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You should also type out the title in your post. These jpegs are gonna eventually turn into red x's, probably sooner than later.

Doubtful. In the earliest Desdmond flashbacks from several years ago, Whidmore was already a long-established billionare and had a daughter and all this other stuff which implies he'd never lived on the island. No. No it doesn't. That's the general rule of thumb with this show. Seriously, we're done with four out of six seasons, and about 5% of the mysteries have ever been explained. I've come to believe that we're never going to get answers on even half of this shit. The longer the show goes, the more it looks like it's pulling an X-Files and they brought up a bunch of questions without ever bothering to figure out the answers first.

Alright, it's been twelve hours, go ahead Mole whenever you get here. You were really worried about someone picking Rashomon first? I know it's a great and influential film, but it's not exactly like a Pulp Fiction in terms of its popularity in this generation. There are a few other Kurosawa films I might consider picking, but I'm jumping on stuff more likely to be grabbed by someone else first.

Gimme high 60s, medium humidity, partly cloudy weather and I'll be as happy as... uh... as... happy as a pale fat Southern guy in high 60s, medium humidity, and partly cloudy weather.

The main reason for me was that it had by far the worst acting and the least likable characters. The majority of the movie was spent watching these pricks be angry and depressed, endlessly screaming obscenities at each other while never seeming to actually do anything constructive or helpful. And they really got into that screaming, with vein-popping, eye-bugging, shoulder-shaking yelling at maximum volume about every five seconds. Way, way too much angry yelling between dumbasses I didn't nothing like. Plus, there was just not enough zombie stuff, less than in all the other movies (although they did admittedly go all-out with the gore effects in an unprecedented manner in the limited amount of violence we did get). And the ending was almost identical to Dawn: humans fight with each other, as a consequence the zombies invade the sanctuary and kill almost everyone, few remaining survivors get away in a helicopter. It didn't do much that hadn't already been done in the previous movies.

Still, they would've counted the bodies. It's just a writer fuckup. Not everything is an intentional part of some giant conspiracy plan about the truth of the island.

For several reasons. First of all we buy more than any other country in the world, so we get a relatively sweet wholesale price. Secondly a lot of the oil is pumped out of America anyway, so we don't have to rely completely on imported gas like many smaller countries. Thirdly, a healthy chunk of the world's refineries are located here also. Fourthly, we have a tendency to blow up your country if you piss us off, especially if you coincedentally happen to be near a bunch of oil fields, so we do tend to get a "military discount" as it were.

True dat, yo. I like it when they decide to remind us just how badass Sayid is. Also: "Do you have the time?" ::thwip!:: Other cool moments: Sun going apeshit in the chopper, Ben: "So?", reappearance of Walt, and Desmonny reuniting. Having discussed the matter with a friend, I've come to agree that they couldn't possibly be doing something so fucking stupid as writing Locke out of the series, so I've calmed down a bit. Also, anyone noticed how Jack seems to have miraculous powers of resurrection with his CPR? This is, like, the fourth time he's brought someone back from the dead with it.

I'm picking this one first, because it's so personally important to me that I'd have to fite any poser who tried to get it before me. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Damn it Charlie Kaufman, get out of my brain. Jim Carrey plays me, Kate Winslet plays the girl I most regret having lost. And even aside from a bunch of eerie similarities to my life, it's just a damned amazing, beautiful, joyous film. Better than the best.

Yeah, but every interview with the creative staff has said that season 5 will be all about getting back to the island. They never once mentioned focusing on anything that happened in between. I know damn well that Locke might not be gone. But then again, he might be. I hope not. But the fact that they're even willing to tease us with the idea of it doesn't exactly make me happy. Locke is the kind of backbone cast member that if you're gonna kill him, you kill him at the end, not two years before.

Yeah, I know they do like some occasional Marvel Comics "he was only mostly dead" crap on Mystery Smoke Monster Love Triangle Island. But if he's no longer going to be one of the primary characters, my caring about this series has just took a pretty serious hit. And even if he shows up in some flashbacks or comes back later, he still looks pretty fuckin' dead right now. One of the things I hated the most about Lost is how they constantly kill off characters prematurely before getting the most value out of them or even giving them a decent arc. And now that they've seemingly done that to my single most favorite character on the whole show, why should I continue to watch? I reiterate that the rest of the episode kicked so much ass that it came back around the other side and kicked balls as well. But I can't stress strongly enough how much the very idea of two more seasons without Locke pisses me off.

I was never rowdy like that in movie theaters when I was a kid. I realized real quick that you're supposed to sit there quietly and watch the movie. So I got zero sympathy for anyone who can't figure that out. And people who fuck around with laser pointers have gotta be some of the most annoying assholes on the planet. I think chucking the candy at 'em once they were behaving was gratuitous, but I got no problem with anyone saying anything to little snots like that to get them to settle down and not ruin it for everyone else.

For one hour, fifty nine minutes, and fifty seconds, I was loving all this. Then I saw who was in the coffin, and my interest in this series shrivelled up and died. Locke was easily, by far, without question or competition, the single greatest character on this whole show. And he's dead? Fuck Lost.

Apparently the AM Raw recap show beat Thursday Night Impact in ratings last week. That's gotta suck.

This isn't making a mountain out of a molehill. It's making a mountain out of the Grand Canyon. IT'S JUST A GODDAMNED SCARF. Now nobody's allowed to wear any scarves for any reason ever? This has got to be the dumbest something-outta-nothing controversy I've seen in recent memory.

I'll do it. And hey, premature ejaculator, wait til we're officially rocking the boat here.

I never understood what was good about the political commentary in Day. The soldiers are all screaming macho assholes with hot tempers and low IQs. The civilians are all fairly calm rational people who just want to do what's best and act in an intelligent manner. So in response the soldiers scream at them for hours and then finally try to kill them. Where's the satire in that? It's the same kind of shrill one-note shit that ruined 28 Days Later for me towards the end; what kind of a message is "all soldiers are raping murderers"? Also, Romero could've had the $7 million if he'd just agreed to turn in an R-rated picture. Yeah, he would've had to cut down on the gore, but I've always found it odd that he insisted that heavy gore was more important than four millions dollars.

No, he was a perfectly competent wrestler. But he was also an undercard nobody who was being pushed way past his popularity level. Same thing with Mabel. I'm all for elevating new talent, but they completely bungled the execution on that night. Roadie and Sparky Plugg are in the tournament, but Jarrett and Ramon aren't? Shawn Michaels, Yokozuna, and Undertaker get eliminated in the first round? It especially didn't help that the show was in Philadelphia and had a ringside section full of ECW fans. Hat Guy was NOT impressed by King Mabel, and ten thousand more people loudly agreed with him. And the rest of the show besides the tournament sucked too. Bret Hart couldn't save the show with his match, as per usual for 1995 he was stuck in a shitty midcard matchup, this time with Lawler and a "Kiss My Foot" stipulation. And finally the show had a crappy main event, a tag team match with Diesel and Bigelow vs. Sid and Tatanka which wasn't even good on paper, much less in practice. There also weren't any title matches on the show at all, no titles defended whatsoever. I'm not bothering to check, but that might be the very first time that had ever happened on a pay-per-view. It was definitely the first PPV in over a year and a half where the World title wasn't defended. GAB 91 wasn't completely worthless. The Robert Gibson vs. Richard Morton match was okay. Underwhelming, since for a "turned heel on his partner after a decade of teaming" grudge match you'd think they would do something more special than a standard Work The Leg match, but it was still tolerable wrestling. And while neither of them was a blowaway encounter and the arena rang with "WE WANT FLAIR" chants, both Sting/Koloff and Windham/Luger were at least watchable. Weren't there a couple of really, really bad ECW ppvs? I recall November 2 Remember 98 being a piece of crap, but it's been a while since I've watched most of those shows so the details don't exactly spring to mind.

He's had something to do with it, but I don't know how much. One actual Mantel quote I was told by an employee, from when they first started pushing the Knockouts division: "I don't know what to do with all these corn-fed bitches!"

I people person. People like me. Because I force them to! With violence!

True dat. If you notice, Buffy's seasons usually ended at a stopping point and gave a feeling of closure. Except for maybe Seasons 4 and 6, you could've cancelled the show at the end of any of them and still felt like you'd gotten a complete story. Angel wasn't like that at all, every single one of its season finales were always a cliffhanger which led into something next year. So I guess it's kind of fitting that the ending wasn't really an end, even if it hadn't been the original plan all along. True dat, yo. Serenity was nice and all, but out of anything Whedon could possibly do in his career my biggest fanboy wish would be that he could just restart Firefly as a television series.

I think he had it a little longer than that, but I don't remember exactly who was in charge when, you had a revolving-door committee with D'Amore, Mantel, Dusty, Jarrett, Russo, and maybe some others I'm forgetting. I think the Team Canada storylines were also his baby, so it's not like the guy is always good. But still, yeah, he seems to understand the basic fundamentals of no-bullshit wrestling better than the others.

Yeah, I know. Part of it is apparently Scott D'Amore, who's like a mini-Finlay when it comes to working with the women and knowing how to get the most out of them as their agent. And whoever's in charge of deciding which girls to hire has more intelligence than anyone else in the office. But even their written storylines seem like they're a bit better than the rest of the company. Some standard Russocity creeps in there at times, overabundance of stipulation matches and some crude gimmicks, but they seem to be spared the soap opera, crash-tv idiocy which plagues the rest of the company. No nonsensical swerves on a weekly basis, no Tag Partners Who Hate Each Other bullshit, no Abyss-type storylines which just make you want to shoot someone in the back three times. It's mostly just "Chick #1 wants to beat up Chick #2" and that simplicity is beyond refreshing. It's almost like its own separate and superior wrestling show at times. Why can't the whole company be like this?

Hey, I found something which could actually make me give a shit about the Beautiful People? The fuckin' worthless Observer spoilers didn't include the new Knockout's identity, but I've seen this posted at some other sites: Holy shit, I wasn't expecting that one. I don't see how a chubby redneck like Mickie fits in with the After Midnight Express, maybe she's their paid servant and they mistreat her and stuff? Bizarrely, the last time I saw Roxxi was when I refereed a match with her and Mickie. WANT MICKIE KNUCKLES VS. AWESOME KONG. WANT NOW. (And please keep Daffney around and bring back Daizee Haze and let Cheerleader Melissa ditch the burkha and maybe consider hiring MsChif... god, how can I be so excited for a fucking TNA division?!)

I see your point. Still, I'd rather stick Storm or Tomko in the match than Roode. Better workers, more over.