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Episode 2 thoughts....
SpoilerSince we did the heavy exposition lifting in episode one, in episode two we are off to the races and getting right into the meat of this season's story. Felt like that was a good choice.
Dexter hearing about the body in nine pieces thing was a pretty plausible explanation for him being able to track Harrison. It almost feels like Batista should be on to that too tho and not needing to have Teddy track the truck.
Dexter and Blessings becoming such good friends so fat felt a little disingenuous. Especially when Blessings sees the weird ass truck he was in at the impound lot lol.
I also dig Dexter being more pissed that the killer stole his name than actually being worried with wanting to kill the killer. I have a feeling this is gonna be a much quicker kill than normal and Dexter's going to be impersonating him going forward.
Harry being back adds so much. I liked what they did with the Deb ghost in New Blood. But the Harry dynamic was sorely missing in that show.
The female savant Lundy detective feels like shes going to be a good foil too.
Overall another strong episode. This season is firing on all cylinders right out of the gate. You love to see it.
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Episode 1 thoughts...
SpoilerI am loving the vibe and the feel of this. Dexter is meant to be in a big vibrant city with lots of energy. I liked New Blood a lot but this show is already giving us a more authentic feeling show just two episodes in.
I like that they didnt shy away or waive away him being slowed down by the gun shot injury. He's getting winded easily and needing to take breaks or in a lot of pain when bumped into.
I am shocked they went there with Harrison. I thought for sure the dragging a body thing in the trailers was disingenuous editing and gonna be him dragging and butchering an animal.
The Batista & Dexter scene had so many layers. Sweet happy loving Batista was very stoic and concerned, but you got the sense he has the pieces put together and he's trying to lead Dexter into a trap. It'll be interesting to see play out.
Also love love loved the hallucinations with Trinity, Miguel, & Doakes. They all had such different vibes to the conversations from each other but all felt very organic to how the characters always interacted. But still in a way where you can understand why they were all being encouraging to Dexter. Like there's no way Doakes thinks Dexter's a good person deep down. Thats just Dexter's psyche.
My only gripe was the explanation of how he's free / alive. A real exposition cop out with how Angela was handled. Maybe it would be felt different if they got the actress back to actually film some scenes instead of having Teddy just explain it all. The way Angela was portrayed in New Blood no way would she give up on the BHB investigation just because she found Iris / found out about Kurt. Let alone letting Dexter walk for killing Logan.
They really tried to retcon that one. Saying it was a self defense. As if Logan turned into some murderous psycho trying to kill an innocent man in a cell. They would have been better off getting the Logan actor back and saying he didnt actually die either. Just that he was choked out and had a non lethal neck fracture.
Overall great return episode.
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There was a fun game there, but Fight Forever lacked a lot of polish. Also a bit of a miscalculation in the sense the creation community has exploded x1000000 since the n64 days and they were really lacking there.
Keep the engine. Tweak and polish it. Clear up the bugs. Especially the bad online tag matches. Give it a real story mode and expand greatly on the creation capabilities and I think they'll have a winner. Felt like WCW World Tour. If they keep improving on it we can get to Revenge and No Mercy levels with it.
There also has to be some kind of mechanism to update the out-of-date-ness of it. I get there's always going to be paid quarterly DLC seasons. But throw in monthly cosmetic updates that are free and not tied to the season pass. New themes and gear when people change characters would go a longggg way to keep it from getting out of date so quick.
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16 hours ago, Casey said:
This is a good point, actually. AEW is getting bent over a barrel online by the anti-AEW contignent because they "only" have sold 20k so far for a stadium show.
All In has sold more tickets than all of the WWE shows this weekend combined.
This is good for perspective. If you just said to someone WWE is running an NXT PPV, Goldberg's last match on SNME, & finally another all women PPV and all three events combined are not going to out draw All In I think a lot of people would be shocked by that.
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3 hours ago, Casey said:
Hey guys it’s definitely AEW PPV week: because Teil Rhodes is complaining on Twitter that she doesn’t get royalties for coming up with the All In show name. And ofc Bully Ray slides in and cries about “not getting credit” for booking the battle royale that was on the fuckin’ preshow.
That's not how royalties work lol. Just pitching a show name to your brother and him using it, and then the brother signing away the rights to the name & footage in exchange for cheap (free?) production from ROH doesn't grant you any ownership. Therefore nothing to pay out royalties for.
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Jesus. I know my posts can be critical but I really hope you guys don't lump me in with him. I bring up my ideas and opinions on how to fix the things I think need fixing. He's just trashing things and reveling in it. 25k in a 35k setup isnt great (despite the great money), but there's still a week left. The card looks strong. I hope the walk up is strong and maybe there's a large group of people waiting for day-of price drops. Still time for the ticket sales issue to turn out fine.
And even if it is 25k in a 35k setup, it still might look good on PPV. Just depends how it's shot. The Nashville & Cleveland Summer Slams only used half building setups and those looked good the way they were shot. -
Texas Death Match stip adds a lot to Mox vs Hangman for me. Excited to see it now. I think the stip was added for the sole purpose of running that WM40 finish. Texas Death / Bloodline Rules / same - same.
Hell of a house for a Dynamite tonight. Over 5k paid. More than double what they've been doing. And the bigger crowd really added a lot. That Young Bucks trios match was incredible I thought.
The card for All In is starting to look really strong. I really hope the stadium fills out now that the card is looking so good. I can't help but think if they got some of this card laid out earlier ticket sales would be in a better place at this point.
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My last few posts in the AEW folder have come off as pretty negative so trying to balance that out with something a little lighter and a little more fun. Up until about 2009ish FCW, developmental guys usually got to keep their own names. What if they had to get the NXT random name generator names?
Like Joe Henning had to be Michael McGulicutty but Randy Orton got to be Randy Orton. But if Orton had to get a WWE name what would it have been? They def would have taken the Ace part from his dad. Ace Briggs?
John Cena def would have been like Flex Fredericks lol.
For sure Punk would have been Phil Rollins. Taking his first name with Henry Rollins last name and the funny Phil Collins pun.
Lesnar would have been like Harrison Brox.
There were a few whole generations who didnt have to do the Bryan Danielson to Daniel Bryan deal. What ones can you come up with?
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4 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
Maybe we should wait until the final week before we all lose our minds over this......?
This... is the most rational response in here. Yes, I'm jumping the gun a bit here. I could be full of shit by bell time.
2 hours ago, Casey said:AEW doomsayers are so taxing, man. I especially love the "jacked up ticket pricing" thing, because it's kind of just not true. I could be on TV, opposite hard cam, in the back of that section, for a little over $300. If I wanted that same seat (well, hard-cam side, that seat/section has been sold) for SummerSlam, it would be around $800+. AEW's VIP package is $1k, and the other guys are anywhere from $5k to $2k for the platinum tickets (which isn't even the most expensive). Entry level tickets are around $30. SummerSlam's cheapest ticket is almost $90. Fuck, let's look at All Out. That same seat I mentioned is $540 USD. Cheapest is $38.
Fucking TNA is charging almost $800 for second row, opposite hard-cam tickets to Slammiversary.
But, yeah, inflating ticket prices to seem more successful or whatever. Sure. Maybe I'm stanning, I don't really give a fuck. If you want good PPV/TV wrestling from a major company, their prices are still the best in the industry. Miss me with this bullshit.
To be clear I wasn't comparing AEW vs WWE ticket prices. WWE's gouging is out of control and AEW is nowhere near reaching that category from my perspective. What I meant by jacking up ticket prices, is that tickets for All In 2023 were cheaper than All In 2024. All In 2024 was cheaper than All In 2025. Still reasonable unlike WWE. But the only reason they can claim these gate amounts are because they keep making the tickets cost more every year. They're selling way less of them at a higher price per head.
2 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:I think there's a lot of moving goalposts at play here. People wanted to say it was unsuccessful so now that it's clearly going to be successful it's moving on to whatever the audience is going to be, never mind the fact that wrestling promotions have been papering thousands for decades at big events. Do you want AEW to paper it up to 35K to make you feel better? I suppose they could do that but then they'd get shit on for doing that too even though it's always been the standard.
Just speaking for me, I don't want to say it was unsuccessful. I want it to be super successful. And yeah honestly once you get to show week, I would love for them to paper it full. WCW's biggest houses at The Georgia Dome sold their most tickets ever... and they still papered. It looks way better. Full and loud. Loud and full.
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11 hours ago, Craig H said:
The fuck are you talking about? This is one of the most brain dead takes I've seen in awhile on here and that's accounting for all of mentally ill horseshit that Vile One types out. Look at what their gate is going to be. Look at what all of their houses in the US have been so far. Compare this to those.
And this isn't stanning or whatever the fuck people say for the company. This is just being annoyed with dumb as fuck logic. Damn.
Oh this is 100% stanning tho. Jacking up ticket prices to mask you are selling less isnt something that should be applauded. You can like and care about something and still be able to point out missteps and trends that arent favorable.
All In has had exponentially less interest every year. The same thing happened with Grand Slam in Queens. 20k first year. 12k the next year. 6k the following year. Me pointing this out doesmt make me brain dead, you waving it away "because money" is brain dead. Maybe in 5 years we'll get to the point everyone is pumped because they sell one single $10 million dollar ticket to All In. Who cares that only one person bought a ticket, its the hIgHeST grOsSinG sHOw eVer.
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82,000 ---> 46,000 ---> 20,000ish (so far) is a bad trend no matter how much money you get. You can be wildly profitable and still look bad. A 45,000 seater scaled to seat 35,000 only having 20,000 in there is a bummer even if they make more money than ever before. I don't think being bummed out the promotion you root for the most not being able to pack a house is some kind of hater take. I want them to make money. I want them to fill the building. I want the show to be enjoyable. I don't see a problem.
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10 hours ago, HarryArchieGus said:
It's a 365 days a year job, and there is no such thing as a flawless booker. Surely there's a better example than John Silver. I mean that with all due respect - he's an excellent hand and a great role player, but I'm not sure they missed some sort of big pay day with him. As much as I like Silver in ring, his character and mic work has rarely been anything but goofy. There's a ceiling for goofy. Still, if they ever wanted to give Reynolds-Silver a Cinderella tag title run I'd be there for it.
Seriously? Give me a goofy John Silver TNT Title run over any of the last year of the title. Jack Perry? Boring reign. Garcia? Boring reign. Adam Cole? So far boring reign. Not a knock on any of the performers. But a fun zany John Silver run (especially back when he was hot) would have been much better than what we've gotten.
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We're both partially right with how we read the situation. I wasn't aware of the divorce issues so that probably is the biggest factor out of anything.
My take on it was that had Hart been presented as a top guy and a big deal right out of the gate he'd be more motivated and fulfilled. I feel like he grew apathetic almost right away because he was presented just like 1996 Jeff Jarrett jumping was. An after thought. You put the belt on him early and show your commitment to him as an important part of the company you get better results.
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WCW was all about fuck finishes. It never really mattered as long as you gave them something cool to go home on. Whatever dirty finish DQ beat down. Lights out. Lights on. Ultimate Warrior still shows up to work woth Hogan. Bret comes out on Nitro pissed off that he's been chasing Hogan forever and he didnt get the chance to win. Benoit comes out and talks about how much he's looked up to Bret but how Bret is soft and whiney now. And he's here to take him out. You pivot to Bret trying to elevate Benoit and having bangers in hopes of getting Benoit ready to be a Stiener challenger.
The Nash booking aspect I didnt factor in. But hindsight makes that easy. Just don't give him the book lol. But for real Bret was never iver as a babyface the way they presented him. He immediately went into a fued with Flair, where even if Flair was heel he was a baby to the WCW audience against Bret. They forced a square peg into a round hole. He should have been heel. He was doing the best work of his career as a heel.
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I disagree. If he had the sympathy everyone always points to, he would have been undeniable as the top face. Instead he just putzes around the mid card after a cold win over Flair in his first PPV. He ends up heel a few months later teaming with Hogan and no one batted an eye or cared. It took until Russo came in in late 1999 before they do anything of substance with him. And the timing just didn't workout because of the Owen incident and then his injury.
But you bring him in as a heel, even if he gets cheered in his first appearance you just have him heel The United States in one of WCW's rural hotbeds and instantly he's heated up as a top heel. With Sting going over Hogan and getting a run as champion there's really no top heels for Sting to work with and a loaded face roster at this point. You get the belt on Hart after an extended 6 month story and let him work with those over faces. After the Sting feud you have Bret vs Lex, Bret vs Nash, Bret vs Macho, Bret vs DDP, Bret vs Goldberg. So much more to work with. This pretty much eliminates the opening for DDP to have a world title run. But him getting the celebrity matches with Hogan then using that to get a run at Bret where he falls, only makes Goldberg look that much better when he's the one to beat Bret.
Even before factoring in the upcoming Owen incident, after he dropped the belt at the end of 98 I'd be turning him baby and building to a Hogan vs Bret match at the end of 1999. That's two years of Hogan out of the title picture. That's giving your ace a run (Sting) then new faces runs as champion (Bret & Goldberg). Then you build Steiner in the background as a monster during those two years, and he beats Goldberg clean as a sheet as we enter 2000.
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In my opinion the idea was fine, its the execution that ruined it. Had you put Sting over Hogan clean as fuck, giving Hogan an nWo civil war to keep him busy and out of the main event would have made a lot of sense.
But you gotta keep Sting a loner and champion, off defending against others at the top of the card. You also gotta keep the Wolfpac as Hall, Nash, Pac, Konan, and Savage. They kind of ruined the coolness factor adding in Luger and Hennig and crab facepaint Sting.
Hart should have come in as a heel. Play off that he's such a dispicable person his last company screwed him over. Let him run with the same anti America character that was working on WWE and you run and extended Sting vs Hart program on top. Hart eventually wins and you move on to Hart vs DDP and Goldberg on top. All the while you keep the nWo relegated to their blood fued civil war.
Once you get the belt onto Goldberg at the end of 1998 from Hart you get the nWo back together as a super group trying to stop Goldberg. Building to the first Hogan Goldberg match. And Goldberg retains. And keeps retaining. He mows through and annihilaties the entire nWo while you've been building new threats in the background.
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I have a strong premonition that
SpoilerLita
will be a surprise entrant in the Women's Casino Gauntlet. No real basis for it lol just a hunch
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I got my wish, Women's Casino Gauntlet. I'll take a Men's one too, sure thanks lol. Hopefully TK has a cool surprise or two in mind for them.
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The biggest show of the year is 19 days away. There's only 3 matches officially announced. That seems... odd, right? I know AEW is notorious for throwing a bunch of matches on the week of a PPV.
But this is the biggest show of the year. This is the biggest building of the year. Why are they not locking in the matches early enough to promote promote promote? You wanna move tickets get a killer card on paper 6 weeks out with only 1 or 2 last minute additions.
It's a really odd strategy to me, especially when you're having trouble moving tickets.
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Why do I recall it being about a family member of Fox's that passed away? Was that a cover story for the real story? Or are people misremembering? I swear it was like his grandma's funeral he was adamant about not missing and had to back out of the show because of it.
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Overthinking like crazy.
The significance of Colt Cabana to Punk on the original pipe bomb was that Colt was his buddy that was let go.
The significance of Claudio, Dolph, & Cardona is that they're all Cena buddies that got let go.
Thats it. There's no Young Bucks thing there. Its just Cena inserting a few friend's names where the original friend's name went.
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Hopefully Athena gets a match on the show. Especially if that was originally what was penciled in
Im really hoping for a Women's Casino Gauntlet Match. I imagine there'd be a pretty loud reaction for her if she was a surprise entrant with it being in her hometown. I'd put her over too. Athena vs Mercedes ROH title vs AEW title at All Out or Forbidden Door. Lets add as many titles as possible to this gimmick.
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144 in a 25? If that's accurate that should be an instant 3 months in jail in my opinion. You have no reaction time to adjust if something or someone runs into the street. They don't set streets at 25 unless its a residential area with a high chance of that happening.
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Everyone has their preferences but I think old school battle royals like that are mostly phased out these days. Probably because its 20 minutes of punching and kicking. Or at least the first 15. Not much room to bump or hit any moves with 30 people in the ring.
Everyone loves The Rumble, but how many people love The Andre Battle Royal ya know?
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Dexter Original Sin / Dexter Resurrection
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A few small nitpicks that came to mind...
-How does the newly resurrected Dexter Morgan have a bank account or credit cards to pay for things / have his Jim Lindsey money transferred over?
-How do the people at the hospital have all of his stuff under Dexter Morgan already? I suppose Angela could have told them when she brought him in, but since he's still technically dead on record at that point kinda doesnt make sense.
-How does he have a smart phone already tied to that name to use ride share?
-How did he get a stolen car out of impound without a license in that person's name?
Certainly things that can be overlooked. But I prefer when writers really try to not have the logic gaps like this in great TV shows.