A post got eaten!? BUT THE BOARDS AUTO-SAVE NOW! GAH! Hope it was GG's internet connection.
I'll respond to more stuff if anyone's going to be posting anymore feedback...please also express anything you DON'T like. Sometimes learning what makes everyone tick, helps me understand how to heel out on the audience. As awful as that sounds, it's true. But also sometimes, I learn things I do need to fix, etc.
INTO THE BOOKING MIND OF A MADMAN
Anyway...FIRST...thanks to everyone on the props. I apologize for the 3-week turnaround, it EASILY could have been 2 with the AWESOME MATCHWRITING TURNAROUND. JUST AWESOME. With or without JJ Deville's shutdown angle (which just bought me more time).
I was definitely nervous writing that much Windham Clan material as Gregg's always handled that. Most specifically, Troy and August as they're more of Gregg's personality/style, etc. JJ's easy to me because he's just such a snide piece of SH*T. That's more like me!
If you read the preceding BRAWL and were like Legion our resident conspiracy theorist, you knew something was up. So did Eddie as paperwork gets leaked to him first...and he also knew he'd be a target for the two guys most likely not joining anyone's side. Part of my little delay was in figuring out how to best justify in writing how the attacks that would happen. Then GG dropped the JJ delays the show into place and as unfathomable as the scenario would work, keep in mind that the 7/4 RAW was taped last week after CM Punk's rant the week prior. Way different scales, but I actually did imagine that the crowd was in on it from an OORP standpoint...which luckily, we truly never address on NFW shows.
Deville's power-lusting ego trip that screws up everyone poignantly starts coming to a halt by him grabbing the whole Clan to ensure a match he's ALREADY RIGGED would have MORE protection. Props on Biron making JJ so despicable in the moment, while taking the loss in stride for JB's character to develop. But it's still the first time a real weakness is exposed within the Windham Clan. I'm interested to see in not only how Troy handles JJ, but what Dan Ryan's going to demand out of this.
Before anyone jumps for joy about JJ, just keep focused on his reactions. Troy took back the reigns, but you could see in JJ's eyes that he wasn't changing anytime soon. It may get worse before it gets better.
THE FINISHES:
With the revealed attacker...just wondering if anyone figured it out by WHO got attacked and his one sentence yell in the parking garage -- that it was JTP before the reveal?
CASTOR/DORCH -- after seeing what Billy went for, I figured it needed to end with Dorchester going for it all. This is a harken back to SKings/HWC match I wrote. Dorch had kept the 'suicide backyarder' under wraps until that bump. The difference in him now, he didn't jump out of the ring at the Guild...but at Castor...who in poetic justice moves and locks in the ANDERSON ARMBAR, twenty minutes after the first time we really hear Malik Anderson go off on anyone. If Dorchester's not paranoid enough by now...well, who are we kidding? He definitely is. Dorchester also TAPS OUT. That's big for me on the character and how far across the heel brat spectrum he's gone. DC Stratton would've passed out before tapping.
IMPULSE/RYAN -- Essentially, I wanted that final moment to push across that Ryan wasn't going down unless he got shot through the head. He knew he was screwed from the attack, but didn't care. Impulse literally has to chop him down at the attacked knee to finally get the killshot, which I still think in Impulse's head is under dubious terms...but not enough, where he's completely content in the win considering the opening tit-for-tat exchange with Ryan before the bell rang.
THE ENDING:
Dorchester vs. Dan Ryan in a Lumberjack match for #1 Contender to the winner of Impulse/Castor. It's an extension of the storylines that are driving us. They're the ones that vacated the title. Now, this lead-up is the great way to absolve and reshift everything with that. Dorchester's sold out everyone and now has no friends, no allies across NFW. Dan Ryan's efforts will only embolden Troy Windham to strengthen the core of the Clan. However, not all of the Clan are happy. There's going to be alot of paranoia out of that one...SPEAKING OF WHICH...
JTP: WELCOME BACK DEVIN!? There was no loud grunt. There wasn't full fan support. He holds Stratton and Ryan primarily responsible for where he is right now. and if Devin RP's in the next couple weeks, JTP will be involved outside the ring as a possible lumberjack or more. JTP may be in his own mad world where he doesn't care about his actions... Which blinded him to...
NOVA: WELCOME BACK CHRIS!? ...notice the scar, notice the chair? That's my only hint on why he may have killed JTP. I won't lie, I'm hedging my bets. If I don't have to...we won't have a completely catatonic Joe and some SICK, SICK things for me to play around with. (KATZ EVILLY LAUGHS! NFWites start crying in fear!)
IMPULSE vs. CASTOR: There was never a proper ending to this one the first go-round from an RP standpoint, which contrasts quite a bit with how much is tied between them and how far they've come from an in-story standpoint. We're in V.4, and we're looking at alot of what was the backbone from V.3. But in terms of who's gonna BRING IT with the RP's for the BELT-MATCH, I'm most excited about that for Pete/BFF since they unfortunately didn't have that opportunity in the TV Title feud.
...not that we're a strict RP-fed or anything...but hey,
THIS IS FOR THE GOLD, BABY!
