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This show is unnecessarily complicated

posted 8 years ago by boom_e85
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In an attempt to come off looking like intelligent writing with tests that require higher-order thinking, this show misses a lot simple logic.

(Spoiler alert) Take for example the challenge in episode 4, where Marco realizes the binary numbers on the screen represent the levers found in each room (0=lever up, 1=levers down, or something like that). To accomplish the challenge, he has people memorize all 8 number sequences by line and run them back to their room so that people can pull down the corresponding levers.

Um...why would you memorize the entire sequence if the only ones that matter are the levers that need to be pulled down or up? So for example, if the sequence was 01000110, why would you memorize the entire sequence when it'd be much easier to just remember that only levers 2, 6 and 7 need to be pulled down?

Like my title suggests, this show complicates things that do not need to be complicated.

[–] Fuzzy Green 8 years ago

Well done candidate, you make it through to the next stage...

But seriously, I made that practical mental adjustment too. The show was just showing a solution but it doesn't have time to rotate through all possible permutations of personal processing, be fair. It's a drama not a YouTube science show!

[–] veictor 8 years ago

They've made very clear that challenges are not what it seems to be, take this one for an example, or pretty much everything was testing more their behaviour than anything else.

[–] obeycrossliving 8 years ago

The levers were not the point of the test. It was teamwork and to see who will take the leadership roles. And for most of the episode Marco was out killing and stealing food anyway.... I think you are missing the point of the testing stage.

[–] violettesla 8 years ago

Because the characters didn't think to approach the test in that way? There's immense pressure and this isn't the type of thing they could have come prepared for with a master strategy. The characters are written to be normal people under stress, not geniuses immediately knowing the most efficient way to solve the test.

The point of that exercise was to see who would take control and how they'd establish themselves in a social order, so even if they took the easy way out with the levers, they'd still be trapped because the test wasn't that simple to begin with.

This is a petty complaint, one test is solved the long-way around and suddenly the entire show is overly complicated?