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Yeah, that's the distinction I'm making here...I'm cool with Cam not wanting to do press after the biggest loss of his career. He didn't insult or threaten anyone, promise they'd never ref a game of his ever again, or cite his kids as evidence of being beyond reproach.

Can't we just agree that everyone in this situation, save Osaka, is awful? Institutionalized sexism and racism means that women, doubly so black women, in all walks of life, can't stand up for themselves the way men are allowed to. And that fucking sucks. A man can be an aggressive, bullying prick at a job and be hailed as a go-getter and a straight shooter. A woman does it and she's a horrible cunt. At the same time, Serena has reacted this way a few times before and probably only did so to this extent because she was losing. This is the second time she's trotted out the "I have a kid" defense as some sort of shield against accusations of wrongdoing, which is awful (she used it against doping accusations a little while back). Having a kid and being shitty aren't mutually exclusive. And now she's doubling down and claiming she's fighting for women's rights, which probably gets more of a side eye than "I have kids!" It's a shitty system she's in, and she reacted poorly. The judge was a jerk and so was she.

"What's your super power? Cultural appropriation?"

Jimmy: "I am seeing a shrink. Twice a week." A real "but doctor, I am Pagliacci" moment.

Stolen from reddit... Mick's floating head, worse than Bruce Lee in Game of Death HHH's butterfingers thumb slip, no time for a retake

Great call, guys. Re the superlab, to paraphrase something I saw elsewhere: BB writers back then: "Who cares about the logistics of building it? Nobody is going to delve that much into Gus' backstory." BCS writers: "....shit" But honestly, there's got to be some sort of point the specifically show it being built. Maybe a testament to Gus' determination or something? Because nobody would have cared about hand-waving the whole thing by saying, "there was already a basement."

I completely understand, thouggh giving up during season two wasn't exactly fair. It was the worst season due to AMC giving all their budget to Mad Men and asking the creators of TWD to keep the show in one location (the farm) to keep costs low. They famously even asked if the show could be done without zombies! The original Walking Dead...man, I don't know. There's just enough decent stuff to keep me watching but it's a chore sometimes. It really feels like they have 8-10 episodes worth of content that they stretch to 16 via contrived means. Looking at the episode history on Wikipedia, I'm kind of pissed yet amazed they managed to stretch out the Saviors story arc for three whole fucking seasons. Wow.

I tapped out on Fear the Walking Dead two episodes into the second half of this season. To summarize what happened: The show had gotten, to me, very good last season. It had some interesting ideas and did a lot of cool, different stuff. So this season they fired the showrunner, brought in Scott Gimple from TWD, had Morgan leave OG Walking Dead and join Fear (doing a time jump to force that to make sense), killed off most of the original characters -- seriously, only one character from season 1, episode 1 is still alive -- and told the whole story to catch us up in a series of inexplicable then and now flashbacks/flashforwards that would have the guys behind Westworld saying "dude, chill." Essentially, the owners of the show decided they wanted a different show entirely and went about getting to it in the most inorganic, clumsy way they could. Scott Gimple was the guy behind that masturbatory Morgan backstory episode a few seasons ago. Remember that? Glenn apparently died...shocking moment! And then the next week, we got 90 god damn minutes of flashbacks of the fat bald guy from Drew Carey teaching Morgan to be nice and to use a bo staff. So now he's in charge of a formerly decent show, doing an entire hour on one character learning not to hate a character who murdered her brother. So a good show is replaced by the DEEP stuff Gimple likes to create. No thanks.

Catching up from a post form last month...are USA's recent cancellations indicative of a bigger shift? Recently, they've dropped or have announced the end of four shows: Falling Water, Shooter, Colony, and Mr. Robot. Suits is long in the tooth and I could see that ending soon. Only @J.T. and I watch Queen of the South, so I could see that go unless USA execs have it positioned as a token program to add diversity. Regardless, after that, there's just prestige short runs like Sinner and Purge, and reality crap like Crisley and Miz. I'm wondering whether dropping 2 billion on wrestling is causing the network to tighten their belts everywhere else.

I also think there needs to be a minimum number of members for a faction/stable/whatever. Three people is not a faction.

Revising it...a stable just fits a more narrow "pure sports" definition of a group. Like Bobby Heenan was the kayfabe manager of these guys. he was their representation. They were Heenan's stable. To stick with the 80s and make it apples to apples, the Horesmen weren't a stable even though they had a manager. Nobody saw them as "JJ Dillon's crew." To recap: A group of guys without a real common cause who just have the same representation? Stable A gang with a cause like "let's watch each other's backs and make sure we all succeed?" Faction, gang, whatever.

Can't they just put Joseph Gordon-Levitt in prosthesis again?

Wouldn't a "stable" be a collection of wrestlers under a common manager, while a "faction" would be a group without a manager? I know the NWO having a sort-of manager in Bischoff muddies the waters a bit.

I thought season two was mostly awful, but season three was excellent. I'm curious to see where they go with the finale since I seem to recall they undid the hack.

Awesome episode. Mike is a badass; he didn't even buy Gus' theatrics. Neelix from Star Trek Voyager was probably the last person I expected to guest star on this show.

Holy shit. I hate to say it but that's how I remember them as well.

That's actually from the really dark sequel to Secretariat.

I'd say just tell the guy you don't sign autographs in airports. Or sign it and move on. If you tell the guy you don't sign autographs at airports and he talks shit on Twitter, by all means unleash the hounds. But signing the autograph, then talking shit and causing stan backlash after the guy Tweets you to say thanks is absolutely the worst approach. It's so petty and passive aggressive. And, as I mentioned, harmful. If she has a rep as a bit of an asshole, things like this might be why.

I'm the guy who took Vic to task over the Jar Jar Binks thing. I guess I'm just anti Internet backlash beatdown bus bullshit in most cases. Yes, the airport guy is a shitty person and a creeper, but what if he killed himself after thousands of Beyhive-like Sasha fans came after the guy? Would that be a deserved end for him? That's my reasoning behind it. I don't think it's right that a public figure can direct the full power of a legion of online lunatics to go after a private citizen unless they really deserve it. "This guy made me uncomfortable at the airport" doesn't qualify, in my book.

You might be right. I get them mixed up. That's why I gave myself an out ("or some other old time promoter") "Past performance does not indicate future results"

It's a nice sentiment, but Banks thinks she's Van Gogh while she's really Thomas Kinkade. This. You don't sick your thirsty legion of mark-ass stans on a guy because you didn't like how he went about getting an autograph. Don't get me wrong. Everyone involved was an asshole, but there's a reason real actual stars hire someone else to do their social media. Bullying a fan, no matter how shitty that fan is, is really awful.

That was my first impression as well. Old promoter bullshit masquerading as "conventional wisdom." It reminds me of the story Meltzer tells about, I believe, Sam Muschnick. Essentially Mushnick, or some other old time promoter, told Dave that promoters will have a million excuses why a show didn't draw. The weather was too bad. The weather was too good. The state fair was in town. There was a high school football championship game two towns over. Whatever. The truth is you put on a show that your audience didn't care to buy a ticket for. Yeah, September is a just conventionally soft month, nothing they can do about that. No way is it because WWE goes on cruise control in the period between Summerslam and Royal Rumble.

Fuck Komen, Wounded Warrior, and any charity that pays huge salaries to their CEO, holds lavish parties, and puts far more money into #branding than into the actual cause. The American Cancer Society and Disabled American Veterans ain't doing that shit.

"And tell them to see if that Hogan kid out of Tampa is free! I hear he really packs em in!"

I read the scene at Mesa Verde as Kim not wanting any part of it, and possible wanting to get out of lawyering as well. I mean she almost died doing the work of one bank...and now they want her to be their counsel for a regional expansion. She was overwhelmed and reconsidering. There was a quick shot of two figurines in one of the mock-ups and the window framing looked like bars, like continuing to work there would feel like a prison to her. It's a little on the nose for Gilligan, but who knows? There's a theory on /r/bettercallsaul that Mesa Verde is a money laundering operation, which is how they can expand so quickly. I'm not so sure about that and crazy speculation like this is why I try to avoid TV shows' subreddits. I tapped out on Westworld Reddit after two episodes -- I'd rather be surprised and enjoy a show then possibly get spoiled by a a million theories throwing shit at the wall.