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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Feb 23, 2019 14:43:53 GMT -5
The Hornswoggle thing was also s'posed to lead to him getting a mobster-type gimmick, but he couldn't pull that off, sooooo... The Small-pranos?
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Post by Cela on Feb 23, 2019 18:29:46 GMT -5
Looking back at some of those moments, whenever that notification would go off, the crowd would boo the crap out of Michael Cole. It seemed like a gimmick designed mainly to generate heat for Michael Cole. And the way Cole would put enthusiasm into the email announcements, it came off as if Cole was dictating the orders himself. It was as if Cole was covertly the GM. But, when Cole's heel run ended, so was the relevance of the anonymous GM. Yes, the Hornswoggle reveal sucked badly, but where else could they go with it without having Michael Cole being the person behind the computer all along? Love or heat Cole as a heel character, there is no denying the guy could a great job in seriously pissing off the fans. And I think that wrestling always needs that "non-wrestler" heel persona like a Bobby Heenan, who fans desperately want to see get his ass beat for running off his mouth like a coward. There was no skill whatsoever to what Cole did. When you are heeling it up over every single match for a two hour show for months at a time, and being spoonfed things that will turn the audience on you, and always have plot armor preventing decent comeuppance, anyone could be the most hated part of the show. The only guaranteed thing that is better at getting cheap/go away heat is a shrieking female with a microphone, which this board prides Vickie Guererro for, for reasons.
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Post by theironyuppie on Feb 23, 2019 21:25:51 GMT -5
The reveal should have been that the anonymous GM was the laptop itself. That an AI from the future had infested a present day computer in order to manage a wrestling federation. And when the computer is finally cornered and about to be smashed it would cackle maniacally through one last e-mail sent to and read by Cole (as a text to his phone) where it would also announce that it will "Escape! Escape into THE FUTURE!!!". If there's one thing 2010-12 Raw was missing, it was HAL.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 21:39:45 GMT -5
The reveal should have been that the anonymous GM was the laptop itself. That an AI from the future had infested a present day computer in order to manage a wrestling federation. And when the computer is finally cornered and about to be smashed it would cackle maniacally through one last e-mail sent to and read by Cole (as a text to his phone) where it would also announce that it will "Escape! Escape into THE FUTURE!!!". If there's one thing 2010-12 Raw was missing, it was HAL HLA.
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Post by Eddie Brock on Feb 24, 2019 13:45:06 GMT -5
I remember the same night the Anonymous RAW GM was revealed was the same night Bob Backlund returned, and ever since then, I've always thought it should've turned out to be Backlund; the only clue we had to the identity was that the GM has never liked Bret Hart (which was pretty much the only non-diplomatic response given by the laptop) so Backlund made sense and would've been a big enough reveal. He was already there that night anyway so why not use him instead?
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 24, 2019 14:12:31 GMT -5
It's really as simple as them having no plan from the outset. That's why it sucked. There was no endgame in mind from the jump. It was never gonna be good cuz there was never an actual story there. Exactly. Mystery angles always suck when they don’t have a payoff planned from the start. Or if the plan changes mid-story, because you almost always f*** up logic somewhere
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Post by sunnytaker on Feb 25, 2019 13:54:43 GMT -5
I vaguely recall hearing something that there was actually someone planned to be the GM but then they left the company before the reveal was planned and they didn't have a plan B and went with hornswoggle.
though this could also be something that i'm totally misremembering
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