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Post by millring on Jan 15, 2022 6:12:44 GMT -5
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Post by Shannon on Jan 15, 2022 12:21:46 GMT -5
I think I agree with him. I lost interest in Jeopardy! some time ago, for the very reasons he describes.
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Post by TKennedy on Jan 15, 2022 12:35:11 GMT -5
My wife, a huge long term Jeopardy fan agrees.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 15, 2022 13:40:47 GMT -5
Sue still watches every day.
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Post by t-bob on Jan 15, 2022 16:52:33 GMT -5
I'm getting tired the new alternate "Alex T" every week.... I'm not watching it very much ..... I was a fanatic 1991-2021. I almost was a TV gamer. But I had two tests.... I passed THEN and I was almost "in the big shew" too low the percentage. Third test... They "fired" me....... They said "come back will do it again. You were close in Jeopardy .... Hollywoody"
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Post by millring on Jan 16, 2022 6:21:35 GMT -5
I'll probably always watch. But I've noticed the changes without really knowing why they occurred. For one thing, I knew I was getting worse at the game but I may have not been entirely right about why that was so. I used to be about a 50% player, but now I don't come close to that. Some of that is because I'm just not up on the culture questions on music, TV, and movies and the celebrity culture. But now I see that to some extent it's because what he's describing is a sort of trivia subculture.
I knew that the buzzers weren't active until the host was done reading the clue. I didn't know there was a light that came on.
I get what he's saying about the "home court advantage" afforded the champion who perpetually goes up against two novices at the game. I'm not sure how you could fix that, but I suppose the old five game rule would minimize it. It occurred to me long ago that the best Jeopardy! player in the history of the game may have lost in his first game. The way it's structured, you only get one chance to win your first (and so, subsequently, any streak of winning) game. Chances are there is a Ken Jennings who met his Nancy Zerg in his first game.
I suspect that the nonsense about the host is some sort of social media-created controversy, hyped to make the game have a more modern reality TV show popularity. Ken Jennings and/or Mayim Bialik do just fine -- certainly as good as Alex Trebeck. And, no, neither one of them make the show about them any more than Trebeck did. On that count, I think the author is wrong.
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