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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 19:36:29 GMT -5
When did he say for us to stop looking for parodies? He didn't say "stop looking for parodies" but gave us this cryptic message: You long time players still on that " this guy is supposed to be that guy" thing? tsk tsk Before he released message I had an idea that MMW might be using completely original, non-inspired by real wrestlers/pop culture, as did apparently a few others it seems. It was what Mr. Fantasy said, mixed with some of our own hypothesis that has led to a mix up of what was actually said. Funny side note: my phone kept trying to auto correct "pop culture" to say "poo culture" 🤣 I've always looked it as not being blatant ripoffs, but parodies. They take a real character & put their own spin on it. |
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Post by Stanley The Weeb on Jul 10, 2019 21:03:41 GMT -5
Parodies are done with love and respect to the original sources.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 21:37:40 GMT -5
Parodies are done with love and respect to the original sources. exactly! 🤙 |
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Post by Gunslinger on Jul 11, 2019 18:54:33 GMT -5
Oh I get parodies, and the humorous side they represent, plus the fact that parodies have been legally approved to use through copyright laws. I've loved the parodies of 80sMW, 90sMWE, and 80sMWR with respect to the details thrown into the parodies.
I was a child/teenager of the 80s and teenager/supposed to be adult of the 90s. A lot of the things with the parodies of this game can't just be seen by looking them up on YouTube for the wrestling side, or googling the pop culture references. Instead there is so much more floods of memories and emotions if you actually lived it or saw it happen on tv.
In the 80s and 90s, pop culture and fads stuck out later as "WTF were we thinking?" while at the same time missing the feeling of doing it. (I'm sure this is the case for the decades before us as well, but I can only speak for my own youth). If you watch Stranger Things, it's like seeing an actual overview of a lot of the trends in those times. Sure some people dressed by normal standards in a lot of cases in clothes that could have been from any two decades before or after, if not more. BUT, I remember as a young teen those bright red jeans with the bottoms tightly rolled, a bright neon color popping shirt with abstract designs, and a different neon high top converse on each foot; And that was just one outfit, and that was definitely a time mark of mid to late 80s.
Until the mid-90s the internet was not widely available. You could join mailing lists of "wrestling rumors" put out by insiders like Dave Meltzer, but you weren't able to know what happened before it did on television or even right afterwards. This meant every Heel turn, every Face turn, even every time some wrestler moved to a new region or jumped ship to a bigger fed, you only saw it as everyone else did on television, and those emotions of excitement, anger, surprise, or anything just struck you in a way you don't have today. Everyone either knows what's going to happen weeks or months in advance, or it's been speculated so many times that nothing ever really surprises anyone when it happens.
Almost forgot my point. But parodies of things that happened for those of us that lived it are much better than, as in my own case, than those that came before your time. BUT, a lot of the time, you just don't realize how stupid the idea of something or someone really is while it's still currently a modern person/place/thing.
So, because of that, I (remember this is just "I", as in my own personal feelings on the matter) feel that if MMW utilizes parody it may not have that same feeling as 80sMWR parodies do. So for me, I expect MMW to be modern, containing modern themes, maybe big amalgamation of multiple people, places, and things in one, or just all new people created from scratch. Not saying some things from the modern time period can't be parodied, just that it's a lot harder to see what should be parodied until it's in our rearview mirror, when hindsight's 20/20, and then we realize just how over the top or stupid something really was.
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