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I'm betting the card storyline will end mid-season.......doesn't this show take a significant break around halfway through? Not sure what the bloody noses are all about, but I'm betting that will play a heavier role in the second part of the season. Well we still haven't heard anything about those scientist guys that appeared at the end of season 2's finale. I'm guessing it'll involve them and Michael having been genetically engineered or something. Care to remind me what that was all about? End of Season 2 seems like so long ago (even though it wasn't). All I remember was season 2 ended with them all locked up in Panama.....where and how did the scientists come into the mix?

I'm betting the card storyline will end mid-season.......doesn't this show take a significant break around halfway through? Not sure what the bloody noses are all about, but I'm betting that will play a heavier role in the second part of the season.

I havent seen anything on my HD feed for FOX with that.

Yeah, that was a good finale.....given how the jurors were talking beforehand, though, I thought Memphis was going to win 4-3....instead it was a total sweep for Dan. The looks on Michelle and April's faces after Keesha won the 25K was great. When the first two houseguests (Brian and Steven) started elaborating on the cattyness of Michelle and April also, it was funny that Michelle was trying to save face, stand up for herself, whatever you would want to call it. At least Jerry explained himself! Ultimately, I think Michelle was the biggest piece of shit of the entire season. She is just so full of herself, thinks she's ALWAYS right, never really got it that this was a game, was one of the more dishonest and disingenuine of them all, and was big on personal attacks/drama inside the house. I remember the first night I watched this show (it was on the Showtime live feed) and she was just going from person to person talking shit about everyone else but that person she was talking to at the time. It was unbelievable. I would have said Jerry a week ago, but he got some points by coming across pretty genuine near the end there, and taking his elimination in stride, not being very bitter, etc.

Damn, I was hoping she was going into porn....

Any word why she quit? I was trying to find some news on that, havent had any luck so far. Ouch, four teeth....damn....

If you really think that, then you don't see most of my posts. I try to be as fair as possible, with both TNA and WWE. When they fuck up, or when they do something right. Fuck, did you even read my thoughts on the ppv? I didn't like it at all. Quite frankly, I think it's bullshit that seemingly if ANYONE says ANYTHING positive about TNA here, then we are tagged as "apologists." Get off your own dicks already. I wouldnt have expected Foley to be there unless they said something on Impact about it.......and since they didn't, I wasn't let down. How is this different than that No Mercy tease last year for Jericho showing up? They're both one of the same......TEASES. Not GUARANTEES.

I dunno, because we aren't here to play to such immature bullshit?

Yeah, it's not like having a Foley's trademark smiley face, some barbed wire, and his catchphrase is that obvious. Christ. What I mean by "obvious" is them saying something on, ya know, their actual show, that he would definately be at the ppv......Foley hasn't even been so much as namedropped on Impact at all, much less suggested he was going to show up, via the TV promotion. Nothing in that whole deal from the website said "Foley will be at the ppv" although it was HINTED he MIGHT be - keyword, HINTED. And MIGHT. If that whole thing said "See you Sunday!" I could see how one could rip a new asshole into the company, but this is far from "false advertising."

Last night's show had Scott LeDoux (announced as the "head master of fun at Jukebox Saturday Night" which is that bar they had that New Years show from) v. Zbysko and I still am trying to figure out why they gave these guys almost 25 minutes. Match was pretty bad, although the fans were big into it. Lame duck finish of Larry putting the ref in front of him to take a Ledoux punch, but the promo Larry cut after the match was really good stuff. Sadly, this is one of very few memorable moments from the 86 shows so far.

It's the same deal as the Jericho hinting of showing up at this show and that show late last year by WWE......while in either case, it wasn't officially said to happen at so and so time, you knew the guy was going to show up eventually. If they were going to actually have Foley show up, it would have been more obvious. To me, that doesn't say he will be at the ppv for sure, it's just a tease that he could show up at anytime. ---- Anyway, some quick thoughts on the ppv last Sunday......definately was one of the more throwaway feeling shows of the year, both in the build and the execution. None of the matches really were worth checking out upon a second viewing, really. It was a hot crowd though, for the most part. The Jarrett stuff was exactly what I expected, and I didn't quite understand what the point was of the whole Sting appearance anyway. Seemed like he just re-did his promo from Impact from a few weeks back. I was actually surprised for the heated response for the MMA match........while working a MMA style is tough and sometimes risky, I thought they did alot better than most have done in the past. But WOW, talk about the fans being pissed about it. Then that finish.......again, WOW. Guess that was an experiment that will not be done again, at least I hope. Pretty funny how the cameras were showing close ups of people chanting "This is Bullshit" and "Fire Russo" like they weren't even trying to hide it. Pretty much, all of the title matches were average matches to a tee, nothing special there at all. The MOTN was probably the Lethal/Dutt ladder match, a few spots I've never seen before in a ladder match. They did the finish I was hoping they wouldn't do, which just means this feud is going to keep going, ugh. More than anything, I was surprised the work on this show wasn't better than it turned out being.

Well, the show was IN a bar, so I'm sure it was one of those things where he just couldn't back down from the urges......most recovering alcoholics know better than to even step foot in a bar, regardless of the circumstances. This Shannon person is some piece of work. People f'n saw him buying drinks at the bar!

Jesus christ, I can't believe the fucking Vikings blew it. The Colts looked like shit 90 percent of that game. Pathetic!

Jackson finally throws up a great bomb, and then the Vikings reciever fucking trips over his own feet. Ugh. Yeah, the Vikes definately need a better QB, the rest of the team is actually pretty solid. If we could have only got Brett...

Tavaris Jackson just is getting nuclear heat at the Dome right now, really is not looking good and frankly, the Vikes should be up on the Colts by at least another 14 points than they have. This is all Vikings defense, and AP.

WWE always does it. They get a practice run at the PPV card. Not really, Matt. Often the WWE will take the weekend of a PPV off. They still do spot shows the Saturday night before the Sunday ppv, more often than not.

Care to back up your opinion?

Exactly. Wow, quite the drop for Bangkok Dangerous, eh? Is that some of record for a second week drop (almost 70 percent!)? I'm going to see that movie later today ironically enough (I just watched the original Bangkok Dangerous last night, and apparently the same director/writers and producers actually did the Cage remake of it), more than likely may be the only one in the theater.

I watched Wizard of Gore over the weekend, and it started strong, but by halfway through it just became a confusing and disattached mess of a movie.

Hard to say how they would work, it might work because some things they do share a philosophy of (particularly "shock" moments of sorts) and Russo publicly stated he got alot of ideas and general feel of his booking from Heyman himself back in the mid to late 90s. Hell, Russo actually worked well with Jerry Jarrett, a way more oldschool philosophy.

"Sting isn't a draw anymore." -Terry Funk, 2005, overheard backstage conversation But seriously, how is Sting a draw? He's been with the company almost since the beginning. Including all those years when they, y'know, lost money and didn't draw. Meanwhile, ECW on Scifi drew drastically higher ratings when RVD was the champ, compared to everything that followed since then. Nobody is a real draw in TNA because of their lack of marketing and promoting outside of the Spike TV shell. Not many casual fans even know Sting, Angle, Nash, etc, are even ON the TNA roster, or apparently that TNA even exists. Would he be a draw if he ever went to WWE? Chances are, probably. And when RVD was still in WWE, chances are he wasn't the draw for that show......I think it was more that people tuned in to see what WWE was doing with the ECW brand (hence the steady decline to the low to mid 1.0s after its initial decent ratings)

I don't really ever see them doing gimmick matches on house shows from past results I've seen. Definately curious how this will affect him at tonight's ppv. Must be a serious concussion if it totally knocked him out. And there's nothing stupid about running a house show the night before a ppv unless it's literally just a jump away from the ppv venue. Then I could see it affecting the attendance at the ppv show.

I just finished watching the show and, well, I didn't read the spoilers so a few things surprised me, and I actually liked. And one part really annoyed me. The main event was good stuff, and I wasn't expecting Kozlov (who I thought came off great against Funaki and Colt) to run out there. HHH/Hardy/Kozlov makes sense for the ppv, or perhaps they are just setting up Kozlov for a title shot at Cyber Sunday against Hardy or HHH, who knows. If they push Kozlov like this in the coming weeks, the guy will be a strong contender. This was probably the first time I can really say they did it right with the guy, and he could go somewhere here. He just never impressed me at all until this week. I also was pretty surprised to see the Colons tagging up out of nowhere. At least they gave them the win, setting them up as immediate tag title contenders. Chances are Primo got moved since they figured (*GASP*) they might as well have them work together, and probably eventually feud, especially since they have been letting Carlito basically sit at home since he hasn't been on TV in who knows how long. Once again, Truth looked good this week, bigger response than he's gotten so far too. The one thing that really got me about the show was once again how HHH has now done a hat trick (last SD, the ppv, and this show) on really pretty much burying all of those four guys that were in the scramble match, for no good reason. That opening promo with him and Hardy was ridiculous.....I could understand a heel like MVP doing the "past demons" promo on Hardy, but this was weird with HHH doing it, it came off more like a burial, or if it isn't, then Hardy must be getting the title at the ppv. Just seemed very similar to how HHH pretty much put Booker T in his place (and at least then, it was as him working as a heel when he was punking Booker) and then made him look shitty at Mania XIX. The way that promo was "scripted" it made you think Hardy will either win the belt, or else come up short again and never be able to make it to that level again. On top of that, those knocks on Benjamin, MVP, and Kendrick in the backstage segments just came off more screwed up and more "putting the guys in their place" than the normal "champion intimidates the challengers" type of stuff the WWE has done in the past. Best I can describe it is that HHH was working those Kevin Nash type of promos and character actions in that it really doesn't "help" anyone by being involved in such nonsense. And the irony of it all is that it's probably actually being twisted as HHH is giving these guys a rub by having him cutting promos on each guy, like they are special because HHH gets to do such a thing for them. Just irks me that this side of HHH still comes out every so often, although it's not nearly as prevelant as it once was.

I highly doubt it happening, but if done right, and probably would have to be at Mania this year or at most, the next one after, I think Jeff Hardy could get a huge rub from beating Taker's streak. He's defiantely established, and assuming he won't be getting the SD title anytime soon (highly doubt he will go over HHH at the ppv), this would help him tremendously.

That's fine and dandy, but that doesn't mean they should turn it into a feature film/remake/whatever the fuck they are thinking.