Outlook: That's The Question

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'133662\' date=\'Oct 6 2006, 08:28 AM\']

This is a show that requires you to unscramble words to answer questions. If the scrambled words are spelled wrong, you are hindering the players ability to score.
[/quote]

Most definitely, considering that each word has one extra letter (which of course gets fed into the puzzle). Has it happened yet where a misspelled word directly impacted the puzzle with that extra letter?

[Clay Zambo]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'133685\' date=\'Oct 6 2006, 12:09 PM\']
Has it happened yet where a misspelled word directly impacted the puzzle with that extra letter?
[/quote]

Couldn't tell you.  After that who's/whose incident--I'm sorry, I know it's a common mistake but it's fingernails on the chalkboard of my soul--I ceased to care about this show.

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'133695\' date=\'Oct 6 2006, 01:10 PM\']
Couldn't tell you.  After that who's/whose incident--I'm sorry, I know it's a common mistake but it's fingernails on the chalkboard of my soul--I ceased to care about this show.
[/quote]

It's nails on the chalkboard to me too...That, and most other common spelling mistakes (your/you're, etc..). I don't mind them so much in forums like this, but when I see them on signs or TV or whatnot...It really "grinds my gears" so to say (props to the poster who used that and to Peter Griffin).

[Jimmy James]

It doesn't seem worthy of a new thread, but I just have to note that there was a mistake on today's episode. The question asked was what Mars probe shares its name with a Toyota model. The answer was Pathfinder. The Pathfinder is a Nissan model.

[Joe Mello]

Um, who makes Pathfinder cars again?

[cweaver]

[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'133739\' date=\'Oct 6 2006, 05:16 PM\']
Um, who makes Pathfinder cars again?
[/quote]

Nissan, and they're actually SUVs...why?

[Joe Mello]

I could've sworn Bob said Toyota.  If so, then we're getting a new type of egregious error.

[Jay Temple]

I watched the show for the first time tonight.

Dislike:

• obviously, the spelling and factual errors
• the voice that says, "That's the question."
• including "the" as part of the scramble sometimes and not others (and never "a," on the show that I watched)

This doesn't rise to the level of a dislike, but it seems waste of material not to let one player answer a question when the other player misses it.

Like:

• Bob Goen hosting
• Without insulting the players on tonight's show, they clearly were chosen for their ability to play and not as eye candy.
• 1- and 2-point values, rather than inflated scores (see: Lingo and Idiot Savants)
  

It's not VCR-worthy, but I'd watch it if I were home.

[Steve McClellan]

[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Oct 6 2006, 09:39 PM\']1- and 2-point values, rather than inflated scores (see: Lingo and Idiot Savants)[/quote]

"You've earned 12,000 points, so you'll have 12,000 seconds to work on your bonus question..."

[Clay Zambo]

[quote name=\'Jimmy James\' post=\'133737\' date=\'Oct 6 2006, 06:13 PM\']
It doesn't seem worthy of a new thread,[/quote]

No, no--no need.  Let's just let this become the longest thread in the board's history!  Or, better--hopefully--they'll sort things out, get a fact checker and a native English speaker, and our benevolent mods will have reason to close this one.

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'133608\' date=\'Oct 5 2006, 06:10 PM\']
Man!  They've just done it again.

"WHO'S BACK UP BAND..."

Oy.
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Ya know, if I were the contestant here, I'd make a point of reading that as "who is."  I'm sorry, but I have no respect for people who are paid to write things and can't bother to spell them correctly.

[Strikerz04]

Other than those obvious grammar/spelling/factual errors, I like the show for what it has, and the show really has potential. I look forward to this show developing.

I think besides that "That's the Question" voice...once is enough, or maybe only after the puzzle was solved.

But Bob Goen is back to form. Nearly as comparable, if not improved from his "Wheel" days.

[Clay Zambo]

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'133814\' date=\'Oct 7 2006, 07:48 PM\']
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'133608\' date=\'Oct 5 2006, 06:10 PM\']
"WHO'S BACK UP BAND..."
[/quote]

Ya know, if I were the contestant here, I'd make a point of reading that as "who is."  [/quote]

And, of course, you'd have been ruled incorrect.  Grammatical high road, maybe, but it might well have taken you to the Land of Parting Gifts.

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'133897\' date=\'Oct 8 2006, 09:05 PM\']
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'133814\' date=\'Oct 7 2006, 07:48 PM\']
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'133608\' date=\'Oct 5 2006, 06:10 PM\']
"WHO'S BACK UP BAND..."
[/quote]

Ya know, if I were the contestant here, I'd make a point of reading that as "who is."  [/quote]

And, of course, you'd have been ruled incorrect.  Grammatical high road, maybe, but it might well have taken you to the Land of Parting Gifts.
[/quote]

Then I'd just be an ass and say 'em both.  It'd get edited out, of course, but like I said, I have no sympathy for something like that.

[Jimmy Owen]

The Who has a backup band?