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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

It's sad that they're running out of myths. They've been begging for audience suggestions pretty hard all season. Also, I don't know what the hell changed, but their intro dialogue has become horrifically stilted when it didn't used to be. I can't imagine that many people could suddenly lose all their acting skills at the same time, so I have to assume they used to actually improvise the setup explanations, and now they are being given a (badly-written) script to follow.

Could it be the writers' strike? They used to have professional writers who produced scripts so smooth they seemed spontaneous, but now, scriptless, they really are ad libbing and so it seems stilted...