America Gladiators
- Thread starter Flying Spaghetti Monster
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Agreed! Even without the time crunch, I would suggest getting rid of the interviews. The interviewers are crap and the contestants never have anything interesting to say because they're exhausted, out of breath people who have just gone up against gigantic bodybuilders in insane events of physical endurance. We're watching the show for the events, not because the contestants are great orators.
And now, proof that strong women can be beautiful: CRUSH
Amen! I think I've found a new religion.
The only thing I don't like about Crush is in her intro video you see her brushing the hair out of her eyes. Nothing spoils her warrior image more than that. (A true warrior would have a more practical hair-style that wouldn't get in her eyes in the first place.)I agree on a lot of points there. I would especially like to see some of the current Gladiators going up against each other in some events. Mostly, I'd just like to see if there's ANYONE capable of beating Titan at Joust. (I think it would also be fun to see Crush vs. Phoenix on Earthquake or Pyramid, if you know what I mean.
)Rocket is one of my favorite Gladiators, if only because NO ONE is faster. I love watching him in Wall when he actually climbs around & above the contenders!
The other changes I'd make to the show are:
1.) Make the points worth more of a head start in the Eliminator. Half-a-second per point is too skimpy to give hardly any advantage even to someone that has completely dominated all the other events. Heck, it's probably a good strategic move to just sleepwalk through all of the events and save all their energy for the Eliminator.
2.) I prefer the more clean-cut, all-American feel of the old Gladiators to this new bunch of 'roided up WWE rejects. Sometimes I think Titan & Rocket are the only ones that would really have fit in on the old show. But at least I think NBC agrees since they seem to have toned down the more psychotic Gladiators like Wolf, Justice, Militia, & Toa.
Love Wolf. Gotta have a good old fashioned crazy wolf man in your competition, you know. I've been a fan of Crush since I saw her crushing her first competitor.
We enjoy the show quite a bit and wish they could squeeze in all the events. All the competitors say pretty much the same type of stuff over and over again.
We enjoy the show quite a bit and wish they could squeeze in all the events. All the competitors say pretty much the same type of stuff over and over again.
They had a mini-marathon on MTV yesterday, which my dvr recorded.
Yeah, the episodes seem oddly timed. And the interviews are BORING... "I'm going to do the best I can" and "I want to thank my family who is here supporting me"
BLAH BLAH BLAH
Gimme fuel, gimme fire... gimme that which i desire
And I desire ACTION!
Yeah, the episodes seem oddly timed. And the interviews are BORING... "I'm going to do the best I can" and "I want to thank my family who is here supporting me"
BLAH BLAH BLAH
Gimme fuel, gimme fire... gimme that which i desire
And I desire ACTION!
Who were your favorite old gladiators from the original show everyone?
I liked Lace: she was pretty and she had guts. It took a lot of guts to call yourself a gladiator and be smaller and weaker than EVERYONE else out there, even the "normal" competitors.
I liked Lace: she was pretty and she had guts. It took a lot of guts to call yourself a gladiator and be smaller and weaker than EVERYONE else out there, even the "normal" competitors.
ooh that's cool! Do you remember what gladiator..not in name, but appearance.
ah ok. kewl. where it narrows it down a bit.
Don't forget the ever popular
"Failure is not an option!"
"I want to show that you can do anything if you really work at it."
"This is for my kids/family/dead parent/cult members."
Tonight was probably the first time I actually got annoyed watching this show. I mean you have this 52 year old who shouldn't be there in the first place spouting out the same crap again and we still haven't seen Skytrack other than the first few times when the show was still 90 minutes. The guys were much more exciting than the girls and the girls were just damn annoying. I'm still interested, but this show is really trying my patience lately. Why are we seeing Sideswipe so much and not Assault? Sideswipe is pretty much just hit and run on steroids (Given some of these gladiators, that might not be a bad comparison) and I really don't care what these people have to say. It's interesting that Skytrack started out as one of my favorite events and it's regulated to NBC.com status. God I wish NBC would cancel Nashville Star (Which I did try to like but just couldn't because John Rich is an idiot, even though I like Big & Rich) and put this show on for 90 minutes again or something. When we get to the semifinals, we probably will still be skipping events just to hear "Failure is not an option" and crap like that.
They tried to combine the two into a single game but the only name they could come up with was "Asswipe" and NBC nixed it.
Agreed. They need to cut the dialog and the so called "Trash Talk" by the contestants, and kill Hogan and Ali as host, then we MAY have a great show.
BTW: Last season's champion "Rocket" is fast and is freaking awesome. Too bad this season the winners don't automatically become Gladiators.
Gladiatormanics did it for me...
Is he last seasons champion? WOW!
And I can't believe this seasons contestants don't become Gladiators automatically! That sucks! Maybe Rocket and Jet were too big of a problem. I know that Jet doesn't seem that remarkable!
They didn't automatically become Gladiators last season too, they kept talking about "a chance to become a new American Gladiator." One can assume that they were willing to move their families down to LA and engage in a hardcore workout regiment, sign contracts, etc. All of that is optional for them after winning, and they have to show that they deserve the spot.
I thought they automatically got the option to become a new gladiator... Are you sure about this?
Well, IIRC, the show isn't filmed once per week... They are filmed in a pretty short span of time and then aired over the "season" so it's not like you have to move the family to LA and the such...
That's correct. I believe that as many as five episodes are filmed in a single day.
