Another show I’ve been really enjoying every week, but not really mentioned here, has been the new series of Gladiators. While it took some time to bed in during the opening episodes, by the time it got to the quarter finals it really picked up steam, with the Gladiators personalities starting to establish and them showing how much more comfortable in the events they’d become.
Its been good fun to watch, and I’ve gotten really into it, although I do feel it suffers slightly from the added adverts we have these days, which means one less event, and less mike time for the Gladiators themselves. However overall its been a lot of fun, and I’m really looking forward to the second series.
To wrap up the first series, Sky decided to bring back some of the original Gladiators and have them face off against the new Gladiators. Added to this, they boosted the length of the show, which allowed another event, as well as lots of time for mucking about and post-event interviews. This really added to the atmosphere of the show, and really added an element of fun to the proceedings. It was great to see the classic Gladiators again, although it was such a shame Hunter had injured himself prior to the recording and couldn’t compete more. Still, he absolutely destroyed Spartan in Duel (that first hit looked painful).
Wolf was on great form. His hair may be shorter, but he still gets what the audience want. His big fight with Oblivion was worth the wait, and had me in stitches as Ian Wright jumped in to try and separate them before ending up red carded by John Anderson. I’m really pleased to hear he’s coming back full time for season 2 in his new “Team Manager” role. There was a great sense of fun in this special that they need to build on in the main series.
It was interesting to see the Gladiators running the Eliminator as well. Atlas managing to hold onto the cotton reel was impressive, but then got promptly blown out of the water by Predator on the hand bikes. And Lightning really demolished the monkeybars, although Tempest really showed how fast she can be as she nearly caught her on the Pyramid.
Great fun, and makes me hopeful that season 2 should be really good now they’ve had a season to settle in. I hope they tweak the eliminator though. I’m not keen on the water start (removes most of the benefit in the head start) and the cotton reels are just a bit pointless.
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Lightening was back? May have to restart Bittorrent, she was one of my favorites, how well has she aged?
Scarily she looked to be in better shape now than she was back then. Heck of a lot more toned (really obvious in her abs).
Think its still sitting on my Sky+, so must let you see it. It was heckuva entertaining.
As someone who’s been watching the whole series, Trojan’s “Humble in Victory, Gracious in Defeat” speech to Tornado was probably a highlight. Tornado’s been an arrogant swine throughout season 1, and that verbal beatdown was very satisfying (although it was interesting to note the scenes where Tornado was grinning like a loon, only to suddenly notice the camera was on him and switch back to his usual scowl).
Yay I’m on gladiators, oh wait, I’m a baddy, Grrr
That was basically how it looked
Is that picture of Spartan, or Roman, or whoever shouting “Help me you fools, I’m on fire”
You have to assume so
Spartan’s probably emerged as my favourite of the new Gladiators so far. He seemed to twig fairly early on that being a good sport would put him over well, whereas a lot of the Gladiators were still trying to be nasty in the early episodes.