Turmoil 228: Y.A.S.T

[Jacob Trance]

Page two.

[Tre Golden]

You know you just pulled a 2012 Leon right?

 

Bray was not chased out, and he was never going to get suspended.

This is where Spider is to blame for the court but will skate cuz UAE

 

I disagree, jay. He wasn’t asked to leave, but why was he publicly ridiculed? It was done with the express reason to chase him out, and like Aries said it was a pretty one sided match that was pretty thirsty on both sides, Bray was just better, and he didn’t even say anything to bad.

 

Just bully tactic, the hoist against everyone, and I’m not saying I don’t like the hoots because I hold them in high regard.

 

But the appearance that they have power is running people away.

 

I Just have a bad taste in my mouth about it.

[Rust Cohle]

I have to say but Jake and Nick are the best commentary team ever. By a long shot.

[EMP]

Getting back to Turmoil as the subject. I usually try to steer clear of Reviews for shows because I'm one of those Happy you came out type of people. Not everyone is the next Grand Poobah in OCW. But, I will try to review this show as best as possible hopefully by tomorrow.

[Quartz]

Getting back to Riot as the subject.

 

Turmoil even gets disrespected in it's own discussion thread!

[EMP]

Turmoil even gets disrespected in it's own discussion thread!

 

LOL Sorry was writing an RP for Riot and had riot on the brain.

[Mr.Sensation]

lol sorry was writing an rp for riot and had riot on the brain.

 

 

expossssed!!!

[Wrex]

How dare you disrespect my show like this!

 

 

 

 

So what happens, I can't be assed watching.

[Quartz]

We've been missing out on that young discussion. CMON YOU FUCKS, WE'VE LESS THAN 6 WEEKS TO LUTION

 

- Pre-match promo from Salami Kane, love the recent activity from the now outed Nick, also don't hate the choice of dancing partner. Jehst's recent promos have been with only 3 people and have been a bit disconnected from the OCW universe, so it's good to see nice short and sweet promos like this get everyone back in the same playing field.

 

- Empress and Ashley impressing as usual. Ashley getting back to less manipulative things and almost comes off like a face here, a preppy face, but you can kinda feel the hate for Valk is just for Valk. Empress on the other hand, is a foul mouthed heathen. Haven't seen much character-specific development yet, but this story is fun anyway, so that can come later.

 

- Salami Kane continues knocking down his peers, this time running through JT. JT actually put up a solid fight, I thought he might sneak it out, but not quite. These two both involved in the upcoming battle royal, so great job to book them and get a little showcase here.

 

- TY Sparks promo is short, sweet, establishes his goals, links to his upcoming PPV match. Classic, descriptive, easy to read stuff here.

 

- Ashley and Empress... Together acting like faces?! Empress apologizing like a human!?

 

- popped hard at Valkyries use of "cartoons" instead of anime. I liked the descriptiveness of the scene here. Put me in the room without over-doing it. Valk seems all-too okay with losing... Not the Valk I know!

 

- It doesn't surprise me in the least that Justin Jehst knows all the Turmoil staffers name's. Enjoyable and adds a part to Jehst's character as a face.

 

- Not sure why this came out sans Morrison Method. I did not submit it that way. Oh well, no biggie. Have to say, Empress and Ashley are very efficient and easy to work with. Empress once again being a bitch. Maybe she's grown attached to Ashley and is just mean to everyone else? I'd ship it.

 

- This match was a whole hell of a lot of fun. I'd be happy to work with any of these 3 again. The tag moves and a very clean match in my opinion.

 

- The Danny Watts promo. Very interesting. I have to say, initially I was questioning the dialogue here, but I think I got it after re-reading it once. His speech patterns are very unique and I don't think it's awkward writing, I believe it's a design choice for the character. Not Jittery per se, but kinda vintage early Golddust in the way that he affirms his own statements. I dig it.

 

- Bray and Mark Reese was not the shit show I expected. See Aries post on page one for details.

 

- Good exposure for the Experience. I see the writing skills of Sparks and Asher is improving, which is an overall improvement on the reading experience. I still hate the past tense stuff, but it's fine. Following up on things instead of having one-offs is good too. Kinda interested in who is knocking out rookies backstage.

 

- Another one-off from Benji. Interesting content none-the-less. Hopefully we'll see more from him other than when he's booked now that he's in contention for the International title. Continuing to bring the twins is a fun wrinkle to his gimmick as well.

 

- More strange ominous promos from this weird tycoon that overlooks Turmoil. I guess he has another spy with this woman on the voicemail?

 

- Benji vs TJ Stephens ahead of his match for the title. This one ran a bit longer than I expected, but actually didn't hate it. Still bummed to see Benji choosing to keep fists as a "get out of major" free card when everyone else has since dumped yellow paybacks. It's not technically illegal til R2G though, so /shrug.

 

- Holy shit. Shep is pissing on Cort's fathers grave. That ratched up like 40 notches from Shep being absent the last few weeks. God damn I knew I missed this feud but I didn't realize what a Big Boss Man Shep was going to be!

 

- 22 minutes of no-selling fins later and we have a competitive but exhausting match. There was admittedly a lot on the line, so I get it. A lot of fin reversals too! How is the despondent Code gonna bounce back from this one?

 

- Ohhh snap. The Scum of the show come out in a big way. Mistico playing threatening, yet lesser to Wrex as I imagine he walks out like the final boss or some shit. B17 has really done a great job showing us his more serious side over the last few months.

 

- Nice subtle reference to Terra at the start of this Dragana RP, not even mentioning the story, but continuing to plant the seeds (see I just did it too). Unfortunate way to write off Ace... maybe? Dragana kept the box. Oh heavens me.

 

- This was low-key a fantastic Main Event to watch. It really was a brawl with the only "grappling" moves being HIGH impact suplexes and slams. Mostly striking and very limited fucking around with spacing with these two. Palatable and fun to commentate, fun to watch. Reminded me of a Wrex/Trance match a bit with all the striking.

 

Rust Cohle showing his strength ahead of his handicap match.

 

Not the best Turmoil I've ever seen, but as always, being a biased mark, I enjoyed reading it.

 

MOTN: Cohle vs Lee

 

RPOTN: None of them really blew me out of my chair, but I was most interested in all of the changing dynamics from Ashley Moore and Empress... Who desperately need a team name. The skirt of Ashley in the tag match...

 

Dress 2 Empress anyone?

 

...okay, I'm done now.

[Justin Jehst]

Just some random thoughts in no particular order:

 

- Was good to be approached by someone to RP after putting the feelers out. Thanks, Nick. Sometimes I think people are either scared to approach me or don't want to work with me. Maybe it's because I'm not cliq'd up with people in any circles, I dunno. Lone wolf baybay. But my door is always open for RP's, just DM me on Discord.

 

- Good to see TY and Asher putting RP's up, even if they're still using that god awful "would" shit. I wanna see where this beatdown story ends up.

 

- Was great to see a lot of tag team offense in the womens match and both teams seemed to gel really nicely in the ring. I still think Terra/Aerith deserved to win that one, but it certainly helps Empley's momentum going into RtG.

 

- "Bray and Mark Reese was not the shit show I expected" - totally agree with this, I didn't see anything really that different to a usual match on Turmoil. I don't know enough about what happened afterwards but match-wise it seemed fine so *shrug*.

 

- I wish Benji would RP more cos I find his Jamaican pimp gimmick entertaining and he's decent on the sticks as well; pity he got knocked out by TJ Stevens (who looked great btw, I like the CAW, Jaime). If he can bounce back and stay in that title picture that'd be great for him. Also, I agree with Jake - boo on the yellow payback, especially because your opponent isn't using any.

 

- Who is this damn mystery person? I hope we find out on RtG. If we don't perhaps they're saving a reveal for Lution?

 

- Shep promo was unexpected and gave major heel heat, holy shit! The pissing on the grave was just the nail in the coffin. Still bitter about Cort Marshall; will this eventually come to a head at Lution perhaps? Or will Shep just take his anger out on whoever is unlucky enough to step into the ring with him?

 

- Can we change the rule to be 3 fins total rather than 3 consecutive? Cos honestly I feel this one could have been over a lot sooner. Like Jake I understand it was for a tournament but c'mon, you take 3 fins you stay down, at least that's how I think it should be. Grats to TLBS either way.

 

- Who's challenging Mistico/Fury for those Tag Titles? Haven't seen anyone on the Turmoil mens roster recently banding together to try and take those straps away or build themselves up as a tag team. It'll be a dead division if no-one takes that leap. Plenty of opportunity to RP and get something going.

 

- Liked the ME a lot, like Jake said, the pacing was great, the FPR was clean (even the crapple slap from Rust was nullified by him realising and letting Lee smack him up; honor), and the finisher kickouts made it a tight fight for the win. This was a great "no-thirst" ME - the flavor pins after the fin kickouts, no in-n-out spacing - forward movement all the way. Props to both guys, hell of an ME.