ABC: Wipeout & I Survived A Japanese Game Show

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:13 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

on second thought, i'm moving this back to Gen Discussions. it's pretty much about american shows.

.... so i watched both. actually, i only caught the 2nd half of wipeout.

sorry, but i wasn't overly impressed by either. it was bearable, but i found myself getting bored.

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:29 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

pn0y, yeah, you're right, it might have been more enjoyable, but i'm a lot more interested and excited when watching sasuke and kunoichi.

here's my reviews of the two shows.......

wipeout - i only watched the last half, but it wasn't that interesting. there were many factors: not enough competitors and characters, lack of a time limit, and very boring announcers. at first, i liked wipeout's concept of competing vs the opponent's time. many times when i've watched sasuke, i've felt that the time limit imposed were too strict. BUT, i have to admit there's more excitement when you're trying to climb the rope and you've only got 10 secs left, 9, 8, 7.... and that's the other point. in ninja warrior, the announcer (though sometimes a bit rude) is MUCH more exciting. in wipeout, i felt like i was watching golf. they need peppier announcers.

i survived - interesting concept. i think i enjoyed this one a bit more than wipeout. the mama-san is a bit too much. for anyone who really knows japanese people, you'd know this lady is probably fluent in english and just putting on an act. the announcer in this one is ok, but he has the burden of trying to explain (in english) to the contestants and then talking to the audience (in jp). i think the disappointing thing about this one is that it doesn't have a TRUE jp game show feel to it. and i think it's the size of the audience. in most game shows that i've seen, there's like a stadium-full of people in there. in this game show, it feels like they dragged 30 volunteers. not enough people - i think that's it.

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:00 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I just watched "I survived a Japanese game show"

It's utter crap. Japanese game shows are already over the top, why would they have to take that and make it 3x worse? The studio audience don't really seem that into it either. It's like 100 people and what's up with the fake laughs from the audience? It just seems over the top and stupid.

The 10 people they picked for the show are total morons too, I mean it's not like they usually pick the brightest people for these kinds of shows, but each of them seem to personify the image about stupid Americans.

The translations are poor, half the time the translations are way off. The game show host or any of the Japanese people who participate in the program say something completely different a lot of the time.

Mama-san was just silly, couldn't they at least make an effort to show what Japan is really like instead of feeding the Americans preconceived conceptions about what Japan and the Japanese are like?

AND WHAT'S UP WITH THE F**KING ANNOUNCER? "DECISION TIMUU" "TIME LIMITO"?! Yeah I get it's a "Japanese game show" but how the f**k does it come that you only have a Japanese accent on that last syllable? scratch

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:38 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

The show wasn't all that great but I like watching americans make a fool out of themselves. I watched because I thought some of the games were funny and the clothes the contestants wore were outrageous. I didn't really care for the audiences or the host....

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:03 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

one of my jp friends absolutely despised the show. 'if this is the way they portray a jp variety show, then the american audience will think that ALL jp variety shows are like this.'

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:27 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well for better of worse its coming back. ABC is bringing it back for next summer and has ordered 10 episodes.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117993730.html?categoryId=14&cs=1

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:20 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Ohmy. I can't believe they actually want to have a second round of 'I Survived a Japanese Game Show'?! I watched the first season and I thought it really wasn't an accurate depiction of an actual Jap game show? scratch

I felt the drama was too much and the contestants were ... , and I found myself getting really bored at times and wanting to skip some parts though I persevered and watched every bit of it till the end. faint

I must say I was quite relieved when the season finally ended.

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:52 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i'm hoping i 'survive' long enough to see the SERIES finale.