Musings – Page 131

VLOG – WWE Moving Smackdown Tapings To Monday?

While I ramble for a bit, please indulge in footage of a crappy WCW video game released in 2000.

Reviews forthcoming this weekend.

Exclusive Batman V Superman Footage From Wil Wheaton

I’d watch this movie.

(2019 Update: It still would’ve sucked… also, you’ve soured on Wil Wheaton after a good long while.)

My Thoughts On Rogers' WWE Network thing

So since it’s been a couple days since the announcement of the WWE Network’s Canadian portover was announced, I might as well chime in with a couple cents. I had considered doing this in “vlog” form (and maybe I will), but I just want to jot my thoughts down quickly.

For the uninformed, WWE and Rogers Communications signed a deal that would not only grant Rogers broadcast rights to various WWE shows (RAW, Smackdown, NXT, etc.) for the next ten years, but also gives them distribution rights to the WWE Network. In regards to the network, it’s presently only the live feed and not the on-demand stuff that most people would probably care more about… although they say it’s on the tables or something.

My feelings are mixed in this regard. On the one hand, I’m glad that WWE Network is finally making its way over to Canada (even if it’s part of the Rogers network that may not make it to Bell systems), because it means no longer having to shell out 50 to 60 dollars on substandard PPV offerings. But on the other hand, the only real selling point for me (the on-demand archives with all the old stuff) isn’t part of the deal… and that’s the only reason why I’d considered the Network to begin with.

Maybe I should consider a workaround after all.

Picard's Priceless Ceramic Thing

Way To Promote That Summerslam Main Event

From Dave Meltzer, F4WOnline.com, and stolen from Scott’s Blog Of Doom:

Two Stars Not Expected to be at RAW This Coming Monday: Brock Lesnar and John Cena are not expected on the next episode of RAW.

Way to promote that hot Summerslam main event, boys, by not having either one of your participants show up for RAW to push the show! Absolutely brilliant. You know, John Cena used to rail on the Rock for not showing up to WWE events despite not having reason to do so beyond the Wrestlemania payday he didn’t deserve… and yet here’s John Cena taking a week off to do fuck all… and he’s the one who’s defending the title for a big PPV.

That just leaves us more room for Paul Heyman to re-iterate his tired rhetoric (not shitting on Heyman here, who’s brilliant as always, but there’s only some much you can do before that schtick gets tired) and also more room for that “compelling” Brie Bella/Stephanie McMahon drama that is “awesome” and so “exciting”.

The last time I felt the same level of “excitement” and “awesome” as I do with this Brie/Steph storyline was back in 1999 when Jake “The Snake” Roberts was drunk out of his mind and waving around a snake like a surrogate penis at an independent PPV. But then again, I’d probably have to be drunk out of my mind to enjoy this tripe. I’ll tell you what; if they present this in a way that’s interesting – presumably by having Brie take acting lessons and looking for other insults besides “female dog” to shoot at Stephanie; I would suggest “Roided Horseface” or “Macho Sperm Rag” – then I will proceed to praise this like the second coming of Austin Vs. McMahon…

On second thought… maybe not. That’s too high for these chuckleheads to achieve.

RIP WWE Magazine

From 411mania.com:

According to The Wrestling Observer, the last issue of WWE Magazine produced by the company itself will be in October. The Magazine will have been in operation for thirty years; it first began as WWE Victory Magazine in 1984.

There is still the possibility that another publisher will pick up the magazine, with WWE licensing the magazine name to them. This probably isn’t that surprising of news as print media has been dwindling down in many forms over the past several years, from magazines to newspapers.

Well, it was going to happen sooner or later, with print essentially being something of a dying medium. And while it’d be hard to imagine a world without a WWE Magazine, I can take solace in the fact that, at the very least, it would have died while a lesser form of itself.