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Nolan went into it extensively in BEGINS.I don't think the topic actually made it into FOREVER, but they shot this fucking insane-looking scene: I remember seeing that in a magazine or "Art of..." book before the movie's release, and I was so disappointed there was no staredown with a giant bat.

If we're tossing out the origin and the love stories, let's jettison the Osborn family while we're at it. Yes, they're a big part of the Spidey mythos, but I don't foresee audiences getting excited to shell out $10 to watch all that drama play out for the 3rd time in 15 years.

Probably a more accruate approximation of it's worth.

Swear to god, almost as soon as I started the game, I took a wrong turn in Albuquerque and ended up in a big battle royale with 3 or 4 war chiefs and their crews. I picked off one of them, but I was so new to the game that I really had no chance. I thought about restarting, but when I saw the board reshuffle, I was hooked. The Orc who killed me got himself a new rank and badass title, and I was like, "Uh-uh, fuck you, dude. You're not getting over at my expense."

Alright, whoever called "acoustic jam session in Charlie's garage" as the climax of THE NEWSROOM, come collect your winnings.

Damn, SHADOW OF MORDOR is addictive. I booted it up this afternoon just thinking I'd sample it for a few minutes, but I ended up playing it for almost 3 hours. Like, I'm amazed at how easily it sucks you in to that world and all the minigames and XP grinding. It's the polar opposite of UNITY. I'm gonna have some fun with this on Christmas vacation...if I can keep myself from diving in headfirst before then.

Smaug is definitely taking the blame for the 2nd movie underperforming. They busted him down to curtain-jerker for this one.

See, I think that's the wrong mentality to have in college football right now. In today's climate, witht he exception of a handful of elite programs, EVERYBODY's coach is for sale. The Pittiest Pitt guy in the world will leave if the offer and the situation are right. And there are innumerable examples of school's doing more harm than good by retreating to the security of a "(insert school name here) Man." It's a fool's errand. You just gotta hire the best possible guy you can at any given time. Pitt's problem is that whoever is doing their hiring is apparently a terrible judge of character. That 1-2 punch of Haywood/Graham just killed them. Granted, I'm not sure what one uses to predict that your coach will immediately set to beating on his wife after you hire him, but Graham's track record as a guy always on the lookout for the bigger, better deal was righ there. Speaking of coaches for sale: Auburn won the Muschamp sweepstakes.

Ah, I see they brought Dewey back. Yost was pretty non-committal on that point after last season.

Oops. I completely forgot the Mike Haywood debacle. Make that 4 in 5 years for Pitt.

Strong rumors swirling that Wisconsin will be hiring Paul Chryst soon. That's exactly who I figured they'd go after. Poor Pittsburgh, starin down the barrel of their 3rd coaching change in 5 years.

I'm not all that impressed by the guy they cast as Ra's, but they've booked him really strong thus far. I really expected Oliver to win and set up the OH SHIT THIS DUDE IMMORTAL return later in the season. I wonder how long they plan on keeping Oliver on ice. They can still use Amell in the flashbacks, so it's not like they'd have to go a stretch completely without their star. I'd be interested to see Brandon Routh get a shot at carrying the present day action for a few episodes as...whatever they're doing with Atom.

I can't imagine two more radically different responses to disappointment than Gary Patterson and Art Briles. Patterson has been pure class every step of the way.

It's official: Nobody wants to coach at Wisconsin.

So CONSTANTINE has been rounding into a decent show. It's kinda hard to get a feel for because they've been airing episodes out of order, so stuff that seems improved one episode will revert right back the next. But I thought the most recent ep with the faith healing preacher was pretty watchable, and it was a badly needed episode for Manny, who to this point has been nothing but a blackhole of exposition who sucks the life out of the show when he shows up. The sooner he gets kicked out of Heaven for helping Constantine, or whatever, so he can actually play an active role in the stories, the better. It's getting kinda ridiculous how he can't have both sidekicks in the same episode, though. And the explanations are worse. "Zed's at ART CLASS today, so it's just me and you!" Really, you couldn't send her a text and be like "hey, evil spirit murdering families in birmingham gtg, can u skip class today?" But I guess ART CLASS is a plot point now, since the hunky nude model is EVIL.

Truf. That is unbelievably gonzo.

Anarchy Afterword makes you appreciate Chris Hardwick more. First there was the shitty host who clearly didn't know much about the show, and now there's NO HOST AT ALL and it's just Sutter looking down at the table and going uh...uh...uh....

I literally could not believe what I was watching.

Seriously, what was up with that ambulance? Was there any attempt to explain why Dean was arriving from the set of a Sisters of Mercy video?

From the studio that brought you GOTHAM, now comes..........KRYPTON! Based on the life of Supes' grandfather. In development at Syfy right now.

I saw it. Was mainly just disappointed Kevin Rankin was stuck playing another racist criminal character.

BYU went the ND route by setting up their own broadcast network which was the reason for them going Indy. Nobody to share their football dollars with at the end of the day. Would BYU join one of the five major conferences? That depends on if they get to keep all of their TV network money. How much money do you think BYU makes off their TV deal?BYU went independent because they have a national fanbase and the Mountain West had a terrible TV deal that failed to reach a sizable portion of that fanbase. Currently, BYU gets roughly $1 million per home game (give or take, depending on the attractiveness of the opponent) as part of their TV deal. So we're talking between $8-$10 million per year. Good money, for sure, and definitely more than they were getting from the Mountain West. But the Big 12 annually distributes double that number to it's member institutions in media rights fees (with that number projected to increase exponentially over the course of the contract), and obviously has no problems with national exposure thanks to their deals with ESPN and FOX. BYU would jump to the Big 12 in a heartbeat. You underestimate the drawing power of their fanbase. $8-10 million is pretty good money for a startup channel. It is not they have been doing this for decades like ND but that is their model. Home games in Utah, their own channel, and away games in places where they can sell tickets to their fanbase (soon). Do I think they would jump to the Big 12? Yes but like ND it would depend on them keeping the money from their channel. I think you misunderstand BYU's television situation. They didn't break away from the Mountain West and form their own TV channel for sports. They broke away and cut a deal for their home games with ESPN. BYUtv was in existence long before they broke away from the MW and isn't a dedicated sports channel, though it does carry a lot of their non-revenue sports. As part of their deal with ESPN, they do get to carry 1 game a year on that channel, but that's no different than the deal Texas has with the Longhorn Network or any of the other B12 schools have with their individual media rights. It would not be a hangup in negotiations.

BYU went the ND route by setting up their own broadcast network which was the reason for them going Indy. Nobody to share their football dollars with at the end of the day. Would BYU join one of the five major conferences? That depends on if they get to keep all of their TV network money. How much money do you think BYU makes off their TV deal?BYU went independent because they have a national fanbase and the Mountain West had a terrible TV deal that failed to reach a sizable portion of that fanbase. Currently, BYU gets roughly $1 million per home game (give or take, depending on the attractiveness of the opponent) as part of their TV deal. So we're talking between $8-$10 million per year. Good money, for sure, and definitely more than they were getting from the Mountain West. But the Big 12 annually distributes double that number to it's member institutions in media rights fees (with that number projected to increase exponentially over the course of the contract), and obviously has no problems with national exposure thanks to their deals with ESPN and FOX. BYU would jump to the Big 12 in a heartbeat.

If they're looking to go west, BYU. They've been reasonably successful trying the independent thing, but they'd join the Big 12 in a heartbeat if offered. The Sunday scheduling would be a pain in the ass, but they're desirable enough with their huge, nationwide fanbase to override that. More likely though, the Big 12 would try to move north and east to expand their footprint and create travel partners for West Virginia. The ACC is currently locked down tight with enormous buyouts, and WVU would block Marshall (not that they're desirable at all in the first place), so really they'd be looking for Notre Dame (and there were rumors of mutual interest during the Big 12's last spin on the realignment carousel, although how much of that was Texas bullshit coming from Chip Brown, I don't recall) or teams from the American. Cincinnati would be a take, for sure.

I gotta know what "overturning plates of cookies" is a filter for.