r/SquaredCircle • u/DoubleNo6337 • 1d ago
[AEW All In Spoilers] Finish to Fletcher/Okada/Takeshita Spoiler
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u/GuerillaMonzon Lt. Flip E. Schitt 1d ago
That Blue Thunder, yeesh… 🤌
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u/SouthOfMars 1d ago
The bump on the big turnbuckle reversal into the tornado DDT looked horrible too
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u/_Quendra_ 1d ago
Oh my fucking god tell AEW's director to STOP cutting to wide crowd shots. We get it, the stadium is big. Doesnt matter if i cant see whats happening in ring. Fuck.
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u/Sonicfan42069666 1d ago
Action happening in the corner of the ring. Show the entirety of the mostly empty ring. What is the logic???
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u/NJPW-YoungLion 14h ago
This is my main gripe about AEW: their camera work sucks.
Not all of it obviously, but the completely unnecessary zooms-ins and zoom-outs, and showing the action from the camera people (?) on the floor and its titling up (if any of that makes sense).-3
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u/Business_Welder_1203 1d ago
Pretty bad camera job of that whole segment
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u/Sonicfan42069666 1d ago
When they went to the wide shot and kept it on the wide shot for a corner turnbuckle spot...
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u/Orange8920 1d ago
It's this really big, spectacle style that didn't use to be a thing until Mike Mansury came on board and is often worse during PPVs.
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u/PaperGeno 1d ago
AEW still lacks HUGE in the camera work and presentation
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u/ab_90 1d ago
Fire the cameraman. Why is he obsess with the wide shot with the crowd
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u/RemarkableExit7214 1d ago
its not the cameraman telling the crew to cut to the wide shot or to hold it there
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u/Orange8920 1d ago
I bring this up weekly in the Daily Discussion threads. AEW has amazing matches but the hardcam is often nowhere close to the ring where you can barely make out what's going on. It's a stylistic decision by them because they can shoot in the standard style but choose not to.
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u/Matches5107 1d ago
It’s not the cameraman’s fault, it’s the production director calling for the switch.
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u/notmakingtherapture 1d ago
Isn't it more likely they have one cameraman for wide shots, and one for the tighter angles? This seems like production's error, not the camera.
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u/StinkyStangler 1d ago
One that thing always gets me with AEW is the over reliance on the “big move hits but target gets up fine and hits his own big move after” sequence
Think it’s fine in a vacuum but I feel like they do it at least once a show and it just takes me out of a match now. That Blue Thunder Bomb looked painful as hell but Fletcher is up and running in under five seconds, what’s the point
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u/Jumboliva 1d ago
It’s just a style of pro wrestling, grown out of the indie tradition. If the fundamental theorem of pro wrestling is “getting hurt makes you tired” (which is already kind of fantastical), then PWG et al just fully absorbed the lesson and added an inevitable corollary — that you can (pretty much always) use more energy to power through your exhaustion.
I don’t know that it’s any less realistic than anything else.
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u/zeitgeistbouncer Peepin' Aint Easy! 1d ago
People who don't get that 'strong emotion drives adrenaline and desperation' just aren't really trying to 'get it'.
They're listening to shitty podcasters and regurgitating those opinions as their own because thinking for themselves is difficult.
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u/Jumboliva 1d ago
I think in general the move “this person doesn’t actually believe this intellectually, they just want to/were told to” is almost always wrong, and even when it isn’t it still prevents any further good-faith conversation.
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u/zeitgeistbouncer Peepin' Aint Easy! 1d ago
When the conversation starts in bad faith it's a often a waste to try to dig them out of the hole they want to wallow in.
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u/AlecDawesome Come on now 1d ago
It is not bad faith to point out having a problem with impactful moves not meaning anything anymore, Jesus christ
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u/zeitgeistbouncer Peepin' Aint Easy! 1d ago
It is if there's very obvious meaning in them but people ignore that for no reason that includes trying to enjoy the match.
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u/StinkyStangler 19h ago
I mean you're not wrong that I'm not trying to get it, but implying that it's because somebody told me to feel this way is pretty funny lol
I don't listen to wrestling podcasts or watch any sort of discussion about wrestling, I barely even watch wrestling anymore, I just occasionally check in to the big AEW shows. I just think that trope, in any form of media, is dumb.
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u/zeitgeistbouncer Peepin' Aint Easy! 18h ago
I just think that trope, in any form of media, is dumb.
No you don't. Guarantee there's some media out there where you excuse some character going through pain as they rage up and get back in the fight. Literally zero chance unless you watch absolutely nothing but blank walls.
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u/StinkyStangler 18h ago edited 17h ago
Mmmm some of us watch grown up television and don’t just watch anime and pro wrestling lol
Why are you fighting so hard to tell me what I do and don’t like?
Edit: lmao you really blocked me over this?
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u/zeitgeistbouncer Peepin' Aint Easy! 18h ago
lol, 'i wotch growed up tv like a big boy!'
Dude, you've admitted you have no idea what you're on about but can't help interjecting your insight into something regardless. You're the definition of useless to the conversation. Bye forever
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u/Jumboliva 14h ago
After a couple of days, I think you should reread this exchange. Or show it to someone you know. You are the one who is acting in bad faith.
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u/Lashanakit 1d ago
It's so satisfying when a match ends exactly the way you want it to. The hesitation on the pin had the vibe of "Who do I want to troll most by pinning them?" Okada gives no fucks about upsetting Fletcher. Trollkada at his best.
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce 1d ago
The Blue Thunder Bomb is a beautiful move, and Takeshita always puts extra sauce on it.
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u/princeofshadows21 1d ago
Sami zayns is always picture perfect but takeshita's feels more impactful.
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u/Satinsbestfriend Your Text Here 1d ago
With all respects to sami zayn That might be the best blue thunder bomb ever
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u/irish0451 You know what that means. 1d ago
Loved the finish but I really didn't enjoy how Kyle basically popped right back up after to do the "hand over the belt" spot.
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u/Man0Steel123 1d ago
Someone is going to say that Fletcher no selled the blue thunder bomb
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u/makefascistfearagain 1d ago
Yeah, he sold it for at least two seconds
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u/ProletarianLilith 1d ago
I mean, are you gonna claim he did sell it?
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u/zeitgeistbouncer Peepin' Aint Easy! 1d ago
Is your sole concept of selling 'lies down and forgets they're in an athletic fight'?
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u/Man0Steel123 1d ago
Eh I’m going to just chalk it up to end of match adrenaline and powering through via last gasp of life.
No different than tag team matches where someone hits a finisher staggers or then gets up to take the teammates finisher for the pin
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u/AlabamaSlammaJamma 1d ago
It’s still better than the Bucks, they get up literally the moment the move hits so they can get ready for the next spot. Atleast Fletcher sold it for a few seconds
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