clemente

Dude, I'm sure I could get some points with openings that big on Powerball....I'd just start taking jumpshots.

The one thing I'm not liking about this Gladiators so far, the action is too edited. No need to make it xtreme!!! or Michael Bay-ian, just show me the action from one of two angles and that's it.

Charlie Goose

So far it's almost unwatchable due to the stupid commentary. Back when, Mike Adamle and his co-host used to actually call the action as it happened. This new commentary is obviously added in post production and fucking scripted. You can tell with idiotic shit like, "Ooh that's gonna leave a mark!" (to a serious knee injury BTW) and "...the meat in a gladiator sandwich!" SUCKS.

And Powerball is much easier than it used to be. I felt kind of bad for the woman who blew out her knee 15 seconds into the very first event.

whotony

did they say what her injury was on her knee?

wnyx1440

Wow, I never remembered this show being so funny... (with the exception of the woman who blew her knee out right away).

TheNightFlier

Jeez, could the ending of the Women's Eliminator be anymore scripted?

mhg83

some parts of the game left me feeling like its predetermined or fixed. The first match having someone getting injured and the womans last second comeback in the final match seems like this is scripted.

DJariya

A co-worker of mine told me that his friend attended a taping of this and it's 1000% scripted. He said they did several re-takes on certain events.

cartman

I was just coming to say this was so laughably bad (started watcing after The Amazing Race ended at 9:40...), and the scripted comment makes so much sense . It defeats the whole purpose of the show and if it was scripted or not, I wasn't coming back for a second viewing with how this has turned out. That Wolf guy howling every time his name is called had me laughing hard, but not in a way that's good for the show!

Timber

Oh nos. I'm only through the first powerball and it does look scripted. The original didn't need to be changed, just and update of the sets and maybe some new games and new gladiators. I would have thought it was too simple to ruin. At least they don't have Hogan or Ali doing the commentary. I'm really not digging Hogan's "Rico Suave" bandanna wig.

TheNightFlier

Helga looks like she ate the St. Pauli Girl.

Red Dog

That's weird. Then I guess it isn't technically subject to the laws against game show fixing.

I think that's Van Earl Wright on the PxP call - it would be more entertaining to hear him call it live.

Leave it to NBC to fuck up a tried and true formula.

Rockmjd23

I noticed that the guy who plays Titan used to be on BattleDome. They should get T Money! Is he still on Everybody Hates Chris?

whotony

scripted or not that first woman looked seriously hurt.

did anyone see the guy who said he missed a chance to be on in '94?
he cheated to get past the gladiators and you could hear people laughing when he didnt break through the wall.

FantasticVSDoom

Wow, this is pretty bad, but I cant stop watching, ... This has nothing on Ninja Warrior.

Rockmjd23

This is terrible. Bring back BattleDome!

TheNightFlier

Bring back Adamle, Csonka, or Christensen.

This is just awful.

BlackMontels

Shes from around my area and was just on the news. It was a torn ACL.

jPoD_TGN

Is she going on IR?

flashburn

The only parts I thought seemed extremely scripted were the little interviews after each event, most of them were laughably bad. I'll continue to watch this show just because I was laughing my ass off the entire time.

BravesMG

Is that the same referee from Dodgeball??

BlackMontels

Heres an article from our local paper about the girl:

http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008...9866283257.txt

Heres an article talking about her injury:

http://www.kwqc.com/global/story.asp?s=7584758

kevin75

Van Earl Wright is never entertaining. I wish they would get rid of him.

toxie321

HAHAHAHAHA That's what my buddies and I were trying to figure out.

Also that fruity looking blonde gladiator looks like Oz from American Pie.

clemente

YES!! I knew I wasn't the only one who was thinking that. We didn't get too many clear looks at him, but it sure looks and sounds like him.

It was shortly after I last saw him that it occured to me that this version of American Gladiators is Dodgeball. Semi-serious athletic competitions taken to the extreme levels of seriousness (and laughability). I guess Laila and Hulk are Cotton and Pepper.

fumanstan

I have a crush on Crush.

http://www.maximonline.com/todays_gi...d.aspx?id=2255