Re: Magnum Opus - Feedback Thread
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 12:07 pm
FEEDBACK PART 2
PIERSON V WALL: Wall FINALLY getting booked the way a monster heel should - but it's at the expense of a perfectly valid upper-midcarder. This better have been the purpose of Pierson all along, otherwise...why feed HIM to Wall?
ANGEL DOUBLE WHAMMY: Typo in the title of the segment, should be 'Interviewer'. This Bro dude is annoying, is his first name Vince? Otherwise, it's that f---ing guy again! Somebody block him from submitting so much sruff! The match is not half bad, I guess...
JESTER: Patchface from Game of Thrones is here, apparently...? And he does not understand rhyming metric at all. Also, HA, typo! ('rinside')
CRUSADER: Starts off as a babyface backstage promo, then takes a swerve for the interesting - and DOES NOT overstay its welcome or run overlong in the process! Good job. PS Crusader is SUCH a snake in the grass, I'm glad people are starting to see through his bullshit.
ALFIE V X: FINALLY....AFTER TWO LONG MONTHS...! And WOW, what a match! Cruiserweight wrestling at its finest. Near falls, false finishes, insane counters, and a huge honkin' flip to finish it all off. My kind of match - even if Alfie deserved better here to blow off the storyline. Best match not written by myself so far.
RECAP: Wrestling's equivalent of a video package, and it works - even if Jerry is called LARRY at one point. Different person right there.
TRIPLE THREAT TAG: Ah...the long expected party! Aaaand it's a little underwhelming, by my own admission. Hopefully people enjoy it, though. And for all you SCW-heads, which is most of you...look who's shown up, possibly to stay...
TWITCH ii - STREAMING BOOGALOO: There were supposed to be three, with the last one wrapping things up after the main event, but I missed out on booking the third slot I wanted, so...here it is. I also made up for not having anyone tell Teagan to shut up on the first one, so I'm happy.
BEST V MALTA: Face vs face match, always a bonus, and either man could use a win here. Nice mixture of the expected technical approach with some brawling, but without ever devolving into bad blood. The most likely man to win did, although, again, his opponent really deserves better, poor guy.
DORITOS MEETS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: So it IS true that somebody else wrote Old Willy's plays! Also, seeing Doritos talk street is SO freaking weird! Also, wait, thin as a rake? Didn't he use to be buff? Are there MULTIPLE Doritos Men?
LADY RAH RAH V JERRY SEINFELD: This one wastes no time getting under way and heated. As expected, neither man holds back, and this is the trash brawl the ladies did not get to have early on, as their match moved in a different direction. 'MY GOD! The injured penis of E Z Rah!' has to be the line of the night. Another predictably excellent brawl with lots of little character touches (especially from E Z, like the money-based distraction) and a HOLY SHIT finishing sequence. Also, OF COURSE that had to be the only possible result. My new MOTN, and it eclipsed my own attempt at an arena-wide brawl. Outstanding work.
MAKE-A-WISH: Wait, Gemini's alive?!?! Also, I can't help but feel for the guy. What is all the hype around boring old man Darring, anyway?
TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH: Short but sweet here, and it doesn't really read like Crash was struggling, which I know he was. Good use made of the whole stable aspect, but I feel the end should have come directly after that, rather than a few more moves out. Good even fight up until then, and the Riches are left with a sense of injusice. This rivalry definitely needs to keep going into the next cycle - still plenty of juice to milk out of this. Congratulations to the retaining Champions.
THE CASE FOR REYN: Predictable conclusion to the trifecta, and yeah, Mark has a point - as much as Darring winning here has been telegraphed from space (I swear John J. Truth's ship intercepted a signal to that effect as he was crash landing to Earth from the Orion Nebula) Reyn IS the thinking man's choice, because...it's a no holds barred match. What's stopping him from just eating everybody?
DORITOS III: OH MY GOD, SPEEDY GONZALEZ KILLED BEETHOVEN! YOU BASTARD! Also, yep, Doritos is DEFINITELY different people - THIS Doritos Man appears to be Latino...?
JED V VAL: SOMEBODY'S GONNA GET THEIR ASS KICKED! With how much the announcers are dismissing Jed early doors, I'm almost expecting an upset here. Welp, that didn't happen...but that was absolutely the right result. Great little match, and I'm excited for the fallout from the post-match bit. Stay tuned...
ACT III: WOW! WHAT a video package! Perfect hype for the match ahead.
MAIN EVENT: OK...I need a breather. Be right back.
....aaaand we're back. And the crowd was right - that WAS awesome. Nevermind the result telegraphed from the Orion Nebula (and oh, how I was hoping against hope that we would get swerved, but alas) nevermind Reyn and Rich suddenly teleporting away, never to be mentioned again - that was a four-five star Main Event, worthy of a Supershow. The pace was breakneck, the writing just as frantic (I will forgive the countless typos, as I could almost SEE the writer mashing their keyboard to bits as they got increasingly carried away) and some of the sequences downright insane. There was so much history to relay, so much to unpack, yet it never felt overbooked or rushed (breakneck pace is different than a rushed match). The announcers showing their bias all the way through, and BLATANTLY so, also fit in with the narrative told throughout the show. I was on the edge of my seat all the way through, but ESPECIALLY for the second half, and not even a nourishment break diminished my enthusiasm, which I feared might happen. Fantastic match, worthy of an inaugural title challenge, and with the right (?) winner. I only hope Danny Boy (after THAT MATCH, he deserves not to be called Roman anymore - also, was this a babyface turn for him? It certainly felt that way) gets another shot. He deserves it. As for Darring...enjoy your title, old man. There's a couple of way more interesting personalities about to come gunning for it.
PS Allie's voice breaking from the emotion at the end was EVERYTHING.
PIERSON V WALL: Wall FINALLY getting booked the way a monster heel should - but it's at the expense of a perfectly valid upper-midcarder. This better have been the purpose of Pierson all along, otherwise...why feed HIM to Wall?
ANGEL DOUBLE WHAMMY: Typo in the title of the segment, should be 'Interviewer'. This Bro dude is annoying, is his first name Vince? Otherwise, it's that f---ing guy again! Somebody block him from submitting so much sruff! The match is not half bad, I guess...
JESTER: Patchface from Game of Thrones is here, apparently...? And he does not understand rhyming metric at all. Also, HA, typo! ('rinside')
CRUSADER: Starts off as a babyface backstage promo, then takes a swerve for the interesting - and DOES NOT overstay its welcome or run overlong in the process! Good job. PS Crusader is SUCH a snake in the grass, I'm glad people are starting to see through his bullshit.
ALFIE V X: FINALLY....AFTER TWO LONG MONTHS...! And WOW, what a match! Cruiserweight wrestling at its finest. Near falls, false finishes, insane counters, and a huge honkin' flip to finish it all off. My kind of match - even if Alfie deserved better here to blow off the storyline. Best match not written by myself so far.
RECAP: Wrestling's equivalent of a video package, and it works - even if Jerry is called LARRY at one point. Different person right there.
TRIPLE THREAT TAG: Ah...the long expected party! Aaaand it's a little underwhelming, by my own admission. Hopefully people enjoy it, though. And for all you SCW-heads, which is most of you...look who's shown up, possibly to stay...
TWITCH ii - STREAMING BOOGALOO: There were supposed to be three, with the last one wrapping things up after the main event, but I missed out on booking the third slot I wanted, so...here it is. I also made up for not having anyone tell Teagan to shut up on the first one, so I'm happy.
BEST V MALTA: Face vs face match, always a bonus, and either man could use a win here. Nice mixture of the expected technical approach with some brawling, but without ever devolving into bad blood. The most likely man to win did, although, again, his opponent really deserves better, poor guy.
DORITOS MEETS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: So it IS true that somebody else wrote Old Willy's plays! Also, seeing Doritos talk street is SO freaking weird! Also, wait, thin as a rake? Didn't he use to be buff? Are there MULTIPLE Doritos Men?
LADY RAH RAH V JERRY SEINFELD: This one wastes no time getting under way and heated. As expected, neither man holds back, and this is the trash brawl the ladies did not get to have early on, as their match moved in a different direction. 'MY GOD! The injured penis of E Z Rah!' has to be the line of the night. Another predictably excellent brawl with lots of little character touches (especially from E Z, like the money-based distraction) and a HOLY SHIT finishing sequence. Also, OF COURSE that had to be the only possible result. My new MOTN, and it eclipsed my own attempt at an arena-wide brawl. Outstanding work.
MAKE-A-WISH: Wait, Gemini's alive?!?! Also, I can't help but feel for the guy. What is all the hype around boring old man Darring, anyway?
TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH: Short but sweet here, and it doesn't really read like Crash was struggling, which I know he was. Good use made of the whole stable aspect, but I feel the end should have come directly after that, rather than a few more moves out. Good even fight up until then, and the Riches are left with a sense of injusice. This rivalry definitely needs to keep going into the next cycle - still plenty of juice to milk out of this. Congratulations to the retaining Champions.
THE CASE FOR REYN: Predictable conclusion to the trifecta, and yeah, Mark has a point - as much as Darring winning here has been telegraphed from space (I swear John J. Truth's ship intercepted a signal to that effect as he was crash landing to Earth from the Orion Nebula) Reyn IS the thinking man's choice, because...it's a no holds barred match. What's stopping him from just eating everybody?
DORITOS III: OH MY GOD, SPEEDY GONZALEZ KILLED BEETHOVEN! YOU BASTARD! Also, yep, Doritos is DEFINITELY different people - THIS Doritos Man appears to be Latino...?
JED V VAL: SOMEBODY'S GONNA GET THEIR ASS KICKED! With how much the announcers are dismissing Jed early doors, I'm almost expecting an upset here. Welp, that didn't happen...but that was absolutely the right result. Great little match, and I'm excited for the fallout from the post-match bit. Stay tuned...
ACT III: WOW! WHAT a video package! Perfect hype for the match ahead.
MAIN EVENT: OK...I need a breather. Be right back.
....aaaand we're back. And the crowd was right - that WAS awesome. Nevermind the result telegraphed from the Orion Nebula (and oh, how I was hoping against hope that we would get swerved, but alas) nevermind Reyn and Rich suddenly teleporting away, never to be mentioned again - that was a four-five star Main Event, worthy of a Supershow. The pace was breakneck, the writing just as frantic (I will forgive the countless typos, as I could almost SEE the writer mashing their keyboard to bits as they got increasingly carried away) and some of the sequences downright insane. There was so much history to relay, so much to unpack, yet it never felt overbooked or rushed (breakneck pace is different than a rushed match). The announcers showing their bias all the way through, and BLATANTLY so, also fit in with the narrative told throughout the show. I was on the edge of my seat all the way through, but ESPECIALLY for the second half, and not even a nourishment break diminished my enthusiasm, which I feared might happen. Fantastic match, worthy of an inaugural title challenge, and with the right (?) winner. I only hope Danny Boy (after THAT MATCH, he deserves not to be called Roman anymore - also, was this a babyface turn for him? It certainly felt that way) gets another shot. He deserves it. As for Darring...enjoy your title, old man. There's a couple of way more interesting personalities about to come gunning for it.
PS Allie's voice breaking from the emotion at the end was EVERYTHING.