HarryArchieGus

I misread your post. I'm definitely with you on that last part.

Not up on discord and don’t think I wanna know. Not really picking it apart. If I were to nitpick the list of annoyances would make for a far far lengthier list. I would say your not-so-clean statement is true of a lot of AEW. And I subscribe as much as possible. Yeah, these matches are very much more in your wheelhouse than mine. Still, I enjoyed them, and especially with the aid of the ffwd button for skimming.

Good call on the finish of the ladies match. Totally agree with your take on the show. I’d love it if they did the original war games style entrances (ready by the ring) rather than full running down the aisle (or from the back. That would require the matches to actually stay in the cage. All that said, I did think the Death riders (Marina included) all individually looked really iconic coming thru the audience - very well shot. Outside of Toni and Skye, too many of the ladies looked like they were entering some sort of fun gas passing contest rather than a ‘war’. I love Willow, but the smile down to the ring gimmick wasn’t working here (despite whatever story Excalibur was trying to concoct). I’d love to know what happened with Julia/Skye fishing around the turnbuckles for nothing - doesn’t seem like you need to hide weapons in the first place. Bayne throwing a chair in Hayter’s face provided a gasp - hoping Hayter is okay. Bayne looked mostly great, but that worried me. I love Mark Briscoe, but I really don’t get the choice to no sell the Callis family attack. Also, production being on him for the cutting of the chain, while seemingly revealing the door was closed by a latch, was some serious wrestlecrap. Mark having an issue getting in the cage would be more effective if the matches actually stayed in the Cage. None of my qualms with either of the matches outweighs KOR getting that big victory. Really happy for one of the most underrated guys in the company. Mox-KOR have told one of the best stories this year. The eruption! Beautiful!

O’Reilly submitting Mox and the closing moments that led to it were easily my favorite finish of an AEW BNG match. Hobbs-Hanger was so goddamn good. The Ladies BNG had a nice heated finish thanks in large part to Toni. Both matches felt far too long to me, especially the ladies, but everybody worked really hard and there was lots of fun to be had, so I’ll save my laundry list of frustrations. I also loved the FTR/Steamboat/Brodido segment. Fun Dynamite, but happy to have had ffwd option at times.

Interesting to see this swell of Mox turn talk. Tho, Im not quite seeing it. Claudio is loyal, and Garcia just began his mentorship. Yuta is hitting his stride as a heel character, but needs to be built as a threat to the leadership. I do think Strong would be a nice addition to the death riders. Come to think of it - PAC did walk out on the pre death riding BCC.

I like the point Hangman’s made with the ‘Men’s’ tag on the title, but wondering if, for the sake of brevity, we couldn’t just drop the ‘women’s’ and ‘men’s’ and refer to the individual title holders for both divisions as the World Champion. Or if we need a signal to differ them we could call the Women’s - ‘the Real World Champion’.

I was actually quite happy to see somebody try their hand at Suspiria. Especially one of my favourites. Somewhere after it was released I lost interest. I think I’m ready now. Baby driver also featured his standard of well crafted fun, and surely needs to be seen by a fan. I’m certain you’ll slide it in at number 4 at least.

Go to metacritic for the real dirty numbers. I hope I’m wrong but I sense Wright might be working outside his prime in 2025. His last Last Night in SoHo was middling and totally forgettable. Tho, his Sparks doc from the same year was amongst my favourite music docs of all time. Even beyond my love for the subject, it was nicely laid out and avoided the ‘they’re so great’ talking head interviews and other rock doc trappings. A needless remake like Running Man oughtta be saved for the studio normies. Or Tim Burton. Speaking of Burton, his demise seemed to come around the time he started making remakes. Hopefully that is not true of Wright.

Suspiria is a fun movie, but the idea that it’s some kind of unfuckwithable masterpiece is a bit silly. I haven’t seen that many Argento films, but I did see his Bird with the Crystal plumage and liked it a lot more than Suspiria. I’d be more curious to see the Suspiria remake than return to the original. I may live to regret that, but in Luca Guadagnino I trust.

This is absolutely true of some of the videos - eg. the recent Ads. The recap videos on the otherhand continue to be like looking into a strobe light. The clips are so fast they're barely seen. Case in point, the Anniversary video - breakneck speed clips with no chance to reflect on anything they're showing. And forgotten as soon as it ends.

So strange to me that they would kayfabe the Roddy/Marina relationship. The way Roddy plays off her is perfection. She holds her own too. A mini or side feud feels like it could be something special.

Another strong showing from Ace Austin opposite Kyle Fletcher. Ace's best yet and an excellent match. Austin might have something more than just 'really great hand'. It would benefit him to tweak the presentation - maybe get a reasonably stylish haircut. It would also benefit him to drop that lame card gimmick. The in-ring is fantastic. I'm really happy for the guy. He's always been a hard working dude.

Beef is such a great babyface. I often wonder if they're trying to develop something with him before using him on AEWTV. He's great at fighting from underneath. It's pretty special when you can go out in front of an audience cold and have them behind you as quickly as they generally are for Beef. Not to step on the joke, but I'd actually very much love to see a round robin of matches: Big Bill vs. Beef, Beef vs. Daddy Magic and Daddy Magic vs. Big Bill. I love imagining what a Beef/Daddy Magic partnership might look like. That's a lot of charisma. Yeah, why not throw in Bill?! 'Big Beef Daddy', make it happen Coach!

Ha, it's always interesting to see somebody sum up a rather large group of ppl by a barefoot wrestler with an eye-catching mullet. That said, there is something about Speedball's promo style that absolutely does scream CANCON. I wondered what happened coming in from the break with Thekla-Harley. They should rinse-repeat that use of a commercial break every week. That was such a fun way to start. I'm with the challenging of Harley losing after scoring the big win on Wednesday. I'd have gone Harley over Skye and Thekla over Hayter with shenanigans. That said, I love that they've been protecting Hayter. She's been sensational since returning - consistently carrying lesser workers to fun matches. I'm hoping it ends with gold.

FTR-Gunn/Robinson was so good. Despite the lame 'challengers should never lose argument', it feels like FTR are strong enough to withstand being overtly cheated out of a match. I'm glad Meltzer was able to walk Alvarez off the ledge with that one. Imagine wanting Wrestling to always follow some basic handbook? This match/upset loss nicely builds multiple opponents for if they win (or lose) the title match. It also made perfect storyline sense after the nice little Bandido family segment on Dynamite. FTR continue to have one of the best (segment for segment, match for match) runs of 2025.