Originally Posted by
Drewbacca
I thought the ninja was a bit ripped off against the Spartan. Ninjas would never take a Spartan on head-on. The producers of the show said that the show is about battle to determine the best warrior, not the best assassin. They also tried to find a medium between how a spartan would fight (face to face in a field) vs. how a Ninja would fight (stealth, at night). The compromise was a heavy forest region with lots of places for the ninja to hide and get away.
I kind of figured the Spartan would best the ninja, mostly because of the shield, but one part of the simulated fight bugged me, where the ninja threw the black egg in the Spartan's eyes and then ran away. I could see if he was injured or knew he had no way of defeating his opponent and used that to make his escape, but he effectively blinded him 5-6 seconds, at that point I think he should have used that time to get behind him and cut his throat.
Originally Posted by
Nick
I just watched some of the Spartan/Ninja show on YouTube earlier today and I saw the Apache/Gladiator episode on TV before. (Yeah, being unemployed is great, huh?) It's kind of goofy how personally some of the guys take it, but it is interesting to see how much damage some of the weapons can do. The Spartan short sword went so deep into the ballistics dummy that it hit the metal pole that was holding it up, and the shield hit with 45 Gs of force. Imagine how hard a trained Spartan warrior would hit.
I thought the show would be another stupid Spike TV waste of time, but the scientific testing, computer modeling, and gory end-fight make it worthwhile for me. The Apache guys were kind of obnoxious, but I guess they were actually Apache, so there was some ethnocentric pride going on there. (Hey, I was rooting for the Spartan, so I can understand.) But one of the ninja guys was named Lou Klein and the main Spartan guy was Barry Jacobsen, and they were both pretty partisan, so it's either the producers telling them to be like that or it's just a sign of the times.
I thought the same thing about how serious everyone is about the experience. I let the Apaches slide because this is a matter of pride to for race & culture, but everybody else is just an enthusiast. These guys are acting like their sister's honor rides on this or something.
Originally Posted by
Daitokuji
They should have fucking done Pirates vs Ninja. They would have finally answered the question and they fucked up.
I was annoyed by that too, when my friend told me about this show that was the first thing out of my mouth. I would personally go with the ninja in that scenario
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