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I see where my mistake was. His theme actually has his name in it.

Thought I heard them say Santana once at the beginning.

DarkState vs. Shugars/Noam/Romero was pretty solid. Didn't watch the Kendal/Lola faceoff some much as hear it while prepping my diner. Just hearing it though it felt like one of the better promos either woman. There was some decent confidence and tension coming out of both when they spoke. Not a big fan of the underground coming into play, but I suppose they want Lola to take at least one loss there before she leaves NXT. Keanu/Hank was fine if a bit disappointing after the match Tank got out of Keanu a couple of weeks ago. Jaida/Nattie was good. Dug the focus on Jaida's leg and Nattie just being a complete dickhead at times. The finish with Thea wasn't quite what I expected and leaves room open for a rubber match along with giving Jaida a friend to take on Nattie and goons. Niko/Spears was fine. The finish was the highlight with Spears pulling an Edie special. I enjoyed the crowd suddenly booing when the ref turned to see just to sell that Niko totally used the chair on Spears. Reina/Skyler was a decent competitive squash. Tony/Naraku was a solid plunder/brawl with some neat moments and finish with Tony going a bit all to make sure Naraku was down. Still, the result disappoints me as it makes me wonder why even have Naraku show up in NXT. Then again they did supposedly want him on the main roster originally. Santana showing up at the end was an ok surprise. Kind of forgot the rumors that he was joining WWE. I like what I caught of him in NXT last year, but I can't really say I wanted him showing up again as a member of the roster. Half the matches were solid and worth a catch. The other half were fine but nothing special. They did do their jobs in putting over specific people or stories I suppose. On the story side the women feel like they are carrying things a bit though the smaller segments & angles all around tend to be enjoyable. That blatant advertisement for KFC popcorn chicken with Stone & Shiloh was kind of so bad/dumb I found it amusing. Anyways, decent show though a bit of a step down from last week.

Je'Von/Dragon vs. Bron/Theory was good. Dug the quick pace and all in action feel this had with Dragon Lee of Evans not holding back too much while having plenty to still show if they every run this again. The post match with Otis and Tozawa coming for the save was neat until the Vision overcame them. Skipped the Seth/Solo segment Penta/Gable vs. Rusev/Page was solid. The Dansausen nonsense was all over this show, but it was generally fun and never too long. It actually came to a decent climax with the Hendry/Dominik match which was solid. Was nice to see Io get some vengeance on Liv during all of this as well. Knight/Jacob was more back and forth than I expected. they actually managed that well with Jacob still having his beast moments, but Knight knowing the right moments to dodge and let Jacob hurt himself. The finishing stretch and post match with all the Bloodline vs. Knight/Solo/Royce stuff actually all went down pretty well. The matches here were all pretty enjoyable and solid. Story wise things seemed decent though I admittedly skipped much of the stuff pushing Rollins/Roman & Oba/Brock. Frankly, there was probably too much of that given how much faster the show moved for me. The main event had an interesting moment with it being the first time I can recall Netflix doing picture-in-picture. I would not mind that becoming more of a norm. It would certainly be the smarter move Netflix's part if they want me to skip less of the commercials. Anyways this felt like a better show than what we have gotten the past few weeks though there are still plenty of room for improvement.

Its sad because its not like the black comedy elements aren't there. They just feel minor, especially as each film gets more mean spirited. Too many want to be the first Evil Dead and seem to fear 2 and Army of Darkness. Hopefully Wrath surprises and leans a little more into black comedy and little less mean spiritedness.

Finally finished the matches from SNME. Fatal Influence vs. Brie/Paige was fine. Hopefully Fatal Influence has an actual good reign that gets them and the division over. Its just sad how much they wasted the momentum the group built up with 2-3 week by having them doing nothing for the next 5-7 afterward just to focus on Jade and co. who were not even half as over. Danhausen/JD was the exact type of nonsense it needed to be. Also Towns's chokeslams were pretty damn impressive even beyond JD & Dom's bumping perfectly for them. Lyra/Bayley was interesting and a bit awkward. Feels like Lyra getting busted open and the ref constantly checking in kept things from reaching a decent flow and the audience fully investing, Still, I dug a lot of the action and Lyra's new finish. The post match was a good murder of Bayley as well. Curious to see if this is it for Bayley or dies this feud go on. Cody/Punk vs. Gunther/Sami was going good till the overbooking moment to set up Aldis screwing over Gunther. That was done well enough, but stuff like this does typically kill the flow for a bit, especially if the audience isn't all in. Ok show overall, but not as exciting as it probably should have been even with all of the results arguably being the right ones.

I thought that match was great, but I actually thought Tatum/Zaria from the same show was the better match. Not surprised Kendal/Lola was Meltzer's favorite given how high he is on Kendal.

Kit is an asshole about it and weaponizes it the way assholes who go to therapy but are still massive assholes weaponize therapy terms. Also Sami's human rights activism is not really spoken about it.

The opening segment did a solid job setting up the main event and providing a stake to the SNME tag match with the potential of Sami & Gunther being added to the undisputed title match. Have mixed feeling on the interim champ match for the women. The title needed addressing with Rhea currently out, but having her vacate when she will possibly be back just a few weeks to a month after Summerslam would not have been a great outcome. Talla/Finn was solid. The two worked together better than expected, and Finn had to put in work to keep the big man down. Dug Tiffany/Jacy. I liked Fatal Influence attacking before the bell. I liked Tiffany being ready for it and going down with a fight. And I liked Lainey & Fallon being pulled away from the match by Brie & Paige. What I did not like was Jacy losing this match. Tiffany just did not need this win, nor does she really need to be in the ladder match at Summerslam. Fuck, she should be focused on defending the US title and raising its prestige. Jacy needed the win more. Shit like this is why is again why HHH fails at building up the roster and non-world titles. He doesn't give people enough important wins to stay relevant or gain momentum, and he makes secondary titles look unimportant. This all happens too regularly, and until someone talks sense into him nothing will be fixed long term. As an actual match I thought this was pretty solid as a whole. The result just left bad feelings unfortunately. Jade/Nia didn't last long with Charlotte attacking Jade & friends early on to cause a DQ. Didn't hate this as a whole, but with Smackdown going back to a 4-match formula I'm not exactly loving any matches turning into non-matches/pure angles. It all made sense story wise, just don't love the situation. War Raiders vs. Fraxiom was damn good fun as expected. Cody/Gunther was solid while it lasted. It went the expected route of non-finish with Sami coming down to attack and all of the tag participants in a brawl. This would have been fine had Nia/Jade from earlier been an actual match but two matches on a 4 match show having a fuck finish is just bs and moronic. As final build to SNME the show was fine. Still, there was a lot here that annoyed me and kept it from being fully enjoyable despite plenty of decent smaller bits and two solid-good matches. You could probably catch War Raiders vs. Fraxiom match and be fine missing the rest.

What made you dislike that one? I thought it was fine.

So Asha forced Bethesda to show their hand. I don't think anything mentioned was new aside from the Raven Rock expansion of 76. That has to be a completely new map. Figured a new map was eventually coming, but I also thought that would be more in their 76th major update which they have said would be something special. That is still 2 or more years out. it is nice though that they will likely follow up on MODUS of Whitesprings at one point being in frequent contact with the ZAX unit that eventually becomes John Henry Eden. Hope Malcolm McDowell voices Eden again. The Fallout 3 & NV remakes were seemingly being handled by the same company that did Oblivion. I think a toy company accidently leaked out a figured tied to one of them. I doubt Fallout 5's development speeds up much. It was probably already in pre-production. I'm curious what Obsidian does. Supposedly they were told no on pitches in the past, but Todd Howard has also admitted Obsidian were the only ones they really trusted to do any other Fallout projects. Kind of wonder if those rejected pitches were rejected due to the tv series. With so much taking place at a specific time frame you have to think whatever Obsidian does will have to be away from the West Coast. Maybe we finally get a game focused in the South.

Congrats, I do not have the patience to try to solo any dungeons, let alone managed flawless. The only flawless I recall managing was for Presage, and that was purely by chance since I ran it so many times for the extra bits of lore, ornaments, etc.

Brie isn't good, but between her, Nikki, and Paige Brie has shockingly grown to be the most consistent after working through ring rust. She isn't up to the level of the modern women's division, but she is ok. I'm kind of shocked Bryan hasn't made a wrestling school, for AEW or in general. I can only assume he is maybe a bit afraid of catching the bug again.

I think it depends on the situation, styles, and levels of the wrestlers involved. I think Naraku did more than you think here, but I also think Tate's stuff stood out more. In cases like that I do think Naraku should be taking even more of a match because he needs it more. I feel like he comes across as just another guy right now mostly because the presentation has been off. The PC feels too small for him, and he lost to Tony clean in their first match in what should have only be Tony winning by sheer damn luck given what Naraku had done to him prior.

The Vision should have either died or had the Creeds introduced as members. Theory is ok as a pin taker, but Logan Paul never made any sense. With the injuries regularly piling up, Seth gone from the group, & Heyman gone now even the name makes zero sense.