Sunday, January 18, 2009
The crappy pirate show in Las Vegas
So here's my beef. My wife and I went to Las Vegas last week. While we were there we wanted to see the pirate show that they have at the Treasure Island Casino. I'd seen the show years before and heard that they'd changed it. My wife hadn't seen it before and I was excited for her to experience it. The one I remember had a fight between pirates and the British, and there was cannon fire with explosions and people falling in the water, eventually resulting in the pirate ship sinking the british ship. I was expecting an exciting show similar to that. We walked from the Excalibar Casino to the Treasure Island Casino (practically the whole length of the strip)which took about an hour. Then I saw the lamest show ever. It had a ship full of scantily clad women who were "sirens" and then a pirate ship shows up and they start shooting off their canons at the siren ship because the sirens had kidnapped one of their men, trying to lure more men aboard. The sirens get mad and how they get back at them is they do a sexy dance (which was actually pretty lame) which then somehow results in the pirate ship sinking. What is that all about? Then the pirates swim over to the siren ship and start dancing with the women. After I saw this I was very disappointed. It was definitely not worth the walk. I thought to myself "Why did they have to change it?" It was a really good show before, with an actual story to go with it. I guess Las Vegas is trying to not be family friendly anymore so they're going for sex appeal. This is not necessary. Hundreds of visitors are attracted to the volcano at the Mirage and the Bellagio fountains, neither of which are sexually oriented. People liked the Treasure Island show the way it was before. I think this new show is going to turn more people away from the casino because it's ridiculous in comparison to the cool pirate show that they used to perform. No one would want to go back to see such a lame performance.
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