{"id":6974,"date":"2013-02-09T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T13:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6974"},"modified":"2013-02-09T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:07:25","slug":"can-you-feel-it-can-you-feel-it-can-you-feel-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6974","title":{"rendered":"Can you feel it? Can you feel it? CAN YOU FEEL IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It being the buzz surrounding the final of Britain’s Brightest<\/strong> this evening.<\/p>\n

The answer is ‘of course not’.<\/p>\n

This was meant to be a big Saturday night gamble for the BBC – could you take a successful German show (we will DEFINITELY do a feature on this next weekend. I’m writing this here to force the issue), make it demonstrably worse, then still have it be successful? Not really seems to be the answer.<\/p>\n

Poor editing and pacing. Repeated use\u00a0of games which weren’t that interesting in the first place partly because of poor direction (Did you really need to swap people\u00a0in and out of Kinect Spelling five times?). Bad question writing (rebuses). A baffling and arcane scoring system. An elimination format apparently devised because that’s how things are done rather than because that’s what makes a show entertaining. Not putting answers up for the endgame, and indeed an endgame which initially looks clever and fun but turns out not to really be clever or fun (you could kill two birds with one stone if you just didn’t let people return to a used question, as it is it gives too much of an advantage to the second player). A general sense of worthiness when it needed more of a general sense of fun.<\/p>\n

And yet we mainly get angry because we wanted to like it and it feels like a massive missed opportunity. It got a pretty consistant low 4m rating which is not brilliant but not quite a disaster, I almost want<\/em> it to come back so it can have a chance to prove itself.<\/p>\n

IN OTHER NEWS, We’re playing poker tomorrow at 8pm, a game of Razz as part of Mix It Up Real Good. Come and join us!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It being the buzz surrounding the final of Britain’s Brightest this evening. The answer is ‘of course not’. This was meant to be a big Saturday night gamble for the BBC – could you take a successful German show (we will DEFINITELY do a feature on this next weekend. I’m writing this here to force\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1Ou","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}