101 ways to leave a gameshow
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Just watched this one. I think its got all the qualities to make people think its brilliant, or crap. The quiz part is pretty decent, each player has to pick an answer from a list, one of the answers is wrong, if more than one pick the same answer, there's a tie break question to decide who gets that answer, and so on until everyone has a different choice.
Then it all gets a bit Total Wipeout. The TV studio they're in is 50ft up on a great big frame, there's lots of pools of water and contraptions around it. The wrong answer gets you ejected, 50ft down and getting wet, or gunged. Nemone the Radio 1 DJ is outside at the bottom waiting to interview you, Amanda Byram style.
I'll watch it again, the quiz questions were decent and some of them did look very scared as they were about to leave
Then it all gets a bit Total Wipeout. The TV studio they're in is 50ft up on a great big frame, there's lots of pools of water and contraptions around it. The wrong answer gets you ejected, 50ft down and getting wet, or gunged. Nemone the Radio 1 DJ is outside at the bottom waiting to interview you, Amanda Byram style.
I'll watch it again, the quiz questions were decent and some of them did look very scared as they were about to leave
Have to say, i thought this was one of the worst things ive seen in ages! It was so slow and tedious, we saw them all eventually end up with one answer each, then it moved outside and spent another 5 minutes recapping everyones answer, before, one by one, the correct answers were revealed and the loser eventually left the show. Why not simply show the wrong answer while everyone is still standing at the edge?
Shorten it to half an hour and it might be good fun, but they just dont have the content to fill a one hour slot!
Shorten it to half an hour and it might be good fun, but they just dont have the content to fill a one hour slot!
Whalespin said:
Have to say, i thought this was one of the worst things ive seen in ages! It was so slow and tedious,
My thoughts exactly. I genuinely hated it. It was incredibly tedious and dull, two questions took half an hour and all we got in the way of exitement in that time was a couple of fairly unspectacular dunkings shown from multiple cameras loads of times to try and make them look exciting.I then turned it off, utter rubbish.
Japveesix said:
Whalespin said:
Have to say, i thought this was one of the worst things ive seen in ages! It was so slow and tedious,
My thoughts exactly. I genuinely hated it. It was incredibly tedious and dull, two questions took half an hour and all we got in the way of exitement in that time was a couple of fairly unspectacular dunkings shown from multiple cameras loads of times to try and make them look exciting.I then turned it off, utter rubbish.
t so I made a cuppa, came back still no one booted off! Then I realised they were revealing the correct answers!! WTF?! Surely it would be about 1million % better if they had them stood at the edge and didn't even reveal who lost until the hammer hit them. Blindfolds would help I think.Make it like "million pound drop" only you're dropping the contestants. Then I might watch it.
In the mean time, I'm never watching again. Gash.
I saw it from halfway through, when they were on the bikes, and thought it looked brilliant. It looked like they were all going to have to cycle off a cliff with harnesses attached and only the ones with correct answers would be saved by them. Fantastic! Then they slowly took away the correct answers one by one, and when the wrong answer finally went, they just meandered off slowly and it was crap. Same goes with the bit later when they were all hanging from a turntable above a big chute down to the bottom - excellent! If they get a question wrong they're going to plummet down a tube and be saved at the last minute by the harness! But no. When they did get it wrong they were simply lowered down extra gently while someone threw some goo at them.
Boo. No thanks.
Boo. No thanks.
v64paul said:
Apparently made by Endemol in Argentina. Can we not make even the most basic of tv shows anymore? Granted the set looks an expensive thing to create.
Health and Safety/hiring the set out to other countries/weather/cheap labour.I thought it poor, it seemed to be a show about falling into water in different ways.
Beyond Rational said:
v64paul said:
Apparently made by Endemol in Argentina. Can we not make even the most basic of tv shows anymore? Granted the set looks an expensive thing to create.
Health and Safety/hiring the set out to other countries/weather/cheap labour.Am I right in the part I saw in today's show (17th Jul)? A square weight on the end of a rope was suspended above some deep water. Contestants stood on the weight and held the rope, waiting for the moment the rope was cut and they were dropped in.
The aspect that concerned me was that the contestants were shackled to the weight such that when it dropped into the water they had to release themselves from it as it sank.
I know there were rescue divers around but isn't this pushing it a bit? This show is about being dropped into water and getting wet isn't it, not about drowning?
The aspect that concerned me was that the contestants were shackled to the weight such that when it dropped into the water they had to release themselves from it as it sank.
I know there were rescue divers around but isn't this pushing it a bit? This show is about being dropped into water and getting wet isn't it, not about drowning?
jonnylarge said:
Am I right in the part I saw in today's show (17th Jul)? A square weight on the end of a rope was suspended above some deep water. Contestants stood on the weight and held the rope, waiting for the moment the rope was cut and they were dropped in.
The aspect that concerned me was that the contestants were shackled to the weight such that when it dropped into the water they had to release themselves from it as it sank.
I know there were rescue divers around but isn't this pushing it a bit? This show is about being dropped into water and getting wet isn't it, not about drowning?
I thought the same, didn't see last weeks, was a bit shocked when I saw the concrete! Not a great gameshow, bit drawn out, though the first one where they were hanging on a board over the water would have freaked me out!The aspect that concerned me was that the contestants were shackled to the weight such that when it dropped into the water they had to release themselves from it as it sank.
I know there were rescue divers around but isn't this pushing it a bit? This show is about being dropped into water and getting wet isn't it, not about drowning?
At least the winner knows what they'll win.
mrmr96 said:
Beyond Rational said:
v64paul said:
Apparently made by Endemol in Argentina. Can we not make even the most basic of tv shows anymore? Granted the set looks an expensive thing to create.
Health and Safety/hiring the set out to other countries/weather/cheap labour.jonnylarge said:
Am I right in the part I saw in today's show (17th Jul)? A square weight on the end of a rope was suspended above some deep water. Contestants stood on the weight and held the rope, waiting for the moment the rope was cut and they were dropped in.
The aspect that concerned me was that the contestants were shackled to the weight such that when it dropped into the water they had to release themselves from it as it sank.
I know there were rescue divers around but isn't this pushing it a bit? This show is about being dropped into water and getting wet isn't it, not about drowning?
Were they actually attached to the block? I thought they were just standing on it. The aspect that concerned me was that the contestants were shackled to the weight such that when it dropped into the water they had to release themselves from it as it sank.
I know there were rescue divers around but isn't this pushing it a bit? This show is about being dropped into water and getting wet isn't it, not about drowning?
Irrelevant however as the the show it utter pap, someone really ought to tie Steve Jones to a concrete slab for real.
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