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History Comes Inside! posted:Tbf people predicted the ending of Lost as soon as it aired and the show runners spent the whole run going “nuh uh you’ll never guess it nobody could ever guess it” before ending it exactly the way people said they would from the beginning. The Island wasn't purgatory
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History Comes Inside! posted:Tbf people predicted the ending of Lost as soon as it aired and the show runners spent the whole run going “nuh uh you’ll never guess it nobody could ever guess it” before ending it exactly the way people said they would from the beginning. Oh yeah I remember that, and I got it mixed up with Westworld. Lost went like you said, and Westworld was the show where the show runners literally admitted that people guessed some key twists ahead of time because they were the logical thing, and then they rewrote things in a panic and arbitrarily changed important plot points to things fans hadn't guessed, because they didn't make a loving bit of sense.
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Rarity posted:The Island wasn't purgatory I'd argue if people are still unclear on this a decade later then the ending was poorly written. Like people complain about the endings to the Sopranos and Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones but most people agree on what happened
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Gaz-L posted:I'd argue if people are still unclear on this a decade later then the ending was poorly written. Like people complain about the endings to the Sopranos and Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones but most people agree on what happened most of the people confused stopped watching before the final season of lost and only heard secondhand what happened in the last episode
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Yeah, I had a lot of problems with Lost but I felt they went painfully out of their way to explain that the events that we saw take place on the island happened in the real world, and it was only this weird post-island phase they were in during the last season that was their limbo as they waited to all unite together again before moving on. I mean, I think at one point one of the characters (Hurley?) literally straight up just says it as flat-out text? Still, the best ending for Lost is still the gif of the dog waking up and running into the wall 
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:These motherfuckers are so loving tiresome. It's always some fat middle aged white dude with a bloatee running in to breathlessly tell everyone that ACKSHUALLY TRUE STORYTELLING MASTERY IS SUBVERTING EXPECTATIONS with that same loving "I am the expert of everything" voice, while being so loving wrong it would be hard to be wronger if you tried. You don't even have to go outside of wrestling: that's how you get Vince Russo and his SHOCKING SWERVES that were all about making sure no dirt-sheet smark could say they guessed his finishes ahead of time, regardless of whether they made sense or were good booking.
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Low hanging fruit considering who its from but still: https://twitter.com/JobberNationTV/status/1642766319698464769?t=66fBHWsBXtyIMy7z_KOLwg&s=19
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reddit guy posted:Seems convenient WWE had the show in LA, where Endeavor is based. This has been in motion for quite a while imo. They had to host Wrestlemania where the buyer was based so that it would be easier to stop by and sign the contracts before the show.
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah, I had a lot of problems with Lost but I felt they went painfully out of their way to explain that the events that we saw take place on the island happened in the real world Selachian posted:You don't even have to go outside of wrestling: that's how you get Vince Russo and his SHOCKING SWERVES that were all about making sure no dirt-sheet smark could say they guessed his finishes ahead of time, regardless of whether they made sense or were good booking. Like that time GOLDBERG REFUSED TO FOLLOW THE SCRIPT
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Gaz-L posted:I'd argue if people are still unclear on this a decade later then the ending was poorly written. Like people complain about the endings to the Sopranos and Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones but most people agree on what happened Oh my, no. Even the Sopranos thread here has people back and forth on whether Tony got shot (although to be fair Tony getting shot does not particularly matter).
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I loved the end of Return of the Jedi when the Great Master George Lucas had Luke kill Palpatine and he and Vader began a new era of galactic dominance.
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xbilkis posted:https://twitter.com/mattkoonmusic/status/1642760939304013827 https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1642772931448291328
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https://twitter.com/JESnowden/status/1642877990550876160 Oh, good!
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I hope dumbo dummy Jim Cramer interviews Vince.
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Wait. UFC/WWE isn’t an April fools joke?
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah, I had a lot of problems with Lost but I felt they went painfully out of their way to explain that the events that we saw take place on the island happened in the real world, and it was only this weird post-island phase they were in during the last season that was their limbo as they waited to all unite together again before moving on. I mean, I think at one point one of the characters (Hurley?) literally straight up just says it as flat-out text? It was Hurley, yeah. He was often the audience stand-in and would often make comments and theories that aligned with what was being discussed on message boards and the like. Anyway. A lot of the failures of modern story telling can be laid at the feet of people who studied audience metrics and social media interactions instead of things like narrative pay off or plot structure or character development. Nobody cares if a story is good anymore, they just care if people talk about it on Twitter so much that it starts trending.
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Sisal Two-Step posted:It was Hurley, yeah. He was often the audience stand-in and would often make comments and theories that aligned with what was being discussed on message boards and the like. Definitely, the preoccupation with raw ratings and dynamite ratings is toxic and bad
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I respect how galaxy brained he had to get to spin this as good for the performers. https://twitter.com/ThisIsNasty/status/1642928214980050945 (Beyond not wanting your agent to be your boss, think about all of the UFC movie careers from the purchase to present.)
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Insert here the months of WWE addicts denying that WWE was being prepped to be sold and deriding every report as AEW bias or mudslinging. Also that Vince was just back as a figurehead.
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Beyond Wrestling Drew posted a really dumb thread and one of the counter takes managed to be even more bizarre. https://twitter.com/brodouche/status/1642929769879678977 After watching the Circle 6 stream I beg indies not to try to run worse production values.
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MassRafTer posted:I respect how galaxy brained he had to get to spin this as good for the performers. Marvel Phase 5 just got a lot more interesting!
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I say we hear this guy and his $2 beer plan out.
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MassRafTer posted:Beyond Wrestling Drew posted a really dumb thread and one of the counter takes managed to be even more bizarre. I agree, it would rule to go back to a 2003 cost of living, but I'm not sure that wrestling promoters will really be the ones to make that happen
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I suspect that guy didn't watch anything other than the boring-rear end, staid GCW shows, if he even watched them
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Sounds like Endeavor just sent Alfred some really good meats.
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Bonk posted:Sounds like Endeavor just sent Alfred some really good meats. *mumbling* meatplatterendeavor
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCir...nt=share_button Trust The Process
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Lid posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCir...nt=share_button The amount of salty/coping reddit posts that get deleted by the mod team is hilarious. Here's one for the archives: "I was really upset when two Japanese wrestlers won the Royal Rumble and both lost their matches at WrestleMania, I always blamed it on Vince but I was fine. I never liked Triple H as a wrestler but loved what he did with NXT and later the larger WWE universe but after this WrestleMania, which I was so emotionally involved with I don't know why, I am quitting watching wrestling as a whole because it's messed me up emotionally, like when the streak was broken. I have never been a sports guy and my friends always made fun of me for watching wrestling but now I see the reason, it's scripted and no matter how perfect the story could be they would always want it to be something different because they want to subvert the expectations. I'm sure WWE doesn't mind losing one fan when they have millions but I would miss watching WWE. Good bye, Squared Circle."
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MassRafTer posted:I respect how galaxy brained he had to get to spin this as good for the performers. Less than 24 hours after the biggest AEW defection got nerfed in the biggest show of the year
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D.N. Nation posted:Less than 24 hours after the biggest AEW defection got nerfed in the biggest show of the year I get what he's saying here, at least, even if I don't think he's right. Hypothetically, these big Hollywood agents could get you placed in TV/movies outside of wrestling. Realistically, this won't happen because WWE doesn't actually want anyone to be successful outside their chosen few.
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Endless Mike posted:I get what he's saying here, at least, even if I don't think he's right. Hypothetically, these big Hollywood agents could get you placed in TV/movies outside of wrestling. Realistically, this won't happen because WWE doesn't actually want anyone to be successful outside their chosen few. It won't happen because Nick Khan wasn't even that kind of agent. He represented a bunch of sports talk show hosts and UFC has seen person try to crossover into acting since the sale, Ronda Rousey. It went well.
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if he does come back it'll be because of YOU PEOPLE!
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JUNGLE BOY posted:if he does come back it'll be because of YOU PEOPLE! Its fear mongering and fake news! ^ this is literally what us being said after Vince was on TV literally earlier to state he is back in charge and being kept on they are so hard into denial
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I mean it's almost certain Vince is back at this point but the desperate refusal to believe that HHH isn't a perfectly flawless booker is also pretty amazing
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Endless Mike posted:I get what he's saying here, at least, even if I don't think he's right. Hypothetically, these big Hollywood agents could get you placed in TV/movies outside of wrestling. Realistically, this won't happen because WWE doesn't actually want anyone to be successful outside their chosen few. The sad truth is that James Gunn as an individual is more responsible for WWE guys making it in Hollywood than the entirety of WWE.
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Endless Mike posted:I get what he's saying here, at least, even if I don't think he's right. Hypothetically, these big Hollywood agents could get you placed in TV/movies outside of wrestling. Realistically, this won't happen because WWE doesn't actually want anyone to be successful outside their chosen few. Reminder that WWE let Rock leave to go to Hollywood cause they assumed he'd fail without their help and come crawling back to them and now 20 years later they're derailing their most successful storyline in a desperate gambit to get him to just visit for a day
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