Comments on: Was King of the Nerds good for the nerds? https://cliqueclack.com/p/king-nerds-good-nerds/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Chuck https://cliqueclack.com/p/king-nerds-good-nerds/#comment-29947 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:18:08 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=6835#comment-29947 Oh, seated guest. That I don’t know about since I don’t watch Conan. I just know I always saw previews for one of the contestants doing something on the upcoming Conan episode. If she’s the only one to sit for an interview before the finale, then that is pretty stupid on TBS’ part.

]]> By: Travis https://cliqueclack.com/p/king-nerds-good-nerds/#comment-29946 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:07:20 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=6835#comment-29946 I think they had some promos for the show and some of the contestants but no one else was actually a seated guest.

]]> By: Chuck https://cliqueclack.com/p/king-nerds-good-nerds/#comment-29945 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:45:00 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=6835#comment-29945 I’m pretty sure most of the “nerd” have been on Conan during the season, showing outtakes and their original audition tapes, not just Celeste.

]]> By: Susan https://cliqueclack.com/p/king-nerds-good-nerds/#comment-29502 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:46:51 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=6835#comment-29502 I had a lot of problems with the game design. They needed better tasks and they needed better challenges. The drama and stuff doesn’t work so well on this show: I wanted to see them doing cool problem solving stuff. And the people who left seemed bizarre too.
I’m sorry it wasn’t better designed. As mentioned i don’t really care who’s feelings were hurt, this isn’t big brother based on simply surviving together. These are smart people and they should have been doing a lot cooler and tougher challenges.

Is it surprising that the winner won? No I would have voted for that person too.

]]> By: Travis https://cliqueclack.com/p/king-nerds-good-nerds/#comment-29345 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:27:41 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=6835#comment-29345 One major issue I had with it is that TBS had Celeste appear on Conan a few weeks before the finale. This kind of forecast her win since she was the only contestant to appear on Conan (or any talk show, as far as I know). I think the next season might benefit by having at least two weeks where no one is voted off and the contestants get to live and interact with each other. The show wasn’t perfect by any means and had a lot of the usual reality show tropes but overall I think it was more good than bad.

]]> By: Mike B https://cliqueclack.com/p/king-nerds-good-nerds/#comment-29311 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:45:19 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=6835#comment-29311 I really wanted Panzer/tradechat/Danelle to win. I only watched towards the end and was really shocked when they played her as kinda the bad guy. Seeing her emotions on screen so much in the finale was rough. I was glad to hear though that her fathers’ cancer went into remission after the show.

Back to the show. It was just meh. I don’t really get this “Mansion of nerddom” or “Throne of Games” junk. If anything, send the people to SpaceCamp. That campus rocks and is like DisneyWorld for nerd kids. I’d bet something could be worked out. The show just had a superficial feeling that felt like it was just a bit askew. It never came from the nerds. It just had a thing that made it just a little odd. Maybe it was the hosts, maybe it was the competitions. I’m not sure.

]]> By: Katie Schenkel https://cliqueclack.com/p/king-nerds-good-nerds/#comment-29303 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:58:49 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=6835#comment-29303 I only watched the last couple episodes of the show and in a year where the internet has been up at arms about the epidemic that is the “fake nerd girl” with their scheming and their fakeness and their having breasts, it’s very telling that four of the final five contestants were women. And they all seemed genuinely “nerdy”… but that’s not exactly perfectly definable.

That being said, there were aspects of just absolute ridiculousness leaning towards stupid. But I did like that the enthusiasm of the contestants seemed genuine… even if I wanted to throw something at the hosts’ heads every time they made a bad joke.

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