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Wikipedia purports to have the September 2018 numbers and those differ by less than a million, for what it's worth.

My last name is "Barrie". My first name starts with "T". That one's going to be hard to top, I realize.

Finally finished watching this show. Good stuff. My two main reactions: Using "Agatha Harkness" as that character's name was an odd choice. Surely Marvel has had an evil witch or two over the decades that they could have taken a name from? Second, more climactic superhero battles should be resolved through discussion of famous philosophical conundra.

I hope? Gunn is easily the least giving of all the old guys/"legends" on the AEW roster, so I'm a little worried to be honest.

Reign? What reign?

I guess? I'm Canadian; I'm not all that familiar with the stereotypes or personalities of specific American cities. I mostly just assume they're all lawless urban hellscapes.

I was intrigued to learn that a "Minneapolis Street Fight" involves tagging in and out. The streets of Minneapolis must be a surprisingly orderly place.

Shame they didn't bullshit a reason why Caster was at ringside for Bowens vs Jungle Boy but Luchasaurus wasn't. Obviously Caster is going to cheat; why wouldn't Jungle Boy have his tag team partner there to prevent it?

Yeah, that's the one. I don't think the real Captain Marvel had one, no.

Possibly relevant: https://www.cbr.com/the-15-most-iconic-comic-book-sound-effects/ Though the only ones that would count as the sort of thing I'm thinking of (other than the ones we already mentioned) are Captain Marvel's "Ktang" (didn't know that one) and Motherbox's "Ping ping ping" (hey, a DC example!). Also, ranking "snikt" above "thwip" is heresy.:)

Yeah, and I can't think of any Marvel examples either beyond those three, so it's not like it was Marvel house style to use consistent sound effects. Was it? Do Iron Man's repulsor rays have a trademark sound effect? I was never a big Iron Man guy.

Here's a random question that popped into my head: do any DC characters have iconic sound effects, like Spider-Man's "thwip" or Nightcrawler's "bamf"? I couldn't think of any.

Miro over Danielson, I agree. Seems too early for Kingston to beat Punk though. Of course, I'm the guy who's not sure whether it's too early for Page to beat Omega, so take that with a grain of salt.

I'm smart!

I'm betting Danielson wins.

Looking at the last three weeks, it seems clear that Tay Conti is the only babyface in AEW who doesn't wait for their music to play before running in for the save. So points for consistent characterization.

Well, let's hope Danhausen doesn't get one of those put in his leg.

I have no idea what show you people are talking about, but I'm having fun imagining what kind of show this sentence could make sense for. ...the Baron in question is Von Raschke, right?

Could somebody with the power to do so update the first post please? I'm not sure which of the matches they're clearly building towards have officially been announced, but I'm pretty sure it's now more than just the men's title match and the eliminator finals.

…are we talking about the Milton Bradley game Twister? I could see somebody tapping out to that.

Changing the subject, I really like Abadon getting a high profile match for Hallowe'en weekend.

There was no theme music before the save. I thought I must have misremembered, but I just watched the clip colonial posted to confirm. You've probably been subjected to that trope so many times it's mentally scarred you to the point you hear theme music when there isn't any. My sympathies. (Okay, they did play Tay's music after she'd run Baker off. But that seems more defensible.)

You skipped a round - she faces the winner of Bunny vs Red Velvet before she gets to Rosa. But Red Velvet has shown she can have a good match with Jade before, so that should be okay. I think we'll see Rosa hand Jade her first loss in this tournament and go on to win the title, but as you say, we'll see.

Yeah, I was going to say something similar. I would have liked to see Hobbs pull out the win here too, but Cassidy winning sets Mox up to face nothing but babyfaces in the tournament and I suspect that's deliberate. Changing the subject, it sounded like the crowd had absolutely no reaction to Anna Jay putting her finishing hold on Britt Baker, which was disappointing.

Yeah, I believe that's been WWF/E's philosophy for most of their existence. I think things were different when they were the WWWF, but that was before my time.