[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' date=\'Apr 16 2005, 04:37 PM\']Sure Whammy had its problems: The horrible commercial timing, the sucky theme music, and that ghastly Giant whammy, all in all it was a respectable revival, and frankly, I think some of you are being just a bit too harsh on it because it didn't mimic the orginal PYL detail-for-detail.
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Ah, YOU see the points I was trying to make. While I gave Whammy a lower grade, it was not because it wasn't a complete copy of the original. It still worked, just took a little while to get there. Overall, the show worked for its age and time just as PYL worked for its time.
The prizes thing... I understand that with GSN we had to expect lower payouts, I should've noted that. It just really messed with gameplay and strategy in the beginning because, as was said, it DID lead to more anti-climatic moments than what was wanted. Season 2 helped a lot with that, and I'm sure Season 3 may have done a tiny notch better, who knows. But payout level notwithstanding, it just surprised a lot of us, I think, how many prizes were on the board at one time compared to PYL. That dramatic shift just caught us off guard a bit, you know?
I'll give all of you the timing on the commercials in Round 3. I never saw the point to that either, but I paid it no mind. Never bothered me that much.
Todd being loud... OK, so? Peter wasn't at times? Look at some of the early days of PYL, he had his moments.
And I STILL don't see the Millionaire lighting that everyone's talking about, unless you're looking at the ones behind the board, which just are not in the same category at all. Roulette and FOF did the Millionaire lighting trick right, but not Whammy (assuming the intention was there at all).
*sigh* Once again, looks like some of us will just agree to disagree. Likelihood says some of us here that hated Whammy hated PYL, too. But that's the fun of this whole conversation. We know what we like, and we're not afraid to explain why.
(Note that I said SOME of us, and not ALL of us before you jump on me about it.)