Gymnasts in SEALS reality Show

[Peridot]

It is. I don't know what I hate more -- DWTS or Special Forces -- each for different reasons

At least on DWTS they learn a fun new skill.

Rolling around in mud and doing exercise whilst wet in the middle of the night just sounds ridiculous and pointless. Obviously challenging, but still….

 

[Passion]

Season 4 with Shawn Johnson and husband Andrew East - Episode 2

We begin with everyone waking up in the bunk. Shawn and Andrew have cots next to each other. It shows them holding hands upon waking. Andrew says "Just remember the good news is, today is not yesterday." They share a quick smooch walking out of the room.

Everyone gets dressed and they're called to line up outside with their packs on. They get in SUVs and are driven to the first challenge. They are told to climb up the face of a 250ft. dam. There's staircases so this is just them all running up a lot of stairs with their big backpacks on.

1st Challenge: They are going to be sitting in pairs of two inside of an open backed husk of a small airplane that they get inside at the top of the dam. It will then be lowered with ropes down into the water. The plane will be submerged (just under the surface, not deep) for 20 seconds. They have to hold their breath for that time. After 20 seconds they will receive a signal (a staff member reaching in the window and squeezing their arm) from outside the vessel and are supposed to swim out to exit through the rear side door (not the open back of the plane.) They have medical personnel on a raft in the water nearby.

The very first pair are Jussie Smollett and Eva Marcille. They sit for the 20 seconds, they both swim out, Eva through the correct door, Jussie through the back, and their heads are up out of the water outside the plane. Then Eva just.. passes out and starts to sink. The medical team swims out and pulls her onto their raft. She wakes up on the raft and is physically fine but rattled. They fail because Jussie swam out the wrong exit. A bunch of other pairs fail for panicking before the 20 seconds are up and swimming out early. There's an uneven number of contestants so Jussie volunteers to go again when it's Christie Pearce Rampone's turn. He swims out the wrong exit again lol so they fail as well.

Shawn and Andrew are paired up. They're sitting under the water calmly. They cut away to Shawn saying "I always strive to be perfect. So obsessed with the idea. Nothing is going to change that. " They receive the 20 second signal, they both swim out the correct exit, and pass. Staff compliment their composure. Only one or two other pairs besides them passed.

They get back into the SUVs and head back to base camp. They kill some time talking and staff doing one-on-one conversations. After that's over they're all called out for the 2nd challenge. They are driven to what is called a "fortress" in an old empty village. It's just kind of an open outdoor courtyard. They are going to do milling/military boxing.

Shawn is called up first to fight against Brianna LaPaglia. Cut to Andrew saying "Seeing Shawn fight, I'll probably be more nervous than she is. But she is stone cold. I mean she stands up to pressure situations like nobody I've ever seen." The fight begins: Brianna is a head taller than Shawn so Shawn is whaling away at her torso. Brianna is kinda waving around not really aiming well but manages to land a shot to Shawn's head (they have boxing helmets and gloves on) and Shawn is bleeding. The fight is stopped and Shawn is sent to medical. For extra drama they keep showing a shot of her bloody mouthguard on the ground, then show Shawn holding her nose with blood running down her face. Medical clears her as being okay, just a bloody nose. Staff calls their fight a draw. Shawn is standing there still bloody like an angry little statue.

Brianna is crying because she says she hates violence and fighting (Shawn appeared to have no such qualms and if she were taller may have taken Brianna's head off.) Eva starts having a panic attack from watching Shawn and Brianna's fight and goes to see the psychologist, they let her sit out the boxing challenge. When it's Gia Giudice's turn to fight, Teresa Giudice instantly says quits because she says she can't watch her daughter fight. Gia does fine against Christie. They just flashed by Andrew's fight real quick, I don't even know who he was fighting. The rest of the fights were unremarkable.

Back at base camp, Eva is still worked up. The staff decide that it's unsafe for her to continue, so they ask for her armband and withdraw her. She gathers her belongings, says goodbye, and with that the episode ends. We're 3 down with 15 contestants left going into day three. Doing better than last season when multiple people had been injured out by this point.

 

[makam]

So in the military, they gear you up, no lesson, no training, and just slug away at each other?

I guess panic attack for the passing out? At least it makes for "good" tv...

Thanks for the summary.

 

[JaJa]

So in the military, they gear you up, no lesson, no training, and just slug away at each other?

I guess panic attack for the passing out? At least it makes for "good" tv...

Thanks for the summary.

well, this is not the military

and I do not see it as good tv either

More like a new low point in trash tv

 

[cftmoonlight79]

This sounds like a horrible show. That being said, thanks for the summary

 

[Passion]

Season 4 with Shawn Johnson and husband Andrew East - Episode 3

It's day three. Lights on and everyone wakes up at 6am. Staff says "Today we will be moving into an urban warfare environment. Fighting in built up areas is the worst case scenario. It's what we have done for the past two or three decades. Bullets are flying everywhere, people are dying, you need to keep your cool." then they are in the cars being driven to the challenge location.

They're brought to an ancient abandoned town/city area that's completely empty except for the walls of the buildings and rocks strewn around. The challenge is a casualty evacuation task. Operating in 3-man teams, they will go deep into "enemy territory," locate their fallen comrades, and bring them to an extraction point.

Groups go one at a time. First is Nick Young, Randall Cobb, and Jesse James Decker. The "fallen comrades" are just like extra actors, it's not other contestants. The first guy they find is too pretend injured to walk so they carry him on a stretcher. The 2nd guy they find can walk but with their assistance. There's bangs and smoke going off around them from the props they've hidden in piles of rocks along the way. They keep dropping the stretcher. Nick says he wants to quit and starts to walk off, but pulls it together and they finish. They fail for dropping the stretcher too many times and for Nick trying to quit half way through.

Shawn, Andrew, and Chanel Iman are next. Shawn and Chanel get startled by one of the fake bangs, Chanel trips, and they drop their end of the stretcher. They cut to Andrew in a talking head saying "I wanna show that I have other strengths beyond just football prowess. I like to step up and I can make good decisions. In my mind it's like, it's like game on!" Chanel drops the stretcher again and Shawn yells at her to use two hands. She says it's too heavy so Andrew says lets drop our packs. They abandon their backpacks and continue on. They find their 2nd guy and make it to the extract point. They fail as a team for leaving their packs behind.

Gia Giudice, Johnny Manziel, and Mark Estes group completely miss the 2nd guy, they didn't see him at all, just carry out the stretcher guy, so they fail.

Eric Decker, Jussie Smollett, and Ravi Patel's group drop the poor stretcher actor on his head a bunch of times lol, they fail.

Christie Pierce Rampone, Kody Brown, and Brianna LaPaglia are the last group. They get the first guy on the stretcher and are making quick progress. Kody keeps yelling commands at the two women. When the girls tell him to stop because they see the 2nd guy they're supposed to rescue, Kody steamrolls over them and says we can't keep stopping and pulls them along with the stretcher. They fail for abandoning the 2nd guy.

They go back to the camp and have lunch. Staff have a one-on-one with Brianna. Jussie has been coughing a lot and it's getting worse, he goes to see the medic. He says "You've got inflammation right throughout your chest." The doctor goes out and tells the staff that Jussie has developed an allergy to something in the dust, but his chest sounds horrendous. He is medically withdrawn from the show.

Driving to the next task. This time they're in a modern empty town. They will work in the same groups. They have to infiltrate a building by stealth and run up to the roof. There is a wobbly metal ladder going from their roof over to the roof of an adjacent building. They have to walk across it like it's a four story high balance beam. They have helmets on and are attached to a safety harness connected to ropes way up above the ladder, so no one is in real danger if they fall off.

To pass they have to make it across the ladder without touching it with their hands or losing their footing. Christie Pierce Rampone goes too fast, trips, and falls (dangles in the air on her harness.) Nick Young panics and freezes in the middle. Then he crawls across the rest of the ladder. Everyone else passes easily. They didn't even show Shawn or Andrew doing it.

They drive back to camp. They have a one-on-one with Nick and that's the end of the episode. I have no idea what the passes or fails even matter for in this show. Other than the first episode where the losing team had to jog back to camp, absolutely nothing happens if you pass or if you fail. You just continue on either way. 4 down, 14 people left.

 

[makam]

Seriously, they didn't show the olympic balance beam gold medalist doing a thing that is like a balance beam? Who even edits this show?