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Honestly, I'm not a fan of Franky throwing it. Taskmaster is fundamentally people doing silly, pointless things and it only works because it's treated with a certain level of seriousness. Franky is right on the edge of crossing the line in a way that something like Jo Brand's apathy to any exertion didn't.
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Frankie feels to me like if you took all the competitiveness out of Dara from last season and left just like a deflated dad behind
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I've found him very funny, especially alongside Ivo. It would've been strange to see him take it seriously.
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neongrey posted:Frankie feels to me like if you took all the competitiveness out of Dara from last season and left just like a deflated dad behind He was having a great time with the paint this episode
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May 26, 2023 12:55
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Anyone seriously think that Mae is going to lose with a 7 point lead?
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May 26, 2023 17:05
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That 15 point swing in an earlier episode has really solidified that fact. I like Mae more than most in the thread, but winning one task should never give so many points.
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I don't think that needs spoiling really. Given it's an episode that aired and such. I think the closest competitor being on the same team as them probably has really helped because it's limited the amount of catching up they can do in a few key tasks. I could see it though if they have an absolute disaster of an episode for the finale. Is this the first series in awhile where they haven't done any sort of "only one contestant has to do this task" thing? So far at least, could be in the finale of course. Or maybe they did it and it didn't result in anything amazing so they haven't shown it.
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RickRogers posted:Anyone seriously think that Mae is going to lose with a 7 point lead? It’s extremely possible. We’ve got 5 tasks left probably (prize, live, and 3 recorded). Mae is historically bad at prize tasks, and it feels like Kiell has really stepped them up. It also feels like they stacked the tasks where Kiell looked like the incompetent one who couldn’t do poo poo at the beginning of the season, but he’s won the last 3 episodes. Kiell could easily get a 3 point swing on the prize task. Then he just needs to score one point ahead on the rest. And it feels like we’ve been so heavy this season on talent tasks, that we’re bound to have a creative task heavy finale, where I think Kiell could handily beat Mae. Pablo Bluth posted:Honestly, I'm not a fan of Franky throwing it. Taskmaster is fundamentally people doing silly, pointless things and it only works because it's treated with a certain level of seriousness. Franky is right on the edge of crossing the line in a way that something like Jo Brand's apathy to any exertion didn't. I disagree. I feel like Frankie takes nearly all the tasks extremely seriously, he just doesn’t take winning seriously. I can’t think of any other task he hasn’t actually tried in, and not winning so he didn’t have to do the prize celebration is hilarious. Look at the hole punch task from this EP. Frankie was the only one who genuinely employed a smart strategy to ignore Alex. neongrey posted:Frankie feels to me like if you took all the competitiveness out of Dara from last season and left just like a deflated dad behind Hyper-Competitive, competent old dad /= funny Grumpy old dad who still does reasonably well but looks like they could be assed to be there = extremely funny Plus, Frankie has the best studio banter out of any contestant ever on this show. Dara’s was pretty terrible.
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May 26, 2023 17:32
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Hold on to your pens around Kiyel
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Pilfered Pallbearers posted:It’s extremely possible. Putting it the other way though, Kiell has to win the prize task (OR Mae has to get DQ'ed on a task) AND beat Mae by one or two points on every task. It's possible, sure, but going into the final episode 7 points ahead is one of the most comfortable positions you can be in. (originally I ended with a "while not being Liza Tarbuck", but I looked it up and after what seemed like a runaway victory she actually only won by 6 points)
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The most Mae has lost an episode by so far is 5 so the final episode would require them to lose by the highest margin yet. It's only 9 data points so it's not hugely significant, but it still makes me think the likelihood is not great.
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I did not know people were so concerned about point scores on Taskmaster, a show with the rigidity of Whose Line is it Anyway.
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Just started season six, Alice opening up with her own blood was a strong start. My imaginary money is on her.
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reality_groove posted:I did not know people were so concerned about point scores on Taskmaster, a show with the rigidity of Whose Line is it Anyway. It's ultimately unnecessary for the show to work, but I like not knowing who's going to win. It adds a little extra bit of excitement.
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I think the thing is that while the points don't ultimately matter because it's not like they're actually competing for something meaningful, the competition still needs to be there for the show to work. Like you have a lot of other game show-ish panel shows where they also keep score but it really doesn't matter (I've never seen anyone get genuinely competitive on Would I Lie to You? for example), but part of the fun of Taskmaster is that they do generally care about winning at least a little bit. It's one of the reasons why Alex has said that despite it being requested a lot by fans he doesn't really want to do a "champion of losers" series, because he wants people to genuinely try to win on the show and getting to come back and do it again is the closest thing to a real prize they actually have.
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May 27, 2023 18:50
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In one episode, we went from "Mae's got this" to "Wait a minute, it's a longshot but Kiell could win."
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May 27, 2023 19:24
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Judi Love isn't out of the running yet. Here's why.
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Rochallor posted:Putting it the other way though, Kiell has to win the prize task (OR Mae has to get DQ'ed on a task) AND beat Mae by one or two points on every task.
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Some Strange Flea posted:Surely this gets hosed on the head if there are any team tasks still to show, though? I fully expect one last team task, but anything could happen with the other four. We don't know what's remaining and how well both of them did. I'd love it if it came down to the final Live Task, but if nothing else this week's episode shook up the status quo.
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What you forget is that the winner will be on CoC. The stakes can't be higher.
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Well so far we've got Sarah Kendall, Morgana Robinson, Sophie Duker, and Dara O'brien. Sarah and Dara were both criticized by some as being pretty boringly straightforward in their tasks so adding Mae to that crew doesn't seem the best. I guess it's kinda the risk you run in CoC to just gather a bunch of boringly competent people, but the previous ones weren't as bad in this respect.
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Next bunch of NZ contestants have been announced https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/300890644/taskmaster-nzs-upcoming-cast-includes-dai-henwood-and-melanie-bracewell
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big fan of ray, who previously appeared as josh's double
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All of them were in Guy Montgomery's Spelling Bee.
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Yeah, that'll be an excellent cast.
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Mel Bracewell is a funny dork, she’s going to be great on TM.
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thebardyspoon posted:Is this the first series in awhile where they haven't done any sort of "only one contestant has to do this task" thing? So far at least, could be in the finale of course. Or maybe they did it and it didn't result in anything amazing so they haven't shown it. I thought this was going to be Kiell in the hole punch task, was honestly surprised to find it also applied to the others. Snowy posted:Just started season six, Alice opening up with her own blood was a strong start. My imaginary money is on her. She peaked very early.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I think the thing is that while the points don't ultimately matter because it's not like they're actually competing for something meaningful, the competition still needs to be there for the show to work. Like you have a lot of other game show-ish panel shows where they also keep score but it really doesn't matter (I've never seen anyone get genuinely competitive on Would I Lie to You? for example), but part of the fun of Taskmaster is that they do generally care about winning at least a little bit. It's one of the reasons why Alex has said that despite it being requested a lot by fans he doesn't really want to do a "champion of losers" series, because he wants people to genuinely try to win on the show and getting to come back and do it again is the closest thing to a real prize they actually have. According to Sally Phillips on the latest episode of the podcast, going into her series, they had just announced Champion of Champions and all of them would have really preferred not to be in that, so there was a strong disincentive to skillful play.
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El Fideo posted:According to Sally Phillips on the latest episode of the podcast, going into her series, they had just announced Champion of Champions and all of them would have really preferred not to be in that, so there was a strong disincentive to skillful play. That would kinda be of a lovely thing to write into a contract. Reserve your schedule for the next 2 months to film the series (  ), but also don't book anything for a 2 weeks half a year later because "maybe" we'll need you for something else ( ).
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I just started listening to Ed's podcast and it sounds like CoC only takes a couple of days to film They mentioned that Josh Widdicombe did all his CoC in a single day (and that was for when it was two eps) so its not really that much of an extra commitment
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The way I imagine it is that even if filming is actually just 1 day for the tasks and 1 day for the studio, surely there must be a few more days that you have to block off before scheduling is finalized. Though that's wrong or maybe standard for most panel show gigs. I don't know that world.
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They also had the situation where there was no time to react to CoC being a thing for S5. At least S1-4 had some time off to reminisce about their experience, and everything from S6 on knows it's a thing.
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May 29, 2023 05:03
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Point being, though, series 5 is a loving amazing one, so people wanting to win clearly isn't that big a factor in the show's quality.
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May 29, 2023 05:58
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The episode where Alice surprises Alex with his PIN inside an egg is on at the moment. It’s a fun task. How many times has Alex’s wife collaborated against him with a contestant? I know there have been other occasions but can’t remember them.
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I seriously doubt that Mark and Aisling were trying not to win. Sally and Bob, sure.
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Creature posted:The episode where Alice surprises Alex with his PIN inside an egg is on at the moment. It’s a fun task. She's been an accomplice with Mae a few times in the current series.
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Nish Kumar was trying so hard to win
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