But what most caught my eye was an argument between Alex and Joe "Game Show Man" Van Ginkel. Knowing these guys like I do - well, I really don't know either of them at all, but I've read plenty of their stuff on the game show Interwebs - the argument wasn't much of a surprise, either.
The ostensible subject was GSN's ill-fated Pyramid revival. But the real war was between modernizing Alex and traditionalist Joe. It's an argument I've had myself with a lot of folks on the net. Naturally, Joe thought that any tampering with the rock-solid Pyramid format was idiotic. And Alex thought that slavish adherence to the traditional format was just as idiotic.
On this one I'm down with Alex. My review of Pyramid noted the paint-by-numbers similarity to the old Clark versions, and predicted a yawning been-there-done-that response from the audience. Which is pretty much what happened.
Sometimes you really can't keep a format in a glass jar, preserved in every detail for all time. Even when it's Pyramid.
On this one I'm down with Alex. My review of Pyramid noted the paint-by-numbers similarity to the old Clark versions, and predicted a yawning been-there-done-that response from the audience. Which is pretty much what happened.
Sometimes you really can't keep a format in a glass jar, preserved in every detail for all time. Even when it's Pyramid.
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