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By that logic he should be on The Rock's one match every 8 year schedule by now!

Normally I'm of the opinion that you should cast whoever the best person is for the role, but I'm less sure about James Bond. I think there's absolutely room in the market for action movie franchises with a black lead. But I'd be worried that narrow minded studios would think Bond has already ticked that box if Bond were to do it and I think you could do something far more interesting than "Bond is black now." It feels like whitewashing. If the movies are going to continue to be navel gazing, than it'd be more enjoyable if they leant into the ridiculousness of the white British super spy that critics identified and understood back in the 60s. That joke was in the films from the start. If you're a book fan, part of the joy (at least now) is that they're partly a result of a paranoia about a decline in upper-class British white heteronormative men and their power. That's even funnier now. And perhaps, most importantly, I find the more recent Bond movies more politically troubling than the older ones. The older ones, maybe excluding oddities like License to Kill, were aware that they were a joke. The newer ones are heritage movies and have all the baggage that comes with that. They genuinely feel mournful of the idea that Bond is ridiculous rather than understanding that Bond has always been ridiculous. There's a weird sort of nostalgia about Britishness and white masculinity (I'd argue the two concepts are very intertwined in the Bond movies and books) which makes me uncomfortable with the idea of them now producing Bond movies with a black actor as Bond. They'd either do nothing with it, which feels ignorant, or handle it badly.

Wasn't everyone on here recently clamouring for more fat lads in wrestling? Not that I'm calling Sheamus fat. Besides, he's closer to end the of his career than the prime. They're not pushing him as the sexy face of the company. He's a utility player. Someone old ice hockey teams would hire because they look like they could hit hard and take a beating. Plus they need someone Gunther can stiff every now and then.

Nothing. He said something about freelancers not wanting to put the grind in which could have been about anybody. People seem to want it to be about Ospreay. And I've always got the impression that Ospreay probably isn't the hardest guy to wind up.

To be fair, Jungle Boy could have pointed out that Coca Cola is vastly superior to Pepsi.

Okada is a guy who's excellent in an epic. He's also a guy who's great at doing very basic moves when they matter. NJPW rebuilt themselves around him. I don't think he's actually that easy to book if you're trying to slot him into a different company and expect the same results.

I've no idea why (maybe it's the blurred faces) but it reminded me of the footage that TNA showed of the James Gang showing up at the studio where the WWE were filming a Royal Rumble video. Still, Punk's a prick. Who knew?

I'm not sure you couldn't pick just as many holes in Austin appearing as you could Undertaker. His feud with Rock is years ago. The Rock is the final Boss and Austin has a history of teaming up with bosses at WrestleMania. But, probably more importantly, Undertaker confronting Rock doesn't feel like a tease. Austin confronting The Rock would.

This isn't Jericho himself so much, but I always thought the way he won the title at the start was a bit shit. Just the idea that Kenny and Jericho have a singles match to face the winner of a battle royal to decide the first champion. And then his whole faces of Jericho "I'm like the David Bowie of wrestling" entrance. And his initially shit finisher.

To be fair, it's 8 months later. Why would those same people still care? The relationships over, move on.

Personally, I find it hard to divorce her views from her Enid Blyton approach to teenagers, the lazy antisemitic tropes in her world building and the suggestion that longer and duller equals more adult. I do also think that she just went too far down the wrong rabbit hole and didn't want to lose face by climbing out of it so just keeps on digging. But then when you've had that much smoke blown up your arse you either develop one hell of an ego or lung cancer.

I seem to remember that being a being "smarky" crowd with signs for Super Dragon and things.

Having the same problem. Gave up in the end.

I know wrestling is always behind popular culture but naming the current era after the Renaissance seems a tad insulting.

I dunno, telling a transphobe you can't know what gender they are till you've had a quick gander at their genitals seems like a good way of getting out of some circular arguments.