Forged in Fire - Sep 8

Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Especially if you are that person who had died from vaping recently – then you have proved to be the equal to the opossum that I have talked about last time, as it is also dead. Ouch. Real life sucks, and then there is TV. Yes, it cannot compare to real life tragedies, such as the ones experienced in the Atlantic, but regardless…

So, let us talk about ‘Forged in Fire’. A friend of mine recommended it to me, seeing how it gone down for a while now and I have never watched it; they claimed that ‘it was as the Deadliest Warrior had been’, (DW). I liked DW back then, and so I watched the sword of Attila episode. And?

And yes, ‘Forged’ is reminiscent of DW, sort of. It is also reminiscent (in my personal opinion) of AFO (‘Animal Face-Off’) and ‘Chopped’, of all things, (namely a cooking show). Where to start?

Like the cooking shows that I have watched, on and off, over the years, FIF has four contestants, three judges, and a host. Except that instead of chefs, cooks, or what else have you, you got bladesmiths, competing in the quality of their blades and bladed weapons. Details? Well, yes, just as the fact that to make the titular weapon – the sword of Attila in this case – they get not several hours, but several days: four on today’s episode. They are secondary, and do not diminish from the show’s enjoyment – or the lack of it.

Where does AFO come in? Like FIF, it had included making models and replicas, though in AFO’s case it was more of casts of skulls and paws and claws of big cats, bears, and so on. Then those models would be tested as well, though not on human replicas. Then again, today’s episode of FIF has also featured horse skulls, and one of the final contestants’ swords failed, it fell out of the handle or was broken, so that is it, game over. He went home and his rival got the 10 000-dollar prize. Yay!

…And yes, those replicas – horse skulls, armor suits (cuirasses, I think), and what else have you is what reminded me of DW, fair enough. It just… it is not my show. The cooking shows… yes, I do not watch them regularly either, not like AoS, or AC, for comparison, and FIF is a variant of them. Yes, the details are different… no, the premise is different, and the details are largely the same, so that may be it. I do not know; maybe FIF is actually a great show, and I just find it boring; I certainly did not find FTB show boring, and it was on the same channel – the Canadian History channel – as FIF is. Therefore, maybe the issue is with me instead. Does anyone has any opinion on this, then? I am ready to listen.

…This is it for now; see you all soon!