Oni91
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Final was EXACTLY what they should have done.
What gets me annoyed is the pacing. I feared it'd be 7 slow weeks then everything in the final. Credit where it's due, that final episode was everything I wanted in a local NW and it should be commended as such. But, for this to be a staple long enough to remain onscreen until there's a winner, here's what I'd do:
- Ditch the semi-finals. They add nothing and just prolong the staleness.
- Keep the five qualifiers, but everyone who gets through gets to the next round, no top 10s. At the end of the 5, if there's any spaces left over from the original 50, fill them up with the best failers. If more then 50 finish, just take that many through.
- Replace the semi-finals with a 2 hour final. 50 people running that stage 1, with classic Sasuke rules.
- Make the stage 2 90 seconds. That timer was really quite harsh, and it was jarring to go from a massive time limit to a tiny one. On that note, reduce the time limit of Stage 1 to 150 seconds. Possibly even 120.
- If there's a premature fail, then just to shut Twitter up, £10,000 to the last one standing. Or split it amongst everyone who gets to the stage where the game ends.
- Actually mention the prize that you get for winning? I'm gonna guess it's £50,000? I know the course victory is the main prize and the money is second, but the brass tacks is that the course doesn't have the status over here that it does in Japan. Even Sasuke #1 had Unbeatable Banzuke logos everywhere to give the challenge some depth. If you don't mention what is at stake, the people won't watch. Simple.
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I rather like your setup/rules, and yeah we wondered what the prize was too....
Did they ever actually say what it was?
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Oni91
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They never said it, presumably because they knew it wasn't going to be won.
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I caught the last 10 minutes and was pleasantly surprised. Sounds like this episode is how it should have been all along - but they just squeezed all the best bits into one hour and filled the previous seven hours with the same drawn out repetitive course. Genius production decision there. Genius.
I agree that the time limit on whatever course it was that had the Unstable Bridge and Wall Lift in was too short. The final guy didn't really hang around too long at all but he still got timed out. They've gone from way too easy to way too hard!
BUT, congratulations to them for having the balls to not force a winner out of it and actually end without even using all the courses set up. Didn't expect that, but it's just how it should be. Although that raises the question of why they couldn't have done that all along - people who fail are out. End of.
I don't know if "Last Man Standing" was the best title. Yes he got the furthest and was the last to be shown, but obviously it was just edited that way. If he really was the final person to run the course then it was purely down to luck that it worked out that way. But in the edit it seems as if he won that title just because he went after everyone else - automatically making him the 'last man standing'!
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Oni91
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In the final they ran in reverse order of their qualifying times. I reckon Stage 2 started with the Slowest stage 1 finisher.
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Ah right. I missed any explanation they gave.
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Quote: DuffDan wrote:
Ah right. I missed any explanation they gave.
They didn't, they just did it and left it to us to notice it I guess.
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OK, long story short, I haven't seen ANY of the series yet, I've been busy with other stuff and watching stacks of other shows on Sky+ so I'm just gonna binge watch the lot when I get the chance. Shaking my head in despair though, as I see the Mirror has completely missed the point of Sasuke entirely, and their reviewer is obviously not familiar with the franchise at all, as they not only decry the swapping the order of contestants around as 'rigging' and 'fakery', despite it being perfectly normal practice in telly, and also declaring the entire thing to be pointless because no-one wins. "Which seems to defeat the entire point of the show", their headline whinges.
Er, no it doesn't. You guys didn't expect someone to actually win, did you? If you actually did your homework you'd no this is perfectly normal, and you could go on for years without someone winning, just like in Japan. THAT'S the point! The whole build up and publicity would be to blame for that, but still, come on. All those who've never seen the original will be bleating 'what a waste of time' or some such crap like that on Facebook and Twitter, whilst we all shake our heads and roll our eyes at these softies expecting to always win something, rather than just appear for the fun and the honour. The kind of people who'd turn their noses up at a Countdown teapot, and would rather have £5,000 instead just for turning up.
God help them if they ever saw The Crystal Maze...
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Let's hope they don't give in and change the format next series so that there is a winner.
If you haven't watched any of it yet then you probably only need to watch three episodes. The first one, the penultimate episode and the final one. If you watch those you'll pretty much have seen it all
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Apart from some questionable time limits, that was actually pretty brilliant. I really don't have any explanation for the preceding 7 episodes though, hopefully they will learn next series that they could afford to get more mileage out of the other stages.
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