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BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: DoItRockapella on January 16, 2025, 03:08:50 PM ---I don't think Patrick Wayne is anywhere near as bad a host as people make him out to be. Is he a "good" host? No - but people make him out to be the worst game show host in history. I've seen orders of magnitude worse. Ditto Mike Reilly.
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I don’t think enough people in our fandom understand that hosts have people coaching them on how to act. Was Patrick great? No, but having seen him on other projects I realize someone was telling him what to do on TTD.
Another hot take: many modern audience wranglers don’t know what they’re doing and don’t realize that unless you’re TPiR or LMaD, the audience is not a member of the show and we don’t need their reaction to everything. Honestly, some shows would be improved 100% if they used a canned audience instead.
aaron sica:
--- Quote from: jw2001 on January 16, 2025, 02:47:02 PM ---- I'm not interested in how modern game shows put such a large focus on the contestant's human interest story. Yes, let us get to know the players, but then just play the game without all the fluff. Press Your Luck's bonus round and Deal or No Deal, I'm looking at you.
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So very much this. At the risk of sounding cold and heartless, I don't really care about their backstory/struggles. Just play.
clemon79:
--- Quote from: aaron sica on January 15, 2025, 11:07:05 AM ---- PYL doesn't work as an hour show with a bonus round. It's quite predictable when the contestant will decide to stop.
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--- Quote from: BrandonFG on January 15, 2025, 07:35:24 PM ---Ted Slauson gave me the creeps in Perfect Bid. I couldn't care less about him going Rain Man with the prices and whether or not it was legal. The dude was just strange.
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Both of these takes are so cold Imma need to find a sweater. I could have truncated Brandon's after the sixth word.
Really to Aaron's comment: the nature of self-contained game-show production is such these days that with these new shows I have to make an active effort not to watch any sort of clock or timing if I don't want the end segment totally telegraphed, and even at that it only works maybe half the time. I think this is why I stick to Jeopardy and Pyramid for the most part. (Or, you know, just accept it and replace the onion on my belt.)
Jeremy Nelson:
--- Quote from: jw2001 on January 16, 2025, 02:47:02 PM ---- I'm not interested in how modern game shows put such a large focus on the contestant's human interest story. Yes, let us get to know the players, but then just play the game without all the fluff. Press Your Luck's bonus round and Deal or No Deal, I'm looking at you.
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The show that's most criminal about this, to me, is The Wall. Mark and Patty pulled 17 dogs from a burning building and not only did they lose the $1.2 million they earned on The Wall, but you make them monologue to a marriage proposal-esque level of melodrama to find out they didn't even win turtle wax.
--- Quote from: clemon79 on January 16, 2025, 04:41:38 PM ---Really to Aaron's comment: the nature of self-contained game-show production is such these days that with these new shows I have to make an active effort not to watch any sort of clock or timing if I don't want the end segment totally telegraphed, and even at that it only works maybe half the time.
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Same here. What I've found works best is when I'm doing another task while the show in on in the background, whether it's household chores or playing on my Switch. Having a primary task that commands my attention keeps me from clock-watching and spoiling the outcome for myself.
The Ol' Guy:
Why not? The geezer weighs in...
Always enjoyed the big clunky machines. B&E had a knack for them. Immediately disliked it when Classic Concentration and Blockbusters II went to computer generated boards. Art James struck me as a somewhat awkward, though nice, host. Frequent hesitations and momentary lapses while trying to figure out what to do on shows like Catch Phrase and Pay Cards. Was fine on Temptation and WWW. So few hour games are worth the time to watch because of the stretch (including the earlier mentioned contest background and relatives pieces). Agree with praises for Rafferty. Also, the "leave with nothing after using the contestant(s) for a full show" also leaves a bad taste. A small sum like many bonus games (You didn't win the 10 grand, but here's $100 for each one you got right) would be nice.
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