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Guest Fight Me.

Let my mans Kyle rest for a bit. If I'm him, I'm taking holidays off at least. :lol:

But yeah, I don't think this show matched up to last year's Winter is Coming. I sort of was expecting another Sting level surprise.

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The show didn’t need a surprise. They’ve had several surprises and debuts the last few months. AEW should be weary of conditioning their fans to expect a surprise so frequently. Surprises should be infrequent. You shouldn’t be *expecting* a surprise — that defeats the whole purpose of a surprise. What the show lacked was not a surprise. To me, what it lacked, was compelling drama and interesting story developments, which I feel is something they’ve been lacking for a while aside from the occasional feud like Punk/Kingston or Bryan’s heel turn.

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I agree about the surprise thing for sure. A lot of people seemed to spoil the show for themselves by expecting Kyle, Gargano or even Wyatt. Like damn, we just had so many wild debuts recently.

I myself really dug Hangman vs Bryan. It was really cool seeing Hangman essentially go into "I just gotta time this out" mode after a while, while Bryan just meticulously destroyed him. It also opens the door for a more aggressive pace whenever they rematch.

Deeb vs Shida was solid, but also the weakest of their trilogy I thought, though I liked the finish.

What was disappointing as hell to me was Dante vs MJF. Dante was all sizzle no steak, and while he's athletic AF, it was just a showcase of his flippy-shit. I think separating him from any teacher, be it Rush or Taz is a HUGE mistake. 

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Just read the replies in here. Y’all are taking the term “surprise” too literally. I think most expected The Briscoes to pop up when the lights went dark. Sting & Darby appearing was just disappointing. Just literally have them run out instead of turning off the lights with a tease lol

 

I don’t get why anyone expected Bray. I love him, but I don’t even really want him in AEW honestly. I thought O’Reilly is/was a given because of the Undisputed/Elite storyline they got going on. So again, these “surprises” aren’t to be taken too literal. 

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Wait, what? lol You’re talking about don’t take surprise literally but then you go to talk about how you kinda expected/wished the Briscoes and/or Kyle to show up. Those would be surprise debuts being that they were unannounced and never advertised to be there. When I made my post about surprises, the lights-going-out trope wasn’t even on my mind (which btw is a trope I would love to see go away, it’s so convoluted and overused, especially by AEW), I was basically talking about how AEW doesn’t need surprises to liven a show since they’ve been relying on them a bit much lately.

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On 12/18/2021 at 9:55 AM, PaperThinWalls said:

Wait, what? lol You’re talking about don’t take surprise literally but then you go to talk about how you kinda expected/wished the Briscoes and/or Kyle to show up. Those would be surprise debuts being that they were unannounced and never advertised to be there. When I made my post about surprises, the lights-going-out trope wasn’t even on my mind (which btw is a trope I would love to see go away, it’s so convoluted and overused, especially by AEW), I was basically talking about how AEW doesn’t need surprises to liven a show since they’ve been relying on them a bit much lately.

I said what I said. Not changing my opinion. O’Reilly appearing tonight was a surprise, but it was a given. 
 

Regardless, him in AEW is perfect and fits storyline purposes. That’s really all my point is. We don’t need Bray/Windham though. 

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I think we all knew it was coming, but God damn, Kyle O"Reilly! Undisputed freakin Era are All Elite!!!

I'm definitely interested in how this story plays out. I'm not craving a UE reunion that bad, but UE vs The Elite sounds pretty freaking nuts. Do they just play with expectations until Kenny can come back?

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