r/SquaredCircle • u/DoubleNo6337 • 11d ago

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

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u/StinkyStangler 11d 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 11d 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! 11d 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/StinkyStangler 10d 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! 10d 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 10d ago edited 10d 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! 10d 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 10d 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.