Trials are too repetitive
Mr Teacake
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After a while the sight of cockroaches and other insects crawling over someone during a trial doesn't have the same effect :yawn: The last time I felt :eek: was when David Haye was down the well and he put his hand through a hole and there was a large rat inside which bit him :eek::eek:
And padlocks and number combinations isn't the most exciting thing to watch from a viewers point of view!
Problem is the contestants know what to expect from previous years - essentially they know there's no chance of any harm.
Maybe they should set the show in a different terrain.
And padlocks and number combinations isn't the most exciting thing to watch from a viewers point of view!
Problem is the contestants know what to expect from previous years - essentially they know there's no chance of any harm.
Maybe they should set the show in a different terrain.
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That should get us jumping out of our seats in anticipation LOL!
:)
Dumping a load of insects and rats on people does get boring after a while
That was good, nerve-racking.
I quite liked the 'helmet' one too, particularly when they put spiders in *shudder* - how come there haven't been many spiders in it this year?
then I won't mind Joey being voted all the time
I also prefer when a pair have to do the trials and work together. Just because its not all about that one person and sometimes they get lost in translation and it goes belly up, can be hilarious.
In particular I loved Gino and Stuarts 'slip n slide'.....''STUART where are you?''
I missed that episode! Going by the feedback on here it sounded quite gross.
By the looks of them, that's how they found some of this years contestants as well!
But perhaps there will be more variety once it's no longer viewers who decide who does the trials.
The voting viewers often seem more interested in putting one particular celeb through repeated ordeals than in seeing how a bunch of them handle different challenges.
Yeah, there was a bit where Vincent had to put a spider in his mouth. Apparently, if you shake it inside a glass, it rolls up into a ball. But that didn't happen. So when they tipped the glass into Vincent's mouth the spider just went haywire and was crawling all over his face. Spiders scare the living daylights out of me. It was horrific to watch!
Watching it last night I was thinking that it's lost it's way the same way that Big Brother did. Instead of the interesting characters and great conversations it's all about shock factor and who'll get their bits out. As far as the tasks go, the tasks that involved skill and teamwork were great entertainment. All the insect, rats, fish guts, etc., just get fast forwarded through now.........:yawn::yawn::yawn::yawn:
Totally agree MrT. On variations how many bugs can you eat; how long can you take being submerged in bugs; how long can you take being covered by bugs in the dark.
There needs to be a lot more imagination in the tasks conception. I just fast forward until they have been awarded their stars zzz...
I agree.:yawn:
I quite like the odd funny one too. Jimmy White being dropped in to the vat of gooey liquid every time he got a question wrong had me chuckling.:D
Quite a tame task, but his facial expressions and the simplicity of it was good:)
Agreed. It was interesting to see how the duo's got along when working towards a common goal - David/Steve were humourous together on the washing clothes task whilst Kian/Matthew seemed a bit tense.
When Amy done that task in the air there was nothing exciting about it.
She did very well, but no, it wasn't knicker gripping at all.
That's sadly true. Apart from the bit at the end when they suddenly took the floor away - and I would have needed dry trousers myself - it was a terribly dull task. Who thought someone tinkering around with combination locks would make good tv?
I liked the skill and teamwork ones the best, like when they have to balance each other on something in order to reach the stars.
Even if they aren't able to think up completely new trials -- and there are, after all, only so many varieties that would make sense in the show -- there are enough trials in the show's own past that could inspire them, and enough tasks and trials in other shows, that it shouldn't be hard for them to do better at devising a variety of trials, if they wanted to do better.
What do they call -- or what did they used to call -- the ones where a pair of celebs had to follow clues or a map to a chest that they they had to retrieve from a height, or from locks, or in some other way solve a puzzle or problem to get it; and then they'd carry it back to camp where it would be opened to find an A or B question that had to to be answered correctly to get a nice treat? I'm sure there was a name for them, so that we didn't have to call them mini-trials for treats ... although I have to say I kinda like the alliterative sound of "trials for treats" or "treats trials".
Was it The Celebrity Chest? I can't think now.