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Post by bogussting on Apr 30, 2022 15:15:23 GMT -5
For me:
-Some of the humor was lame
-The titles were practically meaningless
-Commentators talking too much (and trying too hard to put certain things over) during in-ring promos/interviews
-The botched invasion angle
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 30, 2022 15:46:33 GMT -5
Ringwork literally reduced to minutes at a time.
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Post by CeilingFan on Apr 30, 2022 15:47:14 GMT -5
The over-sexualization of the women and some storylines.
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Post by genericusername on Apr 30, 2022 15:59:50 GMT -5
That DX segment involving parodying the nation with Xpac in blackface.
In fact a lot of the edgy humor hasn't aged well.
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Post by ERON on Apr 30, 2022 16:03:55 GMT -5
The crude humor was very off-putting for me. I found myself watching increasingly more WCW and increasingly less WWF as the era went on.
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Post by Fade on Apr 30, 2022 16:25:58 GMT -5
Bottom of the barrel stuff like Beaver Cleavage.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Apr 30, 2022 16:44:57 GMT -5
WTF was with Undertaker burning a Teddy bear and making Vince McMahon cry?  |
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Post by government mule on Apr 30, 2022 16:52:29 GMT -5
It's weird because theres a hell of a lot that is wrong with the Attitude Era if I look at it now with my 2022 head on, but as a 13 year old kid watching the product I'm almost certain that I probably didn't care about any of those issues.
I think the only thing I can say was that I was never fully on board with any incarnation of DX as a kid. They just didn't do it for me, and of course now some of it is completely unwatchable.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 30, 2022 16:53:49 GMT -5
WTF was with Undertaker burning a Teddy bear and making Vince McMahon cry? It was Stephanie's teddy bear. Undertaker was sending a message that one day he would make Stephanie his dark bride but she'd be saved by Stone Cold and then later discover that her father sacrificed her to the Undertaker as a means of harming Stone Cold so Stephanie took revenge by marrying HHH and creating a power couple that would eventually.... |
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Post by CMWaters on Apr 30, 2022 16:57:48 GMT -5
The scratch logo.
I know WHY, and for the overall company it did work...but I just never liked it. Even less so when they had to drop the F from the company.
Give me the block or even the current logo any day.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2022 21:27:19 GMT -5
A lot of Lawler's commentary doesn't hold up. He just about ruins Eddie Guerrero matches for me when I watch stuff from 2000.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on May 1, 2022 8:39:10 GMT -5
A lot of Lawler's commentary doesn't hold up. He just about ruins Eddie Guerrero matches for me when I watch stuff from 2000. I can't begin to tell you how happy I was when he quit and Paul Heyman replaced him. |
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on May 1, 2022 9:05:27 GMT -5
A lot of Lawler's commentary doesn't hold up. He just about ruins Eddie Guerrero matches for me when I watch stuff from 2000. THIS….I can’t watch many matches from that time period because his commentary is so damn insufferable |
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Post by Hypnosis on May 2, 2022 9:55:55 GMT -5
A lot of Lawler's commentary doesn't hold up. He just about ruins Eddie Guerrero matches for me when I watch stuff from 2000. "LATINO HEEEEAT!" |
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Post by Totorob101 on May 2, 2022 11:34:26 GMT -5
The horrendous treatment of the women,even as a teen I found it so disgusting and awful how they were used.
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Post by Squirrel Master on May 2, 2022 13:26:02 GMT -5
The horrendous treatment of the women,even as a teen I found it so disgusting and awful how they were used. Pervy Jerry Lawler was given too long a leash to call the action. |
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Post by James Fabiano on May 2, 2022 14:43:51 GMT -5
The horrendous treatment of the women,even as a teen I found it so disgusting and awful how they were used. Pervy Jerry Lawler was given too long a leash to call the action. I see what you did there. How about the deterioration of Lawler as commentator? He was great as the pure heel color guy, then by 1999 or so we got the puppies-obsessed caricature and never looked back. (EDIT: Oh I see, we got that already) Undertaker oddly enough valleyed out for much of this era...Kane feud start/tweener vs. Austin was okay, but I remember my dad, who was a big fan of his in the early 90s, seeing the skit where they sacrifice Dennis Knight and wondering what the hell that was. Then we get the Bikertaker phase...oh boy... How about...street cred for life for Vince Russo? Because of the AE, he could always play the (inaccurate) "I made Austin, Rock, etc. etc. bro" card. |
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