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Post by Above Average Mike Sanders on Sept 6, 2014 0:24:57 GMT -5
Anyone else been watching this.
I really liked the first/episode they released awhile back... but the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th has been a nonstop sucking off Vince. Actually, that's not true, they spend quite a bit of that 4th episode sucking off HHH too.
Seems to be a lot of revised history and convenient omissions too. I don't know whether they're planning on recovering ground... I assume they must, cause on the last one they skipped right over the screw job, not even a yada yada. They noted how Rick Rude showed up on both Raw and Nitro the same night, but just sort of said he left for money, was no big loss and moved right on.
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Post by gerardgerard on Sept 6, 2014 0:41:47 GMT -5
I read it is meant to be a 20-part series, but how they're going to stretch it out that far is beyond me.
It's irritating that they have yet to make mention of how pivotal having a solid midcard was in WCW's success; the cruisers doing their stuff, the TV title scene wasn't a mockery and main-eventers trading the secondary US title didn't necessarily mean their top-flight career was over. Instead the MNW series has been lumping WCW's success with 'off the back of WWF guys' that is quite true, but something had to keep the audience tuned-in in the interim.
Yes, there was a glass-ceiling in WCW, but for a short time, they had an excellent product. This is credit I've yet to see be given from this latest series.
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Post by groovyphoenix on Sept 9, 2014 12:03:09 GMT -5
I have sene a few of the episodes, I don't think its so much revised history as much as "slanted to make WWE look better, the facts are in evidence, they did indeed win, so to the winner goes the spoils, including revising or making themselves look great over WCW that can't defend itself.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 18:19:18 GMT -5
As they say, to the victor go the spoils.
I'm not surprised that there is a lot of revisionist history involved, because that has always been WWE's MO.
It will be interesting to see what content makes up the remaining episodes, though, as they covered a lot of ground already.
20 episodes seems very ambitious, and I hope they spend some time on the botched invasion angle.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Sept 9, 2014 18:28:03 GMT -5
I find the Vince vs. Ted thing to be pretty ridiculous, as Ted obviously wore many more hats.
Not sure how the rest of the series will unfold, of course, but I find the early focus on DX rather than Rock and Austin to be very interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 19:02:27 GMT -5
The Monday Night War, episode 9: The Rise of Billy Kidman
The Monday Night War, episode 11: The Meng Factor
**or so I hope**
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Post by Above Average Mike Sanders on Sept 12, 2014 17:11:38 GMT -5
I find the Vince vs. Ted thing to be pretty ridiculous, as Ted obviously wore many more hats. Not sure how the rest of the series will unfold, of course, but I find the early focus on DX rather than Rock and Austin to be very interesting. Yeah, they never miss a chance to mention Ted Turner by name... almost as much as they do Vince McMahon, and that an awful lot. They sure like to use those three tiny clips of Turner... him and Jane in the crowd, that TBS 20th anniversary plug, and some handheld shot of him mentioning it in an informal interview. They just keep recycling it over and over, like they want to hammer home Vince single handedly took down Ted Turner... not that Ted had little more than a passing involvement in WCW at most beyond it being one of his dozens of holdings, and had long since been sold and Turned wasn't even involved in the cable holdings anymore by time WWF started their turnaround (he may have even been moved over to Time Warner before the NWO even started). I guess they figure if they say it enough it will become accepted, or maybe Vince is just so deluded that's his "reality"
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Post by chrisarrant on Sept 14, 2014 9:22:07 GMT -5
I guess they figure if they say it enough it will become accepted, or maybe Vince is just so deluded that's his "reality" ..... and it's worked for them in the past. See WWE's "facts" about Andre being undefeated or not slammed until Wrestlemania 3.
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Post by RKing85 on Sept 15, 2014 22:44:39 GMT -5
like Samoan said, and as the old saying goes, the history of war is written by the winners.
Haven't seen any of the episodes, but Meltzer said he couldn't even get through one episode before he turned it off because he hated it so much. How it wasn't even close to the truth.
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Post by deezy on Sept 16, 2014 21:03:43 GMT -5
It's a WWE owned documentary on the WWE network...expecting an open and honest account on this is being either naive or just acting like a battered wife hoping Ray Rice won't hit her again.
Just need to get another Bischoff interview or ask Steve Austin to lift some of his podcast interviews with him, because that one sitdown interview is just lazy since I've seen it on 5 DVD documentaries and on damn near every episode of this show.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Sept 18, 2014 16:50:40 GMT -5
Watched the first half of the latest episode, The Hart of War, and it's definitely the best episode yet.
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Post by Above Average Mike Sanders on Sept 18, 2014 18:42:12 GMT -5
Yeah, the Bret Hart one was better than I was expecting (granted my expectations were very low, but that's the first time I could say that since the first episode). They took a bit of a different angle on it (nothing new granted), but I had read reviews it was all a regurgitation of the screw job, but it really wasn't... it obviously centered on Montreal, but that was really just the jumping off point for several other topics.
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