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Post by Limity (BLM) on Oct 25, 2016 22:26:26 GMT -5
When Foley wasn't yelling, he actually did well. He was being serious and putting over the danger of the Cell. Where that all fell apart was Sasha and Charlotte not reacting to it at all. Them acting like Mick's words carried weight would have worked really well. I caught this segment last night, and it was really odd. I couldn't put my finger on it, until now. The lack of reaction to what Foley was saying. This segment really highlighted the problem with scripted promos. This wasn't a natural, organic interplay between these three characters. It was people saying scripted lines at each other. They weren't focused on what was being said, just when to say their own lines. Maybe that's why even Foley came off odd, he was trying to inject substance, meaning, into his lines, but they werent really his.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 25, 2016 22:40:37 GMT -5
She can work, but she throws herself around where you think shes going to cripple herself at any time.
Wrestling should look like it can hurt you, not actually hurt you.
That's true. It seems she is trying to "prove" herself and all women by extension on the main roster by throwing herself around. I don't remember her looking wreckless in her NXT matches, but that could just be me forgetting as time passes. Banks was doing this high risk stuff in most of the Takeover matches. Suicide dives, topes, that reverse hurricanrana where she landed right on her damn head... Banks hasn't changed in-ring, it's us becoming more protective of her as the injuries started coming in for her and others in the roster.
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Post by schma on Oct 26, 2016 0:06:28 GMT -5
When Foley wasn't yelling, he actually did well. He was being serious and putting over the danger of the Cell. Where that all fell apart was Sasha and Charlotte not reacting to it at all. Them acting like Mick's words carried weight would have worked really well. I caught this segment last night, and it was really odd. I couldn't put my finger on it, until now. The lack of reaction to what Foley was saying. This segment really highlighted the problem with scripted promos. This wasn't a natural, organic interplay between these three characters. It was people saying scripted lines at each other. They weren't focused on what was being said, just when to say their own lines. Maybe that's why even Foley came off odd, he was trying to inject substance, meaning, into his lines, but they werent really his. Scripting isn't necessarily the issue either. Part of it is them still tinkering with scripts right up until they're on the air. It's been a while since I acted but part of good acting is being able to study the script and figure out where each character is coming from and playing off the people you're interacting with. If you're in the scene, even if you have no lines you should be responding to everything that's said. The thing is, they're probably handed a script with minimal prep time and they're so concerned with getting their lines right and hitting the talking points that they forget to interact with each other rather than wait their turn to say their line. The end result is pretty much exactly what you pointed out. All of them saying lines as if they were in a vacuum and not a conversation.
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Post by schma on Oct 26, 2016 0:08:22 GMT -5
If I booked this feud, this is how I would've done it: Stephanie McMahon is obsessed in defeating her brother Shane in the brand split war after SmackDown enjoys better feedback than Raw by the public. After she sees this, Stephanie decides to do something bold to get the upper hand in the race for brand supremacy, she decides to do something that has never been done before: She's booking Charlotte and Sasha, two of the top women in the company and two of the best talents in the Raw roster, inside Hell in a Cell. Charlotte has been trying to eliminate Sasha for months, trying to injure her at SummerSlam and targeting damaged body parts ever since but Sasha, because of her guts or because of her ego, won't go down and won't rest until she dethrones Charlotte by any means necessary. In the middle of this is Mick Foley, a survivor of the Cell, a shell of a broken man who knows how evil that match can truly be, how dangerous it is to go in there and he has the marks of that barbaric structure in his body until the end of his days. As he sees this, he tries to reason with Stephanie, Sasha and Charlotte, begging them to not go through with the match, knowing very well of the results of such carnage and knowing that Sasha and Charlotte risking their lives and careers for short term glory isn't worth a life of suffering. Stephanie wants none of Mick's fear mongering, though, encouraging them to fight in the Cell for the sake of the Women's Revolution, a concept she helped promote since last year, just so she could finally portray herself as worthy of one day being the one true heir to the McMahon throne up north. With Sasha and Charlotte being blinded by their hatred for each other and Mick being the deaf voice of reason in all this chaos, the Cell approaches and it's hungry for their flesh, yearns for their screams of agony and thirsts for their blood. They don't know what they've brought themselves into and, this Sunday, this match isn't about winning, it's about who has lost less of themselves inside Hell on Earth... or you can ignore most of this and treat it like a normal match between girls inside a big cage. Many feel that Stephanie was already given way too much credit for the women's revolution with introducing people and creating factions and all that. What I would suggest is a lot like your idea but have the original challenge still be from Sasha to Charlotte. Then have Mick trying to nix it while Steph gets on board. It might seem small but a hell in a cell challenge should really come from the participants, especially in this case.
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