1) Kam is disliked by many viewers (I personally respected him and his game, but he is blunt which people mistake as negative, bad, etc)
Kam wasn't my favorite, but I didn't really dislike Kam either. He had a strategy from Day 1 and carried it out.
But it did bother me that Kam won despite the fact that Melina and Lindsey accused Cris from the beginning and Kam never accused Cris and never thought it was Cris even when it was down to just the 3 of them.
2) Pageant winner is a hackneyed cliche
Doesn't annoy me at all.
3) False clues
Those weren't false clues. People just tried to find "clues" (such as the Iron Maiden) that weren't really clues to support their theory of who they thought the killer was.
4) Useless non-clue clues: (ie 613 was not a clue to anything, it was a door combination)
I expected that some clues would be red herrings. But the most annoying was Ronnie's note. They made it seem like Ronnie had figured out who the killer was, but they never explained that further.
5) The impossibility of some events
This does annoy me. I know it's a TV show. But it's a game show about solving murders. I'm not bothered by the fact that the killer had to have a good knowledge of engineering, poisons, snakes, and several other things, but I would've expected that it was at least plausible for the killer to be able to commit all the murders. For example, how did Cris fire a slingshot through a 2nd-story window and hit Sheri in the foyer? How could Cris drag a big guy like Geno across the floor? How did Cris strangle Melina, hide her in the secret room, and get back before Kam and Lindsey noticed she was missing? Etc.
6) The dark horse/light horse continuity issue
Doesn't annoy me. That was just a recreation. Nothing more.
7) The way even the winner doesn't really know they won at the end. Kam won the moment all his pieces were done. Cris can't win, and Lindsey was 2nd, so they went through a long awkward spiel before he even knew.
That was annoying. The way they showed the final screen to Kam, it appeared that there was one last riddle to solve. It seemed like the two eleven six and six was a clue, but they never explained the significance of it.
8) Kam didn't really 'solve' the final clue, he simply gave up making the wrong guess out of frustration. He even said he didn't believe his own changed answer.
That was really annoying. It was either "Giles, you are the killer" (wrong guess) or "Giles, you are not the killer" (correct guess). Kam knew he had the wrong piece, so all he had to do was change his guess. It should've been more challenging than simply guessing.
9) Melina knew from day 1 "whodunnit" and through the whole season accused Cris. She was the only one who did. Benefit of this? Zero.
That was annoying. Giles keeps saying that in the end, one guest will "unmask the killer and walk away with $250,000". So it sounded like the winner would be the one who identified the killer.
Melina and Lindsey both accused Cris from the beginning. Kam never accused Cris and never thought it was Cris even when it was down to just the 3 of them. For next season, they should find a way to include the accusations in the quizzes.
10) The killer, Cris, had a huge part in helping Kam win. I'm aware that the killer wasn't given any details and was told to play along. But the fact remains that Cris was paid by the the producers to be the killer and thus any actions she took could be interpreted as being actions taken on behalf of the producers. When she solved the riddles, she gave information to Kam and Lindsey while withholding information from the other players.
And it wasn't just any 2 riddles that Cris solved. Cris solved arguably the 2 most important riddles in the game. It was 5 vs 3. With 2 guests scheduled to die that night, it would be end up either 3 vs 3 or 5 vs 1 (with the 1 being Cris). Then it was 3 (Cris, Kam, and Lindsey) vs 3 (Ronnie, Geno, and Melina) with the losing team no longer having access to all locations and thus the winning team being in control of the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOwfRyd9avY
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neerood
11 years ago
AH_Fan: "The killer, Cris, had a huge part in helping Kam win."
One could argue that Kam's superior strategy actually helped carry Lindsey and Cris to the end. Granted, Cris wouldn't have been killed regardless, but she held her own as a player and never needed by to "saved" by the production. That's the real message they sent when they had Giles comment on how she'd never been scared during the whole season. It to reinforce that they didn't give her any "help" along the way.
AH_Fan: "I'm aware that the killer wasn't given any details and was told to play along. But the fact remains that Cris was paid by the the producers to be the killer and thus any actions she took could be interpreted as being actions taken on behalf of the producers."
That interpretation would be wrong, and you know that based on your first sentence acknowledging she had no producer info.
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AH_Fan
11 years ago
It to reinforce that they didn't give her any "help" along the way.
That's what we've been assuming all along, that the producers didn't give any clues or tips at all to Cris during filming. But we know that the producers did indeed tip off Cris on Geno's murder. So it's possible that the producers also tipped off Cris on some of the other murders. And if Cris gave those "insider" information to Kam, and Lindsey, then it's the same as if the producers gave those "insider" tips to Kam and Lindsey.
That interpretation would be wrong, and you know that based on your first sentence acknowledging she had no producer info.
Nope. This is where you're wrong.
First, we know that the producers did indeed tip off Cris on Geno's murder, so they may have tipped off Cris on some of the other murders too.
Second, even if the producers didn't tip off Cris on the other murders, that's irrelevant. The maids probably didn't have any more information than Cris had on the murders. But if the maids helped Kam and Lindsey solve the riddles and make it to the final 4, that would be inappropriate because they work for the producers.
Same with Cris. Cris started out as a contestant, but Cris volunteered to be the killer for a guaranteed $50,000. As soon as Cris agreed to be the killer for $50,000, Cris was no longer a contestant. Cris was an employee of the producers, just like Giles, the two maids, the re-enactment killer, the cameramen, and all the rest of the production crew.
Cris worked for the producers. So it was as inappropriate for Cris, a paid employee of the producers, to solve the riddles for Kam and Lindsey as it would be for Vanna White to solve a puzzle for a Wheel of Fortune contestant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOwfRyd9avY
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neerood
11 years ago
We don't "know" that she was tipped off on how Geno was murdered. That's your contention but the facts seem to disagree.
Interpretations can be wrong. Someone could interpret that Cris was from Mars. They'd be wrong.
Cris played alongside, solving what she could. The reason for this was an attempt to keep her role a secret. We could discuss all kinds of subjective questions such as whether that was a good or bad idea, whether it worked, or whether it serves any purpose when the identity of the player-killer turned out to be meaningless to the game. But for the objective question of did she know the murder details, 100% of the facts known to date are that she didn't.
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