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If there really is no way they're going to get the show up and running somewhere else, I really hope they keep pushing the envelope by having Hannibal die in the finale.

... Getting beaten by Eddie Kingston. Speaking of Kingston, did he disappear again? He and Homicide came into ROH really hot as Outlaw, Inc but didn't stay long. I know he was Chikara champ for a while, but has he been around much since then?

Seeing how Cena has gone all indy-style at this stage of his career, perhaps in a few years he'll pull a Great Sasuke and start doing deathmatches out of nowhere.

Maddox looks like he should be forming a stable with Chuck and Billy.

I remember trying to watch Drinking Buddies a year or so ago and it didn't feel like a movie as much as just following around a couple of 30somethings for a few days while they did absolutely nothing interesting. "Mumblecore" is a great way to describe the delivery on there as the characters did pretty much nothing but mutter to eachother back and forth.

I was going to mention Fred Savage as a big child star who never went on to do anything, then remembered he was dead and went to imdb to double check. Turns out he's still alive and has been working steadily with a lot of tv and voice acting work. TMYK.

I hope Gigi ends up in developmental at some point. She was the only one of the women who had any talent, looks, or personality. There were several times during the training where she came off as really disingenuous but was still far more likeable than the other women. I don't see how anyone actually likes Sara, she has no personality and doesn't bring anything to the table ring-wise. Amanda is beyond generic. Tanner is probably going to be axed next. Josh and ZZ's match this week was pretty much telling the tale of how their elimination battle is going to go. ZZ looked a lot better this week. A long way from being developmental-ready, but he actually seemed to be trying for once.

This was one of those shows I didn't much like, but at the same time stuck with because I wanted to see what happened or hoped that they'd capitalize on the brief moments of promise it showed (mid-season). If they had cut out about 2/3 of the story and the 3 main characters and just made a two hour movie about Frank's struggle to try and become a legit businessman and trying to sever ties with his former underworld associates I think I might have liked it. Aside from the clusterfuck of a plotline and connections between characters that were so vague and minor that it just didn't matter, my biggest problem was the lack of chemistry between the three leads. There were several scenes between Ray and Paul where they actually seemed to relate to one another a bit and you felt there was some bond between them, but for the most part it felt like watching 3 coworkers who didn't have any non-superficial interest in the other. I can understand Ani and Ray getting busy as it was established that Ani clearly has daddy issues and used sex to deal with stress and anxiety, but I didn't buy for a minute that they actually had any feelings for one another. Their supposedly emotionally gripping calls and interactions in the finale were just incredibly forced.

I'm not positive on this and don't feel like looking it up at the moment, but I recall reading somewhere that he wanted to go the Dana Carvey route and spend more time with his family and kids instead of working non-stop. He got the lead role in that Person of Interest ripoff show that quickly tanked. My first exposure to him was in Brotherhood of the Wolf (which is still one of my favorite movies) and it seems like he's this generation's Michael Dudikoff or Gary Daniels in the "king of straight to video action movies". On a similar note I thought Phillip Rhee would be bigger based on Best of the Best, but pretty much the only thing he's done is make sequels to it.

Terry Funk maybe?

I was always under the impression that she went along with him at the end of season 2 and stayed with him in season 3 out of a sense of self-preservation. She knew she couldn't hide from him forever and that if she didn't go along with his plan, he'd likely kill and eat her so she decided to go along with him and escape when she had the chance. In the lecture she was giving this week, it sounded like she came up with the excuse that Hannibal brainwashed her into going along with him (kind of like what he did to Clarice at the end of the Hannibal novel) but that sounds like something she just made up to avoid culpability. If my idea of her sticking with him out of being afraid to do otherwise is right, then I think she just went too far down the rabbit hole and came out as someone and something far worse.

Granted I watch the Spanish version of it with no subtitles or anything, but isn't this basically the plot of Lucha Underground?

per Meltzer in today's updateIm sure he means Paige, Charlotte and Becky. Got this from another site but why don't they try Submission Society? I saw someone post this really awesome piece of artwork on Paige and Becky's twitter depicting them as the Powerpuff Girls calling them the "Powerbuff Girls" but there are probably copyright issues there.

I'd never heard of any Tyler Durden-esque theories until the other thread and can't say I'd ever even thought of something like that. Both he and Elliot interact with multiple other characters, often at the same time, so I don't see why there's a question that there's some alter-ego gimmick going on. The thing I wonder most about is what Tyrell and his wife's deal is. I somehow get the impression she's the one calling the shots in that relationship and is just as responsible for whatever their endgame is as he is. How's this show doing ratings-wise?

I can't imagine ZZ winning just because of the backlash he'd get if/when he ever showed up in NXT. Josh seems like the person to beat, but it's not like much has made sense so far. Gigi should definitely win, so it makes sense that she almost got eliminated this week. I can't see why they'd want Sara to win as there's nothing marketable about her, even in the "quiet everywoman" type of way. She's pretty much a non-entity on the show and is mediocre at the wrestling aspects. Miz looked like a ketchup bottle.

I made a thing-

Rollins needs to bust out a Greg Valentine-esque shirt that says "I Broke Cena's Nose".

This was a really solid episode. They're making Owens/Cesaro seem like something important and those two will probably have the match of the night at Summerslam. Neville/Rollins really should have been the main event. That was a terrific match and I hope they get to have more matches with more time to build it up.

I just remembered this from The Simpsons-

I thought the first movie you mentioned might be Summer Camp Nightmare but it came out in 87 and I don't remember the latter half of your plot description being in there. It's still worth watching in an awful/awesome movie type of way.

I've watched QoS at least twice on its own and I'm sure I've watched parts or all of it when happening across it on tv. Aside from some hotel in the desert blowing up, I can't remember anything about it.

I really liked the first one when it originally came out but haven't seen it in years. Action films from the 90s that rely on a lot of fancy technology have a tendency of aging poorly because of how outdated all the technical elements look, but I might give it another chance sometime soon. Part 2...fuck... This movie came out the summer after my first year of college and myself and the group of guys I'd befriended over the year got together at a central location to go catch it. We hadn't hung out in a month or two and finally found a night when we were all free to go see it and were really looking forward to the movie having discovered John Woo's back catalogue over the past year. I remember about halfway though the movie, one of my friends turns to the rest of us and say "I'm sorry about this guys". We all pretty much agreed that if we'd been at the movie solo we'd have walked out of it. Because of how shitty part 2 was I never bothered with part 3 and was really surprised when a fourth was released. Curiosity got the best of me and I watched Ghost Protocol and loved it. After that I went back and watched the third and it's nothing special but inoffensive. PSH's character is a bit over the top but otherwise it's a totally serviceable action movie and does a good job introducing the new characters.

Thunderkitty is right there.

That plus she probably gets offended when women get by in the business based on their looks rather than ability, and Miz was pretty much saving Amanda based on her looks alone. Paige seems to be taking this a bit more seriously than the others and getting a little too personally invested in it. I think Sara Lee is less deserving of being there than Amanda, but out of the bottom 3 Amanda was clearly the most expendable. Mada was really improving but did come off as kind of a douche lately. He and Josh could probably make it based on their size and looks if they actually stuck with training.