Congratulations on the job, Tan!
No lucha today – sorry, I passed out again. And I’m going to be completely fried the rest of the week because now I can’t get to sleep.
This is the idea of an angle/ongoing gimmick that’s been floating around my head for – for a long enough time that I can’t even remember the exact inspiration. But it’s come back to me in the lat bit of time, so I might as well write it down some time or another.
Bring in a tag team. Of course, lucha style – masked, fully covered in outfit body to toe. Since I picture this in WWE, they’d be Conquistador like for today – acrobatic, undercard heel goof henchmen types, lots of finishes involving missed switches, don’t talk much if at all.
They stick at that roll for a while (unless something clicks, of course), maybe picking up a token tag team championship, eventually failing when trying to help a higher tag team win an important (title?) match. The two teams turn on each other, and my masked duo gets booked as the faces because people love the goofy.
It turns into your typical death feud, and since we’ve got the titles elsewhere, there has to be a different conclusion. Maybe a gimmick match, maybe not, but since we’re borrowing from lucha here, there’s a stip thrown in: mask vs hair. Person who takes the fall only.
Match goes as you’d expect with the setup I’ve given you: heels go over, masked team just doesn’t get the break when they need one. When it comes for the demasking, the goofy duo tries one more switch, only for everyone to catch it and try to figure out why? Which becomes a clear a second later, as the guy who takes off his mask is obviously not a guy – he’s a she, and she’s got a whole lot of wins over guys before anyone besides her partner caught on.
This is my belief: A woman can get over as being an equal of men in wrestling only if she’s established as an equal before she’s established as a woman. It’s essential for fans to believe that she’s there not because of who she is (which only breeds resentment – though that might be a decent heel angle coupled with a heel GM type), but because of what she can do inside the ring. It’s take a very special person (and some tape and forethought to avoid situations where she’s exposed) to pull this off, but you end up creating a star. Which is the point.
The real life problem is that within a week of the team’s debut, it’d be all over the ‘net what they were up to and by the next tapings, there’d be crowd chants giving it away. And the surprise is so key.
It’s my birthday Wednesday, and it’d be nice if that was what I was getting stressed out about so it’d be over, but I don’t believe that’s true.
I keep meaning to do A List Of What I Want which I haven’t even really told the people who might by some chance actually buy me these things but that’s kinda unnecessary because they’re more in the school of Buy Him What We Think He Needs. But. Anyway. This is more A List Of Things I’d Like To Get Myself
– For Mike’s birthday last October, I got him a Tom Petty DVD of their performance on SoundStage, but also ripped the songs from the DVD into mp3s for a couple CDs. I used to have the songs on my computer and the PBS broadcasts on my TiVo, but a hard drive crash and too much stored lucha messed both of those things up.
– Really though, I’d like any CD that’d I really like but wouldn’t normally stumble upon without a hint. Listening to same thing gets old, but missing out on some other really good stuff bug me more. I think someone might be coming through here.
– River City Ransom for Game Boy Advanced . When it comes out. If it comes out.
– Tapes tapes tapes. The CMLL show GALA skipped so I can think about Robert’s crazy theory some more (I’ll let him go public with it first), the Chris Hero tape, and probably more lucha.
– CMLL putting on a 90 minute show somewhere
– The ability to watch a tape without feeling required to do a 10 page recap
– People not insisting on buying me Cubs tickets and Cubs tickets right this instant. I mean, I’ll go, but since we’re going to have to buy them from a scalper now or later, there isn’t any hurry till people besides myself commit to going.
– A new place to hang out
– the magical ability to get out of going to weddings.
I don’t know if they have all of this on the Interweb.
I need to stop posting while hazy.
Hey, Butch, I appreciate the link (people actually click it! shocking) but Bartman jokes no. I keep meaning to expound on this and I probably never will at this rate, but the most awesomest moment of the 2003 Chicago National League Ballclub season was when Kerry hit that homerun in Game 7 and it seems for all the world he was going to will the rest of the team to the World Series. Every time someone brings up one foul ball, they’re overemphasizing one ball and marginally all the cool moments of the season. It ain’t right to Carlos’ homer in Houston, Bako’s 6 RBI game, the 5 Game Cardinal Series, Sammy for it to be stuck in the shadow of one play. It wrecks the point of 162+ season if a sliver of it shadows the rest.
It was oh so cute when the only file footage they happened to have of Alou this week was that out of play ball. Like, since the whole bit started with him not using batting gloves, perhaps you might want to show him check swinging? I dunno. ESPN Is Dumb, but not as dumb as I, Max.