Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

AEW Dynamite (Jan. 4th, 2023): The Tokyo Dome Post Show

AEW Dynamite returns with a new look just after New Japan holds their annual Tokyo Dome Wrestle Kingdom show, which featured the long-awaited debut of Mercedes Mone – the former Sasha Banks – who challenged reigning women’s champion KAIRI to a match for the title by laying her out. Oh goodie, a Sasha Banks vs. Kairi Sane WWE-style match. That’s going to get me excited to watch New Japan.

In all seriousness, though, I wish her nothing but the best in her current endeavors, whatever they may be. Said current endeavors probably doesn’t include AEW, where she had been teased (and hyoed by fans) as Saraya’s mystery partner in her upcoming match against Dr. Britt and Jamie Hayter. And then we found out that said partner would Toni Storm, which Saraya announces while also sitting next to former women’s champion Hikaru Shida, who seemed somewhat miffed at this rejection.

I’m watching this scene and two thoughts come to mind; first off, those Sasha Stans are going to be pissed. And you know what? Fuck them. The other thought is that this blatant disregard for Shida on Saraya’s part leads me to believe that there is a possible heel turn in her future. Let me tell you folks something; Shida was the one being wronged here, so as far as I’m concerned, she’s the babyface.

Other than that, this was a pretty good Dynamite., which introduced a new look of having a bunch of screens show a bunch of lines in a bunch of colors. On the one hand, it looks fresh; AEW’s original set design was somewhat unique, but clearly something needed to change or at least be refreshed, especially if said set has been used for nearly every AEW show, including some of the PPVs. On the other hand, though, the new design being a bunch of screens reminds me of WWE’s own minimalistic set design, though nowhere near as massive. It’s something I’m going to eventually get used to, but it loses the uniqueness that AEW once had… which is something of a recurring ailment with the company in recent weeks.

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State Of The Blog – January 2023 (Two Weeks Of Hiatus)

happy New Year, everyone. Hope your holidays were as safe and festive as they were happy.

Anyway, first couple weeks of January will be nothing but radio silence. In fact, there will be nothing posted during this time up until January 17th, which will feature the first review of 2023. From there, I’m hoping to start building some semblance of regularity with these posts and trying to get some semblance of a functional schedule up and running. Until then, take care.

(2024 Update: Unless you’re reading this from the new blog, in which case, welcome, and enjoy the few AEW Dynamite Musings that were written back then and never published until now because I forgot about them. Oops.)

The Winners And Losers Of 2022

Holy Sigma Virus, Batman! It’s a New Year! Hopefully, we’ll be off to a better start than 2022.

So with another year in the can, it’s time to go back to that annual tradition where I list all the Winners And Losers of 2022; a list that is highly subjective and is not going to cover every ground that was ever covered in the world because I don’t have the time. As per usual, compiling the list was a bit of a process, but unlike years past, this was actually pretty easy to put together, which is quite nice.

Anyway, enough waffle. Let’s dive into this thing.

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Review #940 – Dragon Quest I-II-III (Switch)

A quick video review (I guess) of the Switch versions of the first three Dragon Quest games that are available digitally or as a Switch cart containing all three games.
This was not what I had in mind for the last review of the year, but this was in the can for a while, so might as well put it out there. That and it fit with the plan to have the first and last reviews of the year be DQ games.
Happy New Year, kids. Later.

Return Of The Jedi – The Final Star Wars Film… Until It Wasn’t

2022 marked the 20th anniversary of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and… well, I wrote a thing on that a while back, so I will spare you that piece of business here.

However, 2022 also marks the 30th anniversary of the third and final film in the original Star Wars Trilogy: Return Of The Jedi. And for seventeen years, it was exactly that; the last Star Wars film. Once the prequels came out, it merely became the final chapter in the Star Wars saga… until the arrival of The Force Awakens in 2015. Now I’m going to set aside all those other films for a moment – or at least, the majority of this write-up – so I can offer the following thoughts on Return Of The Jedi and why it was a satisfactory conclusion to the saga.

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