House Of Horrors Match Inducted To Wrestlecrap!

Source: http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/induction-houseofhorrors/

Well, that didn’t take long.

You know I went back and watched that whole thing again… and I realized that the more times I watch it, the less I start to enjoy it. It’s one of those things where repeated viewings doesn’t enhance or enrich your initial joy, but rather drain it to the point of bitter contempt.

Remember… the guys who thought this whole thing was a good idea are the guys who may potentially get their hands on the Broken Hardy stuff.

Be very afraid.

Random Thoughts On… The 37s

The second season premiere episode of Star Trek: Voyager has the eponymous Starfleet vessel, trapped thousands of light years across the other side of the galaxy, coming across an old pick-up truck in deep space. From there, they encounter an SOS and go to a planet where the SOS is coming from. Turns out some folks from 1937 (hence the name of the episode) were kidnapped, placed in stasis, and treated as holy relics by their human descendants.

As Voyager would discover, it turns out those humans have made quite a little civilization for themselves here in the Delta Quadrant, and those freed relics from the past feel that they’d be happier sitting around “New Urth” for lack of a better term and has some crew members considering sticking around… but like a good formula show that lives and dies by its status quo, none of the Voyager folks jump ship and so they all continue onwards towards their old home.

Interesting note about this episode was that it was originally intended to be the season finale of the first season, but network executives held it off because of network reasons. Watching this episode with that in mind – and I haven’t seen this episode in years – The 37s does come off as more of a season ender rather than a season opener. The question of whether the crew should stay at this new world or continue on towards the old one is something that should be touched on at the end of a season where you have that cliffhanger potential.

As for the episode itself? It was alright; had a bit of humor with the Ford pick-up towards the beginning of the episode, gave us a cool visual of the ship landing, and a neat little idea that fared a little better here than when TNG did it in their first season finale.

Anyway, that was just a random thought.

Weekend Of Hell

Spent the better part of the weekend watching a bunch of bad movies on Netflix for the purposes of putting together a bunch of Slideshow Movie Reviews. One of them is an Asylum film. On top of that, I saw another episode of Impact Wrestling against my better judgment and lasted about ten minutes before the feuding announcers did me in again.

This weekend sucked.

WWE Payback 2017

The first show after Wrestlemania used to be just as much of an event as the Showcase of the Immortals itself, especially after a somewhat poor showing. Sometimes, it would be Mania Rematches that surpassed the original, while at other times, it would just be a solid show all around. Back in the day, it was easy to get excited for that follow-up show because they were generally intriguing cards on the build-up.

Wrestlemania 32 may have had a forgettable main event, but the follow-up PPV gave us an awesome one in AJ Styles vs. Roman Reigns. Austin vs. Rock at Mania 15 was fun, but their match at the following month’s PPV was even better.

This year’s Payback PPV – a RAW-only PPV no less – features nothing that has me remotely excited outside of a Kevin Owens/Chris Jericho rematch whose endgame seems set in stone… and to call my reaction “excited” is kinda stretching it. This show was so up there in the “must-see” that I spent my Sunday evening playing Roadsters on N64 (poorly, at that) and selling an air conditioner online that it wasn’t until the tail end of the evening that I realized there was a PPV going on.

In any event, I PVRed a Monday replay and made a note to watch it for the purposes of this write-up. My thoughts on this show will be as brief as my relative interest in this show… and consider the “go-home” shows drew the lowest ratings EVAR, I can’t say that I’m alone in my general apathy of this show.

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Ramblemania 33

It’s been a couple weeks, but better late than never, I suppose. And if nothing else, those anticipating my fully detailed thoughts on the latest Showcase Of The Immortals(TM) won’t have to wait a year for that to happen; you can just get that here. (Or here, as well.)

So the first thing worth noting is that this was a better show than last year’s show. This should be readily apparent by the fact that I’m writing about it now rather than a year later. Still long in the tooth and I don’t think next year is going to be any better, but nonetheless, here are some thoughts on the show.

I haven’t seen the preshow, but one minor guy won a battle royal and the two champions retained their titles. And that’s all I know.

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