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Turner loved wrestling, but the sale to Time-Warner sort of screwed that up. Wrestling had kept TBS afloat prior to Turner superstation-ing it. T-W thought it was beneath them. I saw some WCCW with the Von Erichs and Freebirds but not sure how. Definitely knew who they were when they hit GCW the first time.

I'm probably much of the same period. I did see a lot of 70s wrestling when I was really young, but it wasn't multi-territory. Primarily GCW, but also got some of NWA Mid-America (Gulas), NWA Southeast (Fuller) and Continental Wrestling (Jarrett) depending on which relatives we visited. I remember tuning in on "Black Saturday" when GCW was replaced without notice by the WWF (as Vince had bought the Brisco's controlling interest to get the national time slot on TBS). We were rescued by Crockett Promotions, lol. About a year after Black Saturday Joe Pedicino and Bonnie Blackstone hosted a huge time block of wrestling (called "Superstars of Wrestling") culled from syndicated shows around the nation. I seem to recall it was originally on from 8 pm to 3 am (starting just after WCW Saturday Main Event so as not to compete). Superstars was syndicated a year later, so its possible you may have seen it.

I think that its always been that an alternative to WWE has to exist when looking at national wrestling promotions. WWE / Vince by itself will just get lazy and regurgitative. Just being able to have an alternative to move to / from rejuvenates storylines and matches. I'm not convinced today is better than when we were in classic eras with the territories (although some things are better now than the territory days and to be fair, the territories are never coming back), but I think its clear AEW has helped the sport(s entertainment) get out of the funk it had been in.

Besides the appropriateness of "Y" existentially questioning the renaming of itself with its name, it'd have the benefit that instead of re-branding tweets as xeets, they could just call them yeets which also seems appropriate give what gets thrown up there anymore. Good luck with the jobs DN!

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Okay new page, I can post this out of order with Roxanne's Revenge and not risk restarting the Roxanne Wars...

The Cygnus is one of my favoritest ship designs. Pity the model got destroyed in a forklift accident.

Rumor is that young Aunt May and Uncle Ben are in the Madame Web film (but as far as I know, only two characters have been confirmed for that film, Madame Web and Julia Carpenter).

Yeah, JK Simmons and JJJ is great casting. I'd watch it if it seemed to have a good premise that they could spin (har-har) into a solid narrative.

Sony only has the Spider-Man rights. Thats a very small group of heroes or anti-heroes (the Spider-Mans (Peter, Ben Reilly, Miles Morales, 2099), the Spider-Womans (Jessica Drew, Mattie Franklin, Julia Carpenter), the Spider-Girls (Aña Corazón, May Parker, Anna Parker, April Parker, Ashley Barton), Spider-Gwen/Ghost-Spider, Silk, Madame Web, Silver Sable, Black Cat, El Muerto, Moon-Wolf and a few others including a large number of alternate universe (Spider-verse) variants), a large supporting cast (J. J. Jamison and the Daily Bugle staff, various OsCorp employees, various HS and College friends and teachers of Peter) and lots and lots of villains. Thus we get Venom, Kraven, Morbius, Madame Web and the now cancelled El Muerto film developed from Sony and the earlier attempt to develop a Silver Sable/Black Cat movie. Actually I seem to vaguely remember talk of a Sandman vs Hydro film at one point. As far as the trailer is concerned, it seems like Sony is doubling down on 'people get animal powers' Morbius & bats - which to be fair is from the comics - and now Kraven & lions (plus the Rhino being genentically manipulated rather than a guy in a suit that makes him look suspiciously like he's being eaten feet first by a rhino) which isn't from the comics.

David Allen's Primevals is finally finished after a 45 year adventure through conception in 1978, development, production, filming in 1994, Allen's death in 1999 when the stop-motion effects were still being worked on and a kickstarter to raise funds to finish it. Its premiered in Full Moon Picture's July update (video should be set to start at the start of the trailer).