On the evening of May 16, the seventh episode of "Extreme Challenge" was broadcast. Because the movie "Antique Bureau Middle Bureau" was about to be released, this episode was themed around the movie. In addition to the resident guest Lei Jiayin, the show also invited two guests, Xin Zhilei and Li Xian, both of whom were starring in "Antique Bureau Middle Bureau".
It can be seen that the program has indeed given Lei Jiayin enough space. In fact, the theme of the movie will not make the audience disgusted, but there is some freshness, and this program also adds the elements of the current popular role play tabletop game and secret room escape. It was originally very watchable, and it also regained some of the feeling of the previous seasons of "Extreme Challenge", but after watching it, it was still disappointing.
After the latest episode aired, the Douban page of the show was flooded with bad reviews. Many netizens said they "don’t want to give one star", and some netizens accused the show of "inserting variety shows in advertisements" and the script was getting worse and worse. Looking at this episode, there are at least three points that are really disappointing.
Everything follows the script, the game must be too obvious
In order to cater to the movie "Antique Bureau Middle Bureau", the first part of the show is that the guests choose their own "identities", which are closely related to the characters in the subsequent role-playing tabletop game.
Through the program, it can be seen that the staff moved eight sets of clothes to the stage, corresponding to the identities of the second child, female student, male student, son, beggar, seafarer, butcher and shopkeeper. The program team used everyone to count and quickly call out each other’s names to determine the order of identity selection.
In fact, if these costumes are not provided, there will definitely be no problem with this game process. Let the guests randomly select in order, in fact, to prove that the follow-up game sessions are random, so that it is fun.
But the problem lies in the costumes, not to mention that the eight identities are male and female, and it is difficult to swap the costumes between men and women. The seven male guests on the scene are tall, short, fat and thin. It is unlikely that the program team will be like the movie crew. For the game setting, eight sets of costumes are customized for each guest. All costumes must be the eight sets on stage.
But in the end, everyone’s clothes fit perfectly, and it was obviously tailor-made. This meant that the game session in which the numbers were reported to determine the order of clothes was just a show. Everyone had already determined their roles, and they had long been familiar with the follow-up game sessions and got their own scripts. This proved that this issue of "Extreme Challenge" did not have random performances at all, it was all preset performances.
The low-intelligence game lasts for time, and the program is seriously watered down.
Because the characters had been predetermined for a long time, naming and counting had become meaningless "garbage time" that was helpful to the progress of the game. Moreover, it was also very low-minded, including the "baa baa sheep" that had appeared in the previous show.
Indeed, as netizens said, there were indeed too many advertisements in the following links, not only to expose the advertisements, but also to be broadcast orally by guests. For example, after solving the problem, Guo Jingfei’s oral advertisements were particularly deliberate, completely destroying the rhythm of the game. Jia Nailiang and others used the microphone of the sponsored brand to continue Karaoke, which was also very boring.
Guests are lazy and can’t bring the game, and the secret room will give the answer directly
Putting aside the full of gimmick role play tabletop games, the escape room alone is an eye-opener, and once again shows the lower limit of the show.
Unlike ordinary secret room escapes, which require careful search for clues, the clues given in the program are very obvious. Each room has a red password box, which is unlocked through the given materials, and opening the box is considered customs clearance.
The first group to try was Deng Lun, Yue Yunpeng, and Jia Nailiang. The decryption method was very simple.
Another group of Lei Jiayin, Xin Zhilei, and Huang Minghao calculated the four-digit password according to the scale of the hour and minute hands. There were paintings on the wall and a clock for them to operate. In fact, as long as the three of them use their brains and have a little patience, it will definitely not take much time to find the correct unlocking password.
But the performance of the guests was disappointing. Lei Jiayin was very impatient. He glanced at the clock and directly said "It’s over, I can’t do it at all".
Huang Minghao tried his best to find the answer, but in the end he didn’t succeed. Obviously, the three guests didn’t want to work hard, they just wanted to be lazy. There was no way to continue the game session like this, so they just asked them to open the door directly.
At this point in the game, fairness is lost and it is completely meaningless.
In addition, Guo Jingfei’s group is also very speechless. The arithmetic answer is completely given by the teacher. The purpose is to advertise the sponsored online class brand.
In addition to not wanting to guess the password, the guests also used violence to disassemble it. Although breaking the rules of the game is the tradition of "Extreme Challenge", at this node, without using their brains to violently unlock the lock, making the entire game link meaningless.
Xin Zhilei’s last password lock had no lower limit, and the program team actually pasted a password note next to the box, giving the answer, is this fooling the guests or fooling the audience? It can be said that this show is not a challenge to the guests, but a challenge to the bottom line of the show and a challenge to the audience’s tolerance. What do you think?