What do you think of the deadliest warrior show?

personally I don't really care about the outcome nor do i think its accurate.


but i love watching it to learn about the history of the warriors and see their weapons tested by professionals.


also, what do you think is the most unrealistic episode?


in my opinion it's the gladiator vs apache.|||It's entertaining, I watch it when time allows. But like you I don't believe the outcomes are always accurate or even important. The cool thing about it is seeing what the various weapons are capable of and the amount of damage they can, or cannot, inflict on ballistic gel torsos and those poor dead pigs


The most unrealistic episode? I dunno, haven't seen them all. But in a fight between gladiator and apache my money would be on the Indian. The historical apache warrior was a tough,sneaky,cold hearted S.O.B who was absolutely no good at giving up.


The fact that my heritage is part Native American has nothing at all to do with my opinion (Cough,cough).|||Most inaccurate show historically speaking. I'm so pissed at them for the epic failures of the Centurion versus rajput, in which they didn't mention that everything the Romans had was meant to stop hacking weapons (like the Rapjuts primary sword) and to kill these types of one on one fighters. They also didn't even talk about the genius of the pilum, but instead thought it would not go through a shield because the shield was good. THe pilum was never a shield piercing weapon, it was meant to bend so that the enemy had to throw their shield away, giving the centurion a great advantage. Also, who brings a ballista to 1v1? That was the most unrealistic episode.








Now i'm pissed from the rangers episode in which they had a failure of a hand to hand analysis. They only did one scenario, where the ranger was at his best versus a NKSOF at his worst, and called it a wash (despite not really calling it a wash and giving the rangers the advantage). In reality, the NKSOF should've demolished the rangers in hand to hand, no contest. The NKSOF have more hours in hand to hand and better training. Yet these idiots don't even look at the reality of a situation. Not once did they mention that M4s jam in adverse conditions, thus meaning the ranger could be without a gun, thus making their hand to hand completely useless.|||I love it and I hate it.



I can't stand that bioengineer a$$ that has to give the most dramatic countdowns to each experiment. The doctor is a moron who tends to state the very obvious, but he does drop some knowledge sometimes so he's okay



The way they measure the capabilities of the fighters has improved with the most recent season so I give it a thumbs up.



I don't like some of the matchups they put together as well, they put people against each other that lived in completely different eras. The one I thought was pretty dumb was the Pirate vs Knight. How do you pair up someone who has a gun vs someone who doesn't...Really?|||Mostly I wish I had their budget so we could do some actual scientific tests that would benefit the martial arts community.





I think the biggest flaw is the lack of the actual scientific method in their tests. For example, one year they had Spetznaz vs. IRA. In the pistol testing, the guy on the Spetznaz team was actually a fully-train Spetzaz veteran. The IRA guy? A descendant of one of the founders of the IRA and a historian. They judged the Spetznaz weapon to be more accurate, but the difference was clearly that a trained elite military soldier was handling that weapon, while the IRA's weapon was being handled by a guy who writes books for a living. Another example includes testing one guy's sword against a ballistics gel torso and another guy's sword against a pig. You're not holding the weapons to the same standard if you're not testing them both on the same material.





With that said, it's still fun to watch for the entertainment value. I am occasionally impressed by some of their tests (who knew the Aztec's cotton armor could stand up to an arrow?) and they've included more historical information this season. And I have to admit that one of the most fun parts of the show is separating the BS from the good stuff. My roommate and I watch it religiously.





As for the most unrealistic episode? Centurion vs. Rajput. I think the guys got swayed by the exotic weapons, even though they didn't seem as efficient as the Centurion's.|||I really like the show, but there are a TON of things that they just still don't take into consideration. They covered some, a few, of them with the new x-factor deal, but I have to question their choice of a number system. If 100 equals the ultimate warrior, that means 1 is the most pisspoor toilet paper warrior there is, so in actuality it's a numeric of 50-100, 50 being a plain average and 75 being in the real playing field. I'm not sure if they realize this.



The most unrealistic episode in my opinion was their special for season 2: Samurai vs Spartan. It's not because I'm biased towards the samurai, but they really didn't test enough and they actually admitted that in the show but just did it anyway. Too much was overlooked.



One thing that really upset me was the episode a couple weeks ago: United States Army Rangers vs. North Korean Special Operations Forces. The H2H was flawed. The Ranger's H2H still consisted of their gun which I found defeated the point of H2H lit. Hand to Hand. That just didn't make much sense at all to me. There no sense in creating distance when you don't have a gun to fire. That wasn't true H2H at all. What if the Ranger truly didn't have any rounds left? Seriously!



Many of their "professionals" for the pre-gunpoweder episodes aren't professionals at all. Many look like they've never swung a sword in their life until right then. It's pathetic, but that's the data that gets calculated. Go figure.



I still like watching for who they do figure who wins, and just for the history and weapons information. It's a really nice show that way. Armand Dorian is probably my favorite guy on there. I always love hearing the medical and physiological side to it all, plus I like the way he thinks.|||honestly it has less scientific value than the old will it float sketch on david letterman





at least then you could get repeatable results also any episode in which they use firearms is questionable as are just about every time they talk about armor





but I am fairly sure the upcoming(I think) zombies vs vampires one is going to make all those seem smart in comparison








here is a link to something that is equally scientific(it also uses the same formula) http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/spoo鈥?/a>|||I think its an insanely accurate show but the one about the cowboys and mafia was wrong mafia wins all dayyyyyyyyyy|||I think it's f*cking bada.s.s, but I dont like that chickenhawk Desmoulin|||epic thats waht i think|||Yea u learn a couple facts here and there on the show but its flawed.|||I like the show. I like the concept i like SOME of the science. The best science comes from the Doctor who is always right when he assess' the damage the weapon had done and what the damage could do to the body.





I like some of the weapons demonstrations but i hate how alot of the Experts aren't legitimate and don't seem to have any practice with their weapons they're told to use.





Its more a entertainment show rather than a scientific show.





With this 3rd season, they're really being biased with who should win rather than assessing the two warriors no matter what they have done in the past (Washington vs Napoleon %26amp; Rangers vs SOF for example)








I've spoken with a number of the experts like Barry Jacobson(Spartan Historian), Tetsuro Shigematsu, (Samurai Historian), Zero Kazima(Yakuza weapons expert and the Ninja actor) and Jared Wihongi (Maori Weapons expert) and they said that there was alot of things wrong with the show. Zero said that alot of the episodes were pre-planned so that one warrior will win over the other. The other warrior was a fallback. The Maori vs Shaolin was planned for the Monk to win because everyone wanted the Monk to be on the show and so was the Pirate vs Knight.





Jared Wihongi, a SWAT operator and Special Forces trainer said that the director was the one who told everyone what to do, how to act, what to say and who should have heat with who. So Jared and Seamus felt that they weren't getting the chance to say what the Maori were really like.





Sonny Puzikas (Spetsnaz expert) a former Spetsnaz special forces operator and now a Systema teacher in California spoke about the show saying that they didn't care to much about the warriors themselves and just the weapons.








The most unrealistic episode is easily the Spartan vs Ninja episode.


The most annoying episode is the Shaolin vs Maori (But the fight at the end of the episode is the best.)


The only good episode is Green Berets vs Spetsnaz because it was the first episode to actually have legitimate experts for both teams(The Apache experts(Snakeblocker and Alan Tafoya) were legitimate but the Gladiator experts weren't)