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Zeus posted...

What had initially drawn me to Dark was that it was just wrestling. They didn't even have any promos, although I'm fine with the occasional promo. However, so far this episode they had Matt Hardy meeting with TH2 (which, don't get me wrong, I actually enjoyed) and yet another shitty Jelly Nutella segment (no, Joey, I don't give a shit about "bad boy summer" and the whole "__ summer" meme is played out). And when they did have a promo -- which again, I'm often okay with -- it was this awkward thing with Dante Martin (jfc, put this kid back in wrestling school) where he was reading a script with zero passion or conviction. That and fucking Vicky Guerrero... Her sucking up time while announcing Nyla has gotten so annoying. It's supposed to be a big heel thing, but I imagine most people don't even watch it.

Pre-COVID, AEW Dark was usually 1 hour and hosted by Tony and Dasha (in studio, they'd "kick it to the announce team" to then show the pre-recorded match). There'd be like 3-5 matches total, and there'd be some short interview segments and other stuff (Cody had a segment weekly where he'd talk to a young or up and coming talent about their past and their motivations that was usually pretty good).
I loved those episodes, they breezed by and were entertaining. Reminded me of Sunday Night Heat and other old WWF weekend shows.

But ever since, it's been these insufferable 1.5 - 2.5 hour slogs full of so many matches and I just can't... Even watching at 2x speed, it's just way too much. I'm back at like November for Dark episodes, I want to try to catch them all, but the backlog just keeps growing...
I am mostly up to date on Elevation, just haven't seen this week's yet. But I'm sure that will soon slip, too.

This week's Dynamite was pretty good. Besides the Christian match, Miro match, and Young Bucks match (all good); the Nyla/Leyla match and main event were also good albeit I disagreed w/ the finish for them.