[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'165440\' date=\'Oct 3 2007, 04:19 PM\']
[quote name=\'weaklink75\' post=\'165438\' date=\'Oct 3 2007, 04:07 PM\']
Well it's official...but the press release worries me a bit-the Gladiators aren't supposed to be out and out "bad guys"-just the other team who are competitive but sportsmanlike. [/quote]
There's only one reference to the Gladiators as "villainous", and that might just be press release hyperbole. The audience was always meant to root for the challengers and, by extension, against the Gladiators whose job it was to stop them. I'm not too worried about that part.
If you're going to be worried, be worried about who's hosting. Shows like this don't work when they're hosted by a "character" as opposed to a real person, and even though Hogan has been playing his character so long that it's second-nature to him, he's still going to be performing, not hosting. The show worked SO much better than its inferior knockoffs in part because the hosts treated it like a real sporting event. There's no real evidence that the Hulkster has any idea how to do that, and quotes like "Gladiator-mania is gonna be running wild, brother" do little to convince me.
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True-but I think Hulk is going to be in the Larry Czonka role here and do color commentary- they'll hire someone to be the play-by-play guy (they wanted the "name" first). We won't know if this was a good choice or not until we actually see a show...it does looks like they are going more "over-the-top" than the original series however.