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Any time you wonder why this storyline got dropped with no explanation or that booking got changed on the fly, just remember Vince has the attention span of a goldfish on coke and the indecisiveness of my 3 year old.

At the risk of turning this thread vaguely political...a Middle Eastern coworker just said to me, "if there are so many Muslims hiding in that immigrant caravan so they can sneak into America, how come the whole thing isn't stopping five times a day???" ?

How have I only heard, today, "your mama so fat, Thanos had to snap twice"

You missed a lot if you missed last season -- one major character is gone and the show is now in New York -- and this season started off really well! Can you catch up on demand or something or do you need the Cliff's Notes version?

Good to see even Human/Dragon hybrids follow OSHA regulations

Well if it's good enough for their buddy Trump, who said cutting ties would cost us like 400+ billion and millions of jobs. Bunch of bullshit. The fucking unmitigated balls of these people. "We know it's absolutely unethical, but think about the money." Two peas in a fucking gold-plated pod, these two white trash millionaires. They'd be making gas for concentration camps during WWII and counting the dollars if they were alive then. My decision to stop supporting WWE when I saw that pic of the McMahon and Trump in the oval office, grinning ear to ear like a bunch of dumb rubes who finally made it to the big city, is constantly proven to be a pretty fucking good one. Oh fuck you.

Thanks for that! All I could think of was Sheriff David Clarke, but I'd rather Leatherface/Jason/Michael win that fight.

John Marsten in the new trailer definitely sounds like Rob Weithoff, so I guess he came out of retirement for this. Which is awesome. The guy has a cool story. Midwest dude who went to LA for a while, did a handful of small acting gigs, then took job with "untitled video game project." Then he figured that was enough Hollywood and went back to being a regular family guy in Indiana. There's a good short doc about him here:

YOUR HONOR WE ARE REQUESTING FULL RESTITUTION AND FOR THE PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT TO MEET IN A YAPAPI STRAP MATCH BROTHER

While uneven, I enjoyed V/H/S 1 & 2. The third one was mostly shit, though. Sure, but i needed to know the origin of the xenomorphs as much as I needed the know the origin of Darth Vader or the Joker.

I never watched The Wire but in Breaking Bad's case, I chalk it up to people who watch a show and immediately think "main character = protagonist, who I am supposed to root for and identify with, always!" They just didn't get it. So, for example, instead of seeing "I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS" as the pathetic cry of a man desperately trying to act like he's in control when he's obviously not, they saw White as this absolute badass and Skylar as a horrible harpy out to ruin his fun. It's amazing. Christ, dudes. It wasn't even Walter who "knocked." He wasn't "THE DANGER." Jesse killed Gale. The show went out of its way to underline Walter's bullshit and contrast what he said with reality, but some people still didn't get it. You're supposed to see right through his bluster and it's crazy how many people didn't.

Part of me wants to say that NXT callups are still getting ruined. But then I realize that everybody, except for a select handful, is pushed to the middle, on a treadmill to nowhere.

This is the same with Larry David's character on Curb, so it's funny that @Edwin mentioned this show specifically as an example of comedians being allowed to not be "PC." He's not some hero; everything is does is wrong and awkward and he IS the joke. We're meant to laugh at him, not with him. The one time his behavior is perceived by other characters as a positive to be used to their advantage ("The Social Assassin"), it backfires. People who think Larry is some hero and his boorish behavior is "comedians being allowed to be comedians" are the same type of simple minded viewers who didn't understand that we were supposed to stop rooting for Walter White somewhere along the line.

I remember hearing Angle doing a local radio interview very shortly after he left WWE and he sounded like he was definitely on something. I remember calling a friend of mine to tell him to turn on the radio, telling him, "this guy is super fucked up right now." I was about to post "Gunner Scott" sounds like something from the Country Musician Name Generator. Then I Iooked it up and remembered that's the name of a character on the show Nashville.

That would have been my second guess, behind "Roddy Piper branded bondage gear." Just when they think they've got the answers, I change the safeword.

I was team Blue Thunder, since I was more familiar with it from watching the original movie on SuperTV. Why I was allowed to watch stuff like that, Carpenter's The Thing, etc on bobo Baltimore cable at like 10 years old is another issue.

Yeah, that was the point Meltzer made. How much is WWE going to get from, say, Checkers over 10 years vs the amount he's making on the Saudi deal? It's not even close.

Exactly. It was hand waved in the film and was pretty ridiculous. If you didn't just accept the fact that a human fucked a robot and the robot got pregnant, and buy into that whole-heartedly, it made the movie a joke. They also never justified WHY the entire fate of the world depended on killing or saving this robot baby. It was a plodding film that relied on a ridiculous central conceit and never explained the stakes. But hey, it sure looked pretty.

You'd have a point if nobody knew how awful the Saudi government was until they lured a journalist to their consulate and chopped him to bits, but that's just not the case. This country's record was well-documented long before WWE signed on with them. "They would've been idiots to turn that deal down from a business standpoint." I disagree. Even setting morals aside, they should have anticipated a horrible regime doing a horrible thing and thought about how it would make them look, what the potential blowback on their business would be. Even your most cynical MBA would warn your company away from immoral shit because it can hit you in the wallet. Either they were greedy or just too dumb to have foresight into something that should have been obvious. Neither is very good and nobody should feel bad for them for either their greed or their stupidity.

All that, plus a human had a baby with a robot. I guess you'd enjoy it if you can look past that key conceit, which I couldn't.

That's probably why WWE is faltering right now. Vince's right-wing belief system really bleeds through into the storylines and booking, and what Vince believes is not what his fanbase believes. For example, the right wing has a real hardon for the laughable myth of American exceptionalism/individualism and it informs the booking of every babyface Vince has. Shit, the Shield JUST got back together and they're already teasing a breakup. Only heels have each other's backs. Babyfaces are all "self made" and act alone. A more liberal fanbase is not going to be down with this cynical bullshit over and over. Here's a really good post I read a while back that contrasts New Japan's stable system with WWE's "everybody is out to get you so fuck them first" style.

Well I already stopped watching Fear the Walking Dead after they did a rip n' replace of the whole cast and swapped out interesting plots for slow, ponderous bullshit. OG TWD might be next. This is how you start a season? Talky, dull, everyone is pissy at each other. I can already get that at my job. I don't need it in my entertainment, too.

Well all that plus, you know, what the fuck is the message supposed to be there? As mentioned...Austin vs Lita, sure, Lita was a combatant and it was in the context of a fight, sort of. Austin vs Kiebler was a babyface beating up a woman because she wouldn't have a beer with him. Holy fuck. This is the message they were sending: if a hot girl doesn't want your attention, doesn't want to hang out, whatever, then that bitch deserves a beating. Trailblazers for "nice guy" culture, there. Vince is a fucking sociopath. All his babyfaces are assholes, nobody stays friends for long, and women better know their place.

The conversation was with himself as much as it was with the scholarship candidate. I think that was Jimmy understanding fully exactly what he told her: that once you've gotten a bad reputation in any way, the higher-ups in life will never ever accept you into their club, so fuck 'em. His sheer glee at the end of the episode when he told the court person he'd need a DBA for his license and that "'s'all good, man!" was Jimmy completely embracing who he really is. He's always been Saul and now he absolutely gets it. What an episode, what a season. Bonus guest appearance by GALE'S NOTEBOOK. That's some attention to detail, there.

I miss seeing Mike Bailey in PWG. "He looks like his mom dropped him off at the wrong building for karate school and he decided to stay AND FIGHT GROWN MEN!" -Excalibur