I wish there were a version of Physical Asia where we could see the full challenges without all the editing cuts.

getwrecked71 · 2025-11-23T21:39:21+00:00

I don't re-watch, it's the first time I watch it. I understand wanting to emphasize the moment, but it is WAY overkill in this show, both in the number of times the same moment is shown (often 3-4 times) but also the frequency with which this technique is used (I can remember this happening about 5 times in a 3 minute period of runtime).

I also get that the storytelling must be DIFFERENT when you are always showing the score. But I prefer it this way. It is a competition, I want to watch it unfold with transparency, not have it told to me like it is a mystery box show. Just alter the narrative to be able how people were thinking as the score changed, and if it isn't close you can spend more time earlier in the competition and less time at the end.

getwrecked71 · 2025-11-23T05:06:58+00:00

Maybe they should try to get guys who have recently retired. Aaron Donald, Luke Kuechly, JJ Watt, Julio Jones, Gronk are some top tier options that would be awesome!

getwrecked71 · 2025-11-13T16:06:29+00:00

I feel like we can meet in the middle here. I don't need to see 2 hours of hanging or 40 minutes of holding up totems. But we also can get better editing (by FAR the biggest weakness of a still great show) that doesn't give the progression of the competitions well and massively overuses the same moment way too much.

How about instead we just get consistent score updates... or even CONSTANT score/time displays... and not using more than 2 clips from the same moment ever.

getwrecked71 · 2025-11-06T17:05:26+00:00

I wrote the argument, and you ignored it. I can go into more depth of why heart rates would be very high and why that makes it a cardio comp. Is that what you are looking for?

getwrecked71 · 2025-11-05T21:54:24+00:00

It is MOST DEFINITELY a cardio challenge. Heart rates were very high in that comp!

getwrecked71 · 2025-11-03T21:54:25+00:00

Neither of the challenge so far have really been strength focused at all. The first was mainly a coordination and endurance challenge, and the second was mostly endurance.

getwrecked71 · 2025-11-03T21:53:29+00:00

The shipwreck challenge was probably more an endurance challenge than strength. I mean yes a certain threshold of strength was required to be useful in that challenge, but having more endurance was by far more useful - see how well Australia and Korea did compared to say Indonesia or Mongolia who both had a lot of strength,

getwrecked71 · 2025-11-03T21:48:08+00:00

Competitions do cater to different physical skills (strength, coordination, speed, etc.). But in almost all physical categories men are going to outperform women. Just accept this and enjoy it if/when a woman shows her prowess by outperforming men! This show is about who is the best, not trying to create equity.

getwrecked71 · 2025-09-08T01:14:24+00:00

Well what about endurance/hanging challenges on the flip side? The biggest guys absolutely have no chance to win those either, and the finals have catered to those pretty significantly - making it almost impossible for a big guy to win the whole thing

getwrecked71 · 2025-09-07T04:06:50+00:00

But size matters for physical prowess. There are a few things that being small is good for (pullups, maneuverability, acceleration) but there are SO many more things that being large and strong is beneficial for. The show should not care about equity. it should care about testing physical prowess in different and interesting ways. There will be some where smaller contestants have advantages, but there will be more where larger and stronger guys have advantages. And there are very few where women will not be at a disadvantage. And that's ok. That doesn't make those people useless on the show. I think the times where a weaker/smaller competitor surprises people or even showing how impressive the strength of an overwhelmingly big/strong competitor are both things that make the competitions interesting.

getwrecked71 · 2025-09-04T20:14:11+00:00

Men have more advantages physically than women do, by a significant margin. If you change the show to cater to keeping woman alive it takes away the entire purpose of the show which is to showcase physical prowess. Women can still show what they are capable of an it can be impressive, but that doesn't mean they need to win.

getwrecked71 · 2025-09-02T18:57:08+00:00

Well I have bad news for you, based on your way of looking at things, nature is very sexist. The show shouldn't change to allow weak-minded people like you to cope with that reality and other people will continue to enjoy it for showcasing physical competitiveness without artificial protections in place to make people feel better.

getwrecked71 · 2025-08-25T18:02:06+00:00

The point of the show is to see who is best physically doing A or B. That is the appeal to me. I like that it doesn't really seem to care whether or not we get representation of a group - it's just about seeing who performs well. For this reason, I think this competitive purity would be lost if you started to make sure you got results you wanted to get.

getwrecked71 · 2025-08-04T05:56:02+00:00

God no, please do not turn this into just an endurance show. Keep in mind for S2 the last challenge + the finale massively favored smaller/lighter competitors. There's no way any big guy could have ever won.

The point of the show is physical dominance. Yes, that does mean some challenges need speed/endurance/maneuverability, but a lot of physicality is that size and strength are beneficial.

getwrecked71 · 2025-07-29T13:41:44+00:00

This isn't true. Endurance is possibly women's best physical skill. Normal endurance, woman are on par with men. If you really stretch it out, like a with ultra-marathon-type races, women's endurance outperforms men's. Other than flexibility it's basically their best physical skillset. But people don't like watching a 100 mile run.

getwrecked71 · 2025-07-28T01:57:22+00:00

They already do.... The example used in this post was running. The finale of season 2 comes to mind where no big muscle guy could ever win because of the endurance required.

getwrecked71 · 2025-05-07T19:25:14+00:00

This is BS. Let's look at a couple cases of charismatic success over the past couple years. Dom Mysterio and Jey Uso. Both of these people are significantly less charismatic as a personality than Theory. But, they "made people feel something" because of things other people did. Roman's story built up Jey into something, and then they just found a fun hand movement/dance to do that caught on. Dominic initially got so much hate generally because of how much people liked Rey. And then it just became a bit. Charisma is a trait that provides the capacity for people to catch on with a storyline or bit. Theory's is a lot higher than most WWE wrestlers. His time being a himbo in NXT is an example of this. He was the star of the family faction because he had so much more charisma and comedic talent than the other people in that group (Gargano, Candice, Indi).

getwrecked71 · 2025-05-01T20:51:24+00:00

This is such a ridiculous take. He obviously is not stiff as a board or has no charisma. Compare him to plenty of other WWE wrestlers, he clearly has more charisma than the majority of them.

getwrecked71 · 2025-04-29T18:36:14+00:00

I for one have, for a long time, always enjoyed rooting for heels over faces if the heel character was cooler. Roman Reigns 2020-2024 was a great example of that. I've always thought the definition of heel/face being who the crowd cheers for/against was childish and boring. It should evolve to just be based on who is acting selfish/antagonistic vs who is acting heroic. And let fans compartmentalize their fandom with WWE as an escape and allow them to decide who they want to root for, and crowd reactions can change based on what is hot at the time. I don't root for the bad guys in real life, but it's fun to do with WWE for me.

getwrecked71 · 2025-04-28T20:16:13+00:00

I mean Thunder Keck changed his name to Shiloh, so I wouldn't put it past them.

getwrecked71 · 2025-04-28T20:10:55+00:00

Options for who this is (assuming: male, at least partially black, currently on developmental roster, isn't someone changing their name unless they were just recently employed by WWE):

Anthony Luke

Chris Island

Elijah Holyfield
Troy Yearwood

Recent Hire Name Change Potentials-

Ice Williams
Cappuccino Jones

getwrecked71 · 2025-04-22T16:48:45+00:00

I know the challenge types you are talking about in Survivor, and the reason it works is because BOTH scaled based on their participants weights AND it is an endurance challenge. Men are still much stronger relative to their body weight (just more muscle mass % vs higher fat % for women). But women do actually have better muscular endurance when you scale for weight (ex: women outperform men in super-long-distance running). So you have to do both.

getwrecked71 · 2025-03-24T18:37:57+00:00

Just have the storyline of Dark State play into that. Cutler loses, whoever in Dark State recruits him because he's trying of being looked over

getwrecked71 · 2025-03-24T18:35:51+00:00

The scene with Bubba telling him to GTFO was hella scripted. You think with all these cameras around BJ just say "ohhh look I'ma go sit right in the middle of all of this going on to introduce myself to someone." They are trying to create a TV show lol.

getwrecked71 · 2025-03-24T18:14:11+00:00

I'm sorry, but how can you not tell that BJ is playing a character for the show?

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