About The Shatner Thing At The Oscars

So, at some point, William Shatner somehow stepped into the future and took command of the Enterprise, but for some reason, people refer to him as Captain Kirk… because that’s what I get. It isn’t Shatner playing Captain Kirk, but Shatner playing Shatner in Kirk’s space suit. And don’t get me wrong; Shatner played his part well in that opening skit, but it sort of emphasizes the fact that the guy’s too old to be playing that part in some major motion picture production or something.

Voiceover work in a CGI animated thing or a video game? That’s fine. Little joke sketches like this? Sure. Another movie or series? No, thanks.

The 30-Day Challenge Under One Roof

Okay, so an explanation is in order…

This was originally posted last year as three separate blog entries. The original intention behind the 30-Day Challenge (that I had discovered on that Henshin Grid blog thing) is that it’s a list of thirty questions based on Power Rangers thar you’re supposed to answer one per day – hence the name, “30-Day Challenge”. The original plan last year was to compress it so that I’d put out six questions per day – the idea being that I’d get all thirty questions out in five days as part of a special theme week.

Unfortunately, tragedy hit close to home in the middle of the week and plans will go awry. So the end result is three blog posts spread out over a month.

Now because I’m trying to compile as much crap together as possible for the Master Document page currently in progress, I’ve manage to track down all three posts and compiled them under one handy dandy cheat sheet. So all thirty questions to this “challenge” can be found here, with some elaboration and a couple minor edits here and there.

So yeah… just remember that this was written in 2012.

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RAW (Feb. 25th, 2013) – Credit Where It’s Due… And HHH’s Spot

Well, this was certainly a show of noteworthy moments… some of which I can happily say was captured on JPEG for generations to re-live.

For shame. You never saw Shane-O-Mac wet himself like Hunter did…

For what it’s worth, no, I don’t care about this match. Hard to care when you know that the end result is McSon-In-Law getting his “much-needed” win back from Brock. That said, HHH may have lost his hair, but you could say that he’ll never lose his spot… because that’ll always be with him. And so will that shot.

Now, then, with that out of the way, let me give this show credit where it’s properly due: the main event match between John Cena and CM Punk – even with an outcome that a blind man can see coming – was probably one of the best matches to grace RAW in a good long while. It might be a stretch to say that, goddamn, THIS should have been the Mania main event for the title, but I guess Dwayne sells more.

Both guys busted their ass in the match and the end result shows. For all the flak Cena gets in regards to his limited moveset and less than decent output, there’re matches like this that prove the guy can most definitely go and deliver a top-notch match when paired with someone that compliments him. It’s often too bad that he’s a product of a company with a limited scope that decides to hold back on what he can really do rather than just let him have good matches.

And for what it’s worth, these two have crazy chemistry together. This match sorta proved that, but it’s no more truer than their Money In The Bank encounter in 2011. In an age where “epic” is tossed around all too often at inappropriate times, that match was one of the few occasions where the word fits. Because it was a great match with solid wrestling action that kept the audience on their toes and told a great story the right way.

This RAW match isn’t as good as that match… but it was still a great match. Kudos.