There were two possibilities for ABC’s Expedition Impossible , the Mark Burnett-produced adventure race which debuted last night on ABC. The first was that it’d be a game-changing new show, which is what I thought it could be when it was announced . The second was that it’d be an Amazing Race knock-off that either improved on the CBS series or was a pale imitation. After one episode, Expedition Impossible is decidedly the second, but it’s both an improvement and a pale imitation at the same time. It shares a lot of its DNA with Amazing Race. There was a lot that used template directly, with only minor changes (stages instead of legs, “You are the winners of stage one” instead of “You are the first team to arrive”) that just highlighted the similarities. Burnett would like to insist that “this isn’t The Amazing Race,” but it owes a lot to that series. Still, it’s worth noting that The Amazing Race followed and clearly borrowed from both Mark Burnett’s adventure race series Eco Challe...