manbemel
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The idea was to revive the classic show Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez for a new young audience on Twitch with a twitch streamer as a host and a crew of people all related with TikTok to appeal to the new generations who didn't grow up with the original show. And for these generations, truth is, the show wasn't a too bad experience.
It didn't happen the same for the old generations who expected to find the old Un, dos, tres as it was 20 years ago. That was an expectation impossible to accomplish as 20 years ago society and television were vastly different and it's impossible to make any kind of show the same it was back then. It was mandatory to make changes to the format, even if it was at the cost of losing the old audience, or else the show would appeal to no one at all.
The big problem was the direction took with the changes, there were lots of problems of execution and lots of poor choices. For starters, a show like Un, dos, tres cannot be done live and it showed. Multiple problems of rythm, lots of errors and mistakes even in the basic rules of the game, a bunch of contestants that may have connected with the audience but found it hard to connect with the game itself.
All these mistakes turned the show into a long, at many times boring program that at times failed to capture the basic essence of the original, where every shot was studied milimetrically with a lot of care for the detail. In exchange for this, the show also looked more natural and less constrained than the original, but something should've been done about the excessive length of the show. Not to mention some of the comedic numbers were of a really bad taste, when not utterly rude and cringy.
Not everything was bad, though, the host, David Canovas, better known as theGrefg on Twitch, was an excelent comunicator, especially in the third part of the show, the Auction, which was the part that managed to capture more faithfully the essence of the original show. He carried with a lot of dignity the tradition of confusing the contestants while they were deciding which prizes to drop and which to keep and had nothing to envy from his predecessors in that sense. Carla Pulpón as co-host and accountant secretary as well as leader of the first mixed-genre team of secretaries was a pleasant addition, and a surprise to see her dance skills in the traditional choreography with the secretaries.
It's not clear if the show will ever continue or if it will return after this one-off entry, but if it does, there's hope for it to succeed if they make a series of important changes. First off, at the very least the first part of the show, the question round, should be pre-recorded, because it takes time to check the answers and it's impossible to do it right live as it showed. Second, the elimination round should be shorter, reduced to a single test and no more. Five tests were excessive and made the show unnecessary long. The auction needs very few touches as it went relatively well, but more care should be put in the comedians invited to the show, and avoid cringy, rude acts that do not match with a show that should be at the very least family friendly. Personally I'd love to see themed episodes as it was classic, I understand that building new sets each show is expensive, but still, the theme should be brought back, even if they always do it in the same set. With some minimum props and a background of LED screens, musical numbers could also work very well and bring back the magic of Broadway like the original used to do. One final thing, please try to make the ads less invasive, they were plaguing everything in this show and they were really annoying. I know they pay the show, but even them should know that less is more.
All in all, it wasn't a perfect show by any means, it had good moments, but there were a lot of mistakes, but these mistakes are fixable and if they manage to fix them, they can make a better show than what we finally got. A trademark like Un, dos tres deserves to go on living and it's just a matter of finding an updated recipee that appeals to new and old audiences akin. It's difficult, but it's not impossible.
It didn't happen the same for the old generations who expected to find the old Un, dos, tres as it was 20 years ago. That was an expectation impossible to accomplish as 20 years ago society and television were vastly different and it's impossible to make any kind of show the same it was back then. It was mandatory to make changes to the format, even if it was at the cost of losing the old audience, or else the show would appeal to no one at all.
The big problem was the direction took with the changes, there were lots of problems of execution and lots of poor choices. For starters, a show like Un, dos, tres cannot be done live and it showed. Multiple problems of rythm, lots of errors and mistakes even in the basic rules of the game, a bunch of contestants that may have connected with the audience but found it hard to connect with the game itself.
All these mistakes turned the show into a long, at many times boring program that at times failed to capture the basic essence of the original, where every shot was studied milimetrically with a lot of care for the detail. In exchange for this, the show also looked more natural and less constrained than the original, but something should've been done about the excessive length of the show. Not to mention some of the comedic numbers were of a really bad taste, when not utterly rude and cringy.
Not everything was bad, though, the host, David Canovas, better known as theGrefg on Twitch, was an excelent comunicator, especially in the third part of the show, the Auction, which was the part that managed to capture more faithfully the essence of the original show. He carried with a lot of dignity the tradition of confusing the contestants while they were deciding which prizes to drop and which to keep and had nothing to envy from his predecessors in that sense. Carla Pulpón as co-host and accountant secretary as well as leader of the first mixed-genre team of secretaries was a pleasant addition, and a surprise to see her dance skills in the traditional choreography with the secretaries.
It's not clear if the show will ever continue or if it will return after this one-off entry, but if it does, there's hope for it to succeed if they make a series of important changes. First off, at the very least the first part of the show, the question round, should be pre-recorded, because it takes time to check the answers and it's impossible to do it right live as it showed. Second, the elimination round should be shorter, reduced to a single test and no more. Five tests were excessive and made the show unnecessary long. The auction needs very few touches as it went relatively well, but more care should be put in the comedians invited to the show, and avoid cringy, rude acts that do not match with a show that should be at the very least family friendly. Personally I'd love to see themed episodes as it was classic, I understand that building new sets each show is expensive, but still, the theme should be brought back, even if they always do it in the same set. With some minimum props and a background of LED screens, musical numbers could also work very well and bring back the magic of Broadway like the original used to do. One final thing, please try to make the ads less invasive, they were plaguing everything in this show and they were really annoying. I know they pay the show, but even them should know that less is more.
All in all, it wasn't a perfect show by any means, it had good moments, but there were a lot of mistakes, but these mistakes are fixable and if they manage to fix them, they can make a better show than what we finally got. A trademark like Un, dos tres deserves to go on living and it's just a matter of finding an updated recipee that appeals to new and old audiences akin. It's difficult, but it's not impossible.
In the last five years, Sanders Sides has become something like a cult show in the YouTube web series ambit, and it did so with the valiant approach of discussing mental health issues, sometimes as little talked about as intrusive thoughts or anxiety with a language that could be easily understood by all kinds of audiences, mixing it all with lots of comedy and relatable characters that have become beloved by its audience.
It's an inconvenience, though that as the popularity of the show went up, so did the goals of the production team and the pressure to offer a series that went on sattisfying their growing audience with the limited staff and resources they had. This resulted in long gaps between episodes and a portion of the audience becoming impatient over the long waits, sometimes of more than a year between episodes.
With the intention of filling this gap, this companion series was born. It was their intention to provide lighter content starring the Sanders Sides characters to make up for the waits between episodes, but right from the first entry, you can see it was going to be more ambitious than that. In fact, I'd dare to say that in just three episodes as of writing this, they've managed to surpass the original Sanders Sides in many ways.
Right from the first entry, the first difference with the original series became evident: the Sides and Thomas were no longer constrained to their fixed points in the living room where we only saw them from the wrist up, and we saw them instead in different situations in Thomas' daily life, like watching a movie, going to the mall, tidying and cleaning the house or going on a romantic date at the park. This change alone led to lots of innovation in the cinematography department, different situations, different production challenges and a higher level of quality in the scripts if it was possible to top the quality the scripts in the original series had.
We don't get the classic debates about mental health issues that are reserved for the main series, but that doesn't mean mental health isn't discussed, just that we see it discussed more organically as we live the characters' lives instead and feel through them everything they're going through instead of being talked about it by exposition like in the original series.
Some people have dismissed Sanders Asides as a gimmick that shouldn't even be considered canon. I strongly disagree, first because the team has already said that Sanders Asides episodes should be taken just as regular Sanders Sides episodes in terms of series plot, encouraging to watch them chronologically as they're published as if they were part of Sanders Sides. Secondly because by doing so, they're missing a show that gives a breath of fresh air to the Sanders Sides universe, a very nice complement to the original series that deserves the same recognition the original series has. To be honest, it deserves even more recognition as it dares to cross boundaries the original series still hasn't tried to cross at this point, although we still don't know what the future has in store for both shows.
It's an inconvenience, though that as the popularity of the show went up, so did the goals of the production team and the pressure to offer a series that went on sattisfying their growing audience with the limited staff and resources they had. This resulted in long gaps between episodes and a portion of the audience becoming impatient over the long waits, sometimes of more than a year between episodes.
With the intention of filling this gap, this companion series was born. It was their intention to provide lighter content starring the Sanders Sides characters to make up for the waits between episodes, but right from the first entry, you can see it was going to be more ambitious than that. In fact, I'd dare to say that in just three episodes as of writing this, they've managed to surpass the original Sanders Sides in many ways.
Right from the first entry, the first difference with the original series became evident: the Sides and Thomas were no longer constrained to their fixed points in the living room where we only saw them from the wrist up, and we saw them instead in different situations in Thomas' daily life, like watching a movie, going to the mall, tidying and cleaning the house or going on a romantic date at the park. This change alone led to lots of innovation in the cinematography department, different situations, different production challenges and a higher level of quality in the scripts if it was possible to top the quality the scripts in the original series had.
We don't get the classic debates about mental health issues that are reserved for the main series, but that doesn't mean mental health isn't discussed, just that we see it discussed more organically as we live the characters' lives instead and feel through them everything they're going through instead of being talked about it by exposition like in the original series.
Some people have dismissed Sanders Asides as a gimmick that shouldn't even be considered canon. I strongly disagree, first because the team has already said that Sanders Asides episodes should be taken just as regular Sanders Sides episodes in terms of series plot, encouraging to watch them chronologically as they're published as if they were part of Sanders Sides. Secondly because by doing so, they're missing a show that gives a breath of fresh air to the Sanders Sides universe, a very nice complement to the original series that deserves the same recognition the original series has. To be honest, it deserves even more recognition as it dares to cross boundaries the original series still hasn't tried to cross at this point, although we still don't know what the future has in store for both shows.