Grieving over Millionaire

Stopped by the game show board at Sitcoms Online for the first time in a while. One of the stranger threads chatted about the cancellation of Millionaire.

Much of the strangeness came from one poster, who seemed really distraught over the news. This commenter has always tended toward run-on sentences and helter-skelter logic, and those qualities showed up big in her remarks on the quizzer's axing. (I think she also posts on Game Show Paradise under a different username.)

Other posters reacted in varying ways to the Distraught One. Some sympathized and opined that the show would be back sooner or later. I tend to agree that the format might surface again. It's a solid quizzer and the brand name is well-known.

Others were exasperated and questioned a lot of the goofier parts of the Distraught One's commentary. Like when she said that Chris Harrison owes people an apology for cancelling Millionaire. Uh, I doubt that the axing was his idea.

The thread also included a quote from Game Show Garbage. I didn't know this, but the naysaying site once inducted Millionaire's two-season use of a clock into their Hall of Shame. Come on, the clock may not have been the greatest idea, but it was hardly horrendous. Last I checked, Jeopardy uses a clock, too. And GSG's overall commentary on the syndicated version is, as usual, way too negative. The syndie enjoyed a good long run and hardly deserves to be dismissed as nastily as Game Show Garbage buries it.

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