Oh dear, I'm afraid I contributed to a minor, cordial shitstorm.
Are we really going to demean some twenty-something non-game show devotee for not liking something like that was produced for TV sixty years ago? It's nice when average Joes appreciate the games that paved the path to today, but goodness. I respect the genre, but if you put '50s Price in front of me at the wrong time, I'm liable to snore right in Uncle Bill's face.
It might be a matter of viewpoint, Chad. Last week I introduced my ninth graders to keyboard input and control structures in Java. As part of that, I used the 20Q website to discuss boolean evaluation and while loops (Yes, kids, it does know what a tortilla is.) And before we did 20 questions, I related it through the appropriate TV format: "What's My Line?" So if I can get a room of 30 teenagers to watch John Charles Daly, a man twice their age can darn well sit through some Bud Collyer when he's trying to get a job.
It doesn't have anything to do with him not being "one of us". I'm sure he meant it as an off-the-cuff statement, but he's doing a new version of an older show, and it looks like he didn't do a lot of research. Like Dan and Travis mentioned, there's more than just the Bud Collyer version, and to merely go off that is kinda half-assed on the research side.
Meh, I don't care if he's one of us. He doesn't have to be to do a competent hosting job. But they haven't had a strong host yet, in my book. Maybe someone can tell me if his past work with Sourcefed bodes better here.
But remember, this is supposed to be the partner Youtube channel to that D2 that's launching in a few weeks. So he's insulting the core programming of the channel that he's hoping he'll get onto. From a PR perspective, it's putting your best foot in your mouth. There's no good reason to create such an uphill battle for himself, and that he would do that makes me wonder what the corporate handlers were thinking.
At the very least I'll demean him for using the word "up" as a verb. (Upon further review, Dan and Gene are snarking at the new host and not the article writer.)
I think that up is a perfectly cromulent verb when followed by an appropriate pronoun.
(Where said pronoun does not represent anyone in this conversation)To your point, not necessarily. We've said repeatedly that you can't look at the old stuff through a 2015 lens, but if he's going to do research for his role then he should do research. Sometimes research is boring. Of all the game shows of yore, I would think that Beat the Clock would be least boring because there's almost constant movement.
But there's all that awkward talking about what you're going to do before you do it.
