I enjoyed this show a lot, but it frequently seemed like the writers and producers didn't know what to do with the material. First of all, there is a feeling of pointlessness in both the TV series and the books based on it. Do all of these people LIVE in this training hall? Don't they have any LIVES, as it were? Second of all, the show got very confusing when it told "true-life stories" of the Masters...stories which ultimately proved completely fictional. (Wizard and Warlock, for instance, are NOT really brothers; I won't mention those tales of the Machine VS Steve, or of Superstar and Star Warrior VS John-O and Company. I wonder if "Yin-Yang Man" really is blind in one eye?)
Even worse, the series credits a fight-choreographer (Pat Johnson), when this is supposed to be an honest-to-everything-holy tournament. It would have been better if WMAC MASTERS were an actual game show, like American GLADIATORS or KNIGHTS & WARRIORS, in which real-life competitive martial-artists (if not movie/prime-time/soap stars) took on the Masters for cash or charity.
Personally, I always felt this series would make for a hip hotel-casino; all you'd have to do is figure the odds based on the ki-symbols (9 to 3, 4 to 2, 8 to 1, 7 to 5, etc. for the Battle Zone matches, Cage finals, and speed-breaking; 11 to 10 for the Dragon Star challenges). At least most of us adults could relate to that.
Even worse, the series credits a fight-choreographer (Pat Johnson), when this is supposed to be an honest-to-everything-holy tournament. It would have been better if WMAC MASTERS were an actual game show, like American GLADIATORS or KNIGHTS & WARRIORS, in which real-life competitive martial-artists (if not movie/prime-time/soap stars) took on the Masters for cash or charity.
Personally, I always felt this series would make for a hip hotel-casino; all you'd have to do is figure the odds based on the ki-symbols (9 to 3, 4 to 2, 8 to 1, 7 to 5, etc. for the Battle Zone matches, Cage finals, and speed-breaking; 11 to 10 for the Dragon Star challenges). At least most of us adults could relate to that.