DavidB6937

2 hours ago, no user name said:

So I read some fans are turning on cody already? 

Context?

It's hard to believe it's the same company booking Ospreay/Danielson and that Jericho stuff. I just don't get it.

Baby Reindeer spoiler.

6 hours ago, Boycie said:

That has to be the most bleak episode of television I've ever seen. Very tough to watch though the performance from the lead actor is outstanding. I don't know if I can sit through any more of it after all that but I'll finish the series before long. 

That was definitely one of my worries. I thought fucking hell if that's episode 4 I dread to think what the rest of it is like. It goes quite against conventional storytelling in some ways. But makes complete sense as it's very much about what comes after too. It's all intertwined. It's definitely worth finishing. I still feel quite bleak after it to be honest but it's a story that deserves finishing.

14 minutes ago, TheBurningRed said:

Episode 4 was very harrowing. My girlfriend sobbed during his comedy show breakdown. Absolutely brilliant and heartbreaking show that struck a few nerves. Great performances too. Think it’s a show I couldn’t watch again though. 

Yeah my wife asked if it's something she'd enjoy. I said no. I'm not sure if I could sit through it again. 

Yeah just finished Baby Reindeer. Hadn't read anything before so didn't really know what I was getting myself into. But damn. Absolutely one of the most intense and harrowing things I've sat through. The performances are layered and there's so much confusion and emotion and definitely worth watching.

4 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

To show how times have changed, I remember there was an uproar when Jericho was removed from TV and fans clamouring to have Jericho back on their screens. From what I gather it’s more the opposite these days. 

I remember it well. It got cancelled, came back and then got cancelled again. I did see some talk now and again of a potential continuation on Netflix or something - and we've seen with shows like Manifest and Lucifer that it can happen - but I guess the further you get away from it time wise the less likely it'll happen, same with stuff like Hannibal. Definitely pros and cons to all sides really.

I'll stick to watching Bargain Hunt.

8 minutes ago, JLM said:

Good to see Jade Cargill is booked for a house show this weekend. Hope she gets to do a lot of these. If she can get to the point where she can work a solid ten minute match consistently I don’t think she needs much more. 

She's a hard one to judge. I definitely agree the experience will help her as I think it helps anyone. But I know she's been doing a lot of training, so I would hope she's more capable than we've seen so far and it's just the way she's been booked that means we haven't seen much. I can see why some people think perhaps she hasn't improved but we just don't know at the moment.

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

I don’t mind that as much as something just getting cancelled without any resolution whatsoever. Some shows do a sort of half and half season ending so if it does get canned, there is at least some resolution albeit a rather milquetoast one. But I’m sure that, much like Chest, I’ve spent too many hours wondering how 2 Broke Girls would’ve and/or should’ve ended. 

I don't find it quite so bad now, but back when I was having to torrent a ton of US dramas that never seemed to make it over here - probably 2004 onwards - you often ended up with stuff that was cancelled after like 6 episodes with no resolution whatsoever. For a few years there it was really frustrating because you didn't know if you'd even get a whole season, let alone a whole story. Some of them made full seasons but got pulled off the air. Not to say that networks/streamers aren't bad now but they were pretty damn ruthless back then. I guess at least it's one benefit of streamers dumping full seasons onto their platforms at one time. At least you get to see what they've made.

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

I usually have to choose our “Show before bed” viewing and it fills me with dread. If something has loads of episodes and didn’t get canned without a proper ending, I go for that so I can go over 100 days before having to choose again! 

I watch a lot of TV and my wife gets so annoyed if we watch something that doesn't have a proper ending. It's almost as if I have to watch it first to veto the bloody thing or not.

I remember being so indifferent to Sheamus when he first turned up and for quite a while really. I can't quite remember when he started being someone I enjoyed watching - maybe the Cesaro stuff? That was quite a few years into his WWE career but something just clicked for me.

6 minutes ago, Loki said:

Is that The World Beyond?  Those teen dramas can be REALLY horny for obvious reasons.

Ha. Nah, I never gave that one a go. This one is the Rick/Michonne one - The Ones Who Live. I think it was originally going to be movies but they made a show instead.

It's them running around killing zombies and then being all over each other in between. It's like death is their aphrodisiac. So odd.

Nearly finished the new Walking Dead spin off. Yes, I hate myself. I'm sorry. Curiosity got the better of me.

It has its moments.

It's also really horny. Not something I thought I'd ever say about a zombie show but there you go.

Amazing that they did that for them.

Who knew Corbin was a nice guy.

On 1/5/2024 at 8:37 PM, DavidB6937 said:

I'm not one to go too personal on here but as I'm not really doing myself any favours by keeping all this shit to myself, it might help to just type it out here.

We have 2 daughters (8 and 5) and a son (just over 2) and he's been pretty slow with the walking and the talking etc. To be honest, we half figured that as the third kid he was just so spoilt by his sisters and looked after that he almost didn't need to bother. But it got to the point where the doctors just wanted to check it wasn't any familiar things that might be causing the lack of development.

Ended up not being anything that they had on the radar but something far worse and rarer. He's been diagnosed with MPS 2 (Mucopolysaccharidosis type II😞

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/mucopolysaccharidosis-type-ii/

Now I'd never heard of it. Neither had the doctor. No one I've talked to has ever heard of it either. Internet stats give it as "approximately 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 170,000 males.

What I'm really struggling with is just how open ended it all is. Not that I'd ever want him to have some deadly life threatening disease and have no hope at all. It's just that this is one of those "well this and this and this could happen or it might not" and it's basically going to be a waiting game for the rest of his and our lives.

At the most severe, he could have 10-20 years tops and potentially less. If it's not as severe he could live for far longer but might not walk or talk. Probably stop growing. Generally lack development.

So at the moment he's having weekly visits to Great Ormond Street for baseline tests (heart, brain etc) as well as weekly enzyme infusions which won't stop anything but will apparently "improve" the signs/symptoms. Those weekly infusions will have to happen forever, but can be done at home eventually.

There was a clinical trial we were hoping to get on in America but that seems to have closed so we're waiting to see if it starts again elsewhere. So no real choice but to just carry on. 

My head has been all over the place since finding out. I don't deal well with open ended things as it is, but for something this significant I'm just pretty fucked if I'm honest. And I feel selfish even writing this. I wish the clinical trial was open still as I would've moved out there in a heartbeat with him.

So yeah. Now Christmas and all the happy shit is over, it's all focused on this now. I don't know what to think or feel or anything.

Sorry for the complete babble. I'm just lost really.

Sorry to be one of those self-quoting wankers but it's easier to reference back.

So we've been through the Great Ormond Street part of the treatment and now getting the weekly treatment at home for him which he's far happier with.

We've recently been to a intro meeting at a local children's hospice, and while their main focus is always end of life type stuff, they offer a lot of support beyond that too so it was really nice just to see what's potentially available to us - sibling days and things like that.

To be honest it's just a relief to have someone to talk to. And I asked to be referred for some counselling type sessions which I'll be starting next week.

I just want to be in a good position to help as much as I can and support my family and it's tough finding the time to put yourself first in these situations and look at your own shit, but I know if I don't then I won't be of any use to anyone eventually.

Anyway not sure why I'm rambling but sometimes it's just good to get stuff out.

Might be of interest to some here:

Sami is basically Fandango.

35 minutes ago, Chili said:

And while we're at it with a rare double post, here's something I prepared myself.

Honestly I think a good 75% of my time on there is spent reading/watching your stuff. Always great. Plus I always seem to see it, while plenty of other accounts I seem to miss shitloads of stuff on. Twitter behaves in really odd ways these days.

And hopefully they'll do that great transition from mid card feud to top card if Gunther wins one of the titles and then Sami goes after him. Always been a big fan of when they carry feuds through various levels and elevate everyone involved.

The start of the shot with Jey was great too. That fan in the way. Got yeeted.

I definitely fall more in line with Duke's thoughts.

5 minutes ago, RedRooster said:

I couldn’t agree with you more with any of this. I’d also point to Steve Maclin in Impact, and, looking further back, Bobby Lashley. Remove his TNA run from history, and I’m not sure he’d have ever been WWE champion; never mind have had people calling for WWE to resign him. Same goes for Matt Hardy - as stale as he is now, his TNA run reinvigorated him in a way very few would have predicted. Aaron Stevens, in NWA, also managed to prove that there was more to him than the Damian Sandow character. It may well be that the most interesting switches are wrestlers you simply wouldn’t consider as being ‘big gets’. 

TNA/Impact has been one of the best places for people to reach higher levels. Although when Lashley came back I'd heard a lot of good things about him and it took WWE a fair while to really figure something out with him, so it's not always plain sailing. But yeah I think a lot of the time it is the ones that get lost in the shuffle and either get more focus or freedom and something suddenly clicks. Tale as old as time really - Taker, Austin, Rock, Cena etc.. all it takes is one moment or a gimmick shift and the whole game changes.

I definitely think a lot of it will come down to where people are in their careers and in their personal lives too. If they're young and not too tied down then they may well be more open to WWE's style of the grind. But if AEW offers more opportunity to see family etc then it's all about different priorities really isn't it. The WWE machine isn't for everyone and it's great that there are other viable alternatives whether that's AEW or TNA or indies in general. I've said it before but I love the excitement of people jumping from one company to the other. That was always one of the best things about WCW being around back in the day. And as much as WWE wouldn't want to admit it, having AEW around has definitely forced them to become better.

I don't have too many specifics as I think anyone getting a new opportunity somewhere else can be exciting. Who would've thought Toni Storm would be doing what she's doing now? I wasn't that bothered about Christian or Adam Copeland. And in the other direction Brian Pillman Jr is setting the world on fire! A dumpster fire but still.

Genuinely sometimes all it takes is a new place and a different perspective and everything clicks in a way it never did before. I'm definitely a lot more open minded to all of it now after seeing the work guys like Rhodes and Cardona have put in and how the ones like Storm commit to something completely different.