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SPOILER ALERT!






Congrats, William. :)
 
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Since we've already been spoilered...

(**** you, Brunk!)

Congratulations, Billy!

Also, congrats to Pete for making it a coin-toss decision, it could have went either way and I enjoyed the lead-up and the match immensely!

=)

Feedbax later, I have a show to finish writing myself.
 

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Screw you guys. What kinda rube starts reading the replies in a "card is posted" thread if they don't wanna be spoiler'd? F'n tards, that's who.
 

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What part of SPOILER ALERT don't you understand, ya F-TARD? :)
 
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The link is in the FIRST POST, not the next three or four.

LAME.

LAME.

LAME.
 

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Hey look, feedback in a feedback thread!

Intro/Welcome: As usual, did a good job of summarizing what happened last time and building up the matches to come.

Cruise/Deacon/Dane: Match was solid. Justin's style is more descriptive than commentary-based, but he does a good job with it. My biggest gripe with this match was the non-finish. Three guys put in a lot of work to RP for the match, and there should be a winner. I'm of the Paul Heyman/ECW mindset that matches should always end with a winner and a loser.

JJ Wins Award!: I nominate this as my favorite seg title ever. And the best part was he didn't even f*ckin' win anything! Doctor Randalls? Came out of left field but was hilarious.

JJ vs. Bryant: These guys are continuing the tradition of really strong TV title feuds, and I'm liking it. Bryant is really chasing that belt down, and I can't wait to see the payoff. Peter Windham in the MRS. WULF costume doing karate was F*CKING AWESOME! I think he got more heat on this show than my other character did lol.

Dorchester vs. Dan Ryan: The commentary on this was great. Loved the Monty/Ryconik line joke being worked in. The action was good and whatnot, but there probably could have been more psychology worked out with JTP as special ref and all the guys on the outside. With that said, I know we were pressed for time, and Biron just needed to get this out. Plus a lot of that was dealt with in the aftermath. Anyway, I was entertained!

Aftermath ("What Did JJ Do?"): OK, so if you were "in the crowd" you definitely got your wacky action fix from this. JTP fighting Randalls = CLASSIC. Randalls fighting Troy = CLASSIC. Nova fighting everybody = AWESOME FUN TIME. Peter Windham = WClan punching bag! A good time was had by all.

Championship Preview: Amazing job. Really worked in the history of both Impulse and Castor really well, and it's this sort of attention to detail that makes it all fun for me in the end. NFW is definitely a league that remembers it's history and weaves it in with the present to tell a story.

Impulse vs. Castor Strife: I wrote the match, and to date it's my favorite (not just cause I won- I didn't write that part). My intent was to tell the story of this feud through match strategy alone, and I think that was achieved rather well. I dunno, you tell me. We all know Castor has the strength advantage over Impulse, and Impulse has the catch-wrestling edge. Impulse has the gas tank, and Castor likes to dominate early. Could Castor overcome his problems with long matches in the past, and avoid scrambling with Impulse? Could Impulse slow the pace and wear Castor out? In the roleplays, Castor said he was going to wrestle with the best technical wrestler in the world, and beat him at his own game. Well, he failed...sort of. It was no bluff: he did indeed try to beat Impulse at his own game. And while Impulse still outwrestled him from a technical standpoint, Castor came in with vastly improved wrestling and mitigated this advantage the best he could while also having the cardio to go a long time (37 mins!). He must have shocked Impulse by one-upping him on the mat from time to time, and this caused some urgency for his opponent. Now Impulse starts speeding up the pace, looking to make his mark and not simply outlast and beat a tired Castor, but to WIPE HIM OUT. And in the end, it was this game of psychology that ultimately worked to Castor's benefit. He did well enough at Impulse's game to bait him into playing his own, and this is what led to the victory. Had Castor lost, he would have gone out on his shield having taken a big (but necessary) risk in order to bring home the championship. The intent here was, win or lose, to garner Castor some more sympathy with the crowd. It's not that he's so much a face now by way of changing his attitude, but aspects of his personality previously unknown are coming to the forefront due to changes in the NFW landscape, and many fans are now able to sympathize with his motives/intentions.

As for the part I didn't write, I thought the finish (given the Castor wins scenario) was absolutely perfect. In his match years ago with Shane Southern, Castor lost his opportunity at the belt by taking two Party's Over superkicks. This time, Impulse hits him with one Sudden Impact superkick. Now they're up, and he's going for a second. History is about to repeat itself, but this time Castor evades and hits probably the best setup to his finish ever (STO backbreaker into Director's Cut). Unbelievable!

I will say though, I might not have opted to have Castor get his leg on the rope after getting hit with a Sudden Impact. Again, just my match-philosophy here, but I am very much against the kicking out of finishers except under rare circumstances. However, this was match had a lot of buildup and hype, was a long time coming, and so this really wasn't a bad circumstance at all for such a thing. Obviously it makes my character look super strong, and Impulse got hit with just about everything and it took a crazy finish to beat him. Both Castor and Impulse leave this match with a lot going for them.

Final Thoughts: Just want to say that Pete has pushed me like no other handler before, and Impulse is the reason Castor Strife is as good as he is right now. He forced me to get better - A LOT better. Either character could have won and I would've been happy knowing the right guy had the title. You haven't faced a challenge in this hobby yet til you've faced a motivated Pete Russo. When the RP thread ended, I was content knowing it was my best work, and whatever happened after that would be fine by me. I'm honored to have been put over such a great character and given the NFW World Title. In all honesty, I never thought I'd win it, at least not with Castor Strife. He's my favorite character, but I can see how a lot of people would be hesitant to put a character like that over, especially with the type of gimmick he's got going at the moment. Once again NFW shows a willingness to take a chance on something different (as they did with JTP and characters before him), and I'm grateful for that.

PSYCHOTIC PORN GUY IS CHAMPION! WHERE DA EASTERN EUROPEAN CONCUBINES AT?!
 

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This was a good show. Not gonna rank up there with my favorites, and I'll go into that a bit, but it was good and definitely worth the wait.

Some feedback:

The opening segs were fantastic, as I've come to expect. If we're gonna share opening seg duty around here, there are some big-ass shoes to fill. Hell, I'm dramatic as balls and I'm not sure I'm even up to the challenge!

I'm tempted to agree with Bill-bo on cheesing someone out of a 'W' in the Dane/Cruise/Deacon fight, but there were mad post-match happenings which set up some RAWK-SOLID bookings for the near future. Deacon vs. Christian Cruise/Bobby Jack Windham is an RP thread which will read like a bible-study group session, and for reasons that as yet remain unclear to me, I'm super pumped about it. Plus you have Eric Dane trying to impress the Windham Clan, and that's a thread which will only benefit newcomer Dane by hooking him into long-established FWC character goings-on, as well as benefit the =W= Clan by adding yet another dimension to their sprawling menagerie. The Windham Clan has become the twenty-side die of the e-wrestling world, and knowing our membership, every single real person who just read that line will correctly interpret it as a compliment. Yes, you can go play more of your videogame and pick up reading this later.

JJ Wins Award! was definitely a bright spot on this show. Sometimes there's a character who goes on a run in terms of in-show appearances and angles, and it just seems like they're consistently shining brighter than other characters and hitting it out of the park every time, and JJ DeVille is that character right now. Gregg and Katz and whoever else writing him are simply killing it.

The stuff with Jack Bryant is also really legit, probably the hottest feud in NFW that doesn't involve the World Heavyweight Championship.

You had to expect chaos with the Lumberjack Match, and it delivered. I definitely marked for the spot where Nova broke up Mike Randalls' razor-wire tree of woe on Troy, as well as everyone mixing it up in a big mess of potential dream matches at the end. I do not pity the fledgling Champ who has to tackle Brunk, as Dan Ryan has not been known to blow two shots at big gold. Good result in this Number One Contender's Match, because it keeps Ryan relevant as the =W= Clan's best shot at the top strap (and thus in some kind of Hammer of Thor capacity, ULTIMATE NFW POWER), and Dorchester doesn't need the strap to be as great as he's ever been. I would argue Stratton actually benefits from this loss, and I'm not just saying that because I'm going to make fun of him in-character over it.

That brings me to the Main Event. Hooray Billy, you've officially made the last twelve months your b*tch. For those who didn't know, Billy also captured the top strap in PRIME as Castor Strife and rocked it out for some time (I promise it's a big deal). He's probably done some other cool stuff recently, I dunno, I just came back to This Thing of Ours. Anyway, this is a HUGE win. I told Billy, after the RPing he and Pete did for this thing, they both deserve championships of some kind. When Brunk and I RPed for the Ryan/Nova Wrestlestock II match, we each did one. There were probably 400-500 words shared between us. These f*ckin' guys...they wrote a movie script. And crafted it like a movie. I GET IT NOW. As for the match, I admit I skimmed it (because the wrestling-centric matches aren't my fave), but through skimming it I will say it looked like a fabulous affair, so good job Billy. Pete, you've slow-cooked an awesome character over the last couple of years, and I'm a firm believer that when you slow-cook sh*t it just tastes better, so you can interpret that comment as you see fit but I'm shooting for 'classy commiserations.'

So yeah, good show. I say 'good' and not 'great' because my favorite shows have storylines which weave throughout and bring together disparate elements at the end like a good episode of Sex and the City (or Scrubs, but Sex and the City developed the formula that made Scrubs a success). Yes, I just said my favorite NFW shows resemble episodes of Sex and the City. This show was built as a vehicle for the WHC Finals, and I have no problems with that. But the other thing that makes for a great show are match results that really mean something, and apart from the WHC Finals, that wasn't really present here. Reloaded 8 had both of the things I'm talking about.

ONWARD AND UPWARD, FRIENDS. I'm excited for what happens next.
 

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I'm going to have to echo a lot of Chrisanova's statement: the main event was solid and spectacular, but the rest of the card was just kind of 'ehhh.'

Not bad, but not memorable. It's hard to make a card with just three matches stand out, but kind of like the 92 Royal Rumble: the main event was THE show.

Main Event was flawless. Billy wrote exactly the match I would've pictured and Katz finished it off as best he could. My only complaint is that I moved with three days left in the RP period and didn't give Billy everything I could. We'll settle the account somewhere. Castor is one of my favorite characters and I think Billy earned every bit of this.

JJ vs. JB wasn't really a match (hence it wasn't listed above) and while I enjoy both characters, as a reader and a fan I'm starting to grow tired of the formulaic confrontations that these two are having: JJ makes a grand proclamation of things, JB hands him his ass, Deus Ex Machina keeps the belt with JJ. Not that the chase isn't a good story, but some variety in the confrontation would make it even better.

Dan Ryan vs. Dorchester was everything we could've hoped, but with multiple shots coming up short, where does DC go from here? He could very easily have another psychotic break, and that's always fun.

Now? NFW 4.0 is in full swing, and things are going to get bumpy from here.
 

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I really liked this show a lot. The main event was spectacular.

Just a public note to Billy: You know how I feel about you my man! You were super underrated back on *P and that's continued on here. I always told you that you were on the shortlist of best people at this stuff. The only two things that kept you from having a big title was you not believing that and your sense of humor rubbing people the wrong way (yet keeping me thoroughly entertained through the eons). Castor's an awesome character. You deserve this -- and a big run -- more than anyone else in the league right now.

Thanks for the kind words about JJ. I absolutely LOVE writing him right now. He was the hardest of the initial =W= Clan to write at first. I wanted him to initially be the "breakout star" as being an amazing wrestler everyone forgot about. But it got taken in another route with him as a "breakout star" but being a super snide jerkoff who stirs the pot with EVERYONE.

Pete -- don't worry! The JJ/Jack stuff has an impending finish. I think when it's all said and done it's going to be great.

The Randalls thing Katz and I collaborated on. We had a think a few years back in the CSWA where it was subtly referenced that Randalls actually briefly taught JJ while at NC State. Randalls for a while (and still?) was known as "The Wolf." That'd be in honor of his college days, naturally. Kind of an in-joke with us that I hope translated well enough for everyone who didn't get it.

I loved the lumberjack match and what a total cluster it was, as it should be in a Civil War type of arrangement. It also was great since it cleared out the entire roster to leave the World Title match alone.
 

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