Only Connect

[Spymaster]

Anyone watch this? BBC2 game show with Victoria Coren.

It's really difficult. I don't get how people's minds work like that.

 

[Calamity1971]

I do, don't know why because the only bit I can do is the wall (maybe one out of four usually) and the missing vowels at the end. It's so up it's own arse (eye of horus, etc) but I find it intriguing for the reason you stated about how do these peoples mind work.

 

[Spymaster]

I do, don't know why because the only bit I can do is the wall (maybe one out of four usually) and the missing vowels at the end. It's so up it's own arse (eye of horus, etc) but I find it intriguing for the reason you stated about how do these peoples mind work.

I often get the individual answers but never make the link. Some of them are so obscure I still don't get it after she explains it.

 

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Only Connect - Quiz - BBC Two

 

[Calamity1971]

You're doing better than me Spymaster. I should stick to tipping point!

 

[Poot]

I like Only Connect. It takes some getting used to because there is no audience, so the atmosphere seems a bit strange sometimes and there is nobody to laugh at VC's jokes. But I can play it with my son, which I like.

 

[Calamity1971]

I like Only Connect. It takes some getting used to because there is no audience, so the atmosphere seems a bit strange sometimes and there is nobody to laugh at VC's jokes. But I can play it with my son, which I like.

I find the lack of audience weird. Although VC is normally quick witted on the likes of The last leg and hignfy, I think her jokes would fall flat even if their was an audience because they seem heavily scripted and she seems awkward delivering them.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

It's so up it's own arse (eye of horus, etc)

When it started (on BBC4, I think) they used Greek alphabet letters. When people complained that that was a bit up itself, they changed to the hieroglyphs, because why the fuck not?

It is uncompromisingly difficult though, and when it gets down to the late stages of the competition it is spectacularly so. And yet, people still get the questions right.

Personally, I'm shit at the connections round, do OK at the Wall, and pretty good at the missing vowels. The missing vowels round actually doesn't sit very well with the rest of the show, and too many points are available.

Edit: I think they gave up on the teams necessarily all knowing each other beforehand, as there were too few team entries that could hack it. They match up individual applicants a lot of the time these days.

 

[Calamity1971]

The missing letters round actually doesn't sit very well with the rest of the show, and too many points are available

It is slightly odd that the rest of the format is nails and throw the missing vowels in at the end that even I can do.

 

[Sprocket.]

Enjoy it a lot and Victoria Coren’s sense of humour appeals.
Usually manage to get a few in the first two rounds and on the walls, sometimes before the teams.
By coincidence and having a brain full of otherwise useless rubbish!

 

[Schmetterling]

Absolutely love it and have also been watching it from the beginning.

Every now and then someone gets the connection after just one clue.

 

[gosub]

If Urban wants to enter a team. Up for it.

 

[BlueSquareThing]

Love it - watched it since about series three I think. Seriously difficult - although I did score a 5 on round 2 the other week I think (the American football scoring one that neither team got).

We tend to not watch it till Monday night still though. It's bad enough it being on BBC2, let alone on Friday.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I've watched it since the very beginning. Think I've missed only a couple, tops. I like it, I have trouble with the walls but do pretty well elsewhere. Have probably got answers after single clues a dozen times.

I don't like how the first three rounds basically give you nothing more than a buffer for the final round. A team good at that but weak at the other stuff can still win. I also find Victoria Coren's intros and outtros excruciatingly bad. She's good at the spontaneous stuff though and keeping stuff running, and is smart and lovely and I hated David Mitchell BEFORE I knew they were an item, lol

It's one of the very few must-watch TV shows in my house tbh along with Uni Challenge

 

[The Boy]

When my partner and I were first courting, an episode came on BBC4 and I insisted that she watch a couple of minutes so she could appreciate just how dreadfully middle class and awful it was.

We haven't missed an episode since.

 

[Pickman's model]

i watch it reasonably frequently and find it strange because it takes place outside any other human space. there is no audience. there are seven people, plus a few techies and camera operators, in a room sealed off from the rest of humanity. they could be broadcasting from the surface of the moon.

 

[The Boy]

they could be broadcasting from the surface of the moon.

[Victoria Coren]
Or Cardiff, as the producer calls it
[/Victoria Coren]

 

[Dr. Furface]

I like it because it's different to any other tv quiz and so is VCM's presenting. At first I only really bothered with the connecting wall as the rest mostly baffled me, but after a while I got a bit better at the other rounds. Not much better, but I like the pathetic ego boost I get every so often when I see the correct answer before the team/s do, or they don't get it at all. I don't have a problem with the last round, I like the sprint to the finish aspect of it.

 

[1927]

If Urban wants to enter a team. Up for it.

Me too!

 

[Mogden]

Bloody love it. Just how my brain works most of the time. I'm sure I've expressed before that for half an hour, once a week, other people get to feel just how discombobulated I feel in the analogue world. I feel perfectly at home watching OC and would also love to be on a team.

 

[Santino]

I still hate the way contestants are introduced with their university qualifications.

 

[Spymaster]

Bloody love it. Just how my brain works most of the time. I'm sure I've expressed before that for half an hour, once a week, other people get to feel just how discombobulated I feel in the analogue world. I feel perfectly at home watching OC and would also love to be on a team.

Read this Only Connect: the uneasy appeal of Britain's hardest quiz show

 

[Mogden]

Read this Only Connect: the uneasy appeal of Britain's hardest quiz show

Yep. Never gonna get on the telly box in any other capacity than as a geek with a sponge-like brain for trivia.

 

[Orang Utan]

Never lasted more than a few minutes.
It's just so please with itself.
It oozes smugness and middle class metropolitan bubble-ness

 

[D'wards]

I used to like Victoria Coren a lot until she did a hatchet job on John McEnroe in which she took some comments he made literally out of context, in order to support her point.
Inevitably in the Guardian

 

[Mumbles274]

I still haven't managed to get a category right!!!

"Wobbly lines wobbly lines" i shout at the TV.... Hmmph

 

[Mogden]

Horny snake!!!

 

[daaha]

 

[Spymaster]

It’s on now. Driving me fucking nuts!

Who can get the connection here:



What goes into the box with the question mark?

 

[1927]

Scrub that! My mind was confused.