RavishingRickRudo

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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.

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*

*Gives AS the Worm* *Get's a 2.99999* *Offers Canadian Chick a beer* *CC refuses* *Looks to AS* *AS nods* *Hands AS a beer and both drink while making CC feel left out and ostracized. The social situation has forced her to take the beer.* *CC is about to drink* *Quickly, Brian Robbins - who played Eric Mardian on 80's hit sitcom Head of the Class - enters and cuts a PSA teaching CC a lifelesson about drinking and peer pressure. "The More You Know" flashes on screen*

NotJames = The Man with the Plan, and I like that plan. *Smiles and shakes AS's hand* *Raises hands and makes a circle around the ring while pointing with other hand towards AS saying "He's the man"* *Clotheslines AS ala Gail Kim - therefore misses and tears bicep muscle, falls to canvas crying like little girl... takes Bag of Ketchup Chips out of pants and opens and eats... smiles and cries and laughs all at the same time* *Continues to kill joke* *laughs maniacally*

Same with my buddy who I forced to watch it. I can't name any shows on Fox right now that are on Friday nights - where, unfortunately, Firefly was saddled (no pun intended). I'll explain the premise as best I can. "It's a Western in Space" = Short Version. To expand on that: "Five hundred years in the future there's a whole new frontier, and the crew of the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity is eager to stake a claim on the action. They'll take any job, legal or illegal, to keep fuel in the tanks and food on the table. But things get a bit more complicated after they take on a passenger wanted by the new totalitarian Alliance regime. Now they find themselves on the run, desperate to steer clear of the Alliance ships and the flesh-eating Reavers who live on the fringes of space." - Back of the Box What I really like about the show is that Joss has a knack of giving you the impression of one thing - but goes in a totally different direction. For example: Spoiler (Highlight to Read): They pick up a crate off an abandoned ship - inside it looks like bars of something, you think it's gold. In the end they turn out to be foodbars. I love the universe he has created. This is no star trek, nothing comes easy, there are no replicators and there sure-as-shit ain't no Federation Values. The two villains, the Alliance and the Reavers, represent two of the more seedy side of humanity. The Alliance being the cold, corporate, government, let's-buy-a-$150-typewriter-and-give-nothing-to-the-homeless type. They are what humanity becomes when thinking about the bottom line rather than truth. For example: Spoiler (Highlight to Read): The character "Book" - a preacher - is dying, and they take him to the Alliance ship for help... well, they don't. That is until they find out that he's important and worth caring for. The Reavers, well, they fucking scare me. In the first episode they are established as a huge threat - but it doesn't really sink in until "Bushwhacked" where Spoiler (Highlight to Read): You see a survivor of a Reaver attack - someone whom they made watch as they brutally attacked and kill the rest of the crew... or as Zoe puts it "First they'll rape us to death, then they'll eat us, and take our skin and put it on their clothing.. hopefully, in that order."... and the only way he can compensate is by "becoming" like one of them, so he mutilates himself, speaks irrationally, and goes around killing folk - some pretty fucked up stuff. Really makes the Reavers seem threatening. They're a bunch of Hannibal Lectors, only more psychotic. They are the opposite of The Alliance - they are the primal side. In this universe, various planets and moons are terriformed and colonized - they are not like Star Trek where resources are unlimited; they have to start over, which is why you have the wild west motif. Makes sense, says I. It takes the original Star Trek premise further and does it in a way that doesn't talk down to you in technobabble. Which is another quirk I really like - the culture here isn't all American; there's an influx of Chinese culture. You'll hear various Chinese phrases (usually when they are mad and cursing) as well as Chinese lettering. Cultures have merged and formed a new one. I also like how they talk about the destruction of earth as an afterthought and not made it a big deal. You hear it as an off-hand comment rather than a history lesson. The names aren't "normal" but that's cool cause I actually remember them... which is actually quite amazing considering that I suck at remembering names. You have Mal, Zoe, Wash, Jayne (male), Kaylee, Book, Simon, Inara, and River. The Dickery. I love people being bastards. Spoiler (Highlight to Read): Mal has a guy down after a bloody sword fight and has his blade pointing. "Great men give Mercy" *Pokes guy in Gut* "I guess I'm just a good guy" *Pokes again* "I'm ok" The Women are Hot. Small point, but Inara is so very fuckable. Which is another fun thing about this universe - Whores (or "companions") are actually looked up to and is a respectable position (for the most part). The Camera work is really, really, um, not usual. It gets arty sometimes, and they take a lot of risks with a lot of their shots. It's not conventional and it really enhances the universe created. I really like the characters. Mal is like, fucking awesome. Nathan Fillion does an excellent job here. There's so much depth to his character, that I won't go into it. Spoiler (Highlight to Read): The scene were he tells Jayne to get up and go from the table was just fucking sweet. Joss said in the commentary that that was were he said "This guy is a star" (or something to that regard) and I totally agree. Wash is hilarious, the scene with the dinosaurs had me on the floor. I can't wait to see more of him and listen to his commentary. Jayne is the typical tough dumb guy, but he fucking owns that role so it's not so typical. "Remember, I just want you to scare him" "What? Pain is Scary" He is not the bastard with the heart of gold like Mal is; he's just a bastard. Book, River, and Inara have their gimmicks, and Book and River plays theirs really well, but Inara kinda sleeps through it... but that doesn't really matter cause she's has the aforementioned fuckability. Zoe and Kaylee are good, Kaylee has me between fucking annoying at times and that's such a sweet girl at other times. Zoe does the best she can with what she gat; and she does it well. Simon is particularly excellent.

Hey, ya went there twice.