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had been saving NZ season 2 for a rainy day which for reasons was today, and i was watching ep 2 and saw everyone doing up papercrafts to slow the flight of this brussels sprout and i realized that there's a fair few points on the table on this game for someone who knows a couple pieces of practical origami; I know I can make functional cups and structurally sound boxes really quickly among other things and here i am, languishing at home, never to leverage my taskmaster niche lmao
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but can you make the fastest duck the true pinnacle of an arts and crafts background
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OrthoTrot posted:I really like the season as a whole. Even the team tasks aren't all bad because the dynamic of the other team is a nice palette cleanser. Just all the hyper competitive stuff is awful. It does contain two of my favourite tasks of all time, the one where they have to sneak up on Alex at the railway museum and Joe Thomas proves himself to be a terrifying ninja, and the "make the best thing to engage Toddler Nell", where all the attempts are both extremely good and represent all the contestants personalities perfectly.
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neongrey posted:had been saving NZ season 2 for a rainy day which for reasons was today, and i was watching ep 2 and saw everyone doing up papercrafts to slow the flight of this brussels sprout and i realized that there's a fair few points on the table on this game for someone who knows a couple pieces of practical origami; I know I can make functional cups and structurally sound boxes really quickly among other things Something I've always been curious about with TM is if they deliberately design tasks around the (known) skills of the contestants to try to avoid anything that would give one person a big advantage over the others (i.e. avoiding musical tasks if one of them is a musician). Alex has said in the past that they do deliberately aim for a wide range of skills in the task design so that say, the most athletically inclined person on the show doesn't just dominate the whole thing, but I don't know if this is just a general thing or if they do specifically tailor things to the cast of each series.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Something I've always been curious about with TM is if they deliberately design tasks around the (known) skills of the contestants to try to avoid anything that would give one person a big advantage over the others (i.e. avoiding musical tasks if one of them is a musician). Alex has said in the past that they do deliberately aim for a wide range of skills in the task design so that say, the most athletically inclined person on the show doesn't just dominate the whole thing, but I don't know if this is just a general thing or if they do specifically tailor things to the cast of each series. Counter-example: "Show off" on the series featuring Judi Love! I'm only half joking, because I think you have a point that they try not to give a task that's exactly in anyone's wheelhouse. But I also think that sometimes there are tasks that are inspired by a person on the line-up, so long as everyone else can have a fair crack at it.
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May 1, 2023 22:35
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Probably depends on the series as well, on the podcast some of the guests have talked about having being booked very far in advance, others a lot closer to starting to do actual tasks, some have been potentially booked for one season and then it's fallen through but they've been told "ah you'll be on the next one" or whatever. So like, timing wise they wouldn't always be able to plan the tasks around specific people so they probably do keep them pretty generic as much as possible.
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May 1, 2023 22:46
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Something I've always been curious about with TM is if they deliberately design tasks around the (known) skills of the contestants to try to avoid anything that would give one person a big advantage over the others (i.e. avoiding musical tasks if one of them is a musician). Alex has said in the past that they do deliberately aim for a wide range of skills in the task design so that say, the most athletically inclined person on the show doesn't just dominate the whole thing, but I don't know if this is just a general thing or if they do specifically tailor things to the cast of each series. I don’t see why they would bother doing that. The points don’t actually matter. On top of that, outside of rare tasks scored by feats of strength/explicit skill, the person who is most skillful in that area doesn’t often win. Using the music tasks as an example, the overall task winner often isn’t the most musically inclined, because they’re scored on some arbitrary poo poo or just Greg’s whims. Another good example are the crafting tasks. They’ve had some excellent crafters, but in those tasks they tend to score around the middle because while well executed they’re often less creative because they don’t have to work around the lack of skill.
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There's always at least one musical task in a series and at least one contestant who can play an instrument or is otherwise musically gifted. They don't always win that task, though.
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Phigs posted:Here's part 1 of the season 15 outtakes: This was fantastic, thanks! It also autoplayed the S14 part 1 outtakes and I was absolutely crying at the bit that starts 15:41 here: https://youtu.be/pOnRsjKAUMM
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They did set a fairly straightforward "paint Greg's portrait" task to the cast with Noel Fielding in it.
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There's a podcast episode featuring the winner of NZ season 2 where they mention that their partner is actually the person who devises/sets most of the tasks for NZ-- I forget the exact anecdote, but the impression I came away with is that they don't really do a lot of matching to skills, but there is some consideration. Less tailoring, more yeah there'll probably be a couple tasks that are eyeballed as being good for you, or having fewer art tasks if no one on the cast is good at them, etc. Just general setup for what they think would make for good TV, that sort of thing.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Something I've always been curious about with TM is if they deliberately design tasks around the (known) skills of the contestants to try to avoid anything that would give one person a big advantage over the others (i.e. avoiding musical tasks if one of them is a musician). Alex has said in the past that they do deliberately aim for a wide range of skills in the task design so that say, the most athletically inclined person on the show doesn't just dominate the whole thing, but I don't know if this is just a general thing or if they do specifically tailor things to the cast of each series. In the Norwegian taskmaster they had an actor who has been critically acclaimed and won several awards. And yet he got one point on every task that involved acting. He was the one eho was the "depression gnome".
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Just watched the "is it a throw?" argument. Alex having the time of his life and Greg giving Mae points purely to spite Kiell
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Alhazred posted:Just watched the "is it a throw?" argument. Alex having the time of his life and Greg giving Mae points purely to spite Kiell Pretty sure it was multiple casts
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Was in the studio audience today for the season 16 premiere! Obv won’t spoil any of the contestants or tasks but it was a really fun time. It’s a very good group and the first proper task especially had me in absolute stitches. There’s a regular task, a team task, and a location task so it’s a lot of variety for a premiere. The prize task included one of the most horrifying items I’ve ever seen. Studio task took forever due to the nature of it and also cos they finished it and then had a discussion about the rules and ended up doing the last bit a couple extra more times. I know enough about how the sausage gets made with these sort of things but it’s still funny to see like Greg and Alex have to redo a bunch of dialogue by themselves after the contestants have left and the stage get changed around for the studio task and then put back. Really cool warm-up guy too. A couple of standout contestants who are already shaping up to be all-timers. A fun time and I recommend it if you ever find yourself in a position to make it to Pinewood one day but also eat first cos there’s no food lol
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Just open the spoiler* box, you pussy. *line-up only Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 18:32 on May 2, 2023 |
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May 2, 2023 18:29
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Yeah, spill! Or in PM pls
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I tell y’all, it gets leaked to reddit, next thing you know Channel 4 come and break my legs
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Do they still have a decent "hook" contestant (someone we'll all immediately know) for 16? Not that it's that important for me, I just hope they can still draw in a decent name or two for publicity and get to season 25.
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Please don't. We've managed to go like 15 seasons without having the cast revealed in here this far in advance, all it takes is one dipshit to mess up spoiler tags. Plus if you do list them here in spoiler tags it will just be pages of people discussing stuff behind walls of black boxes.
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May 2, 2023 19:43
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No spoilers, please!
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Party Poopers.
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Related to TM, I watched through all of Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee and it was great. I wish I could compete in this one though. I'd clean up on fake points.
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RickRogers posted:Do they still have a decent "hook" contestant (someone we'll all immediately know) for 16? Not that it's that important for me, I just hope they can still draw in a decent name or two for publicity and get to season 25. Not sure really. There was nobody I was like “oh poo poo!!!!!” but I knew who three of them were. One of them I’ve already forgotten their surname tbh It’s three women and two men.
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Give us hints!
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Escobarbarian posted:Not sure really. There was nobody I was like “oh poo poo!!!!!” but I knew who three of them were. One of them I’ve already forgotten their surname tbh That'll do me! Besides, won't they announce it soon after season 15 ends anyway ?
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Escobarbarian posted:I tell y’all, it gets leaked to reddit, next thing you know Channel 4 come and break my legs "Choose one of the objects on the table in front of you. The first item you touch will be the one you will be using during the remainder of the task. *camera pans to show a cricket bat (actually made of paper mache), a pocket edition dictionary of Shakespearean insults, one pillowcase (filled with foam bricks), another pillow (filled with actual bricks), an egg* Alex hands them another task Break Escobarbarian's legs. You have one attempt. Most broken leg bones using smallest objects wins. Your time starts when you catch Escobarbarian."
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Post the names
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Absolutely do not post names imo, what, y'all can't wait 5 weeks?
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Yuran M. Bazil posted:there was a task in I think season 2 where they brought in josh widecombe to join the team of two to balance things out, I guess that's one solution. Bringing in a backup teammate might be a good idea - Al Murray always seems to be up for extra Taskmaster and Self Esteem seems like she’d want to come back. But that might distract from the actual contestants.
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Five episodes into my first viewing of series 4 and it’s definitely my least favorite so far. The combination of punitive scoring against Hugh while Noel gets many blatantly undeserved high scores is a little too much, even on a show that isn’t really that competitive. Before this series I liked Noel but now I’m getting sick of his poo poo and hope he doesn’t get handed the golden Greg when it should probably go to Joe
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Kaiho posted:Absolutely do not post names imo, what, y'all can't wait 5 weeks? No, I can't. I am old and may die before the trailer airs.
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Beerdeer posted:Related to TM, I watched through all of Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee and it was great. I wish I could compete in this one though. I'd clean up on fake points. yeah I've been watching it too and it's great, I'm a pedantic rear end in a top hat who doesn't use spellcheck for anything so I get lots of "im smarter than the tv person" moments and a good comeuppance on one or two words an episode
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I was surprised at how bad at spelling most people on the show were, yeah. Comedian is at least a writing adjacent job. Highly recommended. The only words that really tripped me up were the Maori derived ones. Not because I'm not from New Zealand, but because I'm incredibly racist.
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Snowy posted:Five episodes into my first viewing of series 4 and it’s definitely my least favorite so far. The combination of punitive scoring against Hugh while Noel gets many blatantly undeserved high scores is a little too much, even on a show that isn’t really that competitive.
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Rochallor posted:I was surprised at how bad at spelling most people on the show were, yeah. Comedian is at least a writing adjacent job. Highly recommended. I assume some of it is the pressure of performance, but that can only explain so much
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