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2565751, RE: Yeah. This aint for me anymore. Creative is, has been, and will remain trash Posted by jimaveli, Tue Sep-20-16 12:28 AM
>Very good wrestlers. > >Boring creative. > >RAW has been about Steph and Mick since the split. KO is champ >and that's dope as fuck in a vacuum..... But he's not the >story. MickMahon is the story. > >Rollins is dope.but he's not the story. MickMahon is the >story. > >Rusev and Reigns? Good shit....except, you know, MickMahon is >the vessel for their story. > >I like Mick. Steph is good at her role. > >I've said it before though: as long as there's such an >emphasis on the authority figures the wrestlers will be a step >down by default. Doing the dual authority figures only makes >that worse because now we have to watch that dynamic play out. > > >To me that comes at a premium price. It's a creative crutch >that in itself isn't all that compelling and yet anchors the >show from start to finish. > >There are very good characters right now. Some people are >hitting homeruns creatively in *spite* of very little >creative. > >Enzo. >Charlotte. >Jericho. > >All shining in their roles despite bland and mediocre >storyline material. Jericho is an exception here since his >role as sidekick to KO is absolute gold. > >Enzo pops because of his charisma. He lives and dies by those >in liners but his charisma and the greatness of the act >carries the day. > >Charlotte is a promo clinic every week despite an uninspired, >boring, and tired angle with...Dana Brooke? > >New day is just zzz zzz at this point. The Club is piss break >status for me. > >I know, I know, I'm an asshole smart fan who thinks he knows >it all and could write circles around this stuff from the >comfort of my couch. But this shit is NWO wolfpac era status >right now. There's a ton of talent but they've got their >crutch material on cruise control.
Yep. Real life got real over the last month so I'm basically skimming the weekly shows now. I'm usually still in on the ppvs within a day of them happening, and I still enjoy those. Of course, as we mostly agree, the roster is ridiculously good in-ring no matter what the Hart fam says and no matter how shaky the weekly tv is.
But I'm am almost back to where I don't even try to fully watch Raw. The flaws are ever present and obvious. The pace is mostly brutal. And...real talk...Mick is a terrible trope GM.
Anyway, I spend that time on smackdown (AJ! Slater!) and making sure I'm aware of what Broken Matt is doing. He's my favorite character on any wrestling show in a walk...and this is with almost 100% certainty that I'm not dying to see any 'normal' Hardy match. But I'm all in on the pretaped shenanigans. The lead-ins and aftermaths of the battles are all just so well-done and true to the first stuff. And there's no amount of shaky deliveries from Jeff that can ruin it. Jeremy Borash is a supreme documentarian. In between all of the cheesiness, it is a glorious piece of wrestling storytelling. And I'm a sucker for hilarious wrestling tomfoolery. Vanguard1 is the best lackey this side of Arn anderson.
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