[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'241254\' date=\'May 22 2010, 06:59 PM\']When put that way, you have a point. Perhaps that could have been worked in while maintaining the "Bachelor #1/#2/#3" format as opposed to "Sam/Murray/Ed".[/quote]I will freely admit that I'm not terribly crazy about keeping the bachelors hidden behind a partition until the big reveal. (And since the Looks round was just 1-2-3, it didn't really affect the Personality round all that much) I understand that if you don't have a safety net and just let the chooser have complete freedom, you either have lots of dead air or possibly the FCC on the horn asking just what is the meaning of all of this, but in the time I watched the "original recipe" version, it didn't seem that the chooser had a whole helluva lot to go on when choosing. (And it didn't seem like Barris et al would throw in a dingus or goop. The three chosen (?) bachelor/ettes seemed to be decent young people, so the chooser wasn't ever at any sort of risk. I don't think it would be all that terrible to have the host, the chooser and the potentials in a living room setting around a coffee table, and the chooser has a stack of questions to draw from, and the potentials have each brought some personality factoids to discuss, and you let 'em go. But that's just me.
All that said, I find it much more difficult to defend the changes made to Newlywed Game.