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Spritenaut 32

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  1. And Attack On Titan is coming to Toonami in May....YES!

     

     

    Attack on Titan starts this weekend, actually @ 11:30.  It's a double win for me.  I haven't seen the show yet because I no longer have the patience to watch subtitled anime (become too used to using the laptop while I watch tv) and I really hated Space Dandy.

     

    The weekend Toonami/Adult Swim block has been shockingly good lately, after years (?) of disinterest from CN.   

  2. Anyone still watching the Following?  Last night's season finale was actually quite good.  Kind of a surprise, because I thought the previous 31 episodes (over 2 seasons) were mostly mediocre.  The finale had a few genuinely surprising plot twists, and some good character moments.  The show's never really done character moments well.  I'm kinda interested where they go from here with the Joe Carroll character (though I expect the answer will be "backwards")

     

    I still have no idea why I've stuck with this show for 2 years though.  This season was weirder and more interesting than last year, but I also thought it was weaker than season 1 (which wasn't particularly good, imo).  Character development is basically non-existent (until last night) and most characters seem to exist just to be killed off.

     

    Also, it won't be long until Kevin Bacon is ready to play Skeletor in a Masters of the Universe reboot.  Dude is not aging gracefully.

  3. I was looking at thehistoryofwwe.com and it looks like Flair and Bret had a 60 minute Iron Man match in Boston in January 1993. Does anyone know if footage of this match exists?

     

    I've never seen a pro shot version, but there's a fancam of it around.  Great match.  The back half of the match is laid out extremely well.

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    Bray Wyatt and John Wilkes Booth vs. Daniel Bryan and Abe Lincoln.

     

    Go old school man:

     

    Sting and Benedict Arnold vs. William Regal and King George III

     

     

    Booking Benedict Arnold is way too straightforward to be a proper Sting angle.

     

    Sting/George Washington vs. Ric Flair & King Henry VIII (a natural pairing; they have so much in common).

     

    During the match, Washington gets the hot tag, only to turn on Sting and hit him with a chair made out of cherry.  Washington and the heels beat down Sting, then Washington takes off his shirt to reveal that he's wearing a shirt that looks like the British flag.  Washington gets on the mic and announces that he's the newest member of the OwE - Old World Empire.

     

    Actually, to make it a proper Sting angle, Washington should act heelish in the weeks turning up to the match.  It isn't a real Sting angle unless you telegraph the turn so that everyone except Sting knows the guy is turning heel at the PPV.

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  5. The problem is, I don't trust Jeff Jarrett to book the promotion that way.  When he was running TNA, it was much more "attitude era/Russo WCW taken to it's logical extreme."

     

    I was with you until you tried to shoehorn the word "logical" in the same sentence with "TNA" and "Russo".  One of those things is not like the others.

     

    Instead of endless 90's rehashes (ECW, Attitude Era, WCW business plan), why does no one rip off the 80's?  I could live with a 1986 Jim Crockett or 1982 Memphis tribute promotion.

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  6. Per EW, Almost Human is getting a second season, although it's getting a "reboot" whatever that's supposed to mean. They're just working out contractual issues which is why they haven't made an official announcement. Although it's apparently only a 13 season renewal, which may hint at a lack of faith on Fox's part.

     

    Season 1 was only 13 eps.  Sleepy Hollow and the new season of 24 got 13 eps.  The Following gets orders for 16 eps per .  Supposedly, part of Fox's current program strategy is to order shorter seasons of shows (some shows, not across-the-board).

  7. I didn't think the Pistons one was anything special.  Nothing I really haven't seen or heard before.  Those NBA produced doc's from the 80's are just as worth watching.

     

    Agree.  A lot of great moments, but I didn't think it was in the top tier of 30 for 30 docs.

     

     

    Hasn't it been revealed that Magic was the one who had Thomas banned?

     

    The stories I've heard/read claim it was Jordan.

  8. Yoshi Tatsu. Arguably the best-protected guy in the entire company when he was on ECW, a guy who could've drawn some money given a chance- now he's treated as an ineffective joke by everyone.

     

    Dolph Ziggler says hi.

     

    Dolph seems like he could have had a much higher ceiling that Tatsu or Ryder, but they've buried him so thoroughly he'll probably never be of much use to the company again.

  9. $25 for a PPV isn't going to be what keeps ROH from getting my money,

     

    ROH being a poor imitation of what it was less than a decade ago is going to be what keeps them from getting my money.  I'd happily pay $25 if Punk and the Embassy were on the card.  RD Evans and Jay Lethal are a lot tougher sell.

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  10. Personally, I think the Ang Lee Hulk movie is better than it's given credit for.  I'd watch it again over most super hero movies of recent years.

     

    That said, it's not a great movie and it's definitely not the sort of crowd pleaser they were aiming for.  I always wonder what everyone involved was thinking when they went in that direction for a Marvel super hero movie - and that includes hiring Lee in the first place.

  11. The G-Force-Dub Hall Of Fame has been announced.  It has been something the company has been working on since April 5th or 6th of 2014.  Here is the line up for the first class:

     

    Optimus Prime

    Duke

    The Yellow Ranger

    The Care Bears (whole group)

    Papa Smurf (yearly deceased inductee)

    Wrestling Superstar Virgil

     

    Even in that group, the one actual wrestler in the group would never headline.

  12. Last night, WE was showing "Law and Order" episodes from season 1.  Kinda  cool.  I've seen L&O reruns so many times I can't stomach most of them any more, but you rarely see seasons 1-3 in syndication (pre-Chris Noth and Sam Waterston, basically).

     

    Is WE still supposed to be a women's channel?  I only started paying attention to it recently,  They run L&O and CSI: Miami marathons four nights a week, which seems to guarantee women probably won't watch in large numbers.

     

    Also, Bob's Burgers was outstanding this week.   Probably the funniest ep they've done in awhile and one of my favorites of the series,  Don't think there was a dull moment.

  13. Dave was on fire on sunday night show, with his rants about the Warrior and Tito.

     

    What he'd say about Warrior?  Missed the show, but it seems a little odd to rant about the recently deceased.

     

    For that matter, what did he say about Tito (I'm assuming he wasn't talking about Tito Santana)?

  14. I still can't believe that Nakamura is the same boring shooter that put me to sleep in 2004.  Dude's really grown a personality over the last decade (and become a bit of a weird egg in the process).

     

    Oh, and Gordy and Hayes were obviously about to call Buddy Jack and ask him where the hell they (Bam Bam and PS) were.  Roberts was probably the Freebirds designated driver.

  15. I'm so dumbfounded why it took WWE creative as long as it took them to figure out that Mark Henry should be a Vader-ish wrestler. I look back at his time as Sexual Chocolate and all the dumb shit with Mae Young and I wonder why. Was he being punished for his weight? I thought that was the story at the time.

     

    Per Meltzer and assorted other dirt sheets, Vince wanted to get out from under Henry's 10 year contract and was hoping to embarrass him into quitting (the contract was guaranteed, so he still got paid if fired).   

  16. I won't have time to sit down and watch the full episode until tomorrow, but the couple minutes of Bob's Burgers I just caught were hysterical

     

    They're doing a parody of the My Little Pony creepy adult male fanbase

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  17. I get that she says that she's Russian. There's not really any element of that in her performance though. I think they capture Thor very well. I think Cap is spot on. Iron Man sort of redefined the comics character. Just if you listed all the elements that made Black Widow Black Widow, I don't think you find much of those personality traits in the movie version. 

     

    I do agree with this.  Aside from saying she's Russian and having a spy/assassin type skill set, the character's mostly a blank slate. 

     

    Honestly, I think the movies get Cap as a "man out of time" far better than most of the writers who have written his comic.

     

    I'm getting a headache from reading Black Widow's retconned origin and trying to figure out how to square the timeline with the fact that she's generally drawn to look 40 at most (younger than that).   Looks like she would have been at least 20 when she joined the Black Widow program.  According to Marvel, she joined after World War II and had a husband for a couple of years before she threw herself completely into the program when he died.  I guess we're supposed to believe she didn't get thawed out much until after the fall of the Soviet Union?  Her post-defection timeline is kinda lengthy, though super hero timelines are worse than Dr, Who for playing fast and loose with that sort of thing, so I imagine they could claim she only defected a few years ago without too many issues.

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    Based on her back story and the way she's drawn in the comics, I pegged the comics version of Widow at somewhere between 36-45.  Scarlett Johannson strikes me as being too young to play the character.  I'd prefer her played by an actress closer to RDJ's age.  That's the nature of the business, though.  Realistically, Widow probably should be at least 50, but Marvel's not going to write and draw her that way and she's not going to be portrayed as middle age in the movies.

     

    Aside from the age thing, they've kept her background fairly close to the comics version. 

     

    Assuming it hasn't been retconned, comics Black Widow is closer to 80. She's about 10-15 years younger than Cap.

     

     

    Oops.  My bad.  I wasn't aware they retconned her origin in her own book (never read it).  Marvel.com's Wiki page says she was born in 1928.

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