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Also, would the LAPD WANT another corrupt cop poster child after Gilroy and Lem? Ronnie would be proof that the LAPD hasn't been able to stop the problem that was originally exposed.Bingo. They can't prosecute Ronnie without exposing EVERYTHING the Strike Team did and how Vic, the worst of the worst, conned the system to get full immunity for the worst of his sins. They can't even make an example out of Ronnie without exposing how Vic skated on EVERYTHING, which would defeat the purpose of scapegoating Ronnie since more people would take one look at Vic and ask how a monster like him could get away with what he did.
And with Acaveda about to become mayor, you think he'll want Ronnie exposing how he enabled Vic and the Strike Team, let alone continued to associate with a man who he KNEW was a sociopathic murderer who killed the friend he recruited to bring Vic down?
He'll be offered a plea bargin for three-five years for obstruction of justice, given protective custody/put in a prison far away from people like Antwon Mitchell, and in return will be told to stay quiet about the Strike Team's crimes in exchange for not being prosecuted for his involvement in the crimes of the Strike Team.
That certainly sounds interesting. I'll have to give that show a look. After seeing Walton play Shane for the past 7 years, it's going to be odd to see him in another role. It's kind of like watching him in 'House of 1000 Corpses', and seeing him just sit there and let Otis blow his head off. It's such an 'out of character' moment to see him sit there in a helpless position.In a way, I still think of Walt as "That Guy" from "In the Heat of the Night", a show where Walt appeared in multiple episodes in different roles (often in generic henchman roles, but most notably as an emotionally troubled man who kills his cheating girlfriend's lover and then kills himself via a shotgun blast in the face in front of one of the main characters while standing over his beloved dead mother's grave). And while Ryan is crediting Chris Benoit's suicide as the inspiration for the final fate of Shane, I have to wonder in a way, if the above mentioned episode of ITHOTN also might have influenced it (especially since Walt's portrayal of Shane echoed his performance in said episode of ITHOTN, as far as portraying Shane as a haunted man, driven by demons that go well beyond his friendship with Vic).
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FYI: the "season seven weekly episode recaplet" for this week's episode accidentally got posted in the main FX website prior to it's airing. While it's now down, it's made it's way onto Youtube, spoiling the episode's big shocks:
*Ronnie survives the attempt on his life
*The reveal that Shane had the guy try and kill Ronnie so that Shane could personally murder Vic.
*Shane being exposed by Dutch and Billings and having to run the 500 mile dash out of the Barn in the seconds he has to get the hell out of the precinct before Vic hears the news
*Corrine handing Vic his ass as far as banning him from seeing his kids after she finds out his crimes
*Vic turning in his badge and resigning from the LAPD so he can hunt down Shane outside the system......
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Shane is pretty damn smart.Actually, he's fucking dumb. The smart guy thing to do would be to get as far away from Vic as humanly possible, not to mention not put a hit out on Vic's one remaining ally/friend, especially one who has enough dirt to bury both Vic and Shane without even bringing up who killed Terry and who killed Lem.
Damn, Claudette has it in for VicHell have no fury like a woman with a grudge. Had Vic not gotten into a pissing match with Claudette over Armadillo back in season two, she and Vic would never of crossed swords and Claudette would have allowed Vic to run rampant all over Farmington without a second thought.
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Vic's clearly slipping. He's gone soft, or is there something more sinister around the bend for Shane. I've been trying to wrap my mind around why Vic would try to call off the hit on Shane and tip him off. There has to be something there that I'm missing.One word explains it all: sentimentality. After Shane made his big speach to Vic about being willing to transfer out of Farmington in the event that Vic and Ronnie still didn't want to be around him anymore, it softened Vic's harden heart enough to cause him to want to spare Shane's life.
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The ending was the most intense moment of the season. Yet another episode that confirms that Vic and Shane could never kill each other and that Ronnie wouldn't blink at killing either of them.Not only that, but it sets up an even nastier possible scenerio to the mix of the downward spiral the three are trapped in: Vic and Shane killing Ronnie, because he knows too much and is the only obstacle standing in the way of Vic and Shane both kissing and making up and going on like nothing happened.
Which is probably why Ronnie pressed Vic to let the hit go down as planned. So long as Shane is up and running around, Ronnie is dead man walking, what with Shane treating Ronnie as acceptable collateral damage. And if Vic won't punish Shane for murdering Lem, then Ronnie knows that he probably won't bat an eye when Ronie is killed by Shane.
As for Shane at the very end, while it was a chilling moment and one that reminds us viewers that Shane isn't a complete fuck-up as far as his moments of insight and awareness. But it doesn't discount the fact that Shane is still Shane Vendrell, sentimental fuck-up who will fold the moment Vic pats him on the head and tells him "good boy".
The big irony is of course, that Shane was ready to leave town and never darken Vic and Ronnie's pressence again. Now not only is Shane still alive and around, he now has all of the motivation needed to destroy his former friends. Of course, the smarter thing would be to just continue with the "leave town" scenerio and use the blood money he stole to get him and Mara as far away as humanly possible from Vic and pray that the fall-out from Vic's self-destruction doesn't reach him wherever he and Mara end up at.
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Five episodes into the final season and Vic Mackey is fucked. Seriously, the show has done a great job showing Vic spiralling out of control as far as Vic over-reaching with the mother of all schemes to save his ass and Farmington, with no safety net or allies or relief from any sides.
I think the writers put it best when they showed Shane Vendrell having to act as the voice of reason towards Vic. When Shane is voice of reason, telling you that your crackpot scheme sucks and will blow up in your face, you know you are fucked.
Vic's various allies are turning against him/being shoved in a manner that will only serve to turn them against Vic. His treatment of Danny was appalling (though Danny herself isn't exactly blameless; then again, Danny has a history of being tactless when it comes to interacting with others and should have known that Vic would react negatively at being told, point blank, to sign away his parental rights to their child) and will probably serve to drive her away from Vic.
Ronnie is on the record as to telling Vic that he will sell Vic and Shane out in a heartbeat to save himself, and who's loyalty to Vic is hanging on the thin thread of trust that Vic will honor his pledge to avenge Lem via killing Shane.
And there is Acaveda, who in a suprise move that should suprised no one, has stripped Vic of possession of the blackmail box and as such, preventing Vic from ending the gang war even if he tried. Vic probably wishes he had kept copies of the rape photo, since his leverage over Acaveda is pretty much limited to playing to Acaveda's own screwed up sense of right and wrong.
The turning of Cassidy against her father is only the icing on the cake, given the extremes Vic has gone through to shield his family from his true nature. Yet it's also another example of Vic's short-sightedness, since going back to season one, Vic showed more concern for his autistic son (and later his youngest daughter) than he did for Cassidy. In taking care of his two special needs children, his non-special needs child has grown up bitter and resentful and surly, which is a recipe for hell for any parent, especially divorced parents who spend most of their time working/engaging in complex schemes that need constant attention less they blow up in their faces.
And that's not even touching the issue of
Tavon's impending return.
I have to think, given how apocalyptic things are progressing, that
Tavon will return with the reveal that he was faked his amnesia regarding not remembering Mara hitting him in the head with the iron/Shane picking a fight with him via making racist comments to him at the end of season three, in order to keep Vic from silencing him in order to protect Shane. Having him return and out for revenge could make for the one random variable that makes EVERYTHING crash down on Vic, Shane, and Ronnie as far as driving each man against each other in a mad dash to wipe out the other two in order to save themselves.
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Been gone for ages but I'm back.....
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The season premire for the finale season of "The Shield" does a nice job setting up the sort of apocalyptic tone for the series as it reaches the finish line.
Ronnie finally gets the spotlight at long last as we see him kill in cold blood (granted, an evil hitman and not say, one of his fellow officers) and we see Vic once again repeating the same mistakes he made with Shane by cutting off Ronnie when Ronnie wanted to talk about what he had done and the feelings he was feeling over having taken a human life in cold blood. Granted, at least Vic was gentle with the way he shut Ronnie off, telling him that he doesn't want him becoming like Shane, but it was Vic's very much "We are not having this discussion EVER" response to Shane, when Shane wanted to talk about his inner angst over killing Terry, that contributed to Shane becoming the monster that he currently is.
The use of the Social Distortion song "Reach for the Sky" at the beginning of the episode worked well to set the tone for the season thematically, especially as far as both Shane and Vic are concerned. They are literally trapped in an endless loop of lies, violence, murder, and corruption that has stripped them of any real sort of future and a past that will consume them and bring them down if they ever stop running for a second. Especially now, as they have basically reunited and put aside their MAD stalemate to engineer a gang war that will require a hell of a lot of lying and manipulating to keep for collapsing and destroying everything and everyone they loved. And of course, Vic is telling Ronnie that once the duel threat of the Armeniens and the Mexican Mafia are taken cared of, that they'll deal with Shane, is the sort of thing that looms ominously for all parties considered as far the fact that it's only a matter of time before Shane and Vic's reconcilliation ends in death and/or Ronnie turning against them in order to save his own hide...
The Billings lawsuit plotline also gets resolved and in satisfactory fashion, as far as Billings not only getting smacked down and but also smacked down hard not once but twice! And nice to see Dutch finally use the vending machine scam of Billings' to twist the knife after the end of last season.
Meanwhile we have Corrine and Mara, both in their own little worlds of denial: Corrine, having to deal with her denial over the type of person her ex-husband really is and Mara's denial over Shane's ability to quit Vic Mackey. Of course, of the two Mara's the one who has access to the MAD document while Corrine probably has Dutch on her speed dialer, willing to give Dutch whatever he needs to bring down Vic.
And I'll toss in this prediction: Acaveda is dead man walking. The Mexican Mafia will have him killed for playing him like he did with Vic's help, especially since Vic still has unfinished business with him over setting Lem's death in motion.
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Yes, I enjoyed it as well. Though I don't remember too much of it, I think I caught in on Comcast On Demand awhile back. I didn't start watching it until Hawaii.I remember turning to Road Rules when I was younger (I think it was RR1). I remember some girl crying and fighting with a guy and thought it was stupid, so I changed the channel. Kind of wish I watched it because the only season I've watched in full is Extreme.
And you can't find ANY of them on Torrents. I had a hard time finding the challenges, but I did end up DLing all of them except for Battle of the Sexes 2, which doesn't seem to have any seeders. Battle of the Seasons took about a month to DL because no one would seed it. Then one day, someone did and it finished. It was stuck at 88% for the longest time.
The utter lack of old school Real World (and Road Rules) on the filesharing networks/bit torrent is pretty sad thing, especially vintage Real World (IE the first seven or eight seasons). And due to the Real World S1 set DVD bombing saleswise (in part because they pretty much hacked the first season into a horrific mess to remove all of the music), we won't see the rest of the seasons on DVD in butchered form either (or even in syndication, since music rights problems caused the show to be pulled from syndication as well).
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I just want to clarify my three-second comment on Nancy Grace yesterday about how Benoit destroyed a lot of things but not the steroids, and how I thought there might be a reason for that. It wasn't meant to be a tease, I just ended up with a very limited amount of time to get the point out and they didn't go back to me for clarification afterwards. Basically, anyone who says Benoit wasn't thinking the last two days is flat-out wrong. He had to have gone nuts to do what he did, but he was still very clearly in a calculating state of mind. He was very specific about destroying certain things (for example, some photos but not all photos, and the photos he did not destroy were also intriguing), how he killed both people (including loading his son up with Xanax first to sedate him), the thought and planning and, quite frankly, hard work that went into killing himself in the most horrible way possible, etc. But despite all of that, he didn't destroy, hide or get rid of ANY drugs. There was plenty of stuff he didn't want people to find and also a few things he DID seemingly want people to find, and the drugs were among those things. The first thing wrestlers always get rid of are the drugs, in dozens of cases dating back decades. Not Benoit. Also, it is now believed by some that he tried to get off the steroids in April (hence the clean test) and found his system was so screwed up that he got back on (his natural testosterone levels were incredibly low due to the years of steroid abuse, and trying to come clean would have resulted in major physical and psychological issues). I suspect he knew the steroids had destroyed his body and that they'd played a role in the deaths of many of his close friends, including his best friend in this business. The theory, which is also written about in some form in this week's new Observer, is basically that he decided he was going to take out himself, his entire family, and the wrestling business which he had grown to hate.f4wonline
Couldn't he have just left a note saying it was all Vince's fault?
Leaving such a note would give the WWE/Vince ammo galore in terms of painting Benoit as being a bitter malcontent/loon who murdered his family and then tried to justify his crimes via blaming Vince for making him do it.
As it stands, if said above sceneriois true, then Benoit was going for the "death by a thousand cuts" style revenge against the WWE and Vince. Letting the public and the media assume/speculate/declare the worst case scenerio to attack Vince and generally thrust the WWE into the spotlight in the worst possible manner imaginable would be a far crueler revenge if Benoit's vile actions indeed were motivated in part by him wanting to take the WWE down with him in the process...
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Commish Goodell is kicking himself right about now for starting the "zero tolerance" policy. Now Goodell will have to hand out a major suspension to one of the league's biggest stars to avoid being perceived as a joke.Given that Michael Vick has and is a huge joke in terms of being an underachieving dick that makes Peyton Manning look like "Little Miss Over-Achiever" ten years running, he should be suspended and run out of the league forever.
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Jericho is the only chance they have left to spark a "big angle"; the idea thing would be to wholesale redo the Ric Flair/Terry Funk feud from 1989. Jericho comes back to be part one of three WWE Legends Judges for a match between Cena and insert heel here and afterwords Jericho asks for a title shot. Cena gets uppity and dismisses Jericho's request and Jericho snaps and essentially cripples Cena, getting rid of him for 2-4 months and forcing him to vacate the title in the process. Jericho wins the WWE Championship in a tournement, with him squashing all of the major top wrestlers on Raw (including HHH) and raining misery down on everyone on Raw until Cena comes back to reclaim the belt, with Cena chasing after Jericho for the belt.
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Chris Benoit has made it to Encyclopedia Dramatica http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Chris_Benoit
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Yeah, basically he got his job back.Not really; at best Vic has leverage to get his job back but the question is HOW he's going to get his job back seeing how he now has about two-three days max to blackmail TPTB to get his job back. Especially since he no-showed his review board hearing, which will only make Vic saving his job seem even more suspicious than before. Let alone, the issue of what fresh hell Vic has unleashed now that he's got the developer's blackmail files in hand. The Armenians may be the least of Vic's worries if the Mexican Mafia come after Vic and his loved ones.
As for next season, a lot of problems for Vic are on the horizon: the Armenian mob, the Mexican Mafia, the inevitable doublecross by Acaveda; I would not be suprised if Shane/Vic doesn't happen and Shane dying a redemption death eliminating the Armenian mob boss he's now being blackmailed by. Also, the "Ronnie is my successor" comment could lead to some interesting stuff for season seven, in terms of Claudette annointing Ronnie the new leader of the Strike Team in the event Vic saves his job, and attempting to "turn" Ronnie against Vic in order to usurp control over the team from him. Especially if they have Claudette remind Ronnie what happened to him the last time Vic pissed off the Mexican Mafia (his face was disfigured). The notion of Ronnie turning against Vic could be the only thing that could possibly force Vic to reconcile with Shane, especially if they have Ronnie throw Terry's death into Vic's face as part of their falling out....
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Some new news about the MST3K sets going out of print:
Volumes 3 and 9 are now officially out of print, with Volume 9 going for around $90 on Ebay. Volume 3 is still pretty common to find on Ebay, at the moment though that could change in a year or two when the inevitable backlog of stock dries up (which it will most likely do so, since V3 has the second "Shorts" compilation).
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DVDR board is saying Jack Thompson has already blamed these shootings on video games.I WANT TO PUNCH THIS MAN IN THE FACE.
MULTIPLE TIMES.
I blame Marilyn Manson.
Can't blame Marilyn Manson, since he's been too busy crying in bed over how his hot showgirl wife left him to be responsible......
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The only way Jack could be beaten by Vic is if Vic lured Jack into a false sense of security and then shot him in the face. And even then, Vic would probably have to chop off Jack's head to ensure that Jack didn't get back up, due to Jack's unofficial healing factor power healing the wound within seconds.
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A fight between Vic and Jack would definately need to be expanded beyond the two to include their supporting cast, since they serve as support team for their respective characters.
Danny/Julian/Lem versus Michelle/Tony/Curtis- Michelle/Tony/Curtis win
Claudette/Dutch versus Bill Buchannan/Karen Hayes- Dutch/Claudette win
Ronnie versus Chloe- draw
Shane versus Kim- both kill each other in gruesome stupidity-related fashion
That said, Jack wins simply because his circle of friends are utterly expendable and killable for the greater good of the mission. That would freak even Vic out, allowing Jack the moment of distraction needed to snap Vic's neck.
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Anyone think Lem or Ronnie could be the baby's daddy? Who knows, anything could happenShawn Ryan has been very public about the fact that the child is Vic's when asked in interviews about the plotline, though he's never outright confirmed the identity of the father of the child in an episode yet. Which means that he could retcon it if he wanted to down the line.
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My thoughts on the episode BTW:
I was suprised that they downplayed Shane's grief for murdering Lem because of a lie; WG did a great job playing the grief in a very reserved sort of way, which could make for an interesting build in terms of repeating season one's arc of Shane slowly going batshit crazy, ultimately exploding in a brutal "DEMAND LOVE" scene where Shane's waving a gun in front of Vic, begging Vic for absolution.
As for Kavanaugh? Talk about a stupid ass motherfucker; not only is this going to explode in his face, but it will completely render Vic bulletproof from all future corruption charges, since he can point to Kavanaugh framing him as proof towards his "conspiracy" claims regarding IAD being out to get him.
And Acaveda's fucked too. He may have scored a cheap win by demonizing Lem to the media as a corrupt cop, but once Kavanaugh is busted for trying to frame Vic, want to bet that Acaveda's in front of the cameras, santifying Lem as an innocent cop framed by a vindictive, sociopath IAD officer and a snitch who'd sell out her own mother for a buck? Fucker will be lucky to get off with that, since Vic will have the LAPD by the proverbial balls over Kavanaugh's framejob when the shit hits the fan. A public apology/santification of Lem and confirmation his that his early retirement pinkslipping has been permenantly shelved will probably be the least that Vic would be able to finagle out of the department after Kavanaugh's brought down. And on the sidelines, I would be shocked if we don't get Claudette and Dutch shaking their heads and sighing that Vic will be even MORE of a jerk to deal with/never be brought to justice for his crimes, due to Kavanaugh's assholeness.
[And I'm not being overly dramatic; Kavanaugh has to be one of the most stupid ass characters I've seen on TV in ages for the shit he pulls in the season premire. For a character to utterly commit such a fucktard act like that, it raises the bar for new lows in terms of characters committing acts so stupid and suicidal....]
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Hmmm, was just looking at description's of upcoming eps at TV.com and saw this for ep 4"An unsolved rape case from the past that Dutch and Claudette were working on resurfaces." Any idea what case this is as I'm drawing a blank.
Wasn't that the straggler or something like that? I know it was a big thing and it was the reason why Dutch straggled the cat. Unless that stuff was solved.
"Cuddler Rapist" was the name of that rapist and they caught him, leading to him pushing Dutch's buttons afterwords to make him later kill the cat.
Most likely though:
they'll create a new case that happened inbetween episodes/seasons and do that instead
As for Ronnie being at the bar in the final moment montage, most likely the scene was something that they came up with simply to show the character doing something, IE Ronnie being at the bar, silently thinking deep thoughts as usual. That said
one of the upcoming episodes is rumored to supposedly explore Vic and Ronnie's friendship in terms of revealing that Ronnie may be the only person in Vic's life who truly gives a fuck about him, in terms of worrying about Vic's series-long slide into the abyss. So you could toss that into the possible equation regarding what was up with Ronnie in the montage, in terms of him quietly worrying about Vic and his fear that Vic will self-destruct in his pursuit of the man who murdered their friend.
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You know the original poster is the actor who plays 'Ronnie', right?I'm not David Rees Snell, for the record.
Speaking of The Shield has anyone read the rumors about Dutch getting his own after the show is over? I would love to see that seeing how Dutch is my favorite on the show.I haven't heard that rumor, though I've read a recent interview with Shawn Ryan where he joked about allowing Jay Karnes (the actor who plays Dutch) pull a Richard Belzer and allow him to take the "Dutch" character to another law enforcement show after the series ends, ala how Belzer took his Homicide character to Law and Order SVU, after Homicide ended....
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FYI everyone: The tenth volume of MST3K DVD set has been pulled from the market, due to rights issues involving the Godzilla movie included in the collection. Current word is that the Godzilla DVD will most likely never see the light of day again, meaning it's going to be ultra-ultra rare and that Rhino has also been mum about the fate of the other three films in the set, meaning barring the set being released sans the Godzilla film, the other films will also be ultra-rare as fuck.
The set is going on Ebay for $60-$180 right now, so better get the fucker now before it becomes impossible to find.....
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You're definitely right, although Schaub doesn't need to be an ex-teammate for Vick to throw him under the bus as well.Hell the whole reason Schaub got traded was because Vick was unhappy with the rumor that he could get replaced by him.
Yes, because if not for Vick being unhappy with some rumor the Falcons wouldn't have taken two second round draft picks and move up two spots in the draft for a unproven backup QB.
Given that Vick is a talentless, all-hype, zero-substance little shit who keeps getitng into trouble, refusing to take full blame for the fact that he's an incompetant QB incapable of doing his fucking job, and who probably knows that his career is dead the moment that the press stops giving him a free ride and start rightfully calling him "The Most Over-rated Piece of Shit In the NFL" and finally get his shithead lazy fuck ass kicked out of the starting QB slot, then yeah I think we can believe with full certainty that Vick would force the team to trade his rival QB to ensure he can't be stripped of his job and it given to someone who is better than him (and let's face it, EVERYONE is better than Vick).
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There are no words to describe how utterly and completely pathetic this is:
I guess it was the night I threw the clicker clear across the room, and yelled something loud, long, and profane at my TV. Maybe it was the moment I stopped shaking with anger, stopped cursing at the ceiling, and turned around. Yeah, that's probably when I saw my wife sitting on the couch, her complete disgust with the man she married written from ear to ear. Definitely – that's when I saw my three-month-old son laying in her lap, and wondered what he was thinking about his father as he stared up at me.I think the questions started that night, and progressed throughout the summer. Why was I so mad at Alex for not coming through? Why was I so mad at other Yankee players when they failed to be perfect? Was I having fun watching my favorite team play a game I supposedly loved? When I realized the answer to this last question was nearing the word "no", I knew it was time for a change.
And that's how the seeds for the project took root, basically. I'm 27-years-old, happily married, a proud father, and a life-long Yankee fan. I grew up idolizing Donnie Baseball, moved on to respect Derek Jeter, among others, and I am now trying to give Alex Rodriguez another chance. I work in Legal for a hedge fund in Manhattan, so I know how demanding this city can be, and how hard it is to block out the "noise". At the end of the day, all I want is for the Yankees to get back to the promise land, and now – as I've come to realize – I want A-Rod to be a part of that glory too. I want something special to happen in the Bronx.
And so, my promise to myself this season is as follows: I won't stand up to boo when he fails, then turn around to cheer when he comes through. I won't hedge my bets, in other words, but stand behind him no matter what – no matter what. In my eyes, this is the only way New York can get back to the positive thoughts that produced so many positive results in years past. We have a chance this year to show the world that The Big City can both forgive and forget, and help one of their fallen stars gain the confidence to rise. This is a noble cause, and one I am asking you all to consider: for the good of your team, for the good of your city, and for the good of each of you.
So, in the immortal words of Jerry Maguire, "Who's coming with me?"
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Nope; they know that the original comic Team X (the un-official codename for Wolverine's spy team) won't get people into theaters, which is why we are getting Gambit and Deadpool tossed into the mix.
In particular, Gambit's probably there to make up for the way they omitted him from the main X-Men films (since God forbid the movies have Gambit/Storm as a major couple, as Chris Claremont originally intended, before Jim Lee and Scott Lobdell decided to sweep Storm/Gambit under the rug in favor of shoving Rogue/Gambit down fans throats).