[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'228100\' date=\'Oct 8 2009, 09:29 PM\'][quote name=\'joker316\' post=\'228080\' date=\'Oct 8 2009, 02:42 PM\']Now I'm gonna pout too, because CS'01 was in name only![/quote]And this is what I don't get. The bit that people remember (the cards) was there. I only saw the show once or twice because it was on a UHF station at one or two in the afternoon, but the jist of the game was there. (Yeah, I suppose they cut out everything ELSE, but it was still Card Sharks.)
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Now there's something here *I* dont' get...
You say that you only saw CS'01 once or twice (in lovely fuzzy UHF - I mean, it must have been nearly unwatchable if that is what made it one of the stated factors for you only being able to see one or two episodes in total). I believe it is safe to suggest that the vast majority of the others who have made a point to express their disaapointment and dismay in the revival were extremely likely to have seen significantly more than one or two episodes themselves, putting them, in my estimation anyway, in a much better (and even more credible even) position to compare the revival to the previous incarnations and just how it stacked up. The overwhelming majority (in fact, the closest to an unanimous opinion I've ever seen around here or previously on a.t.g-s) believed that, although the show in question did indeed incorporate large decks of cards in gameplay, the resemblances to any of the previous versions evaporated quickly. From my own personal recollection, the only thing about the show that even came close to being even close to the original was the end game, yet it still was f*cked around with just enough to make it the final turd in this game show punch bowl. The front game certainly didn't even come close to the same as the previous versions. Just having big-assed cards on-set does not "CARD SHARKS" make. First of all, the CS main game had always been played with each player having their own decks of cards to work from. The '01 producers must have thought that having two decks were two costly or too much work for the lovely hostesses so they just slashed that to one single deck for the players to go through, making it possible for a player to win a round with only one correct high-low guess, as oppossed to the original rules having each player work their way across the board using their individual deck of cards and the player who actually succeeds in completing that task won the game (except in Sudden Death situations). Perhaps it is just me but that's certainly a different game. Also by removing the mechanism that gave contestant proper control of the cards (and the game and their ultimate fate), that being the survey questions, virtually anything resembling skill or knowledge needed to play the game was stripped away and what little did remain relied almost entirely on dumb luck for the contestants. I mean, control of the cards in the first round was determined by a coin toss backstage? Are you kidding me?
Bottom line for me is this...would this revival EVER have met the standards of Mark Goodson or his trusted staff and made it on-air? No way. It simply isn't reasonable to believe that having a mere "jist" of the original is enough to make it a true revival of said original. I mean, didn't you yourself say that other than there being cards there that they "cut out everything ELSE"? Actually, it almost sounds like you made my arguement for me with those few words alone.
But then again, what do I know about turds in game show punch bowls? I'm sorry...I gotta go now...those evil-doers have found me and are gonna drag me back to the home...hmmmmm...wonder how long they'll be able to contain me this time...maybe if I bribe them with a "clip chip", they'll deny ever seeing me and let me remain free...ohhhhh, the agony...
Jake
