Matt D

I'm disappointed that Goldust didn't get to do his 1996 shtick to Styles as a Night One, Will He Play Ball hazing. WWE was off the ball tonight.

But did the fans reject it? The crowd in Orlando wasn't exactly booing H out of the building, unless my audio was borked. The wider audience is a difference story, but the fans in the arena for the Rumble were curiously muted. No riot, or any close to that. Of course, I agree with your post in general, but I was expecting a lot more negative crowd heat than we got. This was hardly last year or the year before. They were supposed to boo Hunter. Let me rephrase that. For it to work, on paper, they were supposed to be booing Hunter out of the building. Them cheering Hunter is not a sign that this worked. He's not the babyface.

Of course you do. You just don't want to because deep down you're a humanist.

Vince shuffling right at the end was the best.

I could half see them having Miz win through a fluke and celebrating when Roman comes back to eliminate him.

Oh man, they don't get this crowd at all. This is going to be hilarious if REigns comes back. Definitely a great way to get over the loss of Zayn though

That's Spiders.

Now I want a Goldust vs Styles feud.

We're watching the second episode of Colony too, so I have the Rumble on mute. The closed captioning on the network: [Roman Reigns Music Plays, met by Boos]. Not making that up.

Yeah, let's just keep Bayley off the main roster.

Presumably the triple threat is Mania?

I can't even begin to say how far Charlotte's come with her emoting and expressions and reactions in the last year. Has it just been since the heel turn? She's managing things like split second smirks before she gets comeuppance or a flash of fear when she realizes the tide's turned that I've never seen out of her before. Still has other issues but that's sure come far.

I thought they did a really solid job recovering from the flubs, to be honest.

I'd like to see Swagger/Henry vs New Day next month.

Best thing about Ambrose is that he sells like Philip Marlowe getting stomped on by a gangster's muscle.

On the one hand, I kind of buy that he used the broken table to get back up. On the other hand, this is still going on one Kevin Owens finisher later.

He's still surprisingly explosive at times. Just saying.

"We have no intention of giving the crowd what they want to cheer for," was the excuse last year.

Sandow was an unexpected victim of the racism of one Terry Bollea

Sandow was the second most over guy in the arena a year ago.

Which is why you're a bastion of sympathy for everyone who tries to work his way through this difficult jungle during the GWE process.

I'm generally high on his 2010 rudo work, so long as he's not in a singles match with Volador, but that's really just a blip in his career.

I'm betting on the most boring possible outcome. I'm just not sure if that's Reigns winning, HHH winning, or Brock winning after HHH eliminates Reigns. I'm not saying those are necessarily the wrong choices, just the most boring ones.

That isn't what she was saying at all. Whether or not the events in the movie coincide with the real life events has little to do with whether or not it is a good movie. If the Godfather was based on a true story, but changed real life events to tell a better story would The Godfather turn into a bad movie? No, it would be just as good as it is now, the real life events are irrelevant. Matt, so in your opinion the only way a movie can be bad is if there is a good movie you can compare it to? There is a value in being groundbreaking, but there are plenty of things that are groundbreaking but not necessarily good. If Transformers was the first movie ever made, it would still be a bad piece of art. It would still have all the same issues whether or not other movies exist. Comparing it to other things makes it easier to see those flaws, but those flaws exist with or without those other movies. No, I just think the use of comparisons is a good way to categorize, analyze, evaluate, and understand something. Most learning works best when it builds off of what we've already learned. There's a term for that, but I can't remember it right now (which may or may not be ironic).

I will say that I was pretty certain Trips was going to enter himself each of the last two years and he didn't.