Sandman7 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sandman7) wrote,@ 2008-01-08 12:05:00 |
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American Gladiator redux
Well, I have been known to say that most of network TV doesn't thrill me these days. I prefer to watch the shows on the specialty channels like Discovery and History etc.
But this week an old guilty pleaser of mine crept back onto the TV.
In the 90's I used to watch American Gladiators. It wasn't the best show by far at the time and I knew it even then. But something about it just kept me coming back. Probably that train wreck thing.
So now they have a new American Gladiator. And it looks pretty much like the old one. I even believe the producer is the same producer of the original series, which would explain the near identical look of the show.
And just like before I find myself watching it.
I still don't know what about it makes me watch. Maybe it's the really buff women (I have a small crush on Crush and Hellga frightens me. man she's a big girl), or maybe it's the absolute silliness of some of the show. You can tell that no one is really taking this too seriously, especially the Gladiators. You can tell they are just playing for the audience. Sort of like in Wrestling where there is a lot of Drama and overacting. Yet that never made me want to watch wrestling but that same sort of acting in American Gladiators makes me stay.
Go figure.
And Hulk Hogan is the host and doing the Hulkster thing. And Layla Ali, the daughter of Mohamed Ali and a professional boxer in her own rights, is the second host.
Oh well, I am ashamed but I shall still watch the whole series. :P
Ta Ta for now.
Well, I have been known to say that most of network TV doesn't thrill me these days. I prefer to watch the shows on the specialty channels like Discovery and History etc.
But this week an old guilty pleaser of mine crept back onto the TV.
In the 90's I used to watch American Gladiators. It wasn't the best show by far at the time and I knew it even then. But something about it just kept me coming back. Probably that train wreck thing.
So now they have a new American Gladiator. And it looks pretty much like the old one. I even believe the producer is the same producer of the original series, which would explain the near identical look of the show.
And just like before I find myself watching it.
I still don't know what about it makes me watch. Maybe it's the really buff women (I have a small crush on Crush and Hellga frightens me. man she's a big girl), or maybe it's the absolute silliness of some of the show. You can tell that no one is really taking this too seriously, especially the Gladiators. You can tell they are just playing for the audience. Sort of like in Wrestling where there is a lot of Drama and overacting. Yet that never made me want to watch wrestling but that same sort of acting in American Gladiators makes me stay.
Go figure.
And Hulk Hogan is the host and doing the Hulkster thing. And Layla Ali, the daughter of Mohamed Ali and a professional boxer in her own rights, is the second host.
Oh well, I am ashamed but I shall still watch the whole series. :P
Ta Ta for now.
