As I’m sitting here watching an interesting show on The History Channel called Journey to 10,000 B.C., I notice there is a new show that they keep showing commercials for. You can tell they are really trying to push it since there is an ad for it every few minutes. Heck, they even have a little countdown in the upper-left corner of the screen letting you know how long is left until the premiere of this new series. So, what is this amazing new series so groundbreaking they don’t want anyone to miss? Ax-Men… Yes, you read that right, and no, it’s not a typo… Ax-Men. And no, it’s not about a group of super-hero mutants with a bald guy in a wheel chair and another guy with retractable-blades in his hands. It’s actually a show about everyday, average guys that go around cutting down trees. I mean, I haven’t heard about a show that sounds this exciting since “Ice Road Truckers” first aired (c’mon, what’s not exciting about guys that drive around in trucks all day?!?). I can’t really imagine what could make this Ax-Men show worth watching, so I hope The History Channel doesn’t have too much riding on its success. However, it isn’t the ridiculousness of the show that really bothers me, but how the commercials presented these “Ax-Men”. The impression I got from the ads was that they want to portray these men as heroes that we should all respect or something. I mean, if they wanted to do a show about men in the U.S. military and their daily struggles, I can understand and appreciate that (not to mention it would seem a lot more watchable), but I can’t see how they expect, with everything that is currently going on in the world, people to see these loggers as heroes. I’m sure we all do still use products made from paper on a daily basis, but that doesn’t make it ok or entertaining to see the trees cut down. I’ll admit, I have not yet seen the show, but I am very surprised that The History Channel is even putting a show like this on the air. 

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The History Channel 
Ax-Men 
Ice Road Truckers

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