KME
Team Rocket
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Post by KME on Sept 14, 2023 5:35:43 GMT -5
Solid show. Nothing super amazing but nothing remotely bad. I thought Page Cage was good stuff. Not the strongest Mox match ever. Roddy/Joe was solid and did a good job of making Joe look strong. Don's unveiling of his latest masterpiece was awesome. Kota begging on his knees was great. I'm assuming that match will be WrestleDream so what does Omega do? Not on Grandslam or potentially WrestleDream Could be a Golden Lovers match at WrestleDream? Not totally convinced Kota has looked ready for a 1 on 1 match and multi man matches with loads going on may be a bit too chaotic for someone with a lot of ring rust, possible that a tag match is the right balance? Kind of fits with Kenny having an awful record in singles right now too. Could bring in Ospreay to team with Takeshita given his natural link with Kenny and Don. Think he was retweeting Callis hyping last nights segment the other day too. I'd go 8 for last night. At times it felt like a minor Dynamite (probably by design with one of their biggest of the year next week) but so many parts were so much fun. Max doing Steiner Math was utterly outstanding.
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clifford
King Koopa
Shingo Takagi stan
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Post by clifford on Sept 14, 2023 6:24:02 GMT -5
This was just great from top to bottom. I'm invested in so many feuds right now in AEW- MJF/Cole/Joe, Swerve/Hangman, Starks/Danielson, Christian/Darby, Claudio/Eddie/Mox, Outcasts dissension, Callis/Kenny- it's a far cry from liking one, maybe two feuds AEW has going and letting all the in ring stuff carry my investment.
So I'm really enjoying Dynamite at the moment because of it. Every segment felt important, relevant, furthering these stories and setting up matches for Grand Slam and Wrestledream. I'm a simple man; do the simple stuff well and I'm hooked!
8/10 show but I'm bumping it up to 9/10 for MJF's flawless Steiner Math promo.
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Post by ronnie2hotty on Sept 14, 2023 8:00:59 GMT -5
AEW has always been its strongest when it relies on the in-ring stuff, rather than goofy sports entertainment stuff. I used Steiner math to round up to a 9/10.
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Post by The anti-ratings Luddite on Sept 14, 2023 10:46:31 GMT -5
Big characters and funny have been unspoken pillars of the company from the start, I think they strayed a bit from them in 2022 which made the year feel staler overall for me (well a lot of things got goofed in 2022 in their control and out of it, but still they kinda lost the vision a bit I feel) but now we got great matches AND goofy weirdos being weird at each other and it's amazing. (Also I was gonna play some BG3 before this but I knew if I did I wouldn't be able to put it down lmao) I think between injuries, Tony holding out for moments (either through injury or hometown pop), backstage drama, and just trying things that weren't hitting AEW strayed a bit too far from what made them popular. Some stuff had to evolve (presentation) but just too many moments of "eh that was okay" or "that didn't work" that may have hurt the product overall. Now don't get me wrong, there was a lot of very enjoyable stuff, but I think in the very short time Punk has been gone you're starting to see little things that make it seem like a weight is lifted off of many
Not that all of it was on Punk, but I think the Punk debacle has caused Tony Khan to come to a realization about appreciating what brought him to the dance.
For a while, AEW was getting dangerously close to just being "Tony Khan books Black and Gold era NXT", which was good, but I and many others preferred the "something for everyone" presentation of early AEW. You had Luchadores, you had strong style, you had super-indy style, you had good old fashioned southern 'rasslin, and you could have a fun and funny match with Orange Cassidy lead into a Jon Moxley blood bath.
I think this Dynamite is (hopefully) indicative of the fact that Tony Khan is no longer making Perfect the enemy of Good, because while not everything worked, it felt like everything was running looser and everyone's willing to experiment and try new things again.
8/10.
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 14, 2023 11:14:27 GMT -5
The shows since the PPVs haven't been as much my usual cup of tea, but I think I have to accept that with more PPVs being added to the calendar it's going to likely mean fewer of the kinds of matches I love getting on the weekly shows. Not that the matches over the last couple weeks have been bad or anything, but if you're going to do All In, All Out, a big Dynamite like Grand Slam, and Wrestledream all in pretty quick succession, you're just not giving away bigger stuff on the regular shows.
Given that, they've pretty clearly shifted focus towards building to those bigger cards, whether through promos or through matches that set things up a bit more, and they're doing a solid job of that. Callis saying they were coming for "the heart of Kenny Omega" (and calling him a cuck!), Max using Michigan University math (thanks, Taz), and Roddy flopping as Cole shows up were all just golden for hyping up what's coming or otherwise continuing to build the ongoing stories...or just for the lulz, too. Also happy that Shida/Baker is finally taking off; time to get back to having more non-title womens feuds, and this is a good start, but damnit all give me Nyla killing more fools ASAP.
So yeah, like Collision this past Saturday, it's a show that's probably around a 7 for me, but some of those really good small moments bump it to an 8.
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Post by grunt on Sept 14, 2023 11:54:22 GMT -5
I'll be perfectly honest, I haven't been feeling the shows since the PPV, either, but that's more on most of the talent featured (Page, Mox, Cole, Strong, and so on) not doing much for me these days. As a result, I kinda fast-forwarded through half this show (same with last week Collision), so I won't give it a note.
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Post by chronocross on Sept 14, 2023 11:57:37 GMT -5
8/10, enjoyed the match with Page vs. Cage and Joe vs. Strong in the main event.
I didn't really care for Moxley vs. Bill as I'm not really into Mox's act these days.
I also liked the post-match events with Nana getting a superkick party after his dancing and Roddy Strong's neck injury that comes and goes apparently lol.
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