GhostMachine

I may hate the Eagles, but they were screwed by the refs last night. I absolutely do not like to see games affected by bad officiating.

That looks worse than the Ice Bowl already.... Under COVID, NASCAR ran some races by having drivers driving racing simulators (a few drivers ended up out due to their machines breaking), and even ran an old track or two that no longer exists. With the announcers calling the races just like they would a real one. Sadly, I do not see the NFL doing something similar by just having the head coaches and/or coordinators play Madden against each other if the weather is bad.

From the shows mentioned, I agree with Arrow, Falling Skies and Legends of Tomorrow. But, at the same time, I also agree with JasonM about the final season of Falling Skies. It was stupid. Personally, I don't think DS9 really hit its stride until about halfway through season 2, but it went downhill quick once the Dominion War started. Of all the Star Trek shows, I think Voyager had the worst finale, though. Picard should have been the Borg's worst nightmare, not Janeway, and the ending makes the entire episode before that completely moot.

Well...

Ended up watching the next two episodes because Heidi wanted to, and after the conversation they had in episode 3, I know. Have revised my opinion somewhat after watching those other episodes, and am editing my post to reflect that.

The only reason I tolerate them is because they have some fairly attractive female actors *, plus several of both genders who are actually good. Before CCB showed her true colors, I was already annoyed because her acting is straight up cookie cutter. Danica McKellar also bolted for GAF, by the way. Lacey Charbet signed a new contract with Hallmark in October, but I don't know how long it is for. *Taylor Cole, Pascale Hutton, Hunter King, Lacey Charbet, Bethany Joy Lenz, and Rachel Leigh Cook, especially. Merritt Patterson, who was on that list, apparently went to GAF a few years ago.

Netflix has a new reality show called Trust: The Game Of Greed. The description calls it a cross between Big Brother and Traitors, and the trailer looked good, so I watched the four episodes that are out. Its a....*maybe*, but I should post a warning: A review I read called it `A Budget Bootleg of Traitors', and I somewhat agree. The problem is that most of the women are fucking annoying and whiny in the first two episodes, so don't judge it by those two episodes alone. Three are oversensitive and get easily offended and two of those three also come off as straight up bitches (and one of the two is also paranoid) in those episodes.. But it gets somewhat better in episode 3. I'm not sure I'm going to watch the rest. 4 episodes are out, 3 more come out next week, then the finale comes out a week or so later. If you choose to watch it, wait until next Wednesday when 5-7 are out. Because 4 ended on a heck of a cliffhanger.

If Kirk Cameron is in it, its pretty much a guarantee its going to be super religious, and possibly shit. He doesn't work in mainstream Hollywood anymore because he's one of those annoying, obnoxious types who think they're better than everyone else because they're religious, and I've not watched much he's done since a movie or two a few years after the show Growing Pains. That movie wasn't one of them. (GP ended in `92) Sadly, his sister Candace Cameron Bure has shown her true colors with some comments she made about `traditional values and relationships' when she left Hallmark for Great American Family. (Hallmark has done movies with gay and lesbian characters, with Jonathan Bennett doing some pretty good ones.) Hallmark pretty much responded to her leaving by rebooting her Aurora Teagarden movie series to when the character was younger with a new cast AND giving her Full and Fuller House co-star Jodi Sweetin more roles and her own franchise. (Jodi is a better actress, so BONUS!) Hallmark movies are formulaic: Couple gets together, around the last 45 minutes to half hour there's some confusion, lie (by somene else) or misunderstanding that appears to break them up, and they're back together within the last 10, kissing at the end more often than not. But a lot of them are still entertaining, and even the ones with religious overtones aren't overly preachy. (Heidi is a Hallmark movie addict, but I don't mind if certain actors are in them. Especially Lacey Charbet, Taylor Cole, or Tyler Hines. But Taylor Cole hasn't been in many lately. Hate the Christmas in July movies, though.)

Had a good laugh in Facebook last night: In one of the SEC fan groups, someone did a tiered ranking of the teams next season, and I realized it was an Oklahoma fan right away, because they had the Sooners ranked on tier one as a contender, and had Texas at the bottom. I've got both as mid-tier, but with Texas possibly a threat.

Day winning enough games to make the playoffs coaching an SEC team would require an investigation into whether college football is rigged or not.....

I'd ask someone to go watch Neon Demon and see if they can figure out the plot, but there's not really anyone here I dislike or hate to wish that waste of film on. Keanu Reeves must have done someone a favor or been blackmailed into it. Worst move I've ever seen, hands down.

I didn't have time to watch it until the last couple of days. Mostly agree with your comments. Wish Tasha hadn't blown her last showstopper, though. I was hoping she'd make the finals.

You also have QBs who throw to one particular player way more than the others, or who forget their TEs exist. I was doing Fantasy on Yahoo, with 5 teams. I never slotted a TE into the RB/WR/TE slot, and if I had, it would have been due to injury or a bye week with no other alternative due to crappy choices left for replacement.

I had a couple of decent RBs and a few WRs who ended up either on the IRL, Out for a game, or outright done for the season. One of my TEs also ended up done, and there was not got a good selection of replacements. Worst string of injuries I ever had in Fantasy was in Baseball, though. Once had 3 consecutive Third Basemen (One I started with, then two I acquired) go down to injuries, and 2 were season enders.

Apparently not. Personally, I am hoping that its not a fuck up, and the reason they were assigned is because the head of officiating will be watching and will call down and reverse the call then fire them after the game if they screw up. But its probably just an oversight or fuck up.

Instead of being punished, the officiating crew who botched the Lions-Cowboys game are going to be working the Steelers-Ravens game. And the eligible receiver call was not their only fuck up; they called a tripping penalty against Dallas that should have been called against the Lions.

There's a Blood and Honey sequel coming, and the director or producer said they plan on making a cinematic universe out of characters turned twisted. So we'll likely get Peter Pan as a pedo serial killer and Robin Hood as a home invader at some point, sadly. (I haven't watched Blood and Honey or The Mean One, and won't be watching any of this shit!) The droid also disappears until the end of the movie, and inexplicably has antlers when he pops up again. Also, the actor playing the bad guy admiral was on Game of Thrones as Daario Neharis in season 3 and was replaced in the role in season 4 by the actor who plays the farmer. The character went from long hair and clean shaven to shoulder length hair and a beard when they changed actors. Part II is coming in April (the day after my birthday). There's apparently a rated-R directors' cut coming out at some point, along with a comic prequel mini-series that takes place 5 years earlier.

What level (or level range) was the party?

If they attacked a baby mindflayer with more than one adult around, it sounds like they didn't have any brains to begin with..... Seriously, though, that means 2 of them are perma-dead.

I had Wilson on a different team, but I was wrecked by injuries a lot this season on my teams. I had one team go 3-11, and it was mainly because I had injuries (about half done for the season, or might as well be) more often than not, and the replacement WRs and RBs available (I had James Cook when he went on the IR) were fairly shitty by week 11. I also had Anthony Richardson on that team at the start of the season.

Before the preseason even started, a lot of people on Facebook (including the group I quit because of too many anti-Cowboys assholes) discussing football were laughing at Lamar, calling him a has-been. Well, of the five fantasy teams I have, I tried to get him on four. The one I did get him on was one of the two teams I did live drafts on, and the four teams I didn't, the people who had him mainly used him as a backup. He's been my starter on that team every week except two: their bye week and their game against the Bengals. Wish I had benched him for the Steelers game. (When I said anti-Cowboys assholes, I mean the type of jerks who blast you just for being a fan, and have nothing nice to say about you or the team at all. ie, making excuses if their team loses to them.)

Ohio State and Alabama lost, Florida State got absolutely crushed, and Tennessee handed out a surprise ass whuppin'. Best bowl season in years!

CMC I can see beating Lamar, but not Purdy.

People on Facebook are actually laughing at the idea of Lamar Jackson being MVP. Those people are fucking idiots.