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posted 15-02-2012 12:14
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The picture round is clearly a gimmick designed to promote the show in HD.
On my old fashioned telly it was difficult to make out what some of them were despite knowing all of the shows (although I was pleased to get the lowest scoring answer).
I do like the fact that they've increased the choices for the final round to 5 from the original 3 though, seems to give people a bit more of a chance.
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posted 15-02-2012 12:35
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tratorello wrote:
The picture round is clearly a gimmick designed to promote the show in HD
Then perhaps they need to get an HD scoreboard to display the picture options - or at least change the ratio. Having the images scroll past one by one as AA reads off their titles is incredibly tedious.
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posted 15-02-2012 13:05
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Yes, the picture round is rubbish isn't it, it really slows the whole thing down. The clues question didn't really work either, the anagram one was a bit better though.
tratorello wrote:
I do like the fact that they've increased the choices for the final round to 5 from the original 3 though, seems to give people a bit more of a chance.
True, but doesn't that mean that some subjects will just never get picked? I really want to know what that 'Scottish football' question is but it might be a while until somebody chooses that, let alone 'New Labour' or 'Spanish pop'.
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posted 15-02-2012 13:09
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Actually I also wonder what the Spanish pop question could possibly be. Top 40 singles by Las Ketchup?
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posted 15-02-2012 15:21
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I don't see why the questions have to be cloaked behind vague categories anyway. Why not just flag them up for what they are? They still need to be answered.
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posted 15-02-2012 15:28
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Wait. Then they would need new questions for each episode, because returning contestants would be able to see them in advance. Scrub that.
I'm not happy though. They've broken Pointless.
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posted 15-02-2012 15:36
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Haven't seen any of the new series yet, but I'm guessing the episodes I went to see being filmed were from later on in this series. The format didn't seem all that different to me, but they did have the picture round, and I remember thinking it was a bit crap. And some kind of anagram thing, which struck me as not what Pointless is about at all. Maybe it's just that I'm pretty good with obscure knowledge, and shit at anagrams.
Then again, I get sniffy about some of the multiple-choice opening rounds, where dimwits fluke through and smart people go out, because it's basically a guessing game. I'm a bit of a Pointless purist.
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posted 15-02-2012 18:51
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The Hoy joke was on today's episode. So yeah.
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posted 20-02-2012 18:54
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Never sure whether to be delighted or frustrated when the final category is one I would have cleaned up on. Anyone else feel like this?
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posted 20-02-2012 23:35
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No, I'm always pleased.
I was beside myself today (well, faintly miffed, anyway) to have forgotten that it was Danton, and not Robespierre, who founded the Committee of Public Safety. So I'd have bombed out on that, especially after the soldier boys had bagged Louis XVI. And I knew it was Danton. While at the same time not knowing. If you see what I mean.
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posted 20-02-2012 23:50
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I can't stop laughing at the girls who said Charles De Gaulle was born in 1769.
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posted 22-02-2012 23:45
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sorry to see Pete and Berni struggle today. Maybe tomorrow their luck will be better and they'll get questions on philosophy and steak.
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posted 23-02-2012 00:53
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Hmmm, I can't believe somebody scored a pointless answer with Christmas Wrapping when it was actually an incorrect answer as it's never made the top 40 (the highest it got was 45).
I'm actually incredibly annoyed by that, is it a one-off or do they regularly get facts wrong and I just don't notice?
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posted 23-02-2012 09:58
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Purves Grundy wrote:
sorry to see Pete and Berni struggle today. Maybe tomorrow their luck will be better and they'll get questions on philosophy and steak.
Haha - can't believe I didn't notice that.
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posted 23-02-2012 11:09
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Fussbudget wrote:
Hmmm, I can't believe somebody scored a pointless answer with Christmas Wrapping when it was actually an incorrect answer as it's never made the top 40 (the highest it got was 45).
I'm actually incredibly annoyed by that, is it a one-off or do they regularly get facts wrong and I just don't notice?
You'll be pleased to hear that it's neither.
Like you, I'm pretty sure that the contestant had the Waitresses classic "Christmas Wrapping" in mind, but luckily for them "Christmas Rappin'" by Kurtis Blow was a top 40 hit, and they'll have been awarded the pointless answer on that basis (especially as they didn't specify the artist).
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posted 23-02-2012 11:55
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Aaah, that makes sense, thank you. Panic over, my faith in Pointless is now restored.
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posted 24-02-2012 14:26
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Those guys on yesterdays show were bloody good, and seemed like thoroughly decent coves as well. I felt sorry for them that they didn't have a bigger jackpot to go for.
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posted 24-02-2012 14:33
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Fussbudget wrote:
I'm actually incredibly annoyed by that, is it a one-off or do they regularly get facts wrong and I just don't notice?
The worst one I've seen was the "American terms for food" round they had once, which was just sloppy. Like saying that Americans say "jelly" for "jam" (Americans say "jam" for "jam" and "jelly" for something a bit like jam but not really the same.) Or saying the American for "icing" is "frosting", which is only true in some parts of the country; in other parts they say, yes, "icing". But to be fair, none of that round was actually misleading.
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posted 25-02-2012 10:46
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Hofzinser wrote:
Those guys on yesterdays show were bloody good, and seemed like thoroughly decent coves as well. I felt sorry for them that they didn't have a bigger jackpot to go for.
Yeah, I always think this, to the point of wondering - if you were on Pointless, and the jackpot was low for your first go, would you throw it and hope it's increased for the second time? It'd be a risky tactic. And, I suppose, not in the spirit of things.
Speaking of which, the last two episodes have made me wonder - why would you go on a quiz show, and such a great one at that, and be so proud of not knowing anything? It felt slightly insulting.
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posted 25-02-2012 18:26
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Tonight...Pointless celebrities
Christopher Biggins and Lesley Joseph.
Penny Smith and John Culshaw doing pointless fucking impressions.
Michel Roux jr and Monica Galetti
Joe Swash...and his Mum. What the fuck?
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