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Post by eJm on Jun 2, 2024 1:30:12 GMT -5
The point is more that it’s likely not happening. SNW was filming during Deadpool and Wolverine would have been filmed so it was likely impossible to do anyway. EDIT: Or at least one set of reshoots anyway. Secret Wars is nowhere near filmed though. The clickbait is saying they’re appearing in Avengers 6…probably in that big battle scene they’re saying will put Portals to shame. Thing is their haven’t even figured out what the hell they’re doing with Kang Dynasty let alone the finale. I doubt they even have finished scripts on those two films yet. Now Captain America: Brave New World is on its new set of reshoots. Ahh, misread all of that so my apologies. The point is, Mount’s denied it so it probably isn’t happening. If there was any hint of it, he’d have signed a 60,000 year embargo until filming finished or something.
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Post by eJm on Jun 1, 2024 18:08:01 GMT -5
Knowing petty ass Feige they’re all dying. The point is more that it’s likely not happening. SNW was filming during Deadpool and Wolverine would have been filmed so it was likely impossible to do anyway. EDIT: Or at least one set of reshoots anyway.
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Post by eJm on Jun 1, 2024 12:49:34 GMT -5
One of the rumors going around is that The Inhumans from the TV show are appearing in Secret Wars.
Someone didn’t tell Black Bolt this information.
Seriously, I always love to see these SEO/headline baiting places get the stuffing knocked out of them.
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Post by eJm on Jun 1, 2024 10:05:38 GMT -5
One of the things that made it age worse is how Bischoff’s time back in WWE went. He was assigned to run Smackdown, moved out of his ranch in Montana to go to Florida, make exactly zero contributions to creative besides “hand everything to Bruce Pritchard”, get fired from said job months in, move back to Montana and spend his podcast career telling other companies how they’ve dropped the ball. Like, bro, if there was an opportunity to redeem that period of time alone, it was that. Instead, we sort of realize that Bischoff just got lucky the idea he got from New Japan worked in 1996. Yeah, I can watch clips from Bischoff's podcast and agree with a lot of his opinions about the current state of wrestling, Meltzer, AEW, etc.. but there's is a big part of me that thinks "But hang on, you couldn't book a wrestling show for shit beyond a stolen idea that happened to do wonders". As you said, he clearly couldn't redeem himself in the fed. And this isn’t me saying you can’t agree with Bischoff about stuff, people can agree with what they want concerning this stuff, it’s just really odd that some of the loudest voices at times are people you can look at their record and go “You did none of what you’re saying Tony Khan or HHH should do when you had the book”.
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Post by eJm on Jun 1, 2024 10:01:00 GMT -5
RVD's debut has aged well. It's funnier than ever that he debuts as a babyface by attacking Sting from behind like a coward then gets beat down with a baseball bat for like 8 minutes straight before a bloody Hogan limps out to try and make the save. You forgot an important detail; He not only attacked him from behind. He pinned him. With the Rolling Thunder. In seconds. And then he got beaten down for 8 minutes.
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Post by eJm on Jun 1, 2024 8:07:54 GMT -5
imagine coming in here, saying "guys we should just overlook all the rape texts because Vince booked a show I liked once" and then being surprised people disagree with you. Hey now, that wasn't saying we should overlook them. It was floating the distinct possibility Vince is being framed and set up with a phone planted on his person to make him look like an abuser specifically to shake him down for money and jail time. So like. Worse, in some ways, actually. Which, like, even ignore the grossness of the context, we know Vince did inappropriate things in the workplace because we have around 16 million reasons for it across a decade at least. As I said pages and pages ago, this would be able Vince, WWE and their legal team to prove that this case in particular was different from the others in a civil sense and the fact the DOJ had asked for it to be paused for their own investigation, the answer to that for now seems to be “No it isn’t”.
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Post by eJm on Jun 1, 2024 7:39:36 GMT -5
Just to add, as other people said, if none of this came out and we only had what we knew factually…Vince would still be a piece of shit.
The ring boys scandal, the steroid scandal, the response to Owen Hart, the general cult of personality he built around talent and ex-talent who feel like they owe him their lives for some reason, having tv angles where he kisses and molests women who work under him, the re-writing of wrestling history that’s still muddled even now. It’s a long enough list before you even get into actual creative decisions!
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Post by eJm on Jun 1, 2024 6:40:15 GMT -5
- Hogan and Bischoff should’ve added to TNA’s existing formula, and not replaced it. Instead of almost entirely revamping TNA from the ground up, they should have definitely just added their name value. Hogan shouldn’t have been more than basically an on-screen authority/match maker, and in real life a brand ambassador and face for the public to see. - TNA already had major problems that couldn’t have been fixed with just two big names coming in. They already had pretty weak attendance, advertising and infrastructure to be honest. I can’t claim to know all the ins and outs but Hogan and Bischoff probably could’ve added more if TNA even had like 1/3 of the organization of the startup era of an AEW. I think the core issue of Bischoff and Hogan's entry was that the ideas they came up with were so lacking in creativity and long term substance. They didn't grow the advertising or improve the infastructure to appoint people who know about hosting live events, never mind wrestling events, they decided to put Impact against Raw on Mondays and they tried to get them to go on the road right away instead of an ease into finding out the interest of matches for this new era. They didn't book matches and feuds around the talent they have, they brought in a bunch of their mates, pushed away some of the home grown talent, changed the ring and did yet another power structure feud. And sure, the Aces and Eights, objectively, did work a bit for TV ratings for a while to keep things steady but nobody knew how to end the thing and like the nWo, ended with a whimper rather than a bang it should have had (even though, having said that, Ken Anderson vs. Bully Ray was a better ending than having the nWo B-Team of Vincent, Stevie Ray and Brian Adams duke it out and dragging poor Scott Norton down with them).
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Post by eJm on Jun 1, 2024 4:49:46 GMT -5
Putting this in spoilers in case anyone hasn’t played 4 yet. {Spoiler}So this morning I beat the Teddie boss using one character whose Persona could block Ice attacks and only had a heal and a Garudyne to their skill whilst the rest of the team was dead and I barely had any healing items or any way to bring anyone back and mostly using attacks. It was frankly the worst gaming experience I ever had and both my greatest gaming achievement at the same time.
And also means I’m now officially past the point I stopped playing Persona 4 Golden on the Vita so I can carry on my PS4 version which is exciting.
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Post by eJm on Jun 1, 2024 3:57:27 GMT -5
One of the things that made it age worse is how Bischoff’s time back in WWE went.
He was assigned to run Smackdown, moved out of his ranch in Montana to go to Florida, make exactly zero contributions to creative besides “hand everything to Bruce Pritchard”, get fired from said job months in, move back to Montana and spend his podcast career telling other companies how they’ve dropped the ball.
Like, bro, if there was an opportunity to redeem that period of time alone, it was that. Instead, we sort of realize that Bischoff just got lucky the idea he got from New Japan worked in 1996.
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Post by eJm on May 31, 2024 8:10:52 GMT -5
One thing that I like to remind people of is how TNA had to fight to get on TV. Weekly PPVs , Fox Sports Net , Spike TV. They fought hard and AEW was handed everything on a silver platter. Just my opinion. Some of it, sure. But a big factor of TNA getting on Spike was how badly the WWE relationship ended with them so Spike were very much open to keeping wrestling on the network and trying to rub it in WWE's face. Like, we have to remember, Spike really pushed the boat out when Impact debuted. A Monday night special when Raw was pre-empted, running shows in the old Velocity spot, cross promotion with other shows. It wasn't like Jeff Jarrett was begging outside of their door for months and Spike went "Fine, we have a spot, come on in".
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Post by eJm on May 30, 2024 11:43:43 GMT -5
Honestly, I'd be shocked if they just let him go. Not just from the build but from what I'm seeing, there's way more to tap into with the Alpha Academy story that's only felt like it's just begun.
Chad's one of those guys like Claudio where he'd basically have the shortest stint unemployed if he does leave and feels like like of those guys you should prevent that from happening as much as possible.
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Post by eJm on May 30, 2024 11:10:21 GMT -5
Remembering in particular the early days of three hour Raws where they had two hour shows they were stretching laboriously to three, and how honestly WWE only really began to up its TV match quality because sending people out there to work matches filled airtime. And maybe Dynamite wouldn't suffer from having an hour of just more bangers going on but I don't think that's really going to make it a better show than it is. Especially the tests for three hour Raws where matches were ridiculously short and time was filled with long promo segments. Like, I distinctly remember the Raw the Nexus debuted on being one of the grindiest things I had ever sat through (Just look at this card! This was a three hour long show! The longest match ended in a no contest...for a good reason but still!) and I remember when it became permanent, it took way too long for someone to go "Hey, why don't the matches go longer?".
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Post by eJm on May 30, 2024 10:45:52 GMT -5
If you're going to make Collision three hours you may as well make that into the A show and put Dynamite on Saturdays. I think the logic he says from the article is that Dynamite is still the A show and trying to change the viewing habits might work or it might backfire since that's sort of what happened with Raw to an extent (it still did well in ad rates but viewership was dropping because it was a commitment) but from what happened with the Rampage/Collision double headers is that viewership somewhat retained across the night and didn't drop as rapidly because of the lower celling that it had for Saturdays. Now, the hole of that might be the circumstances that happened in was during the NBA Playoffs so they could piggyback off of the end of those going into the show and if WBD lose those, it would have to be a different way. He doesn't commit to anything, obviously why would you, but I think all of this is way more being like "We like WBD, we're willing to play ball in circumstances that make sense to both sides" which in TV negotiations, you sort of need to be open to do and making it public might up the price in bidding because of how many hours they're willing to try and contribute.
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Post by eJm on May 30, 2024 10:14:14 GMT -5
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Post by eJm on May 30, 2024 10:08:46 GMT -5
deadline.com/2024/05/david-zaslav-nba-warner-bros-discovery-sports-rights-1235944511/To put a long story short, there are in fact still talks going on between the NBA and WBD but it feels more like them being like "Thanks but no thanks" rather than anything substantial. Zaslav was just talking this week about looking into more mergers and acquisitions as stuff happens in "the next 2-3 years" which has in the past annoyed Wall Street so I have no real clue what the deal is outside of just hoping they can clear up finances enough to make cheap deals as companies drop from streaming or merge with others. F*** if I know.
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Post by eJm on May 30, 2024 9:59:40 GMT -5
Trevor Lee’s got his first post WWE booking at OTT’s ScrapperMania event at Wolverhampton. Hopefully the first of many considering. I was off a little bit since he's on Black Label Pro at the end of July against Andrew "The Giant" Everett. His first OTT match, however, is a world title match against present champion Trent Seven. And the reason he won't be in Dublin was made clear last week because the same day, he'll be in Germany for the first time for WXW.
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Post by eJm on May 30, 2024 8:45:56 GMT -5
WWE isn't unique in all of this, not even a little; WWE is just no longer run by a family/long megalomaniac, it's now part of a modern media conglomerate, and so they're operating in that manner, headed by a guy who's renown for using tactics like this very often. Vince had his own heavy-handed ways of trying to get rid of competition, but Vince was one of the true carnies, not a creature of the modern media landscape; Nick Khan is. To add to this, it needs to be reminded that Nick Khan ran the sports and news broadcaster division for ICM and the TV department at CAA. Not to justify anything HMark has listed but it'd be absolutely weird of him, running a multimedia company as part of a conglomerate he had a part of crafting, to not use those connections to his advantage. Add that to WWE's own history of changing historical narratives to their advantage and tactics they literally just settled a lawsuit for doing rather than go to court, it all links together.
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Post by eJm on May 30, 2024 7:08:20 GMT -5
Come on now, WWE can't possibly be Sharknado. Sharknado is bad on purposeAt times, WWE can be more like The Room. Bad TV that the eccentric director thinks is quality with zero self awareness of why it was riffed on. But it also made money both ironically and unironically so...
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Post by eJm on May 29, 2024 15:47:17 GMT -5
yeah i don't get why he is surprised. a whole ton of their YT videos lately have had AEW hating clickbait titles but then you listen to them and there's barely any hate at all. thought that was annoying and nobody else noticed It’s like how there are videos being like “Why ____ is the worst thing ever” or whatever and people defend it by going “Well, there’s a bunch of context to their view that you don’t get without watching” and like that might be the case but you made the cover clear enough that I don’t really intend to go through that effort and read the dang book in the first place.
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