Elliot Harmon @elliot@wrestling.social

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Why is The New Mutants getting all of the bad press for not being available online and Tenet not getting it? Just because Tenet is good?

Enjoying spending more time on Mastodon away from every reminder on Twitter of how broken the world is.

I don't understand most of your posts about your free software projects, but you're all very smart and I'm proud of you.

For all their talk of creativity, Burners seem uninterested in coming up with activities that don't involve crowds or fire.

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Yay Heel Reigns, I guess

CONTRACTS ARE BORING

Also, why is "did Roman sign the contract" the lead story of this PPV? Contracts are not sports entertaining.

Genuinely stunned by that title change. It seemed like such a throwaway match in the Banks/Bayley title reign.

I'd love to see this be the beginning of things turning around for Shayna Baszler. She should be the biggest name on the roster.

I have no idea what the "failure at home" Corbin tweet they keep referencing is about. This seems to be in Vince Russo territory of just bringing up insider stuff with no context whatsoever and just assuming people care.

I'm kinda sorta watching WWE Payback. Can't get myself to get very excited about any of the matches for some reason.

And now there's still a weird metanarrative, where the question of "will Rey heal?" will be a proxy for the question of whether Rey will go to AEW. And it all feels so childish, a far cry from the "reality era" we were promised.

It's tempting to think about how you would rewrite the match--use fake blood in the ending? Forego the live crowd and film it like a washed-out grindhouse movie?--but the only good option is "don't do this match what are you a moran?"

There's no way for a match with an impossible premise to have any sort of payoff. So the tension of the match turns into this metanarrative where you're asking yourself, "How will WWE pull this off? Will it end in some other way, or will they actually try to simulate this horrific scene in front of a live audience?"

Okay, I finally watched the Eye for an Eye match. It's so bad.

There's some solid wrestling in the first act of it, as you'd expect in a match between these two. But it's so overshadowed by the gimmick. Even the commentators don't call the match at all, because why would you bother when OMG THIS MATCH IS GOING TO END WITH A GUY GETTING HIS EYE PLUCKED OUT.