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Title: Watson ruined J! for me
Post by: alfonzos on May 22, 2025, 12:54:32 PM
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.
Title: Re: Watson ruined J! for me
Post by: BrandonFG on May 22, 2025, 01:14:45 PM
Is that Watson or Arthur Chu, tho? Feels like he brought back the “Forrest Bounce” fishing for Daily Doubles.
Title: Re: Watson ruined J! for me
Post by: wdm1219inpenna on May 22, 2025, 02:18:54 PM
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.
Title: Re: Watson ruined J! for me
Post by: chad1m on May 22, 2025, 03:04:44 PM
Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on Today at 02:18:54 PM
"niche" categories
I'm legitimately curious. What's an example of a "'niche' category" to you?
Title: Re: Watson ruined J! for me
Post by: Joe Mello on May 22, 2025, 04:05:14 PM
Quote from: chad1m on Today at 03:04:44 PM
Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on Today at 02:18:54 PM
"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"
Title: Re: Watson ruined J! for me
Post by: Fedya on May 22, 2025, 06:33:28 PM
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.
Title: Re: Watson ruined J! for me
Post by: Strikerz04 on May 22, 2025, 08:57:39 PM
Quote from: BrandonFG on Today at 01:14:45 PM
Is that Watson or Arthur Chu, tho? Feels like he brought back the “Forrest Bounce” fishing for Daily Doubles.
I'd presume Arthur did that (and honestly, it's not a bad thing to do). Everyone else followed suit after that.If anything, the Master's series broke my brain and further proof that I (and my partner, for that matter, also a Jeopardy nerd) are mere mortals.