Posted on 07/23/2017 8:51:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thank you and Hollywood Reporter for saving me an hour worth of time.
A “jumping the shark” moment for Phelps?
It’s was pure horse crap.
He raced a pitiful CGI shark and lost.
Discovery does some real dumb stuff sometimes.
So long as I have a head start no shark would be able to find me in the brown cloud of my wake.
I've always heard those sentient hairs were a *itch to beat in an endurance race.
I’ve had occasion to think I had large sharks swim beneath me, and if I could have run across the surface of the water I would have. The impulse to swim like hell is very strong, but you don’t want to attract attention. They turned out to be rays caught between the shore and a new sandbar formed in a storm, but all I saw was three large dark shapes going back and forth beneath me. Lifeguards thought they were sharks too, I could hear them on the beach, which didn’t help as far as my reaction.
Yeah, either he’s bored or needs money.
Lol.
I don’t have to beat the shark,just the guy swimming next to me.
At least he didn’t jump it.
I have a deal with sharks. I don’t go in their water, they don’t come down my street.
The older I get, the less interested I become in entering the food chain. I’m starting to prefer staying where I’m the alpha predator.
Might be mostly from boredom. Mike Phelps is a world class swimmer, but from my observation, he has very little charisma. The screen is simply blank when the subject is not swimming. He’s gotten a little better over time.
That is not a crime, but it puts one at a disadvantage when being interviewed or spoken with on the air. His whole life had been wrapped around the competitions.
Maybe he never had much of a social life.
I’ve heard other others, such as Christina Yamaguchi(Olympian Figure Skater) make such remarks about her disciplined upbringing.
Ha! I suggested the shark would be computer generated on a thread back when the show was first announced. Thanks for proving me right.
I doubt it...he better stay out of legal difficulty, he can't keep up with the 'Sharks' (Lawyers).
What a gyp to find out he wasn’t swimming from the sharks, but guess he would have to be high to do that
You can only do so many ideas for Shark week. We are down to Sharknado and this.
Swam faster backwards than I think I ever have forward one time in the Bahamas. Had a Barracuda swimming in my general direction when I was snorkeling. Wasn’t about to lose sight of him...luckily he decided to go elsewhere.
You’re welcome.
I shoulda known.
Gotta stop letting Discovery sucker me in to stupid junk.
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