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Post by Starshine on Apr 8, 2024 19:53:14 GMT -5
Would Avengers Infinity War been alot better if they had just defeated Thanos then? No. The good guys failing and loosing made the story all the more engaging when the heroās finally faced Thanos in a epic showdown with a much more satisfying conclusion then if they would of just defeated him the first time Thatās how I feel about Codyās story. him loosing at WM39 made his victory at WM40 all the more better with a more satisfying conclusion then if it would of happened at WM39. Imo thatās great storytelling So I've been writing and rewriting something for this for a little bit now, because I don't want to come off like an asshole, but this is a bad comparison. The only thing that compares between the two is that the villain won a decisive victory at a point before losing. Everything else is different though, and I don't mean that in comparing settings of superhero flick and wrestling show, like none of the important tropes in Infinity War are in the WWE story. Infinity war has a clear story arc of a villain taking a subversion of the heroes journey to achieve nigh omnipotence for a misguided goal he is fanatic about. The heroes gather to try and stop him but fail, and as a result a disaster takes place that affects the universe as a whole. The remaining heroes scramble from the rubble to try and make right, leading to their collective powers taking on the equivalent of a god. They succeed, but with the cost of losing some of their numbers in the process. The Roman Reigns/Cody story deals with a guy who has had a stranglehold on the top prize of his sport, he's achieved this by constant repetitive cheating and/or fluky dumb luck. The defeated heroes in this story tend to just shrug and move on. Cody arrives having not been in the company during this time and appears as a brand new and untested challenger. A hurdle of an injury slows his progress, but he retaliates and positions himself in line for a shot at Roman at their biggest show. He loses through the same cheating that's been happening throughout, despite some aid from a few allies who had prior beef with the Roman. Nothing really happens for a while after this between the two and they both go through various time consuming busywork. Eventually Cody positions himself again for a second shot, but gives it up to Rock for reasons that are ultimately unimportant. That's quickly retconned, Rock joins up with Reigns, Cody aligns himself with a few allies who had previous beef with Roman, and beats him this time. One story involves stakes that drastically raise as the story moves, consequences that feel real, and legitimate losses that . Meanwhile the other has a couple of months of intensity, a whole lot of nothing, then a few more months of increased intensity, along with hitting a lot of similar story beats. The main benefit WWE had with the feud this year was the involvement of The Rock who really carried a big chuck of the load on his back. But even with Rock involved, the stakes weren't all that bigger that they were when Cody challenged a year ago.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 6, 2024 1:35:40 GMT -5
Not sure why such a pushback on the use of business metrics the last few pages when thatās the logical discussion when figuring out whether a company made the right booking decision. And not just business metrics like how big the TV deal is, but actual engagement like TV ratings, and live show attendances. It wouldnāt be there if the point was being made with a guy who wasnāt missing roughly 9 out of 10 weeks throughout the year. The fact they added another world title shows they thought was important to have a visible champion, to whatever success thatās had. If you can bridge the connection, go for it. But itās getting harder to buy Roman is so important when the company has been thriving while heās been less visible than ever.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 5, 2024 15:59:45 GMT -5
Cody struggled last year cause he lost to Reigns and thenā¦ Lesnar? Cause looking at his record last year guy was booked as strong as if he already had the belt.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 3, 2024 17:56:09 GMT -5
Gentleman Drew Gulak: heāll shake your hand, touch your pants, and never break eye contact. He respects you too much to do that.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 2, 2024 6:48:05 GMT -5
My issue again with this past year is that they didnāt really do much to have Cody want to chase Roman to get his title back. Have him mention that he got screwed and too many people have just gone āAhh well, themās the breaksā and want to fight him whenever except Brock/Judgment Day/Whoever say otherwise and you get feuds going from now until Rumble season where he wins it (and I know that seemed to happen for the tag match but it was only for that tag match before Brock killed him for reasons nobody knows outside of the booking team) Heād have some challengerās back in their matches if it wasnāt for those. And for the love of God, stop hyping Roman up as the greatest thing for most of the year even though we can see he clearly cheats and has Solo or any Uso help him out and now just remember that he does that. And to the point about choiceā¦A. Easily A. Look, I get the idea that his reign was solidified this past year but youāre a company looking to make money. This dude comes in and right away gives you a boatload in a way nobody else has for years with a dude who already doesnāt come in much or build matches much because of that. You had a pre-made story with the Usos losing the tag titles too and Roman acting like their loss was bigger. Go with that. If it doesnāt work out, you just give Roman the belt back and do what you were going to do anyway. Problem solved. I can't understand at all how you can be convinced that the no brainer option in terms of making money would be to do the exact opposite of the thing we know factually has made them a ton of money. Was it creatively a good decision? I personally think it's been justified but each to their own. Was it financially a good decision? Clearly and obviously. And if you think they'd have made more doing it another way then ok, but what could that possibly be based on? Ultimately I would be extremely confident that if you offered anyone involved (from the performers to the executives to the shareholders) the chance to go back and change the result of WM39, close to zero of them would actually do so. If anything it's worked out far better than they could've hoped. Hereās where I get lost on this Roman thing. Why is he so important to the success of the product when heās almost never around? Also if he doesnāt have the belt last year, what really changes in his booking? He doesnāt wrestle L.A. Knight in Jeddah? Because for all his biggest stuff like the Jey Uso match, the title was secondary to their feud, and the hook of that was he was trying to usurp Roman. Even Jimmyās heel turn had nothing to do with the belt and all about the groups leadership. If he was around and headlining constantly, Iād get it, but thatās not happening, Codyās been the main headliner over the past year. So how did they make the right decision when these signs point to them not going with the guy who really was carrying most of the shows?
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Post by Starshine on Apr 2, 2024 0:31:24 GMT -5
Look, have you guys ever seen Solo around whenever Ken was "in that zone"?
I'm just asking questions, man.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 1, 2024 23:50:40 GMT -5
I know he was around for a couple of years, but I still cannot wrap my head around the fact the Special K's Slim J of all people was signed to a major company in 2023.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 1, 2024 22:37:17 GMT -5
I genuinely had no idea Parker Boudreaux was still under contract.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 1, 2024 20:16:57 GMT -5
If nothing else, Roman beating Cody again would be very funny. So personally, kinda hoping the comedy continues.
Cody winning last year would have been exciting; this year? Nah, it's boring now. Gimme him against the Rock instead. That's the real main event.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 25, 2024 18:31:54 GMT -5
Ghostbusters was always a comedy. If anything, why does everything have to be serious and dramatic?On that note, I'm kind of over Movie trailers featuring slowed down, "intense" versions of well known songs to sell how extreme the movie is supposed to be. I don't even watch TV or go to the Cinema that often and I've noticed this trend, I can only imagine how wide spread it is I feel like we need to establish a new genre of music. We can call it the "songs made specifically for a movie trailer where the trailer is better than the movie it's advertising" genre.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 25, 2024 18:17:40 GMT -5
Part of the problem was he was presented as a heel going into the match, won that match as if he were a babyface, including getting the kudos from the prior champ, then the next time we see him, he's calling the fans losers, then at the end of that same night he's put in a sympathetic light after being betrayed by his own group.
There's too much tonal whiplash right off the starting block to feel much of anything.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 25, 2024 17:43:04 GMT -5
The one I most remember was his 2007 one that went pretty long. The main thing I recall was how much of a useless chickenshit heel he was presented as, and it was dreadful television. I'm pretty sure just about every defence he had involved some lazy heel bullshit, which was weird since they'd spent so much of the summer leading into that run presenting him as Cena's equal.
Also this was when he started transitioning into the slower methodical version of himself, but still had the upbeat pop rock song which just tonally didn't work.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 21, 2024 23:22:40 GMT -5
He was fine, but also pretty boring as a personality. He didn't really do much for me, and I didn't like Age of the Fall which didn't help, but even I could tell they were dragging their feet in pushing him to the top. I don't know, he was coming up in that weird transition era where Sapolsky left and Peace came in... and maybe Delirious had taken over right around the time he left. Maybe because of all that weird transitional shit going on, it didn't really feel like he left much of an impression on ROH in general. He was just the guy who got hot in-between Nigel McGuinness and Davey Richards doing the same.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 21, 2024 16:14:25 GMT -5
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
It wasā¦ alright. Itās the 3rd book in a series following a genuinely terrific book 1, and equally middling book 2. Lynch is also following the GRRM writing model of not releasing anything new for a decade which is swell, but whatever. Thereās still decent stuff, but itās also in the middle of painfully slow pacing, and some dull padding in the middle that just seems to exist to fill page counts. Plus a particular relationship centered around this book that feels both overwrought and underwritten at points . Itās weird, and kind of developing into a bit of a love/hate relationship between me and the series.
If book 4 ever appears weāll see whether that sliding scale persists.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 20, 2024 18:36:38 GMT -5
I wanted Lee Moriarty to have a run in Dragon Gate before he joined AEW, and since then he's just been lost in the shuffle. My preference is that he leaves AEW and tries to get a slot in a Japanese fed for a couple of years cause I just don't see him making any headway with so much competition in the company at the moment.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 20, 2024 18:30:27 GMT -5
This whole thing is giving me 2010 TNA vibes Drew = Sting Jey & the Bloodline = Immortal Seth Rollins = potentially Jeff Hardy Cody = er Mr Anderson maybe. Same hair. Solo = Abyss Heyman = Bischoff Rock = Hogan So would Judgment Day be Fortune in your scenario?
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Post by Starshine on Mar 20, 2024 18:15:02 GMT -5
Wasting that year with SANADA only for everyone to leave sure was a mistake. If only someone would have said that last year when Tsuji challenged for the title. I find it funny that there was this long plan to build the guy to run the gambit on his prior stablemates all leading to facing his former leader, which would be a fine story... except that by the time they got there, no one cared about him. Besides that recent Jay White reign where he was in absentia most of the time, I don't remember another title reign from the company being as flat, at least during the Okada era.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 18, 2024 23:14:17 GMT -5
None of them.
I legitimately don't think any game exists that's transcends so high as to appeal to everyone.
Like, a lot of the games already listed that I haven't played straight up don't appeal to me, and I'm at the age now where time is such a commodity I'm not willing to invest that much into something that on the surface looks so middling to me.
Except Russian Roulette, I'd probably kill at that.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 18, 2024 17:26:19 GMT -5
My prediction is that it's Rollins that's turning heel and joining Reigns so we get a sort of Shield/Bloodline super group to do exactly the same thing for the next 12 months. I think it's like the one sole thing that hasn't been completely squeezed dry out of this deal.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 16, 2024 2:09:52 GMT -5
My advice is to not be loyal to any product, cause they sure as hell arenāt loyal to you.
Also your fandom should never be an aspect of your personality. If youāre getting hurt over things like a product changing, or someone criticizing it, thatās the point you need to step back and seriously ask yourself if this is healthy. It should be an escape, not an emotional crutch.
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