[quote name=\'Sodboy13\' post=\'229164\' date=\'Oct 24 2009, 01:41 AM\'][quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'229160\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 11:09 PM\']Is it worse to be a the progeny of a beloved game show (Temptation) or to be bad with no progenitor?[/quote]
Throwing in my opinion on this one, I find it less horrid to see a bad original idea than to see an idea which you know can be good, and have seen done well in the past, only to watch it be put in the wrong hands and have it summarily be given the R. Kelly treatment. It took all of a week here for Temptation to make the transition from hope and positive expectation to scorn and ridicule, and justifiably so.
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Agreed. With a bad original concept, you can say that it was a little half-baked or just executed wrong, and in the next life, go nowhere but up. But I have more of a problem with a show that was done right in the past (Card Sharks, Pyramid, Temptation) screwed up because some n00b decided to make it more extreme for a 2000s audience because the 1970s or '80s way is too pedestrian for their tastes. In the end, they completely miss the point of what made the show truly work, if they even watched an episode.