This review is composed of a bunch of mini critiques.
10/10 - Why should you watch this?
Obviously it is to see talented lego scultors create masterpieces. It really is amazing what these contestants can do.
1/10 - Editing
The start of episode 4 begins with the host Will Arnet, announcing it is episode 3. It's not. Bad writing, or editing, either way it made it to air. To pick on editing a bit more, the previous episode presented a forced-drama of
(spoiler-start) the to-be-eliminated crew being oblivious to having their backs turned with expected judges expecting them to give their "sales pitch." This was cheesy and unbelivable. (spoiler-end)
3/10 - Will Arnet
Whether it is the writing or the voice-actor become host, his humor is cringy and even if the purpose of it is to be forced, it is not entertaining. The Office does a good job at presenting awkward situations in a humorous way. But everyone laughs and acquiesces to whatever awkward thing Will imposes upon them. It makes me feel bad for him.
7/10 - Challenges / Reality-TV-Show-Gimmick
(spoiler-start) Mashing up movie genre's like "thriller" (which alone is difficult to portray in Lego's) and "romance". I'm impressed the contestants figured out what to do at all. (spoiler-end)
7/10 - Judges
The Judges give constructive feedback at least more than half the time. The other half they just give thumbs downs to what people are doing without acknowledging that if they someone's build and they have to restart that it's going to be awkward/redundant later for them to appear to obliviously commentate on how that particular contestant chose to start over. Probably bad writing.
6/10 - Golden Brick Mechanic
The use of awarding this benefit is inconsistent, and the mystery of when it might come back into play takes away from the competitive component of the show and replaces it with RNG (chaos) making it seem like it doesn't matter who has the best build.
10/10 - Learn Lego
This episode introduces a brief segment explaining a brief technicality for building. It is probably something they should have done in previous episodes top help viewers better understand the challenges of the contestants instead of simply ooh'ing and awe'ing at the finished spectacle.
FINAL SCORE 6.3/10.0
This show has a lot of promise. I don't know if Will is just not a good fit, or it needs better funding for the writers. I'm sure it's difficult to script a reality TV show around Lego's, but announcing the wrong episode shouldn't make it to air. The Creations Are Beautiful and I have a lot of hope that they show will get better in time.
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