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Post by Duke Mongoose on May 23, 2024 11:25:12 GMT -5
I realized over the past few weeks that I actually don't care at all about anything happening in AEW. The booking hasn't hooked me at all, and aside from the occasional appearance of one of the STARDOM girls, there's little I look forward to per show. This happened a few years ago and I took a break from watching AEW. I'm likely to take a break again starting this weekend.
For reference, I'm currently regularly watching:
Monday Night Raw (at least hours 1 and 2, I usually go to sleep during hour 3)
NXT
Dynamite
STARDOM (I generally watch an event on Thursday and play catch up on the weekend if there's more)
Friday Night Smackdown
Collision
Plus any WWE/NXT PPVs
I think I'm burned out, and the company on the chopping block is AEW. I already gave up on Rampage about a year ago.
Have any of you had a similar experience you'd like to share?
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Post by Pierre The Enormous on May 23, 2024 11:30:48 GMT -5
I'm just fatigued in general with how much there is
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Post by Duke Mongoose on May 24, 2024 11:13:18 GMT -5
I'm just fatigued in general with how much there is It's funny, because when I was a kid there wasn't enough wrestling. Now there's too much! I miss the days when wrestling TV shows were 1 hour and only WCW Saturday Night was 2 hours. |
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Post by Pierre The Enormous on May 24, 2024 11:20:18 GMT -5
We got more wrestling but at what cost?
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Post by Dyno on May 27, 2024 3:59:48 GMT -5
I dropped Collision and Rampage ages ago. I haven't watched Dynamite in well over a month. I've watched more TNA the last few months than AEW...and I never used to watch TNA.
I've just put DoN on. I want to be interested again but generally, if I'm limited with time, I'll miss out AEW. Which is the total opposite from a year/18 months ago.
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Post by "The Closer" Omega Satyros on May 27, 2024 7:53:36 GMT -5
When it actually comes to watching wrestling, I basically comes down to watching the non-Saudi WWE PPVs, and keeping up with everything else with Twitter and Google
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Post by Thumper Moore III on Jun 10, 2024 4:52:50 GMT -5
Here’s my paradox. Every time I’ve turned AEW on in the last year I’ve been entertained. Swerve has been very good as champ. So was Joe before him. The Bucks taking on their corporate personas has been excellent. Okada and Ospreay have been awesome. Every time Danielson or Claudio stepped into the ring has been a banger. Christian is wildly entertaining. And now MJF is back.
But it doesn’t have that thing that makes me come back to watch live week after week, and that is the booking. And it’s not like it’s been booked badly… it’s just not been the same since Punk’s debut and departure. I can’t put my finger on exactly what it is, but maybe it feels episodic rather than long-term? Where popping in for a few minutes here and a few minutes there is just as satisfying as watching the entirety. It’s like AEW is a pleasant dessert now rather than a full course meal.
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Post by Dyno on Jun 10, 2024 12:43:22 GMT -5
Here’s my paradox. Every time I’ve turned AEW on in the last year I’ve been entertained. Swerve has been very good as champ. So was Joe before him. The Bucks taking on their corporate personas has been excellent. Okada and Ospreay have been awesome. Every time Danielson or Claudio stepped into the ring has been a banger. Christian is wildly entertaining. And now MJF is back. But it doesn’t have that thing that makes me come back to watch live week after week, and that is the booking. And it’s not like it’s been booked badly… it’s just not been the same since Punk’s debut and departure. I can’t put my finger on exactly what it is, but maybe it feels episodic rather than long-term? Where popping in for a few minutes here and a few minutes there is just as satisfying as watching the entirety. It’s like AEW is a pleasant dessert now rather than a full course meal. This is pretty much spot on! |
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