Category: Musings

Damn…

You know what? Here’s the main difference between three-hour RAWs and three-hour WCW Monday Nitros. Three-hour Monday Nitro had the stale nWo and old guys dominating the main event scene, but at least they tried to put together a show that kept your interest, whether it’d be cruiserweights or top-notch wrestling or even the Goldberg squash. The only purpose of these three-hour RAWs seem to be to give me plenty of reasons NOT to care about the current product.

The AJ/Cena/Vickie thing? Don’t care.
The Punk heel run? Don’t care.
The Ryback thing? Don’t care.
The Team Hell No thing? Starting to not care now that they’re tossing Miz in there.
Hey. Remember when sports entertainment used to be fun?
WWE sure as hell doesn’t. They’re too busy telling (shitty) stories or celebrating glory days that they’ll never reach again. Even TNA is starting to lose its luster, dragging out its Aces And Oh-Point-Eights thing and trying to convince me that Jeff Hardy is a credible World champion.

Personal Feat

So I’ve managed to unlock everything in WWE ’13… I think that’s a first for me where I was able to go through the whole deal. Quite a feat… then again, I’m digging this game’s Universe mode and the customization options. It’s not as deep as the stronger consoles are, but what’s there is enough to keep me enthralled for hours on end. How long has it been since a new release for the current generation of consoles kept me going for hours on end? Very few.

Yurple The Clown Is Better Than Ryback

http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/wwe/Cover_For_WWE_s_The_Attitude_Era_DVD_and_Blu-Ray_Release_-_Over_40_Superstars_Featured.html

So the link above has the cover for WWE’s upcoming Attitude Era DVD… taking the form of a parody of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper cover… It takes a while to get used, but it kinda grew on me. It should be interesting to see how this thing comes out as far as the documentary is concerned. Will they feature Vince Russo like they did in the recent nWo feature? What crappy pandering commentary will John Cena add to the product while wearing his crappy merch? And most importantly, will any mention of WWF or the WWF scratch logo be erased?

Perhaps even more amusing, however, is some of the resulting comments on that page, which tends to point out the major critical issue with the current WWE product. Because when YURPLE THE CLOWN – a character that had a grand total of TWO appearances at most – when YURPLE THE CLOWN is a more memorable and interesting character than guys like Brad Braddox (or whatever the fuck his face is) or Heath Slater or Ezekial Jackson or even fucking Ryback… it’s a sure sign that you need new storytellers.

THAT’s where the facepalm comes in.

MMPR 2010

I’ve been dipping back into Netflix for the past couple weeks and started watching some Mighty Morphin again. Yeah, I already have the DVDs (and they are awesome)… but Netflix just added the 2010 reversioning of the show (along with the rest of the seasons) and I decided to give it a dabble after not having seen it for a while.

It should be stated that the reversioning was somewhat controversial due to the choice of added effects and whatnots. A good number of people seem to hate it for that reason. Me? I actually didn’t care too much for them and perhaps that’s why I wasn’t too bothered by the changes. To me, it made an already cheesy, goofy show even more goofier. Whether that’s a good thing or not is up to personal preference, but to me, it just didn’t add all that much. It was MMPR, but with more glitter. It wasn’t like they made Greedo shoot first here or anything; it didn’t alter the storyline or anything. It’s just a bit flashier than before.
If they were to put this out on DVD? Yeah, I might pick it up because I’m into this stuff. I would not have gone for the mega set from Time Life if I wasn’t, but aside from that, I don’t think there would be much inclination on anyone’s part to go for what is essentially a re-release of Season 1.

On a side note…

I haven’t been following RAW in what seems like forever, only managing small snippets and reading online reports, but you know a show is bad when even reading a text recap puts you to sleep. Honestly, there was nothing on the show that gave me much incentive to watch. If they’re trying to tell stories, they need new storytellers, because their current stories suck.

Meanwhile, over at Dixie Land Impact… am I the only one who’s getting tired of this Aces And Oh Point Eight thing going on? You figured that they would have resolved this at their Bound For Glory PPV, but apparently they want this thing to last another six months. Yeah, it was a good thing for a while, but now it’s starting to get boring. Hasn’t Uncle Eric learned anything from the nWo debacle?

On a happier note, I got my hands on WWE ’13… on Wii.