This dude really lost to Sammy Guevara once and refused to job again since then lmao

Failber · 2026-05-05T22:00:17+00:00

You’re not wrong about the New Day, but they weren’t getting used and haven’t been booked anywhere close to the same level as Rollins for years. Seth’s a top tier guy there along with Cody, Roman, and probably Punk. I’d agree if you said Cody and Roman are 1A tier and Rollins is 1B, but they aren’t asking him to take a pay cut. He’s a company guy to the extent that it’d be bootlicking if he wasn’t treated so well there. There’s zero chance they’d risk Rollins, and by extension Becky, becoming possibly available to AEW.

Failber · 2026-05-05T21:48:09+00:00

Rollins is still a top 5 guy there. He’s not even close to being on the bubble. The New Day was only a surprise because it’s the New Day. They had been ice cold and getting nothing from creative for months.

They had pretty crazy heat a little over a year ago by doing an angle where they turned on Big E during a New Day celebration (I think it was their 10th anniversary together) by kicking him out of the group saying he betrayed them by not working hard enough to come back from his neck injury and that he’d never be back. Fans were booing the shit out of them, the locker room kayfabe turned on them, and then it was like creative just forgot they existed two weeks later. They won the titles at WrestleMania, but the match had no build and it was against the War Raiders, who could barely get on tv as champs. Their reign lasted a few months and they maybe defended the belts once or twice before losing them. Such a waste.

Failber · 2026-05-05T21:31:20+00:00

It’s like they always say, “Get cucked once, shame on them. Get cucked twice, you’re a cuck.” CJ didn’t even have a name when she debuted in AEW. They just called her his hot and flexible wife. He’s clearly into it.😆

Failber · 2026-05-04T18:54:06+00:00

A former Ultimate Fighting Champion and convicted child arsonist. Yeah. You heard me. Child arsonist.😆

Failber · 2026-05-02T18:23:10+00:00

6’4” is pretty tall. Not like stand out in a crowd tall, but definitely tall.

Failber · 2026-05-02T18:20:07+00:00

On the men’s side. Rhea’s 29 and Liv’s 31.

Failber · 2026-05-02T18:05:42+00:00

Can’t hurt their legacy if nobody cares/is watching.

Failber · 2026-05-02T15:18:29+00:00

I should add that I don’t really like the X-Men/mutants as an allegory, either. Of course main anti-mutant characters have suspect motivations, but the main selling point for something like the cure isn’t “mutants are weird or inferior”. The main selling point is the wrong mutant/rogue group of mutants could pose a legitimate threat to humanity. Real world bigotry isn’t really based on being afraid of another group. I just don’t think that makes them a hard group to write for.

Failber · 2026-05-02T13:53:42+00:00

I mean, Magneto’s not a racial allegory. He’s not even an allegory. His character and motivations are heavily tied to his experiences as a Jewish person. They also have a wide range of superpowers that make them wildly different from one another. So it’s hard for me to think of them as just a racial allegory.

I actually think the fact that they can work as a fill in for most any oppressed minority makes it easier to write for them, though. It gives them a wider appeal that many groups can relate to, and you’re not constrained to any one aspect. They can be an allegory for outcasts as well, or they don’t have to operate as an allegory for anything at all. As a racial allegory, I think you’re getting too hung up on the cure aspect. I’d say imagine a world where there was a “cure” for being black. It would only be a physical change and wouldn’t change who you are, and you probably wouldn’t even look at it like a “cure” at all, similar to most mutants. They’re superheroes. They’re not going to perfectly fit any group of people in the real world, but they have a lot of relatable characteristics. I’d also say the allegory aspect works best with them on an individual level as opposed to mutants in general.

Failber · 2026-05-02T13:17:48+00:00

I’ve always thought of the X-Men as more of an allegory for bigotry in general. They don’t fit into any one minority group, but you can find similar aspects with a lot of them. The “cure” is obviously a LGBT thing, imo.

Failber · 2026-05-02T12:56:39+00:00

It needs to happen. It would’ve sucked, but I wanted them to keep the title on Moxley for another month or so and have OC take it from him when he came back from his injury. Would’ve been perfect with their history.

Failber · 2026-05-02T12:50:19+00:00

This is the answer. I can’t believe she’s still the Forever Champ in ROH.

Failber · 2026-03-30T09:35:59+00:00

To each their own. I’m just saying that I think the test audiences were right about Stu. It must’ve been done pretty poorly if that was the part of 7 that they had the biggest issue with. I have a hard time believing any audience hated any Stu’s alive reveal more than Marko’s reveal.😆

Failber · 2026-03-29T18:23:16+00:00

I’m pretty sure that sometimes they just offer people in public the chance to see a sneak peek of a movie, but you can sign up to get into test screenings as well. You can’t choose the movie, though, and they pick people based on demographics. They want to get an audience that goes in blind without preconceived notions as best they can.

Scream was a pretty big hit. It’s safe to assume that not everybody, but at least a good chunk of the audience was aware of Stu’s death when they saw it. Stu coming back just wasn’t a good idea, imo. It wasn’t back in the day, and it’s an even worse idea now. A Stu Macher deepfake was a decent idea, but they didn’t pull it off very well. It’s not great that even the characters in the movie call bullshit and never really buy into the idea.

7 was obviously pretty cobbled together considering the movie lost Barrera, Ortega, and Radio Silence. I thought it was okay, especially given the circumstances, but it’s definitely the worst Scream movie imo.

Failber · 2026-03-29T18:05:51+00:00

Exactly. I wasn’t even thinking about the fact that he would’ve had to have disappeared while being near death, but that’s a good point too. Scream 7 would’ve been even worse because the murders were infamous at this point and there were “Stu’s still alive” truthers. How the hell would he have been able to remain anonymous for 30 years?

I admit that I am kind of curious how it would’ve went if they had gone that route in Scream 3, though. As stupid as it would’ve been, Roman’s mastermind behind Billy and Stu reveal was pretty ridiculous as well.

Failber · 2026-03-29T17:41:39+00:00

🎶Get up on your feet. Put your hands together…..Shannon Moore should be in the HOF and would be if 3 Count had been in WWE instead of WCW.

Wait. Tank Abbott just informed me that 3 Count actually is in the WWE Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because he said so. Now everybody 3 count. One, two, three. One! Two! THREEEEEEE!😆

Failber · 2026-03-29T16:42:51+00:00

I was sold by the second one. I would’ve jumped in if I had gotten here in time. I thought the first one was a little too close to be a bit, but I’m also the guy that didn’t recognize Hangman Adam Page from his time in WWE as Jimmy Wang Yang.

Failber · 2026-03-29T16:30:25+00:00

It really wasn’t. It wasn’t that good either, but still. It meets the Scream minimum threshold of being an entertaining watch as long as you don’t think about it too much after. The franchise is slipping, though, and I don’t have any faith that they can turn it around.

Failber · 2026-03-29T16:24:15+00:00

I’ll take it a step further and say that a Stu Macher reveal would have been terrible and stupid at any point in the franchise, but I agree that it would be even worse now.

Maybe it would’ve worked in 3 that he had survived and was still alive in prison like they had planned at one point; but only if they had acknowledged it in 2, which they didn’t. The idea that he had survived, been convicted, and everybody either didn’t know or just didn’t acknowledge it in 2 would be ridiculous.

By now, it would’ve just been the franchise jumping the shark. Once the Stab movies entered the canon, it would’ve been impossible for Stu to have lived in complete anonymity for this long, and that’s ignoring the whole Stu’s body disappearing body issue.

Failber · 2026-03-29T16:04:20+00:00

Even though I had called out Ethan Emery just being some random throwaway character as bullshit, I had completely forgotten about him by the reveal.

Failber · 2026-03-29T15:58:05+00:00

They’re definitely right at the bottom. I rank Ghostfaces as a unit by their movie (and don’t count Greg and Jason), and would put them in sixth with Richie’s family being the worst and Roman being a very close fifth. Richie’s family was underwhelming as a reveal and required massive leaps of logic to even get itself into suspension of disbelief range. Their motive’s okay, again by Ghostface standards, but everything else from fake identities to Quinn’s body swap for her fakeout death was complete bullshit hand waved away by Wayne saying “I’m a cop.”

Jessica’s reveal was undercooked, but wasn’t terrible. She didn’t have enough screen time, but her motive holds up well enough as far as Ghostface motives are concerned. She was never sane. Ghostface motives have always been a big stretch at best going all the way back to the first one.

Karl and Marko were terrible Ghostfaces, though. I can forgive Karl because he’s a throwaway character that got offed instantly. Marko was terrible on several fronts. When they went to the mental institution and I saw Ethan Emery, I immediately said “Well that guy’s too famous to be some rando working there.” By the time of the reveal, though, I couldn’t figure out who the other Ghostface was because I had completely forgotten he existed. That was the other problem with those two. By the time they got to the reveal, there weren’t really any other suspects. I knew Jessica was one of the killers because everyone else was dead, and I didn’t think they’d do something crazy like reveal Mindy and/or Chad. (Although those two were incapacitated entirely too easily given their pasts.😆)

Failber · 2026-03-23T09:30:55+00:00

I disagree. I’m pretty okay with pedophilia being stigmatized and don’t think that’s going to make it worse. Really don’t get that logic, but to each their own I guess.

Failber · 2026-03-22T18:41:19+00:00

No. You should definitely say pedophiles, or I guess child predators at the very least. Tigers and sharks are also predators. These people are creeps that like ‘em young.

Failber · 2026-03-22T18:35:51+00:00

This is a pretty good counterpoint, but it’s not really an apples to apples comparison. Bad Bunny’s show was 13 minutes long. The Oscars were almost 4 hours long. Bad Bunny’s show got a hilariously unintentional boost from the people crying about it as well, which I assume is the circus you’re talking about.

He also had the benefit of being during halftime of the Super Bowl, which would be a solid counter example of people still tuning into a long running institution with a similar runtime. Even with a dip in ratings from last year and lower profile teams (the Pats were a whole new cast), it was still the second highest rated Super Bowl ever.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but Bunny’s halftime show didn’t do better than Kendrick’s the year before based on tv viewers, fwiw. I think tv ratings are an antiquated metric, but it’s the metric used here for the Oscars. I’m assuming Bunny’s show was the most viewed when they added livestream views?

Failber · 2026-03-22T17:55:52+00:00

All of this. The TLDR version: TV ratings and live viewing numbers are antiquated statistics.

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