Top Shot New Season

[Guest TheMikeLurie]

Anybody watching?

Any thoughts on this season's crew?

Looks like it's going to be interesting to say the least. Looks like a very diverse group with some definite alpha males.

Sure wish we would have seen Hickok45 in there though.

[RobertNashville]

Not yet...I'm recording it...I like to skip through the commercials.

I've been watching the "stories' of the contestants as they've posted them on facebook and I've been looking forward to this season for quite a while!

We should have had a Murfreesboro TGO "Top Shot" party!

[Guest TheMikeLurie]

Yeah me too Robert. you won't be disappointed. I won't spoil it for you, but let's just say if you're anything like me, you'll have a good idea within the first few minutes about who you're going to like and who you're going to strongly dislike.

[Links2k]

I dvr just about everything. I can't stand commercials.

[Guest TheMikeLurie]

I dvr just about everything. I can't stand commercials.

I hate commercials too... but the old lady laid down the law. It was either the DVR or the MLB Extra Innings... I wan't sacrificing the baseball.

[bubbadavis]

I love my Tivo. I'm watching Top Shot now - but its far enough along I can skip all the commercials.

[Links2k]

The wife has me watching teen mom2. It's like scared straight for the twins.

[waynesan]

Shooting a gun without getting a chance to practice would be hard for this kind of competition - at least it would for me. And they sure did miss a lot with the 1911 and weren't too accurate with the Sharp's Rifle.

[Jasongar8]

I would like the show a lot more if they did away with all the fake drama and BS. I only watched two episodes last season and will probably only watch a few this season.

[soapy]

First time I ever watched a complete show.. interesting.

[Punisher84]

After last season I didn't even bother with this one. If I want drama I'll watch TNT. They know it.

[Guest bkelm18]

I think it's an interesting show. It would be better if it was just a straight competition and none of that "reality show" BS.

[McAllyn]

I also vote for dump the Survivor v2 drama. Shoot the challenges, the two that did the worst go to the elimination. You know, kinda like life, do well = get reward, do poor = go home.

But then it wouldn't pull in all the non-shooter "reality show" addicts that love good manipulated drama.

Mac

[RobertNashville]

I wouldn't mind if the "drama" wasn't there but I"m not so sure it's "fake" as was mentioned above. You've got 16 "A" types of various ages and backgrounds competing and living together for what, 2 or 3 weeks or so??? You ARE going to have drama and emotion and all that goes with it. Now, how much of what they let the audience see is another matter.

I like the show...a lot...been looking forward to the new season...while I have no illusions about my abilities I'd certainly love the chance to do what they make the contestants do in the show.

Best line so far is "Who doesn't want to see a little Asian chick kick butt"

And yeah; I already have some strong likes and dislikes among the group!

[Troutburger]

The drama got my wife hooked, and has made her more interested in shooing. Bring on the fireworks!

[Caster]

I want to see Jerry Miculek compete and show these gumbys how to actually shoot straight.

[alingo2001]

I was glad to see that arrogant prick knocked off last night. Like the guy from Franklin. I think Chris Reed is his name.

[Mechanic_X]

I too would like to see, say Brian Flanigan, run through their shotgun course to show the best time.

I tried to count the misses on the pool ball challenge. I think 11 on the 6.?.

Like the guys at the IDPA meet last weekend said, "When the buzzer sounds you will go stupid." I said, "I don't need the buzzer for that." Got a good laugh.

[Guest josh123]

this reminded me of last season when the one guy tried to back stab the two best competitors and the young kid told on him haha....i dont thing ive ever heard someone use the word rat fink..and the guy said it like 15 times ha

that being said i probably will pass on this season..

[RobertNashville]

Episode Two Tonight...I predict that the Red team will win the challenges and that Blue will once again have to eliminate someone.

Drama aside, the previews look like this will be a fun episode to watch!

[buck1032]

Yes tonights show should be fun, Get shot at with paintballs while shooting the challenge. Sounds fun to me. LOL As far as the drama goes, so far this season they havent showed much of the in the house crap they aired last year. Lets hope the trend continues.

[RobertNashville]

Red team lost and Athena got eliminated...I liked her but she definitely didn't perform well in either of the two challenges.

Dodging the paint balls looked like it would be fun but I'm not sure it came across well on TV.

Loved the Tommy Guns...got to be about the coolest gun ever made.

[Westwindmike]

I liked it in the elimination when the guy emptied his Thompson after he won!

[Troutburger]

I wish they would have put a shorter stock on there for Athena. She would have kicked dude's butt if the gun would have fit her...

They need to work on the camera angles, the paint balls were a dud b/c filming was so terrible. I also hated the way they showed a random target getting shot during the competition. It clearly was the same target used in the demo...

[RobertNashville]

I would suspect that those are just part of the problems with a reality show, at least one that involves shooting! You can re-film a lot of sequences when it comes to the extraneous stuff but when they get to the actually challenges they can't just keep running it over and over again until they get the footage they want. They could if it was all fake but I do think the competition part is "real".

As for Athena, yeah...it might have been better for her had they shortened the stock but I"m not sure that's even realistic/possible for a Tommy Gun (not that I'm expert with the weapon by any means). Even it that could be done, I'm not sure it's fair to give special accommodations to any one competitor...the whole point of the show is proficiency with weapons of all kinds and from different eras.