Post by thatoneuser on Jun 12, 2017 11:26:10 GMT -5
As another season of American Ninja Warrior starts tonight, it's worth reminding ourselves what this can entail so we don't act all surprised when things don't go our way. American Ninja Warrior is, at its heart, a reality television show about people overcoming adversities in their lives to complete an obstacle course. The competition is secondary and always has been secondary. The next six weeks are going to especially hammer this home when we get our fair share of Captain Tornadoes and sob stories that fail the second obstacle. And you know what? It works. American Ninja Warrior faces stiff competition against The Bachelor(ette?) and Monday Night Raw but it continues to deliver solid summer ratings.
Some other things you're going to see in these next 15 weeks that I'm telling you now so we don't have to complain about them later:
Look, there's some parts of this show that we wish were different, and this show and all shows on TV are far from perfect. All I'm asking is that we don't root for this show to suck/die. SASUKE's been dead to rites for years and pretty soon this may be all we have left. If you don't enjoy it, that's fine! There's plenty of stuff I don't enjoy so I choose not to partake in them. I'm sorry I have to be so harsh, as I feel that's the best way to get the point across. Sometimes you just have to look at things from NBC's perspective. They're a business promoting a television show, and it's working or else it wouldn't be on the air any more. And yeah, I'm 100% sure I got some stuff in this wrong, so feel free to tell me how much I suck or whatever.
Y'all are great. Really, you are. For those of you who choose to watch this program, let's hope for a great season.
Some other things you're going to see in these next 15 weeks that I'm telling you now so we don't have to complain about them later:
- Jessie's getting pushed to high hell. Again, IT'S WORKING. Jessie's runs have brought in a ton of attention to the show. Yeah, I'll probably sarcastically do a Jessie Count or something, but even we have to admit she's a lot more likeable (and deserving) than Kacy.
- Stuff is going to get spoiled ahead of time. Why? Because it works. Showing half of Kevin Bull's run isn't going to lower viewership for the show, no matter how much people on here don't like it.
- When they say "X is the first to Y" THEY MEAN ON AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR. 99.999% of the fans of this show don't give a rat's a** about SASUKE, so even if NBC cared about Mika Izumi or Ayano Oshima attempting to get casual viewers to care about them would be an exercise in futility. Imagine if Ninja Warrior Denmark had to keep track of everything that happened on Ninja Warrior France, and so on.
- Kids freakin' love this show. Ninja gyms stay afloat because of kids wanting to do the obstacles. Jessie and Drew and Flip are folk heroes to them. So if you feel like this show is insulting your intelligence, it's not insulting the intelligence of the kids that, as aforementioned, freakin' love this show.
Look, there's some parts of this show that we wish were different, and this show and all shows on TV are far from perfect. All I'm asking is that we don't root for this show to suck/die. SASUKE's been dead to rites for years and pretty soon this may be all we have left. If you don't enjoy it, that's fine! There's plenty of stuff I don't enjoy so I choose not to partake in them. I'm sorry I have to be so harsh, as I feel that's the best way to get the point across. Sometimes you just have to look at things from NBC's perspective. They're a business promoting a television show, and it's working or else it wouldn't be on the air any more. And yeah, I'm 100% sure I got some stuff in this wrong, so feel free to tell me how much I suck or whatever.
Y'all are great. Really, you are. For those of you who choose to watch this program, let's hope for a great season.