I still think this Mahal thing is a tacit way of saying "since lesnar isn't around, we can't have a legitimate contender/feud for our 'real' world title". As well as the Ellsworth thing went, it never was the selling point for a main event PPV feud.

I don't know if it's DeRay's experience as a teacher or a lack of understanding of general policy minutiae on his part (or an assumed lack of knowledge of his audience), but a lot of his interviews were asking for clarifications on very simple points that people who are plugged into politics at all already knew.

There are at times this weird aspirational yearning for TV to elevate itself, especially among critics. I read a blog post about yearning for Blackbolt to use some sort of ASL derivative to communicate because it'll give more representation to deaf/mute people. Nice goal to have, except in a show with a global…

The show has essentially built to the point that Chase has been right, the flashbacks are all about Oliver becoming the one man killing spree that made the first season such a delight while Amell was still learning how to act. I guess the ultimate narrative will be that, while Oliver started there, between his…

Fergal is the real MVP, his takedown of Spain was epic.

"I think “Dangerous Liaisons” wants us to judge Oliver in the wrong, at least in his failure to support Felicity like she would him".

Based on Diggle's gun design (and I am no gun expert), it looks like he shoots tranqs, at least most of the time. Wild Dog, on the other hand, looks like live ammo.

I think she actually went back to compete in whatever competition is built into the schwarzenegger festival nxt has worked the last few years, so she got back into "fighting shape" as it were.

All roads are obviously leading to reigns/lesnar at some point, but the shorter the path, the more infuriating it will be. If there are two MiTB ladder matches this year, let Reigns win one and let him book himself into the main event at Survivor Series (Summerslam is too soon, and he'll get booed out of the building…

Ken Griffey Jr Baseball… that is all

They could do the cross show hijinks if they wanted to, but it seems they're putting the least amount of effort into the house of horrors gimmick.

It wouldn't surprise me if they're de-emphasizing the WWE title as a sort of way of getting people not to notice Lesnar and the Universal title won't be on TV until after Payback at the earliest.

Corbin couldn't even get over Ambrose for a mid card strap, dropping him into the main event with no juice kills that angle on the spot. Rusev has spent the last few months getting buried in tag team matches, and Ziggler is about to do the job for Nakamura. A heel Orton does open things up (Styles/Nakamura/Zayn) but…

Without more callups smackdown is going to burn through its mid-card and main event options REAL fast. Assuming Orton wins at Payback, there isn't a credible heel on the roster for him to feud with if Owens and Styles are doing the damn thing.

It's nice that SD didn't lose styles, but they lost a LOT of their dynamic on mic talent. Owens and Charlotte are going to have to be supplemented by another strong heel (and an upper mid card babyface) on the mens side (unlikely CWs will move, as they finally moved Kalisto over to Raw.)

If that was true, x-pac heat wouldn't be a pejorative.I'd argue Roman Reigns is now approaching x-pac heat levels, that without a course corrections (aka actually turning him) people will start to turn their backs on him. Cena boos started as a reaction to the 6 moves of doom and just him squashing folks, but evolved…

If that was the case, they wouldn't use production tricks to goose their stories (media members at Mania say the boos when Roman won were deafening, but that wasn't put out to the Network audience). It's true the paradigm has shifted to "any reaction is a good reaction", but that's been necessitated by the fact that…

This sentiment is something I never get. The WWE WANTS you to cheer for Roman Reigns, they WANT you to cheer for John Cena. Everything in how the story is constructed, from the plotline to the commentary framing it, paints the picture of how the audience SHOULD react. They might know how subsections of their fan base…

The dude in the background in orange no selling the entire thing is all of us

It seems like these proto spider-man movies will exist like the television side of Marvel "yes we exist in the same world as thor and iron man… we do, honest!"