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He can just get Matt the Radar Tech to order it for him

Make #3 read more like C) presented in a live setting to the audience as sports competition

Make #3 read more like C) presented in a live setting to the audience as sports competition

I work 2nd shift, and come 8 or 9pm, I'm usually caught up on my work with not much else to do. I have Sling, so I have access to everything I need to actually watch all the shows every night. I "watch" with the show on a smaller screen on my laptop while I do what work comes in on my main monitors, so a lot of the time it is more listening to the shows than actually watching them. I haven't kept up with Impact in years. A friend of mine is signed with them and I haven't had a chance to really watch since he signed, so now with Impact on AXS and SD moved to Friday, I'll now be able to tune on on a regular basis to check it out. Wednesdays will likely be spent watching AEW while NXT will be saved for either Thursday mornings or Thursday evenings at work. I tried keeping up with NXT UK for awhile, but didn't really keep my interest much past the first few weeks. I don't have access to network TV at work, so won't be able to watch Smackdown live on Fridays. That will have to wait until either Saturday when I watch on Hulu, or possibly until Monday depending on how my weekends are looking. All this wrestling on TV is good for me as it gives me something to keep on in the background while doing my work, and I'm very interested in watching these newer shows to put a little more variety in to the mix during the week.

By the way, I'm not saying it as a bad thing or a knock against Adam Cole. I think it would be an interesting match and Adam Cole would chickenshit heel the fuck out of the match and it would be fun, and the size/strength difference would be a big part of the build. I guess what I'm saying is that I'd like to see Keith Lee get in to a program with Adam Cole.

After that opening match showing what a fucking beast Keith Lee is, and how big the dude is, how could anybody take Adam Cole seriously against him if/when Keith Lee gets a title shot?

Do we know if Smackdown on FOX is going to end up on Hulu? I know currently RAW and SD go to Hulu the next day, but am not sure if that will continue once they move to FOX

If Humberto Carrillo made it in to this game, the roster has to be stacked.

Overall, I felt Bohemian Rhapsody was a good movie, however I was struck by and completely taken out of it by how historically inaccurate everything was. I mean, a few little things here and there are usually changed around for these types of movies and that is understandable, but pretty much every single major beat in the plot was completely wrong. It's takes me out of it. But, again, I still feel like it was a well made and well done film and I enjoy watching it. So.....sort of like Braveheart, where I love the actual movie itself as a well made film, but is practically complete fiction from what it is supposed to be based off of.

Doom taking over and rebuilding the ruins of Sokovia and rebranding it Latveria is what I figured would be the way to go. And, yeah, if he rose to power in the 5 years after the glitch, there's enough other things going on in the world and far fewer Heroes around for anybody to have noticed what's going on over there until Doom has done all the major work. And THEN, when everybody is brought back, those who were snapped from Sokovia - which was in ruins when they were snapped - return to a thriving, prospering new country named Latveria under this new guy, they'd absolutely be thrilled and he'd have all of their loyalties as their new leader. Makes a perfect story for his rise, IMO.

Yes. It is a prequel set an undisclosed amount of time before the movie takes place, but most guesses are about 200-500 years (or trine) before the movie takes place. Starts out with 2-3 somewhat "slow" world building episodes to set everything up, then really takes off. I was thinking of watching it with my 5 year old son, but man....this show gets REAL and I think it would be too much for him. Definitely going to try to push my 12 year old step-daughter to watch it, though. I absolutely love it. I mean, I already have a huge love for the original film, so that may be a part of it, but I feel like the storytelling here is so good that even if I didn't love the movie and world so much that I'd have been completely sucked in to it anyway. There's also a really great 90 minute "making of" documentary about the series on Netflix as well. Check it all out.

Where would we talk about The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance on Netflix? Because God Damn does that show deserve to be talked about!

Was surprised to see Brock show up, then remembered about the Fox premiere and that he'll likely win the title to give the "sports-like feel" to the show that Fox supposedly has been asking for.

Both Elias and Corbin have been Shane lackeys for months. Shane steps in to replace Elias and wins. Then, at the PPV, they tease tension between Corbin and Shane leading up to the match, but when the bell rings Corbin lays down and we get King Shane. OR......Shane replaces Elias tonight and KO interferes to give Gable the win and to set up another match between KO and Shane. Neither are great ways for this to play out.

Watching NXT TV right now and saw a commercial for clash of champions and it made me wonder. With the move to USA and NXT being a official 3rd brand, will NXT matches be added to future PPVs, and does this mean the end to Takeover events? Or will NXT just continue to be presented as is, and PPVs will still only be Raw and Smackdown with NXT getting their traditional takeover events?

I went to see Ready or Not earlier today. I was the only one in the theater. It was a completely silly and absurd premise and a schlocky film all around, but I enjoyed it. The performances held it together. There was gore. Cringe moments. Light comedy to keep it grounded. And a crazy ending. I'll likely watch it again when it becomes available on whatever streaming platform it ends up on. Completely worth the matinee ticket and small popcorn price I paid for it.

I'd assume with NXT now being on USA and an official "third brand" that they will be involved in this new Draft. There have been guys moved from NXT to the "main rosters" in the past, but now with them on USA, I can see some RAW and SDL guys being moved to NXT this time around as well.

I wanna see him do that to Elias to advance to the finals in the KotR

https://i.imgur.com/XhO4fEc.gifv

I haven't watched any of the Arrowverse stuff in about 2-3 years - and even then was just watching Flash and occasionally Arrow - but am properly intrigued by the Crisis stuff coming up. Should I try to catch up on anything beforehand, or just start watching when it all starts going down?

So I saw Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. That.......was a movie. Huh. I mean, I can't say it was BAD, because the performances are all great. The individual scenes were great. But, yeah, there was no flowing narrative tying anything together at all. I'd be fully interested in watching the entire western that Leo was filming because the scenes they showed them shooting looked like it would've made for a good film. But, just.....what was this about? What was the story? Here's these two guys. They do stuff in late 60's Hollywood. And here's Sharon Tate. She does stuff too. Now they're getting robbed/killed by the hippies, but, NOPE. And THE END. So STRANGE.

That's more thought than anybody on WWE's writing staff has given either of those ideas

Guessing that Roman/Bryan doesn't happen as an actual match on Sunday, but more of the continuation of the angle. The show is already bloated enough as it is. Roman coming to the ring, calling out Bryan, Bryan reveals "it was him all along", they have a brawl, end of segment would be a good filler between some other matches to break up the flow a bit. And, yeah, using the "2nd biggest show of the year" to kick-start an angle rather than it being the blow off sounds dumb, but..........

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3 days off in a row has been the norm for quite awhile. But when you factor in the travel on the first day off to get home and the 3rd day off to get back on the road, it's always been just one real full day a week off for them. Grueling schedule, really. This new schedule seems like a good deal for the SmackDown crew, as at least once a month when there's a PPV, a lot of them will get another night off as a good majority will definitely not be booked on those shows. I wonder if they'll still have to travel to be at those shows even if they're not booked, or if they can wait to travel to the house show on Monday.