I Sincerely Couldn't Be The Only One That Enjoyed Last Night

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Apr 4, 2016 17:17:33 GMT -5 joeiscool said:

Apr 4, 2016 16:33:31 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Well, one, it's debatable if a match was great or not. Personally I thought a lot of the show was just decent - the only matches I'd feel comfortable calling great are the ladder match and the triple threat, and there were some like Ambrose / Lesnar, the Hell in a Cell, and Triple H / Reigns that were just straight-up bad in my view.

And beyond that, no, I don't buy that good matches make up for a night of bad finishes. Wrestling is still about storytelling and you can't excuse bad writing by saying, "Well, the fight scenes were good!"
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I'd be hard pressed to call the finishes bad finishes.

A bad finish is Hogan beating Yokozuna in a un announced match, or David Aquett winning the world Heavyweight title in a tag team match, the Montreal screwjob ... or the finger poke of Doom.

What we have here are competitors that have largely been booked as equals entering into a match, and the one you wanted to win loses.

If the possibility of the person/people you like losing cleanly to a person/people who is booked as an equal or better is enough to make it the worst event ever even after they put on a good match , you might want to reevaluate why you watch. I think, you are setting yourself up to be disappointed.

Charlotte getting every single win she's gotten for months due to Flair then being in a position on a big show where there were two potential ways to counter him and still winning by way of yet another Ric run-in is a bad finish. New Day being picked off one by one before Barrett even got involved basically making his run-in completely superfluous to the League winning because it was still all of them against Xavier is a bad finish. Triple H swinging blindly multiple times over instead of just kicking Roman in the balls or hitting the referee with the hammer like someone smart would do instead when he's supposed to be the Cerebral Assassin is a bad finish. Lesnar picking up Dean's carcass and casually F5ing him like it was nothing, with no epic struggle or Dean showing any sign of remaining defiance in the face of the guaranteed killshot is a bad finish.

And each one of those could've been done in a way better than it was done. Dean could've looked resilient going down swinging after an epic struggle and shown he has heart instead of coming off like an utter goober. Charlotte could've had Ric neutralized but managed to win on her own for once, showing she has skills to go with her cheating. Triple H could've tossed the hammer away insisting he was going to win on his own terms and paid for it. Barrett could have cut off Xavier from getting a hot tag at a crucial moment. All would have worked better than what we got.

And yes, holding a bad choice in winner against a match is perfectly reasonable in my view. You better believe people would be calling bullshit if the climax of Dark Knight Rises ended with Bane just breaking Batman's back again and that's the end.

[Big Bad Kahuna]

Only watching the IC and women's title matches = very enjoyable

Watching the entire opera play = not enjoyable

[joeiscool]

Apr 4, 2016 17:27:04 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Apr 4, 2016 17:17:33 GMT -5 joeiscool said:

I'd be hard pressed to call the finishes bad finishes.

A bad finish is Hogan beating Yokozuna in a un announced match, or David Aquett winning the world Heavyweight title in a tag team match, the Montreal screwjob ... or the finger poke of Doom.

What we have here are competitors that have largely been booked as equals entering into a match, and the one you wanted to win loses.

If the possibility of the person/people you like losing cleanly to a person/people who is booked as an equal or better is enough to make it the worst event ever even after they put on a good match , you might want to reevaluate why you watch. I think, you are setting yourself up to be disappointed.

And yes, holding a bad choice in winner against a match is perfectly reasonable in my view. You better believe people would be calling bullshit if the climax of Dark Knight Rises ended with Bane just breaking Batman's back again and that's the end.

Movies are a bit different than wrestling.

Wrestling is more of a sport than movies. So the possibility of the bad guy winning is always something that could happen, and often does. Not to mention you're overlooking the fact that Roman(like it or not) was booked as a baby face and won.

[sonofblaine]

The only match that was 100% dissapointing was Ambrose/Lesnar. Nevermind anpther loss for Dean, but the match itself felt short and really dull and basic. They built up this intense, crazy match that might harken back to hardcore matches of old. And of course I didn't expect the chainsaw to get used, but Barbie was only teased and they never left ringside. Considering it was the match I was most looking forward to, it's the one I keep forgetting happened.