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Alright, this looks like Yet Another Neverending Debate, so let me make a point right here: Joss Whedon is an ordinary mortal human being. He is not the God Of Writing, nor are any of his staff. He makes mistakes, writes plot holes, forgets continuity, and sometimes chooses to go with a weaker plotline instead of a stronger one. Simple fact is that in this season of Angel, much like season 7 of Buffy, the show's creators have simply forgotten to tie up a LOT of loose threads. (Being told 2/3rds of the way thru "Oh by the way, we're canceling the show, this is your last season" couldn't have helped, either.)

Anyone know if the show was recorded for commercial release?

Hell yes, nobody's stolen my line yet: Wasn't one Virtua Boy enough?

"Will" is probably a reference to goodhelmet. Oh, and to finally close this argument: if there was no Dames, there would be no TSM.

Yep, at some point or another, I've worked on a show that has done all of the above, or something close enough to it. I've been on some shit shows in my time. Then again, I live and work in Tennessee, so I'm not really suprised. Why do so many of the entries name a specific person? I've never heard of Jason Gant, Dale Williams, Marcus Dillon, Mister Saint Laurent, or almost any of the others listed here.

That finish happens at least once a night on almost every indy show I've ever seen. Trust me, it gets old eventually. Oh yeah, and I'm DAMN tired of seeing "babyface fights out of a chinlock, shoots two or three elbows into the gut, hits the ropes, ducks a clothesline and a back elbow, sunset flips the heel, heel kicks out, gets up and waffles babyface with a clothesline" as a hope spot. I mean, sometimes I'll see it four or five times a night. Some guys just never bother to try anything new.

Oh yeah, I daydream about doing heroic shit all the time. Of course, that's all a subplot to my general rage and loathing at God and the universe for how life as we know it has been constructed and corrupted, but anyway.

"Selling out" is a modern myth. Hell, before the 20th Century, musicians HAD to "sell out" if they wanted anyone to actually hear their music. They had to get a wealthy patron or sponsor to pay them to put on the performances of their art. It wasn't until the invention of recorded music (and telecommunication helped too) that musicians even thought about just making music for music's sake, instead of trying to make money off it.

In the original book, Hyde was a completely normal human guy. He was just ugly, and a selfish murderous piece of shit. It wasn't until later movie bastardizations that he turned into Mr. Hulk.

Okay, time to poke a few holes in this whole "soul/love" debate. Let's face it, Joss & Co. have been really vague and slipshod when it comes to telling us exactly what a "soul" is, and exactly what it does. For example: let's contrast Angel and Spike, with and without souls. Angel (with soul) is a very nice guy. Sweet, loyal, good-hearted, and constantly racked by guilt over every single thing he's ever done. However, remove the soul, and you instantly get Angelus, the most heartlessly evil, selfish, and manipulative sonofabitch to ever grace a TV screen. The transformation is so drastic that it's almost like they're evil twins instead of the same person. (This is hardly the only time this happens, either; MANY times on the show we've seen a good person get vamped and turn evil.) Spike, on the other hand, is a very different case. When Spike got ensouled, he hardly changed at all. He's still the same old Cockney asshole who likes drinking, womanizing, getting into fights, and harassing Angel. Throughout the runs of Buffy and Angel, it's been made abundantly clear that Spike only does bad things when he's being acted on by an outside force, whether he's complying with them (Dru) or rebelling against them (Buffy). So, if a soul is SO important that it can change Angel into a completely different person, then why is Spike damn near identical with or without one? Also, consider other soulless beings who still weren't "evil" in the truest sense. Harmony was never evil; she was just dumb as a rock and really susceptible to evil peer pressure. She usually tried to do what she thought was right, even without a soul. And another thing: demons don't have souls, right? Well then, what about Doyle, Lorne, Clem, demon Anya, Groosalug, and any of the other various non-human white hats? According to their own show's continuity, they should be lacking in the soul department (would Doyle have half a soul?) and therefore evil, but they weren't. All in all, the "soul" argument is hard to debate, just because of the poor writing job by everyone involved. And finally, about Spike trying to "rape" Buffy: no, he wasn't. He had no idea that Buffy really didn't want him this time. Okay, she insults him, says no, fights him; how does that differ at all from any of their usual foreplay? It seems like they two of them couldn't fuck unless they'd first argued with each other and gotten into a fistfight. Spike really thought they were just going through the usual routine. When he finally realized they weren't (it took him a minute, he's not the most observant guy in the world), he got up and left, and felt so guilty about it that he went halfway around the world to get beaten half to death just to get his soul back to try and make it up to Buffy.

. . . That sounds like one of the weirdest Japanese wrestling cards in history. A barbed-wire bat, run-ins, and Mr. Socko... in an AJPW Triple Crown title match with Kawada?! Jeez, and people bitch about Mutoh being too "sports entertainment". I gotta see this one on tape to believe it.

I'm number... ::looks at this post, then EDITS:: ... 60. Wow. Didn't know I was THAT established(~!).

I dunno about this one. I remember reading an interview one time, where Frank Miller stated that all in all he preferred Robocop 3 over part 2 and thought it was a better movie overall. Let me say that again: he liked part 3 better than part 2. You've all seen part 3, haven't you? Clearly Frank Miller turns into a raving retarded lunatic whenever the subject of Robocop is brought up.

Except in the original novel, Dracula DID go walking around in daylight. And he was killed by a throat-heart double stabbing, not by a wooden stake.

Rosie vs. New Jack.

I kinda sorta liked Rambo, especially with my Game Genie lending me the assist. But damn, sometimes it was a bitch and a half to figure out where to go next. One of the more confusing games I've ever played. Oh, and that "get the prisoner and then jump through the wall" trick that got printed everywhere was really bullshit, I NEVER got it to work.

Back on subject, I got one word for this whole situation: good. The only way it could've been better is if Ashton had been knocked into the pool and drowned. And when I'm giving props to sentimental hacks like the BEP, you know they did something cool.

One classic version of this was the Lunchlady Song, where Sandler was obviously having the battle of his life trying not to crack up at every single thing that Farley was doing. I remember an ooooooold skit with the original cast where similar things happened. John Belushi and Original Cast Token Black Dude (I can never remember his name) are burglars robbing an apartment, but they keep running into random witnesses and killing all of them. The dubbed gunshot sound effects are WAY offtimed throughout the entire sketch, and about half the cast is lying on the floor, trying to pretend to be dead, while laughing uncontrollably the whole time.

There've been so many gimmicks used by managers now that pretty much all of the decent ones have been taken already. I tried to use a golf club for a little while during my managing stint, but the damn things are so flimsy that they always broke the first time you barely tap a guy with it.

I actually just played this one about a month ago. And yeah, it's not very good. The main problem is that your character starts out way too weak to possibly beat the shark. Even the mini-sharks take forever to kill with just Level 1 spears. So you have to sail around forever saving up the little tokens to level up to at least 3 or 4 to have a decent chance of killing it. But then, just when you've finally got enough juice to whack the damn shark, you'll blunder into some jellyfish or something stupid and die, having to start the level-up process all over again. Oh well. At least it was better than Total Recall.

McDowell was 27 when he played Alex in the original, and he already looked a bit weathered for the part; more like a rampaging college dropout than a punk kid like in the original book. McGegor, on the other hand, is already 33; he's playing the "older veteran mentor" part of Obi-Wan already. I think he's way too old for the part.

Well, the problem is that it was several months ago and they weren't hammering out many details, so I'm really mostly as in the dark as everyone else. But yeah, I'd say they'll probably be running shows elsewhere.

Agreed. Long-time readers of the website won't find much new in the book. N00bs who don't know the dark, depressing, hilarious history of bad wrestling might find it interesting, however.

Personally, I absolutely hated the original movie and think it's one of the most overrated of all time, but that's a whole 'nother argument there. As for the remake, my first thought on reading about it was: isn't Ewan MacGregor a bit old to be playing a teenaged juvenile delinquint?

I've been sitting here for a minute trying to think of a way to say this without sounding like a bragging egotistical bastard and/or liar, and still haven't figured it out. Oh well. Here goes. This deal is for real. I know because I was there sitting right next to Ted when it was first started. (And he was talking to Court on my cell phone. In fact, he used my phone that whole damn week. Maybe I should've copied down a couple of the numbers...) But basically, the simple concept they both want is for Ted and Court to run a wrestling show together where guys can have fun and actually get paid, which seems to be getting more and more rare on the indy circuit these days.