Comments on: Fans angry over Good Game host switch

By: Loe

Loe — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:45:41 +0000

I think Hex is a Gnarly host.
Junglist was a great host though.
we will all miss u Junglist!

By: nick

nick — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:52:21 +0000

hex is ok but they need to bring back Junglist because they have probable lost half the veiwers.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:19:04 +0000

She’s nice – but the other dude was seriously connected to what he did. He delivered content that showed he knew his stuff, not just like it. Stephanie is nice, but I watch your show with the volume down now. You want this to work, you need all three.

By: Hamish

Hamish — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:10:30 +0000

Yeah Angry Face why dont they keep bajo and jung a good team and have hex do the gg:sp thing.
ABC you have done it again you have made a bad move and now you have destroyed something loved buy so many Before
“If it works don’t fix it”

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:08:13 +0000

This is bull**it Hex aka Stephanie Bendixsen can kiss my a**.

By: bex (not hex)

bex (not hex) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:57:15 +0000

Still in shock… won’t be watching Good Game any more.
Hopefully another station will catch on and pick up Junglist to make a TRUE series for Gamers and by Gamers.

By: juan de menthe

juan de menthe — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:07:00 +0000

such a shame! found Bajo irritating and fake for the first time. Hex meh

By: Dismayed Dave

Dismayed Dave — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:56:47 +0000

This comes across as complete contempt for the audience, something most gamers would be familiar with in more mainstream media, but not by their very own gaming show (or what was meant to be). Experience and integrity have been unceremoniously exhumed along with the tried and true odd couple chemistry. Now we have two homogeneous TV school fakers, with fake news reader’s voices, fake exaggerated acting and fake interest in games.

What will the ABC ‘refresh’ next? Play School? Kerry O’Brien? At the Movies? What other winning formula can they grind into the dirt simply to relieve managerial boredom?

By: Danielle Clarke

Danielle Clarke — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:27:05 +0000

I’m so disappointed in this clearly short-sighted and ill-researched decision. I am a sporadic watcher of Good Game; my husband WAS a devout watcher (who is also up in arms and now vowing ‘never again’). I always loved the silly banter between Junglist and Barjo, and feel that the show has now lost it’s mojo. I don’t think I’ll be the only chick now tuning out. Dumb decision, ABC.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:07:59 +0000

Hot girls don’t need a resume.

The way the world operates these days.

By: Gazbin

Gazbin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:08:05 +0000

I cannot face watching that show with a bogus host from Club Disney… “hex” …come on tell me this is just a gag!

By: Jay Gatt

Jay Gatt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:42:50 +0000

They got rid of the better, more informative and more experienced host, keeping the younger goodlooking sidekick, all in order to bring on a random pretty blonde, and why? You do the math.

What’s worse is that the two pretty people who now host the show, both of whom are actors/presenters first, gamers second, and not really good enough at the former to justify their lack of in depth knowledge and quality at the latter, have absolutely zero chemistry with each other.

Najo always represented the more casual “for fun” gamer, while Junglist represented the hardcore, and it was that difference in attitude and style, along with a natural chemistry for playing off one another, that made the show work. Now we have two people representing the casual/fun end of the gamer spectrum, no one representing the hardcore gamer, and neither of which have the strength of personality to act as primary host. Instead we have two sidekicks who don’t have any on screen chemistry with each other. Watching this week’s show was like watching a tran wreck in slow motion.

Farewell Good Game, we’ll miss what you were, and I shall no longer bother with the generic cookie cutter dumbed down product that you are now becoming. By actors for kids and casual gamers just does not entice I’m afraid.

By: Ivo

Ivo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:12:07 +0000

Nice work Amanda Duthie, you’ve just destroyed one of the ABC’s best programs.

By: Mister Pompkinini

Mister Pompkinini — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:07:46 +0000

What is this? I went on iview to watch the latest two episodes of Good Game, the first one was fine, Junglist was there to make the show what it was, that being an almost perfect chemistry between two hosts. Then I watched the newest episode, and some new girl is on there, and I don’t care for her. Where is Junglist I thought. I then had to waste a lot of time looking at facebook, and the GG forums and here to find out that for some strange reason Jung was gone and “Hex” was there (appropriate name btw). Why ruin the perfect chemistry? It’s like splitting up Wayne and Grath, Bill and Ted, Bub and Bob. I just don’t understand why this had to happen. Good Game was essentially the best show on ABC iview, I watched it religiously, but now I am losing faith. I feel so bad for Junglist and I will miss him on the show. I think the ABC made a big mistake here, but whatever it’s not like I have much respect for ABC management anyway, like after The Glass House was axed for being too “political” or when the final season of Chaser was ruined by scared execs. Fail ABC, epic fail.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:43:33 +0000

Rubbish decision ABC !! Utter rubbish !! Clearly Jeremy Ray was not happy with the decision. He stated this himself. The show was great as it was. Great onscreen rapport and chemistry.
The dinosaur minds behind the big desks clearly have very little idea of what a successful show entails and what people want. Cynical move.

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:50:27 +0000

Hex your review sux, don’t think you can appear on screen acting like you know a things about gaming. Serious we all know why you’re there for, i hope they’ll bring back Junglist.