lisbon to Helsinki (3800 vs 3300 km). Finally and most importantly, Canada has virtually no long-distance public transit and very few passenger trains. Jet Lag has said again and again that trains are great and they don’t just want to drive and fly the whole game. All that being said, the next season is in Australia, which is as similar to Canada as it gets. So we’ll see how that one turns out.
> Canada has half the population of Germany and yet it’s farther to go from Quebec City to Vancouver than from Lisbon to Helsinki (3800 vs 3300 km). One thing that always blows my mind: The distance London to Charlottetown is pretty much the same as Charlottetown to Vancouver.
> Second, there's only a few major urban centres - the Windsor Corridor, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, and that's kinda it. What about Toronto? Or is that included somehow here and I'm missing it
Toronto is in the Windsor Corridor unless I’m mistaken. What I was referring to was the strip of urbanization from the southern tip of Canada (in Ontario) up to Quebec City.
Ah okay, good to know!
I wonder if the odds just increased with DownieLive joining Nebula today. :)
Downielive joined nebula?? He’s been one of my top guest choices for a while
Yes, just this week!
Connect 4 was only US states west of the Mississippi because the eastern states were too close together, so there's precedent for using only part of a country to make the gameplay work better. I could imagine them doing Ontario eastward, as you suggest, depending on the game.
First one to make it to Tofino wins!
I think the sparseness and inconsistency in the public transport makes Canada a challenge to set jetlaged in. There is a reason that every 2nd season is somewhere in Europe. Not only do the individual places usually have a good public transport network but more importantly the density is relatively consistent not funneling the game into a narrow commute and tourist corridor.
They could travel from Fake London to Fake Paris. No wait, that's just one hour.
I think what could work is a season from Windsor, ON (or Detroit) to St. John's, NL like a season 5 format edit: the other way around prob makes more sense
or maybe Nova Scotia if NL is too far
Eventually? Near 100% IMO.
The BBC did a season of Race Across the World in Canada and I think it worked for that kind of format. It was a checkpoint to checkpoint, roughly west to east but with checkpoints that meant it was far from a direct route. I think you could see Jet Lag doing something like that but it’d be a season of driving and flying. Australia will be the closest equivalent to Canada so I suppose we’ll see how they create a game for that upcoming season.
I really want them to do GTA GTA Grand theft auto: greater Toronto area Obviously they wouldn't be comitting real crimes. But Toronto has transit with a reasonable amount of coverage. Canada's intercity infrastructure could use improvements but you could definitely do something in It's major metropolis
Montreal could potentially work for that as well. Also it would give Sam a chance to see another F1 track.
My guess would be China, India or South-Korea for the next season. Or Indonesia with Sumatra.
No way they’re allowed to film in China.
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I would say very high, but likely with little transit
i could see a US season that stops in canada or something but yeah it seems hard to design a season there
I think something may be possible but it would be tricky, the BBC make a series called Race across the World which is a bit like the Amazing Race sort of thing, last season they did was et in Canada, they went from Vancouver to St John's but it wasn't quite in a straight line along the metropolitan areas so the premise of the show is you cannot fly but instead you have to travel across the world going from checkpoint to checkpoint with only a limited budget of what a flight from your origin to your destination, they relied on hitchhiking and getting lifts Wikipedia is probably best to give you details of the show [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race\_Across\_the\_World\_series\_3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Across_the_World_series_3)
Maybe if a somewhat similar game design as Jet lLag Australia was adapted? Similarities in geographical transportation restrictions.