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What questions?

Yeah, nothing's happening at all. (Are you WATCHING the show?)

Which was against the person he's dedicating the match to. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wearing a shirt that says "I'm your Papi".

Just a hippy.

If it's said to Jack, we're talking about the same guy who followed his dad around to the coffin, so it will be interesting to see his reaction. I think the Canadian one was better, just cause it made me go HOLY SHIT, and the American one made me go "We get to find out about Kate".

The ABC preview had Kate saying "Do you believe in Ghosts?" while they were showing her looking at the airplane toy. Sawyer said "I love her" kinda sleepishly and Jack said "You mean Kate?" Something happened in the hatch. Sawyer is gone from his bed, there's evidence of a ruckus in the room. Kate cries a lot. "What's goin on?" "I'm sorry" "Are you?" Jack grabs Kates arm.

They can try to reason it as being "dangerous" (which it is), but most sports are dangerous. NASCAR has way more deaths than MMA. Football and Hockey have more serious injuries than MMA. So it doesn't really fly if they're not criticizing other sports. I think the issue is psychological. The cage. The gloves. The fact that there's no padding. People ignore the realities in other sports because the players have padding so "they're not really getting hurt", while MMA just has the tiny 5 ouncers. But since MMA seems more violent, to them, it is more dangerous.

HOLY SHIT!

That was amazing.

They shoulda had cast commentary. Actually, they should have loaded it with commentary. Commentary 1: Joss Whedon Commentary 2: Fillion, Tudyk, Staite, Baccarin Commentary 3: Whedon, Fillion, Glau

It's hard to determine where the WWE rating _should_ be. The average WWE rating is 3.88. But that's not really indicative of what they've actually been getting (the reality). Three (3) 3.6 Three (3) 4.0+ (4.0, 4.4, 4.5) One (1) 3.4 One (1) 3.9 You can look at it like they _should_ be getting over 4.0 because about a third of the time they get above 4.0. Or you can look at it like they should be getting 3.6 because a third of a time they're getting 3.6. The 4.0's have been around extraordinary circumstances, so I don't think that's really what they'd regularly get. I think a range of +/- 0.3 in this day and age around a 3.6 rating is the most realistic. WWEs ratings have been nothing but sporadic, which is why the range is so huge. In a few months, that will probably go down as ratings stabilize.

Belief/Faith. Inara talks about The Operative being dangerous because he believes in what he's doing so strongly. Book telling Mal the only way he can beat someone like that is to believe in something more strongly. The thing I didn't really buy the first time was Mal so strongly wanting everyone to know the message. But the message was pretty huge, and it got across better the second time. "Are you willing to die for that belief?" "Yes I am".

And... you.. forgot... to... PREFACE... it... with... SICK... and.... TIRED...

The quicker Kurt is out of wrestling, the less dead he will be in the near future. I'd celebrate if the WWE fired him.

Saw it twice in theatres as well. Just again last week, actually. Just as good as the first time, but I still think the beginning isn't very good and it still does pick up after the Inara talk. The big theme was more understandable to me this time, and it made a lot more sense (not that it didn't make sense before, but the scope of it got across better) and I noticed more lil things the second time around. Jayne holding the Blue Sun bottle/jug for instance. Weird thing this time around,

Good episode. Pretty uneventful in terms of the drama, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. I like Christopher, but I like Luke more, so until Christopher gets remarried he will be danger and I can't have that. Michel greeting Rory was gold. I love the out-of-character moments from him, cause you know he wanted Rory back as much as anyone else did. The stuff with Paris was more formality than anything, but it would have been nice to get a classic Paris moment since everything else was toned down. The stuff with the notes was good. Kirk does Tai Chi. This show is amazing in how it parallels things. Luke with Christopher, in this case. And the characters usually come out better for it, understanding what the other went through and junk. Rory and Lorelai swapping Horror stories was great.

Are you attempting to make PDP fans out of us? ...Cause its working.

You have no idea how hard it was.

I thought "And there is no such "industry-wide directive" to be on steroids." was the height of the dumbfuckery.

Is Sally Struthers available?

How much does a clue cost? We should start a fund.

If they get lucky, they have 4 shows between PPV's. When you factor-in after math and the hard-sell, it's really 2 shows to let things develop. That's about 160 minutes (4 x 40) to build for a 180 minute (3 hour) show. And there's about 20-30 wrestlers to get over during that time. The show can't get going like that, it can't build a following. Most of the audience doesn't even care about the PPV at this stage in the game, which is reflected in their post-PPV rating.

They could have the best writing team on the planet, they still will have to deal with writing in the confines of an hour-long show and a PPV every month.

*Inserts comment about having too many PPVs and how it is negatively effecting their TV*

I am *this* close to starting up a Mike Swick Appreciation Thread. http://www.myspace.com/mikeswick