Things about NBC's 2008 American Gladiators that were awful (just off the top of my head):
- Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali's awful hosting/commentary
- Having specialized gladiators for each event, rather than having all-around strong athletes that are capable of performing in any event
- The giant fucking swimming pool
- The eliminator course being way too fucking long and there being no "you can bypass the treadmill after so many attempts" rule leading to several episodes either having a contender come from a mile behind because the leader can't make it up, or both contenders getting stuck there and having to edit out like 5-10 minutes of them resting and making failed attempts until one of them finally does it
- The tournament format being screwy to fit a specific number of episodes, so even if you won, if you didn't have one of the top eliminator times you still didn't move on
- Hellga
- NBC's stupid shit where they cut to commercial in the middle of the action instead of between events
- The episode where they had a guy with a prosthetic leg on even though there was no chance in hell of him winning because he'd never make it up the Eliminator treadmill (and after his opponent finishes they literally turn the treadmill off so he can actually finish and make it out like it's an inspiring thing)
I'm sure there's probably more that I'm forgetting... anyway I'd be fine and even happy to see AG come back if it were done right but like the tweets I posted said I don't think there's anyone who would even get it close to right.