LastMinuteRequest wrote:I was a little surprised at how much airtime Bill Nye got. Though of course time tends to bend and dilate whenever there's a camera pointed at you, my own memory is that I never got to speak much more than a brief sentence when Meredith introduced me. Whether this was because TPTB learned from Nye's guinea pig Expert role and had Meredith speed things along, or because Nye is just a chattier fellow, I don't know.
When watching you from the audience on the day I attended the taping (not as a contestant, but as one of the masses), I recall you as being a lot of fun but not that brief (nor that long) - in other words, just the right amount of time. It did seem longer then a single sentence, maybe not as long as Bill Nye's, but in that same order of magnitude. It would be interesting to compare the times when your stint airs.
I don't have to tell you that memory is a funny thing, and our recall of timing of events can be even stranger - I enjoyed reading your recollection and I can't wait to see if it aligns to mine.
Also, since the clock isn't ticking with the ATE interaction, I wonder if they would edit it down if the time the contestant spends with the expert is significant?
---Jay
Oops, in rereading your post I see you were referring to the intro time and not the lifeline time. Yes, I don't recall that being anything but very brief - I'm thinking that Bill Nye got the longer intro since it was the very first show - I would suspect that it will be shorter the rest of the week, but that's just a guess.
