I demand this man pull an Eli Wallach and act for another ten years.

So what do we think will be the dominant thinkpiece generator when this get released? Cultural appropriation? Lack of female characters? Another British lead?

I can't decide whether it wouldn't been more interesting or just needlessly complicated had they actually gone into detail on how all the transactions between shows were constructed.

All she had to do was say "Oh, David" after whatever absurd thing he'd say and she'd get the biggest laugh of the night.

Hard to say. You don't really see her do a proper standup set in the pilot. It's more of an origin story. It ends with her deciding that she wants to become a comedian.

At the Rickles tribute on Spike TV from a few years ago, they showed this great outtake footage of him ripping on De Niro for forgetting his lines.

Here's him ripping on Letterman and Denzel for 12 minutes in 2008.

And Al decides he wants to live just to spite them.

Maybe they're afraid that if they make him a full-blown heel that people will start cheering him.

That's good to read. In the immediate aftermath of the match, I saw a lot of bashing of it online. I then went to bed and didn't really catch up the emerging consensus, so just kind of assumed it had remained negative.

Also, Cole's perfunctory explanation for Seth suddenly being cleared was hilarious: "Based on his performance last night, the doctors have cleared him." So there you have it everyone, fighting people can cure your injuries!

Nia presumably, following the Dana Brooke / Mickie James model of "Beating up a heel after she's a dick to you automatically makes you a face."

I'm just going to throw in a quick word of defense on the Lesnar/Goldberg match. It wasn't long, but it made perfect sense as a story. In every promo, Heyman would say some variation on Goldberg being a quick-strike artist with no stamina who becomes more and more disadvantaged the longer a match goes. The match we…

I’ll blame both.

That shot was such a relief to see, because boy was that flagrant foul call terrible.

I prefer her "The Creepiest Things You Can Do On Facebook" article.

I'm actually leaning in the opposite direction. Cena/Nikki will win, which will then be followed by a proposal. It'll be going exactly as everyone expects it to, but then just as Nikki says yes there will be a brutal post-match beatdown that sets up their absences.

While it saddens me to admit it, this arrangement reeks of "Well, we still have him under contract despite having no plans to give him his own project again. Let's see if we can get something out of the deal before cutting him loose."

I’m probably about to ask a dumb question, but what exactly is the point of the black screen? Is that a common thing? Every weather interruption I’ve ever seen has involved actually cutting to the local station as they show us some radar imagery or something.

Always thought that was kind of obvious. They even overlaid the scene of her getting off the train with a Hopkins voiceover where he talks about the robots developing free will.