“The most important part of a wedding day is marrying your person,” said bride Jen O’Leary. “We were still able to do that.”
Welcome to this week’s Wednesday Night Wars open discussion thread. This week we’ve got an AEW Dynamite featuring Cody Rhodes vs. Darby Allin and Lance Archer fridging Dustin Rhodes in semi-finals matches in the TNT Championship Tournament going up against an episode of NXT featuring Charlotte Flair vs. Mia Yim, and a North American Championship match in the hoss division.
On tonight’s cards:
AEW Dynamite
- TNT Championship Tournament Match: Cody (Rhodes) vs. Darby Allin
- TNT Championship Tournament Match: Dustin Rhodes vs. Lance Archer
- No Disqualification, No Count Out Match: Best Friends with Orange Cassidy vs. Jimmy Havoc and Kip Sabian with Penelope Ford
- Mr. Brodie Lee vs. Marko Stunt
- Jon Moxley makes an appearance and “speaks,” hopefully not about Jake Hager
NXT
- NXT North American Championship Match: Keith Lee (c) vs. Damian Priest
- NXT Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. Mia Yim
- Interim NXT Cruiserweight Championship Tournament Match: Drake Maverick vs. Tony Nese
As always, +1 your favorite comments from tonight’s open thread and if we get enough comments, we’ll include 10 of the best in tomorrow’s Best and Worst of NXT and AEW reports. Make sure you flip the comments by selecting “newest” in the drop down menu under discussion, and enjoy the show!
Everything’s moving online these days, from SNL to Trolls World Tour to Chris Martin concerts. So why not conventions? As per The Hollywood Reporter, May the 4th — better known round geek circles as “Star Wars Day” — will be fitted with a virtual convention, or as they’re dubbing it, “An Online Revelry.”
The internet hoedown is being organized by New York Comic Con and Star Wars Celebration organizers ReedPop, and it seems to be a packed affair. There will be live-tweeting for movies and shows like Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, on top of Q&As and discussion with the likes of voice actors and authors of Star Wars novels.
But there’s more:
Additionally, fans will be able to take part in trivia quizzes and prize giveaways across the May 4-5 period, with ReedPop encouraging usage of the hashtags #Maythe4th and #Revengeofthe5th for those participating. Events will take place across social media accounts associated with multiple ReedPop properties, including New York Comic Con, C2E2, BookCon, Emerald City Comic Con and Florida SuperCon, on both Twitter and Facebook.
Star Wars Day was first launched in 2011, the May 4th date chosen, of course, because it allows revelers to make a “May the Fourth Be With You” joke. Surely future conventions will take note of how this one goes off.
You can view the day’s full schedule over at THR.
(Via THR)
If you’re watching a second-season trailer for Amazon’s Hanna, then you almost certainly don’t need a SPOILER ALERT for what went down the first time around, right? Just in case, feel free to head out now if you haven’t finished the last round.
Now that we’re all alone, we can talk about the ending of the action-espionage series’ first season. This was a gorgeous and well-acted effort, even if it didn’t fully explain its own existence as a gritty TV adaptation of Joe Wright’s 2011 film, which was fable-like and full of ethereal, fairy-tale-like elements. Still, the series was successful enough to continue, even after saying goodbye to Joel Kinnaman’s Erik (RIP), and now we’ve got a teaser that reminds us that not only has the teen assassin (raised by her father in the wilderness) been discovered, but she’s being ominously monitored by Utrax’s new leader, John Carmichael, who’s portrayed by Dermot Mulroney.
Nothing like a dose of Dermot to antagonize things up — something that he’s recently done well on The Righteous Gemstones, Prodigal Son, and The Purge. He also did well by Amazon in the first Homecoming season, so the odds are that he’ll rattle up the Hanna series nicely, even if the title character isn’t terribly intimidated by anyone, not even sinister government agencies. Esme Creed-Miles looks like she’s continuing to own that vibe, and Mireille Enos will also return as her CIA operative character.
Hanna‘s second season premieres on Friday, July 3.