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  1. PeteF3
    Another glorious promo from Vince, going from humbled to megalomaniacal all over again as he lays out his plan for revenge on Austin.
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    I always kind of liked the Jackyl for reasons that never really made sense even to me--I guess because I was always fascinated by David Koresh and he's a pretty transparent Koresh clone. Problem was that story was 4 years out of date and it was too high-concept for the Attitude Era anyway. Earthquake goes from being touted as a potential opponent for Austin to...this.
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    I think another thing working against these is that Edge just looks too pretty and too dolled-up to really pass for a tortured soul from the streets. You can't accuse Raven of not looking the part.
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    "AUSTIN IS DOING WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COULD NOT DO!" Well, no, the legal ramifications of this don't really make any more sense than WCW's stupidity regarding restraining orders, or the power bomb. But when you're hot, these things tend to matter less and less--and from a wrestling psychology standpoint if not a legal accuracy standpoint, Vince's arrest after both his gloating promo and all the times he's had Austin taken to jail works brilliantly. This is the type of segment that embodies people's thoughts about how the worker vs. his boss angle struck an escapist chord with so many people and why the Authority simply doesn't work the same way.
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    "Winning and losing is not even in the quotation, it's all about what's going to happen." A year and a half before Russo's arrival in the company, Tony Schiavone officially informs us that wins and losses no longer matter and that this is a sports-centered version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Sting puts down the bogus Sting with little effort and we go off the air with Sting contemplating an offer from the Wolfpack. The crowd and Tony are losing their minds and I have to admit, through all the muddled booking there was a light at the end of the tunnel here. Book some personal issues between members of the two factions and build up to a big WarGames and you'd be able to draw some serious money and possibly even fend off the WWF. But the political bullshit was always going to win the day, the WCW brand was already harmed possibly past the point of repair, and things would soon get a lot worse.
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    A lot of chinlock-centric offense from Benoit, which was disappointing and dragged this down a bit. But the *long* finishing sequence with all the countermoves was pretty choice and they had me guessing as to the result on a number of different occasions. Not an outstanding match but a darn auspicious start for this series.
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    Yeah, I feel skeevy harping on it knowing what we know now, but that lisp combined with the almost-comical Noo Yawk accent just kills him, even though his Innovator of Offense gimmick sort of got him over. Kanyon talks about the rather pale attempt at re-creating the Chairshot Heard 'Round the World the previous night.
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    Jericho raises a point, but who's to say Malenko wasn't Ciclope the entire time? Jericho goes from insulting to shamelessly kissing up to JJ to back to being insulting to groveling and begging all in the span of two minutes.
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    Giant cuts a darn good promo where he gets to show off some of his comedic chops. Luger and Konnan make the save for Nash and this segment is hot, no question about that. The announcers don't really know how to sell this--Schiavone is excited but neutral, while Larry treats this like a betrayal. Crowd loves it, though. I think the big thing about this is that it re-inforces, as though the past year and a half hadn't made it pretty obvious, that WCW has been a secondary brand and is now a tertiary brand. They've made it clear that there's not much point in caring about anyone who's not either Ex-WWF or aligned with Ex-WWF.
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    Baxter's lost a ton of weight and looks like a much skinnier Justin Credible. This is sort of an abbreviated version of Bobby Heenan at Survivor Series, as Baxter runs for his life any time Lawler approaches the apron and only tags in when Lawler's in trouble. He quickly finds himself at the mercy of Stacy, who eventually gets in a testicular claw and is about to pin him when Tony Falk breaks the count. Yes, those Falk tights are horrendous--far worse than Quack's and worse than Lawler's "Dreamwear" polka dot look. The locker room empties and we go off the air with the studio in chaos. PPW is definitely a much more TV-centered product than the USWA was, as at this point they were only running sold casino shows and not the MSC or Flea Market or Pipkin Building yet.
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    Lawler's attitude toward Hales seems more playful than malicious, but yeah, I'm confused as to what he's going for here.
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    The flying ref redeemed this segment, as Taz spent most of the rest of it acting too much like an entitled heel instead of a tough guy.
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    I don't think that was the case. It was Ed Ferrara's baby and he was supposedly livid when the character was killed.
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    Another disappointing FMW title match, this one even moreso because I had far more faith in Tanaka than just about anyone else on the roster. This just went way past the point of tedium with all the near-fall, counter, near-fall, repeat sequences at the end. To the point where I totally forgot about the blown-off limb work until Childs mentioned it. I'm about totally over Hayabusa unless he's in with a master-class worker like a Four Pillar.
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    I think Beaver Cleavage is pretty justifiably shat-upon. Whether it lasted long or not, it seemed emblematic of the change in WWF writing philosophy from 1998 to '99.
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    Well, they *are* tag champions now, so maybe the NWO felt they had a bargaining chip. This was a big nothing of a segment even if they attempt to add intrigue by having Nash actively help Sting. We don't even get an explanatory promo from Hall, because that might take heat away from Hogan and God knows we can't have that.
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    A good, effective segment that gets the situation over perfectly: Austin cannot overcome McMahon, Brisco, Patterson, and the Dude (and Slaughter) all as a team. Amazing how they were able to credibly give Brisco and Patterson (and Slaughter) some heat before the big guns even came out.
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    Yep, more logical booking building and building upon itself. I was all set to nitpick about how Lawler shouldn't have been knocked around two weeks in a row, but I decided against it and am glad I did, since there was a larger purpose in doing that.
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    And another, though it sort of wore out its welcome quickly. The pilot fight between Marilyn and Charles Manson was almost a work of art in how well-done it was.
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    I dunno, I think if Raven were cutting this promo people would have been shitting all over it, except this is supposed to be "legit."
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    In a matter of weeks, the WWF has gotten Patterson and Brisco legitimately over to a greater degree than any WCW main eventer.
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    Along with Who you could probably include all of the other JTTS gimmicks of that time: TL Hopper, Freddy Joe Floyd, Sal Sincere, the Goon, and Alex Porteau. Yes, those gimmicks were dumb and yes, they were a waste of two great talents in Smothers and Anthony, but people act like they were more examples of massive failures of WWF creative when all they really were for was to have squashes on TV but disguise them as non-squashes. None of them were really designed to "get over" so it's hard to objectively say that they failed.
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    Fairly sure mental illness is just sort of something to be assumed when suicide is involved. Kerry was talking about suicide at least in an indirect way before his legal issues really flared up--Bret Hart wrote about Kerry feeling it was time to go to heaven to be with his brothers and that was shortly after his arrival in the WWF.
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    Until this morning when he decided to break off and accuse Kerry Von Erich of being drunk when he crashed his motorcyle (True or not? First I've heard of that) and then call him out for "taking the coward's way out" by committing suicide. Still a shallow idiot at heart, it seems.
  25. PeteF3
    Another winning segment--WCW has a "when you have two quarterbacks, you really have none" problem with regard to its bloated roster and incessant political games. Everything gets muddled, every main eventer wants face time with their own idea of how to be booked, and nothing has focus. The WWF has a depleted roster and the guys they do have are working hurt, but that means everyone can be given something important to do, and the performers they have are making the most of their opportunity. The only quibble with this segment and episode of TV is the work-for-free stip for Dustin doesn't really get as much play as it should--he'd be starting the born-again stuff in a matter of weeks, IIRC.
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