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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 20, 2023 15:08:30 GMT -5
The NXT UK-ification of regular NXT is one of Michaels’s blind spots in all this (insert reference to his actual strabismus problem here). We were fine with Dragunov, Bate, Axiom, Frazer, Pretty Deadly and the Unholy Union. The rest? Take it or leave it at this point. I can say this because I was in the trenches at 5 in the morning watching these guys. Some weeks it was the only wrestling I’d watch live. Eh, I kinda like Dar. He's entertaining in a cartoonish, trainwreck type of way. Not to say I want him doing racists bits that feel like something Roddy Piper would've done forty years ago, but I think he has value. The one's I don't get are Gallus. I can't think of three more bland and generic workers on the roster right now. The only thing they have going for them are beards and barely comprehensible accents. I don't like calling for people to get fired from their job, but I will say I have no idea what Triple H and presumably Shawn Michaels see in these three that they're getting pushed so hard in NXT.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 20, 2023 14:53:19 GMT -5
I'm waiting for Wendy Choo to make it to the main roster so the writers can put her in a bunch of backstage skits where they make thinly veiled inside jokes about her time as Mei Ying that nobody watching will care about or get. Then they'll turn her heel with little to no rhyme or reason, still not use her for anything interesting and quietly release her. By the way, congratulation to the newest member of The Outcasts, Karen Q.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 20, 2023 14:28:58 GMT -5
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 20, 2023 13:57:46 GMT -5
it seems like every 90's sitcom had the exact same B plot with billiards. Kinda nerdy character is assumed to be bad at pool, is actually pool shark, and the live studio audience claps and "wooos". There's an episode of My Three Sons from 1965 with this plot as well. I'd post footage but I can't seem to find any online. That's the earliest I can find of a television show using the sub-plot, although I'd be shocked if there are no earlier ones out there.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 20, 2023 12:21:00 GMT -5
I really feel there should be more discussion about that Dangerous Minds TV series with Annie Potts.
And I guess Todd hasn't been keeping up with Allison Pregler's stuff if he didn't know that Lou Rawls was on Baywatch Nights.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 20, 2023 8:39:59 GMT -5
Other then Mick Foley I don't think there's a man in the business, still alive, who's taken more unprotected chair shots to the head then Tommy Dreamer. I'm not terribly surprised that his brain-damaged ass has some really stupid ideas floating around in it.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 20, 2023 8:15:56 GMT -5
Star Trek would do this a lot between it's various series. The most egregious example of this is probably Enterprises' "E2", where about ninety percent of the plot is almost identical to DS9's "Children of Time".
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 19, 2023 13:37:07 GMT -5
I came across an updated list of what's being removed. The only one I've ever really watched was Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 19, 2023 13:00:05 GMT -5
So did Cisco re-appear at all this season? I mean, I gave up on the show years ago but it still feels wrong for Cisco not to put in some kind of appearance at the end.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 18, 2023 19:19:49 GMT -5
What I hate is that every article seems to only be showing partial lists. I'm gonna be very upset if I log on one day and find out that Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja is gone before I got a chance to finish it.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 18, 2023 17:39:46 GMT -5
Thank God. Seriously, we need to find out which television executive said "hey, you know what we should do? Sexualize the Powerpuff Girls!" and put him on some kind of list or something.
That said, reading that article above I'm kinda sad we're not gonna get that female Zorro series. There might've been potential there.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 18, 2023 16:33:55 GMT -5
47. Sonic the Hedgehog (1996) 48. Black Adam (2022)Latest arrival from Netflix. So this isn't a bad superhero movie, but it is an incredibly uninspired one. It does nothing new or interesting with the genre, and the climatic fight scene felt like it squeezed every groan-inducing cliché it could into it. The movie completely rested on the idea that people would be satisfied with just seeing The Rock toss around a few DC C-stringers. It might have worked fifteen years ago when people first started talking about making this movie, but too much has happened since. That said, Henry Winkler's cameo as the Golden Age Atom was cool. I kinda wish they'd make that movie.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 18, 2023 7:00:13 GMT -5
I clicked on this expecting a Bob the Goon action figure and I was not disappointed.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 17, 2023 10:37:49 GMT -5
47. Sonic the Hedgehog (1996)For those not familiar, this is the Japanese OVA from 1996. Wikipedia says the English dub is a "direct-to-video film", so I'm counting it for this thread. I remember stumbling across a copy of this at a Hollywood Video in the very late 90's and renting it thinking it was a VHS release of the SatAM series which I hadn't seen in years at that point. I was five minutes in before I realized my terrible mistake and shut it off. Always kinda regretted not finishing it. And now YouTube has given me the chance to make up for that past indiscretion. This was ok I guess. Fun but ultimately forgettable.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 17, 2023 10:04:39 GMT -5
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 17, 2023 7:05:41 GMT -5
Speaking of Burn Notice, we have Sugar, Michael's friendly neighborhood drug dealer. He was a recurring character throughout most of the series, but when we last see him in season six he's being captured and tortured by a corrupt CIA Agent in hopes he might have information on where Michael is. He does not resurface in season seven and we never find out what happened to him. For its first two and a half to three seasons The Commish had a bunch of minor reccurring characters floating around the police station - Carmella, Caruso, Papadakis, Rose, Gordy, Lucille the Secretary, Freddie the Handyman - and by the start of season four they've all disappeared without explanation. The most egregious example was probably Rachel's Brother Arnie, who was squatting with the Scali's through the first half of season one. They wrote him out effectively enough, but he's never mentioned or seen again after season one, not even at his own Father's funeral in season four. Not the same thing, but I remember in that obnoxious Peter Jackson version of King Kong, there was a character named Jimmy that they put a lot of focus on, up to including making sure he was safe as other people were dying on Skull Island. His character isn't even around in the third act That's one of my biggest problems with that version of King Kong (besides its unbearable length). Peter Jackson spent so much time giving almost every crew member of the Venture focus and depth and characterization, and it all just feels wasted because they're all long gone from the movie by the time it reaches its climax in NYC with no real resolution to any of their individual story arcs.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 16, 2023 20:13:59 GMT -5
I mean, Magic Camp was a decent enough movie.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 16, 2023 16:10:51 GMT -5
I'm almost positive that somebody has had one at some point in human history.
Ok, yeah, I had one a few years back. The procedure itself is pretty routine. They put you under and you wake up fifteen minutes later and don't even know it happened. The main thing is you have to fast the day before, and for a stress eater like me that wasn't easy. Even worse is the laxative they give you to take. They gave me something called "Moviprep". It tastes ok, but it has a very weird texture to it so it feels like you're drinking human phlegm. And you have to drink a LOT of it. Like more then you ever thought possible. And once it kicks in you will not stop pooping anytime soon. Even when you think you have no poop left to give, your body will still find a way to discharge something. My suggestion is you pick a spot you're planning to hang out in that night (your couch, your bed, whatever) and line the floors from that spot to the toilet with towels. Old towels that you're not going to mind throwing out the next day.
Otherwise, have fun.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 16, 2023 12:33:13 GMT -5
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 16, 2023 10:40:22 GMT -5
Ok I am way out of the loop with Marvel and DC. So this person that died should I know who they are? Or are they a modern character that appeared after I gave up on the big 2 back in 98ish. {Spoiler}Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel is probably the most popular new character to come out of comics in the last twenty years. If you've never heard of her then you are really out of the loop.
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