Over the past week several fans who’ve attended ECW tapings have noticed that The Big Show has been getting negative reactions from the crowds. Not just typical heel negative reactions, but Cindy Shehan in Texas kind of reactions, Bush in France kind of reactions, Gigli kind of … you get the idea. After one match, it was reported fans chanted “don’t come back!” to Show when he left the building.

Of course, having him dominate opponents in matches, as opposed to taking a few chair shots, isn’t endearing him to the fans either. The writer’s will need to find some way to put him over that’s, how should we put it, interesting to watch.

Watching a giant beat up on Tommy Dreamer is admitidly more realistic then the reverse, but then again, if fans wanted realism they wouldn’t be willing to believe Kelly was dating some unknown wrestler, and not a rich lawyer.

In other Kelly (aka Barbie Blank) news, fans will note a strange entry on her Kind Industries page from a disgruntled “aspiring model” who goes by the name Jessica Avery. It seems the unknown Avon salesperson/semi-professional psychic was miffed at our little Kelly for not accepting her career advice.

That’s right, the size 16 ( I’m not being mean, it says so in her profile) mother of 2 who’s never modeled before was giving former Hawaiian Tropic model and current working actress Barbie Blank such advice as she needed acting lessons. Perhaps in her work as a “clairsenient” (sic) she ascertained that Ms. Blank’s success was in jeopardy unless she stopped working, perhaps recommended Jessica for a few jobs and disappeared from the limelight.

Or Ms. Avery’s one of those web based “experts” who, no matter the subject, have just enough expertise to determine that everyone else is wrong, and really needs to be told about it. Electronically of course.

On the other hand, she could just be jealous. Or crazy. Or both.

This apparently happened in the wild Internet nether world of MySpace, of course, and it seems Barbie deleted this “helpful” person from her friend list on either MySpace or Kind, which caused the aforementioned “you suck” post.

On the bright side, once people who’ve never met you complain about your poor treatment of them by posting crazy messages wherever they can find a virtual forum, you’ve indeed become a star. Or you’re spending too much time online.

While the average age of viewers for Sci-Fi’s ECW may be significantly younger than the viewer age for all the channel’s other programming, at around 32 they’re still old enough to be Kelly’s parents.

That hasn’t stopped fans however, who seem to have no shame whatsoever at gazing longingly at her Kind Industries portfolio, or Joey Styles declaring there were “two reasons” to consider her an MVP.

When will people stop exploiting buxom, naive, young lasses just to get attention for their websi … I mean programs?

The tie-dye, the glassy eyes, the rambling promos, anyone growing up in the 70’s or 80’s knew exactly what Rob Van Dams gimmick was. But once R.V.D. became a “superstar” writers shied away from overt mention to his stoner street cred, and kept his speaking to a minimum lest he give himself away. For years fans made due with some oblique references to his stoneresque obsessions, like giving Kane the Hungry Hungry Hippos board game for Christmas (get it? The hippos have the munchies, like Rob).

ECW’s debut to Sci-Fi has changed all that, and Rob Van Dam has returned in all his rambling, forgetful glory. From his fascination with John Cena’s trip wheel like belt decoration to Joey Styles blithely calling out “Nobody gets higher than Rob Van Dam” as R.V.D. leaps from the top turnbuckle, ECW is making sure that everybody knows the old school Rob is back.

Like any good stoner, R.V.D.’s got a list of quotes attributed to him that’ll either make you think he’s a genius, or make you wish you had some of what he’s smoking. Either way you’ll laugh you ass off. Read some of the better ones here.

R.V.D.’s said to own a comic shop. Make of that what you will. Let’s just say where I’m from, most comic shops were “green”.

And of course, there’s the website where you can get the news out of Rob’s very own “fingers”(?) and get workout tips.

Rock on R.V.D., rock on.

Sci-Fi re-aired the bizarre, and at this point much maligned, propaganda piece Countdown to Doomsday with a new twist. First, Sunday viewers were shown an all day conspiracy-thon, then the surprisingly entertaining Spooked was shown. Then … BAM! The Earth’s going to be destroyed.

The properly prepped audience, who’ve already been shown the “reality” of warp tunnels over the everglades, UFO cover-ups, Jesus conspiracies and the like were thought to be more likely to accept the astonishing claims put forward by the program.

Claims like robots are going to take over the Earth.
Once put into its proper context, Countdown to Doomsday doesn’t come off as an alarmist pseudo-scientific fantasy made for apocalypse fetishist eager to find a reason to hide in a basement with loaded with shotguns and canned food. Of course, its proper context is following several hours of throughly debunked conspiracy theories and a knock off of The Blair Witch Project.

Maybe Sci-Fi hopes that after seeing other documentaries it was involved with for comparison, Countdown to Doomsday will seem like an episode Special Report with Brit Hume written by The Amazing Randi. On the other hand, maybe Sci-Fi’s giving a wink and a nod to all the fans who know that Doomsday, like the rest of these documentaries, was complete crap.