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It's basically about managing to throw your opponent to the ground while also preventing them from throwing you to the ground! If you don't attack often enough then you can get penalized for 'passivity' which can cancel out a minor score. Once you're on the ground, you can win by pinning them in a hold for 30 seconds, or by forcing them to surrender by putting them in a choke hold or an armlock. (I played it for a few years in University, was great fun!)

Oksana Chusovitina? She has a gold medal that's probably older than most of her competitors! This is her seventh Olympics. Hope she makes it through to the vault finals.

http://dailydead.com/starz-unleashes-the-demonic-wrath-of-baal-in-new-ash-vs-evil-dead-season-2-photo/ Yet another Xena/Hercules cast member showing up for the ride!

Usually when I'm making a fruit cake for Christmas, I use heated jam to make the marzipan stick to the top. I'm surprised that nobody tried that - although I suppose it was the visual the judges were looking for. Best way I've found to get a non-dry fruit cake is to soak the fruit overnight in whiskey and then 'feed' the completed cake more whiskey in the interval between baking and covering with marzipan. (I'm not usually organized enough to start the process more than a few weeks before Christmas, but I haven't had any complaints yet!)

S3 did improve the last few eps S4 was a vast improvement, IMO

That bit with the icing was so funny. I think for that few seconds neither of the bakers was confident they were right! Tamal and his lack of base worked out well for him, but IIRC, it came out in a later interview that the reason for not having a base was that he hadn't actually realised that the dish was supposed to be made with a base!

Re the recap 'pants' in this context is slang for bad. So Tamal is saying that Ian is making everybody else look bad by comparison.

I think that Tyneman junior was supposed to be suffering the after effects of his stay in prison - given what he put his victims through, I wasn't exactly feeling much sympathy for him. I didn't really get the point of Munro either and was just relieved that he'd turned out to be a bad guy so as to pave the way for bringing back Lawson. Still don't know why Joel Tobeck wasn't available for S3, TPTB were very coy throughout the filming/airing of this season and kept saying "wait and see" whenever anybody asked them on Facebook if he'd be back. All in all I thought S3 was just a bit disappointing and the final ep was a bit of a mess with them trying to cram all the storylines into it - IMO they'd have done better with a two part finale or extended episode.

The difference IMO is that Superman/Spiderman/Batman are all the lead hero on their own shows. Daisy on the other hand is supposed to be part of an ensemble and yet she's the only one being put on a pedestal. If the show was called "The amazing Daisy (formerly known as Skye)" then fair enough, it'd be her show and yes it should revolve around her. But it's called Agents of SHIELD and gives the mistaken impression that it's supposed to be about a team and not an individual.

Regarding Dorret not having practiced her showstopper, IIRC, she said on Extra Slice that she'd changed from her original idea at the last minute and hadn't had time to practice the new one. maybe she'd have got a better outcome if she hadn't changed it.

I just watched this ep and for some reason had it in my head that it was the season finale. Let me tell you that there was a lot of swearing aimed at the screen when I thought I'd have to wait until next year for a resolution!

Don't you mean "Watch this bit of CGI face off against another bit of CGI?"

Oh that looks so good!

A second soundtrack album is being released next week - currently available to preorder on I-tunes. Covers seasons 2 to 4.

I know that Joyce had issues with fitting in the final challenges before, but how can you get it so wrong when not only do you get to pre-cut your pieces, but you also know exactly what size your model is?

I know S3 is the last anyway, but I've cancelled The Musketeers. Partly because BBC took ages to air it and then started messing around with the scheduling, but mainly because I realised that I really don't care all that much about the characters and the storylines.

My guess is that Poussey's father took a tough love approach with her and maybe didn't help her out with her defense. IIRC, he never came to visit her during the show. Or maybe Poussey was acting out and didn't accept his help?

I think that the problem with Suzanne is that either (a) she's responsible for her actions and needs to face the consequences- the SHU or max or whatever - or (b) she's not responsible for her actions, in which case she needs to be under some sort of proper supervision - psych ward, assisted living etc. Things can't or at least shouldn't stay the way they are. She's a danger to herself and the other inmates.

That's what I figured as well. Until of course somebody comes up with a way to weaponise them or use them for illicit purposes and then they'd probably ban them and only issue them as needed and make the inmates return them when finished. (I may be getting somewhat cynical about private run prisons)

Her pattern matching was good, but I wonder how good it would have been if they hadn't been allowed to pre-cut their pattern pieces before the challenge.

Red would have been the first one to tell Alex to keep quiet about it. If Alex had spoken up then she would have brought down Lolly and Frieda and Red with her. Red was confident that she could get through the interrogation without giving up anything. I am surprised that she didn't hide the keys a bit better though. Next season they need to do Frieda's backstory!

Trespassing and possession - but only a small amount of drugs. Honestly, it sounded like something that should have just gotten her probation if she'd had a half-decent lawyer.

On my screen, top right there's a speech bubble icon. If you tap that it brings up subtitle options.

I'm finding it hard to feel much sympathy for Maria. Although how is it fair that she gets more time added without any sort of trial or due process? Piper may have planted evidence but Maria was still committing the crime so it's not like she was some innocent thrown to the wolves.

IIRC, it was I admit I didn't pay much attention to that plot because I was more concerned with what was going on with Lawson. That's also why I rarely rewatch it (in spite of Joel's outstanding work). As for painting over a picture, it was then - and still is - a good way to hide a picture.