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No Heart! What Happened?

posted 8 years ago by neon-29
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What happened?? Everything that made this show great has been lost. There is no HEART with this version of the show. We loved American Restoration because we loved Rick Dale and watching his team interact. We liked the crossover episodes with the Pawn Stars and Counts Customs. Sure, seeing what and how they restored things was the center of the show, and is interesting in itself, but what made it a show was the characters we knew and cared about mixed with the information and processes for how these things get restored.

This current incarnation is just a bunch of people we know nothing about, from random shops, doing the same types of projects we've already seen. There's no emotion, and no payoff.

I'll need to lookup why they moved away from Rick's Restorations, but really they should have just named this version of the show something new. This isn't the American Restoration we grew to love.

[–] neon-29 8 years ago

One more point- The scripted skits and bad acting were terrible, i'll admit that. It's messed up Pawn Stars for me, and the old American Restoration a bit. But it was more entertaining than what we have now, guys fixin' stuff.

[–] seansho 8 years ago

"Sure, seeing what and how they restored things was the center of the show"

LOL maybe that was sort of true in the first season or so but it devolved into a bad scripted sitcom about wacky employees and their zany antics just like pawn tards. And even then they showed very little of actually work. Glad i got out on all the (not about) history channel garbage years ago.

[–] drunkbear 8 years ago

Sorry, but I'm glad they changed the format. The reality-show scripted drama and comedy in the Rick Dale version was getting really tiresome, to me. So far, I will say that I liked the variety of items that they restored in the Rick Dale series, but the new version feels a lot more real.

"You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything."

[–] billymac72 8 years ago

I am quite happy with the change as well. I LOVE watching restoration work, and the Rick Dale version just got way too carried away with everything else besides the restoration work. Seriously, I've been seeing nothing but griping about that issue for several years now. So now Rick and co. are gone and the show is almost all about restoration from what I've seen. And now everyone is saying they want the old show back?

I liked Rick and I don't know who is to blame for where his show headed. I thought his son was a spoiled rotten punk, and the rest of his crew were knuckleheads. I had no interest in any of them and their shenanigans. The show got to the point where there was little to no restoration work even shown, save for a 3-second clip of a guy doing a pinstripe. They used the restoration as an excuse to send his goofball brother off on a road trip to find a part, or something similar.

Now, the drama has so far (knock on wood) been stripped clean and the conversation and screen time is strictly devoted to the work. That's how it should be.

[–] deity2 8 years ago

wow, you're an idiot.....the whole show was crap and the cast were a bunch of losers....the last episode I watched is when the kid way overcharged his teacher for an old air gauge deal...I thought maybe $150 or so, but nooooo...I think it was something like $800....WTF...boy, that did it for me...bad enough Rick was a thief, but to pass it onto his 14 year old son really pissed me off...I'm so glad them Aholes are GONE