Merzbow Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 (edited) Was it that bad? Not a single post about last nights episode. Edited January 11, 2020 by Merzbow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenryck Pilchards Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I think we are all waiting for our Sky subscriptions to expire before we can move to Virgin Media to get BT Sport cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted January 13, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted January 13, 2020 After last week, I obviously didn't watch it but surely all the people who thought it was fine did? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted January 13, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted January 13, 2020 I watched it. There's nothing on the show that's actively bad like the Lana shit on Raw (other than Bray Wyatt who will always be dross for me) but it's just the most lazy, by the numbers booking imagineable. It's every WWE trope of the past 15 years boiled down to one show. There are some bright spots though. Miz/Morrison will be a welcome addition to the tag title scene and the Otis/Mandy stuff is enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I saw Mandy Rose Vs Alexa Bliss on the WWE Youtube channel and it was dreadful, full of miscommunication and botches and this is from the official channel so they didn’t even bother editing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Supremo Posted January 13, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted January 13, 2020 I just think there's only so many main events involving Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler you can watch before it feels like a shitarse Groundhog Day. Other than The Usos coming back the other week, it otherwise feels like every Smackdown for the past few months has ended the exact same way, with Corbin and Ziggler beating up Roman Reigns to little to no reaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 (edited) I watched it. Malvo's pretty much nailed it. It's just so arid, autopilot, pointless. If they've not already covertly binned all their human show writers to save money then they're even stupider than they seem on television, because a simple algorithm could come up with this stuff each week. That's not an attempt at a joke either. This is a GM sim mode running on auto with a limited cast and budget. Nevermind guest hosts, they ought to have guest writers. Just make something happen. And to pre empt the "why do you do it to yourself" question, my job more or less allows me to. And wrestling is the best possible thing to have on the second screen as I'm not going to start following some decent drama in the office. Edited January 13, 2020 by Gay as FOOK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I watched every single Raw and Smackdown up until last year. I was honestly shocked by how little I actually missed once I started skipping them or just watching the highlights. They're really not trying at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 So I only tend to watch WWE through YouTube highlights these days. Since when has there been a random WWE producer as a authority figure? Who was the guy that made the Bayley/Lacey match? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Mat said: So I only tend to watch WWE through YouTube highlights these days. Since when has there been a random WWE producer as a authority figure? Who was the guy that made the Bayley/Lacey match? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Pearce Adam Pearce, Smackdown producer and apparently a pretty nice bloke. The last time I remember being bamboozled by something like that was John Laurinaitis when Punk won the title in Chicago. That had a genuinely cool Montreal vibe to it, though, which they ensured to run with and hammer him into the ground as an on air figure. I doubt the same will happen here. Seems like a nice touch of acceptable realism. A producer should be able to tell wrestlers their match is happening, right? Anything is better than random wrestlers being able to book themselves and change the format of things, which I despise. Something like that happened in the opening segment of Raw this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 18, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted January 18, 2020 Adam Pearce is on TV? I might watch some of it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCW Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 I thought they'd just brought that Palmer Cannon lad back from 2004 or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LWOLeN Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 6 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said: Adam Pearce is on TV? I might watch some of it now. Calm down. It was 27 seconds and you could barely hear him talk. Morrison vs Big E was a fun TV match btw.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 18, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted January 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, LWOLeN said: Calm down. It was 27 seconds and you could barely hear him talk. Why are you telling me to calm down, you weird arsehole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted January 18, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted January 18, 2020 Morrison was a lot less sloppy in-ring than his previous WWE run but fucking hell, Starship Pain is still an atrocious finisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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