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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: BillCullen1 on July 15, 2015, 09:46:07 AM
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These two shows air at 8 and 9 pm EST, respectively. CR will air two half-hour shows.
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I've always like 'Chain Reaction' and tonight was no different.
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Which of these is the shortest?
A. String of consecutive correct answers by contestants
B. Brooke Burns' hem line
C. My patience for puerile and sophomoric writing
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Which of these is the shortest?
A. String of consecutive correct answers by contestants
B. Brooke Burns' hem line
C. My patience for puerile and sophomoric writing
My patience is shorter for an individual who talks down to others by using big, fancy words.
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My patience is shorter for an individual who talks down to others by using big, fancy words.
I gotta know: which one of those words did you find to be too big and fancy for you?
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C. My patience for puerile and sophomoric writing
Did you not like the ass question? Because I'm way over the choices of Dick Feud but found The Chase's take to be clever and musing.
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I just got home and haven't gotten to it yet; I am merely basing my assumptions based upon the reruns that I watched over the last month or so. I love irreverence that isn't forced (cf: Win Ben Stein's Money, You Don't Know Jack); I loathe it when it is forced down or throat or used as a crutch (Pyramid 2002, Family Feud 201x, The Chase: both versions as yet).
/Dick Feud sounds like GSN's next competitive reality series.
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It'll be a pale imitation of Destination America's Cockfight.
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Here's my take on the new Chain Reaction...
The main game format remains unchanged with the exception of it being 2 vs. 2 instead of 3 vs. 3. The Super Chain bonus round is interesting. In the new bonus format, players must link 7 words to one main word, instead of completing a chain of related words in 60 seconds.
Host Mike Catherwood is a vast improvement over Dylan Lane. He's far more relaxed and jokes around with the players, and the set is bright and fun. The contestants, as well, are fun to watch.
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I love irreverence that isn't forced (cf: Win Ben Stein's Money, You Don't Know Jack)
Purely for argument's sake, I'll say that Win Ben Stein's Money could have been played straight, but it wasn't. I agree the feel of Ben was always comedy whereas for you The Chase is not. The Chase shares the same head writer with both shows you mentioned.
Do you not like the questions on the UK Chase that exist for the same purpose? Their goal seemed to be breaking up Bradley Walsh more so than getting laughs from everybody, but the level of discourse was about the same.
-Jason
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I missed The Chase but plan to watch it online. Liked the new Chain Reaction, particularly the new bonus round. Top ;prize is still $5K, but I'm not losing sleep over that. Getting less than seven right answers does not get you additional money. Oh well. The new CR is done in Hollywood, yes?
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I missed The Chase but plan to watch it online. Liked the new Chain Reaction, particularly the new bonus round. Top ;prize is still $5K, but I'm not losing sleep over that.
It looks miserly compared to the fact that The Chase offers that as the base money for a single answer in the opening salvo. Even Idiotest splits ten grand in half. $5,000 was acceptable as a grand prize on Supermarket Sweep in the mid-1990s. It was laughable on Camouflage and That's the Question.
Yes, the new bonus game has yellability in spades, but we've lost a round in the main game and the Betting Chain saps any of the fun that was built up by the light atmosphere, competent host and pleasant players.
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Did you not like the ass question? Because I'm way over the choices of Dick Feud but found The Chase's take to be clever and musing.
It was forced, lame, unclever and neutered--it would have been a better question if "have your dog turn left" and "have your dog turn right" as options. And as the upside it excises "Back that ass up" as a choice, so double victory there.
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I missed The Chase but plan to watch it online. Liked the new Chain Reaction, particularly the new bonus round. Top ;prize is still $5K, but I'm not losing sleep over that. Getting less than seven right answers does not get you additional money. Oh well. The new CR is done in Hollywood, yes?
Apparently, the show was supposed to be a daily daytime show. That doesn't excuse such a cheap show, but it's an excuse.
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That was one of the better Chase episodes I've seen. Impressive total.
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It chafes a little that a team that was largely unremarkable up to that point gets to play to divide $100,000 as happened last night. And the Super Offer is a complicating non-issue as well.
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Tonight's new episode featured a team of three brothers playing together. The first brother banks the wuss offer of $15,000; the second goes down the middle to bank $30,000, the third brother is asked directly by Mark what it would take to take the step up the board. He says "$100,000" and that's what Mark offers. Third brother is caught so the pot is $45,000.
The team moves ahead 17 steps ahead and it takes Mark a minute 52 seconds to catch. Contestants defeated.
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Well, guess I don't need to watch it now.
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They seem to be more lenient about accepting answers on the new Chain Reaction. Taking forms of words ending in ED or ING. On Dylan's CR, they gave you singular & plural. Otherwise, you needed to give the exact word to score. A minor quibble. I don't think this takes away too much from the game playing.
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They seem to be more lenient about accepting answers on the new Chain Reaction. Taking forms of words ending in ED or ING. On Dylan's CR, they gave you singular & plural. Otherwise, you needed to give the exact word to score. A minor quibble. I don't think this takes away too much from the game playing.
The Canadian version sounded the cuckoo and the player was told "form of the word"; was the player given a chance to give the right answer?
Mike Catherwood is so good at hosting (and shows more emotion in a single segment than Dylan Lane showed in the entire two season run) that I can forgive non-issues like "form of the word." Betting chain still consumes a satchel of private detectives, and the super chain end game is a suitable final challenge though it seems that on the last word the team is only shown three letters even if time is remaining.
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the super chain end game is a suitable final challenge though it seems that on the last word the team is only shown three letters even if time is remaining.
Three letters is the maximum revealed on any given word. It was part of the rules language in at least some of the episodes.
-Jason
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Three letters is the maximum revealed on any given word. It was part of the rules language in at least some of the episodes.
Serves me right for watching on fast forward then, but it does seem like an odd rule, but it does explain why teams were passing on words when there were still letters obscured. If not for the noxious betting round it would rate higher than Canadian Reaction.
(Did the show cut out the second $100 chain to allow Mike to have more flexibility in reacting to things more than just "nope, that's wrong."?
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On the one episode I have seen with Mike, he called a wrong answer, "a good answer." How could that be?
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On the one episode I have seen with Mike, he called a wrong answer, "a good answer." How could that be?
Why don't you ask some of the contestants on Family Feud this question?
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On the one episode I have seen with Mike, he called a wrong answer, "a good answer." How could that be?
Why don't you ask some of the contestants on Family Feud this question?
Because on FF that happens before the answer is revealed. On CR, Mike said it after the answer is revealed to be wrong.
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On the one episode I have seen with Mike, he called a wrong answer, "a good answer." How could that be?
Why don't you ask some of the contestants on Family Feud this question?
Because on FF that happens before the answer is revealed. On CR, Mike said it after the answer is revealed to be wrong.
Sounds like Mike was expressing his opinion. He thought the answer was good, even though it wasn't correct.
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On the one episode I have seen with Mike, he called a wrong answer, "a good answer." How could that be?
Why don't you ask some of the contestants on Family Feud this question?
Because on FF that happens before the answer is revealed. On CR, Mike said it after the answer is revealed to be wrong.
Sounds like he's simply saying it's a good guess and logically fits as an answer. Keeps the game moving along, whether he meant it or not.
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On the one episode I have seen with Mike, he called a wrong answer, "a good answer." How could that be?
Because wrong answers can be good answers. This isn't a high school true/false test.