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I don't watch too many TV shows but Deadliest Warrior is one I don't miss. I am hooked on it.
Spike has had a lot of shitty original programming over the last few years (Manswers, anyone?) but this one is actually good. It is big and loud and silly but strangely gratifying, like your mother.
If you haven't seen it they somewhat arbitrarily take two "warriors" from history and compare them. They test their weapons and tactics with experts then punch the results into a computer program which simulates a battle between the two 1000 times. The winner is the one with the majority of kills.
Last season they had a lot of interesting warriors including Spartans, The IRA, ninjas, pirates, etc.. They did a decent job of pairing the warriors to make it as fair a fight as possible but a lot of people complained that the match-ups were skewed. An example of a good match-up was The Mafia vs. The Yakuza. A bad one was Apache vs. Gladiator.
The new season began tonight with a rehash of the last followed by two new warriors, American SWAT vs. Border Guard Group 9 (GSG9). Pretty even fight.
The problem is that in the first season they used up a lot of the best warrior types. Perhaps they didn't know if the show would be renewed so they blew their wad. Now they are scraping a bit with less interesting warriors.
Check it out Tuesdays on SpikeTV @ 10:00PM.

