This procedure usually takes up to several episodes. In fact, you could cut the series 25 episode run (so far?) down to maybe 8 or 9 and still end up with the same plot, just minus the sections where the characters are over-emoting.
In the 2007 short Time Crash, the Tenth Doctor met with the Fifth Doctor through some wibbily-wobbly timey-wimey stuff. In the episode, after a beat near the end when Ten (played by David Tennant) has acted starstruck and gushed effusively about meeting his predecessor (Peter Davison), he said to Five, "You were my Doctor."
I understood that the line referred both to the fact that Ten had enjoyed being Five, "...dashing about and playing cricket" (Davison was less stodgy and authoritative than his precursors), as well as the fact that the Fifth Doctor was the one on the air when Tennant was a boy. He would have been about 9 or 10 years old at the time Davison began his run. What I didn't comprehend at the time was the emotion that Tennant displayed when he said that line. However when I watched Matt Smith say farewell as number Eleven in The Time of the Doctor earlier, something dawned on me.
Eleven just isn't my Doctor.
2013 was a good year for wrestling.
Before anything, I’m going to need to bring up some qualifiers there. I say “wrestling” but I only really have the WWE to go on this year, and that’s blasphemous within the context of a vast, bustling professional wrestling industry that thrives from the major leagues at the top to the small presentations at the bottom. It’s not just Vince McMahon’s company.
But sometimes, in a way, it is. Nobody else has enough marketing power to match the WWE’s, and the company ends up becoming synonymous to wrestling. I have no doubt that it falls under a philosophical fallacy of some sort, but there’s no use trying to debunk it. So here’s the postulate: when the WWE does well, wrestling does well, and vice versa.
The second qualifier is the definition of “good.” Let me be clear in saying that it is not great, and very far from perfect. There are still some questionable decisions abound, both gimmick-wise and booking-wise (the latter sometimes in the name of what the WWE might like to call delayed gratification) but the wrestling has been very solid. The roster is still stacked with good workers from the main event down to developmental, and the company’s picked the right ring general to elevate (more on him later), resulting in a year’s worth of great matches at best and decent matches at worst.
And that’s why we’re here today – to look back on the year that was with a rundown of the good, the bad, the ugly, and the future, all served neatly in a package full of awards, voted on by the Philippine wrestling brain trust that is Smark Gilas-Pilipinas.
Let’s begin, shall we?
Rookie of the Year
Part of what made 2013 a good year for wrestling – or at the very least, the WWE – was that the new blood infused everywhere brought a lot of good things to the ring. While I mentioned one promotion, for the purposes of this award, a “rookie” is any young blood wrestler who started in a company in 2013/late 2012, and for the WWE/NXT paradigm, those who were called up to the WWE’s main roster in that same time period are included.
And your 2013 Rookie of the Year is… Sami Zayn!
I've been hearing that the reception for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. hasn't been as great as when it was premiered at the San Diego Comic Con back in July, but since its regular run on ABC started in September, I haven't had the chance to actually see for myself. There have been ten episodes aired so far, so I thought I'd be set until the series comes back from break on January 7, 2014. Today I decided to give it a chance despite all the stuff I've been hearing. Here's what I found out:
This show is boring as shit.
Two years since Sherlock jumped to his death at the end of Sherlock, series 2, we finally get to hear how it really happened. I tried to figure out a way to review this without spoiling anything for late viewers, but there really isn't anyway to do that, so I'm going to preface this entry with a short summary.
'The Empty Hearse' is a fun, if somewhat mediocre, episode of the Sherlock series. There's a lot of exposition that is thrown at you, very little actual plot or development, and if you haven't followed the series, then you are NOT going to understand what is going on. The actual mystery in this one takes a back seat to humor in this love letter to Sherlock fans.
Now that that's out of the way:
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!
A few months ago, the rights to Daredevil reverted from Fox to to Marvel studios. I was glad to hear it, but given how Daredevil performed in 2003, I was less than optimistic that we'd see another Daredevil movie. It's not like Marvel chased after the rights, it's just that Fox didn't bother with it so the paperwork says they go back to Marvel after some time. So, when the news broke that Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones are getting Netflix shows, I just completely lost. my. shit.
What they're going to attempt it similar to their Marvel Cinematic Universe, where each character starts off with their own show but eventually, there'll be a massive crossover. And if the way they do the MCU is any indication, it's likely to be brilliant.
My mind started racing. Who would make for the perfect Daredevil or Iron Fist? The show being on the small screen, the casting possibilities are broader. See, movies tend to rely on the star power of the main cast, whereas shows tend to be star-makers. Who would you cast?
Daredevil/ Matt
Murdock
This actor should be able to play a smart mouthed lawyer with anger issues. He should be able to project a strong sense of duty and embody darkness. Regardless of whether they'd go with the Miller DD - very catholic and angry, or the Brubaker DD - a super lawyer ninja who is still very angry, the demand for good acting is still ever present. On top of that, he'd need the right Daredevil build and be able to get his ass kicked convincingly. See, DD is like a pitbull. Relentless and aggressive, and he usually gets his ass beaten but he just keeps coming. He fights best centered, though.
Oh, and he's supposed to be blind so the actor needs to be able to convincingly act like he's acting like he can't see but can actually see just not in the conventional sense.
Scott Adkins
Adkins is an English martial artist living in the US. He's been in a lot of action movies as mostly the main antagonist's muscle or big time fighter (Expendables 2, Bourne Ultimatum) but he's been getting a lot of pretty big acting roles lately as his acting skills improve. He was in Zero Dark Thirty as John. You might remember him as Boyka in Undisputed III. Here he is being a complete and total bad ass.
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