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NBC taking DOND ... to an island
JasonA1:
It's got a second season.
https://deadline.com/2024/05/deal-or-no-deal-island-renewed-season-2-nbc-1235907947/
-Jason
Jeremy Nelson:
The "Tribal Ceremony" at the end of the game is kinda anticlimactic. They play a short game of DoND with roughly 10-16 cases. If they make a good deal based on their case amount, the player can eliminate someone, but they get eliminated if they make a bad deal. At most points, the offers are no higher or lower than 2/3 of the cases on offer, so if the player takes a deal, it really only makes sense if the offer is higher than 2/3 of the table. Most games last until there's only 2 or 3 unopened cases. All money gets added to the "final case" for the finale.
The tonal decisions are off, too. When the player knocks a big amount off the board, they cut to reactions/smirks from the player's rival(s), but considering that the offers never let the game get out of hand, those smirks make no sense since knocking off high offers takes money from the final jackpot.
I think in Season 2, all offers should be personal guarantees to the players. That would have to change the win conditions of the elimination (win if you choose a right side of the board cade, lose if you choose a left side of the board case), but it's doable.
Loogaroo:
Here's the thing: with a show like The Mole or even The Traitors, the team was completing challenges to add money to the final prize total. That number was rock-solid, and whoever won, they were assured to win at least a share of that pot.
With DONDI, these players are going through all this rigamarole to find cases to play a preliminary game by which they add money to one case out of probably 20 or more, which the ultimate winner will play one last game of DOND to try to win.
Meaning, all of this time and effort is being spent to build up a top prize that the winner will take home if and only if they're lucky enough to pick the winning case and then they turn down every banker offer.
Perhaps they scale the other cases to fall in line with the top value - the final case is already over $10M, so perhaps that means there's a $5M case, a $3M case, a $2M case, and so on. More than likely, the other cases top out at $1M and then grade out to a similar scale as what we saw on the original network show. In which case all the pomp and circumstance leads to Boston Rob (because it's going to be Boston Rob) pocketing like $300K at the end of it all.
I hope I'm wrong because otherwise this entire show just seems like a colossal waste.
TLEberle:
--- Quote from: Loogaroo on May 09, 2024, 07:34:07 PM ---Perhaps they scale the other cases to fall in line with the top value - the final case is already over $10M, so perhaps that means there's a $5M case, a $3M case, a $2M case, and so on. More than likely, the other cases top out at $1M and then grade out to a similar scale as what we saw on the original network show. In which case all the pomp and circumstance leads to Boston Rob (because it's going to be Boston Rob) pocketing like $300K at the end of it all.
I hope I'm wrong because otherwise this entire show just seems like a colossal waste.
--- End quote ---
I've been watching because the premise is intriguing, but my thought was they are going to resolve this final challenge, the amount of the pot goes in the big fella, and there is a better than one in five chance that the jackpot case is off the board after one round, and three-in-seven that it's gone after round two, when the preamble is done and the game gets interesting.
It's a clever idea and the personal offer element ensures that people are balancing the ready cash with whatever the consequences are, and the challenges are visually interesting (the reason I got into and stuck with Survivor, in fact) but it's absolutely something I bang out in ten minutes. The elimination every iteration feels totally random.
Maybe they'll suss all of this out by this time next year. I also remember Pirate Master, which was a jolly romp for a few around the time of Pearl Islands, then evaporated like flatulence in an elevator.
Neumms:
--- Quote from: TLEberle on May 09, 2024, 08:08:35 PM ---…the reason I got into and stuck with Survivor, in fact…
--- End quote ---
Do you still watch Survivor, Travis? I was Jeff’s loyal friend and true up ‘til a couple years ago. Now I find the array of advantages too hard to follow and the challenges too much the same: collect puzzle pieces, drag pieces somewhere, do puzzle. I’m curious what you think, though. Maybe I should give the last season a try.
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