Comments | faithinfire: [Wrestling] Monday Night Wars GO! (round 2: WWE Raw)

faithinfire

[Wrestling] Monday Night Wars GO! (round 2: WWE Raw)

Jan 08, 2010 02:05

Raw 4/1/10. Spoilers under here, and I warn you this one is as much about me as a fan as it is about the show, complete with a lot of flailing, so if you like your reviews impartial and objective, don't even go here. I mean it. *g*

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kelpierocks January 8 2010, 04:56:06 UTC

LOL... thanks for the 'rasslin' love. Enjoyed your review here... and I think it's a good thing that there are two... what would you call them? Two shows? Two series'? Two franchises, maybe... to watch. Two is better than one!

I have less of a problem with the "pro" "rasslin" when it's presented as entertainment, rather than sport. I doubt I'll ever willingly watch TNA or WWE, but I can definitely enjoy it secondhand through your reviews!

faithinfire January 8 2010, 16:29:03 UTC

"Promotions" - and yes, I agree. More is better, even if WWE do keep eating the smaller ones. :(

And thank you, seriously. To have someone say "I understand and like this better through your eyes than I do through my own" feels like a huge compliment to both me-as-writer and me-as-fan, so I'm really glad you feel that way! *hugs*

bluerosefairy January 8 2010, 06:52:20 UTC

See, what's interesting to me about your viewpoint here is that (not that this is a bad thing at ALL) you very clearly don't pick sides other than "Shawn is the one I watch for". As an older fan, one who remembers the Screwjob and all the bad blood between them, it's almost incomprehensible to me to NOT pick a side. Ask any other fan who watched back then, they'll either be clearly in Bret's camp (Vince is a soulless bastard who fucked over the entire Hart family; Shawn and Hunter are patsy assholes who didn't give a damn about anyone but themselves) or clearly in Shawn's (Bret could have very easily fucked over the entire company and was showing all signs of doing exactly that; Vince, Shawn, and Hunter made an intensely personal business decision and Bret's held the grudge for too long). So it's interesting to read a newer fan's perspective, who doesn't have that alignment with one or the other beyond the fact that Shawn's the one who's been visible for the past twelve years, so you sympathize with him automatically out of bright ( ... )

faithinfire January 8 2010, 16:25:57 UTC

*nods* Thanks for commenting - I actualy really appreciate someone with more knowledge of the fandom than me having stuff to say about this, cos I'm well aware that I'm speaking from a position of comparative ignorance! I can certainly imagine that for someone who was there at the time, it's hard for them to see how I could not have a side. This is one of the problems of any kind of "ongoing" fandom, especially one that is or even pretends to be "real life" in action - if you come in late, you can read up on the history and you can watch the reruns and you can try to at least know enough to sound intelligent when talking to the older crowd, but you can never make it so that you were there. It's so much easier in fandoms that are finite, fictional, or both.

But specifically, with regards to something like Montreal, I've had a lot of experience of watching people fall out in my own life, over a wide and varied range of things. And I've seen both sides of a lot of arguments, I've seen so many people who just wouldn't budge and couldn't ( ... )