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I still don't think they are going to blow up New York. The whole point of the season was to prevent its destruction.

I am still not convinced that Peter is the bomb. Peter had a whacky dream, isn't that all they are basing it on?

Because you can't leave things for fate to handle. The painting Isaac drew of Claires death, for example. The paintings don't tell truth, they simply show a moment in time. What is true one moment, may not be true the next.

The writers have claimed that each season will have its own distinct storyline that also gets completely resolved in their respective finales so I'm expecting something completely different from Season 1's story. Part of me wants to see a more 24-esque division of seasons, where there is time between seasons and we have to play a bit of catch-up. The other part of me doesn't want them to mess up the good thing they have going and totally halt it. But then again, I don't want everything to go along at LOST pace where they become Xmen in Season 3 after Season 2 just fucks around. Obviously, Sylar is going to be the main bad guy who gets it this season, and I imagine Linderman squeaks out for some of Season 2 (though it is hard for me to see McDowell stay on for an extended run) to at the very least be involved with the introduction of the season 2 threat.

I wonder what season 2 will be about? Will the Heroes all be in one place at the end of season 1 and season 2 is the fall out of what happened and decide where to go next, or will they jump right to being the xmen?

You know, when this show first came on, by now I expected them to be X-men'd and didn't really like that they were delaying it with character building crap. Now the idea of them being a team is a bit odd.

Melindas performance was tremendous. It was a superstar performance, IMO, and till this point she didn't have one. And I hated that song.

Yeah, the only interesting story is Fillions, I don't care for any of the rest.

National Treasure IS better than da the vinci code, though. I wonder, how old is Linderman?

Though, having said that above, Isaac is probably dead. They can't play that card too many times, and he was way too content with his place in the grand scheme of things to need further resolution. However, the paintings were a nice plot device that -to me- weren't getting tiresome, so his macguffins will be missed.

This episode could technically be considered a transition episode. It got things to where they needed to be without really concluding anything (cept for Isaacs story, which in this show I don't know how final that is). But SO much happened that it was much, much more than that. They answered and explained a lot of things - especially related to Linderman (who is AWESOME) but most importantly they are putting things in context - they basically say there was a first generation of mutants which comprised of Linderman, Mrs. and Mr. Pettrelli and some other folk, and how Linderman created this group which tracks other mutants, which brings us to today. This opens the doors for other things, but in this room, it puts the furniture pieces in place, so to speak, so you can enter those doors. Really, this is probably the most smartly and tightly put together show I've seen, especially on this scale.

They are hitting all the fucking marks. FUTURE EPISODE??! I love how Hiro is such an X-factor in everything.

This episode is amazing, btw.

Whole thing.

Found it on YouTube, still the funniest thing ever.

Oh come on, Tank going for a leg lock?

And Tank vs. Gary Turner is the funniest fight ever.

Watching some of the Cage Rage show and am wondering... Where is Vitor Belfort and did that man fighting under his name eat him?

The next best thing to the knockouts of the UFC? Joe Silvas reaction to them. Also, watching it "real time", good lord did that RHK come out of NOWHERE. You could see him plant his lead foot a few times, but the way he was moving his hands and kept baiting... it was clearly a conscious, strategic move.

I made NO conclusive point on Gonzaga OR Cro Cop. It was mere speculation based on some recent footage I saw and asking for clarification if that was still the case today. NO vindication awarded! As for any comments made in relation to the aforementioned Jordan/Gonzaga fight... why you gotta be such a jew?

I think the message sent here is pretty clear: When Gonzaga wants to tap gloves. You better fucking tap gloves. I am still in shock.

Gonzaga looked fucking amazing in this fight. The way he circled Mirko and struck with him, to catching the leg kick and working some great GnP. Then the fucking high kick. Seriously, Mirko was like the one guy who could have given Gonzaga problems at heavyweight. A big BJJ guy like that? forfuckinggetaboutit. BJJ is made for lil guys, so when big fuckers like that get good at it, it seriously is getting into the wrong hands (unless, of course, your name is Marcelo Garcia). That said, I am very much looking forward to Natural vs. Napao.

POH MY FUCKING GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

From Lil Jens via Insidefighting>> Team Pulver is now 3-0 vs. Team Penn. Check out what coach Jens Pulver has to say about this week's episode of The Ultimate Fighter, season 5 (TUF5). From weight cutting, Nate Diaz, Corey Hill and Jeremy Horn, now's your chance to see what Jens thinks about it all.- Editor Nate Diaz We had everything laid out as a team in terms of match ups from the beginning. Once we won the first two fights, I told Nate it was time to start cutting weight. I just remember that Nate came up to me and said he wanted to fight Emerson because that’s who was messing with him and that’s who was pissing him off. Nate said on the show that he got the sense that everyone felt Rob was one of the toughest guys. It was just the way Rob came in. He came in looking great, was in shape and really looked like he was going to take the show dead serious. The guy was ripped, he was a little specimen. The kid likes to brawl, he knocked out Chris Brennan. If people didn’t know who Rob was they were about to. I would have loved to have him fight for me. I knew what he could do and I knew what he could do wrong and I could have helped fix it. People knew he would be a tough fight. But Nate went right for him anyway and that’s why I love Nate. We all would have done it. Anybody on the team would have stepped up and fought like Nate. But the thing about Nate though is that he just never cared. You will see it as the season goes on, but he gets put to the test, an attitude test. And he shows that he just wants to be here to fight, be around his team and train and doesn’t care about anything else. He’s a great kid. I never heard a complaint out of him and the only argument he and I ever had was with him asking me if he could run more! I told him, “look just do my workout and if you have energy left I’ll never tell you that you can’t do more.” He always wanted to get his workouts in and he’s just a hard worker. I think the world of him. For me I was real excited because I knew Nick, Nate’s older brother, when he was a kid. We were both with Bob Shamrock, at “Shamrock 2000”, years ago. There was this 15 year old kid that would keep hitting the bag and keep showing up. It was Nick Diaz. Sometimes it was just me and him. Then eventually I left and went to Iowa. When I finally saw Nick again at a UFC years later I didn’t even recognize him, he was a full grown man. He saw me and said “Hey, it’s me Nick”. I thought “Ain’t little Nick no more” and it had been just 5 years. So I’ve always known Nick and when he fights its fun to watch him. When he beat (Pride lightweight champion Takanori) Gomi I was screaming at the top of my lungs. With the show, I was excited like “hey I got the little brother, I get to train him.” And Nate is just like Nick. If they like you they like you. They got to respect you, and got to feel like you respect them. A lot of people say the Diaz brothers because have a bad attitude, but you also have to look at how hard they work. The rest of my team, all they had to do was follow Nate. Nick and Nate might have attitudes but the reality is they back it up with their work. Those guys warm up for fights in their street clothes! I love it. Gabe’s drastic weight cutting measures I knew Gabe was real heavy. He said on the show that he deliberately trained 50% so I wouldn’t pick him, so I wouldn’t think much of him. But whether he did it on purpose or not, it stuck. My opinion of him was that he had no work ethic, and I was not going to be worried about him at all. I don’t care if he fights last. If we keep the hammer, we’ve got no worries. With our team, we weighed in every day. So it was like, now we got two wins, and we know our 4th fight, our 5th fight. I told my guys, “I don’t want weight to be your biggest battle.” And if you haven’t noticed, I got some big guys. Corey Hill is 6’5. My coach Toisei did a great job of checking weight. He fit in real well because he related to every body. Struggling with weight reflects on your work ethic. It says that you don’t have any. You have no desire. If your biggest battle is weight, if you spend every single day worrying about what goes in your stomach, how are you improving? You cannot be here all day every day worrying about weight. If your biggest worry is weight you shouldn’t be in this weight class, you are just a glorified 170-lb fighter trying to get TV time. It’s on your team and on your coaches to keep you on weight. But BJ only has so much power. The fighter has to do it for themselves as well. It’s like a drug addict. They are not going to make it unless they want to. If you lose to skill you can always go back and get better. But if you lose because you are tired or because of weight, then that’s directly on you. There can be no excuse, no reason, no wonder as to why you failed. Time Crunch When you watch the show they show everything happening one after the other, but I would say by this episode about a week and a half had elapsed. This season is a different structure than past seasons, I believe. It’s just one weight class and is a full tournament. The reality was that the biggest gap between fights was a 4-day gap between the start of the whole process and the first fight with Cole Miller. Once the first fight happened there was another fight every three days. The fight announcement happened, then the next day was weigh-ins and the day after was the fight. As a coach you have a lot tugging on you to try and file all these things in at the same time for your team. So the guy that had a fight coming up would have more one on one time with me, just do light grappling. The day of the fight I would let them sleep in, but the night before the guy who was going to fight would still have to come back to practice with the team even though he wasn’t working out. He could just bring a pillow and sit with by the team. For me it was all about “Team, team, team.” Team Pulver Training Routines We practiced for two hours, twice a day with a half hour to allow for putting on training gear and stuff. I got the hours I wanted for my team to practice, and every now and then the teams had to switch times. I really didn’t train much myself. I rolled a little bit and sparred a little but that was it. Now I’m training full 110% for my fight with BJ on June 23rd and I’m so physically beat up and tired. During the show I wanted to be sharp mentally every day for my guys, and I knew if I trained my BUTT off I wouldn’t be there for them. If I did the same workouts as the team I would be the one looking for the easy way out. I wanted to be the guy with the stop watch, running around the cage, fired up mentally and I wouldn’t ever have been able to do both. I knew I had plenty of time for my fight in June. Manuel gave me a couple of BUTT kickings though, and some of the other guys kicked my tail. But it wasn’t Jens Pulver time. I wanted to be mentally ready every single day for them. In between practices and fights I just spent my time at home, resting. I treated it like a training camp in any other sport. I was a coach and didn’t go out or socialize very much. When Jeremy (Horn) came he stayed with me and he would hang out, relax. I didn’t take time to party. I just played my computer games and rested, getting ready for the next day of practice. Surprise coach First I came in there with Kirk White and he’s an Olympic caliber wrestler, very intense very focused. But I knew he was also coaching wrestling at Boise State. And at the time Jeremy came in Kirk had to go back for the Pac-10 tournament. Jeremy also has a gym so I knew he couldn’t be there the whole time either. So we worked it out that we had two coaches rotating. “Tai”, Matt Pena and I were the constants. Jeremy came for 5 days. To me he is one of the greatest fighters of all time. His knowledge of the game is sick. I had just pumped the team with two weeks of wrestling, and now they had one of the best MMA coaches out there. I just did for them what I would do for myself. Jeremy showed me everything and was a big back bone of Miletich Fighting Systems. It was a real good change of pace, he did jump in there and roll with every one. “Who is Jeremy Horn?”-Corey Hill We talked about that and it was funny. During practice Corey was saying “That Jeremy Horn has a lot of knowledge is he for real?” It just showed that this kid is a sponge. He is brand new. When you see him he’s intense because he really is learning a lot of this stuff for the first time. When he looked at you and listened, he really was listening. He wasn’t caught up in the big MMA thing, that Jeremy is a living legend. It was so cool to see Corey fired up like that after talking to Jeremy. He’s new to the game and we were all captivated by the fact that Corey just wanted to learn, all day every day. It’s cool with a guy like that because he has no bad habits. I told him that “you can hit somebody with a jab before they even kick you because of your reach.” He has to learn to use his reach and hurt people with that. That way he could keep his opponent four feet away before he even got into his comfort zone of wrestling. I told him that “when they find out you can wrestle that it’s not so easy to get you down, you will be their worst nightmare.” I can’t wait to see this guy in a year. Nate Diaz vs. Rob Emerson I knew with Emerson that if provoked he’ll throw bombs but if not provoked he would only throw one punch at a time and counterpunch. I wasn’t too worried about his ground game. If I could have coached him, I would have coached him that his biggest opportunities would come in scrambling situations, but I didn’t think he would learn that on the other end. So I knew he would try one big shot, one leg kick at a time. If he’s cornered he will fight his way out of it because he’s got a lot of heart and that’s what made it a great fight. Rob is not going to quit, he’s just not aggressive. I coached my team to crush them with conditioning. To jump on them and just melt them. They were told to expect every fight to go 15 minutes. That’s one of the things I could focus on. I promised my team one thing and that was that “you will not walk into that cage and wonder if your conditioning is better than your opponent.” Like I said, Nate had asked me if he could run more to get in his five miles a day, and I told him, just trust me. Just do my workout and if you have any energy left I will never tell you “no”. After the workouts he said, “no, I’m good.” That work showed. Nate went out there and burned it up. He never slowed down and only got better as the fight went on. That’s it for this week’s Coach episode blog. Make sure to tell your friends and check back with us every Thursday night right after The Ultimate Fighter for Jens’ reaction and remember, InsideFighting gets you the scoop.

YES! Though, anything with Kit Cope getting hurt is fine by me.