Doom Metal Alchemist Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Remember the "reality TV" show Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, hosted by Regis Philben? It always bugged me how it was marketed as reality TV. It's a fucking game show, we had those for decades before the term "reality TV" was coined. If this show is a reality show, so is fucking Jeopardy. All it is is answering trivia questions. Literally text book definition of game show. Anyway, aside from that mini-rant, I think I figured out why it was such a huge hit at first and why people stopped caring so quickly. All game shows before it, the music was always light-hearted and cheery. But Who Wants to Be a Millionaire tried something different. The music was dramatic and tense. This dramatic music gave a false sense of suspense and had people on the edge of their seats for people's rambling trains of thought trying to arrive at an answer to a trivia question. This caused the popularity of the show to explode. And I think the show ended up burning out, in part because of over-exposure, but also in part because people realized, "Hey, this isn't dramatic and suspenseful, just the music is." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cau Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 I remember watching that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggnificent Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 i dont remember it being marketed as r.tv. how u figure that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunkenwarrior Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 I remember it took awhile for someone to win the million dollars. After that the thrill faded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornshire Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 We used to occasionally hate-watch it for the times where someone would ask the audience, go with that answer and then lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAC Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 pretty sure the show is still going on little hardly watched stations, I come across it ever once in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death_by_motorboat Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 16 hours ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said: Remember the "reality TV" show Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, hosted by Regis Philben? It always bugged me how it was marketed as reality TV. It's a fucking game show, we had those for decades before the term "reality TV" was coined. If this show is a reality show, so is fucking Jeopardy. All it is is answering trivia questions. Literally text book definition of game show. Anyway, aside from that mini-rant, I think I figured out why it was such a huge hit at first and why people stopped caring so quickly. All game shows before it, the music was always light-hearted and cheery. But Who Wants to Be a Millionaire tried something different. The music was dramatic and tense. This dramatic music gave a false sense of suspense and had people on the edge of their seats for people's rambling trains of thought trying to arrive at an answer to a trivia question. This caused the popularity of the show to explode. And I think the show ended up burning out, in part because of over-exposure, but also in part because people realized, "Hey, this isn't dramatic and suspenseful, just the music is." weird, i was thinking this plot in the sense that regis was to mind fvck everyone in some way and you know what, it was the million dollars and the one chance per lifetime the difficulty of the questions and sex. pure rosy palmed sex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted December 4, 2017 Author Share Posted December 4, 2017 13 hours ago, fuggnificent said: i dont remember it being marketed as r.tv. how u figure that? Because I do remember it being marketed as reality TV. It was always mentioned as part of the new trend, along with Survivor and Big Brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptorpat Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 It definitely burned out Nothing can capture the simplicity of Jeopardy, and I think that's because every quiz show since has tried to outdo the previous one with flair and drama, when all viewers really care about in a quiz show is seeing the questions and getting to play along at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlappyKincaid Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 "Millionaire" was trash without Regis, even though it was trash anyway. And a million now isn't shit compared to back then. People don't have the same attention span for game shows, which is probably why millionaire got lumped in with "reality tv" alongside surivior and big brother and snuff films or whatever. Shit like that jeff foxworthy game show, or family feud was still popular because it gave way more chances for people to embarrass themselves. But even that gets old, how many old black ladies talking about dicks and making steve harvey blush before it's not funny anymore? And fuck jeff foxworthy, his speech is probably carcinogenic. It's not a bad premise for a quiz show, but like you said, the drama and bullshit is all manufactured, and what it comes down to is fake suspense, because some of the questions are stupid easy, and the drawn out "DUN DUN DUNUUUUNNUNUNDNDNUND" wears thin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptorpat Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Oh and I think who wants to be a millionaire was an hour every night, while jeopardy is a brisk half hour with only a brief segment of fluff after the first commercial break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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