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Joe Mello:
The show is probably fine, but there's are two things I have disdain for.

First, If the conflict between a) voting off a weaker player so the bank can build up, and b) voting off a stronger player to improve an individual's chance of winning is one of the major sources of tension for your show, why do you choose to eliminate that conflict when it would be at its highest point? Not having another bank building round after the last round of voting implies a lack of understanding of how the game works.

Second, if you cannot be bothered to show the clock for the entire round, then you really need to stop with all the bleeping post-production,

MSTieScott:

--- Quote from: jcs290 on September 30, 2020, 12:29:41 AM ---The clock disappearing mid-round and then reappearing in the final 30 seconds or so indicates tons of overly dramatic post-editing.

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Especially when near the beginning of one of the rounds (I want to say the third?), they took a shot from the back of the set and you could see part of the in-studio timer near the top of the screen... and it already didn't match the onscreen timer.


--- Quote from: jcs290 on September 30, 2020, 12:29:41 AM ---And I didn't care for the jittery Matrix-like camera effect when panning between the contestant podiums.

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The camera was moving too slowly (was it preprogrammed to stop at a specific point for each player so the booth didn't have to worry about getting perfect framing on the fly?), so they tried to speed things up in post. Not everything can be made perfect in post.


All in all, I appreciate that they were faithful to what the show was in the '00s (although I hate that there's no incentive not to vote out the strongest link during the final vote). The Weakest Link has never been my cup of tea, but this show did a good job of making sure that viewers who liked it before should like it again.

(Now, when will people learn that custom-shaped LED strips don't look good in reasonably tight shots because they get all pixelly? It happened on Nickelodeon's Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? and it happened again here.)

colonial:
When preview clips of the premiere were posted last week, BuzzerBlog mentioned that post-production editing was "still ongoing." It showed in the end result -- felt like watching the first or second draft of a show than the actual final product.

Having the clock vanish for much of a round is baffling, especially when it's common for TV sporting events to show the time clock at all times during play.

Contestants were right out of Central Casting, but that's expected given this show and what they are looking for in contestants (personality over brains).

Lynch was an upgrade over Robinson -- seemed more comfortable with ad-libbing and interacting with the contestants, but she did sound robotic at times.

The "Matrix" camera was also off-putting, but I'll presume it has to do with running robotic cameras and trying to have as few people on stage as possible in our COVID world. The fake applause and laugh tracks were a bit silly, particularly when it was quite obvious the show did not have an in-studio audience. With so many technical glitches, you can tell the show was rushed to broadcast.


The off-screen announcer was good -- went more into detail about player performance than in previous incarnations of the show -- but I didn't catch the person's name in the credits. Any clue who that was.

Speaking of player performance, I would have liked to have seen the show present graphics going more into detail of a player's performance, similar to the sports world's focus on "metrics." How fast or slow are players answering their questions, how much they are banking, etc. Would have been a unique touch to at least experiment with.


JD

Jeremy Nelson:
Personally, I would have cut the game to six players and had an extensive deliberation before each voting round to let people make their case to the team. But that’s just me.

Mr. Armadillo:

--- Quote from: Unrealtor on September 30, 2020, 12:05:47 AM ---Saw some criticism pre-premiere that the middle part of the one chain we saw in previews wasn't steep enough - there were two consecutive questions which increased the bank by the same amount - and I have to say that it didn't feel like anyone was even trying to push past them.

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The first *five* links in the first round are $1,000 bumps.  No reason at all to not bank after every single question, since nobody's going to paint a giant target on themselves by going for, and potentially blowing, a jackpot that is only 2.5% of the final total.

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