Kel Varnsen

One dead give away that TV cops are giant workaholics (especially for procedural type shows) is that anytime there is any kind of social event like a retirement party or an awards ceremony it will always happen at the end of an episode. So they will also be able to use the event to celebrate the big case they just solved. Because they always solve the case in time for the event, except for one episode of Homicide Life on the Street I remember watching where the event took place mid episode (and was kind of awesome for doing it).

That's a pretty big change. My memories from reading avengers comics was that Tony was the serious business man and Hawkeye was the smartass with one liners. And even the Tony being a drunk thing I think only came around in the 70's. So it's hard to get mad about movies not being faithful to the comic book characters when later comic book writers don't even stay faithful.

But times change and you have to make changes to make the stories work? Tony Stark wasn't fighting communists in Asia in 2008 since that wouldn't have really made sense. And Hank Pym isn't a spouse abuser since no one wants to see Michael Douglas hit Michelle Pfeiffer. You mean like Terry McGinnis or any of the times Robin has become Batman? Or Batgirl/Bat-Woman? Even in comics it's not like things stay the same forever. My favourite is that there is no story from the 40's where Captain America falls in the ice and is frozen for decades. That's just something that they made up in 1963.

Do you really think that comic book fans are a united "we" who all want the same thing?

Of course they are. You would be too if so many of your cases had some sort of connection to your personal life.

I feel like if you try to cater to comic fans who want to stick to using the source material it can easily become a "your damned if you do and damned if you don't" kind of scenario. Because say if they decided to use the original Surfer in the FF movie. Any changes to his back story, characterization or powers could open Marvel up to the same type of complaints they would get for using a different Surfer character. But if you go with someone different and lesser known, you now have a lot more options to make a movie character that works better in the context of the story you are trying to tell. And the complaints you get probably would have happened either way.

He could always sign Hogan. I also hear that Gina Carano is looking for work (and she has already done MMA and American Gladiators). After that I could totally see Vince being the guy who just hires wrestlers with name recognition from other promotions that have been let go because of drug problems (steroids or recreational) or because of too many concussions.

I hadn't really thought about that but it would be interesting to see what happens. He is supposed to be selling off his TKO shares I think so between that and his own personal fortune he would have a ton of cash to work with. I imagine the big challenge would be getting big name performers to work with him. Dwayne Johnson is probably his biggest supporter but he just got a spot on the TKO board and the Rock name back, probably in exchange for a big investment. I can't see Vince wanting to do something that wasn't big, but going big means getting big names who are ok with your scandal and wanting to work with him.

I am not sure it matters. It might be some weird confirmation bias thing but the percentage of pro football players whose families felt they had brain damage and had them examined for CTE after their deaths is already insanely high (like over 90% percent in one study). So it's not like it will change the data in any way.

Ok I guess I wasn't paying enough attention to catch that part. Either way, moving when you are an adult, and have actual stuff, is a huge pain in the ass. So her having to do that again, because of his issues and not being super angry about it was really weird.

But even if he thought he was going to win they would still need money right? They would still have legal bills to pay.

There was a lot of weird stuff this episode. Like I can't believe that Marisol wasn't super pissed that she has just moved in and Eddie said she needed to move out. Because now she has to find a new place to live which sucks. It wouldn't have surprised me if she said I'll move out, but we are done. The only story I have ever seen on TV that is anything close was The Todd on Scrubs who was a super horny super tough guy surgeon. But he eventually realized that he was so horny he didn't care if he was getting it from a guy or a woman. So it makes me think that Buck is more of a dramatic version of that where he is a guy who loves relationships and being in love and doesn't care as much of who it is with. I have never been a foster parent but I can't imagine they would really leave you on your own like that with a traumatized kid to the point where the only options are figure it out yourself or send the kid back. Because what would have happened if Hen's friend the cop hadn't helped her out. Lastly I am super disappointed they didn't get Bruce Campbell to be the guy at the beginning who couldn't control his hand.

Finished the series tonight and I thought it was really interesting in that it showed the whole venture capital/investor world wouldn't really work for something that was almost a pure R&D thing. Because it seems like they were caught in this whole snowball of needing money to pay everything but there is no actual money coming in, so you constantly need to find new and bigger investors to give you more money and attract even bigger investors. But you need to convince them that a company that has no revenue has value so you need to keep grifting and peddling bullshit. It seems like if they were just doing pure research without the worry about investors (like a university or something) they might have come up with something. But they were 10 years in and couldn't even keep the thing from blowing up. Although it was weird how Elizabeth wanted her company to be run like an internet company but ignored how a lot of the big guys built their companies. Google started by just doing search, and only expanded to other stuff like Gmail and maps once they had that nailed. Same with Amazon how they just sold books at first so they could become the biggest bookseller then expanded to other products and then other services. Even Netflix did the mail dvd thing so that they could perfect their recommendations algorithm before they launched streaming. It seems like if she had went with a machine that did one or two tests instead of dozens, it might have had a chance. One thing I did wonder about was Linda and how she couldn't find another job after working for Elizabeth. Was that real though? I mean there are a lot of lawyers who have defended a lot of people way worse than Elizabeth and they keep finding jobs. It's kind of a stereotype. So why couldn't she. That Okay bye was pretty great, both the acting and how funny it was. Although I can't believe Sunny walked away so easily, especially after sinking $20 million into the company. I did like how Tyler and Erika kind of went all in buy going on the record like they did. Because it seems like at that point the only way to stop all the legal threats and harassment is to completely nuke the company from orbit so they have no resources left to go after you.

I looked earlier today and it seems you can stream it directly from the PBS website. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/league-of-denial/

Not sure about actual Elizabeth, but the show has done a great job of making Amanda Seyfried, who is ridiculously attractive, look kind of off and a little weird looking. The scene where she was walking to the car to go to the party was one of the first times I thought she looked really hot. I really don't get this guy and hope we get some more follow up. I mean I understand he felt burned by missing out on Yahoo. But at the same time he is an engineering professor at Stanford. Not some little no name, for profit school that is on the second floor of a strip mall. Elizabeth can't be the first student he has met since Yahoo who was really smart and had a potentially million dollar idea can she? Laurie Metcalf was unsurprisingly awesome though. I am amazed her character didn't stand up and respond when she was being trashed by Elizabeth during that interview.