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Post by chazraps on Dec 23, 2021 1:54:18 GMT -5
How did Tian Sha end on-screen? I'm drawing a blank. Mei Ying sent Boa to a match on his own, when he came back, she was gone and Boa absorbed her spirit or something. Thanks, I have absolutely no memory of this. Was it a pretty underwhelming conclusion?
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 23, 2021 2:06:18 GMT -5
Mei Ying sent Boa to a match on his own, when he came back, she was gone and Boa absorbed her spirit or something. Thanks, I have absolutely no memory of this. Was it a pretty underwhelming conclusion? Lateral move, in my opinion. Boa on his own with the spooky gimmick is marginally better than trying to keep up the pretense of a stable going with just one active wrestler in it once Xia Li got called up.
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Post by chazraps on Dec 23, 2021 2:08:33 GMT -5
Thanks, I have absolutely no memory of this. Was it a pretty underwhelming conclusion? Lateral move, in my opinion. Boa on his own with the spooky gimmick is marginally better than trying to keep up the pretense of a stable going with just one active wrestler in it once Xia Li got called up. Good call. I feel this.
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Post by schma on Dec 23, 2021 2:13:25 GMT -5
Wait. She's wearing pajamas and has a full-body pillow. So she clearly just sat down there, right in that specific chair, INTENDING to go to sleep. Wait, but she's also holding a soda and is heavily made-up, so like... no, she just fell asleep spontaneously? Or actually, it's really hard to hold a drink upright like that while sleeping, so she's just pretending to sleep for some bizarre reason? Godddd this is so bush-league. The worst part is the sleep eye mask thing. They gave it to her as a prop, because hey, more sleep props, but then they realized you wouldn't be able to recognize her if she was actually wearing it, so they just kinda put it on her forehead. My father's secret super power was the ability to fall asleep sitting up with a beer in his hand and never spill it. It came so close but never a drop was spilled.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Dec 23, 2021 3:02:04 GMT -5
I'm just wondering how on earth this is supposed to translate to anything. Your options are basically either 1), utter buffoon of a character who just randomly loses matches by falling asleep which'd get old after like the second time it happens, or 2), the gimmick is just disregarded for matches and promos rendering it ultimately pointless.
Whole thing kind of feels like they're just trying whatever with no thought on how it translates to anything. Uh, yeah, my NXT character is I juggle radishes. That's what I do, just always juggling radishes.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Dec 23, 2021 3:17:32 GMT -5
Okay but why though? How is a narcoleptic character going to get over?
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Dec 24, 2021 2:20:09 GMT -5
And here I am trying my hardest to NOT watch girls while they're sleeping.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Dec 24, 2021 6:38:37 GMT -5
While I enjoyed the Firefly Funhouse sketches I worried there was no way to translate them into an in ring character. I was wrong. So this may have hope.
I doubt it though. Bray Wyatt was much more creative than any of the writers or producers we see now.
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Post by FinalGwen on Dec 24, 2021 7:20:16 GMT -5
"We have Orange Cassidy at home."
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Post by RI Richmark on Dec 24, 2021 10:12:59 GMT -5
Being possessed by a 5000 year old demon princess dragon for a series of many months really takes it out of you. Wait, wait. That poses a question: who did the exorcism to remove the Dragon spirit? Beth Phoenix. When she got ordained for Dexter & Indi's wedding it also granted her the ability to perform exorcisms.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 24, 2021 14:31:13 GMT -5
This is just a ripoff of Meintenkun from King of Fighters. If I were SNK I’d be pissed.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Dec 24, 2021 20:13:05 GMT -5
I'm shocked Karen Q is still employed there. I haven't kept up with all the firings but I assumed Karen was one of them. I can't see her having a look that Vince and his cronies would appreciate. Which is probably why she has been saddled with this gimmick. Also, I had no idea Karen was the Dragon lady character. That angle was just starting when I checked out on NXT.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 24, 2021 20:58:07 GMT -5
I'm just wondering how on earth this is supposed to translate to anything. Your options are basically either 1), utter buffoon of a character who just randomly loses matches by falling asleep which'd get old after like the second time it happens, or 2), the gimmick is just disregarded for matches and promos rendering it ultimately pointless. Whole thing kind of feels like they're just trying whatever with no thought on how it translates to anything. Uh, yeah, my NXT character is I juggle radishes. That's what I do, just always juggling radishes. only thing I can think of for 3 would be something like Orange Cassidy. But... like it'd undoubtedly come off like well... a blatant rip off of OC unless you can do the low energy thing completely differently... like off the top of my head I could see if she was in a tag... have her like napping holding the tag rope ... and get tagged in for a quick burst of super high energy hot tag before tagging out and falling asleep again... but... like as a solo?
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Dec 25, 2021 13:06:18 GMT -5
I'm just wondering how on earth this is supposed to translate to anything. Your options are basically either 1), utter buffoon of a character who just randomly loses matches by falling asleep which'd get old after like the second time it happens, or 2), the gimmick is just disregarded for matches and promos rendering it ultimately pointless. Whole thing kind of feels like they're just trying whatever with no thought on how it translates to anything. Uh, yeah, my NXT character is I juggle radishes. That's what I do, just always juggling radishes. only thing I can think of for 3 would be something like Orange Cassidy. But... like it'd undoubtedly come off like well... a blatant rip off of OC unless you can do the low energy thing completely differently... like off the top of my head I could see if she was in a tag... have her like napping holding the tag rope ... and get tagged in for a quick burst of super high energy hot tag before tagging out and falling asleep again... but... like as a solo? Maybe when she powders to the outside, she takes a brief nap, but wakes up just before the ten count?
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Post by Cyno on Dec 25, 2021 13:23:35 GMT -5
Being tired all the time and just wanting to sleep all day? Finally, a gimmick I can relate to.
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Post by sunnytaker on Dec 27, 2021 9:28:11 GMT -5
clearly someone put sleeping pills into the drink. she obviously fell asleep right after taking a sip which is why she's holding onto the soda like that. at the moment i'm getting su yung turning into susie vibes. supernatural being turned into a harmless comedy character
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Dec 27, 2021 12:20:26 GMT -5
Needs to be a festus like gimmick. Roll her out on a cot the bell rings she’s pissed because it woke her up. Trashes other wrestler goes back to sleep.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Dec 27, 2021 12:47:04 GMT -5
Thinking about I can kind of see how I would make it work - promos are always really groggy and half-asleep, then when she gets in the ring she's a rapid-fire killing machine but burns herself out quickly because she doesn't have a lot of energy so the longer something extends past a squash the more of an issue it becomes for her. Kind of someone who's very good but handicapped by just not having a lot in the tank.
That said I have zero confidence they're going to do that and even if they did it feels like you'd still have to drop the sleeping part of it entirely if you wanted to make them any sort of genuine threat instead of just a random lower midcarder. Someone whose whole style of carrying themselves backstage is being very inattentive and lacking drive would be a nice change of pace for WWE though.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Dec 27, 2021 13:19:57 GMT -5
Thinking about I can kind of see how I would make it work - promos are always really groggy and half-asleep, then when she gets in the ring she's a rapid-fire killing machine but burns herself out quickly because she doesn't have a lot of energy so the longer something extends past a squash the more of an issue it becomes for her. Kind of someone who's very good but handicapped by just not having a lot in the tank. That said I have zero confidence they're going to do that and even if they did it feels like you'd still have to drop the sleeping part of it entirely if you wanted to make them any sort of genuine threat instead of just a random lower midcarder. Someone whose whole style of carrying themselves backstage is being very inattentive and lacking drive would be a nice change of pace for WWE though. That would be a smart and clever way to do it, absolutely a neat Chikara character, but of course WWE presents the problem that its match structure is so nailed down that the character has no legs for the main roster and this sort of thing would be cooked in the oven for little gain or purpose to it, because it won't mean anything or go anywhere from there. I don't know if they're just leaving wrestlers to their own devices on cooking up characters down there or if they've got people writing, but gimmicks like this feel underbaked and still like there's no actual thought for what could actually work on the main roster even though that was allegedly the point of the takeover. This is a character that either doesn't work like your first post said, or only works like this post says in a world that won't mix with the cut-and-paste match template and 'do as little as possible' approach they take to producting television with.
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Post by Legion on Dec 27, 2021 13:37:12 GMT -5
Needs to be a festus like gimmick. Roll her out on a cot the bell rings she’s pissed because it woke her up. Trashes other wrestler goes back to sleep. Yeah, this makes the most sense. She gets woken up, is angry, does cutesy angry face, wrecks someone, goes back to sleep at the end. Probably ends up sleeping under the ring at some point, falls asleep while pinning someone, that sort of rubbish. It's a dead gimmick walking, but it might give her 6 months of screen time and will likely get over for a short time.
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