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4 1/2 unpopular opinions.

This one was difficult more because most of the opinions I have (could do with more cruiserweights and womenfolk, and please listen to Jim Cornette) are decidedly popular with everyone, except for the people in charge.

1 - I don't like ROH. Nothing to do with the product, which could be awesome for all I know, but the camera work makes me seasick.
2 - I miss AMW.
3 - I don't hate John Cena. In fact, I like him more than the two previous incumbents in the super-face role (my hatred of Rocky and Austin is long running [I like Dwayne Johnson just fine, but Rocky, nah]).
3b - I still mark out every time I hear Hulk Hogan's name.
4 - I know he's a (insert term of choice here), but I miss JBL's commentary.

First, shiny new icon. Whee!

Any film! Gambit icon was always going to be my squee! icon, but this was quite literally the shot where I started squeaking in the trailer. I've also seen a more recent cut of it, and they seem to be going with the 'eyes only light up when powered up' thing they did with Storm, which I can deal with.

Thinking about his eyes, I find it amusing that he and Kurogane both have red/black eyes.

Secondly, talking about red/black eyes, I firmly believe that Christopher Daniels would be someone who would have said eyes if he were a comics/cartoon/manga character. I cannot, however, write him. Which is annoying when he's required for a fic.

First two pictures I wish to share, mostly because they have both caused squeeage.

( First, Beth Phoenix looking like your favourite butch ex-girlfriend )

( Secondly, Gambit ... (squeeeee) )

The fic is part 2 of "Things We Do Not Say".

Author: Red Fiona
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, their situation or the worlds they travel in, CLAMP do. No money is being made from this piece of fiction.
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles.
Characters: Fai and Kurogane, with mention of Sakura and Sayoran as well as others.
Rating: PG to PG-12, nothing worse than what's in the manga.
Content: Romance, drama and Fai/Kurogane slash.
Spoilers: Up to Volume 10 (Chapter 68 to be more specific)
Summary: Talking was something they found easy, communicating was more difficult, even before they travelled to the country of Shura.

( He hasn't been practising enough. )

Part 1 can be found here - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/525492.html

Several moons ago, I bitched about WWE giving Cena a ruptured spleen instead of a more sensible injury at one point. Well now I have data to confirm my suspicion that it would be a pain and a half to rupture it.

"Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Chris Simms ruptured his spleen in a game against the Carolina Panthers in 2006 and had an emergency procedure to have it removed. He missed the rest of the season and returned in 2007, but was inactive for the first five games before being placed on injured reserve."

Source - http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-packers-harris&prov=ap&type=lgns

-- In an interview with Slam Wrestling, actor Mickey Rourke reveals that he was not initially interested in playing the lead character in Darren Arnofsky's "The Wrestler." Rourke says a meeting with WWE Hall of Famer Greg "The Hammer" Valentine is what led him to follow up on the role. Rourke tells Slam Wrestling, "Greg "The Hammer" Valentine was this big, big guy in, maybe his early 60s, but he was still all tanned, and with all this long blonde hair," Rourke said. "He spoke about wrestling with such enthusiasm, and such pride." He also commented on the lack of benefits available for the performers. "Absolutely, these (promotions) should be looked into. There's no insurance, no pensions."

For the tropes meta/fic thing

penknife is running.

So I had the choice of three tropes, Chained to the Bed (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChainedToABed) which I have no real interest in, Vichy Earth (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VichyEarth) which I have a real and extreme interest in but my view points are possibly obnoxious, terribly long-winded, and require references and actual research so I have settled for the third option - ultimate job security (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UltimateJobSecurity).

Why is it a trope? Because TV drama has two needs, it needs drama, often caused by inter-personal problems, and it needs continuity, because you can't keep hiring and firing actors, you end up with a bad reputation. Also, a lot of drama hinges on personal, shall we say abrasiveness, that you don't get in real life. If we take my work as an example, it's a pit of vipers, several layers of nested vipers at that, but we're terribly polite about it and always do it behind each others backs, and that just doesn't work for TV drama.

Drama also needs a setting and since the two most common settings are work and home, and home tends to be the setting for comedies, while work tends to be for dramas. So you have a situation where people do things that should get them sacked and they don't for reasons that have nothing to do with the story and more with backstage reasons. Cue trope.

Another thing that tickled me was that two of the shows named in the tropes are things I'm into, and two others I know well enough to understand that their rationalizations work. The latter two are House and MASH, and yes, doctors are nigh on impossible to sack.

Onto the two I'm fannish about which are Torchwood and Wrestling. Torchwood first:

You can almost forgive them for this one because there is an in-canon reason not to replace them, because it would be damned difficult, given that it appears that it took Jack a fair few years to get a team post the thing that happens in Fragments (why the hell Torchwood fandom doesn't go 'Oh Jack' like Supernatural does is beyond me. Possibly because we're too busy doing it about the whole lot of them). Except, especially in season one, they were that bad it might have been worth it. So why was no one making them behave - well the whole unpleasant thing at Canary Wharf went down, but I refuse to believe someone, like say UNIT, didn't come and smack them down and hard. So yeah, there's something totally bizarre in canon (except I think they enjoy pretending UNIT doesn't exist unless they need to use it). House at least explains why the lead character cannot be sacked. Torchwood never does. It's not like they're running low on ret-con.

Wrestling: First a quick definition for the non-wrestling fans who read this - kayfabe is the story we see on screen. I'm going to use that world as the real one, mostly because what goes on backstage is even more convoluted.

TV tropes chose Austin as the example of someone who never gets sacked no matter what. This makes me believe that whoever it was really didn't watch that hard because he was forever getting sacked and just ignoring that fact. The person I'd put up there is Vince McMahon, the chairman himself, because really, if a real executive behaved like that, he'd be kicked off the board and possibly thrown in jail. Admittedly he does get shoved out of the way at various time by the rest of his brood but much like the Maxwell family, I'm reasonably sure all the members of the McMahon family cluster should have been up before one magistrate or another a long time ago.

This is also one of those tropes that people notice a lot, possibly because very few people in the real world are lucky enough to have this. I've noticed that people spot and object to its existence more when the person is incompetent (see Torchwood, series one especially) than when they're good at their job, but obnoxious (see House). It really grates a lot of people because it's so different to how the world works, but is found a lot more often in real-world based programmes than in absolutely and resolutely non-reality related ones.

It's a very silly trope, but due to confines of television, one that will be with us 'til doomsday.

So I'm plotting out a fic, and I'm trying to decide where a character is going to be from. I know he's from the area of New York and I know where he's going to meet the other protagonist, and I know his background. But, despite having quite a strict search term, I still worry that google won't come up with anything. As a back-up plan, I think, well, I'll just stick him as being from Red Hook, a la Tazz. So I google, and a more suitable area comes up, and even better, it fits in perfectly with where he's meeting the other protagonist. As I read further into the article, which also gives me some hints in regard to his age, there's a section for famous residents. Guess who lives there now - one Tazz.

Cue giggling.

She's apparently Nikita, I don't know if she was the one on FWA but it would explain why she looks familiar.

I bring forth a Paul Heyman interview with the Sun - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/heyman/article762131.ece

There have also been promises of video blogs from him.

Also, rumour has it that 'Snow (eh oh)' by the Chilli Peppers or whatever it's called is going to be the WM theme song and while it's an odd fit for wrestling, this makes me really high-pitched and squeaky.

Although first news of a truly fucked up dream, wherein Mother Dearest was pregnant and getting married to Kid Rock.

Yeah, I'm thinking of checking what I ate before bed and swearing never to eat it again.

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But on to wrestling. First Smackdown ( because it will always be my favourite )

Then I watched Bottom Line and mostly everything I wish to say can be conveyed with the non-spoilery I <3 Jericho, Flair, ( And the one spoiler )

Saw some of TNA but in the usual way (i.e. chaotic due to shopping) so it was even crazier than usual even if I wish to face-palm severely over the main event of the Christmas episode ( Because )

Also Eric Young is adorable.

I also caught the one before Turning Point (hence at least part of the confusion) and just want to say how damn good AJ and Tomko are. Tomko just does world-weary so well, and AJ's so earnest.

I also really want to punch Team 3D in the mouth for talking smack about the X-division.

>>-- Four-time WWE World Tag Team Champion Sylvain Grenier is one of the latest additions to the TNA family. He is currently announcing the French language broadcasts of TNA Impact. He was backstage at the Impact tapings two weeks ago, but there are no plans for him in TNA past his role as the French language announcer.<<

How does one get hold of TNA in French?

Something that may cheer Twig up - Chris Jericho went to Lance Storm’s Wrestling School in Calgary before he returned to WWE to prepare for his in-ring return. Jericho attended classes, trained with students, and coached the youngsters on how to do effective promos. Lance Storm revealed that he and Jericho worked some private matches together, mainly to get down his new finisher (what is now known as the Code Breaker).

I think I just saw Billy Gunn on a hot chocolate advert. I'm like 9/10ths sure. What the hell?!

First the SFX and violence - as someone has said in RL the SFX are indeed really good, especially for the Sandman, but I did think they were pushing it in a kids flick. Although I'm starting to suspect Spiderman was a PG-12.

( On Friendship and with some spoilers about TNA )

Also on an AMW tip - there be new TNA Today footage of the Wildcat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4xjCdjj3f0 I squeed rather a lot. And I'm totally using that as a riff for a fic somewhere.

Now TNA, where be the Storm mic time?

( On Marvel v DC, touching on redemption )

Much though I'd love to write another fic based on the AMW split (to go with the one that's already posted and the other two I'm working on) and have it be a James Storm POV because the truth's a three sided sword and all that. Except for one small teensie problem. I really can't because well... mostly I still want to punch him and hard for doing that to his tag team partner.

And then I have to applaud them for causing that reaction. Because that's one of the reasons I watch wrestling, those moments of total suspension of disbelief where I do forget that there's a script-writer, and just lose it.

Other than being more than a little slow on the uptake having never figured out that Shelley and Sabin used to tag team together, this is one of the coolest names for a tag team ever.

In reply to Opera's suggestion of wrestle-fic unpopular opinions.

I'm not entirely sure that these are unpopular over in this corner of the internet, but they might be elsewhere. The first two are more general but amazingly prevalent in wrestling fan-fic while the other three are wrestling fan-fic specific.

( On with the opinions )

With spoiler warnings for what's happened to AMW and for John Cena's present storyline.

Because to me, there's three mind-sets I have for consuming wrestling - mark mind, smark mind and my rational mind. Since I might not be using these in the proper, traditional sense, what I mean is that my mark-mind is those moments where I can ignore the other two and think its real, my smark-mind is called upon in those moments where wrestling is being stupid, not for sensible reasons, but for wrestling industry reasons and my rational mind is those moments where I'm neither of the above, I'm watching it as fictional entertainment.

And, personally, I prefer it when wrestling by-passes the other two and takes me to the marky state of mind. It's those moments I watch it for. Which is why I'm so pleased and intrigued with how TNA are handling the AMW split.

Because, normally, when a tag team split up in acrimony, there's the good guy and the bad guy, and the bad guy justifies himself, and the good guy tells him to shove it and there's anger and violence and a fight. But there hasn't been this time, there's been Storm justifying himself and making an ever bigger ass out of himself, which fits the pattern (and seriously, could someone hit him with something, and hard, soon) but the good guy isn't telling him to shove it. Harris's interview was pretty much 'Dude, I have no idea what to say, I'm still in shock'.

That was probably their masterstroke, because, much as I love him something chronic, Harris can't do big and dramatic, so they gave him shocked and low-key instead, and it worked. The visuals also helped, with wee baby AMW being all cute and together, contrasted with a repeat of the incident and Harris in an eye-patch.

The other thing that really helped is that they've kept Harris out of action, which makes everything seem more serious, to the point where I start to worry if there's something wrong with Harris in RL not just storyline, because dude, he's been gone a long time. (Dear TNA, please don't screw this up and have him return with something worse than the Empire Saint gimmick, because if you do I shall be very annoyed.)

Now contrast this to Cena and his ruptured spleen, which I object to, not with my smark-mindset, but with my rational one because there's no way that he could be wrestling with a ruptured spleen. This has nothing to do with pain, because I'd let them get away with that, and it has nothing to do with the spleen being damaged, because people can live long and happy lives without spleens because, as far as I know, their main function is to do with the maturation of immune system cells which can be done elsewhere in the body instead. My objection is with the rupture, because right now, without treatment, Cena should be in hospital with septicemia at the very least. Because a rupture means a tear or whole in the spleen so stuff should be leaking out of it, causing goodness knows what shock in his body and septicemia to set in. Also, there's a good chance that the immune system would go into over-drive and make him even more ill.

How much easier would it have been to give him a "sensible" injury, like a broken rib or brusied ribs or a bruised sternum or a torn muscle in the area because all of those hurt like bejasus and cause you to be held back in what you can do and all of them are infinitely more plausible.

It's not that I don't like cartoony and silly, because I love King Booker and Queen Sharmell and JBL, who are the King, Queen and Clown Prince of cartoonia, but I love them because they're exaggerations of something real and possible.

Terracota at Leicester is a decent restaurant.

Me

The Good: I'm pretty certain the foul moods I've been in in the mornings have been due to low blood sugar.
The bad: Still means I'm a pretty unpleasent person, given what I've been thinking in said moods
The ugly: Have gained wait. Am therefore stepping up the gym thing.

PhD:

The Good: Am now definitely getting it.
The Bad: £3,300 tuition fees
The Ugly: Is there some universal rule that the one person who knows about things, like for instance if it's me or the uni that pays my tuition fees, is always the one person absent when you need them.

Holiday:

The Good: Danny is recruiting people to go diving with him in Egypt.
The bad: I probably can't go.
The ugly: I really want to.

More general:

Oh Floyd! You're an idiot, you know.
The wrestling channel are selling TNA dvds again. This is good. One of them is a best of the X-division one, that goes up to the end of 2003, I think. I, of course, want.
Am once again struck by the feeling that I view characters totally differently from everyone else - case in point, Jack Harkness, who whatever else he may be, scares me, because he has, if not a death wish, then at least an unnervingly easy come, easy go attitude to his own existance.

Having seen and heard of Kane's May 19th related freak out, I leave it to your imaginations to guess how amused I was by a radio advert that declared that May 19th was the deadline for employers to get their PAYE papers in. I can now see why he is having a fit, he's worried that he hasn't filled out forms properly.

Anyone with any tech knowledge - do you know how I can view .sgd files on computers that don't recognise them?

Also I've just remembered why I love wrestling - no matter how down I feel, I can whack an episode on and be cheered up.

Current Mood: worried

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