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My review above yours, agrees with your sentiment. Looks like the audience is too (its shaping up to be a disappointment): http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/05/19/weekend-box-office-star-trek-into-darkness-opens-with-just-84-million/ "Four years ago, we all thought that Star Trek 2 was a lock for one of the bigger opening weekends on record. Today, we’re wondering if it will even top $200 million domestic." This has always been my gripe against Abrams. I never know when he will turn out genius material like the 2009 Star Trek or when he will make us groan with utter underwhelming crap like Super 8.

Saw Star Trek on Friday but wanted to wait a day before I posted a reaction.I loved Star Trek, the TV series and think Wrath of Khan was one of the best. Also really enjoyed the 2009 re-boot/re-imagination of the entire series. The parallel universe concept and the rest of the story was very creative and riveting. Given all this, I saw the new one and came away disappointed. I will put my thoughts in the spoiler section as I don't know what counts as spoilers or not. - The acting is good throughout. Chris Pine and Weller came across as weak and not really into their roles - Action sequences are very well shot - Cumberbatch steals the show. I liked him in Sherlock and the understated role in Tinker, tailor. Here he really comes into his own and pretty much dominates the screen when he is in it. - Story has a lot of holes or at least a real stretching of the story line to the point where I couldn't buy into some aspects. Why does Harrison/Khan lead the crew to the Klignon planet ? Why do the Enterprise's sensors detect no other life form ? Why do the Klignon's do nothing despite the federation's incursion ? How does a Harrison single handedly shoot so many Klignon's when utterly exposed himself ? Several other points throughout which I could ont see beyond - So all it takes to cure any dying person is to inject that person with Khan's blood ? The Holy Grail ! Life's mystery is solved !!! - A huge point I hated was the pussifying of Spock. Tears ? Romancing ? Showing so much emotion ? Come on, Abrams !! He is only half human and mostly Vulcan. the latter dominates. if this is the way he is re-imagined in the Abram's series, I hate it. This is not a friggin' soap opera All in all, I think it was a good action movie, but not a Star Trek movie. In the effort to make it palatable to the general public, he has sold out the Trek faithful and also made a weak story for the rest. Abrams should re-watch the 2009 movie and see that he did not have to dumb down the movie to make it more broadly acceptable. The box office may prove me wrong but I think it was a poor strategy. *(I tried to make it spoiler code but once the BB Code dialog box opens up, I see only part of the dialog box so cannot click on 'ok' to accept. Hence changed the color of the font instead

I am absolutely not surprised as there were bound to be polarizing opinions with thw confict between an apparently stronger roster and continued poor results to date. Btw, John Cocktosten hasnt weighed in yet so when he does, you can be assured of adding another five pages

And I am glad Geno does

I have said it before and will probably get slammed for saying this but Troup being in a contract year has extra motivation this season.

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Its all relative. Mario will make $100 MM over a few years time. that is about 1% of what I hope to make. While I realize $750K is a lot of money in an absolute sense, in a relative way it is like me buying a $6000 ring for the one I love and hope will be my partner for life. To a homeless man, this amount will look like the reason rich people stink. Also, we don't know the dynamics of his relationship with her. She may very well have been pulling the "don't you love me enough to buy me that ring ?" crap on him. Plenty of things we don't and will never understand. But in TX, if you can sue to get it back, I fully support Mario. Also, if this relationship and his wrist (maybe a related injury ) were distracting him last season, I have high hopes for a focussed Mario coming and dominating from this point forward. EDIT: Also, these incidents serve to remind us that all these guys are humans with real issues and problems. Not some robots entering the ring solely to entertain us.

Excellent videos and I love how the philosophy is changing to our squads dictating to the opposition. Far too long we have been 'taking what they give us' As an aside, am I reading too much into the fact that it isWhaley making these presentations and not Nix?

I don't think the discussion point was whether he can take the Bills to the Superbowl in his first year. You made the reference that we should not get our hopes up because it has been a long time since the Bills last made the playoffs. That was your stated point. I am countering to say that the argument does not hold merit. too much to expect a rookie QB, by himself, to lift the team to the playoffs. But that is true of a large majority of the QBs. It will depend on the performance of the rest of the team, and in the case of the Bills, the defense most of all. But if our D takes a major turn for the better (not out of the realm of possibilty), it is certainly conceivable that EJ can take the Bills to the playoffs. Ofcourse, if he is a Gabbert type dud, then heaven help us all. But, if he plays as BenR, Russell Wilson, RGIII, Luck played in their first seasons, it is certainly possible to make the playoffs this year. And not having gone there for so many years will have no bearing on that outcome.

Sarcasm is obviously not one of my skills

Hiw exactly does seeing that trivia on facebook translate into tempered expectations for the upcoming season? Past history is a reliable indicator of the future? Sad sackfranchises are doomed to failure no matter who they draft at QB? Please, do explain

I can't help feeling bad for the Jets and their fans. Their QB gets roundly criticized and to rub salt into the wound, the Bills QB gets praised - in the same article !! Oh the horror.

This article is slamming Geno Smith but has a very encouraging bit about EJ: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--geno-smith-s-firing-of-agents--pre-draft-actions-shed-light-on-why-qb-dropped-183846651.html "Both sources indicated that Florida State's E.J. Manuel, who was selected ahead of Smith at No. 16 overall by Buffalo, was far more impressive in terms of his personality and maturity. "Manuel gets it, he gets the whole big picture of what it takes to lead a team," one of the league executives said."

How much of a hit will they take next year if they keep him ? Their mistake was to give him the huge contract so early. At this point, they might as well cut their losses.

We need to go D for our next pick Darn, Minter gone.

The trade down yesterday made me wonder the same thing.

Just four picks before we are on again. House money, baby. Guess the announcers still enamoured by Te'o and Smith

Awesome. Here we go guys. Woods, Minter, Brown all available

Billick just suggested that the Bills should start the Marrone era with EJ at QB

Anouncer said the fans liked the Geno Smith pick. I am pretty sure I saw and heard groans

My guess is the that the Jets will take a QB now

Wow we will have a surfeit of picks at our positions of need. We are sitting really pretty. Hope we don't get too cute.

Chaaaagers traded up.

I am not toi sure about that. We could use one. Maybe a OLB/DE hybrid.

Should have a good choice when we pick. Minter, Woods still available. Hope we dont pick Teo just for marketing purposes.