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  1. DeMatteis is probably my favorite Spider Man writer.  His run is undermined some by some really silly crossovers and edjtorially-mandated developments, but his run as a whole is extremely underrated, imo.

     

    Did the volume you read reprint "Soul of the Hunter" too?  Soul of the Hunter was a semi-sequel by DeMatteis & Zeck published as a graphic novel about five years after Last Hunt.  Not really essential, but cool if you dig DeMatteis' philosophy/mystical stuff

     

    Basically, Spider Man tries to help Kraven's ghost find peace and pass into the afterlife

     

    Marvel's publishing a "Kraven's Last Hunt" novel later this year (written by DeMatteis).

  2. Until I read this thread, I had no idea that Megan Markle (Mike's girlfriend on Suits) started off as a Deal or No Deal model.

     

    That explains so much about her acting.  So very much.

     

     

    Edit: I guess DonD was her break.  She had a string of bit parts before that.

  3. Goldblum was fun, and Law & Order UK is brilliant

     

    Yeah, Goren/Eames was one of my least favorite pairings on the show.   D'Onofrio's performance was alright, and I like Erbe, but the Goren character was written as a jack of all trades with a deductive intellect that was basically supernatural.  Sherlock Holmes was less competent.  Episodes basically devolved into Goren knowing everything about everything and Eames standing around holding his coat.

     

    I much preferred the Mike Logan episodes - particularly his first season on the show when Noth was paired with Annabella Sciorra.  And I liked Goldblum, even though his partners and the writing wasn't the best (the season with Saffron Burrows was pretty meh).

     

    Haven't seen all of Law and Order: UK, but most of what I have seen was top notch.

  4. Wouldn't discount that, but the actress (Natalie Zea) has said it was her decision not to return and she wouldn't be shooting any scenes aside from the hospital scene they used at the beginning of the ep.  I kinda think Claire will stay dead unless they recast the part.  My impression is that Zea really doesn't like the show.

     

    I watched the premiere because... no idea.  I really don't think it's a very good show, full of fairly predictable twists and cardboard characters.  I watched all of season 1 and kinda wish I hadn't spent that much time on it.

  5. CSI Texas (crime procedural) - Watch as Sgt. Dusty Rhodes leads a mismatched team of renegade forensic specialists (Dory Funk Jr., La Parka, Enzo Amore, Daffney) as they try to solve "unsolvable" crimes. There is always lots of high tech plunder and heiney clobbering to be had. In the first episode, “Who Killed Capt. Redneck?”, all Thee American Dream and his misfit crew have to go on is a shard of a Lone Star beer bottle, a used muffler and a scrap of white sheet. Special Guest David Alan Coe stops by as well.

     

    So..... Walker, Texas Ranger with better acting?

     

    I do kinda want David Caruso's CSI: Miami character to cross over though.  Watching Dusty and Caruso try to out-act each other should be interesting,  Hopefully, Horatio can teach La Parka how to dramatically remove sunglasses.

  6. It censors normal words thinking they are swear words.

     

    You don't know that you've been censored until you upload the story.  Then it cuts out everything.

     

    I can't say "Hello my name is Yoshi Tatsu" because it has shit in there

     

    I can't say Spike Dudley because Spike is a euphamism for a dick

     

    don't even think about Dirty Dick Slater

     

    One of the years you couldn't say Cody for some reason

     

    You couldn't say Santino for a while

     

    You can't say title because tit is in it

     

    You can't say muppet ever

     

    Not sure if you can't say Assist or Assault or Assassin and I'm not going to check

     

    I've been wracking my brain for a couple days now trying to figure out what "muppet" could be slang or a euphemism for.  Imagining all sorts of crazy things.  Trying to remember if anyone's ever come up to me in a bar and said "Yeah, me and the waitress, we muppeted 14 times last night."

     

    Unless it has something to do with, ahem, furries, I have no idea.

  7. One thing I never understood was Capt. Lou's rubber bands.  Was his cheek pierced?  And was there a reason/story for wearing them besides his own style?

     

    Yes, his cheek was pierced.

     

    I've never heard of a backstory for the rubber bands.  Albano has mostly said he did it just to be different.  I've heard that he had a fetish for both piercings and rubber bands, so maybe that explains it.

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    Bryan isn't cut to be a top guy anyway.

    Correct. Just because he's maybe the most popular wrestler in the company, probably the best wrestler in the company, and definitely proven immune to terrible booking, doesn't mean he's a main event level guy.

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    Wait, why isn't he cut out to be a top guy?

     

     

    I'm assuming he's either skinny fat and we haven't noticed, or has terrible punches. 

     

    Or maybe he knows too many MOVZS!!!.  He used to be an indy guy, after all.  Anyone have a gif of him no-selling a top rope superplex?

  9. Colt Cabana vs. Jeff Jarrett is kinda surreal.

     

    Is Sting actually done with TNA?  I have no interest in seeing him wrestle, but I'd be interested if he got inducted into the HoF.

     

    What's the fascination of Sting vs. UT, anyway?  Never seemed like a natural dream match up to me.  I can think of a handful of WWE guys I'd have preferred to see him wrestle when they were all in their primes (Surfer Sting vs. Canadian heel Bret Hart, for starters).

  10. Do we need to have a separate Wrestlemania fantasy booking thread?

    So, here's an idea. Orton defeats Cena via shenanigans. Bryan wins the Rumble. HHH sets up an elimination chamber title match with Orton, all three members of the Shield, Sheamus, and someone else. The Shield attack Orton during the match. The seeming face turn by the Shield (punctuated by a massive Roman Reigns spear to Orton) turns out to be a swerve, as HHH has lost confidence in Orton and wants the title on Sheamus. With Sheamus as his new "face of the WWE", Daniel Bryan's Wrestlemania 28 loss to Sheamus gets brought up and constantly replayed during the build, with HHH suggesting that Bryan should give up his title shot, offering his a tag title opportunity with the partner of his choice or a reinstated cruiserweight title. At Wrestlemania, Daniel Bryan reverses past results and beats Sheamus in under 30 seconds after hitting a knee. Would that satisfy you or would you feel robbed that they didn't give Bryan an opportunity for a MOTYC at Wrestlemania?

     

    Doesn't do it for me.  I don't mind the actual booking, but I don't think a 30 second title match gets a guy over strong.  If anything, it screams "gimmick booking". 

     

    I especially don't want to see an uppercard feud paid off on the biggest PPV of the year with a 30 second match.  Don't really want to see that on any PPV, really.  That's worse than non-finishes, when it comes to giving paying customers their money's worth.

  11. The only way somebody might get made by ending the streak is if after it reaches a nice round 25-0 in 'Taker's final match; he goes and stays away for a year or two, long enough to put out a commemorative 25-0 boxset then 3-4 WrestleManias later some uberdouche goads him into coming out of retirement to defend the streak.

     

    Taker would be in his late 50's by the time this played out.  Would beating a 58-yr. old Taker carry enough of a rub to justify ending the streak? 

     

    I've always thought the streak should have been ended before now.  WWE has let the streak build to the point where whoever ended it would be under enormous pressure to both get over to an insane degree, and already be massively over before the match takes place.  Fans at this point aren't going to accept a new Ryback/Ziggler/ADR-level guy coming in and going over.

     

    Truthfully, though, I don't have a lot of faith in the company to pick the right guy to end the streak and follow up strongly.  I'll believe the Taker wants to end the streak/wants to put Daniel over/wants to put Punk over stuff when I actually see it.  Cena makes the most sense, probably as part of a heel turn, but, by the time they turn Cena heel, Taker will be collecting social security.

     

    Might be better to let Taker retire with the streak intact.  Truthfully, I'd just as soon not see a physically diminished Taker trotted out every year or two for WrestleMania.  Never really been a fan of the whole act.  He became a damn good worker during the 00's and I enjoyed his run on  Smackdown as Big Evil.  But he's getting past the point where he can get his A game together for WrestleMania (I kinda feel his the Michaels match, and, to a lesser extent, the last match with Trip, were his last hurrahs).

     

    I do kinda want to see Davey Richards end the streak just for shits and giggles. 

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