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Post by r. on Dec 19, 2016 12:21:42 GMT -5
Roadblock may have been the worst example of this.
First, to explain, It's when one guy or team gets one over on the other and quickly escapes the ring, Nothing is stopping the other guy/s from chasing them for retaliation but it seems a magical barrier is created after matches that allows them to at most stick one leg through the ropes.
Last night took this bullshit to a new level, You have a monster heel who has left a pile of bodies lose a gimmicked match, during which the other guy almost had the towel thrown in on him and what do you do with the underdog winning?
Do you have your GM call in a bunch of security to keep this raging hoss beast from killing him? NOPE
You have the underdog casually walk backwards smirking as the monster heel is held back by, Yep, The magic ring barrier.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 13:08:15 GMT -5
I get what you mean and sometimes it looks bad but here I don't really mind. As a viewer I felt like I got what I needed out of that segment, to finish it off with a Braun Strowman chase just means that shit is going on backstage that I can't see and it muddles the story more than it needs to. The lasting impression is that Zayn survived what Foley deemed unsurvivable and the hook is to see what the next chapter of the story is. If Braun chased Zayn out we would just be left with an untold story, and even if they expanded on it, I'm not really interested in the story of Braun chasing Sami Zayn around backstage.
Having Braun bop a few staff members around at ringside could've been alright, to show that Braun's not really the guy for Mick Foley to be doing this social experiment with that he's doing.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 19, 2016 13:09:42 GMT -5
Braun doesn't have the nest egg to be able to afford getting fined or suspended for attacking Sami outside of a sanctioned match.
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Post by Dub H on Dec 19, 2016 13:17:28 GMT -5
Braun doesn't have the nest egg to be able to afford getting fined or suspended for attacking Sami outside of a sanctioned match. He may be a beast of unholy strength , but Braun knows the importance of being financially stable
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Post by Dave the Dave on Dec 19, 2016 13:18:34 GMT -5
Braun doesn't have the nest egg to be able to afford getting fined or suspended for attacking Sami outside of a sanctioned match. That's a better explanation than we'd ever get and that's kind of the problem
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 19, 2016 13:25:59 GMT -5
Braun doesn't have the nest egg to be able to afford getting fined or suspended for attacking Sami outside of a sanctioned match. That's a better explanation than we'd ever get and that's kind of the problem Well they have done fines with things like attacking refs in the past so it's an easy assumption to make.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Dec 19, 2016 13:28:42 GMT -5
That's a better explanation than we'd ever get and that's kind of the problem Well they have done fines with things like attacking refs in the past so it's an easy assumption to make. Braun Strowman's financial standings stopping him from a post match atrack because he's afraid of a fine of undisclosed amount. Classic storytelling. Sure it's not a huge leap but they don't bother with it. Sometimes details matter.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 19, 2016 13:29:53 GMT -5
Well they have done fines with things like attacking refs in the past so it's an easy assumption to make. Braun Strowman's financial standings stopping him from a post match atrack because he's afraid of a fine of undisclosed amount. Classic storytelling. Sure it's not a huge leap but they don't bother with it. Sometimes details matter. Well if he loses his job how is he going to get paid to beat people up
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Post by Dave the Dave on Dec 19, 2016 13:34:25 GMT -5
Braun Strowman's financial standings stopping him from a post match atrack because he's afraid of a fine of undisclosed amount. Classic storytelling. Sure it's not a huge leap but they don't bother with it. Sometimes details matter. Well if he loses his job how is he going to get paid to beat people up I presume he can go back to living in a swamp. Papa Bray is pretty loose with letting people come and go.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 13:35:13 GMT -5
Braun doesn't have the nest egg to be able to afford getting fined or suspended for attacking Sami outside of a sanctioned match. He may be a beast of unholy strength , but Braun knows the importance of being financially stable LOL. Love to see him cut a promo on personal finance/budgeting with the same level of intensity he does everything else.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 19, 2016 13:41:43 GMT -5
Some of this is acceptable, when not pushed too far. When you are getting in, or out, of a ring, you are very vulnerable.
When he was wrestling in carnivals, William Regal would sometimes have drunks wanting to get in and fight. As he so eloquently put it, if he didn't lock a facelock on them or headbutt them, he would kick them in the head and "knock their dick stiff". I assume he isn't being literal, but yeah, it is not a situation a lot of people willingly place themselves in, getting into the ring when their opponent is within closing distance.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 19, 2016 14:46:34 GMT -5
Well they have done fines with things like attacking refs in the past so it's an easy assumption to make. Braun Strowman's financial standings stopping him from a post match atrack because he's afraid of a fine of undisclosed amount. Classic storytelling. Sure it's not a huge leap but they don't bother with it. Sometimes details matter. If he has financial sense he has all of Big Show's strengths and none of his weaknesses!
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 19, 2016 14:50:14 GMT -5
Braun doesn't have the nest egg to be able to afford getting fined or suspended for attacking Sami outside of a sanctioned match. That's a better explanation than we'd ever get and that's kind of the problem I'm all for little touches like that. At Survivor Series, why not indicate that the winning team was up for a big cash reward? That's a considerably easier explanation than pretending that these guys were concerned about "brand supremacy."
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Post by captainhindsite on Dec 19, 2016 14:50:34 GMT -5
I watched this with a friend who never watches wrestling and he could not figure out why this massive dude was basically just crying in the ring after a ten minute match. Which trust me ten minute match was a lot for him to grasp too.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 19, 2016 14:51:06 GMT -5
Braun Strowman's financial standings stopping him from a post match atrack because he's afraid of a fine of undisclosed amount. Classic storytelling. Sure it's not a huge leap but they don't bother with it. Sometimes details matter. If he has financial sense he has all of Big Show's strengths and none of his weaknesses! I choose to believe Big Show walked up to him and let him know that if anyone asks him to invest in a strip mall to just say no
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 19, 2016 14:53:58 GMT -5
That's a better explanation than we'd ever get and that's kind of the problem I'm all for little touches like that. At Survivor Series, why not indicate that the winning team was up for a big cash reward? That's a considerably easier explanation than pretending that these guys were concerned about "brand supremacy." a lot of little things could be helped with talk of things like the Winner's Purse / Pay windah.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 14:55:01 GMT -5
Braun Strowman's financial standings stopping him from a post match atrack because he's afraid of a fine of undisclosed amount. Classic storytelling. Sure it's not a huge leap but they don't bother with it. Sometimes details matter. If he has financial sense he has all of Big Show's strengths and none of his weaknesses! He also seems to have avoided Big Show's alignmentitis.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 15:08:08 GMT -5
I choose to believe the ring has it's own Mile High Altitude levels.
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Post by MrElijah on Dec 19, 2016 15:34:59 GMT -5
That's a better explanation than we'd ever get and that's kind of the problem I'm all for little touches like that. At Survivor Series, why not indicate that the winning team was up for a big cash reward? That's a considerably easier explanation than pretending that these guys were concerned about "brand supremacy." That's how Smackdown should have been brought together. Shane: Dean, can you not try and murder AJ? Dean: f*** AJ. Shane: How about an extra $500 Gs if you join my team and a cool million if SDL wins? Dean: AJ is a swell guy!!
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Post by bearned on Dec 19, 2016 15:43:31 GMT -5
The way I saw it, BRAUN didn't attack Sami after the match because Foley was there. I did expect a post match beat down so the fact it didn't happen was surprising. I would have liked it if they had BRAUN show Sami respect rather than just have a hissy fit in the ring....
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