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Post by sarcastic on Feb 15, 2020 14:10:07 GMT -5
I haven't been able to watch a Dynamite episode in the past 3 weeks, so I'm catching up by watching some of the clips they upload on their channel. This promo is fire!
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Post by Cheeze on Feb 16, 2020 9:12:44 GMT -5
I haven't been able to watch a Dynamite episode in the past 3 weeks, so I'm catching up by watching some of the clips they upload on their channel. This promo is fire! Britt on the mic, good. Britt in the ring, not good. This past week's episode was probably their best in a while.
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Post by sarcastic on Feb 19, 2020 23:11:34 GMT -5
The tag team Championship match on today's show was so freaking good! I'm honestly hoping Page doesn't turn on Omega at Revolution just so we can see them as a tag team more often. Their match against the Young Bucks is going to be insane.
The steel cage looks sick. Can't believe that finish tho. Cody's crazy for doing the moonsault from the top without first looking to see if Wardlow was even up to catch him.
Today's episode was great! Excited for next week. Omega vs PAC in a 30 minute iron man match is going to be fun.
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Post by AD on Feb 20, 2020 9:13:37 GMT -5
Tag match was awesome. Cage match was fine. Moonsault was cool, but I thought Cody rushed it a little and ended up getting half the pop he could have had he milked the buildup a little longer. Pleasantly surprised to find out Wardlow might not suck.
Not a fan of the cage design. It's too far away from the ropes to make the bumps into the cage look good. And too tight to the apron to let them do anything on the ground. Just seems like one of those things they tried only for the sake of being different.
Weird AEW booking quirk I've noticed: they tend to load up certain episodes with similar matches/angles. Last night they did Mox/Cobb and Cody/Wardlow, both built around "hired gun" heels only out to injure the babyface at the behest of other heels. A few weeks ago they did a number of intense injury type angles--the Britt Baker teeth breaking thing, the Santana eye stab, the Nia/Riho table attack, the Cody whipping--all on the same show. It's not something that bothers me terribly. It's just strange that they don't think to spread these things out.
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Post by Cheeze on Feb 26, 2020 20:47:39 GMT -5
PAC vs Omega was absolutely insane.
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Post by sarcastic on Feb 26, 2020 23:00:41 GMT -5
AEW is on a roll! The 30 minute ironman match is a MOTYC. Kennys best match since leaving NJPW, and PAC was so phenomenal. Yuka Sakazaki in a Dynamite episode = increase in ratings. Oh and we're getting Orange Cassidy vs PAC at Revolution!!!
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Post by Cheeze on Feb 27, 2020 5:44:44 GMT -5
i feel like it took them a while, but they have figured it out. last three weeks have been consistently awesome.
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Post by sarcastic on Mar 1, 2020 1:55:46 GMT -5
Young Bucks vs Page and Omega might have been the greatest tag match I've ever seen.
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Post by Cheeze on Mar 1, 2020 9:42:40 GMT -5
Cassidy/PAC was my MOTN, that was incredible. Tag match was sick too.
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Post by Pick on Mar 1, 2020 13:30:06 GMT -5
Easily one of the best shows I've ever been to
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Post by VyperJMc on Mar 1, 2020 18:10:25 GMT -5
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Post by VyperJMc on Mar 2, 2020 2:13:36 GMT -5
PAC vs Orange Cassidy & the tag team title match were fantastic. Bonafide stars, every last one of them. The layers upon layers upon layers of storytelling/references/callbacks by Hangman, Omega, & the Bucks was truly remarkable. My favorite AEW match thus far. Cody is the biggest dipshit edgelord. Every little thing he does is so mind numbingly overbooked & cringey it makes me wanna turn off the tv. From rising up from the stage, to the shitty entrance song, to having the band of that shitty entrance song doing a shitty live performance of that shitty entrance song, to having not only his wife & Arn Anderson escort him to the ring, but also a team of trainers that inexplicably weren't around by the time he made it to the ring. Then he goes out & continues to the be the same mediocre mid-card WWE guy he's been for over a decade by having one the blandest matches I've ever seen in a "blood feud." And I don't know if I should bash him or give him credit for this, but he made himself look like the biggest geek by killing his finisher like 3 times & then getting beat by a pinky ring. This shit almost ruined my enjoyment of the Jericho vs Mox match since they did the thing AD pointed out a couple weeks ago where they book similar matches/angles on the same show. Luckily Jericho & Mox are pro's & the there was no Cody taint on the main event.
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Post by AD on Mar 2, 2020 18:36:50 GMT -5
Was that a real tattoo? I was really hoping, for his sake, that it was just painted on for the night. Gonna regret that one in ten years. Anyway... Watching the Cody and Jericho matches was like suffering through a bad community theater production and then getting treated to a refresher course in how to do the same play right by a professional troupe later that night. All the extracurricular stuff in Cody/MJF felt like smoke and mirrors tacked on to distract from a half-assed in-ring effort. Beyond that, it was so poorly conceived that it undermined the old school heel/babyface dynamic they'd built up so well in the booking. It was always the dumbshit babyfaces causing some sort of distraction and suffering the consequences (like Brandi trying to crossbody Wardlow, completely unprovoked) that robbed them of their natural sympathy. In Mox/Jericho everything going on felt like an organic extension of the main conflict. All the outside stuff was just additional material added on to an already solid core. Each new bit of interference built on the last one, creating a man-against-the-world dynamic for Moxley. One feels self-indulgent, the other feels like the only right way to do the match. All you have to do is look at the flat ending of the first match and compare it to the crescendo of emotion in the main event to see who did it better. As for the rest of the card? Dustin/Hager was boring whenever Hager was on offense and pretty good whenever Dustin was on offense; unfortunately, the balance was far too much in Hager's favor. Sammy/Darby was a super fun sprint with two kids absolutely throwing caution to the wind to get over; probably should've been the opener. Tag title match was everything that makes wrestling worth loving; Hangman is easily AEW's biggest booking success, he's gone from a complete non-entity in ROH/NJPW to an organically homegrown star and a consistent highlight of the show in AEW. Didn't get to see much of the Women's title match for reasons that are too boring to get into. Pac/Cassidy was every bit as perfect as the tag match in its own, much more modest way; not kidding when I say OC has to seriously be top 10 in the world in terms of knowing his gimmick and exactly how to work it. Great show on the whole. Better than their last PPV.
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Post by AD on Mar 5, 2020 17:42:39 GMT -5
You think when Tully Blanchard agreed to come back as a manager he realized he'd eventually end up stuck with the guy whose gimmick is "nobody wants to be my tag partner"?
But last night was another very good show to add to their streak of very good shows.
Jake Roberts waging a personal crusade against Cody, while specifically targeting the egotism inherent in his whole presentation, has potential to be my favorite kind of wresting angle; the kind where you have to admit the heel has a pretty good point.
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Post by Rev on Mar 6, 2020 6:19:06 GMT -5
Jake Roberts waging a personal crusade against Cody, while specifically targeting the egotism inherent in his whole presentation, has potential to be my favorite kind of wresting angle; the kind where you have to admit the heel has a pretty good point. Agreed, potential to be my favorite thing currently. Who do you guys think is his client? Lance Archer or Brodie Lee? Or someone else? Either way, give me a Jake promo next week that lasts for the entire 2 hours of Dynamite!
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