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    Why do they insist on the most contrived ways to put in the 'comic drawings from the future' plot device into every season? The rest of the ep was good, but surely the writers can invent better ways to create suspense than that old trick.

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    I thought it was awesome, they've basically ditched any notion of trying to make the show watchable for the average viewer. It's all just fan-service for the uber Lost watchers now, and that's probably the only way you can tell a story as convoluted as this.

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    I'm an Aussie watching the election intently too. American politics is so much more important to the world than any other country.

     

    Though, you have a horrible voting system. In Australia we mark boxes on paper ballots, they're counted by hand on the same day and we have results by 9pm. I saw one U.S voting ballot that required you to connect the head and the arm of an arrow to your candidate of choice, and those ones where you punch holes are just retarded. Anyway, go Obama.

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    Raimi was going to do the next 3 films, but he might not come back because of Sony / Marvel fucking him over creative wise to produce that clusterfuck of a film with Spider-Man 3 courtesy of the whole Venom fiasco.

     

    Venom's rush-job was the fault of the studio, but Raimi deserves complete blame for the miserable crap that was Spider-Man 3. He was the director of that scene where Emo Peter walks down the street and dances, right?

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    In fairness, it should be noted that (thanks mostly to early wins in California and New York) she is only trailing Obama by about 120 delegates.

     

    Of course, that doesn't explain why New York gets 232 delegates and Texas gets 193, when Texas has almost 5 million more people living in it. Man, the DNC has some stupid rules.

     

    Because New York has more Democrat voters per capita than Texas. Makes sense that you'd favour the states that favour you when selecting a candidate to represent the party. You do it strictly by capita and a red-state Democrat's vote is going to be worth more than any other.

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    I think it would have been better to start the Season with an episode like this. The only problem is you lose the mindfuck twist with Kensei popping up as Adam, but it would have been just as fun to introduce him as Adam in Ep #1 and then reveal him as Kensei in a later episode.

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    Good lord, this show has taken such a turn to the lame. The only compelling storylines are the Group of 12, Noah and the Petrellis. Everything else remotely interesting is ruined by some of the worst dialogue recorded on to film.

     

    'I'm sorry I can't fix your dreams.' - Just kill Micah. Please.

     

     

    Luckily, it had a 619, giving Heroes a one week respite.

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    Why not a nice old massive stable? Taking aside the shock TV, the Attitude era was powered in part by The Corporation. It gave Austin guys to feud with, gave the rub to Mick Foley when he joined and was kicked out, set the stage for The Rock's heel turn and also feuded with dX and The Undertaker. Look at the nWo, The Hart Foundation, The Alliance, The Horsemen. Say what you will about how those stables ended, they did make some compelling television.

     

    RAW needs an over-arching storyline, something beyond Cena's feud of the month.

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    This is the most beautiful piece of ratings news in a long time. For comparison's sake, here's a WCW Nitro from the 30th of October 2000 that also drew a 2.5.

     

    # October 30, 2000: World Tag Team Champions, Mark Jindrak and Sean O'Haire, b Billy Kidman and Rey Mysterio, Jr, Hardcore Champion, Reno, b Kwee Wee, M.I. Smooth b David Flair, Lex Luger b Buff Bagwell, Kronik b Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo, Ernest Miller b Cruiserweight Champion, Mike Sanders, World Champion, Booker T. b Scott Steiner and Mike Awesome in a three way match.

     

    Reno = John Cena.

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    Yeah, it's Star Trek, just make up some pseudo-scientific bullshit, always worked before.

     

    Why are people so excited about this, and about that other "Cloverfield" thing JJ Abrahms is doing? Upon a quick check, it turns out that Abrahms actually has relatively little experience as a director. He directed only two or three episodes each of the various shows he "created". The only movie he's ever done was Mission Impossible III, which lost money at the box office. And he's written some REAL shit in his time: we're talking the Armageddons and Gone Fishings of the world. And then there's Lost, which I've never watched, but even its most hardcore fans seem to all say that it took the biggest nosedive in quality in the second season since Twin Peaks. Why does this guy have such a hot reputation?

     

    MI:3 didn't lose money at the box office, it performed quite well. It was just the revenue sharing arrangement between Paramount and Cruise/Wagner productions saw Paramount's share reduced, which is why they ended their partnership with Cruise.

     

    As for J.J. - he's created/co-created two decent television hits (Alias and Felicity) and 1 mega-hit (Lost). Season 2 was a let-down, but attributing that blame solely on J.J's shoulders (when his involvement is limited compared to Cuse and Lindelof) is a little rough. You mightn't like Armageddon, but it was a successful genre pic that made a pantload of cash.

     

    His reputation is that he's one of Hollywood's most creative talents. People don't consider him a genius director, but he has a way of creating some very well-received and unique stuff.

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    I also believe if Sting got a clean 3-count over Hogan at Starrcade, it would have been the most perfectly executed angle in modern wrestling. The fact it was kept so hot, with over a year and a half of build (with 2 hours of Nitro to fill every week) is amazing.

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    Can't find a video, but the deal is that the nWo hired a Sting look-a-like to do dastardly stuff. The WCW guys thought it was the real Sting, leading to Sting getting all emo and indecisive. That came to a climax at Fall Brawl '96, when The Fake Sting entered on the nWo side, only for the real Sting to enter next, beat the shit out of Fake Sting and then leave his WCW buddies. It was only really at Uncensored '96, where he took apart the nWo and then pointed the bat at Hogan, that he showed he was with WCW.

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    And be sure to play The Fall mod for TEW07 (available on this page) and the soon-to-be-released After The Fall, made by ME~!

     

    As for the up-to-date real world data, yeah, T-Zone is pretty average. It has a lot of fans for the simple fact that is has pretty much every wrestler in the world, but in terms of working with the game itself, 1RC is much better. The 3-Way brand split pretty much dooms the WWE in any game, though.

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