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I miss turning on the show and seeing who's wrestling tonight. Instead, you get a monologue by wrestler A, interrupted by wrestler B, and pretty soon your main event is booked because of their argument. Well thank god for those guys because apparently there was no main event scheduled before that. Wrestling TV writing hasn't changed in 15-20 years. It's embarrassing. Kevin Dunn and Vince McMahon both need to just go away and listen to Kid Rock and AC/DC somewhere..

I enjoyed the Total Recall "reimagining" and thought it did a pretty sweet job of worldbuilding.

It was the kayfabe name Bobby Fulton used when working as a physics teacher.

*boing*

I'm 40 and I grew up on the WWF and NWA, as they were called back in my day when you tied an onion to your belt, as was the style. Today, I DVR Raw and maybe watch matches or segments that get positive reviews but, more often than not, I just delete it sight unseen. The problem is there's so much TV to fill that nothing means anything anymore. When I was young, just getting to see two midcarders wrestle each other on Saturday Night's Main Event was a huge deal and a treat, because you never saw that unless you paid money to do so on PPV or a house show. Today, every match is done to death on TV and all these guys are so overexposed that there's no reason to care about anything. Why sit through 3 hours of Raw this week when there's going to be 3 more hours next week and the next, leading up to a 3 hour PPV, when you'll just see permutations of the same guys working each other, with the same style, each week? And why watch the PPV when you'll get rematches the next week on TV and the next month at the next PPV? It's not just recycling the same guys and matches. It's the booking, too. There are no consequences to anything. Cesaro is wrestling Shamus? Great. Whoever wins will not move up the card and next month both will be the same spot so who cares? Say what you want about indies but PWG is pretty much all I watch with any regularity. They're once a month (if that) so every show is special. Wrestlers have distinct and different styles, and the commentary, while funny at times, doesn't make a mockery of anything. And their titles are booked as meaningful. I'm hoping the lack of competition and the lessened need to "sell PPVs" because of the network will cause WWE to dial it back a notch. There's no need to burn through big matches on TV anymore. They could use PPVs in a more innovative way now since there are no worries over "buyrate." Shit, do old school KotR and Survivor Series. Sorry, I'm going off on a tangent. I'll just say that, as an older dude, I don't enjoy WWE because nothing they do means anything.

Who is the wuss drinking the Mic Ultra and how long did it take for someone to H bomb him?

The missile launching penguins scene posted earlier was so camp that Adam West was like, "damn, dial it back a bit."

Is this Devitt's NXT name? It sounds like a Star Wars character.

I forgot about Fritz's Nazi connections. Clearly the Ultimate Warrior Program was part of Operation Paperclip.

Nope, Scott brought Lindeloff in and it was his idea to leave a lot of the stuff that tied it to the Alien franchise so it would be more standalone. Hence why he took the majority of the heat for its poor showing and lack of exposition and why Scott didn't want to bring him back. It's hard to say The Alien Engineers script is better than Prometheus the film but it definitely had the things we wanted/expected from Prometheus So it was Lindelof and not the studio? Somehow that makes it worse!

All this.

What are the meta materials? I found Prometheus to be a disjointed mess indicative of excessive studio meddling. From what I heard, the studio told Scott to leave out a lot of the stuff that tied it to the Alien franchise because they wanted it to be more standalone, which really ruined it. I still need to read the original script ("Alien: Engineers") to see how much better it should have been.

WCW Warrior was actually the result of a Ted Turner-funded black ops project to clone the original Warrior (Kerry, obviously) from the remains of Kerry's amputated foot, which Turner operatives stole from the scene of the accident.

Oof. This show is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's on the DVR for tonight but man, that sounds bad. Is the main character supposed to be the most unlikable person on the show, by the way?

It was a joke. It was based on "don't make a Batman movie, make a Tim Burton movie." It was meant to be funny, not personally assail your enjoyment of the film or malign your tastes. Lighten up. No insult was intended. How about this? It wasn't fun. Shouldn't super hero movies be fun? Nobody goes to see a superhero movie because they want a depressing two hour meditation on daddy issues. You can pick elements and defend Lee by saying "it was from the comic!" but Hulk has been around since 1962 and has a long history, from which Lee cherrypicked the elements that appealed to his sensibilities as a filmmaker. It just so happened that the things that appealed to him did not make for an enjoyable comic movie. Is it "a Hulk movie" because it contains elements from the character's 40 year history? That's for fans of the character to judge, I suppose. But it wasn't good as a superhero film. It was an Ang Lee movie first and a Hulk movie second. Imagine a Quentin Tarantino Hulk film with lots of bad language, pages-long discussions of pop culture, and gratuitous shots of feet. But Quentin would still put in stuff from the comics. Would you be okay with that? Ang Lee picked the subject matter that he was interested in and made a dull, maudlin movie around it. I liked The Ice Storm but I don't want to see that kind of thing in a movie about a giant green super hero.

"Doctors without Borders" only lasts until you quit, Paul. NWO is (say it with me) FOOOOOOOOOOR LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE."

Ah, so now it all makes sense. I guess it's not as bad as "don't make a Hulk movie, make an Ang Lee movie."

Burton really Burton'd it up with Batman 2, including making Penguin a deformed emo goth with a sad backstory. Also, real life penguins with missile backpacks, a goofy gang of circus freaks and Catwoman being brought back to life via cat licks. This movie had more in common with the Schumacher Batman films than Burton fans would like to admit.

I can't remember the last time I watched Raw, even on DVR. I know they're making a lot of money off rights fees but 3 hours is just too much. It's killing them creatively and is making for horribly boring TV. Raw would be can't miss TV if it were only an hour, maybe 90 minutes. A shorter show makes them get more creative, trying to figure out how to do more with less. Instead, we have writers and bookers trying to figure out how to fill three hours and just get through the night. It definitely shows.

"Sure, you're a great humanitarian and all, but have YOU ever worked the Tokyo Dome? Fuck off."

"Wash your hair, motherfucker." The ones that kill me are action movies where guys blast through walls when fighting. A good example is the Rock spearing that pole down during the big gunfight in The Rundown. Also, Bane punching a hole in that concrete pillar during the final fight of The Dark Knight Rises. If I'm watching the T-1000 shove Arnold through a concrete wall, sure thing. He's a metal robot. But two dudes made of bones and skin, come on. It takes me out of the movie a little bit. On a related note, too much wire work during fight scenes. One guy punches another and sends him sailing 40 yards, airborne. If it's The Matrix, sure; The Expendables, no. Agreed. Fighting in movies and TV is pro wrestling 10 punch in the corner level dumb. One-punch knockouts exist only when the plot calls for it. Otherwise, dudes just wail on each other and there's usually never evidence of damage later. Not even a black eye. Don't even get me started on gunplay, where everybody should be fucking deaf by now.

Now I'm imagining 2014 Steve Borden wearing a fake chest a la Ricordo Montalban in Wrath of Khan. Thanks. (I know that's just an urban legend and it's not true, shut up)

Hopefully that would be a condition of the new network picking them up. Announce team change would be a good start, even if it is Josh Mathews. The announcers would be a good start? I disagree. A name change would be a good start. The name "TNA" is an embarrassing, Russoesque shitshow. Christ what a fucking idiot Russo is. I imaging him and Jarrett patting themselves on the backs back in the day over their wit and edginess. "Dat's a double ontonder bro!"

We just had a disagreement over whether Bill Watts is the type of guy who flies the Confederate flag because he's really into states' rights. It's no big deal.

He works under a hood as El Cornudo