Man, what a show! I know we've said in the past that the current staff doesn't seem to know how to do season premieres, but this episode felt like they were making up for all the others. $51,000 in Grand Game, a Lincoln
and a Mercedes, a $45,000 boat...they really pulled out all the stops on this one!
I'm pretty sure they wanted Grand Game to be won. They clearly also wanted Cliff Hangers to be won, but that didn't exactly work out.
Most Expen$ive for three trips! ...Or three rooms, actually, but they used the trip staging! That absolutely made my day.
3 Strikes was easily the biggest disappointment of the day...but with how much the game relies on luck, there's really nothing they could have done about that.
I'm not crazy about the new logo. It's not
awful, but it looks kind of...cartoonish, I guess? The audience signs look markedly better than the others, though, and are actually pretty slick.
The Big Wheel looks really snazzy...and they finally edited the stock footage surrounding the arrow shot to take out the wall segment with the square pattern that was still visible all last season!
It looks like they changed something on the light strip on the Turntable's doorframe...I'm not exactly sure how to describe it, but its lighting is noticeably different than all the other ones now.
Also, is it just me, or did the lights on the audience pods change color during the prize descriptions for Most Expen$ive? It looked like they suddenly turned a lighter shade of blue and stayed that way for the rest of the show.
Also, where did the other three contestants go while [Most Expensive] was being played?
I just went back and looked -- they went back to their seats.