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kidman used a swinging neckbreaker xfactor thingie for a period of time.

That whole highlight reel (found at ironlife.com) is fantastic.

**spoilers within** Serenity "Serenity is a place that once you're in, you never leave" - Gina Torres, Firefly These are the words that Zoe says to Simon in a deleted scene found on the DVD. It's a shame that scene was taken out of the original episode since it sheds so much light into the name of the ship and the mindstate of Malcolm Reynolds. The episode begins in the midst of a battle - the Battle for Serenity valley, infact. Sgt. Malcolm Reynolds is giving his ever-shrinking numbers of troops orders as well as trying to inspire them to keep fighting, keep living, keep going on. He tells them that back-up is on its way, and that if they hold on that much longer, everything is going to be alright. He kisses his cross before he heads off from the bunker - that faith gets tested, and destroyed, when he finds out that no support will be given. In that deleted scene mentioned above, Zoe tells Simon that the Independents (her side) and the Alliance made a peace treaty and left both sides in that valley for a week before coming down to save them. What was once a squad of 2000 was widdled down to 150, all under the command of Sgt. Reynolds. (This is from memory, if I am wrong on a few numbers, correct them ). On will alone, Mal and Zoe made it. "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming" - Ellen Degeneres, Finding Nemo That is what Mal is doing. He keeps fighting, he keeps moving. He is a force. As long as his ship keeps flight, he is alive. His crew members are attracted to that strength, that force. They get power from it. I could write a novel on Mal, his character has that many complexities. He is good, he is bad, he is funny, he is tortured, he wants love, he doesn't want complications - and what is love but one, giant, complication? He is noble, he is a coward, he always does the right thing, he is a criminal. He is, what Kris Kristofferson would say, is a "walking contradiction". Why is it so important to know Mal? Well, he's the hero. If you can't like Mal, you can't like Firefly. If you don't get Mal, you don't get Firefly. Mal is lots of things, as is this show. And that's what "Serenity" is; lots of things. In 2 hours (ahem, 88 minutes), we are introduced to a whole new UNIVERSE. A universe where prostitution is not only the oldest profession, but a respected one as well. Where the last two superpowers left are the US and China; meaning people speak both languages and the Alliance flag is a merging of the Red and White stripes and the Yellow Stars. Where various planets and moons are terriformed and the Government leaves the colonists to their own devices - hence the Western Motif. This is most interestingly shown in the payment Shepard Book gives for passage on the ship; Strawberries (as well as other produce). Money is still exchanged, but bartering is just as popular. Why care about gold when you are starving? Wouldn't you rather have food (or in this case, a foodbar)? I think the biggest selling point was the humour. Wash playing with the dinosaurs was so much genius it was genious. "And I shall call this land... "THIS LAND". "She's dead" *slow motion running, Book sadly leaves room, Kaylee's hand falling, Kaylee waving* "He's psychotic" "I'm a bad man, I'm a bad man". Shooting the horse, shooting the cop, both so fucking practical. All these moments had me on the floor. This show is funnier than 99% of the comedies I've seen, legit. Whedon knows Funny, and Funny knows Whedon. Whedon also knows booking. In his commentary, he notes about the Reavers and Jaynes fear of them, "When the big tough bad guy is scared of them, then you should be". The Reavers scare me, but they scare me in the way that I want to be scared and I want to see more of them, and for me, that rarely ever happens. Review Continued later

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Introduction I have watched every episode of Firefly but "Objects in Space" - and I don't think I will ever watch that episode. I don't want this journey to end, I don't want that sense of finality, I don't want these characters to die. If I watch that episode then I've watched the whole series; It's over. Sure, I'll enjoy watching the shows again and again and again, but I will have nothing to look forward to. As long as "Objects in Space" remains unwatched, there will always be 'something' out there. That may sound a lil crazy, but that's what this show has done to me. Over the past few days I have fallen in love with Firefly. I love this show. I think I love this show in a way I have never loved another television show before. Melodramatic? Sure. The Truth? Oh yeah. The sense of satisfaction I get, the smile on my face, the pure joy I have from watching this show can only really be paralleled by my enjoyment of PRIDE - and even then, it's different. When I first heard about Firefly, I was already a fan of Joss Whedon, but I was abit skeptical on this project. It didn't "fit" into the same mold as Buffy or Angel. The commercials I saw for it didn't help matters either - as all it did was confirm what I already knew; this was a Joss Whedon show, in space. The first episode I saw - and quite frankly, only saw a little bit of it - I was clueless. I didn't know these characters, I didn't know the actors; the only attachment to this show that I had was Joss Whedon - and that doesn't go very far if I don't know who I'm watching. I really wanted to like Firefly - since I like both Joss and Sci-fi, but I didn't. Then along came Caleb and Jasmine. I didn't think Nathan Fillion was right for Caleb - he wasn't what I pictured after reading the spoilers. In the end, I ended up liking him in that role. But I loved Gina Torres as Jasmine. Torres isn't a drop-dead bombshell, but there is something about her that takes your attention and keeps it. So now I knew 2 of the Firefly crew. I had someone to cheer for. This is perhaps the biggest stumbling block in watching any show - attaching yourself to the characters and actors. I think that's probably why the Buffy and Angel fans will have the easiest transition into the show, while "outsiders" might have trouble. But I can tell you this, if you get through "Serenity", if you really force yourself to get through it even if you don't know what's going on and who the hell these people are, you should become hooked. Besides, it's not that hard to "get through" the first episode... Episode Review's coming...

But Raven is saying "The object of a match is to entertain. If they are not entertained, it was not a good match." What *I* am saying, is that things _other_ than the match itself can effect the fans' entertainment value. So how can you call the match "good" when the match itself -the content- isn't doing the entertaining. The Ja Rule/50 Cent example was the extreme case, but it applies very well. I'm not arguing Raven's points on storytelling, infact I agree with him on them whole-heartedly, but judging a match soley by the crowd's enjoyment/entertainment (saying a match is "good" because the crowd responded favourably) - is, well, wrong; because of the circumstantial/environmental/external factors.

...and it turns out the Mutants are the former townspeople and Austin has discovered a conspiracy where this corporation is creating a giant army of mutants - but must do so without anyone finding out - hence the robots. But the Mutants - with Austin's help - realize their once-lost humanity and fight against the Robots at the end.

RESULT! Via Dur Meltzenstein INOKI BOM BA YE This show is starting in just a few minutes. Rene Rooze b Tadao Yasuda :52 ref stop from punches from the mount Lyoto b Rich Franklin 1:03 of second round via knockout Aleksander Emelianenko b Angelo Araujo. If anyone has details of this, let me know. I just know Araujo was bleeding. Doc or ref stopped. Semmy Schilt vs. Josh Barnett is now in the third round. Sounds like a great match so far. Barnett got an armbar at 4:48 to keep the Pancrase title. Very exciting. Tatsumi Fujinami b Antonio Inoki in an unannounced pro wrestling match. I'm not making this up. Michael McDonald b Hiromi Amada via 2nd round knockout in :46 in a K-1 rules match. Stefan Leko KO'd Kazunari Murakami quickly under K-1 rules. Fedor Emelianenko KO'd Yuji Nagata in 1:02. These last two matches have really made New Japan look bad. Fujita is next and the feeling is right now that he has to win. Fujita saved the day beating Imamu Mayfield in the second round via a sleeper backbreaker combination submission. Fujita would only get 20 seconds on the ground before being stood up, which is why the fight lasted as long as it did. Amar Suloev b Din Thomas via ref stoppage at 4:22 Alistair Overeem b Tomihiko Hashimoto via quick knockout PRIDE SP Quinton Jackson b Ikuhisa Minowa via ref stoppage in round two Heath Herring b Giant Silva - choke at 3:05 of round three. Hayato Sakurai b Daijyu Takase via decision. Murilo Ninja b Akira Shoji with a high knee in the first round Goldberg and Naoya Ogawa had a pull-apart in a big angle for 1/4 Royce Gracie drew Hidehiko Yoshida. Gracie dominated and would have won the decision. First round even, second definitely went to Royce. Royce screwed himself by demanding no judges. Gary Goodridge b Don Frye in :39 with high kick. People were stunned by this, because people in Japan don't know how badly beaten up Frye is. Daniel Gracie b Wataru Sakata with an armbar Yuki Kondo b Mario Sperry via blood stoppage after knees Kiyoshi Tamura b Ronny Sefo by armbar in first round Antonio Rogerio Nogueira b Kazushi Sakuraba via unanimous decision in an exciting match K-1 DYNAMITE Kristof Midoux b Tom Howard Genki Sudo b Butterbean (well, that's a relief) Masayuki Naruse b Jan Nortje (finally a pro wrestler wins) Predator b Mauricio Silva in 13 seconds Yusuke Fujimoto b Francois Botha (No details other than a decision, but a former heavyweight champion boxer losing to a kickboxing prelim guy) Francisco Filho b Toa the Samoan Beast via split decision Ernesto Hoost b Montanha Silva via unanimous decision Yoshihiro Nakao b David Khakhaleichivili when Dave tapped due to exhaustion. Alexey Ignashov b Shinsuke Nakamura. Whatever I wrote about the Nagata fight goes triple here. Bob Sapp b Akebono via first round Ko

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED "Out of Gas", I couldn't get the smile off my face when watching it. Spoiler (Highlight to Read): Wash with a mustache - BRILLIANT~!. Jayne turning on his crew for better pay - BRILLIANT~! Kaylee getting fucked by the old mechanic - not so brilliant. I didn't picture Kaylee as a slut, hmph! There goes that. And the way they weaved the flashbacks together was amazing - never messed up the flow once. And the beginning with them sitting around the table = when the big-ass grin on my face began. When Mal was lying on the hospital bed at the end = the big ass grin still there. That is certainly a must-see episode.

I dunno if anyone has mentioned this yet, but how does Paul Heyman get to place Benoit as #1 when it's a JOINT rumble? Doesn't that place Smackdown at a disadvantage? Which means no WM main event... Does he get to have #30 as well?

Which is basically what I hated about it. I like Sci-Fi, but I don't like westerns. Still, I gave it a try, went "bleh", and moved on. I don't like Westerns either and the first time I saw the show I was like "eeeeh, I dunno bout this" - then I saw Mal and Zoe on Buffy and Angel and caught it again in re-runs up here and have now come to enjoy the Western element. I can suspend all sorts of disbelief for sci-fi, but one where EVERY FUCKING WORLD is back to the era of the western. It's not every. In Ariel they go to Ariel, which is a core planet (meaning, one they actually developed) and it's high tech and whatnot. In Trash, they go to a planet that has colonies suspended in ships above water. They occasionally go to planets like these, and it's a bit of a treat when they do, but Mal likes to keep on the fringe and avoid 'places like those'. This is the opposite end of the Trek scale, where I hate that everything is happy happy (which may explain why I like DS9 the best out of the Trek series). It's happy happy? Admittedly, Joss has said that he lightened up the show due to Fox saying it was too dark and needed more humour, but it still certainly has it's darker elements. The Alliance/BlueSun/River 'thing' and the Reavers definitely aren't happy happy. Me, I like Happy Happy, so when those moments do happen I feel all warm inside. Joss has made it quite apparent when you listen to his commentary on "Serenity" that he wanted it on the opposite end of the Trek scale. But the main thing here was that none of the main characters really appealed to me - I didn't think that any of them were particularly likeable. And when you have that lack of connection to the show, you're gonna tune out That was definitely the main reason I couldn't get into it the first time. There's no reason for you to watch the show if you don't know any of the cast members. There's no reason for you to cheer Mal Reynolds. Then he showed up on Buffy as Caleb - so I got to see more of him - and the next time I was watching out for him, I had an "in". Now that I've watched the series, I can't imagine anyone NOT liking his character - I think you're crazy.

Yes, RRR they built off a prior match by having the side backbreaker that Triple H uses almost exclusively against Shawn back into play. But this time (much more intelligently than the last), the back work didn't last half as long and was basically broken up by Shawn battling back and colliding with the ringside steps with his shoulder. So coupling that with Shawn actually being in a ring many times already and knowing that his back isn't going to shatter with a common move it looks like you're complaining about the fact that he bumped. No, I'm complaining because in all of his previous matches the back work meant NOTHING - why would this time be the exception? That's the price you pay for no-selling; it limits anyones (besides the HBK mark who pops for anything HBK) emotional investment in that work since they know it won't go anywhere. I saw the backwork, again "been there, done that, don't care", I went back to watching the DVD. Because you don't like a wrestling match with Triple H and Shawn Michaels in it based more on principle than on the actual action. No, it just takes more to get me into it. I praised Michaels/Jericho RAW, to an extent (hated the finish, enjoyed some of the mat work in the beginning). As for HHH vs. HBK matches exclusively, there's nothing "there" for me to get into. There's no reason other than being a HHH or HBK fan to watch these matches. Insert Benoit into Shawn's role here and we all know just how much you'd be creaming your shorts. I didn't really enjoy Benoit/HHH as much as most people do, so I dunno bout that. There's reason for me to cheer Benoit, there's no reason for me to cheer Michaels - to get behind Michaels - so you might have something here. You'd be wrong. This was a marked improvement on the Hardcore match with better selling and more interesting transitions. The pacing was also much improved. Nah. People always overrate Michaels' matches. Whether it be the Hardcore match, or his match with Jericho at WM, or his Survivor Series performance. If I watched this, I'd be disappointed in it, then bitch about it for a long time, and people would start crying and there'd be the whole mess.

Did anyone listen? That was, without doubt, the greatest interview I have ever heard on Professional Wrestling. Ole did not like Dave. Ole mocked Dave. Dave did not like Ole. They discussed pro wrestling. The rest, as they say, is histo-fucking-ry. Thoughts

Hopefully. So Benoit goes the whole way to the final 3 just to be eliminated by Brock (cheating) - thus setting up Brock vs. Benoit at NWO. Angle winning perhaps? Benoit/Angle at WM. *Giggles*

Ok, what I'm thinking is that Steve Austin is a trucker. And he comes home after a cross-country trip and something happened, something bad, and everyone is different. It's not the same place he left. And there's this guy, Jacob, and he's new. And Austin - let's call him Treat, so that he can say "You're in for a Treat" or something - so Treat hunts him down and finds out that Jacob is a robot. Infact, the whole town is full of robots except for this one kid -really, around 20ish- who is left to his own devices. This kid, we learn, is Treats estranged son. They don't get along, right? But they have to, cause they're fighting against a common enemy. So they, like, get together and fight the robots and there's like mutants and stuff and the robots and the mutants all work for this corporation that Treat has been hauling material for for months. So Treat and his son - let's call him Trick, so they can be Trick and Treat - try to take down this corporation but it's too big. So they settle on trying to rescue Treats ex-wife, Tricks mother, from the evil robots and mutants... and she's held in a really big building... in an airport...

Austin needs a buddy. This needs to be a buddy film. Something like Tango and Cash meets 48 Hours, ya know? Kinda like a Heat meets Judge Dredd meets 48 Hours. How about a Dirty Harry meets The Big Hit meets Die Hard meets Die Hard 3 meets Lethal Weapon 4 meets 48 Hours. Ya Know? I'm thinkin a real bash'em up, I'm thinkin Robocop meets Rambo meets Commando meets Running Man meets Broken Arrow meets Kill Bill meets The Phantom meets Phantoms meets 48 hours.

I'm not so sure they know who Kidman is, so this whole premise is ridiculous.

Kwevwev?

This could be said of any cruiserweight that isn't Rey Mysterio. "Shannon Moore has expressed some fear of being cut, now that talk of January roster cuts is brewing. However, most say he's getting scared for nothing, as he is not expected to go. WWE does not have a problem with him, and are very happy with his bumping against larger superstars like Big Show and Matt Morgan." "Ultimo Dragon has expressed some fear of being cut, now that talk of January roster cuts is brewing. However, most say he's getting scared for nothing, as he is not expected to go. WWE does not have a problem with him, and are very happy with the response he receives on House Shows and on Velocity tapings." "Jamie Knoble has expressed some fear of being cut, now that talk of January roster cuts is brewing. However, most say he's getting scared for nothing, as he is not expected to go. WWE does not have a problem with him, and are very happy with his chemistry with WWE diva Nidia."

Well, I heard Batista brought the Alcohol and Orton brought the Vaseline.

He can be that which he feared so much.... Kweewee.

Is anyone, really?

HHH was offered a management position. Under Steph. He took it... and got SQUASHED! Cause she's so fat! That's why he's fat! Cause she turned him into goo! God, this is funny. You guys just don't know it yet. Give it time, you'll laugh.

*shrugs* Is there anything interesting going on to warrant wanting to see Smackdown Spoilers? I, for one, don't really care to see Bob Holly dominate television, Chris Benoit getting buried further down the card, John Cena and Big Shows revolutionary title feud with no title, and The Cats quest for a dance partner.

That showed her. *Puffs up Chest* *Struts around* *Continues to kill whatever joke it was that I killed before*