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I can relate to that. I mostly just mentioned it so I could springboard into complaining about how weak Bethesda made the disease. If it had any teeth to it, the decision of whether to save Austin might actually be an interesting one.

Because mole rat disease is so debilitating.:)

How does that work? Venom's only interesting as an evil version of Spidey, something that seems to have become an obligatory part of every hero's rogues' gallery. And his personality is entirely defined by his obsession with Spider-Man. Isn't Eddie being a shit reporter an important part of his origin?

Did they actually say that on-air? That would mollify me.

Yes, but they explained it in Demolition's case. And I don't remember how it worked in the Spirit Squad's case - wasn't the evil authority figure of the day pulling strings for them or something?

Every other "get the legs up to counter a dive" spot is going to look lame from now on.

Given he was doing a generic foreign heel gimmick, you'd think they could at least come up with a design that hinted at his ethnicity.

On that note, did they ever explain why New Day was allowed to use the Freebird Rule? If not, does that bother anybody else as much as it does me?

Well, okay, you can run a division with only 6 wrestlers of one gender. But you're going to run out of match-ups a lot faster than you would with a deeper roster. And it would be nice if they could do the Rumble next year without repeating this year's Memory Lane schtick. It was a lot of fun this year, sure, but it'll get old fast. Doing so will require both brand's women's rosters to get bigger.

Losing the entire Riott Squad leaves Smackdown's women's roster a little sparse, but presumably they'll get more women tonight. Hopefully from NXT.

Yes. I'm still bummed they wasted Bryan's return on that silly Shane match. His in-story reason for returning should have been "Fuck retirement and fuck my health, I just wanna kill the Miz."

The problem with comics Mordo, if I remember correctly, was that his motivation was jealousy over Strange being a better sorcerer. Perfectly believable human motivation and all, but it's hard to be an arch-enemy when your basic concept centres on your being less powerful than the hero.

I always thought you were a Skrull Captain America.

I don't recall having a problem with Jade Empire's combat system. I mean, it's real-time combat. So it's just filler to keep you from blowing past the good parts too quickly. But judged through that lens, it seemed fine.

Joining in on the hate for "X-Seven". Debating Wrestlemanias is a fun lark and all, but numerical orthography is serious business.

Yeah, that's one match I did recall after Wikipedia jogged my memory, but it didn't exactly boost XIX's standing in my eyes.

If by "those" you mean X's filler matches, then I never said I believed they were better. I thought I was pretty clear that I don't remember much of anything about either show's filler, which for me means they weren't important enough to sway my vote. I wasn't being facetious when I said I'd take your word for it that XIX's were better. If by "those" you mean Owen-Bret and the ladder match, then yeah, I actually do think those were better than XIX. If that's what you're referring to, which matches specifically at XIX do you think were better?

Anybody else hoping we get Undertaker beating Cena in a sub-minute squash? It would do more interesting things to Cena's character arc then winning or losing a competitive match, and no matter how broken down 'Taker is I'm sure he can throw a few punches, hit a chokeslam and tombstone, and ride off into the sunset.

Well, as time goes on memory of what was decent but unspectacular and what was poor but not horrible fades. Were the filler matches at II and XIX better than X? I'll take your word for it, but I don't think it's unreasonable to vote based on what actually sticks out in your mind about the show. I couldn't remember a single thing that happened at XIX, and clicking through to the wikipedia summary didn't trigger much in the way of memories either. By contrast, X had two all-time great matches, one of which was historically significant to boot. That easily puts X over the top for me, even if Savage-Crush was memorably awful.

Dude, just look at http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/ (For some reason, Box Office Mojo's overall all-time weekend chart doesn't list what percentage of the film's take was in the opening weekend, but its US all-time weekend chart does. So I linked to the latter.) Batman vs Superman had the 11th highest opening weekend of all time, which is great and all... but that opening weekend accounted for over half of its total take. No other move in the top 100 is that front-loaded. You specifically cite Spider-Man: Homecoming, but its opening weekend was only 35% of its total take. In other words, after its opening weekend Homecoming went on to take in almost double what it took in said weekend. BvS's failed to equal its opening weekend over the entire rest of its theatrical run. It was indeed a crash of unusual magnitude.

Sadly less common than time traveling pro wrestlers.

I reflexively voted for X before realizing that I've never actually seen XXIV. Oops. But Bret-Owen edges out the Bret-Austin submission match as my favourite Wrestlemania match ever, and the ladder match is pretty great as well. I doubt I voted wrong.

Well... not really, no. But I take your meaning.

You're familiar with the concept of "begging the question", yes?

Reading the results of 5 makes me miss the days when they had a real tag team division. Ten full-time teams made the card!