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Wow - how many ways can they find to screw up a great show???

posted 8 years ago by dually-1
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I LOVED this show . . . last year. This year, not so much.

(1) Change the format from couples to individuals - and there go some of the best moments of the show, watching the couples work through the competition challenges (and the relationship challenges) together.

(2) Tell everyone in the first episode that there won’t be any losers - and there go the wonderful, tearful reveals that STILL bring me to tears when I think about them!

(3) Forget the house - the winner now gets $100k. Well, that’s original, isn’t it?

(4) Don’t show the actual process of renovating (or, in this season, building) the house - just jump from one disconnected task to another, so that the viewer has no reason to be interested in the design of the house, in the construction process, or in how it turns out.

(5) Eliminate any personal connection between the competitors and the house - no more basement by Competitor A, master bedroom by competitor B, and terraced garden by competitor C. Who needs individual inspiration and creativity, anyway?

(6) Give the house, at the end of each episode, to a total stranger. Yes, the “heroes” concept is lovely . . . but the reveal meant so much more when the recipients were competitors I’d already gotten to know.

And what do you have in the end? Another run-of-the-mill reality show - “Survivor” with hard hats - and everyone out to slit everyone else’s throat. Oh, goody - another hour wasted, and a really wonderful show ruined.

[–] JGandB 8 years ago

Totally agree with all your points...they have ruined this show beyond repair

[–] tweety0527 8 years ago

I totally agree. I can't see the benefit of telling everyone the twist off the bat like that. Now they waste most of the show on alliances and strategizing that we don't see any real work into the houses. I still have the first finale on my dvr because I loved it so much but this season has gone downhill.

I loved the couples/pairs aspect of the first season too. This season is just backstabbing and drama and it's just week 2.

[–] macdanife 8 years ago

Yes, yes and yes, I agree with everything above. The show has been "Fox-i-fied", turning a great concept into reality TV garbage. The producers completely lost the point for why people watched the first season of this show. I've got a feeling the reason Mike is being "a bully", as it was so elegantly stated, is because he can't believe what's happened to his show. He probably wants to shove those red tags right down the throats of the Fox execs. Deleting this from the DVR and hoping Mike goes back to doing what he does best.

[–] pdbrat 8 years ago

I totally agree, too. I can only think that they told them about the reveal because they wanted to film it while they were filming the rest of the show and it was too hard to hide it from the contestants. In other words, cheap producers!

[–] awdude 8 years ago

Agree with your (OP's) assessments, and the other good points people have made. Last year's show was 100x better. I cannot watch this version.

[–] Coven_Darke 8 years ago

Its really hard for shows like this to repeat the same format because you will have people trying to get on that has seen the show trying to get free *beep*