BobbyWhioux

Nah. Ned's hold is The Northern Claw. Starks = Von Erichs. All the kids use it too, however, the best/most over version of the Nothern Claw actually belongs to Hodor.

"They square off tonight in a King's Landing Death Match, meaning the loser will be bound down and beheaded, IN THE CENTER OF THE RING"

Between that, his squash victory in a 3 on 1 handicap match, and Oberyn's face promo to Tyrion, they hit all the notes on building a Pay Per View bout.

I went alliterative with every Shepard I ever made, even the ones I scrapped after ten minutes: Shawn, Steve, Sam, Sarah, Sven, Siobhan, etc.

spoiler-free clarification: Yep. Oberyn's sister was married to Dany's brother (Crown Prince Rhaegar, the older brother, who died before the events of the show started, not her other brother, who we saw suffer Death By Bling in season 1). Dany was still in utero when Rhaegar died. So yeah, Dany is technically Oberyn's sister-in-law, but they would not ever have met (remember Oberyn said back in episode 1 of this season that he is in the capital for the first time since his sister got married to Rhaegar a long long time ago).

And the Alarm Bells going off, meaning it was about to be (roughly) 5 to 1 the other way with their exit route cut off. Remember when she tried to get Theon to leave Winterfell in Season 2? Same thing again. She can't save him if he won't save himself.

The gallery for Tyrion's trial was a total wrestling crowd too. Loved it when they started booing and hissing him during his speech, especially "I SHOULD'VE LET STANNIS KILL YOU ALL"

I'd probably be more disappointed with Yara vs Ramsay if I hadn't spent enough years watching wrestling to recognize a title match that is going to end on a disqualification so the champ retains but the challenger remains undefeated/strong/etc. from A Mile Away. She can't win, but she can't get captured by Ramsay either. I hope the folks in the other thread recognize it for what it is too. EDIT: Gotta hook 'em for that Reek-On-A-Pole rematch at Clash Of The Champions Kings V

Hodor had a Bob Backlund in 1994 moment there

Burn Gorman was such a hoot as Karl a small part of me wanted them to fuck with continuity and have him escape death for just a little longer. Was surprised Locke blew his own cover/got killed off so quickly. Dug Hodor staring at his hands like 1994 Bob Backlund

Giants sweep Atlanta in Atlanta... ...for the first time since 1988

Yeah but Rickon will still get a face pop because he'll be eating Freys Much like how Hulk Hogan actually wrestled heel style (back rakes, eye gouges, jawing with the referee) all through the Hulkamania years and got cheered anyway.

Man, they had a wonderfully built team with a great mix of veterans, youth, size, speed, and talent. I wouldn't change much but there's going to be a huge turnover in reaction of being just the fourth team to blow a 3-0 series lead in NHL history. I think Doug Wilson has consistently put that team in a position to win and am a huge fan of his. Great drafting, smart free agent pick ups, and pretty good at trades (though dumping Ehrhoff to get Heatley stunk). What do they do with Havlat? He still has a year left at $5 million and the coach just scratched him 6 of 7 playoff games. Only team left I wouldn't mind seeing win the cup is Munchreal, but I fear for the worst (Boston/LA finals). Yeah they're in this spot where hitting the panic button and blowing up the team is just as stupid as changing nothing. The other problem is several other teams in the conference are really good (arguably better) and are going to stay that way, and trying to jiggle the handle every off season (change the coach, change the goalie, change the captain) isn't going to change THAT. They continue to be really good but not quite good enough, like they're "one piece away" but getting that piece means giving up someone key and then THAT becomes the new "one piece away". They were young and fast but Edmonton proved 8 years ago they weren't tough enough, so they got tougher, but that made them older and slower. And so on and so forth for a decade. But waiting through all this just means it'll be all the more fun when they finally do break through, right?

Well, bring on the annual tradition of The Picking Of The Scapegoat in San Jose, I suppose. Which deficiency will the team address, and which NEW deficiency that causes the team to fall short next year will be created by fixing this year's deficiency?

Really, being a Sharks fan is a lot like trying to kick Lucy's football.

GRRM has gone on record saying it/The Others won't be that because the monolithic race of evil is one of his criticisms of Tolkien. [sometimes I wonder if the Dragons/fire side is actually the real danger and that Dany might have a full-fledged Heel Turn in her future. And The Others are coming back because they know it's up to them to help...or they're simply defending themselves and Tough Luck Humans if ya get caught in the crossfire, nothin personal]

Which of course does not necessarily hinge on his own zombification, since if there's one Sick Enough Puppy to throw in with them of his own volition...

If that happens, will everyone get raped then zombified or zombified first then raped? Depends on how early/late in the process Ramsay joins their ranks.

Or conversely, maybe the Kings have punched themselves out, giving all they've got pressing so hard just to get back to this even point, and the Sharks will finish off a team worn down by their own prolonged desperation. [Pretty good for typing with my fingers crossed, I must say ] Oddly enough, the Sharks have been in this situation before: they got up 3-0 on Detroit a couple years back and needed 7 to win that one. Maybe they can do it again. Anaheim's the real winner of this SJ/LA series, though.

That was definitely a movie I've seen before. (Though the Vlasic injury in game 5 was probably a more damning moment overall, and puts this series in Pyrric Victory territory even if they survive game 7)

It's Good To Be Da King.

While that's long been assumed and even inferred from certain passages in the published material, the books have not yet gotten around to confirming it/showing us. It's less the reveal itself and more that scene being a milestone signifying the show is now -- at least in some arcs -- getting ahead of the books. Which means we don't totally know what's coming anymore, either.

Quality heel promo by Karl THE LEGEND OF GIN ALLEY btw. Drinking out of Mormont's skull was tremendous. On a show with 3578463243389 characters, that's how you make your name stand out.

And Jaime slapping the Freys around with his gold hand beforehand. And, for that matter, Jaime trying to negotiate with The Blackfish only to have the Blackfish shit on him like The Rock talking to Billy Gunn.

He wasn't terrible, but I don't think he was all that special aside from his look. I remember hearing that he ran afoul of The Klique in the WWF in the 90's, and Nash later squashed a well-built Wrath win streak in a throwaway Nitro match so that seems plausible. Yeah, about halfway through the period of Goldberg's Undefeated Streak, Wrath got reintroduced to the WCW audience (look/costume change, not gimmick change) with a similarly booked Unbeaten Streak/Win Streak (they did not claim he was Undefeated like with Goldberg, only "unbeaten since his return"). If I recall correctly they started having the broadcast team draw parallels between the two and may have been laying the foundation for a future Goldberg vs Wrath bout. But Wrath's first "real test" match in that streak was against Kevin Nash and Nash killed his streak dead (no cattle prod required). When he started in WWF in Spring 1993 they had him squash a jobber almost every week (check Jae's "RAW 1993 recap series" blog, Adam Bomb shows up a lot) but rarely gave him a match against a "name". I never heard what they thought they were saving him for (or who he pissed off), but he never got a 1 on 1 PPV match until Wrestlemania X, wherein he of course gets squashed (in multiple senses of the word) by Earthquake. And then he kinda disappeared. He was a big dude with aerial moves and he had a good look, and even the sort of build Vince usually likes, but for whatever reason he just never really got started. Come to think of it I wanna know why, now, too.