Re: TV 10: Blacklisted Sons: The Musical
American Ninja Warrior finished it's season tonight with the team competition with the European team winning by .3 seconds on a climb off against the US team on stage 4. Yup, we finally got to see stage 4! The Japanese team got blanked on the scoreboard despite having two (two!) finish stage 3, because they got beat on time by a European and an American.
As for the actual competition, we still haven't had anyone complete all 4 stages. The last man standing was a weatherman Joe Moravsky who failed on the hang climb on stage 3.
It's was a weird season with plenty of normal favorites not even qualifying for the finals. Kacy Catanzaro was obviously the big story qualifying for the finals but she failed stage 1. She fell at the Spider Jump because at 5' tall, she has no margin for error. Stage 2 had a new obstacle in the Rope Maze (basically a series of ropes with some that slide, some that are stationary and some that drop) that hung up a bunch of people and Stage 1 had a new obstacle in the Curtain Slide (grab hold of a curtain, slide down a track, land on a small mat) that eliminated a lot too.
The pattern has pretty much emerged in that the parkour guys can clear stage 1 easily, struggle some on stage 2, and be out on stage 3. Meanwhile the rock climbers struggle on stage 1, really struggle on stage 2, and, if they make it, do ok on stage 3. And the ANW specific trainers are just too much of a mixed bag and inconsistent.
I know eventually we'll see a winner but it's gonna be freakin' tough. The courses just keep getting insane. At least the ratings are good so we get one more season at least.
