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that's gotta be an April Fool's Day joke, even WWE wouldn't be THAT dumb
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My lifelong dream is not to drive a Ferrari or bang 90s Jenna Jameson. My lifelong dream is doing tape commentary for the dying third brand of a company who in one month lose half of its value. #standforthewwe Zeta Acosta fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Apr 2, 2020 |
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wtf is a Dexter Lumis His gimmick is that he doesn't blink. Ummmm ow. Atmospheric theme song tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZg59pDzpoc Blaise330 fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Apr 2, 2020 |
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Apr 2, 2020 01:25
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IIRC Sam Shaw was a boring version of Killer Kross, at least in TNA.
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Apr 2, 2020 01:42
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Boring or ~slow and methodical~
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extradite THIS! posted:J-Ru pulling a Samoa Joe by returning and immediately getting probed again must be monday
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He sounds like one of them made up names from FCW.
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Blaise330 posted:wtf is a Dexter Lumis Did he have a second match? He was part of the cursed FKA tournament, but the fact that his gimmick is "serial killer" means he doesn't work in WWE because they generally don't go that cartoon.
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It kind of blow my mind that WWE not only signed Sam Shaw but took his really bad Dexter gimmick from TNA (that they did years after Dexter was a thing) and said "yeah, lets do that but just straight up call him Dexter because it might have been too subtle before (and its been like a decade now since anyone cared or thought about Dexter)." WWE 2020: Doing TNA, But Worse
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Yeah he had a match tonight. Announcers kept trying to get over the fact that he doesnt blink which is not the gimmick I'd want if I was a wrestler. The triple threat is great ASMR if you don't look at the screen. Aside from the commentary all you hear is meat smacking and heavy breathing.
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STAC Goat posted:It kind of blow my mind that WWE not only signed Sam Shaw but took his really bad Dexter gimmick from TNA and said "yeah, lets do that but just straight up call him Dexter because it might have been too subtle before." Plus giving a horror character the last name Loomis like their skin would melt off if they were in the room with subtlety.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Plus giving a horror character the last name Loomis like their skin would melt off if they were in the room with subtlety.
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RealFoxy posted:It's worse than that, Lumis was the name of a love interest in the show so they quite literally doubled down on the Dexter show stuff Ah you're right. I think I mentally blocked out huge portions of that stupid-rear end show.
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Like I gotta assume Sam Shaw is just really obsessed with Dexter and keeps insisting on doing these things along with his other lifelong goal of just tattooing his entire arms black. But the fact that WWE his paying him to do it on air really speaks to their "hire everyone and just do whatever" era. flashy_mcflash posted:Ah you're right. I think I mentally blocked out huge portions of that stupid-rear end show. Because its been like a decade and the show completely tarnished its legacy and got forgotten out of the prestige tier and no normal person gives Dexter any thought in 2020 except as a reference point for how shows can not land their endings.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Ah you're right. I think I mentally blocked out huge portions of that stupid-rear end show. If you have more than 0 nostalgia for that show you blocked out SO much
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My most salient Dexter memory is having the end of season 4 spoiled because someone on THIS VERY FORUM made an offhand comment about a Finlay action figure looking like Jon Lithgow.
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lol Dexter Lumis These wwe names are a trip
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Like you could make up literally any name for yourself and you choose Dexter Lumis or Oney Lorcan Jack Swagger is a poo poo of a human being but his name is like the perfect heel name
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How I will always remember Dexter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEy49Eb1Ae0
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Huntman posted:How I will always remember Dexter I'm just going to imagine this is what all the seasons of Dexter were like. This Impact skit over and over.
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How did Oney pick his name and was that really the best option of names available?
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It ain't in any way good wrestling or TV but the Sam Shaw/Dexter run was some weird as gently caress skits from him stalking Christy Hemme, to Anderson researching his life, to him being tossed in the mental ward and Gunner randomly coming across him while visiting PTSD vets and deciding to help him, to Santana Garrett sexually manipulating him. That poo poo was weird. Although its one of the rare cases where wrestling talent actually watched the show because Christy Hemme went on one date with Shaw, went home and saw all the creepy poo poo he did behind her back, and was like "Dude, stay away from me!" the next week. That surprised the poo poo out of me.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I found the real reason J-Ru ate a probe, from Wikipedia: Would he be a version of rovert who makes everyone uncomfortable with his conversations about vore instead of woman wrestlers, or a version of rovert who makes everyone uncomfortable with his conversations about woman wrestlers, but now involving vore?
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Defiance Industries posted:Would he be a version of rovert who makes everyone uncomfortable with his conversations about vore instead of woman wrestlers, or a version of rovert who makes everyone uncomfortable with his conversations about woman wrestlers, but now involving vore? you literally can't spell rovert without vore
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RealFoxy posted:It's worse than that, Lumis was the name of a love interest in the show so they quite literally doubled down on the Dexter show stuff lol I gave them way too much credit for the Lumis name since I didn't watch Dexter
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NXT Discussion 4/1:
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Jerusalem posted:NXT Discussion 4/1: Those two guys don't have coherent names for anything except badly translated JRPG bosses. They need to fix their name generator.
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Jerusalem posted:
I don't follow NXT so I don't know who are faces or heels or what but it always strikes me how WWE books gauntlet matches or big multi-matches. Its always one act doing a ton of work and presumably getting over big and then them getting taken out in the penultimate match and the winner facing someone else in the final. Again, I don't follow so maybe there's some big story between Kai and Gonzalez and it was a proper "final." But just reading that it sure seems like if you got behind Shotzi Blackheart you got the winds blown out of your sails right before the end.
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Apr 2, 2020 05:50
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Maigius posted:Those two guys don't have coherent names for anything except badly translated JRPG bosses. They need to fix their name generator. This ain't it, chief. They're not uncommon Indian names.
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Nope, they do this all the time and clearly the idea is to make you mad at the heel, but it's so common nowadays that the moment anybody strings together 2-3 wins in a gauntlet most people just sigh and go,"Oh so I guess the heel is coming out last to beat them  "
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flashy_mcflash posted:This ain't it, chief. They're not uncommon Indian names. Yeah, also Rinku is the guy's legit name as well
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Kushida has looked great throughout his NXT run.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyyM_JjN7yw
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Is HHH aware that he's allowed to book Keith Lee against other people?
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Eat My Fuc posted:Kushida has looked great throughout his NXT run. Why they did nothing with the Grizzled Young Vets I have no idea, they seemed to set up an angle when The Timesplitters lost at the Dusty Cup but it went nowhere, which is really bizarre.
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Jerusalem posted:Nope, they do this all the time and clearly the idea is to make you mad at the heel, but it's so common nowadays that the moment anybody strings together 2-3 wins in a gauntlet most people just sigh and go,"Oh so I guess the heel is coming out last to beat them I liked the one where they just had the first hour of Raw be a Gauntlet match and Seth rolled up Roman and then pinned Cena clean with his finisher.
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Jerusalem posted:Why they did nothing with the Grizzled Young Vets I have no idea, they seemed to set up an angle when The Timesplitters lost at the Dusty Cup but it went nowhere, which is really bizarre. I feel like there was some weird stuff going on backstage then, like maybe some people were going to get called up but didn't because it seemed like a lot of stuff was at a holding pattern style of pacing.
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Honestly surprised they didn't give Stokely's guys names like Virat & Sachin
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Jerusalem posted:Nope, they do this all the time and clearly the idea is to make you mad at the heel, but it's so common nowadays that the moment anybody strings together 2-3 wins in a gauntlet most people just sigh and go,"Oh so I guess the heel is coming out last to beat them See, the heel coming out to beat them last actually would be a story I could get behind. WWE would probably overuse it or blow it but at least in theory that's a good way to sell the face as the better wrestler who ran the gauntlet and the heel as the opportunistic one who got lucky and get someone over in a loss and build to something later. But WWE always seems to have the heel come in second to last and do it then. Which means the face didn't "run the gauntlet", they just had a run in the middle of it that gets lost behind the final match. And now you've blown your "heat" on the penultimate part of the match and fans just have to get back up for the final match with no built up story in the match. And the heel isn't REALLY opportunistic or lucky because they had to beat 2 people which makes the face beating 2-4 people not seem quite as different or impressive. It seems like the worst way to handle every aspect of it. I would guess its all a means to subvert expectations but like... that's why half of the twists in storytelling are stupid because they sacrifice what was built up emotionally or logically for a surprise that often ends up less satisfying. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Apr 2, 2020 |
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