Ever find yourself sitting up, WAY later then you wanted to be, watching a show that's really, really bad just so you can see the end of it? Ugh. We watched the end of hockey, then watched the Soprano's episode we recorded. By this time, it was about 11:10pm. Flip on the Discovery Channel and see Animal Face-Off. Had seen the commercials for it, but most of the "battles" seemed really obvious to me. Never saw the show. Well, for whatever reason, we start watching it. This episode was Elephant vs. Rhino. Seemed like a no-brainer to me: Elephant all the way. Well, this show is an HOUR when there's really only about 15 minutes of actual content. The rest is repeatative filler. But, despite the fact that we both kept saying how crappy of a show it was, we both groggily just kept laying there on the couch wathcing it. 11:40pm comes by and we realize it's an hour, and that neither one of us wants to keep watching until midnight (when we should already be in bed), but we've already invested so very far that we just stayed until the end.
You have to realize, it's a REALLY CRAPPY show.
Finally, it comes to the "virtual" fight. And of course, the elephant kicks the rhino's ass. The rhino is too dumb, and too nearsighted to deal with the much heavier, much taller, much stronger and much smarter elephant. Bah. So all that lame show watching, only for the results to be as utterly predicable as I first thought. The only other results I saw listed online (because of course, they don't post them on their website - not even after the show is aired *grumbles*) was the Croc vs Shark - seems another "duh, it's be the shark" result. Sure enough, the shark won.
Anyway, the show is bad. It's just utterly low production value and high cheese factor. (not even in a funny or campy way.) Seems WAY cooler on the commercials then it really is. It's quite boring, has no business being an hour show and doesn't really seem to be offering up any real challenges - the questions of who would win seems too obvious for any real suspense.
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