Le défi des titans

This is an hour long show with 8 minutes of action. The sets are outrageous, the challenges underwhelming, there are 4+ announcers for no apparent reason. The focus is on the characters and their personal lives rather than the competition and at the end of the day I just don't understand what they are going for. Is this a human interest reality show, or is this a Gladiators clone?

The reality is that it is neither and it is so overproduced that it is almost unwatchable. The contests are poorly conceived so that the outcome is clear within seconds which renders the competition boring, and it is difficult to get invested in characters when they are dispensed with in one or two competitions which last less than 2 minutes each.

This needs a lot of work and should have a much lower budget.

Straight to the point, here's what I didn't like about this show: 1) 4 announcers, why? Dwayne Johnson, Cari Champion, Liam McHugh & Alex Mendez. That's at least one too many, if not two. 2) DJ's lines are too cringy, and they get too repetitive as the episodes pile on. His motivational speeches right before every challenge look completely scripted and you never truly feel like he is connected with the competitors. I genuinely got the impression that Dwayne treated the show like any other job that he's part of, which is odd given that he's the creator of "The Titan Games" so I felt that the show deserved more from him. 3) You can easily tell from the competition's format that the creative team didn't really care about variety. The entire show consisted of the 6-7 challenges, which is very low considering that one of them is constant in every episode (Mount Olympus). 4) You can also easily tell that the creative team didn't really care about competitiveness, with some of the games being design to end within 2 minutes tops. I'm sure every game is challenging, but the show fails to convey that to the audience. 5) The competitors are being presented as average, when in reality all of them have rich athletic backgrounds that most certainly make them above average. 6) The backstories of each competitor take a lot of each episode's run time, maybe almost half of the episode if not more. This is outrageously long, and happens in every single episode. Why not shorten those segments and instead focus more on making the challenges longer and more challenging?

This show proved to me once and for all that Dwayne Johnson's name sells pretty much anything. Many of us followed this show just because it had Dwayne's name attached to it, and it mattered very little if he created/produced the show or not. With that being said, once you do watch the episodes you'll notice that it's average (just like most of DJ's movies) and is far too repetitive for a season that is just 9 episodes long.

The show 90's kids needed. It's a little bit of Global Guts, a little bit of American Gladiators, a little bit of Legends Of The Hidden Temple, and a lot of fun.

I was unable to get totally engrossed in the show because there is just too much production going on.

The competitions are head-to-head but there are more camera shots focused on the audience or isolated on a single competitor than there are of both competitors simultaneously. In some of the events the competitors are less then 10 feet apart and they still show isolated camera shots. It make the viewing experience very choppy and un-enjoyable. They should look at the production of the head-to-head ANW competition and follow suit.

I also think they would be better off doing less background stories on the contestants and having more competitors and competitions in each episode - again see ANW.

Shows like this can be fun to watch. I only wish they'd cut out the usual seen it all before hype, flash and flare and over the top pictures and videos of the contestants. Just get on with the competition.