Last week: stuff happened!
Tonight: Stuff will happen! And it’s supposedly live!
Not only that, but it’s the last week that stuff will happen on this season of Treasure Hunters.
I wonder if the eliminated Hunters will be part of the finale, like when the eliminated Racers line the path of the final footrace on TAR. (Yes, yes, I do make too many TAR/TH comparisons). If that’s the case, we’ll get to see Kayte Fauxgal and the Wyld Hannlyns again. Woohoo!
Description on Yahoo TV:
The final three teams compete in a battle of wits to solve the last puzzle and find the treasure; teams from the online game continue their treasure hunt on-air.
Sounds to me like Yahoo is confirming that, indeed, the actual competition is pre-recorded, adn the “live” section is from the online trivia game. Whoopie.
FSKEY? Yep, I’d still be down in that hole.
Lawd sakes, yes … and I didn’t see a potty down there! More than 6 hours stressed out in a hot basement with no toilet? That’s a disaster waiting to happen, people. DISASTER, I say!
I almost said that no one with those fucking sideburns should win all that money, and then they started talking about all the good things they were going to do with the money.
Wow, could Laird have more obviously called the other teams losers?
Now, what to do with the remaining 40 minutes…
I like how Laird’s job just went from “Max Headroom” to “homeroom teacher-slash-riot police” when he had to corral the Geniuses up on that stage. “Come join me! Sam! Join me! Francis! Sam! Join – Francis! Sam! Join – Charles! Come here, dammit!”
OK, so when the next Race starts, everyone decide who they want to lose so I can root for them. I can’t pick a winner to save my life. Not only can I not pick a winner but the winning teams almost always turn out to be the one team that I actively dislike.
OK, in this Hunt I actually actively disliked two teams, but I knew the Fauxgals had no chance.
And good god, Francis has shaved his head but kept the sideburns? I don’t care how much the treasure is worth, no one has enough money to make that look good.
I got the FSKEY after about ten minutes. So simple.
I haven’t watche dthis like I did TAR - I dislike the sets, the set-ups. Give me TAR any day.
StG
Did anyone ever hear what the location of the treasure was for the on-line game? I missed about 5 minutes of the show tonight right when they started that portion. I wanna know if any of my guesses were correct.
I hope it gets renewed and they tweak everythiing that needs tweaking! It’s also got me netflixing TAR, which I never watched before. That’s fun! (And, btw, only Seasons 1 and then 7 are on DVD? Weird.)
I just reread my question and I worded it kinda poorly, but my daughter was fussing while I was typing! Of course I mean what location was the answer on-line. I tried Fort McHenry several times and I tried Washington D.C., but never more specific than that.
I was close.
Was it just me, or was the big finale just fundamentally backwards? “Here’s the team that just won millions. We’ll tell you exactly how much later in the show.” doesn’t exactly put me on the edge of my seat. Maybe to Genworth Financial that’s thrilling stuff, but not to me.
Guys, it’s real simple. If you do this show again, tell us the prize up front and then just let everybody compete for it.
That ending was just completely unsatisfying. I stopped watching when they found it. Who cared after that?
They really have no idea how to edit this show. Ah well. It was a nice summer break.
I actually stopped watching after the geniuses claimed their prize. Even though it was backwards, I was kind of grateful that I could just go to bed and not have to wait the full hour to see what happened.
Yeah – but then you missed the really exciting part. The part where, in the fine print shown after the closing credits, it says that the value of the treasure is only $3M if the Geniuses take the annuity option over 25 years. Isn’t that awesome? They kept their mouths shut about winning for this long, only to find out that they still have to wait about a squillion years to cash all the way in. Although, on the annual annuity amount, they’ll still be able to pay for med school – but not so much with the parents’ and grandparents’ retirements, I don’t think.
Wow. Laird is the suckiest live-action host ever to suck, I think. He can’t even ask a question properly. And apparently, he does wear pants.
I was really hoping for a Katye Fogal Greatest Hits section, followed by Laird asking “What the hell is wrong with you???”
So, the ending wasn’t terribly satisfying, but really, who was still interested after we knew who won?
Gitta love the Fogals -
“We live Christian principles, but only when other Christians are involved! Everyone else we screw over.”
Wait a second… Didn’t the MamajamaMessage say that there was some clue among the carvings on the walls what the code was to open the final cryptex? If there was, we never saw it. Teams have stumbled into things all through the hunt, but usually they made a point to show the audience what the hunters were missing. It seems like the only way to get FSKEY was to just try everything you could think of until it opened.
Five rotors, 26 letters each; 11,881,376 combinations. Exhaustive search probably wasn’t the way to go. I still wonder if I could have cracked it.
Once they opened it (the expressions were priceless. “Let me try something”, SPROING) they figured out the spinner and the star on the wall pretty quickly.
I missed that part, and it does kinda suck, but it’s hardly the first time someone has hyped the value of a cash prize like that. I think it’s SOP for all the lotteries.
Draelin, at least they did call the Fogals on some of the crap they pulled. And they sounded like they apologized without actually doing so.
And L-Mac missed the obvious question. “Yo, Jessica, how’s your knee?”
Yes, it is. I just think it’s funny that they didn’t even bother with the giant novelty cardboard check that all the other game show winners get. Instead, it’s like they got a whole bunch of mortgage paperwork to sign, with a Post-It note on top that said, “The check is in the mail.”
I actually commented on that last night. He’s a real person…with pants! Earned me a look from my husband.
That would have been awesome.
Now…who does that remind us of, TAR fans? Seriously, who does that remind us of? I have blocked almost everything about that hateful family from my memory, except for young buck-toothed Rolly and the unfortunate camel toe incident.
I thought of this last night. I think it was you who pointed out a few weeks back that teams could be bumbling idiots right up until the moment when they had to find an artifact, and then stumble onto it, regardless of skill. That was true right up until the very end last night, and I can imagine that Team Air Force, who were skilled in many ways, were just pissed.