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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2013 20:20:01 GMT -5
I read that whole thing and now I hate not only it, but myself for reading it. |
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Post by ERON on Feb 17, 2013 14:51:40 GMT -5
I disagree wholeheartedly with this. I started watching at the dawn of the New Generation era, which I thought was the best thing ever at the time. Then when I was older, the Monday Night Wars came along, which - even though I didn't like a lot of the over-the-top Attitude Era WWF stuff - I thought was even better overall than what I had grown up watching. Years later, I discovered Rock 'n' Wrestling WWF and Horsemen-era NWA through the magic of DVD and YouTube, and that has become my favorite era of all time. Meanwhile, I look back on the era I grew up with - New Generation WWF - pretty much as a joke. Pretty sure everybody who grew up with the New Gen era looks back on it that way, which is why the argument kinda falls apart. Sometimes bad is just bad, and no amount of nostalgia can fix that. While the current product is nowhere near that awful, I honestly would not be surprised if 10-15 years from now people look back on it in a similar light. But you're proving my point that just because you grew up in a certain era doesn't automatically mean that you will always think of that era as the greatest and hate the subsequent era. Crap is crap and quality is quality. There is a nostalgia factor, but I think it's vastly overrated. When I go back and watch shows I liked as a kid, some still hold up and others don't. I loved He-Man and Thundercats in the '80s, but now they make me shake my head. GI Joe and Transformers, on the other hand, I can still watch and enjoy. I run into this sort of thing all the time in comic book circles. I get told that my love of Chris Claremont's X-Men and Stan Lee's Spider-Man is due to nostalgia, when in fact I grew up with writers like Scott Lobdell and David Michelinie and didn't discover the earlier runs until I was in my 20s thanks to Marvel's Essentials collections. I find the stuff I grew up with to be nigh unreadable today. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 14:58:58 GMT -5
..The 'Taker hate..it's so strong.
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Post by Mac on Mar 6, 2013 15:25:27 GMT -5
If I can somehow manage to get them off my ancient college laptop. I have hundreds of chat logs from when I was a WWF Host on AOL. It makes YouTube comments seem like fine literature.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 6, 2013 18:09:15 GMT -5
Rico with a crab gimmick would have ruled. |
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Post by molson5 on Mar 6, 2013 19:45:47 GMT -5
It's interesting how popular Cena was on the internet until they pushed him.
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Post by mrjl on Mar 6, 2013 20:17:31 GMT -5
..The 'Taker hate..it's so strong. I remember a guy who always referred to him as the Underseller |
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Post by Ultimate Reality on Mar 7, 2013 7:42:51 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2013 7:45:50 GMT -5
And they thought Taker's return to the deadman was shite and he'd be out the door soon.
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Post by Ryushinku on Mar 7, 2013 9:04:21 GMT -5
I don't think you need to be a rocket scientist to work out the kind of complaints that were going around in 1992, either.
HHH bashing really built during 2002, when he was so pumped-up and Jericho had looked so bad in the WrestleMania build. That led onto the Reign of Terror, and it wasn't until the clean loss to Benoit that the absolute firestorm of hatred online gradually (very gradually) cooled down a bit.
As for Undertaker, people really didn't like Bikertaker much at all at the time, with only the heel turn finally getting a few on board. His style in the ring, his protected status and his condition were big issues.
Really, Taker getting fully into his MMA kick was what extended and rejuvenated his career so much longer than it was looking to be.
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