For the gals, blue got 10 by making it through the end with time to spare. Red, an ex marine, did the same time, but with hardly any time left.
This one wasn’t so hot, though I do like the ref, who when he stopped the red guy’s first one called a foul for “giving him the buisness” for using his hands agains the gladiator.
The guys are doing joust after, and blue is totally outmatched by ‘Mayhem’, who’s a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier and looks like a rasta kickboxer. I think agility for blue could win it though.
Blue won it by drawing the gladiator onto his platform, and red ducked the first swing and ‘Mayhem’ lost by stepping over immediately. Red’s victory celebration was cut short when the gladiator pushed him in while his back was turned. That made me laugh aloud.
The gals are doing the wall with a 7 second head start. Both are barely staying ahead of teh gladiators, kicking hands off ankles all the way up. Red won, and blue made it with seconds to spare to get 5.
And now they’re doing assault!!! 100 mph tennis balls! And something that will catapult the gladiator if his target gets hit??? Awesome.
Hmm…Looks to me like they combined the cheese factor of the original show with the worst aspects of the reality shows and game shows that have been created since to make something that is almost unwatchable.
Red got knocked out on the 3rd station but got 2 for firing the first two turrets.
Blue got 2 as well, without getting hit. This assault seems a little more confusing than the last one, I think I’d like it more if the weapons were pre loaded, they seem to take too much time figuring them out. But I want to see more.
Women are doing hang tough. Red got caught by the gladiator, whose “signature move” of a big downward jerk by latching on with the legs and dropping didn’t work. She tried to pry red’s hands off, but slipped. Red couldn’t get any momentum going after that and just hung on for the 5.
Blue made it across for 10, by swinging up and over ‘Fury’'s legs.
The guys are going up the pyramid after the break. And I just realized how much red looks like Lee Adama.
Neither of the guys scored at all. ‘Wolf’ kept the advantage over red, and blue was just dominated by ‘Titan’. Red has a 1 second head start into the eliminator.
The women are doing the "try to not get knocked off the bridge by wrecking balls game, which turns out to be called “Hit and Run”.
Blue lost my respect by totally misusing the word synergy, and hence got knocked off after only scoring two. Red didn’t score at all, with the announcer’s commenting that the “marine had joined the navy”.
Yep, I think this is the only time I’ll watch this. If I want to see it, I’ll catch reruns of the original on ESPN Classic. I stand by my comment that they’ve only made it worse and unpleasant to watch.
Guys go first in the eliminator. Blue gets an early lead, but red closes the gap on the cargo net and passes at the barrel roll, while blue gets the lead when red falls on the hand bike. Blue won it all, with red really struggling. Maybe he’s overweight Lee Adama before he starts on the jump rope.
The fire to be swum under is only a tiny bit of the pool, maybe 4 feet.
Blue had a second of head start, and increased it till she got to the hand bike. This just seems brutal after so much else in the competition. Red, bleeding from the forehead due to hitting her head in the pool, came close at the end, but blue took it.
I really enjoyed the hell out of that. The drinking game is already forming in my mind:
[ul]
[li]Drink whenever Hulk Hogan calls someone “brother.”[/li][li]Drink whenever a Gladiator flexes for the camera. [/li][li]Drink when a competitor cries.[/li][li]Drink when someone mentions “America.” (You must also sing a verse of that wretched “This is our country” song in all the football ads.)[/li][li]Drink when a Gladiator gets beaten in an event and then acts like a baby about it.[/li][/ul]
How hilarious would it be to see the “Spider Monkey” actually end up becoming a gladiator? Of course I don’t think it would happen, but I crack up everytime he plays with his glasses like an idiot.
Not bad. The trash-talking contestants turned me off a little bit. I really enjoyed watching the red guy from the first episode (the firefighter). He was good.
My 11-year-old daughter really enjoyed it. It’s too bad they are not going to keep it on Sunday nights, though. Maybe we’ll remember to watch it on Mondays–we’ll see.
Well, I liked it. I don’t know what asterion’s going on about. I was afraid the events were going to be easier when I saw how big the powerball baskets were, but that fear was quickly allayed. The eliminator is too long, though, and it was painful watching the female contenders struggle through it.
The first girl’s knee injury replays were a little Theismanesque, though.
The only thing I miss from the original episodes is printing the gladiator’s name on the screen when they’re announced. Sometimes I don’t hear as well as I pretend to. Oh, and I miss Mike Adamle and Larry Czonka, although Hulk and Leyla are ok.
One thing I really hope they’ll do is lower the “wrecking balls” in “Hit and Run.” It just seems a little too easy for some of the contestants to just duck under all of the balls. 1 or 2 feet lower would make the game a lot more interesting IMO.