Three minutes in and I feel sorry for these kids. It seems like the system has failed them and they are all struggling to survive and looking to MMA as their ticket out of their small town mediocrity. Six minutes in and I've reversed my position and feel that these are idiot kids who have no future in this sport, they just like to get drunk and fight.
It's interesting that they never gave the ages of any of the kids. I wonder if they are 18 and just out of high school and forgoing college and looking to MMA to make a living, or if they are 22ish and and trying to make a go of it, but have a college degree to fall back on if nothing comes of it.
I like that they are focusing in a few kids with different levels of access to what is needed to train. And while the poorer kids lacks proper workout gear, that does not mean he is less talented in the ring. But to be 12 pounds overweight and out drinking a week before your fight shows a lack of professionalism and makes me feel again that Wes is just a redneck who likes to drink and fight. But then you hear him talk and he's saying all the right things. I'm undecided on Wes, he needs to start practicing what he preaches.
It amused me that they were using a bathroom scale, instead of a doctors scale, to do the weight-ins. Way to look small time.
So they introduce us to Daniel. The only thing they tell us about him on his intro card is he's never been knocked out. The whole time he's training his coaches are yelling at him to keep his hands up. He mentions to his girlfriend that he has never lost when she been there to watch him fight. I wonder what will happen next? Hmmmm??? Maybe she doesn't show up and then he gets knocked out because his hands are too low.....Hey will you look at that, right on all counts.
I didn't really care for the way they showcased the fights. I know they don't have time enough to show the whole fights, but it seemed disjointed and confusing. I was never able to gain a real sense of any of there skills from what was shown.
I guess I'm going to have and wait and see on this show. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either. I wonder if every episode they will fight at the end, or if it will be slower paced and focus more on the aftermath of this first fights.
Wipeout is an interesting show in that, the longer an episode goes on the less and less interested in it I become. To the point that I usually fast forward through the final challenge. I guess the more the show changes from watching idiots fall down, to more of a challenge game show with players competing for a cash prize, the less entertaining it becomes. The first act is always good for a few true out loud laughs though, so I'll continue to watch it. Although I liked it better when it only ran for a few weeks over the summer. It gave the one trick pony that the show is more of a special feeling.
Since police officers started carrying tasers, Cops has become appointment viewing. They don't taser someone every episode but when they do it's almost always classic.
Whenever I watch Cops I need to know where the segment takes place. If for some reason I've missed it I have to go back and see, or I can't watch it. I don't know why, It's just a strange quirk I have.
The way that naked girl jumped for her bag, I'm surprised that they didn't search it and find drugs in it. That's how I thought that segment would end, not with letting them go. Bet you if they were black the police wouldn't have let them go.
I know the second episode was a rerun, but it was one of the better episodes I've ever seen. They need to air more episodes like that. Where you see them work a case all the way through, instead of just episodes where all they do is traffic stops. A perfect mix would be 40% of episodes the standard formula, 20% prostitution stings, 20% big drug busts, and the other 20% big interesting cases like last nights murder for hire.
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