Not a fan of AEW commentary except for Tony but I can't put it on Excalibur in this one.
It's called a friggin vignette. A surprise appearance by people only the announcer knew was just dumb.
Hell, give me that old school.. "Who are these mystery men" or something like that, then give me the vignette next week.
Same with Dark Order. We could have gotten the commercials first, and then have the Order appear. It's not like they did anything special the last 8 weeks.
Opening Smackdown with Roman.
Also the New Day are holding an open challenge for the tag titles for Thanksgiving.
And a new character for the Firefly funhouse.
Robert Roode's theme is glorious
Blood is really the last real thing the industry has and it shouldn't go away. Because we already have seen a lot stripped away and its hurt that...OMG aspect at times.
There should be a use for blood in a safe way where doctors are on stand by , both workers are tested to make sure nothing wrong happens if both bleed. It also should be done to really heat up a program.
Like where Austin bladed at Wrestlemania 13 against Bret. That became an iconic image of Austin's face pouring bloid as he's in pain and he passes out.
That should be where blood is placed. It shouldn't be done for midcard guys in a nothing program.
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I agree about the Dark Orders. They had GREAT vignettes and I can't help but think if they had aired those BEFORE they debuted on TV they would possibly be the most over heel tag team in AEW.
AEW does a good job of putting together a fun wrestling show, in large part because I think the already established guys know how to get themselves over and the company lets them. But I think the people who aren't established need a bit more help from the company.
This week's show was kinda 'eh' (not TNA bad, but definitely had some rough edges). If nothing else, I hope AEW is listening to viewer feedback and making improvements as needed. I'd like to think increased promo time and more vignettes ala Dark Order are a sign of that.
With increased awareness of diseases like Hepatitis and especially MRSA, this strikes me as a rather thoughtless take.
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they told us all we really need to know and most likely what they want us to know for now, they're a new team called the butcher & the blade and they beat up cody, tune in next week to find out more. you don't HAVE to look it up unless you're interested and i bet that's xactly what a lot of people did.
xpecting excalibur to xplain who the blade is by the time the butcher came out next and then xplain who the butcher is by the time the bunny came out and then who the bunny is after that is xpecting a lot, especially if anybody else is going to get a word in about cody.
honestly i think not telling too much about them was doing them a favor, would people be more or less interested if they knew the blade is an average worker who's been around forever, married to alley, and found a new gimmick while andy is a guitar player in a punk band who just started wrestling??
i just don't think it's a good way to debut a team like them, that's how you a debut a well known team and that's why it fell flat with the crowd.
like i said excalibur makes you feel like you should know who those guys are, jr makes you feel like you shouldn't care, so if excalibur isn't doing his job jr is fukn stealing company time at this point
Bray Wyatt just rapped.
So it seems like Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura are a tag team now
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