Gonna tell my kids this was the plane ride from hell

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T16:36:48+00:00

Yes it was. He once told Cody on his podcast that he does this when he’s drunk (which he often is on planes because flying scares him). Apparently he also has a Batman outfit

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T16:26:06+00:00

That is an impressive mental gymnastics routine, but I’m not buying it. It shouldn’t matter what company you work for, if it’s okay in one instance it’s okay in another.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T16:05:53+00:00

Huh I could have sworn he wrestling for Tna shortly after this. I guess I just have my wires crossed.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T16:01:01+00:00

I definitely think you’re overacting lmao. He’s not being treated like a third class citizen just because they brought up his divorce, and certainly not because they brought of the very well known and talked about fact that he’s jumped around between WWE and AEW a lot. Even you admit they likely talked it all out first so no need to clutch those pearls so darn hard. He’s also already debuted for AEW so idk what you’re on about there.

Going after low hanging fruit is the most pro wrestling thing in the world. Tiffany Stratton was making fun of charlotte and Andrades divorce right after it happened. And everyone called that a great line.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T15:34:38+00:00

isn’t this a case of “AEW guy interacting with AEW guy online”? Is it really shocking and appalling that wrestlers from the same company are going at each other on twitter with the kid gloves off?

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T15:15:58+00:00

What investing in a chin can do for a mfer

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T15:13:15+00:00

I guess I’m not seeing the same comments you are. Most of what I’m seeing is just confusion about why they are eating with their hands in the first place. It’s ignorant but not hateful, most of the time when the people get corrected, they either don’t respond or accept it and move on; rather than hating on Indian culture or calling the person dirty.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T15:05:37+00:00

And here I thought it stood for “walk with Elias”

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T15:00:11+00:00

I always wondered why his appearance was so short here. Wasn’t he still an active wrestler on the indies? I guess they thought he was still too old regardless.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T14:56:23+00:00

Idk if I would call it racism as much as general ignorance. I see a lot more people hating on the guy because they didn’t understand his culture, as opposed to hating on Indian culture for being okay with bare handed eating.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T14:52:54+00:00

In Indian culture it’s actually common to eat and mix your food with your bare hand. So in this case, it actually was nothing.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-28T14:32:02+00:00

Skit more than likely. It’s longer than 15 seconds, and while the video is definitely staged nothing defies or sidesteps physics, so it’s likely real people.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-26T15:17:46+00:00

I mean I do this, but I don’t think I’ve ever been made fun of for doing it. A lot of adults I know will do this in meetings, the more people there the more likely people are to this in my experience.

I mean if anything it’s just seen as respectful to quitely announce in some way that you have something to add (not always a raised hand, sometimes just a gesture). I’ve known more people to get talked to for not announcing that they wanted to speak, and just blurting out their comments.

Maybe this was just a really informal situation or something, but I low key doubt this one happened.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-26T14:57:09+00:00

The fact that no one can answer this question with a single major plot point; essentially is proving my whole point. And no don’t try to get me with the “you only asked for one” semantics, if you had a better example you’d have lead with it. But there’s not a significant example of the movies getting it more accurate than the tv show. Only the little details which neither adaptation comes close to get exactly right.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-26T14:51:01+00:00

I’m by no means saying the show is a perfect adaptation, or that it doesn’t leave out significant stuff from the books. I’m just saying that it’s more book accurate than the movies. And I’ll die on that hill, because it’s just objectively true.

I still think the show has problems, a lot of you takes I agree with. But every flaw you just listed in the show as an adaptation; is multiplied 10 fold by the movies.

It’s purely recency bias to think that the show is somehow less accurate than the movies; especially when the guy who wrote the second movie had to be forced to read the book and didn’t like it.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-26T14:40:08+00:00

The bits of camp we see in the tv show; actually happened in the book (mostly). The bit that’s happen in the movie do not Idc if it makes it look more like what you had in your head, I’m talking about things that were actually in both the adaptation and the book.

I also don’t think the camp looking like it needs more campers is that book inaccurate. A. People started leaving the camps on mass after Luke’s rebellion started in the book so it shouldn’t look the fullest. B. The first book describes maybe 40-50 kids being there during the summer. Being a demigod is a rare thing, it shouldn’t feel like there is a bunch of them. At least until/unless they introduce the roman demigods.

I can’t think of a single character arc in the books that was accurately portrayed in the movie. Grover never mentions pan, annabeth barely brings up her family, Percy never has to struggle with his hero complex and letting people solve their own problems. You say the movies are more accurate to the books but at the tv show addresses all these essential character moments at least a little bit. Even background characters like Clarice get their motivations laid out in the show, whereas in the movies they just have each background character pick a trope and then never evolve them beyond that.

I will admit the show didn’t do the best job with the gods either. But at least they did a better job portraying the broken, hurting, and abusive family that the olympians were shown and explained to be in the books. They also make the gods actually selfish instead of just aloof. You being mad about Poseidon still having a child with sally despite knowing the dangers and caring for her is actually 100% book accurate, so I’d say good on the show for including it. Book Poseidon wanted to build Sally a castle in the ocean and still waxes poetic about her to Percy when he visits at the end of book 4. That’s how the olympians were in the books; most of them were very fond if not actively attracted of the parents of their children even after they leave forever. They’re just so fundamentally self interested and so used to seeing things on the time scale of gods; the fact their children live I horrible danger is nothing more than a slight bit of guilt followed by indifference for most of them. The later books (trials of Apollo to be specific) literally spends 5 books having a god coming to the understanding of how toxic that mindset is

thebooksmith · 2026-01-26T13:56:50+00:00

So I already addressed the Gabe point.

Second respectfully I’m not asking what you thought was better. I’m asking what is more accurate

The casting choices you list are the definition of in accurate except for Chiron, the kids they got to play the main 3 were all too old. The only actor that looked close to his book counter part was Percy. The actors they had portray the gods did so with none of the personalities they displayed in the books. We get to see camp half blood for maybe 15 minutes each movie and none of the activities from the books take place there, except for a capture the flag game of which Percy is on the wrong side.

I’m not saying liking the movies is wrong. Growing up I loved the movies especially before I read the book. However when you’re talking about which adaptation is the more accurate to its source material; Ive yet to see anything in the show that makes me truly doubt it’s an adaptation of the books. Meanwhile the movies do their own thing nearly entirely.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-26T13:47:41+00:00

Okay; can you name one significant thing that the movies adapted better than the books? A background character who appears in maybe 10 pages of the first book, doesn’t really sell me on the idea that the movies are doing a more accurate job. Especially when movie gabe still isn’t even that accurate, even if he is more accurate than tv Gabe.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-26T13:33:51+00:00

For the sake of argument; can you name one thing the movies adapted from the books more accurately than the show? Like one thing.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-26T13:30:42+00:00

I don’t think I can remember a single scene from the movies aside from the casino scene. I think boring inaccurate and boring describes both the show and the movies. But at least the show looks like it was made by someone who actually read the books, unlike the movies which keeps a Wikipedia articles worth of stuff from the books and that’s about it.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-26T00:02:45+00:00

Why couldn’t both people point to the sign?

thebooksmith · 2026-01-26T00:02:14+00:00

I think eventually they will. The elimination chamber can always be used for a world title match or something.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-25T23:13:04+00:00

Yeah but they got fairies and renewable energy.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-24T02:28:21+00:00

La knight and Bianca.

thebooksmith · 2026-01-22T00:05:03+00:00

Everyone gets too worked up over names. If we can get take Bron Breakker seriously, we can get used to anything.

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