BigWill
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by BigWill on Sept 3, 2013 9:46:27 GMT -5
This whole angle is just bad, and everyone involved looks like a chump if you ask me. AJ talked shit to a bunch of women and then tried to jump all of them at the same time, alone. The rest of those idiots stood there shouting "SAY THAT TO MY FACE" while there was literally nothing stopping them from going up there and kicking AJ's ass. There's like eight Total Divas and one AJ. What the f*** are you thinking?! They're fun to look at, but this shit is ridiculous. Can we just reshuffle the Divas 'Division' please? Take the Bellas, Eva Marie and so on, make them valets. ACTUALLY CALL UP SOME OF THE GIRLS ON NXT THAT CAN WRESTLE A MATCH WITHOUT A RESTHOLD THIRTY f***ING SECONDS INTO THE MATCH and stop telling them not to have good matches 'cause the guys don't want to look bad. It's bullshit. BULLSHIT I SAY. You start complaining about the storyline being bad, then suggest that the WWE make half the divas valets and bring in other girls that can actually wrestle. Just because you bring in divas that are better wrestlers, doesn't mean the WWE's suddenly going to change the way they book them, so that it suits your tastes.
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Post by The Man They Call Asher on Sept 3, 2013 9:57:28 GMT -5
This whole angle is just bad, and everyone involved looks like a chump if you ask me. AJ talked shit to a bunch of women and then tried to jump all of them at the same time, alone. The rest of those idiots stood there shouting "SAY THAT TO MY FACE" while there was literally nothing stopping them from going up there and kicking AJ's ass. There's like eight Total Divas and one AJ. What the f*** are you thinking?! They're fun to look at, but this shit is ridiculous. Can we just reshuffle the Divas 'Division' please? Take the Bellas, Eva Marie and so on, make them valets. ACTUALLY CALL UP SOME OF THE GIRLS ON NXT THAT CAN WRESTLE A MATCH WITHOUT A RESTHOLD THIRTY f***ING SECONDS INTO THE MATCH and stop telling them not to have good matches 'cause the guys don't want to look bad. It's bullshit. BULLSHIT I SAY. You start complaining about the storyline being bad, then suggest that the WWE make half the divas valets and bring in other girls that can actually wrestle. Just because you bring in divas that are better wrestlers, doesn't mean the WWE's suddenly going to change the way they book them, so that it suits your tastes. It's no different to the deluge of arm-chair booking this forum sees and all the ideas that involve the words 'Cena turns heel'. It's not going to happen, but if I feel like expressing my desire to see that then I'll express my desire to see that, regardless of what the WWE will or will not do.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2013 9:58:35 GMT -5
I don't think this is making any of them look bad. It's just that it's not explicitly heel/face. AJ's a tweener getting beat up by faces and heels. Weird dynamic, but it's something different.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Sept 3, 2013 10:34:33 GMT -5
on the one hand, yeah AJ deserved the beating, because she ran into the ring and attacked all 3 of them. on the other hand, the Bellas still come off as incredibly unlikeable as people, and there's nothing you can do with kayfabe to change a fan's perception of the real person. and that kind of trumps kayfabe, so it's not hard to understand why the fans side with AJ. I'm still of the belief that someone high up in the company (I think we all know who) really doesn't like the Total Divas show and this whole angle, complete with AJ's shoot last week is just his way of dumping on it.
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Post by corndog on Sept 3, 2013 10:41:23 GMT -5
I should point out that, just like I figured, they didn't air either of Natalya's rebuttals. Which is exactly what I said, AJ is Vince's baby, and no one is allowed to actually get an upper hand in the feud against her. She just shits on them, and they just take it. Which is a shame, because there's so much material there. When she said her "first love" has always been the Divas championship, it took me all of two minutes to come up with "Really? Because I figured your first love has always been being the center of attention. It was what you were looking for when you were grinding on Tony Chimel and making out with Cody Rhodes on NXT, and it was what you were looking for when you were "romantically linked" with every top guy in WWE last year". Amen to that, I talked about Raw with my brother and he is more of a casual fan, his response was "Is AJ banging Vince?" Seriously though, that thought has crossed my mind more than a few times. Natalya's response would have been great to air, but it seems they want no one to rebuttal her comments from last week and considering how strong they were that seems odd. I thought maybe they were moving AJ into a face like situation or atleast a tweener like Punk two summers ago. But AJ is still a heel and one that owned the Divas. Heck, all three commentators agreed with her and for a heel that never happens. Atleast when HHH is owning people lately, it serves purpose to get people behind the faces. In this case it just made everyone look bad. As far as in kayfabe, just look at AJ's entire of career of leaching off men. Let's also remember, she has been in the WWE for two years now and just recently started regularly performing in the Divas division. Her entire career and name has been made without actually wrestling.
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PKO
King Koopa
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Post by PKO on Sept 3, 2013 11:45:36 GMT -5
They really need to start doing something of substance with the rest of the divas if they want fans to get behind one of them rather than AJ, who has had 10x more airtime and push than the rest of them in the past year. With how muddied things have gotten in the past week I was surprised the beatdown on AJ actually got cheered, so maybe last night was a step in the right direction (although I expect the PPV crowd to in AJ's corner).
I didn't get a chance to comment on last weeks angle as I was away, and I don't really want to analyse it now. I will say they're telling a very muddled story at the moment, but I thought last night played out pretty well with all the women (understandably) pissed at AJ and beating the crap out of her before storming off. It takes quite some twisting to see AJ as the hero last night based on her actions.
(*Sidenote, but from a visual standpoint I loved them storming off because, other than Brie's posing for the camera, it came off more natural with the camera crew and lighting trying to catch up with the women rather than everything being on cue and micromanaged like RAW usually is.*)
Regarding this storyline they desperately need some time and effort and for the other divas to say their piece (I haven't seen Natalya's rebuttal but I heard it was good, why not put that on TV?). Then again, "needs time and effort" sums up the divas division for years really. AJ is the only one who has a fully formed character and had plenty of airtime behind her, the rest have been bit part players. Give them the spotlight.
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