Meet the pituitary freaks of The New American Gladiators!

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Post by matt! » Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:33 am

yeah i read about militia and it made it funny that he was chosen to wrestle the contenders one on one this week.

wolf is running out of eating/biting/hunting metaphors to use. monday night between contenders he said, "i missed my last meal. i never miss two in a row." hmm, just like a wolf never misses two meals in a row? you are trying too hard.

my local paper says that due to the success of gladiators, a kids version called gladiators 2000 is going into syndication. check out who the host was.

Post by Tom Brazelton » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:42 pm

I like Wolf. He just doesn't have to howl EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. someone talks to him.

Militia is the one that was in gay porn. I read it on Reality Blurred a few weeks ago and then it was on The Soup last week.

Post by matt! » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:07 pm

toa is the rock's cousin and stunt double. he's kind of cool too. and obviously titan belongs there as an accomplished bodybuilder and athlete.

wolf wouldn't bother me so much if he had a makeover, and was less eager to genuinely kill people. mayhem and justice speak with about a fourth grade vocabulary. hellga is a little off, too, if you know what i mean.

i just like that in the old days, the glads were clean cut and admirable, or so it seemed. this is sort of a family show, and these gladiators nowadays don't seem that american.

hopefully they will readjust the toen of the show as much and as often as they did in the first run.

Post by Col » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:50 pm

Tom Brazelton wrote:Well, what do you expect from The Rock's stunt double and a dude who used to be in gay porn?

I thought one of them was The Rock's cousin. And I'm scared to ask which one was in gay porn.

It's a lot easier to watch when you tape the show and then fast-forward through the talking-bits.

Post by gerbo321 » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:28 pm

I think I was the most pumped up to see this but didn't make it 30 minutes into the premiere. It was just so....modernized and lame. It looked more like a staged reality show then the Gladiators that I remember.

Post by Tom Brazelton » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:48 pm

Well, what do you expect from The Rock's stunt double and a dude who used to be in gay porn?

Post by matt! » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:19 pm

sorry, gladiators.

Post by Col » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:17 pm

matt! wrote:speaking of bad role models, have i mentioned that a few of these dudes are fucking ignorant?

The gladiators, or the contenders?

Post by matt! » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:56 pm

i prefer they not be in character at all. they genuinely want to win, why do they have to be dicks about it? they say things like "i'm ought to hurt them" or "i love making them feel pain," but where is the sportsmanship in that? is that really the point? i'm not watching to see people sent home with injuries, i want to see who was gonna win it.

turbo was always a tough guy, and gemini freaked out on a dude when he disrespected him, but all in all it was a job and it was fun. lazer was a good role model, he wouldn't have reveled in hurting people.

speaking of bad role models, have i mentioned that a few of these dudes are fucking ignorant?

Post by Col » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:37 am

Heh, yeah, pro wrestling has more character consistency than American Gladiator.

Post by Tom Brazelton » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:12 am

That's kind of the problem with American Gladiators.

Not that I advocate kicking a guy when he's down, but the Gladiators either need to be around-the-clock bad asses or wholly indifferent to the competitor's injuries while on-camera.

They go to great lengths to create these intimidating personas. But once the competition is through, they're smiling and genial with the contestants - helping them up off the mat and smiling. The only guy that appears to be sticking to the script is Wolf.

I'm all for good sportsmanship, though. But either AG is a sport or it's not.

Post by matt! » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:00 am

the last guy tried to go in and score even though he was limping, so the gladiator felt bad and just carried him out of bounds rather than tackle the shit out of him.

Post by Col » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:31 pm

Tom Brazelton wrote:So they got a makeover of sorts.

OF THEIR TIBIA!!!

Ya burn!

Not to mention their pride, "Brother!"

Post by Tom Brazelton » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:53 pm

So they got a makeover of sorts.

OF THEIR TIBIA!!!

Ya burn!

Post by matt! » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:38 pm

so far two people have gone home due to leg injuries in powerball in only 3 episodes.

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