Syfy's 'Hot Set' season 1
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jonny5
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Hot Set New SyFi show
Has anyone seen this show? It's sort of like Face Off meets This Old House.
This is another in the '3-days-to-do-something-that-normally-takes-a-month' type competition shows where exessive looping of video is used to make up for minimal content and to create false drama.
Two contestants lead teams to build a set in 3 days based on a small snippet from a script and a breif meeting with a costumed actor who will be appearing in the scene.
Has anyone seen this show? It's sort of like Face Off meets This Old House.
This is another in the '3-days-to-do-something-that-normally-takes-a-month' type competition shows where exessive looping of video is used to make up for minimal content and to create false drama.
Two contestants lead teams to build a set in 3 days based on a small snippet from a script and a breif meeting with a costumed actor who will be appearing in the scene.
Re: Hot Set New SyFi show
Search and you will find it.
http://www.therpf.com/f47/syfys-hot-set-season-1-a-160337/
Search and you will find it.
http://www.therpf.com/f47/syfys-hot-set-season-1-a-160337/
EyeofSauron
Master Member
am i the only one who hated the first episodes main people.
especially abra, i couldve punched her in the face just for the way she was talking.
especially abra, i couldve punched her in the face just for the way she was talking.
jonny5
Sr Member
Re: Hot Set New SyFi show
Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!
I did search and the keywords 'HOT SET' netted me jack squat.
I KNEW there had to already be a thread on this.
Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!
I did search and the keywords 'HOT SET' netted me jack squat.
I KNEW there had to already be a thread on this.
jonny5
Sr Member
I'm enjoying the show for it's novelty, but again the whole editing style with redundant teaser bumps to commercial is really getting on my nerves.
1st episode with the stranded astronaut.
I thought both sets looked good.
The orange set felt very MARS-like.
Kinda like Arizona dessert filmed through a red filter.
The 'living set' looked really good on film. The big foreground rock really gave some depth to the piece that should have been enought to win in terms of what was requested. Maybe the judges expected more animation from the high concept of a living planet/creature.
2nd episode Alien Queen.
I didn't catch the end of this yet, but based on where I left the show I feel like the aquatic throne room could win if they could just stick a nice chair into the space. The other team's spaceship/castle is too undefined to fly.
I hope someone does something soon with forced perspective, and/or a full cyclorama background.
1st episode with the stranded astronaut.
I thought both sets looked good.
The orange set felt very MARS-like.
Kinda like Arizona dessert filmed through a red filter.
The 'living set' looked really good on film. The big foreground rock really gave some depth to the piece that should have been enought to win in terms of what was requested. Maybe the judges expected more animation from the high concept of a living planet/creature.
2nd episode Alien Queen.
I didn't catch the end of this yet, but based on where I left the show I feel like the aquatic throne room could win if they could just stick a nice chair into the space. The other team's spaceship/castle is too undefined to fly.
I hope someone does something soon with forced perspective, and/or a full cyclorama background.
R.P. McMurphy
Well-Known Member
For all the criticism the judges had of the winner for not having a "throne," where was the throne in the other set? They certainly never paid it any attention. I think I saw a slab sticking out of the wall that could have been a throne but I'm not sure.
I'm enjoying this show.
I'm enjoying this show.
EyeofSauron
Master Member
he did build a throne, he even talked about it.
R.P. McMurphy
Well-Known Member
At one point (after the judges said it would be a mistake not to have one), the winner said that he'd better make one (which he talked about), but in the end he did not put a throne in his set because he wanted to stay "true" to his vision.
In the final judgement, the main negative from the judges was that he did not have a throne in the throne room.
My point was, with all the attention the judges paid to his lack of a throne, you'd think they'd at least show the other set's throne but they never bothereed to let us see it? I had trouble trying to find it in the filmed sequence and I'm not sure that what I think was it was actually it.
In the final judgement, the main negative from the judges was that he did not have a throne in the throne room.
My point was, with all the attention the judges paid to his lack of a throne, you'd think they'd at least show the other set's throne but they never bothereed to let us see it? I had trouble trying to find it in the filmed sequence and I'm not sure that what I think was it was actually it.
EyeofSauron
Master Member
i watched 3 episodes, and stopped after that.
robstyle
Master Member
I know one is and he was a winner, big Blade Runner fan and regardless of how one of the judges slammed him (again he won) the guy will run circles around all of those judges combined in the real world. I was actually shocked that he went on the show.
You made it farther than I did. The first one was interesting but I keep forgetting to record it so I am taking that as a sign.
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torren_of_amber
Well-Known Member
It's an interesting idea and if they (Syfy) had done it better I think it would've been something worth watching like Faceoff... That being said, I have watched it, I think all so far, but I stopped dvr'ing it and it really is BORING as HECK!!!!! I mean it could be awesome but it is NOT!!! I mean come on....
The problem I see with this show is the same with so many reality type shows; there just is not really enough interesting content to fill the time, so they end up doing these long and pointless bumpers before and after each commercial break, rehashing the same content again and again. As many others have said, the show IS interesting, but is edited in a way that makes it extremely boring. Perhaps if the judges talked more about set design and how this and that is important and shared stories from their own careers, this would be worth watching, but as it is, there is just very very little content and it is stretched out to fill the time.
