XWE Survivor Series 2014

[gabe]

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40 minutes? Holy....
Okay....this is gonna be long

Rey vs Dango should be a good opener. Presentation is alright, though the arena doesn't look closed in, seeing as in certain shots you can see other things besides it. Don't really care though. Ah yes...a promo! I love you already. Rey pose was alright....oh I see where this is going.Posing's pretty decent. Seems to be a little fast paced but it's Rey vs Fandango. Didn't like the 619 attempt at the beginning but eh...shoulda just been a beatdown. Either way, the wrestling here's pretty good. Doesn't seem like they're staying down to sell all that much but eh. Alright, why did Fandango do a sunset flip powerbomb? Even if he does it IRL it was too early. And now a running powerbomb that gets reversed. At least it's later into the match. Decent match. Don't know why everyone likes pushing Fandango, but it's all up to you.
Star rating? 3.5. Wasn't too enticing, but it was just an opener. No odd poses except the superplex transition pic.

Jeff vs Jericho vs RVD...have I seen this before?? Eh...should be good. Not sure whether or not the pacing is off here but eh.. it's a highflyin match...as long as everyone sells appropriately then it should be fine. Writing this is a little too slow so I'm not exactly keeping up..but from what I'm seeing, Jeff's countering a little too much, Jericho should've only done one cross body, and the spot where Jericho pulled RVD off the top rope shouldn't've happened so early. After all, Jeff's the only spot monkey here. Other then that it's fine. Jericho shouldn't've done a walls of jericho that early, even if it was gonna get countered. Same with Jeff and the swanton. Seems like they're jumping way too high. It's an alright match, but in certain moments it felt like a spotfest. 3.0 stars. While it had some decent high flying action, the lack of pacing at times kinda killed it for me. You did get the pacing right for most of the match though. That, combined with me knowing I've seen this done better somewhere before, and the high jumps, merits this 3 stars. Way better then anything I've ever done, but you still have a ways to go.

Ryback and Sheamus vs Kings Of Wrestling.
Not sure if Ryback and Sheamus are thrown together or a long time team since I don't watch your stuff that often, but I like the idea. This should be a nice hard hitting match. Only thing, how long is the main event? Seems like the IC and Tag title matches shouldn't be occuring so soon. I like this match so far. Hero custom is good, and psychology is on point.Pacing seems a little off, but I like the idea of the match so much it aint buggin me. This match reminds me of an indy match..at least the ones I've seen. Yeah these spots are bugging me a little.. but the match is almost over. I didn't like the finish that much but it was an alright match. 3.5 stars. I love the idea, the execution coulda been better. Don't have anything else to say since I didn't dislike the match really.

Brock vs Angle
Like the mat wrestling. I like how Brock's not just brawling like how some people portray him. Good match so far, though Angle doesn't seem to be getting in much offense. Pretty good posing for Angle...not the best RA posing ever but damn good. Loving this match. Did he go for the kimura lock? It's not the beginning of the match, but..oh he tapped out. Or not.. the match is still going on. Was about to say, that would've been disappointing. Certainly the best match so far, There's nothing to complain about which is why I haven't typed anything for 3 minutes. Great match. If you weren't planning on it, you should definitely do a follow up. Or this might've been the follow up...I dunno.

4 stars. Very slight pacing issues, rest of the match was pretty great.

Eddie vs Ziggler
Pretty good so far. Though I will ask, where are the promos? There's been 1 in 21 minutes...and that wasn't really a promo, that was Fandango talking and then getting interrupted. Oh...I remember your fed now...you were the guy I'd say would be GOAT if he used string. Yeah....considering this is 39 minutes long I don't blame you for not using string. Back on topic, this match is really good. Disliked Ziggler doing some sort of reverse powerbomb. What's with the bird's eye view? Ziggler flew a little too far with that elbow drop. Camera's back to normal so good.
Brainbuster was pretty good. I'm noticing you frequently have constant reversals of diving moves. That, and why didn't Zig win off his finish? Eh, I might've missed something.
4 stars.

Punk, Orton, HHH, Shawn, and Jomo vs Generico, Bourne, Cena, Kane and Bryan.
Don't you have a generic heel authority figure in your fed? Or is that what the first team is? I forget.
Is this the rest of the show? The main event...is 13 minutes long.
Alright, I'm not so sure I'll be able to actually make it all the way through but I'll try.
Wrestling for this match was pretty good. Posing for all of the figs (even the basics!) was almost perfect, but the same problems in every other match were in this one. Slightly way too high jumps and pacing issues. Overall though, at 13 minutes it was a rock solid main event..that even got a little intense for me at the ending stages with Bryan. Oh, so the first team was the heel authority figure.
Overall, while this match was the best of the night, and it was 13 minutes long, I can only give it 4 stars. Still had slight problems.

The truth of the matter is, the only problems with your fed are small. You can easily fix the pacing issues and you can easily fix them jumping too high. So I look forward to your steady improvement.
But um...now I'm probably gonna get berated for saying this, but your fed really doesn't...it doesn't.... Okay, let me put it this way. All of these matches (besides the ryback tag and main event), have been done before in other pic feds or in real life. And the authority storyline you're doing... When I say generic heel authority figure, it's actually a joke from my fed. It wasn't meant as a dig at you, it was meant to reference how in my fed I constantly refer to the generic heel authority figure stable as just that. But your authority figure is heavily reminiscent of the WWE authority, and it's even called "The Authority", and this storyline... is very similar in vein to the D-Bry vs the Authority storyline. Now I wouldn't mind the matches seeming all too familiar (because that's not necessarily a bad thing). What I do mind, is it seems like there aren't any feuds or stories going on besides D-Bry vs HHH. Yeah, I understand there might be more feuds going on then how it looks. But how is any first time watcher gonna know this? Heck, you might only have 1 feud going on, but I don't know. Even if you do have more then one feud going on, only 1 feud got any sort of explanation beyond "People come out and they wrestle eachother a couple times" and that was D-Bry vs HHH. So if you do have more then 1 feud going on and I just don't know because I've only seen your fed twice, then make that clear. Advance the feud. If all of these matches were thrown together, then make feuds. It's not hard to come up with a feud, It's hard to come up with an original feud, considering in this day and age almost everything has been done before, but if you don't have any feuds besides 1, take my advice and have some more.

Now that that's out of the way,

Matches: 7/10
I really don't know how I feel about these. They had alright posing, and a few minor pacing issues, but none of them really stuck out to me. And there was nothing wrong with them for the most part.
Posing: 8,5/10
You're almost there. Just fix those flying poses and it'll be 10/10.
In ring psychology: 9/10
Noticed no issues except Ziggler doing a reverse powerbomb.
Story development: 4/10
It seems to be pretty good for your main event feud, but the rest is meh.

Overall....7/10
Improve the little things, and you'll go far.

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Basicly ^^^ what he said.

[Karl Malone]

-I like this show.It had good posing and good flow.
-I was feeling the Fandango and Rey Mysterio.
-I felt the triple threat was motn.

Overall i liked the show keep doing yo thang dawg. 8/10

[gabe]

Dec 11, 2014 0:56:18 GMT -5 @brick said:

40 minutes? Holy....
Okay....this is gonna be long
-snip-

Thank you Brick, I respect your opinion and I actually enjoyed your review and do not feel berrated at all by it. The thing is, I would make promos for storylines and segments and what not, it's just that they are very time consuming for me because of the way that I work. I'm a very a slow worker/filmer sometimes and if I could make more promos, not only in-ring ones, but backstage stuff like interviews and video packages, I would do it. But like I said, I'm a bit antsy when it comes to that because I'm slow as all hell and I'd love to do that trust me. Maybe during Mania season I can do it because of the gap between the go-home show for WM and the actual WM show. So, thank you for the review I enjoyed it Brick.