Jun 29
aew gives me so much emotional whiplash all the time honestly i feel like every week it's another flipflop between "oh my god they Get It, i'm riveted" and "what the hell is going on, you people don't understand anything do you"
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Yemen
seen from United States
seen from South Africa
seen from Canada
seen from United States
seen from South Africa
seen from South Africa
seen from Netherlands
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
aew gives me so much emotional whiplash all the time honestly i feel like every week it's another flipflop between "oh my god they Get It, i'm riveted" and "what the hell is going on, you people don't understand anything do you"
My take on Jay beating Hangman is I think it fits thematically with Hanger’s entire arc since beating Swerve, which is that this guy has no friends.
Like this was really set up in the lumberjack match. Ideally a group of lumberjacks has no bias or is made up of some that side with one guy and some that side with the other. But Hangman has NO ONE on his side. Every one of those lumberjacks wanted Jarrett to win, especially the Dark Order, which has to have hurt the most.
Jay White has a group of ride-or-die boys, and Hangman has literally no one. Everyone in that company (in kayfabe) hates him. It’s inevitable that was gonna come back to bite him in the ass.
almost lost my shit seeing dynamite open with this long-ass mjf promo with a detailed rundown of all the like half-dozen guys he has narratively consistent #lore with who all clearly actually care about trying to win the world title, contemplating the relative state of the women's division
EVE 150 was so funnnnnnnnnn i hope we get french art vs hyperactive in a few months (particularly for cory vs saf, not that i would necessarily survive this, as a lesbian, but what a way to go…) and i hope we get worse and worse (i.e. better and better) kris statlanders i hope she keeps getting angrier and pissier and bitchier and feels more wronged and resentful until she snaps. it's hardly the most blatantly heelish moment from her on this show but i especially enjoyed when the crowd was "one more time"ing miyu's kicks in the first few minutes of the match and she was looking around with this 'wtf is wrong with you people, are you serious!?' expression djhjdfhdfdh
+ the flag plate on the international title and the fact that they change it immediately at ringside before handing it to the new champion is one of my favorite little production details in all of wrestling rn
a sense of precarity as a motivation for certain behaviors in wrestling is really interesting to me actually bc i've been spending most of my viewing hours recently on smaller promotions where as far as i'm aware everyone there is a freelancer (both as their real working status as a performer and within kayfabe) and yet i pretty much never hear anyone in management say "hey stop being such a dick or we're going to stop booking you" to a heel. which, of course they don't, because it would actively raise questions that the format of the show relies on the audience suspending their disbelief about (and the audience doesn't want effective heels to go away, they want them to keep coming back so they can see them eventually get their comeuppance), but i do ponder it sometimes when the booker is an on-screen character. i mean sure, every so often someone gets "fired" and actually leaves a promotion (at least temporarily lol), or gets "suspended" or whatever and comes back earlier than they're supposed to and gets into some kind of altercation, but the narrative around the latter is basically always "they were so mad they just couldn't help themself, and they're willing and able to pay fines for it". i don't think i've ever seen someone get told in-storyline "listen, you're a good wrestler when you actually try, but everyone is sick and tired of you cheating to win and attacking people backstage and so on, so if you keep carrying on like this we just aren't going to book you on our shows anymore" and react with a genuine "oh shit then i had better behave myself because i need this paycheck and these opportunities". not sure what it would take to pull this off without making the internal consistency of every single storyline in the promotion come tumbling down around it like a house of cards but i think it would be interesting to see someone try
also it's just fucking hilarious to watch a heel be like "i may or may not have kidnapped and tortured the ring announcer! teehee!" and the booker be standing there in the ring with them like "well that would be extremely impolite of you and you are making me very stressed but i suppose there's nothing that can be done to prevent this type of behavior from continuing"
pleaseeeeeeee don't tell me they have syuri and iroha over here during forbidden door season with their work visas and medical clearances all sorted out and they're not even going to put them on aew tv....
i'm very charmed by heel antics that stay within kayfabe but go beyond the usual boundaries of the liveshow presentation fiction to cause problems for people who are usually considered more like set dressing or like only semi-diegetic aspects of the production than like characters who are part of storylines. cut throat collective attacking the official photographer and bullying the video crew... thekla getting fired from stardom and continuing to feud with taro okada... it can't be used for every storyline of course, but when it hits, it hits so right
please tell me i did not just watch fujita block two consecutive rainmaker attempts and then counter the third into the grip as a tribute to his buddy his factionmate my beloved future world champion ryohei oiwa at ringside only for english comms to call it as just another rainmaker lmfao