TNA and the Shakespeare Meme
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While the whole constantly going on about the change in GM, leading to it's horribly predictable conclusion, was annoying, I liked most of the rest of it.
James Storm stupidly accepting a two on one challenge was not that point. That was one of those times that made me yell 'why do I always like the stupid ones'.
The return of Velvet Sky wasn't it either, although the part beforehand with Gail Kim and Madison Rayne reminded me of the bit in the Importance of Being Ernest about women who call each other sister have called each other far worse first.
The bit I loved was the next part, where we were due to have Morgan vs Crimson and instead Aries music hits and he explains how he's sick of people interupting X-division matches, and that while he and Storm may not see eye to eye, he admires a man who stands up for what he believes in and he's willing to back him up because Bully Ray disrespected him and the X-division. Seriously, I was cheering, because I am sick of it always being the X-division matches that get interfered with.
Morgan vs Crimson and Hardy vs Anderson went pretty much the way you'd expect those matches to go, I continue to have very little interest in Garrett Bischoff, and I do wish Eric Young and ODB would listen to Tazz when he says that wrestling weddings never go well.
Then came the part where James Storm hit me straight in the feelings, because he was talking about his preparations, and saying how people had e-mailed/tweeted/written to him saying 'super kick Bobby Roode for me, because he broke up my favourite tag team' and how it was because these people, understandably, felt that Roode had robbed them of all the things Beer Money could have been, and it's like, yes, that is how I felt about AMW (and still kind of do, but shush, I've been liking Storm a lot more since he's not been in a tag team that aren't AMW). Because I know it's ridiculous, because they'd done everything they could have done as AMW, but, and this is real fantasy booking time, but AMW vs Motor City Machine Guns remains the dream match I never got to see (if we don't include cross-promotion matches).
When he doesn't win at Lockdown (because he's been doing too well recently to win at Lockdown), it's going to hurt.
But yes, I haven't enjoyed a main event so much in some time because Austin Aries was awesome. No, really. He was wonderful. (Okay yes, I just enjoyed him beating up Bully Ray and hulking up when Roode went 'I'm a real champion and you're not.')
I do wish they hadn't cut straight from that to the end Hogan acceptance bit because I enjoyed seeing Roode's look of terror, and Storm doing the Undertaker's throat-slice and 'now I kill you' grin.
Shakespeare Meme - Day 10 - Favourite History Play
Henry V
Mostly because I like that it manages to be flag-waving nonsense, deeply cynical about the whole flag-waving nonsense (the play opens with the two bishops going 'Henry is after our money, how do we stop him?' 'Distract him with a war, that always works') and do the philosphising bit about what right has a king to go to war, and what is a king but a man etc.
I still don't get the bit with the leeks. I fear I will never understand the thing with the leeks.
Actually Llewellyn is a case in point. He's mostly a rude mechanical, plumped up on Welsh nationalism and slightly pompous but then he gets the speech about the boys and the luggage.
And there are Frenchies, who are not evil. Who are in fact sensible, and just happen to be on the wrong side (from the play's perspective). You've got the Herald who does his task of passing his idiot master's messages on with a great deal of tact and diplomacy, and the Constable who gets to tell the Dauphin to his face that he's a fool.
Then there's the chorus and all those lovely plays on words.
The ending is a bit odd, finishing as it does, not with the battle, but with the wedding, and it's half advert for the next couple of plays (which must have been deliberate), half lament for poor Henry's death and how badly the succeeding kings messed everything up.
There's also a couple of reasonably effective speeches.
Why yes, that is Brian Blessed doing the Harfleur speech. ITV did it for one rugby match or another. Great for those watching, no obvious effect on the rugby team.
The gleeful use of this for recent Harry Redknapp-related newspaper headlines was also worth seeing.
Day #1: Favourite play
Day #2: Favourite character
Day #3: Favourite hero
Day #4: Favourite heroine
Day #5: Favourite villain
Day #6: Favourite villainess
Day #7: Favourite clown
Day #8: Favourite comedy
Day #9: Favourite tragedy
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
While the whole constantly going on about the change in GM, leading to it's horribly predictable conclusion, was annoying, I liked most of the rest of it.
James Storm stupidly accepting a two on one challenge was not that point. That was one of those times that made me yell 'why do I always like the stupid ones'.
The return of Velvet Sky wasn't it either, although the part beforehand with Gail Kim and Madison Rayne reminded me of the bit in the Importance of Being Ernest about women who call each other sister have called each other far worse first.
The bit I loved was the next part, where we were due to have Morgan vs Crimson and instead Aries music hits and he explains how he's sick of people interupting X-division matches, and that while he and Storm may not see eye to eye, he admires a man who stands up for what he believes in and he's willing to back him up because Bully Ray disrespected him and the X-division. Seriously, I was cheering, because I am sick of it always being the X-division matches that get interfered with.
Morgan vs Crimson and Hardy vs Anderson went pretty much the way you'd expect those matches to go, I continue to have very little interest in Garrett Bischoff, and I do wish Eric Young and ODB would listen to Tazz when he says that wrestling weddings never go well.
Then came the part where James Storm hit me straight in the feelings, because he was talking about his preparations, and saying how people had e-mailed/tweeted/written to him saying 'super kick Bobby Roode for me, because he broke up my favourite tag team' and how it was because these people, understandably, felt that Roode had robbed them of all the things Beer Money could have been, and it's like, yes, that is how I felt about AMW (and still kind of do, but shush, I've been liking Storm a lot more since he's not been in a tag team that aren't AMW). Because I know it's ridiculous, because they'd done everything they could have done as AMW, but, and this is real fantasy booking time, but AMW vs Motor City Machine Guns remains the dream match I never got to see (if we don't include cross-promotion matches).
When he doesn't win at Lockdown (because he's been doing too well recently to win at Lockdown), it's going to hurt.
But yes, I haven't enjoyed a main event so much in some time because Austin Aries was awesome. No, really. He was wonderful. (Okay yes, I just enjoyed him beating up Bully Ray and hulking up when Roode went 'I'm a real champion and you're not.')
I do wish they hadn't cut straight from that to the end Hogan acceptance bit because I enjoyed seeing Roode's look of terror, and Storm doing the Undertaker's throat-slice and 'now I kill you' grin.
Shakespeare Meme - Day 10 - Favourite History Play
Henry V
Mostly because I like that it manages to be flag-waving nonsense, deeply cynical about the whole flag-waving nonsense (the play opens with the two bishops going 'Henry is after our money, how do we stop him?' 'Distract him with a war, that always works') and do the philosphising bit about what right has a king to go to war, and what is a king but a man etc.
I still don't get the bit with the leeks. I fear I will never understand the thing with the leeks.
Actually Llewellyn is a case in point. He's mostly a rude mechanical, plumped up on Welsh nationalism and slightly pompous but then he gets the speech about the boys and the luggage.
And there are Frenchies, who are not evil. Who are in fact sensible, and just happen to be on the wrong side (from the play's perspective). You've got the Herald who does his task of passing his idiot master's messages on with a great deal of tact and diplomacy, and the Constable who gets to tell the Dauphin to his face that he's a fool.
Then there's the chorus and all those lovely plays on words.
The ending is a bit odd, finishing as it does, not with the battle, but with the wedding, and it's half advert for the next couple of plays (which must have been deliberate), half lament for poor Henry's death and how badly the succeeding kings messed everything up.
There's also a couple of reasonably effective speeches.
Why yes, that is Brian Blessed doing the Harfleur speech. ITV did it for one rugby match or another. Great for those watching, no obvious effect on the rugby team.
The gleeful use of this for recent Harry Redknapp-related newspaper headlines was also worth seeing.
Day #1: Favourite play
Day #2: Favourite character
Day #3: Favourite hero
Day #4: Favourite heroine
Day #5: Favourite villain
Day #6: Favourite villainess
Day #7: Favourite clown
Day #8: Favourite comedy
Day #9: Favourite tragedy
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
