The other interesting thing from the weekend was the return of Gladiators, officially third to Gamesmaster and The Crystal Maze as the greatest TV show of the 90′s, on Sky One. With hope of reviving old shows, I’m praying those two will make a comeback soon. But Sunday night it was Gladiators night, luckily, I managed to pugil stick my Dad off the remote which was on Songs of Praise at the time, to settle down to the return of Gladiators.
I’m not going to bother explaining it, as I’m sure you’re all aware how it works. But this year there were new Gladiators and the lure of new events lured me in.
It isn’t perfect, I compared it too much to the old one (the Roman classical music rather than soft rock annoyed me), and with the exception of Oblivion, the rest of the Gladiators are pretty – well – forgettable (and where are the attractive female ones? Not one of them is doable), and they just seemed a bit weaker in comparison to the oldies.
We’ll see anyway.
I did still enjoy it though, it was good fun for an hour on a Sunday. Will it maintain my interest for the next few weeks, we’ll see.
Did you see it? What did you make of it? And – (I fear Ryan may have asked this question before) – if you were a gladiator, what would be your name and why?
My name would be one to describe one aspect of my personage which I am good at (something which, unless you are both female and attractive, you’d never know). I was unsure whether to call myself a Dynamo or a Jackhammer, so I’ll just settle on Dynahammer!
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I used to be in love with Hunter. I always got excited when it was the Wall game – he was amazing at that! I kinda fancy the Gladiator with the long blond hair in the new series. I’m a sucker for a guy with nice long hair – very very very few guys can carry off long hair. Don’t even attempt it if you have curly hair.
I’d be a shit gladiator. I’m tiny. I’ll be one of the cheerleaders instead.
ahhh wolf was the best one ever! cos he was eeevil!
I can’t imagine I’d make a very good gladiator either – although I’m short so I could dodge most attacks! (but not reach the bars in the final bit!)
Battleaxe (I think that’s her name?) looks really, really scary. I’ve not seen it yet but hopefully I’ll see it this weekend on the boy’s Sky+.
Don’t know what my name would be.. The Sulk would suit well just now since that’s all I’ve done for the past 24 hours!
Yup, it has been back here for a few months too! Love that is is back!
I used to love it when I was a kid. I think there was a German version as well that I never really understood but it was much more extreme.
Hah!
Go look up Gina Carano – she’s on our re-issue of Gladiators (in America) as Crush.
And holy crap, I don’t think there’s another woman on earth that I’d willingly go toe-to-toe with in a ring…and be totally fine with being beaten senseless.
The rest of ‘em are pretty meh, though.