Watson ruined J! for me

[alfonzos]

I enjoy playing along with the contestants. That is got me hooked on “Concentration” at the age of four. Anyway, “Jeopardy!” never was my strongest game and the current version only tempers my enthusiasm. It used to be that the players would start with the easy answers and work their way toward the harder one. If I couldn’t play along at least the show was building to a climax.

Now that Watson has shown that the way to win is controlling Daily Doubles players are going all over the board shopping for them. I find this unsatisfying as a viewer. It doesn’t help that I don’t really care who wins.

I guess I will have to stick to the home games.

[BrandonFG]

Is that Watson or Arthur Chu, tho? Feels like he brought back the “Forrest Bounce” fishing for Daily Doubles.

[wdm1219inpenna]

For me, Jeopardy is no fun anymore, not only due to players hopping around and starting with the harder clues, but also the far too "niche" categories used anymore.

I would not mind if a board had 1 or maybe 2 niche categories per round but most times 3 to 4 categories or more are just weird categories to me anymore.

[chad1m]

"niche" categories

I'm legitimately curious. What's an example of a "'niche' category" to you?

[Joe Mello]

"niche" categories

I'm legitimately curious. What's an example of a "'niche' category" to you?

For fun I checked the most recent episodes on J-archive because I think I know what the complaint is and I can see how a definition of "niche categories" could be an aesthetic bugbear for some.

I'm generally neutral-to-positive about the categories they write but then I see "GEOLOGIC TIME DIVISIONS AS FRIENDS EPISODE TITLES"

[Fedya]

Since we've got a new thread about people's J! bugaboos, let me add that the producers should ban the word "colorful" from clues.