sydneybrown
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Yeah, I feel like either Gomi or Hank should have gotten tagged in that opening salvo, at least. And I'm not entirely sure why the Aryans kept lighting up the truck while Walt, the guy they're trying to save, is in it. But it was still awesome.
I agree, that's the one thing that was off. Seems like the Aryans would have just killed whoever was there immediately and not wait for a showdown. I really expected when Hank said "I love you" to Marie, it was going to be followed by a bullet going through his head. I'm sure there's a logical finish next week that keeps the main players alive, but realistically, I don't know how next week doesn't start with the shootout over and Gomez, Hank, and Jesse dead.
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I still have goosebumps and shaking from excitement from it all. The last twenty minutes or so might be the greatest Breaking Bad scenes ever in a series full of greatest ever.
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nothing for me, WHC-wise, will beat Punk's first cash-in, though
it was like.. this is happening
Agreed. Though I was there live, so I'm kinda biased too. But it was booked so amazingly well. That somehow Jim Ross's RAW farewell speech would set off a chain of events that would lead to it. And it made perfect sense.
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The post-Survivor Series 95 show with Diesel giving an early "tweener shoot" speech and the Owen Hart/HBK collapse angle was another great one.
Disappointed that the 4/21/97 show wasn't selected as I've always thought that was the best booked RAW ever (the show-long Hart/Austin streetfight angle where Austin attacks Hart in an ambulance and Pillman makes a surprise return DESTROYING Austin with a nasty chairshot.)
I'm not bothered by the lack of early stuff. WWE already released a "Best of RAW 1993-1994" set three-four years ago, so it's not as if some of that stuff isn't already out there.
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Have they said something publicly? I thought it was a perfectly fine Sunny episode. I do gotta 2nd the wisdom of putting the comedies up against The Bridge. Why not put the comedies back on Thursday?You can tell the Sunny cast hates the idea. It is a terrible idea all around.
I thought it was a really funny episode. And while I can't prove it, I'd like to go with the rumor floating out there that the comedy club scene was a nod to Breaking Bad, with Huell doing stand-up and Dennis' loser friend "Walt" looking an awful lot like Vince Gilligan.
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The best thing to come out of that is that Steamboat actually came up with The Dragon himself, when everyone would just automatically assume it was Vince.
Pretty sure the "I'm the Dragon" part was Steamboat's idea, not the "I've never existed in wrestling whatsoever. All those awesome matches you saw me in 3-4 years ago, that was somebody else. I'm a new wrestler that you've never seen before." I'd guess that part was Vince.
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Mars Attacks is very, very much a love it or hate it film.
It's terrible. I love it.
I can't think of a movie I was so heavily into seeing and was so letdown when it was over. Aside from Twister. And THAT was the worst movie experience of my life. Realizing I had spent my entire life in Oklahoma and THAT'S what people assumed our life was like (this past May notwithstanding.)
Mars Attacks was a great set-up and then the same joke, the same joke, the same joke. Then you get the punchline (which was already ruined) and it's punchline, punchline, punchline. I felt like I paid $7 for a 90-minute SNL sketch. It didn't help that Tim Burton's previous film was Ed Wood which remains one of my favorite movies.
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This thread is now about voice mail security options.
No kidding. If you guys are going to nit-pick about phone details, you should at least have brought up not only how ridiculously easy it was to find a pay phone, but how Jesse actually knew Walt's number by heart. I know the show doesn't take place in the "present," but I don't think I've actually memorized anyone's phone number since 2002.
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I really feel like Kane/Wyatts has got in the way of this angle being better.
Technically See No Evil 2 did...
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Well, I guess they set things in motion to allow Cody to be the first to help Bryan in the future since he's fired now. The place would have went wild if Cody have came in with a chair and saved him tonight though. This was his night. Oh well. It still should get a nice reaction when it goes down.
Yes, it will be awesome when Cody runs in to save Bryan, then gets annihilated by the Shield, Orton, and HHH.
You guys do realize the one who's going to save the day against the treacherous Hunter and Stephanie will just be Vince or Linda, right?
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The best thing that came out of this show is Steph saying that she was 12 years old in 1999.
Which REALLY reflects poorly on Macho Man...
I was more entertained by that comment than anything else on the show.
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I'm usually very wrong in my predictions, but I'm starting to get the feeling Jesse's going to be the one who ends the series killing Walt and being the last man standing. Jesse's been a "half measure" this entire season, and Walt could have eliminated him MANY times, but he still cares about him to a degree, and even though he's in "full measure" mode now, it may be too late. It seems only right as far as this series goes that the one person he's tried to spare is the one who kills him.
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I watched the first half of the Boston show from 87 that is up in Legends.
The opener was The Dingo Warrior vs. Barry Horowitz. It was surreal seeing The Warrior slowly walk to the ring. The freakish body was there, but the cocaine fueled energy wasn't.
There was a Nikolai Volkolf vs. Paul Orndorf match. I completely forgot that Orndorf turned back to a good guy. Lord Alfred Hayes made note of this during the match when he said he went back and forth between being loved and hated by the crowd. Fun little match between the two. At one point, Nikolai put him in the bear hug and Orndorf bended himself so far back that Volkolf almost got a pin out of it. I think Orndorf won with a clothesline of all things.
Ted Dibiase beat Sivi Afi in front of a very pro Dibiase crowd. He won with the Million Dollar Dream into a Russian leg sweep. It was amusing hearing his Lordship keeping saying Virgil was doing the bidding of his master. After the match, Ted got some really hot brunette in a white dress (must have been cold in the garden that night) to kiss his sweaty foot for $300. He cut a promo running down the legends of The Boston Garden, but there was still a vocal part of the crowd rooting for him.
Final match of the first half of the show was Bruno, Jake The Snake, and Tito vs. The Hart Foundation & HTM in an elimination six man. It was a fun match that crowd was hot for. I got a good laugh when Bruno went to start off with Honky and Honky tagged in Bret and Bruno "ahh the hell with you" and he tagged in Tito. Despite Bruno's massive bald spot that he kept trying to comb back up, he looked to be in great shape in what had to be one of if not his last Boston Garden match. He ended up the sole survivor and beat Honky with a boot to the side of the head.
It was a fun hour or so of wrestling.
That's really one of the better random house shows I've seen. Beta version of the Warrior (selling for Barry Horowitz no less), Orndorff clearly in "I turned face but it hasn't aired yet" mode, and DiBiase with the most obvious plant I've ever seen in the post-match. You can tell EXACTLY who's getting in the ring way before it happens.
And I remember that six-man airing on Prime Time. My 10 year-old little self absolutely freaked out that a match like that would air on television, and I taped it and watched it over and over and over again. It's not that great of a match though in retrospect. And I think aside from the Boesch retirement show, that pretty much was Bruno's last match.
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Men on a Mission turned heel the week before WMXI, so Oscar was there at least the first three months of 95.
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I hated Transformers as a kid. They kill off half the toys I already had, and then after saving for a month to buy Optimus Prime, they fucking kill him off too. I went home and couldn't figure out who I had left who could be a leader.
While he had a few minor roles after this, Richard Pryor's last starring role in Another You is REALLY painful to get through. It's a terrible movie to watch anyway, but it's even worse seeing a comic icon just struggling to get his lines out.
Neighbors isn't a great movie but it's a pretty ballsy one since it's clear Aykroyd and Belushi should be playing each other's role. I'd rather that be Belushi's last film than something forgettable like Continental Divide.
And come on, Xanadu? Trog? Those movies are hilarious.
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Actually Brie is the one hooking up with Danielson, Nikki is one the fucking Cena.
....So this is it? This is what I'm doing with my life, I'm the pathetic pedantic asshole going correcting people on which Bella is fucking which top guy this week.... Don't pity me, for I'm already dead.
I think you just separated where the line is for me in my wrestling nerddom.
I'll be the first to get too upset when WWE screws up a match date on a DVD release or when Ric Flair completely lies about being in the locker room when Bruiser Brody was murdered. But I legit don't give a shit which Bella is which or which one is fucking whom.
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Did Savage really call out Scott and Shawn for going over their allotted time at WM X?
Randy, rest in peace, but.... ladder match >>>>> 8 man tag match.
I kind of disagree with this but does anyone know if the guys in the ten man tag still got their Mania bonus or not?
Bob Holly said he was screwed out of his WMX payday in his book, and since he pretty much listed exact amounts he was paid for the PPVs he wrestled and didn't say a word about what he made for WMX, I would guess they didn't get a bonus.
And the Savage story is also in his book and Hall has confirmed it in the past, so apparently it did happen.
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I can't remember if it was that match or the set-up the week before, but Patterson and Brisco beating the absolute shit out of the Mean Street Posse is one of my favorite moments of the Attitude era. Rodney and Pete Gas just bumped around like madmen.
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I watched a bit of Talking Bad with Sam Jackson and Odenkirk before I couldn't stand it anymore (Odenkirk seems way too close to the smarminess of his character and I don't like things being spelled out for me)
I have a friend who worked with Odenkirk once in LA who had absolutely nothing positive to say about him. I'm under the impression that he's so good at being a dick because he's not acting. The doc on the later Mr. Show DVDs insinuate that too.
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"See this WWE championship belt? I consider it my personal property. Randy Orton just carries it for me." -HHH
The entire roster looked like pussies. The Shield looked like pussies since Daniel Bryan just about beat them all singlehandedly, and Bryan looked like an idiot again. Great stuff tonight.
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Jesse's realization about the cigarette continues the fine tradition of the entire Brock poisoning storyline being the worst thing the show has ever done.
Oh come now. The worst storyline the show ever did was the Season 2 plane crash. I could rationalize most everything on this show, but how they got to that finish was pretty ludicrous.
That finish is only really ludicrous if you consider Walt having that chance meeting with Jane's father as being outside the realm of possibility. To me there isn't anything else in that story that stood out to me as being implausible.
I meant more of the fact that an air traffic controller (one of the most stressful jobs in the country) was allowed to come back to his job so soon after his daughter OD'd and then was blamed for the plane crash, when the fault should have lied with whoever was dumb enough to let him come back to work. That has really been my one and only "Oh COME ON" moment in Breaking Bad, and the one time I felt the plot was forcing itself on us (we MUST end with a plane crash), rather than things building naturally.
And I agree that even when they do slip, they seem to recognize it and move on.
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Jesse's realization about the cigarette continues the fine tradition of the entire Brock poisoning storyline being the worst thing the show has ever done.
Oh come now. The worst storyline the show ever did was the Season 2 plane crash. I could rationalize most everything on this show, but how they got to that finish was pretty ludicrous.
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I thought Walt's "confession" was awesome and Jesse's flip-out in the last thirty seconds made up for his lesser than stellar involvement up to now. So was his bumping into the security guy what jogged his memory about the cigarettes? Or did he just magically figure it out? I'm a little hazy on where the "a-ha" came from.
EDIT: Never mind. So security stole his weed after he wouldn't give it up, and then he figured out they stole the ricin cigarette in the same fashion.
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TMZ is reporting that Lamar Odom has been a "hardcore drug addict" for the past two years, which if that's true, would pretty much explain everything:
The marriage of Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom is in crisis, and TMZ has learned … the core reason is hardcore drug abuse.
Multiple sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ … Lamar has had a problem for 2 years. It got so bad, last August Khloe pressured Lamar to go to rehab. Lamar went to a facility in San Diego, but he was so resistant Khloe hired private investigators to secretly stand guard at the rehab place to make sure he didn’t leave. The P.I.s stood guard 24/7.
We’re told the situation has become dire. Sources tell us … within the last 2 days, the entire family staged an intervention, trying to convince Lamar to go back to rehab, but he wouldn’t have any of it.
The moment Odom left the Lakers, he seemed to become a shell of his former self, and this would definitely explain how one of the better players turned into a complete joke. Aside from the whole "marrying a Kardashian" thing.
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I have to assume the "bulletproof vest" plot save comes into play here, especially with Saul mentioning his only moments before everything went to shit. That's the only way I see any of them surviving and how any of them would be standing after 100-200 rounds of ammo were pumped at them.
If Hanks is dead though, I change my last man standing prediction from Jessie to Marie. She goes through with the poisoning to avenge Hank's death.
Aryans weren't hired to kidnap Jesse, they were hired to kill him. They either kill them or Jesse magically gets away.