Storm Comments for 5/24

[Ace309 0]

I only helped out with the House of Marvelous tonight, so I'll say I think it turned out fairly well. Johnny wrote it pretty cleanly and he managed to capture the Flesher character fairly well, in my estimation.

 

The main event was a very difficult decision. The Hawke/Clark team put together a match that had more physical psychology to it. Of course, working-a-limb-type psychology isn't the end-all, be-all of in-ring psychology, and as difficult as it is to deny a match that was as coherent as Hawke/Clark submitted, I think they wrote a match that didn't take into account everything that was going on with this card. There was very little use of the crowd, which would have been a rich vein to tap when filling in some of the dead space in the match. The commentary was a little bit painful at times, and though I know that the interruptions of the commentary were meant to give off an air of unpredictability, they weren't very well executed. Really, they just came across as irritating. The writing was spotty in places, and there were a few clear divides that could have used a better edit to avoid a jarring switch of voices where it seems clear that one writer stopped and another picked up. All in all, it just didn't seem like this match had the attention paid to it that it was due. All of that taken together make it difficult to give this match the win.

 

Wild and Dangerous, meanwhile, submitted a match that lacked the strict working-a-limb psychology that Hawke and Clark put forth, but made up for it in the broader sense of the term. They wrote to their standard, which for most of us is hard to beat on our best day, and they wrote the match very well. I can't complain about a thing they did - they captured Wildchild as the central character, because really, the match had to be about him, one way or the other. They told a story in the ring that was coherent and clear and that made sense in the broader context of the match.

 

It's fair to object that making a match about Wildchild is difficult as his opponent, but I think it just takes a bit more creativity. With Hawke's ability to direct a match in the ring and Clark's flair for drama, I expected more than I got. The faces don't have to win for the match to be dramatic and exciting - I'd have loved to have my heart broken by seeing Wildchild lose his titles in his triumphant homecoming, and it wouldn't have taken much more effort than the match that was turned in.

[muzz 0]

Sounds like a rager.