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Post by romanstylesiii on Feb 12, 2019 0:16:32 GMT -5
What good did it do to make Becky apologize? How does that help her character at all?
This product sucks.
This garbage is why AEW is selling out arenas while WWE can't get 7k for Smackdown.
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Post by Old Jack Burton on Feb 12, 2019 0:18:22 GMT -5
Indeed.
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Post by Shai on Feb 12, 2019 0:18:57 GMT -5
Like ugh agreed.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2019 0:19:31 GMT -5
With Charlotte being in the WM match now, I'm hoping Becky gets her edge back and goes on a warpath. Not that I still don't enjoy her character, but angry Becky is fun.
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Post by Perd on Feb 12, 2019 0:22:18 GMT -5
Yeah, I don’t think you have her apologize, if she’s still going to have the rug pulled out front l under her. I know it was Vince and not Trips or Steph. But I still don’t like it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2019 0:23:23 GMT -5
Feels like we’re just shoehorning AEW into everything at this point. It’s the Charlotte of new wrestling promotions.
But yeah making Becky apologize was super dumb.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2019 0:23:57 GMT -5
Nah I'm not sure quite yet. I gotta see how WM and the 2-3 weeks after to see how Becky is. That one moment isn't going to make people go "well f*** WWE, AEW it is." There's way more than that that can do it but not that 1 moment.
Becky apologizing to those 2 and then them being the "Good Ones" seemed weird though. I don't get why it went that way.
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Post by Gus Richlen: Ruffian on Feb 12, 2019 0:41:01 GMT -5
Nah I'm not sure quite yet. I gotta see how WM and the 2-3 weeks after to see how Becky is. That one moment isn't going to make people go "well f*** WWE, AEW it is." There's way more than that that can do it but not that 1 moment. Becky apologizing to those 2 and then them being the "Good Ones" seemed weird though. I don't get why it went that way. Well, you see, you gotta lull them into that false sense of security, you see, and then, you see....
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Post by Prince Petty on Feb 12, 2019 1:35:37 GMT -5
Becky apologizing to those 2 and then them being the "Good Ones" seemed weird though. I don't get why it went that way. They'll end up being bad guys. They always do. And Becky will probably end up looking foolish for trusting them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2019 1:39:27 GMT -5
Becky apologizing to those 2 and then them being the "Good Ones" seemed weird though. I don't get why it went that way. They'll end up being bad guys. They always do. And Becky will probably end up looking foolish for trusting them. Sounds like a classic McMahon storyline to me.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Feb 12, 2019 1:53:18 GMT -5
The whole storyline is dumb. There's no history of becky getting screwed by anyone, and she's coming off as a brat. For instance, When Bret started to turn, he was justified in his frustrations because he was legitimately being screwed in matches leading up to his blowup on vince and attitude change. No one screwed or cheated Becky out of any opportunity. Now all of the sudden she's attacking mcmahons because she *thinks* they're trying to take away her opportunity because they wanted her to go to the doctor? Her character is acting like a child and she's being treated like a child by mommy McMahon and cool daddy H... this is nothing like bret/Vince or austin/vince.
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Post by schma on Feb 12, 2019 1:55:28 GMT -5
I wasn't really against her apologizing. Her attacks were unwarranted even if she didn't trust them. I say this as a huge Becky fan. That said, I like that she brought up at the start of the show that the McMahons had been screwing people over for years and she couldn't trust any of them. Now when she gets physical with them, she has every reason for it. She's not overreacting anymore, she's not paranoid. They proved she couldn't trust them just like she'd been saying and now all bets are off. As long as she goes righteous fury straight fire on them, I can live with her apology, especially since it was arguable that she was in the wrong there. Nothing wrong with admitting when you overstepped if it's true.
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Post by Abdullah on Feb 12, 2019 2:00:29 GMT -5
You could hear the reactions lessening for Becky in that last segment, right?
The best reactions for this storyline have come about thanks to Becky and Ronda. They’re needlessly complicating it.
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Post by schma on Feb 12, 2019 2:00:59 GMT -5
The whole storyline is dumb. There's no history of becky getting screwed by anyone, and she's coming off as a brat. For instance, When Bret started to turn, he was justified in his frustrations because he was legitimately being screwed in matches leading up to his blowup on vince and attitude change. No one screwed or cheated Becky out of any opportunity. Now all of the sudden she's attacking mcmahons because she *thinks* they're trying to take away her opportunity because they wanted her to go to the doctor? Her character is acting like a child and she's being treated like a child by mommy McMahon and cool daddy H... this is nothing like bret/Vince or austin/vince. The bit about not wanting to go to a doctor needed to be explored better than a throwaway line about her missing Survivor Series. That said, a solid argument could be made that Becky has been screwed over. After being the first Smackdown Women's champion she went nearly 2 years without a one on one match for the title. She finally earned one after going through literally every member of the roster minus Asuka and Charlotte who at the time was injured in order to get her match. Charlotte was then added to that match immediately after her return, turning it into a triple threat and getting the title when Paige could simply have made Charlotte number one contender for whoever won between Becky and Carmella. There have been other instances as well. It's not as overt as say what was happening to Bret or Austin but it is there.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 12, 2019 2:03:26 GMT -5
Feels like we’re just shoehorning AEW into everything at this point. It’s the Charlotte of new wrestling promotions. Absolutely this. AEW haven't run a single show yet, and the one show they've announced has sold on hype alone. It could end up being the drizzling shits and their TV product be every bit as bad for different reasons. I hope that's not the case, but let's just wait until AEW have something more tangible than just hype before we start talking about them as everything WWE need to be.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Feb 12, 2019 2:12:31 GMT -5
The whole storyline is dumb. There's no history of becky getting screwed by anyone, and she's coming off as a brat. For instance, When Bret started to turn, he was justified in his frustrations because he was legitimately being screwed in matches leading up to his blowup on vince and attitude change. No one screwed or cheated Becky out of any opportunity. Now all of the sudden she's attacking mcmahons because she *thinks* they're trying to take away her opportunity because they wanted her to go to the doctor? Her character is acting like a child and she's being treated like a child by mommy McMahon and cool daddy H... this is nothing like bret/Vince or austin/vince. The bit about not wanting to go to a doctor needed to be explored better than a throwaway line about her missing Survivor Series. That said, a solid argument could be made that Becky has been screwed over. After being the first Smackdown Women's champion she went nearly 2 years without a one on one match for the title. She finally earned one after going through literally every member of the roster minus Asuka and Charlotte who at the time was injured in order to get her match. Charlotte was then added to that match immediately after her return, turning it into a triple threat and getting the title when Paige could simply have made Charlotte number one contender for whoever won between Becky and Carmella. There have been other instances as well. It's not as overt as say what was happening to Bret or Austin but it is there. I feel it's too much of a stretch though. She ultimately beat Charlotte. Then She lost clean to asuka. Then she got into the rumble when she wasn't scheduled. If anything, Charlotte got screwed in the rumble.
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Post by "Magic" Mark Hurr on Feb 12, 2019 2:16:20 GMT -5
You could hear the reactions lessening for Becky in that last segment, right? The best reactions for this storyline have come about thanks to Becky and Ronda. They’re needlessly complicating it. Playing the angle out on Raw gives Becky the potential "Raw stink". That's not the Becky the fans know. Now she has to be minimized for three additional nondefeatable characters. It's like playing your favorite song with custom audio presets to get the best out of it, and playing the song in someone's else's car and changing the presets that don't really complement the song. It's Becky, but it ain't Becky. But it is the McMahons. It is Charlotte. And it's a Rhonda that's in a weird place. And it's like saying it's worth losing what we've gained when they didn't have to.
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Post by MAGGLE on Feb 12, 2019 2:25:06 GMT -5
This garbage is why AEW is selling out arenas while WWE can't get 7k for Smackdown. But but WWE is way bigger right? I mean this is the most important statistic in this business but we are talking about a "possible competition" ... They havent started and are drawing better with 20% of the roster... On the topic: The mcmahons do not belong on here, they dont draw, they dont even know whats going on half the time while their in that ring. Wait and see doesnt work in this age, because people cant be asked anymore. They did the same thing with Bryan in 2014 and I am saying the same thing as I did back then. Mcmahon Family involvment = I am not interested and out ASAP.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2019 2:31:36 GMT -5
The McMahons will always insert themselves into the hot feud because their ego truly believes they're needed to make it important.
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Post by Abdullah on Feb 12, 2019 2:33:17 GMT -5
You could hear the reactions lessening for Becky in that last segment, right? The best reactions for this storyline have come about thanks to Becky and Ronda. They’re needlessly complicating it. Playing the angle out on Raw gives Becky the potential "Raw stink". That's not the Becky the fans know. Now she has to be minimized for three additional nondefeatable character. It's like playing your favorite song with custom audio presets to get the best out of it, and playing the song in someone's else's car and changing the presets that don't really complement the song. It's Becky, but it ain't Becky. But it is the McMahons. It is Charlotte. And it's a Rhonda that's in a weird place. And it's like saying it's worth losing what we've gained when they didn't have to. This is what I mean when I worried about Becky’s move to Raw. It completely changed the tune on Alexa Bliss and it would be naive to think the same wouldn’t happen to Becky over time. That extra hour on Raw, that need to be bigger and longer in your segments, could do a lot of harm.
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