Heat and Velocity are up. I liked ’em better than other people did, but then I didn’t have the high of Experience to skew my reactions to rest of the weekend.
I alluded to this in the recap, but I expect they’ll be more stars (and/or more six man tag matches) while they’re running Tough Enough the next couple months. Diva Search didn’t have a huge effect because they always cut it down to one segment and no more twenty minutes, so you can adjust things and people only occasionally get busted down to Heat. If they’re going to dedicate two full/long segments to TE for a half hour each week (what they did this week), someone major is going to aced out of a spot on the big show for the duration.
Not every week is going to have Shannon Moore getting on SmackDown! instead of Kurt Angle, and we’d all be surprised (though happy) if they kept giving significant time to the Chavo/Kidman/London stuff instead of shuffling them off to Saturday, but if you’re making SmackDown! three quarters as long as before, only three quarters of the pushed guys are going to make it. I don’t expect they’ll turn this disadvantage into an advantage (“look! something’s happening on Velocity! I should check it out!”), but it’ll probably be an oddity when someone looks back at the lineups a year from now.
Women’s Title History is fixed thanks to the commenter and Michael – who’s got his own list here. In fact, he’s got his own lists of all the current WWE championships on his site, which kinda makes me wonder if I should bother continuing doing mine.
I don’t have any new information that he doesn’t (except for the links) and in some case, he’s got more info, and this isn’t like recaps where a different person doing it could add a different perspective; it’s people repeating the same data and some people (him) doing it better than other people (me.) There’s plenty of other stuff I could do if I dropped title histories (like some tapes over there staring me in the face), so maybe I’ll stop doing current stuff and work backwards more. I dunno.
Speaking of other things I could/should be doing, I finally added everyone who gave me 10 hits in a month to the link list over there. If Tan and Hobbes dead blogs are there, it’s the least I can do. You too can have a link on the website with the worst words/hits ratio possible.
Is suplexmasta supposed to have unreadably small font? Is it me?
Anyone got a good recommendation on a disposible camera? I can’t commit myself to getting an actual camera because I don’t know if I’d use much, but I haven’t used any of the one-time-use ones in quite a while.
I would like to alert suplexmasta that Tom Petty didn’t write “Asshole”, Beck did, but I have no idea who that is so it’s probably not my place.
Since this was the first in the string of “special” shows, it would have been nice to get a quick plug for Angle/Holly during Smackdown. Especially now that Hardcore is a temporarily credible opponent, despite all my swearing.
Unless there, like, was one. I drift in and out.
I actually worry that Velocity will one day be nixed entirely, judging from all the weird timeslot changes. But I understand neither the television business nor the various circumstances under which “TiVo” can be used as a verb, so I imagine that’s unfounded.
the small font is partly you, partly me. It’s set kind of small because I usually update on a 1024×768 resolution monitor, but I usually read it on an 800×600. I like it, so it’s not gonna change anytime soon.
Also, I wasn’t sure which version of “asshole” that was, as a bunch of people either did covers or completely different songs named “asshole”. I pulled the lyrics off of a petty fan site. I’m not a big beck fan. so sue me. I’ll change it.
TNM: I actually worry that Velocity will one day be nixed entirely, judging from all the weird timeslot changes.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was dumped from Spike in the next TV deal, and dropped back into syndication like Jakked used to be. They don’t seem to want it.
Heat can’t go any place because it doesn’t work as a PPV lead in otherwise, but Velocity doesn’t have that lock.
suplexmasta: I like it, so it’s not gonna change anytime soon.
k. As long it was a part me, it’s good.
The death of Velocity would hit me almost as hard as the death of Worldwide did. Hit your knees and start prayin’.
Oh yeah, about the disposable cameras, I always use whatever’s cheapest. Usually Kodaks or Fujis. Always turn out pretty well, especially for a throwaway camera.
I don’t think “huuuge” does proper justice to that flapjack Spike took. Half his body went out of the camera shot, it was HYOOOOOOOOOOOGE~! Nick Patrick’s expression was like “Jesus Christ that’s high.”
I will, in fact, sue you. Or else Beck might.