ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Dec 19, 2021 22:42:07 GMT -5
The poll is 50/50 right now and I don't want to tie break because the answer being both seems fitting lol.
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Post by Super Duper Dragunov on Dec 19, 2021 23:07:56 GMT -5
The poll is 50/50 right now and I don't want to tie break because the answer being both seems fitting lol. I was sitting here thinking "I can't vote, it's just too perfect right now".
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Post by Fade on Dec 19, 2021 23:44:21 GMT -5
Smackdown. I reached “Acceptance” w/ RAW ages ago.
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Post by r. on Dec 20, 2021 0:36:17 GMT -5
Neither. Actually, it doesn't really matter because next week they'll rake in a million more viewers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2021 0:43:18 GMT -5
Both are extremely bad but Roman is the best thing in WWE at the minute and he's on Smackdown.
So Raw is the worse show.
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Post by asuka007 on Dec 20, 2021 1:30:16 GMT -5
Roman is also strangling the life out of SD with how hyper obsessed WWE is with him being the be all end all.
So it makes SD so much more boring to watch.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Dec 20, 2021 2:28:27 GMT -5
Raw. Smackdown at least certain things feel like a big deal. With Raw it feels like outside of Lashley they have no idea how they want to book anybody and Raw is honestly just boring
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 20, 2021 2:34:51 GMT -5
I went with Raw, just since Becky has somehow managed to feel as tedious as Roman's title reign in a fraction of the time.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Dec 20, 2021 3:13:14 GMT -5
I went with Raw, just since Becky has somehow managed to feel as tedious as Roman's title reign in a fraction of the time. Probably since if you just count time she's been active on the roster she's been champion longer than Roman has. It's hard to feel like her time away meant anything when she was a deeply unlikable character who always had the belt and beat everyone when she left and then she instantly went back to being that the second she returned.
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Post by Fake Jesus on Dec 20, 2021 3:19:28 GMT -5
If you think the shows are miserable why are you watching them? I'll never understand this
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Bo Rida
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Post by Bo Rida on Dec 20, 2021 3:21:16 GMT -5
I'm sad watching RAW because of what it was. I'm sad watching Smackdown because of what it is. Yeah Raw is sadder due to its history. It was once called Raw for a reason but even if the word doesn't mean anything these days the show itself still should. There was a thread about the most recent shocking or important raw moment and many had to go back years. At least Smackdown has always had it's ups and downs.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 20, 2021 3:24:59 GMT -5
I went with Raw, just since Becky has somehow managed to feel as tedious as Roman's title reign in a fraction of the time. Probably since if you just count time she's been active on the roster she's been champion longer than Roman has. It's hard to feel like her time away meant anything when she was a deeply unlikable character who always had the belt and beat everyone when she left and then she instantly went back to being that the second she returned. It's still so strange that they had a returning very popular character, as well as an opportunity with a story of "She had a kid, can she get back to where she was?", and the decision was made to present her as more powerful than ever. Just, bonkers.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 20, 2021 3:28:34 GMT -5
RAW is an extra hour of terrible. Smackdown is a heat vortex where no one but like four people get over but RAW being three hours of almost the same thing makes it more of a current drag
At least Face Farmer Brock is entertaining
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Dec 20, 2021 3:48:02 GMT -5
If you think the shows are miserable why are you watching them? I'll never understand this Based on how little traffic the threads are getting these days it feels like increasingly less people are. I certainly don't most of the time.
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Post by schma on Dec 20, 2021 4:00:45 GMT -5
Honestly, NXT. They tore down its entire identity, booked the show around telling you how much what they were doing before sucked and needed to go, and replaced it with something that looks like a particularly bad Nickelodeon game show and tries to fit a month worth of content into every show, also turning its heavily praised women's division entirely into LOLBOOBS. They need the all important 10/10 boners rating from Bret.
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Post by Venti on Dec 20, 2021 9:39:22 GMT -5
Can't speak for Raw because I typically don't watch it. It's too long, and all my favorites besides Lashley, Big E and Rhea are all on Smackdown.(I think Asuka too is on Raw IIRC but she hasn't been on TV in a while right?)
I've been catching up the past several Smackdown episodes tho and it's the only wrestling show I really enjoy currently running.
So I guess Raw by default cause that used to be THE show in WWE.
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Post by khali on Dec 20, 2021 12:21:36 GMT -5
I think if SD didn’t have Roman and Charlotte dominating nearly every week, the reception wouldn’t be so harsh. It also has weeks where it has an absurdly small amount of wrestling and that's why I tune in to wrestling shows. I also feel like SmackDown is not designed to be watched live. There's so much downtime and video packages and recaps that I might like it more if I watched it on DVR. All of WWE really isn’t designed to be watched live now, really. I’ve only been watching PPVs for a while, and only on delay. It’s amazing how fast you can get through a show. There’s ten minute chunks of nothing all throughout.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Dec 20, 2021 16:02:03 GMT -5
Honestly, NXT. They tore down its entire identity, booked the show around telling you how much what they were doing before sucked and needed to go, and replaced it with something that looks like a particularly bad Nickelodeon game show and tries to fit a month worth of content into every show, also turning its heavily praised women's division entirely into LOLBOOBS. Now that I think about it, I'm kind of surprised NXT isn't an option on the poll. Even after I had mostly stopped watching RAW and Smackdown, I was still following NXT, and what they have done to it is just shameful. I rank it up there (or, more appropriately, down there) with Season 4 of New York Undercover in terms of fixing something that wasn't broken, and breaking it in the process. They took what was arguably the crown jewel of WWE Television, and gutted it of everything that made it special, in service of the most "how do you do, fellow kids" attempt at being hip and cool. NXT has become an embodiment of everything that is wrong with WWE TV, in particular, just how out of touch Vince McMahon is, embodied by their attempt at a "Beautiful People"-style faction almost fifteen years after the original Beautiful People formed, and over five years after the "Diva's Revolution" and everything the Horsewomen and Asuka and others did to get women's wrestling away from just that (and I say this as a Mandy Rose fan, for the record).
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 20, 2021 16:17:53 GMT -5
They took what was arguably the crown jewel of WWE Television, and gutted it of everything that made it special, in service of the most "how do you do, fellow kids" attempt at being hip and cool. and the "How do you do" comes through so well that the age demos shot up to like the 60 year olds...
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Dec 20, 2021 16:36:42 GMT -5
Honestly, NXT. They tore down its entire identity, booked the show around telling you how much what they were doing before sucked and needed to go, and replaced it with something that looks like a particularly bad Nickelodeon game show and tries to fit a month worth of content into every show, also turning its heavily praised women's division entirely into LOLBOOBS. I miss OG NXT so much.
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