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  1. sydneybrown
    I seem to recall when Hogan was off making No Holds Barred that the Savage-DiBiase house show matches were a surprisingly big draw throughout the spring and summer of 88. Savage definitely held his own when there was no Hogan.
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    Ryder is probably more like "Dude, I was in the main event and I lasted more than five minutes! I wasn't even the first one eliminated!"
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    Actually, it's not a massively successful show nor is it one of the most popular shows on either. It had a big first two seasons, but it's been riding off that ever since. Last season it ranked 49th, being beaten by such ratings juggernauts as Made In Jersey and Undercover Boss. He may have had two good years on a hit show. Hagman had over a decade on one of the most successful shows in history.
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    I guess I'm in the minority, I enjoyed this show a lot more than previous weeks. Orton's bizarre cackle DDT'ing RVD, Miz getting emasculated, the awesome Rhodes run-ins, and the main event. Logically it was stupid booking, but I thought the match was really fun. And I like the push the Usos seem to be getting out of this.
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    FWIW, there's an interview up with the writer of last night's episode with a lot of interesting perspective about things. No spoilers in it, but he does admit that Grey Matter plays a role in the finale, and that the Charlie Rose interview is NOT the end of them... http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/23/breaking-bad-granite-state-writer/
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    This is how I read the scene also. He taught Todd how to make it, but he also knows they were having problems with the cook, which is why they wanted him to come back. I'm kind of pissed I read this, because now I think this is absolutely how it ends. Or he buys the stock to discredit them/implicate them in things. He only has 11 million dollars left, which may or may not have been discovered by the Feds (and a lot of it was spent to go into hiding.) He's got the $100K in the box, which I assume is used for the weapons. I'm actually kind of pissed that wasn't what was done in the first place during those few months when all was right with the world. Walt keeps pumping his millions through another person until his stock makes him majority owner (or better yet, he had done that all along in season 5, but when the feds catch up to him and it's publicly revealed that Walter White had secretly bought millions into Grey Matter, it destroys the company, leaving his shares worthless.) But I think it's too late now. Even if he kills the Aryans and gets his money back, would it really be feasible or realistic that he could use that 70 milion to buy enough Grey Matter stock?
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    Gene was probably thinking "Fuck that, I'm not going to stand here and listen to round two of Dr. D's bullshit."
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    I thought he taught Todd. And that would just be further incentive for him to kill the Aryans, knowing that they are still making his formula. I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty sure in Walt's world, Jesse is dead. And theoretically, since about two-three months have passed since Jesse tried to run, Jesse COULD be dead from doing something stupid.
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    Gretchen and Elliot are idiots. A murdering psychopath with a grudge against us and nothing to lose is out there? Let's just belittle and degrade his accomplishments some more! Granted, they probably didn't expect him to be watching Charlie Rose while he was on the lamb. But still. Also, does this mean Walt's impending murder spree is all Charlie Rose's fault? This has always been the one note where Breaking Bad goes a little off the rails: where they try to mix in pieces of the real world with their story line, and thankfully they don't do it often. On the one hand, I think it was a great way to motivate White to finish everything once and for all. On the other, it seems a little unrealistic for Grey Matter to publicly shit on a wanted man who could strike at anytime. Let's just say the Unabomber had cofounded Microsoft. I doubt Bill Gates would be taunting him and calling him a nobody on national TV. He'd be getting a bomb within weeks.
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    Well, thanks for ruining it.
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    Punk and Show weren't out there, but yeah, the drop off from the main event guys is DEEP. And I laughed a little too much at the ridiculousness of the Big Show punch to Dusty followed by him gently dropping him to the ground...
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    I don't buy the "saving Jesse" part. That was literally the cruelest possible exit Walt could have had with Jesse, and as far as Walt is concerned now, Jesse is dead. I also don't mind adding this was the first time I had nightmares over a Breaking Bad episode since the Gus Fring shows.
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    I think the only way this can end now is with Jesse killing Walt. After Walt finally confessed about Jane, I think that's given Jesse all the motivation he needs now. And in the flash forward, Walt will think Jesse is long since dead. That's just about the closest thing to a happy ending as this show can get. The look of fear on Walt Jr.'s face as he protects his mom after the knife fight...I teared up a little. To me, it was just the exact moment that Walt realized that he had lost everything. That really may have been the best episode yet. But it was so painful, I don't even know if I could watch it again.
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    I don't think I've fully accepted everything that happened tonight. That was one of the most tragic hours of television I may ever see. Until next week.
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    I watched the pilot last night, and I don't know, the whole thing just felt forced and obvious. You meet each character and you know exactly what's going to happen after about twenty seconds. I didn't dislike it, I just didn't care about any of them nor could I relate after it was over. The knocking bit was definitely a nice touch.
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    I just finished watching Badlands for the first time and I know Terrence Malick is very polarizing, but God damn do I love his movies. Just so beautiful to look at and the dialogue just feels so real, like Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek were just bullshitting whatever came into their heads the entire time (which knowing how he makes movies, they probably were.) I'm also relieved finding out now that Spacek was 24 when she made this (since she was playing 15) because there were a few scenes where some of her outfits were leaving quite an impression.
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    Watching UK Fan Favorites and listening to the very rare pairing of Gorilla Monsoon and Jim Ross. Things get really weird in the Rick Martel vs. Tito Santana match where not only do both announcers go out of their way to not mention that they are former tag team champions, Monsoon mentions how both men have held the tag team championship with a number of partners (without saying each other) and then Ross ups the ante with a bizarre claim that both men are former Intercontinental champions who each defended the belt against the other.
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    I think you downplayed Jericho too much. This was Jericho's match to become a star or not, and I feel he held his own, but it comes off like HHH was holding Jericho's hand the whole way. If you don't think Jericho was great, that's fine. When you bring it up every other sentence, it sounds like HHH was in there with Scott Steiner at the Rumble.
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    I'll always have a soft spot for that match because I was live in Dallas for it, and at the time, it was easily the best live match I had ever seen. I was just loving every minute of it, getting into it as a fan, and having no idea who was going to win, not as a person analyzing each move and how it fit into whatever equation of perfection it needed to be. If you hate the match, so be it, but I thought at the time it was tremendous and became a bigger fan of Jericho and had more begrudging respect for HHH when it was over. I always hated their 2002 series. I loved the 2000 matches because it just felt like cocky, asshole HHH who felt like he was better than everybody against the smartass Jericho trying to prove his worth and prove him wrong. It felt like the real HHH against the real Jericho. The stuff in 2002 was just anti-climatic, you never for one second thought Jericho had a chance in those matches.
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    Pretty sure at this stage in the game, the only thing JR would do play-by-play for now are OU football games. This really seems like a moot point anyway. If Cole were to somehow quit and/or JBL fell off a mountain, they'd bring back JR to fill in just as fast as the other two times they fired him.
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    Am watching the new WWE Mid-South Blu-Ray and it's pretty great stuff so far. First time I've seen the DiBiase-Duggan stip-a-palooza that wasn't from a 4th gen VHS copy. I was also shocked as hell to see the late Dr. Death Steve Williams as one of the guys they interviewed. I can't imagine that they would talk to him 4-5 years ago "just in case" but I don't know what other docs he appeared on where this interview would be relevant.
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    Two of my favorites, even though both died horrible deaths at the box office:
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    No kidding. Even I could probably pick up a 42" flat screen and toss it a few inches, but those old school TVs are fucking heavy. I don't understand why people are giving AJ so much shit for her "I'm too old for you" crack, when Lawler's "you're too ugly for me" response was a lot meaner.
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    I enjoyed HHH telling Edge he had a "neck like a stack of dimes" when the last recipient of that remark was standing right next to him.
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    So, Marie accidentally poisons Skylar/Flynn/Holly. Which somehow leads to Walt coming back for the ricin, to kill Marie? I was thinking more along the lines of Walt getting the ricin to kill Marie, but Marie poisons Walt first while Walt is busy trying to BS his way into slipping the ricin into something. I don't know, bink made a good point about the Aryans having use for Jesse as a cook, and that's how he survives tonight, though the Aryans haven't exactly been rational thinkers in the past.
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