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Bored, show just big waste of money

posted 16 years ago by andyycase
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I got bored of the show and didn't watch it this week but remember the week before out of the 4 events Panther did 3 of them. The only one she didn't do was hit and run which is a team gladiator event.
I'm guessing Inferno is probably one of the highest paid but all she does is stand there, whether its throwing a ball back and forth or standing on the spot with some pads and letting people run past her.

The heavy set gladiators like Panther and battle axe do all the events where u need power like duel and earthquake and the light weight gladiators like Tempest and ice do events like hang tough and wall which doesn't give much competition.

for example on earthquake which battleaxe is the only one able to do it. she is 14 stone and most people she faces are about 8 stone or less so guess who wins everytime.

unless hit and run is in the show alot of the contenders fail to make it into double points from the 4 events.

Give me a repeat of the old gladiators any day. So much hype but it has failed to deliver.

[–] xmagic_dustx 16 years ago

Atlas is barely ever in any event other than Hang Tough and he is my favourite Gladiator. Surely he'd be perfect for Duel, Gauntlet, etc, but he's underused terribly, whereas Gladiators like Spartan, Oblivion and Predator seem to be in almost every event.

I also don't like how they use a different Gladiator for each contender on Hang Tough. Why can't the same Gladiator go against both contenders? They used to do it that way in the old show, rather than change Gladiator after each contender finishes.

Why has everyone suddenly started putting a 'spoiler' as their signature?

[–] wonderwall100 16 years ago

"I also don't like how they use a different Gladiator for each contender on Hang Tough. Why can't the same Gladiator go against both contenders? They used to do it that way in the old show, rather than change Gladiator after each contender finishes."

Im guessing its because the the event is now held over water. The Gladiator is too wet to go immediatly against the contender. So to save time waiting for them to get dry, they just use another Gladiator.