EVA
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This is great. Not saying they're not a good program, but Oregon is the most overhyped team in the country heading into November, year in and year out. Too much finesse on offense, too soft on defense.
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Stanford is destroying Oregon's soul right now.
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If you're Stanford, why do you even bother to pass? Oregon isn't man enough to stop their power run game.
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Phenomenal play by Skove to shutdown Oregon threatening inside the 10.
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Oklahoma is done. Their defense did a good job keeping pace with Baylor, but their terrible offense did them in. No way they have a 20-point comeback in them. It's up to Oregon/Stanford to carry the night.
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I feel like I can count the number of upheld ejections this year on one hand. The refs are gutless.
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Now that I've read Marvel's release on the Netflix series, I see where they emphasize that all of them will be set in Hell's Kitchen. I know "gritty" is a dirty word among some around here, but I'm hopeful this means the Netflix shows will have a different feel from the bland, sterile palette they've used for the MCU thus far.
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Man, I really liked THOR when it came out, but I watched it again recently, and, I guess this goes back to what I said before about all the Marvel movies getting worse with repeated viewing, I was aghast at how rough it was. All of the casting is good, and I think they get the tone of the main central relationships (Thor/Odin/Loki, Thor/Jane) right, but beyond that...guh. Over the course of the movie, it's never clear exactly what Loki's plan is, and when you finally get the reveal of his masterplan at the end, his explanation is so convoluted you almost wonder if he's just making it up on the spot. It's almost as if he had no plan at all and was just...doing things. That sort of unfocused hellraising worked well with the Joker in TDK (his plan changed constantly), but here it just comes off as half-assed plotting. And how did the script make it into production with the big threat at the end being Loki destroying Jotunheim? I mean, who cares? Based on what I saw, Jotunheim is a desolate hellscape filled with giant assholes. Fuck 'em. It seems like the first draft would have come back with a note, "Change it to Loki trying to destroy Earth." And, fuck, the scale work on Laufey is embarrassing. Any time they cut to a close-up of him, it's obvious you're looking at a regular-sized dude. Much like CAPTAIN AMERICA, though, I think it earns a lot of goodwill based on it's ending, which is pitch perfect and covers over a lot of issues.
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I'm certain it's going to be awful, but that cast.
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So El Mayimbe has a rumor up that Dick Grayson will be showing up as Nightwing in BATMAN/SUPERMAN. Apparently the movie is set after Bruce and Dick split up and he struck out on his own. I'd like that to be true, even though that seems kinda tangential.
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I'm guessing they'll be rethinking that if the ratings continue to slide. They were down to barely over 7 million viewers this week. Of course, the show is in no danger of going anywhere any time soon, but if ABC has any hopes of building around it, they're going to have to reassess what they're doing.
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Finished the last of the AR missions last night, and they are 1000% less frustrating. The courses all made sense, and there was nothing as ridiculous as "dive bomb straight down, then pull up and glide 5 feet off the ground through this tunnel for 50 meters." They also smartly took out that annoying voice telling you that you failed.
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Nick Jr, iihtg.
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I have little doubt that, Martin being the meticulous plotter that he is, a lot of this stuff will end up being important down the line. I just don't think much of any of it works as a book, in and of itself, which is what makes it such an unenjoyable read. If it were a TV show, people would write it off as a "piece mover" episode, recognizable as necessary for setting up things to come but not something you'd ever be excited to watch again.
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See, to me, the Cersei stuff is indicative of the problems with the whole book. It's obvious from the start that, literally, everything she's doing is completely wrong and is going to backfire on her spectacularly. But it doesn't for 600 pages. Her story ends in an interesting place, but it's a LOOOOONG time getting there, and, worse, it's a damn cliffhanger, so you don't even get the complete payoff. Same deal with Brienne. We know from the very beginning that she's on a wild goose chase with no hope of finding who she's looking for, and yet it carries on and on and on for 600 pages. Her story also ends in an interesting place, but, again, it's a cliffhanger, providing me with precious little reward for slogging through the whole thing. Arya isn't in the book a whole lot, but when she is, her story basically boils down to "Arya does chores for various people." And, FUCK, there is no excuse for Sam's story dragging out as long as it does. Jamie's story is alright, but in one of the better books, it would be, at best, the 7th or 8th most interesting thing going on. I actually like the Ironborn gang, but they were in a tough spot, being this brand new gaggle of characters getting dumped into an already overlong book. On the flip side, I think the goings-on in Dorne would be a drag regardless of context.
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A FEAST FOR CROWS is probably one of the worst books I've read recently. Just a grueling ordeal. In the acknowledgements, Martin credits no less than 4(!) editors, but I would be hardpressed to find evidence of any "editing" that took place. Seriously, you mean not one of them had the spine to speak up and say, "Hey, George, you do realize that nothing happens in this book, right?" It's 700 pages of DNGAF. He leads off the acknowledgements by saying, "This one was a bitch." You're telling me, bub.
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YE GODS.
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If Baylor wins out, they definitely deserve to be ahead of Ohio State. Without question. They have a lot of good teams left on their schedule. I'm just not sure about them yet. They have played zero quality opponents thus far. I guess we'll start to get a clearer picture of them starting this week.
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And what a disappointing addition to the show Dar Adal has been. He was introduced last season as this shadowy, vaguely sinister character, but it turns out, he's just another sniveling bureaucrat.
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Yes. Although I wish there was a better clear #4 than Ohio State. The B1G is total junk this year. Like, even worse than it was last year. I don't buy them as a legit claimant to the throne. If Ragnarok befalls us and two of Bama, Oregon, and FSU goes down, it will be a travesty to see the Buckeyes in the title game.
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Really, if Alabama lost a game, won the SEC, and went to the Sugar Bowl and won, while FSU and Oregon played in the title game, it would create a situation similar to the one we see in the WWE these days: We'd have the BCS Championship and the Being Alabama Championship.
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I think this might be one of those rare weekends when the college football world at large is rooting for Alabama. Sure, everybody is tired of Alabama being on top, but I think it's reached the point where it won't be enough just to have somebody different win, in and of itself. People want to see someone beat Bama for the title. If Bama loses, and we end up with Oregon/FSU, it's going to feel really anticlimactic, like one of those old Wrestlemanias that didn't have Hogan in the title match.
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Beyond being a terrible soap opera development that nobody cares about, Carrie being pregnant is yet another nonsensical twist. For one thing, psychiatric hospitals administer pregnancy tests to all female patients upon admission, because, you know, pumping pregnant women full of psychotropic medicaitons is generally not such a good idea. So either they committed her to the worst psychiatric hopsital in the US, or Carrie was like, "Nah, it's cool. Go ahead and juice me up. See, I'm running this elaborate gambit on an Iranian terrorist that has about a 1% chance of working, and I am absolutely willing to risk my baby suffering a birth defect. Totallly worth it."
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No, Carol is great. Probably the one character who has gotten progressively more interesting as the show has gone on. I doubt she's gone for good, but it would be a shame if she was.
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You know, there's a lot to like about Jameis Winston's game, but he has a metric shit-ton of talent around him. I watch him play, and he looks exactly like AJ McCarron with more escapability, just distributing the ball to whichever stud happens to be open on that play. People are always quick to downplay McCarron because he's surrounded by so much talent, yet none of those same people will acknowledge that Winston is playing with the same stacked deck. I mean, shit, look at those receivers: Benjamin, Shaw, and Greene, plus O'Leary coming out of the TE/HB spot. How is one of those guys not open on EVERY PLAY?
