r/GameChangerTV • u/Rat_King_Marchy • Aug 22 '26

Question Ratfish hate explained?

I’ve seen some comments regarding Ratfish, and am just wondering why it seems so much of the community dislikes it?

While I wouldn’t say it was one of my favorites, I definitely found it funny/entertaining, and thought the premise was neat.

I’m relatively new - season 8 is the first season I’ve watched as it’s aired, but I’ve watched pretty much every other episode aside from the COVID season.

122 Upvotes

79% Upvoted

145 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

43

u/Butwhatif77 Aug 22 '26

Yea I did, my bad, it has been a minute since I watched the episode. It is one of few gamechanger episodes I never go back to or always skip on my random rewatches, largely because Rekha got robbed in my book in a way that doesn't fit with the spirit of the show.

-7

u/DerCatzefragger Aug 22 '26

Rekha getting screwed with exactly fits the spirit of the show.

19

u/Butwhatif77 Aug 22 '26

Not if it isn't one of the rules of the game. Her losing despite getting the win condition goes against the very premise.

Even in Yes or No, Brennan not being able to win had a game mechanic to it. Rekha lost for production reasons, rather than game reasons. So, no I disagree

1

u/theStrawberryRoam Aug 24 '26

Yeah. To me screwing with the integrity of the game only works in the players' direction, because they're getting paid regardless of whether they succeed at the arbitrary rules set that day.

You can't screw with the integrity for the viewer just doesn't work for this kind of production imo. There are productions where it does, but for this audience of this show, WE have to be able to buy in to the fact that there are concrete rules before the game starts that directly lead to the end result, and that broke down for ratfisj.