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How The Final Winner Should Have Been Determined

posted 11 years ago by mollys-lips
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The way they ended this was just absurdly unfair for Lindsay, who pegged Kris as the killer from almost the beginning. They did not award the final prize to the person "Whodunnit" but rather the person who solved riddles, particularly those final ones, the quickest. They should have had some kind of point system. For each crime make a list of 5 (or whatever) elements in addition to naming the killer. Each element is worth one point and correctly identifying the killer within each puzzle is worth 2 points. Each person gets awarded points as they go through that accrue and then get added to a final score where the finalists explain each of the killings, allowing people to then adjust their theories for each crime at the finale based on what they have learned along the way. This way things like uncovering lies told within individual crime puzzles can be accounted for in the last bit. And then, of course, you would get points if you correctly identified the killer. That way they could balance out winning individual puzzles and correctly identifying the killer.

[–] neerood 11 years ago

mollys-lips: "They did not award the final prize to the person who solved riddles the quickest."

Actually, they did. Kam was fastest to get all the riddles solved. So he won.

In my "the end will annoy viewers" thread, I talked about this, and agree that ignoring players who guessed the killer weakens the game:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2699226/board/nest/218529124

[–] Dobbsysugarmuffin 11 years ago

That's not what she said. She said they DID award it to the person who solved riddles the quickest rather than who picked the killer correctly.

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[–] mollys-lips 11 years ago

I had to double check to see if I made a typo or if I was misquoted...it was the latter. I didn't say what you said I said.

[–] fimb 11 years ago

It's actually a stupid idea to award the person who guesses the killer because that's all it is, A GUESS. If you guess Ronnie in the 1st episode and keep guessing him, you'd have to stop when Ronnie dies... then your guess becomes one of the remaining players. All Lindsey did was guess the killer was Cris and she kept guessing Cris, she turned out to be right but she shouldn't have won for guessing.

[–] cbfan41 11 years ago

I agree and I think a lot of people are giving Lindsay more credit then she deserves. Yes, she guessed correctly on Cris but she never ever explained why she said Cris was the killer. It was just blind luck more then anything else.

What I do agree is what happened in the finale. I thought it was weak.

[–] jcrew617 11 years ago

This is a CSI reality show - not a mole show.

Its about investigating the crime and describing how the victim was killed - not who is the "killer and why"

I think people think its a mystery show, but its more of a "Forensics Show"

[–] chaosroach 11 years ago

She explains why she thought Cris was the killer in this interview:
http://robhasawebsite.com/whodunnit-reunion-final-5-interview-kam-cris-lindsey-melina-ronnie/

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[–] mollys-lips 11 years ago

That's why points would be given for both solving puzzles and for identifying the killer. Let's say there were 5 elements plus the killer for a puzzle. A person could get all five points if he or she solved the puzzle even if they incorrectly identified the killer. If someone in that same puzzle only got a couple of elements plus the killer, they would virtually be tied. They would also be able to change bits and pieces in the final State Your Case in order to build on knowledge learned throughout the process.

[–] joehult-492-127675 11 years ago

That is how the mole ran their contest, it worked just fine. Each test is based more on who the killer is, instead of how. Each murder should have a subtle clue, maybe a few red herrings, and the remaining two contestants have to correctly guess the killer, if neither is right, the killer takes home the prize.

[–] mollys-lips 11 years ago

Exactly. I just wish there had been more focus on who actually did it...with hints to the killers identity along the way instead of just figuring out the puzzles. I miss The Mole!

[–] jeffn21 11 years ago

I thought about that, but I think the whole show is like that. Had Lindsay missed a lot on Week 2, she would have been out. Or let's say Melina beat out Lindsay in that last week. Every week stood on its own. Ulysses did great until the one week where their alliance screwed up and then he died.

I do think their alliance should have had a little more members. Kam got lucky, he should have known that they would eventually lose some challenges and need one more member to die off. But it worked out well for him because he teamed up with the killer from the beginning.

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