The Best of ECW

[Timbo Slice]

So I've decided to go through and review the phenomenal Best of ECW set that Goodhelmet, Dylan and others put together. I have it all at a tumblr I set up below. I know a lot of people on here have either watched a lot of the matches, participated in building the set, or have purchased and started watching it, so I figured this would be a good spot to put it. I went longform for Disc 1, but am not sure if I'm going to get as detailed going forward. Feedback is welcome!

 

The Best of ECW

[Timbo Slice]

Decided to get back into this after finally getting my shit together with school and the like. Will be going match by match instead of by each disc so that it's easier to see from a match standpoint. Will try and do one or two a day.

[bradhindsight]

Was the set ever discussed on DVDVR or anything? It's so impressive, plus such a labor of love - feel like it deserves something like you're suggesting. I'd like to muddle through it also eventually.

[goodhelmet]

It was just a project I thought needed to be done. Kris and Dylan knocked out the hard work and we put the list of 150 together.

[peachchaos]

I'll be reading this for sure.

[Timbo Slice]

Getting to the midway part of Disc 2. Just finished a 6-man tag that immediately made me think of the recent 6-mans WWE has been having, albeit this more about spots than story.

[bradhindsight]

It was just a project I thought needed to be done. Kris and Dylan knocked out the hard work and we put the list of 150 together.

 

Kudos to all three of you.

[Timbo Slice]

Yeah, I did a little blurb about it in the first post on the blog, but I can't thank you guys enough for making it happen. Seriously one of the best birthday presents I've gotten in a really long time.

[Migs]

I have been dying to tackle this as well... I keep changing my mind on the best way to do it. Matches first? Going back and forth between Matches and Extras to try to keep the context for the matches fresh in my mind? It's hard.

[Timbo Slice]

I'm going disc by disc and then revisiting the extras at the end because I think it'll wrap some nice little bows together. I remember when the Memphis set came out that someone actually did a chronological process involving the extras and I thought, "Holy crap, that's incredible." Plus, the way the set was put together, I just figured this would be the best way to go about it all anyways.

[Kevin Ridge]

I bounced around between discs to watch stuff in chronological order. Yeah, you might be changing discs out non stop but I liked getting the angles/promos/matches in proper order. But nothing wrong with just sitting back and watching a disc at a time either.

[Timbo Slice]

Just as a heads up, if you guys do have a Tumblr account, you can follow the blog to get updates whenever I post something new. In the mean time, I'll try and post anything noteworthy here with updates.

[Migs]

Jumped into Disc 13.

 

I think if you were trying to rank the 150, none of the four matches from 2000 on this disc would be anywhere close to the top. In particular, I couldn't take the false feeling intensity of the Dreamer-CW Anderson match. If I recall right, Anderson hadn't done anything particularly vile to turn up the heat on that feud, and it felt very much like Dreamer trying to recapture the glory of feuds from 5 years earlier.

 

I'd never seen much of the Funk/Gilbert stuff... Eddie as King of Philadelphia was pretty entertaining.

 

The Public Enemy section is great. The music videos, the funny yet intense promos, and the violent but sloppy matches... they are like a perfect avatar of what made early ECW so great.

[Timbo Slice]

I'm a huge fan of CW Anderson's work so I'm interested in seeing his big matches again once I get there, but I always dug his gimmick as the long lost Anderson brother.

[Migs]

I'm a huge fan of CW Anderson's work so I'm interested in seeing his big matches again once I get there, but I always dug his gimmick as the long lost Anderson brother.

 

I feel like the writing at the time didn't help him much. There was a cool character there, but they were doing something like 1 TV Taping a month by the time he became a prominent player.