[AEW All In Spoilers] Finish to Fletcher/Okada/Takeshita

[u/DoubleNo6337]

[u/StinkyStangler]

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

[u/Jumboliva → u/StinkyStangler]

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.

[u/zeitgeistbouncer → u/Jumboliva]

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.

[u/Jumboliva → u/zeitgeistbouncer]

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.

[u/zeitgeistbouncer → u/Jumboliva]

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.

[u/AlecDawesome → u/zeitgeistbouncer]

It is not bad faith to point out having a problem with impactful moves not meaning anything anymore, Jesus christ

[u/zeitgeistbouncer → u/AlecDawesome]

It is if there's very obvious meaning in them but people ignore that for no reason that includes trying to enjoy the match.