[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' post=\'184062\' date=\'Apr 15 2008, 01:31 PM\']You know a game show is good as dead when the last two aired episodes of this show, which featured the two highest winners ever on this show, both score series-low ratings. Again, as Monty Hall might say, "It's not how much money we give away, it's the way we do it".[/quote]The problem is that there isn't all that much of a game to it. Set for Life gave away some huge prizes, and got bupkis.
[quote name=\'JRaygor\' post=\'184069\' date=\'Apr 15 2008, 01:57 PM\']/How's "America's fastest-growing game show blog" coming along?
//*snicker*[/quote]Let's have a look-see.
On page one:
* Referring to contestants not by the names used by the show, but by last names we haven't heard since the top of the show, or by "the lone man" or "the woman..."
* Using terminology that would be known only to show fans, not regular folks. (GARF, WIPEOUT)
* Leaving out whole segments worth of gameplay, or critical details to add context.
* Adding 'opinions' that have no place in a recap, whether by declaring a particular showcase was impossible to win, or a contestant messed up by leaving out a word in a solve. (This is actually the most egregious of the lot, and the one thing he does far too often.)
Basically everything that you wouldn't want to have in a 'game show blog' or recap site that you wanted to be taken seriously.
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'184070\' date=\'Apr 15 2008, 02:01 PM\']I beg your pardon? Last time I checked, I am entitled to my opinion...what's wrong, it doesn't offer enough money for the gameplay involved? [/quote]And in the same way, he's entitled to his. The problem is Bobby doesn't defend anything he says.
That said: I don't think Amnesia works on any level. There's no rooting interest at all, and the producers realized that watching someone answer questions about himself isn't interesting, because they had things like "Which of these people is the President's daughter?" and "Who was the leading lady in the film you saw with your wife on your first date?" (Replacing all of that with the name of the film. The fact that only one or two people even had a punt on the +/- $25,000 question also doesn't help matters.
Amnesia offers bland family-friendly fare where everything is done like a roast, with a nod-and-a-wink, and it shows in the familial celebrations at the end of the show. Moment of Truth gives people the chance to sneer at their fellow man, first for volunteering to be on the show, and second for doing whatever misdeeds are revealed. And you can say "I may take a penny from the jar, but at least I didn't cheat on my wife."
Which doesn't mean I like MOT, it's just why one succeeds and the other doesn't.
