In recent years the off road world has finally seen in increase in the amount and quality of shows to give us our Sunday morning fix, there have been some great ones with a lot of good info, product reviews, and trail highlights... There have also been a few that just suck.
This show has been around for 15 years or so and has inspired countless offroaders to start their build, given some great info on "how to" and has shown a great variety of vehicles. Yup, for 15 years that was the go to for most of us on our Sunday mornings while drinking coffee and planning our builds in our heads... And then Ian left... And now the faithful followers of the show feel like they just got the rug pulled out from under them. The new hosts are just terrible, they don't appear to have any real knowledge, or confidence in what they are doing. And the couple of builds they have started are complete jokes! They decided to completely paint one project BEFORE starting any of the fab work, which anyone how has ever built anything will tell you should be the LAST step. I'll finish out this season with them simply because I'm hopeful that they will improve, and because there aren't many other options on a Sunday morning... Maybe I'll just start watching Spongebob instead.
This one has been a hit or miss for me, I don't go out of my way to watch it, but if it's on I'll watch it depending on what they are doing. They tend to focus on the bolt on stuff, and newer trucks, essentially they are an infomercial that features trucks.
Ok here it is, the new show that was supposed to be awesome, I mean, they built up the hype for months ahead of the first episode, certainly it's good right... not so much. I want to like it, but they just make it so easy to hate it. The thing I do like about it is that they feature real trucks instead of super high dollar builds, but honestly that is part of what I dislike too. If I wanted to watch some clapped out XJ with no lockers and no winch attempt obstacles that they have no business attempting I'd just go to the local park. They need to make some minimum requirements, lockers in both axles, winch, and an actual pre inspection to make sure guys are ready to compete. As for the competitions themselves... Well, that is the other place they fell short on this one. They claim it to be "The hardest course ever built" but it's really just a bunch of obstacles that don't test any real aspect of a vehicle beyond how fast you can go over big bumps, or how far you can launch a toilet... that has never happened on any trail I've been on... I would think that anyone that has competed in 4 Wheeler Magazines Top Truck Challenge would be extremely insulted by the claim of being the hardest course ever built, that course truly is the hardest, and they test ALL aspects of a rig, not just it's ability to push an ice cream truck off a cliff. I mean, they don't have one single rock on the whole course! I'll keep watching just to boost the numbers in hopes that they get a second season and improve some things, but I don't have much confidence in that.
No comments:
Post a Comment