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Some random gaming discussion, a Dynamite episode that ends with a cliffhanger to be resolved on Impact, and finally, some background into the Reading Sonichu debacle and why I’m never going to do more.
Next week’s episode is a canned Q&A episode… and then no episodes until New Year’s Eve. There’s plenty of other stuff to keep us busy in the interim.
So Wrestlemania 26 saw Undertaker beat Shawn Michaels in what ended up being HBK’s retirement match, as per the stipulation. And to give credit where credit is due, Shawn stuck to his guns and opted not to make a comeback between then and now, rightfully believing that he went out on a high note and wouldn’t want to sully that moment in much the same way Ric Flair did when he had his “retirement” match in 2008, only to sully that by wrestling on TNA.
And then in 2018, Shawn Michaels came out of retirement for a Saudi payday to team up with Triple H in a tag match against Undertaker and Kane in a match that was a complete and utter disaster… because as it turns out, not everyone ages gracefully and can go as well as they did in their younger years… and apparently, Shawn, despite being out of action for years, was still the best worker on the card.
So the show ends with Shawn giving the big ol’ retirement speech and that’s the focus of the show, but there was some fun stuff here. Christian and Ted DiBiase Jr had a match featuring a bunch of legends as lumberjacks. John Cena & Randy Orton defeated Batista and Jack Swagger in an alright match, and even the multi-person Divas match wasn’t so bad… because it didn’t last long and my brain was spared the misery of bad Divas booking.
A fine show, all things considered. Not much to say there.
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Survivor Series 2020 put me to sleep, Turning Point 2020 was a free TNA show for some reason, and Lana’s booking hurts my brain. And that’s why there’s a Saturday episode when there wasn’t going to be.
If Jaleco’s brawlers are Final Fight at home, then what does that make 64th Street?
For the want of a Lana, a Miro was lost.
I attempted to watch the Survivor Series PPV yesterday and within the first match between the red shirts and blue shirts, I fell asleep. I don’t think I ever had a show put me to sleep as quickly as this did. So… we’ll try again later. Don’t know if I’m writing anything on this… might save it for a DTM-Cast or something.
In other blog notes, there’s a new Sunday Gimmick Table this coming Sunday, and Thursday will see a new video review.
So, there were a bunch of multi-person matches that seemed liked they were tossed together to give people something to do, capped off with a Randy Orton/Vince McMahon match that ended in a No Contest and gave us Batista giving Orton a powerbomb, causing Vince to book a match between the two at the following month’s Backlash show. Much like a Survivor Series PPV of recent years focused on the battle between red shirts and blue shirts, a lot of the show was largely forgettable fare and honestly, didn’t do much for me.
Sorry, folks. Maybe next year.
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Continuing the Q&A, previewing the battle of red shirts and blue shirts before declaring my intention to not watch it, and whether unions will fix anything.
No new episode next week. Instead, it’s a Sunday Gimmick Table.
So I’ve been laxed on the review uploads as of late, as the goal of hitting 800 total video game reviews before the end of 2020 seems less likely. However, things are picking up and reviews should be returning to the blog this week. Hoping to close out on 780 and I’m sticking with mostly smaller scale reviews, but this saves the “bigger” stuff for the front load of 2021, which will come along later.
Stay tuned for more details, I suppose.
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