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I thought it was fine. It's dumb in the right ways for wrestling, and the promo segments being written and shot like telenovelas is perfect. I'll watch it next week.
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I love how the presentation is basically Iron Chef except Mexican wrestling. They even have a Chairman Kaga character.
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Watched it. That was a pretty good main event. I'm amazed they had fake biker go over the lady, especially after giving her a video package and him the jobber entrance. The first match was awful. They need to stop cutting every two god drat seconds, it's worse than WWE and I found myself actually disoriented a few times. The backstage segments are amazing.
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Someone put the main event on YouTube if you have yet to see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwyyAza3jag
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Nov 1, 2014 23:26
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I'm not a huge fan of these camera angles. The commentators aren't amazing (unlike Mexican football announcements.) I do like Puma Luchas though. .... Wait Johnny Mundo won? Lucha Underground is unwatchable.
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Nov 2, 2014 01:05
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Did someone say one of the corporate goons is B-boy because that's pretty loving cool.
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Nov 2, 2014 06:02
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Daniel Bryan posted:Someone put the main event on YouTube if you have yet to see it. Thanks. I have limited hope for the commentators to grow into a great duo, and I hope they stop cutting to them (especially with the much worse camera quality) so often. It's pretty funny to see Ricochet apparently interpreting "lucha" as "do more unnecessary flips".
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I hate Striker but Vampiro didn't bother me. The setting and weird cinematic approach is interesting and sets this apart. The roster seems reasonably talented including a mix of people I recognize and people I'm curious about. So that's good. Then again there's some people in reocgnize and have no desire to see so that's not good. But you take the good with the bad. Hey, I'm in. I much rather spend an hour watching a wildcard like this than the stagnant stuff WWE and TNA are serving up. Something as simple as the owner browbeating Chavo for failing to take out Blue Demon and teasing bringing in someone dangerous is just a little interesting story to keep me interested. I am highly amused by the Cuban wrestler who got a guy from Kentucky to honor Aztec culture. It makes me want to bring Prince a Puma (with the jaguar spirit animal) to my TEW game.
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Wazzu posted:Thanks. Lucha Underground is not even a little bit about lucha
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Nov 2, 2014 09:13
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oatgan posted:Lucha Underground is not even a little bit about lucha
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Nov 2, 2014 09:17
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Ivelisse wasn't on the first show, correct? I don't give one red gently caress about anyone on this roster aside from her and Ricochet.
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i'm kind of excited for pentagón jr but i guess he's not gonna be doing the "cutting up guys' foreheads w/ fan-provided broken beer bottles" stuff he does on the mexican indies
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Did anybody see who they ended up with to call the Unimas version of the show? I seem to remember trouble landing on a Spanish announce team was a key issue that pushed back the show launch.
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Nov 2, 2014 13:49
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Hugo Savinovich and Vampiro.
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Daniel Bryan posted:Someone put the main event on YouTube if you have yet to see it. That was excellent
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oatgan posted:Lucha Underground is not even a little bit about lucha The rumors floating around ~newz sitez~ was that the first tapings were agented by Chavo who was pushing for a more US TV focused ring style and after bad feedback appeared online the next few tapings switched to a more traditional Mexican style of wrestling. I'm pretty interested in seeing if that is true or not.
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I liked the commentary because it wasn't two dudes jerking each other off and they were actually story telling the match.
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I like Striker because he makes it seem like a sport and tries to have a reason for everything the wrestlers do. Vampiro though...brother. Brother. Brother.
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EugeneJ posted:That was excellent
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I missed the first episode, so thanks to the dude who posted the main event. Prince Pumas is so drat smooth, and I forgot how much I miss the Shaman of Sexy. The announcing was fine but I could do without the random cuts to an upshot of a sweaty Matt Striker.
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coconono posted:I liked the commentary because it wasn't two dudes jerking each other off and they were actually story telling the match. i liked that aspect of it but something about it was still just really bad
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Spermgod posted:i liked that aspect of it but something about it was still just really bad That something is called Matt Striker.
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I can't wait for Yoshi Tatsu to show up in this so Matt Striker can continue listing off his collection of animes.
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Spermgod posted:i liked that aspect of it but something about it was still just really bad Not too much emotion and the way they speak makes them sound like they're scripted. HulkaMatt fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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I never even liked the top down view in ladder matches and such. It's weird. The editing also sucked in this all together, with so many line jumps that I often got confused about where poo poo was happening in the ring.
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Nov 3, 2014 08:50
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AJPW used to use a overhead kinda 3/4 view that was great for tag matces cause you could see everything. if they want unusual camera angles they should copy that.
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HulkaMatt posted:Not too much emotion and the way they speak makes them sound like they're scripted. I only watched the main event but I thought it was kind of corny how they kept bringing up the 100k cash prize. Otherwise I thought it was a significant step up from non-Regal WWE commentary, but that's obviously a perilously low bar.
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Grozz Nuy posted:I only watched the main event but I thought it was kind of corny how they kept bringing up the 100k cash prize. If you watch it in the context of a Mark Burnett show (like Survivor or The Apprentice) it makes more sense. Basically they're treating it like a reality show similar to The Contender, it seems.
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flashy_mcflash posted:If you watch it in the context of a Mark Burnett show (like Survivor or The Apprentice) it makes more sense. Basically they're treating it like a reality show similar to The Contender, it seems. Isn't the money only the macguffin, for lack of a better term, in the first episode? Cause he gave it to Ezekiel Jackson at the end.
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TheJoker138 posted:Isn't the money only the macguffin, for lack of a better term, in the first episode? Cause he gave it to Ezekiel Jackson at the end. I may have misread or misheard but I thought they were doing that every episode.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I may have misread or misheard but I thought they were doing that every episode. I thought it was just a "signing bonus."
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If this was TNA, they'd do it every week. And then do nothing with the people they gave it to.
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Daniel Bryan posted:If this was TNA, they'd do it every week. Anyone who wins it should just not show up again for a three months because they don't need the money and are on vacation now.
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At least with a cash prize we should be seeing less DQ endings. At least until ADR comes in and doesn't need it. Because he's a Mexican aristocrat, you see. But of course, you already know that.
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"The Lucha Underground television show produced roughly 8,000 viewers for El Rey Network on Wednesday." Most watched show ever on El Rey.
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For a cable channel which apparently needs a set top box, three decoders and a warp whistle to access, 8k viewers sounds like a solid amount. They really need to get the El Rey shows on Hulu asap.
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I just wish it was in Time Warner Cable's El Rey VOD section at this point. It'd be a start, anyway.
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