wankah
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Post by wankah on Nov 21, 2020 20:00:47 GMT -5
Didn't he want that Luther dork to be the exalted one?
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Nov 21, 2020 23:19:28 GMT -5
I find the outcry about the comedy to be much ado about nothing. Jericho’s 50, having an incredibly solid run, and elevating younger talent. Even if it doesn’t make him the GOAT it does make him pretty great. Plus, excluding most of his 2008-2010 run, comedy has ALWAYS been a huge part of his character. Yeah, I mean that's why the SRS run worked... because it was so unlike literally his entire career.
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Bo Rida
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Pulled one over on everyone. Got away with it, this time.
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Post by Bo Rida on Nov 22, 2020 4:14:34 GMT -5
There’s been other examples though. Jericho got Orange Juice dumped on him the same week that FTR dumped beer on Kenny Omega. I’m glad they’re actually gonna be more careful with that kind of stuff. Yep that one stands out, even the two backstage attacks this week. However it happens in a more minor way quite regularly, putting similar segments back to back rather than break them up with something different. Like MJF doing a long promo then they come back from the as break and Eddie Kingston is taking, put another match between them! Or sometimes they have a tag heavy show and put the only two singles matches back to back (or something similar). It's nothing major but there's some basic easy fixes. Along with time management in general. The amount of times a promo drones on or a heatless match goes long and the hot main event doesn't have enough time is crazy.
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Post by Hypnosis on Nov 22, 2020 15:22:37 GMT -5
There’s been other examples though. Jericho got Orange Juice dumped on him the same week that FTR dumped beer on Kenny Omega. I’m glad they’re actually gonna be more careful with that kind of stuff. Yep that one stands out, even the two backstage attacks this week. However it happens in a more minor way quite regularly, putting similar segments back to back rather than break them up with something different. Like MJF doing a long promo then they come back from the as break and Eddie Kingston is taking, put another match between them! Or sometimes they have a tag heavy show and put the only two singles matches back to back. It's nothing major but there's some basic easy fixes. Along with time management in general. The amount of times a promo drones on or a heatless match goes long and the hot main event doesn't have enough time is crazy. I have noticed promos being back-to-back on Dynamite often, which I also think should be changed.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Nov 22, 2020 18:02:33 GMT -5
I kind of get the first complaint but feels more like Jericho is only saying this because it involves him
Where is the complaint about two face champs doing open fight night gimmicks and only one actually appearing and mattering.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Nov 22, 2020 18:13:47 GMT -5
No matter what you think of him as a person, Jericho "gets" wrestling in a way very few people ever have. At first I couldn't really the idea of him as the GOAT seriously (After all, this is his first main event run in a decade), but the more I think about it, the more I think that through a certain lens Y2J "is" US Professional Wrestling in a way no one else has ever been - the entertainer, the gimmick guy, the ring general, the "vanilla midget", the washed-up legend "hogging" the limelight. There really isn't anybody else that embodies almost all the facets of the last 25 years of the industry. The GOAT? I think there's an argument. To be honest I think if you take drawing power out of the equation I don't think you can argue against Jericho - at least as far as people who gained notoreity at the same time he did. I disagree, honestly. Hobbs' situation was radically different from MJF's, both conceptually and in execution. Although I agree about this specific example, I think this is a thing that AEW does. For example: Where is the complaint about two face champs doing open fight night gimmicks and only one actually appearing and mattering. That is one. However I agree that this isn't: Jericho's angle was fine, Hobbs' angle was fine. What was slightly weird was having two instances of "guy comes out with a chair but he's not on the side you think he's on" on the same show (Penta and Hobbs) although that could be intentional. If it happens once, it kinda makes you discount it later. Yeah I got the sense that this was rhyming booking rather than recycled ideas, because it seemed obvious that Hobbs wouldn't go heel so soon and Penta seemed to be very obviously turning after killing his brother last week.
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