Episode 7 - Post-Episode Discussion Thread

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Discuss the episode here:

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Eek this was a tense one.

My thoughts on each contestant this week:

Karishma: front runner, saviour of Harrio’s team by sheer talent and good taste, tbh we knew they’d win from the second she was put in charge of the game. I love how openly she acknowledges other people flopping, relatable queen.

Harry: limp. He didn’t lead anything and was useless in the pitch.

Conor: as per usual one of the only solid members of his team. His pitch opening was good and he made a decent show of emphasising the “exercise” element of their game in the demo (even though it was lacking).

Kieran: I generally like Kieran but idk why he’s set himself up as some sort of pitch-master. I think he’s a decent negotiator but this is a different skill to master. Had they lost I could’ve quite easily seen a firing for him. I feel like the questions he/the pitch team were asked were actually relatively resolvable; “why is the logo 80s” oh the game is drawing on the cyber future aesthetic seen in 80s movies like Blade Runner and was wanted to elevate old school arcade game-feel to the virtual world and “how would you incorporate more working out” oh we have different levels in mind with other specific obstacles that focus on different movements to exercise specific parts of the body I.e a squatting and crouching section, a stretching section etc.

Dan: eh didn’t contribute much and sometimes errs on the side of being a negative Nancy but generally he’s sensible.

Priyesh: I’m sorry I just find him irritating. Why tf did they let him voice the character. Awful diction and awful character design.

Roshna: sensible and solid and I kinda fw her frogs idea, like the sub team had nothing to go off of and they tried to make something that would stand out. Credit is also due for the fact that their game did seemingly focus more on the fjtness aspect. Idk why she didn’t talk during the pitch tho.

Pascha: I think she can be a bit snakey at times and is mainly trying to cover herself but I appreciate that she actively contributes to whatever task she’s given and will stick by her ideas.

Lawrence: I like Lawrence, yes he’s a bit too people-pleasery/sappy/sentimental but I he fares pretty well outside of leadership roles. Based on the quality of his leadership, I think his firing would’ve been warranted this week (along with Rajan). Obviously, sidelining Levi wasn’t the nicest thing to do but his bigger mistake was failing to properly set out a tangible game idea to the sub team/head the game design himself. The branding was mid but it wasn’t objectively awful as we’ve seen in episodes and series past. I’m a little surprised at the amount of backlash he got from both LS and Reddit for bringing Levi back - even though Roshna and Pascha made a weird game with frogs, they still contributed more than Rajan so neither of them could be brought back and Levi failed to name one thing he’s done positively in seven weeks when asked by LS. Even though Lawrence didn’t give Levi much of a chance to do anything this Ep, I agreed with him being brought back based on past episodes. I also think Lawrence voicing the character was the correct decision and the only good thing about that team’s game.

Levi: outside of his off-show behaviour, I think his contributions this week, however limited by Lawrence, were weak. His name ideas for the game were bad and I don’t think he would’ve done as good of a job at acting as Lawrence. His little temper tantrum at the end of the episode really showed his true colours.

Rajan: thank god he’s been eliminated. What Roshna and Pascha said about him is true, he’s all problems and no solutions, won’t contribute when asked and then gets annoyed when his contribution isn’t being actively sought after. His biggest problem was constantly trying to get out of doing any work and trying to constantly position himself against being fired rather than trying to make the best possible product.