Wall Banger/Live-Action TV/Deadliest Warrior: Difference between revisions

Spike TV's ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'', despite being loads of fun, tends to have several wallbangers per episode. Their testing criteria and procedures are questionable. For the most part, it's just people swinging various weapons at dummies as hard as they can. This leads to bizarre testing results. The show also plays loose with history and presents several Hollywood cliches as historical fact.

 

** In the Jesse James vs Al Capone episode, during their melee/silent weapon test, a stiletto/switchblade goes up against a Bowie knife. Multiple things are off about this test. Their computer "expert" Max Geiger claims that with knives, size does matter. Not a few minutes later, he wants to test the Bowie knife to see if its SIZE IS OVERCOMPENSATION. Is knife size on a bell curve? Anyhow, the stiletto went up against one of their famous gel torsos. The Bowie knife? Against a skinned pig carcass. Two different test subjects, and yet they act as if that was conclusive. Now maybe they did the same test and didn't show it, but come on. Seeing a Bowie knife against a gel torso would have made the results more believable.

* Giving the Roman Centurion and Alexander the Great artillery weapons. The best part was the Centurion's Scorpion, which were often about 4 feet tall and designed to be fired by a full, multi-man crew (here with only one person) was compared to a small, bladed, frisby-like disk.

* The upcoming Vampires vs. Zombies match. Um...what? At least the other fights had some semblance of reality, but this? Unless they're testing methods for ''killing'' them, there's no real way to have this matchup, since most fights with vampires and zombies are ''hand to hand'', without any weapons used by the monsters.

** If you're wondering, it was 30 Days of Night vs. [[World War Z]]. The two most random and unrealistic franchises being presented as indisputable canon.

** This episode deftly removes any and all doubt that ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'' is anything other than glorified Nerd Wankery over who's "[[Rule of Cool|cooler]]," without much regard for real science (that is, if the fucking "ballistic knife" thing didn't already convince you of that).

*** Worst of all, the vampires were presented as, to be blunt, morons. This trooper has seen better unit cohesion and superior tactical savvy from pick up groups in World of Warcraft! Frankly, if both sides had actually used the abilities they were explicitly stated to have, the vampires would have won fairly handily.

 

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