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What a crappy end to a terrible season. They literally spent the last 8 episodes - which had a ton of meh storytelling and weak narrative - building up to one particular thing. That one particular thing doesn't really happen, and won't until the premier of season 7. I don't know why they showrunners are so obsessed with cliffhangers. People will watch the show without them. It's just such weak writing. They crammed probably 2 hours of decent narrative into the entire second half of the season. It's the same crap they did with the whole prison sequence, which lasted about 8 episodes too long, Carol looking for her daughter, and basically anything that has to do with Morgan. I hate that I watch this show.

I think that's true for most every sport.

You're just getting old lol

I think it came from MX Unleashed on Playstation lol

I think this song was way more CKYish...or at least what made me think of it more than the OP. Reminds me a ton of Escape From Hellview

Maybe the first "metal" song I ever listened to...

That's a dope song, never heard of them before. Kinda sound like CKY.

Alex Nunn ‏@aj_ranger 2h2 hours ago Igor Shestyorkin finishes the VHL regular season with a league-best 1.19 GAA and .954 SV%. Both are records for a goalie > 20 starts. #NYR Good news I guess, though there's not really anything to compare him to.

That's not really that far from the truth lol

Yea but if any one of them dies, nothing in the show changes. If Rick or Carl dies, the show has to completely re-invent itself. It's been beaten over our heads that Rick is the reason that things have worked out and that his only motivation is to provide a better life for Carl. Using SOA as a comparison again...I think it would be fair to say that Opie was basically the same as Glenn, Carol, Hershel or Daryl, in terms of importance. When Opie died, the show went on and the same could be said for Dale or Hershel or whoever. But if Jax died, the show would be over. Had Abel died, Jax' course would have been completely different. If Maggie dies, Glenn will change but the story will remain the same.

To me, there are only two core characters in the series. Everyone else is moving parts. It's the same as SOA, which really only had one core character. I have read the comics, I know what Negan does.

Jessie and her family were always ancillary, she wasn't nearly as important as Diana, who is really the only character from Alexandria that matters. Them dying allows the story to move away from that arc, which wasn't really going anywhere anyways. Same as Tyrese, Hershel, Andrea, Dale, etc. In this show, characters show up, serve their thematic purpose, and then die. You can't kill off multiple "main" characters at once, but when they all come out of every situation unscathed, it means you know how every single conflict is going to end. Glenn coming out of the bottom of that pile of zombies earlier in the season ruined the show's credibility in that regard. You know that, no matter how many zombies or enemies they are facing, the core group is going to come out just fine. Killing several of them at once really serves no purpose, but killing off one would at least allow there to be a threat of danger. My guess is that, by the end of this season, 1 or 2 of them will be gone, as well as Judith (who, LOL, the showrunners have no idea how to handle). They've (Carol, Michonne, Daryl, Glenn, Maggie) developed as much as they are going to and, if you've followed the comics at all, a handful have already lived way longer than they should have. The story is really only about 2 people...

It was action we've seen over and over again in this series. We know that they aren't going to kill off any major characters, so there's really nothing to worry about. I don't buy that it was all action either. It was people standing around punctuated by explosions, basically. There was no action that lead to the deaths, there was nothing that built up to Daryl doing the things he did....they just happened. The governor attack was better because there were 2 threats, there was chaos. This was just them hacking zombies. Even the mid-season finale when the Wolves attacked was way better in that regard.

No. That was the review and it just made me laugh. But I did think the episode was boring. It was good in that it got rid of some of the characters who have no story arc.

Well I guess they nailed the shock value thing, but I thought it was one of the worst episodes of TWD. This review cracked me up :rofl:

Yea, but I don't really think that the move is made for being drafted into the pros, you do that for a better shot at an athletic scholarship to college. Using lacrosse as an example, just because I'm more familiar with it...the greatest reward you can get from playing lacrosse is a college scholarship to a top school (Duke, Hopkins, UVA, etc.). Getting drafted into the pro leagues is nice, but that's really not going to give you any advantage in life, most of those guys hold full time jobs outside of the game. But when you get selected for travel teams that are organized by class (which I think is what needs to change), then you could be noticed by recruiters as a 16 year old playing against 14 year olds, potentially. That is a huge advantage when it comes to getting college scholarships, and the ramifications - really throughout the rest of your life - are tremendous. A 50k/year scholarship to Princeton is great...the job that Princeton will get you is even better. That's why kids are held back early, not to get drafted. That's probably a lot different than hockey, at least in some respects, but I'd imagine that, primarily, that's the focus, rather than getting to the NHL.

Right. I'm not saying that there aren't legitimate reasons for holding a kid back, or that holding a kid back means anything long-term. I think the issue is that parents are doing it for the athletic reasons, even, if they don't know if their kid is going to be a great athlete. The thought process is that, while they might only be an average athlete amongst kids their grade, given an extra year of growth, they could be.

Idk how much it happens in hockey, but in lacrosse - as outlined in the article - they're talking about holding back kids in like 1st grade, then they could end up doing a year of prep school. We're talking about 21 year old freshmen in that case. I'd argue that it is cheating. But, to be honest, I can't blame some parents for doing it. If it gets kids a scholarship to a private school and then, eventually, college, it's really hard to argue with.

I'm sure there are lots of kids who are "redshirted" by being held back a year. It happens alllll the time in lacrosse. Pretty good breakdown here: http://deadspin.com/why-rich-lacrosse-parents-are-making-their-kids-repeat-1570381983

I thought End of Heartache and As Daylight Dies were easily their best albums lol

I guess we're the exact opposite. I used to listen to KSE all the time - though I think Howard Jones was a much better vocalist than the new one. But I tried so hard to like Dillinger, but I just could not, for the life of me, get into them. That's not really a surprise, considering I'm more of the blend of metal and pop elements & melodies, but I just find bands like Dillinger to be so disorganized that it's hard to follow along, and it kind of just becomes noise.

Bit of a throwback, but on my second listen of Kezia today.

New Amazon show based on the novel by Phillip Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was the premise for Blade Runner. Really interesting, plowed through the whole thing in about 5 days. The setting - the U.S. if we lost WWII - is absolutely killer. Anybody else watched it?

Call me old fashioned, but that would annoy me. I still listen to CDs almost exclusively in the car.