DrVenkman PhD

Good review as usual... If there was ever a night to bring Celebrity Jeopardy out of the mothballs, this would be it. However I fully expect to NOT see that and instead see that awful character that enjoys hot tubs.

Jacobs wins! Jacobs wins! Jacobs wins!

Where are the boots?!!?!

I love JBL promos.

Anglesault is rolling over in his grave (or wherever banned posters end up)

What would Randy Orton's world title run be classified under? While true that he was being pushed, being placed in SummerSlam's main event did seem rather random, and in the end his title win was only used to say "ok fans, Orton won a world title, please buy him as a WM main eventer next year". I would have to classify that as "title, then push" myself and the result was poor.

Back when I was a teenager, I was sold on the NAO when they won the tag titles for no reason. They were just two random guys who had a winning streak by cheating, then ended up wit hthe tag titles. Once that happened I figured they must be "legit" and the South Park shirts were the icing on the cake. The push that followed once they won the titles was secondary to me. But that was years ago and those titles mean different things now. I think fans are more apt to rally behind someone being pushed higher up the card towards a title than a guy who wins on a fluke. Though he's not super over or anything, Paul London is a god example of someone they decided to push in 2005 by winning matches (albeit on Velocity) then gave him the title while he was on a winning streak. It's also wise to time things right... Cena got a push in 2003 and probably could have been a huge deal as champ in the fall of 2003 or summer of 2004 but is just winning it now in 2005. He's still over but there are now a lot more people that have seen through him and don't care for him. Batista started catching fire in the fall and his push to the title win was well timed, I feel.

In the spoilers on WO.com, the writer notes that WWE must be planning on teaming Nunzio and Jindrak regularly because they had matching tights and came out to "No Sleep Til Brooklyn" without the lyrics. Sucks for Nunzio that it seemingly takes some fans TWO YEARS to realize you have theme music.

I haven't played either game being discussed but from the sounds of it, Lego Star Wars 2: Episodes IV-VI would be an awesome game, no?

Reminds me of that line on Newsradio (in space) where they have late breaking news of those rebel terrorists attacking Lord Vader's death star. Interesting read.

That suplex / ringsteps spot was neat

That commercial for the WM21 DVD was neat.. showed London doing the 450 Splash form the exhibition match.

That was nice to put in the Candido graphic though I found the placement of it odd. I don't see the problem (at this time) with Jericho's booking and it being messed up as a JHawk stated in his recap... yes, he said he'd trade everything in for one more run as world champ and he lost in the 1st round. He also lost to Benjamin last night. He's turning heel, is he not? Pretty much the same way Eddie did. If he doesn't turn heel then he's been jobbing for no real reason and I'll agree. 2 more weeks and Benjamin will overtake Orton's IC title reign's legnth. Go Shelton!

I need some clarification about WGN... In the early 90s the cable company here (in Southern Ontario) offered 4 "Superstations" that you needed a PPV decoder for (which we had to get the debuting PPV, SummerSlam 92)... WGN (Chicago), WSBK (Boston), KTLA (L.A.) and WTBS (Atlanta / Nationwide). By the mid 90s 3 of these stations were uncessary as WGN and KTLA had both become WB affiliates and WSBK became UPN. They were just showing the same shows we could get on the WB station from Detroit with minor differences (KTLA being time-shifted by 3 hours and different syndicated programming). By 1998 we no longer subscribed to these channels (TBS had shifted into the premium block of cable cable channels and didn't require the decoder) and by 2000 they were removed from our cable's analog cable package offerings all together. So I'm either not correctly remembering WGN outliving it's usefulness as an independant superstation or things have changed and I'm out of the loop.

I was hoping Booker would beat him at Survivor Series but when that didn't happen, I just accepted he would be champ until Mania and hopefully drop it there. Funny thing, as Mania was getting closer and I knew JBL would be winning all the time anyway, I just accepted the fact I enjoyed his heel work... this would be aroudn the Rumble. By Mania I didn't even want him to lose (not due to Cena, but in general) and the $100 JBL bill won me over some more. Now I'm thrilled that he still carries the WWE title around.

The XBL download that allows you to play the game online also fixes that. Speaking of which, ran in to Mr. Blaenwing online the other day but a poor connection caused an ealry match abort... or perhaps he was scared off by The Mountie

Really the thing I want to see is the ECW pieces on the Monday Night Wars, where they show a complete Raw and Nitro

Up yours haters who said the show would bomb.

No, I don't have the headset yet. I need to get a money order from the bank to cover shipping them mail my coupon. As far as I've seen you don't need to change the difficulty, but maybe that'sa glitch. The only time I had to change it is for "Defeat a Legend", where doing so without being on Legend difficulty did nothing. Everything else worked fine on Amateur.

I accepted your invite Matt but by the time I did the session was invalid... I was in the middle of making the Southern Ontario title when it came. That belt is now gone. I have a few concerns with the online aspect but so far it's been fun, especially when I did a CAW match. 1. CAW's are just labeled "Superstar". No big deal but a bit odd. 2. I'm trying to make a belt to be defended among friends but that doesn't seem possible unless I'm doing it wrong. Do I have to alert them before hand that I'll be on the championship list and they can challenge me, or does the invite to a match once you register your belt work? 3. Going along with the above, unless you can actually create a title match rather then challenge / be challenged, can you not use CAWs? The odd thing I noticed with that was the last title match I had was set to Game camera mode while most have been Broadcast, making me think somehow you can adjust the settings. Sadly anytime I registered my title and created a match and invited people, they were all busy and the test never got completed. I look forward to losing to all of you as The Mountie soon, title on the line or not. Question for anyone that doesn't suck and has won a title match: Do you get to see the belt you won once you win it? What happens if/when you "unify" it? I thought I had a title match won when I had a guy beaten into red damage and hit him with the Angle Slam, but that didn't even get a one count. I was then put into a bearhug and submitted in about a second. The guy either has crazy fingers or a turbo controller of some sort. And AndrewTS: Yes, if you download the patch for the game, it erases your CAWs and career progress.

My biggest concern was the show would be cancelled soon after it was brought back, either because Fox didn't like it or it wasn't drawing the ratings they wanted. This press release (from over a week ago, just saw it now) gives me hope the revival will suceed. " This time around, the Fox network's parent, the News Corp., says ratings are not as big an issue since the company's business model is built around license fees from cable and from sales of new DVDs and merchandise."

I wasn't going to cheat and watch it but then I decided, hey, I've waited this long, I deserve to watch it now (also I'll be watching the PPV on May 1st). Man that was good. The best gag was GI Joe but the opening was really good too. Funny thing though - lots of minor characters appeared, but none of the supporting neighbour characters did. I look forward to seeing them again soon.

DrVenkman21

Anytime I've fallen off the cell, selling has been better than SD!'s, thought really that could mean you stay down for 3 seconds. Ladder selling, on the other hand, is not good. I really dislike ladder matches in this game, normal matches are the best way to go.

Online play was slighty to very laggy when I played but it's the first day... hopefully it becomes less lagged in the future. It was fun. Quick warning if it's not too late: If you are far into your career mode you may wish to hold back on getting patched... in order to install it, your CAWs (and thus your career progress) are deleted.