Congrats man. I regret not seeing them when they played my area awhile back, but in hindsight it all worked out. I was busy as fuck and wouldn't have been able to make it anyways.

I like this "band", but honestly Draiman solo (which is pretty much what this band is it), I honestly don't see much of a difference between this and Disturbed.

It's good, but honestly I kinda don't understand the concept of this band. They sound like Disturbed songs to me, and Villify is so close to Stupify, while listening to the radio, I said "wasn't this song released several years ago?".

Hearing Lzzy Hale cover Close My Eyes Forever was interesting, but gotta say man, as much as I love Lzzy... 1989 Lita Ford was a PIECE OF EPIC ROCK ASS man. Whew.

I gotta be honest, as a fan of the original series, this show is LOAD-DED-DAH with bugs. The good news is there are some promising aspects.

The biggest issue is the showrunner needs to be FIRED. I have no clue why TNT continues to employ Cynthia Cidre. She was not a fan of the original series, she has loaded the series with enormous plotholes from the original show, so much to the point that the show is a retcon of the original series to an almost unrecognizable state.

I was never terribly impressed with the writing even in Season 1, but I assume like alot of series it was just growing pains. Season 2 continued the fucked plots early on. Ironically Larry's death, and ultimately J.R.'s actually was a benefit to the show. The episodes without Larry this season were better than the ones with him.

In fairness to the writers, they admitted later on the season was pretty much written before Larry's death. Larry dying put the show in a big spot with alot of the season having to be re-written. I didn't believe this until Gary was brought on and Sue Ellen was added into his story. It was obvious this was originally a conflict set up for J.R. vs. Gary to be re-ignited.

Another issue was the finale. The finale and specifically Bobby's scene with taking down Cliff felt forced -- because they were J.R.'s scenes. It felt unnatural for that reason, and it was obvious the original plan for the series was to have J.R. back on top at the end of the season, possibly taking over Barnes Global with John Ross having a hostile takeover of Ewing Energies, and ultimately father and son taking over Dallas, and destroying the Barnes' once and for all, Pamela included.

That would've been a fantastic ending, and I think it was the ending they originally intended. It would've also played into the plots set forth in Season 1.

With Larry/J.R. dead, suddenly Bobby is thrust into taking down Barnes with malice... that is NOT Bobby. Never, ever. Only John Ross. John Ross should've been handed the ball to make the full transition.

Other problems that exist is dead ass characters, and mis-casting. They are trying to set up a new war for the Ewings with the Barnes out of the way now, now facing them off against the Ramos family. There are issues galore with that. Elena is a downright BORING character. I don't know what Jordana Brewster's acting chops are, because she's always played the same character.

Another issue is that at this point -- i'm done with Jesse Metcalfe. Metcalfe is ENTIRELY MISCAST as Christopher Ewing. I don't know what they could do at this point other than find a way to write him off, and bring in Bobby's long lost son with Jenna Wade -- Lucas Wade who was raised by Ray Krebbs in Europe. Lucas could return, with an actor playing him J.R.-style, to reclaim his throne long lost and forgotton. He also could become a severe rival to John Ross. Christopher is dead weight.

Ann Ewing & Emma Ryland are dead ass characters as well. Emma tries to add "shock", but it's all so boring and been there done that. All she is is a Lucy Ewing copycat, and we've seen it before. We know the moves before they happen.

Now they are trying to expand Elena's character and the background of the Ramos family which was already BORING as it is. Not to mention locking out the season hooking up with Emma and making a play for Ryland's company was boring and predictable, and irritating. The finale with Cliff and J.R.'s grave was good, and decent enough (but you could see it from a mile away), but the rest... ugh.

They definitely have problems. But HUGE props to Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Ken Kercheval, and newcomers Josh Henderson & Julie Gonzalo. All of them try to rise above the material and have acted fantastically in the stuff they've been given.

My wishes for Season 3 is getting rid of Christopher, Elena, Ann & Emma. The fact that the show runner literally lost over HALF of the audience after Season 1 shows the writing isn't there.

The show needs retooling in order to stay on the air. If the show's ratings don't improve from where they are now, there won't be a Season 4, nor will I want it if the quality doesn't improve, exclusive contract with Netflix or not. Alot of diehard fans of the series cried for TNT to just cancel the series right where it's at right now, and preserve it's vintage quality of the show, especially with Pamela's, J.R.'s, John Ross's and Cliff's stories all resolved and the Ewings back on top.

That's pretty bad. When your diehards are ASKING FOR YOU TO CANCEL THE SHOW... I don't think i've ever heard of that. But then again I think the diehards wear rose-colored glasses when looking at the original series. The show didn't find itself until at least 20 episodes in,n and even still the original series had issues as well, especially the last four seasons which were at best average and at worst barely watchable only because of Larry Hagman.

The series' backed itself into this corner because it just couldn't and can't figure out whether it wants to be a revival of the original series or a brand-new reboot. Shockingly it's been one of the more successful reboots of old shows (with probably only Battlestar Galatica being bigger), but it's also a mixed bag. It could be better. With or without J.R.

I never actually thought about the fact that Henriksen is getting up there. Joe is great, but sadly there is not another generation of those type of actors coming up through the ranks.

Walton Goggins is probably his generation's Henriksen.

Is Hannibal any good?