And finally, I just wanna talk, uh uh, an email, a reader email that I got and it’s got four things in it. So the first thing was, Hey Steve, did you watch the WWE Stranger Things episode? It made no sense to me if some of the stars were in the stands or anyone from the WWE had been in the show, maybe it would make sense.
Running the Unreal promo during the show reminding everyone that they are watching a scripted show seemed pretty dumb after so many years away from watching until a few months ago. I will say that the women have really upped their game since the old days. Alright, a few things here. Number one, the WWE E Raw, stranger Things Crossover was an absolute flop because nobody from Stranger Things was there.
It didn’t, it was pointless, especially since I would think anybody who was into Stranger Things. Had already watched the season that had been released. Hasn’t every episode been released? If this was done before the last batch of episodes would make sense? The whole show’s out the whole last season.
Season five is already out. I didn’t understand this. There was zero crossover. It was just the decorations, Croatians and the music. It’s okay. It was just dumb and. The Unreal Show has split the wrestling world. Some people are for it because they like seeing layers peel back and some people traditionalists absolutely hate it.
I’m fine with it. I’m for it. Just because this isn’t 1980, we know it’s scripted. I’d love, I love to see the motivations behind certain decisions being made, so I’m fine with it. I can’t wait for season two, which comes out. I believe in. Eight days, something like that. And then, yes, the women’s division is, this isn’t the women’s division from the eighties and nineties.
These women are really, really good wrestlers back in the eighties and, and the nineties and the attitude era, it was all about TNA. That’s what wrestling was for the women’s side. Now these women are all legit wrestlers and really good most of them are really good on the mic. Steve, I don’t think you mentioned the upcoming return of a major reality show.
Fear Factor. I never would’ve imagined when I watched the original that millions of people would trust the host about vaccines and a pandemic more than their doctors. My favorite episode was a celebrity edition featuring Coolio and John Travolta’s, late Wife. Again, fear Factor was a show that I was in and out on.
Can’t say I really watched it religiously, but I’ve certainly seen a lot of episodes because it ran for so long and then it would run on repeats and whatnot. I didn’t even realize until I was watching football yesterday. That fear Factor was on and it premiered last night. I knew it was coming back again and it was a little bit different because it’s not like the on a new show every week there’s gonna be a bunch of new contestants playing a game like these people.
It’s almost like a reality show, aren’t they? All these contestants all start out on the show and then they’re all living together and competing in challenges. And then whoever, I don’t know, finishes last gets eliminated. So that’s different. They made it different. Good for them. I, I can’t say I’m all that jazzed about watching it.
I’m not like, oh, thank God, fear Factor is back. I’m just not, I don’t even know if I’m gonna go watch last night’s episode. I forgot to record it. So I will have to go outta my way to watch it online if I do choose to watch it. Survivor 50. I just know when I see some of the contestants and how they look today, I am gonna feel old.
I’m sure they are pre, there is pre-gaming going on. Remember the last All-Star season when people targeted the Poker Alliance? ’cause they assumed everyone on some poker show together was in an alliance. Pre-gaming makes a show like the Challenge a lot more interesting since there are so many people have competed with each other so many times.
Yeah, and I’m really curious to see how the pre-gaming works on 50 as well. There’s. A bunch of different angles that can be taken on this for sure. And I don’t know what they are and I don’t wanna know what they are. And finally they wrote, I thought Mickey’s death might draw Vince out of hiding, but I have not seen anything.
Yeah, I don’t know if Vince has commented on Mickey’s death from Big Brother. I don’t follow Vince. Oh wait, no I do. And I don’t think I’ve seen anything. So you might be accurate on that, that he hasn’t posted anything. And look, people grieve differently. I think most people have have commented from BB 27, but I, I’m not gonna sit here and, and crucify Vince if he hasn’t.
I don’t think he has. So I’ll keep it at that. And, and finally, the one thing I wanna say is, and I’m not gonna talk about this every day, but I mentioned it on Friday, which is I started a rewatch of lost. And it’s a show that I watched when it aired and I’ve seen episodes here and there, but I’ve never sat down and done a rewatch of lost.
And I was like, ’cause I was seeing a lot of clips in my feed. I’m like, I just wanna watch the premier and remember what it was and how big of a, of a premiere it was. The pilot episode. And then I was like, dammit, I’m hooked. I gotta watch again. And I finished season one over the weekend, like I figured I would.
Uh, and I’m not gonna sit here and be like, Hey, remember this? And all I’ll say is it’s a great show, but rewatching season one, I got two thoughts. Number one, it is crazy to rewatch season one right now, knowing that season one didn’t even scratch the surface of how bonkers that show got and how confusing it got.
Season one was more about establishing the characters and their backstories. The end of season one, obviously we learn about the hatch and other people, it’s okay, but it doesn’t even come close knowing what comes at the end of season three and then into season four, the absolutely bizarre season five, and then season six, which has two completely separate storylines going on the whole season.
Uh, season one is very, very tame compared to it yet. It’s just very good writing and very good storytelling and yeah, we see a bunch of shows right now that do flashbacks and stuff like that. Lost was the one that really paved the way for how shows incorporated flashbacks into them and made them interesting.
So many shows use flashbacks now, and I just, I don’t know if people remember, but Lost was probably. One of the very early ones, there are shows probably before Lost that did a flashback here or there, but Losts whole show was based on flashbacks. Every episode, it was a flashback to one of the characters on the show and their past, and you learn more and more about them.
It was how this show was told, how the story was told on that show and. I don’t remember a show ever doing that every single episode. The second point I wanna make about Lost is there’s reboots all the time in Hollywood. Most of the time it’s movies with TV shows. You maybe you’ll get a reunion show, and I doubt it will ever happen, but I’m telling you, if Lost Ever decided to do a reboot.
I don’t even know if how they could pull it off and how they would tell the story. But if Lost ever came back on as a television show, even if it was 10 to 12 episodes, not, they’re never gonna do a 24 episode season again. But even if it was a 10 or 12 episode season, I think it would be the biggest reboot we’ve ever seen of a TV show.
I think there would be so many people. Yeah, because even after Lost, it hasn’t been on the air since 2010. I think a lot of people started digging into Lost after the fact. So you got the people that watched it as it aired, and then people who didn’t watch Lost until they were able to binge it years later.
I think it would be the biggest reboot of a show that we’ve ever seen. I think the hype surrounding it, the. As long as you, as long as you were able to bring back every major character. I think, and again, you’d have to find a way to tell the story because we saw how it ended and I don’t want to give anything away for people that maybe wanna rewatch it, even though it’s been off the air for 15 years, 16 years.
I’m just saying, I think if they said Lost is coming back and we’re doing a 12 episode season, and we’ll, we’ll take it from there to see if we’re gonna do another one. I think it would absolutely be the talk of television. I really do. Anyway. Thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me in Apple Podcasts.
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