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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Dec 18, 2017 9:08:59 GMT -5
And the payoff was them getting squashed in a silent arena.
Great.
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Post by Dub H on Dec 18, 2017 9:18:20 GMT -5
Nothing like your job rewarding you for putting up a great job for months.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 18, 2017 9:36:48 GMT -5
The skits had started running out of steam in the last couple of months anyway, when they started doing them every other week and The Ascension were becoming the more noteworthy stars of the piece. They were great, but they’d peaked.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Dec 18, 2017 10:02:25 GMT -5
The skits had started running out of steam in the last couple of months anyway, when they started doing them every other week and The Ascension were becoming the more noteworthy stars of the piece. They were great, but they’d peaked. The Blair Witch ripoff with Tye Dillenger was pretty much the last gasp, IMO. |
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Dec 18, 2017 11:16:34 GMT -5
Nothing like your job rewarding you for putting up a great job for months. I guess you could say they were doing a good job but....good lord the Fashion Police got silence last night too. They got the fandangoing for the entrance but there was NOTHING for the actual match whenever they hit their hope spots. |
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Dec 18, 2017 11:26:30 GMT -5
It's "You weren't meant to get over" procedure; spin their wheels for a few months, capitalize on nothing, and eventually have a monster squash them before they slide down the card and people get reminded what supporting people gets them. Don't be surprised if the Fashion Files is done with by the end of the year and we only ever see them again when The Usos need someone to beat.
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Post by Dub H on Dec 18, 2017 11:28:11 GMT -5
Nothing like your job rewarding you for putting up a great job for months. I guess you could say they were doing a good job but....good lord the Fashion Police got silence last night too. They got the fandangoing for the entrance but there was NOTHING for the actual match whenever they hit their hope spots. But remember when they faced the Uso and they were CRAZY over? You capitalize then. |
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Dec 18, 2017 12:36:03 GMT -5
I guess you could say they were doing a good job but....good lord the Fashion Police got silence last night too. They got the fandangoing for the entrance but there was NOTHING for the actual match whenever they hit their hope spots. But remember when they faced the Uso and they were CRAZY over? You capitalize then. Crazy over? That's a bit of a stretch. They got laughs but they died the minute the match overstayed it's welcome. I really don't think sacrificing the Usos in the beginning of their heel run that has completely revamped their careers to a comedy act would've been the best idea in the world. |
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Post by Dub H on Dec 18, 2017 12:44:00 GMT -5
But remember when they faced the Uso and they were CRAZY over? You capitalize then. Crazy over? That's a bit of a stretch. They got laughs but they died the minute the match overstayed it's welcome. I really don't think sacrificing the Usos in the beginning of their heel run that has completely revamped their careers to a comedy act would've been the best idea in the world. They were more over than any other face act in the division and the Uso. Usos would hardly been sacrificed over a loss to a popular tag team. Also doesn't help their title run went nowhere. You can be a good heel but with no good faces to well face it doesn't create a interesting division. |
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Dec 18, 2017 12:55:35 GMT -5
Crazy over? That's a bit of a stretch. They got laughs but they died the minute the match overstayed it's welcome. I really don't think sacrificing the Usos in the beginning of their heel run that has completely revamped their careers to a comedy act would've been the best idea in the world. They were more over than any other face act in the division and the Uso. Usos would hardly been sacrificed over a loss to a popular tag team. Also doesn't help their title run went nowhere. You can be a good heel but with no good faces to well face it doesn't create a interesting division. The Usos definitely wouldve been hurt there. Losing to Rhino and Slater at the very start of their heel run set them back a lot to the point where they could barely get on the show. Around the time of the title win and the Breezango match they were finally gaining momentum and carving out awesome characters. Losing the belts to a comedy tag team at that point wouldve killed them. Sure you can say they were popular but it was a dude in a cop costume and a guy in a janitor costume. The vicious thug heels should not be losing the titles to those kinds of characters. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 13:35:05 GMT -5
Fashion Files is really only popular with internet smarks, and not even all of those. I'd think that was kind of obvious. The segments got dead reactions from live crowds for the most part from the beginning. Then they just kept dragging it on forever and it became clear they were going nowhere with it.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 18, 2017 13:37:40 GMT -5
Truthfully, the match went the way it should have. A squash and nothing more
Would I love to see Breezango taken more serious in the ring like a Edge/Christian sure but the result was fine yesterday
Breezango is still over with the Fashion Files so they'll be fine
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 14:18:38 GMT -5
I just hope The Ascension stand up to Bludgeon Brothers for beating up their friends.
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Post by eJm on Dec 18, 2017 14:37:09 GMT -5
Fashion Files is really only popular with internet smarks, and not even all of those. I'd think that was kind of obvious. The segments got dead reactions from live crowds for the most part from the beginning. Then they just kept dragging it on forever and it became clear they were going nowhere with it. Not really? I mean, for the first 3-4 months those things were getting big pops from the crowd (not mega pops but you could damn well hear them), leading to the segment after HIAC where they were the most over team in the match besides The Ascention. Then there was longer absences and gaps between episodes and the cheers got less because of course they would. It’s like how Brodus Clay was super over with the crowd, then suddenly they have him off TV for a couple of weeks, then he’s back, then he’s gone for a bit longer and suddenly, shockingly, he’s less over. Whodafunkit? EDIT: I should clarify that I’m not saying all the sketches were hits, some weren’t that great. At the same time, this is something they do all the time with acts they don’t want to be over. They did it with Clay, they did it with Barrett, they did it with many others. |
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Post by freeze Austin on Dec 18, 2017 15:00:37 GMT -5
I couldn't believe when Alvarez said the Fashion Files had been airing for 6 months last night during the review with Vinny and Filthy Tom, and had to look it up for myself.
Holy shit, LOL. I like The Fashion Police as a comedy team, but these segments, while not egregiously bad like "Old Day," "Bayley, This Is Your Life," or any of the mid-2000's DX reunion "comedy", were more whiffs than hits and really advanced nothing. It reached its peak when Arn Anderson was involved, which, hey, at least now they can say they have something in common with Ric Flair.
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