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Her Dad's career really should be a cautionary tale - it was over too young too because he burnt all his bridges. I really can't see her getting another gig besides AAA (and I guess WOW if they can find another TV deal).

Solution: tape a month of TV on the roof of Titan Towers. Like, now. AEW probably should hole up in the building they have in Georgia and do the same.

^^^^^^

Part of the literal job of wrestling has been manipulating people into handing over their money. It's ingrained in the DNA of the industry. Is it that surprising that people who excel at manipulation also manipulated their industry friends?

Maybe they should have kept the reporter on payroll.

It is a great shirt for a Christian rock band.

Were there were new Elgin allegations?

This was definitely the most solid show up and down so far, and it'll probably remain that way the rest of this week (although Wednesday's show looks decent). Next week is shaping up to be a lot of fun, though.

I respect the idea that people can improve and change, but I don't think you should need to go to therapy to understand that assault is wrong.

A lot of it I think has to do with the type of art being made and how it relates to the allegations. I was a giant, giant Ryan Adams fan, but it's been real hard listening to his music since the allegations against him came out. Not because I can't separate art from artist in the abstract, but because his art was mainly about him, and specifically about him being a sad bastard in relationships. So the art was entwined with the artist, and if your vibe is that the artist is lying... the songs don't work as well. To use the example here, Led Zeppelin songs are mostly not about the things they're accused of doing. Louis CK's comedy requires sympathy for him, so it's out. I don't really want to watch a David Starr match right now, but if it came up, I'd probably be okay. It feels like a double standard to be okay with one and not the other, but I don't think it's irrational.

And it's a little deeper than I expressed here - they're both stories about sons who've lost fathers, trying to honor them. There's a major theme of the things we do for others, and whether they're really for ourselves. As a result, there's a real power to them, although they could be accused of being maudlin. Also, lots of American flags.

The discussion on Twitter is that sending him to rehab is to mitigate a suicide risk and possibility of violence. (It's also possible that statement was released before this came out, I dunno.)

Creed was a sequel that moved the franchise forward and modernized it, not just aesthetically but emotionally. Creed = Cody.

Well, gonna backtrack here, because now there's a pretty straightforward rape allegation against Havoc. https://twitter.com/katsandcrows/status/1274005735458983941?s=20

I think AEW fans, who likely have a pretty strong overlap with New Japan fans, would be down for a tournament. Not sure it would work great in the way they pace Dynamite, though. Two points on the Horsemen ideas - Tully and Arn teaming up and Spears being the fourth guy could work great. And if they're placed against the Elite, the money match there is Cody vs. Hangman, which is the biggest intra-Elite match they haven't done, and I'm sure they can find a way to reference how Hangman was the only one who always stuck with Cody during the Bullet Club is fine angle. Cody offering Hangman a slot and him losing his mind when Hangman turns it down is $$$$$.

Kind of them to pick a pre-tattoo picture.

Yeah, paging through that account is such a mess. There's a lot of brave people coming forward with stories (and receipts) being mixed with "I heard this guy is sketchy." Jimmy Havoc sounds like a real shitty boyfriend, but I feel a little bad for him that he's apparently on a list with someone who was propositioning 12 year olds.

One of the biggest difficulties in prosecuting something like rape, though, is that the evidence is really almost impossible to parse. In this Starr discussion, no one is debating whether they had sex, or indicating physical violence like in the Alberto Del Rio case - the question is whether there was consent, and all you could possibly have is two people's word. It's a fundamental problem that tends to be made worse by society's historical knee jerk reaction to disbelieve and blame women. Not saying the court of Twitter justice is a good thing, although here it actually seems to have gotten to a reasonable place, since Starr basically admitted to "grey rape" (which is a new term to me, but seems reasonably descriptive of the sort of sketchy sexual interaction that's at play here).

TNA is like early 90s WCW, in that while I'm sure it was a frequently a slog to watch at the time, if you cherry pick and make comps out of the good stuff, it's a very fun watch. One of the best things on Impact Plus is all the retrospective shows - Impact in 60, Unfinished Business, Greatest Matches, etc. - that let you knock out a feud or get a vibe for a period of someone's career.

Real bracket busting finish, too. I'd sort of assumed Suzuki was going over Okada, since I figured Hiromu was a finalist and there was no way they're putting Hiromu over Okada. Now I think there's almost no way Okada isn't a finalist.

Enjoyable show this morning, sort of like New Japan spring training. Excited for the actual tournament to start tomorrow.

This works if the character actually grows. Hangman Page loses to Chris Jericho, expresses his feelings of inadequacy, distances his himself from his friends, starts giving less of a fuck - that's character growth (or at least evolution). WWE never allows this to happen. Faces lose and they just have to be like "Can't let it get me down, I'll get them next time." That's not growth, it's just a reused cliche.

They honestly should just have had Cash and Dax embroidered on the already over-done denim jackets.

It does seem that way at times.