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Yeah, I saw the Samurai vs Viking commercial a few times this past weekend. Looks kinda cool. I love when shows demonstrate physical damage on those gelatin dummy things.
You might also be interested in a few similar shows on the History Channel. There's one called Warriors with Terry Schappert, where he picks a group of warriors from around the globe each week and dissects their battle styles, tactics, and all sorts of stuff. I saw an episode on William Wallace-era Scottish dudes and it was very interesting.
There's also Battles B.C., which takes on a specific battle and goes crazy in-depth, giving you all sorts of maps, diagrams, and political/historical context. I saw one where it discussed Caesar's siege on a city in Gaul, and found it fascinating.
Holy bikini briefs, Batman! That looks awesome.
But if the Gladiator had access to Smallpox riddled blankets, wouldn't it make the whole point moot?
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Hee hee hee. History jokes and genocide. Awesome. Awesome.
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Saw the first episode and it was awesome. Can't wait for the next one because I love samurai
I really need to start watching TV sometime, then. The stuff on the History channel sounds good too!
why not a whole series on samurai vs vikings?
it's not quite pirates vs ninjas like i would have hoped, but it's close enough.
@ psycho terror2
Pirate v. Ninja might not be out of the question. i saw a preview with a ninja in it, so the age-old question might get answered.
i bet if enough people sent in emails they would do pirate vs ninja for the next season or something.
but yeah i saw gladiator vs apache. the little fight at the end was bullshit tho. the gladiator just stopped to showboat like 3 times when he could have killed the shit out of the appache. but whatever man, SCIENCE.
The gladiator was sorta like the pro-wrestler of the ancient world. Just that the wrasslin' was real. =P
A lot of moves in professional wrestling are intended to not only avoid inflicting serious pain that they look like they should, but also to showoff, to an extent. Though most of the showing off is done during the pre/post-battle scenes, there are some people who will showboat and otherwise drop his guard, and take a chair to the head.
Gladiators were pretty much assumed to die in every single battle they participated in. If you lived, great! You'll have your chance to die next time. And, since you're gonna meet your end in the ring, why not give the audience a good show? There's more to it than outright killing. Would people be so interested in pro wrestling if it was straight combat? Perhaps, but not to the degree that they are with the storylines and other crap involved.
Gladiator fights for entertainment. Apache fights for survival/defense of his territory. Gives the Apache a bit of an edge, maybe.