My SPOILER FILLED!!!!!!!!!! First Impressions Of Heels

 

Wrestling fans we are now finally living in a world were the world and the sport of professional wrestling is being treated as seriously as we professional wrestling take it and well there's a new TV drama series out that's about professional wrestling and as such you just knew. That I have to at the very least check out the first episode and so here are my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the professional wrestling drama that is sure to please alot of die hard professional wrestling fans with the tv series in question being called simply just "Heels" enjoy.

The plot of this very episode is is small town wrestling promoter Jack Spade has to deal with his egotistical younger brother and star of Jack's small town wrestling promotion Ace Spade but things are made much worse when Jack's younger brother is offered the chance to possibly head to the big time in the world of professional wrestling. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the plot of this episode in all honesty I in all honesty thought thought that the plot of this first episode was OK since it des a very good job of setting up alot of if not all of this shows main cast of characters but at the same time I also thought / felt that the plot of this episode was also fairly weak at best with the main conflict ofthe episode not being introduced until fairly late into the episodes running time.

Starring in this episode is Stephen Amell as Jack Spade , Alexander Ludwig as Ace Spade and Alison Luff as Staci Spade. Also starring in this episode is Mary McCormack as Willie Day , Kelli Berglund as Crystal Tyler , Allen Maldonado as Rooster Robbins , James Harrison as Apocalypse , Chris Bauer as Wild Bill Hancock , Trey Tucker as Bobby Pin , Alice Barrett as Carol Spade , Roxton Garcia as Thomas Spade and Duke Davis Roberts as Big Jim Kitchen.

Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular episode in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular was really shockingly really good. I know that I sound surprised that this show had good acting that's only because that nine times out of ten whenever a TV show is made about professional wrestling the acting isn't that good and so it's good to see that this show or at the very least this very / particular episode has some good acting within it.

Now then as with both the professional wrestling film Fighting With My Family and the TV series comedy biopic Young Rock this TV series / TV show seems to have alot of love and respect for the world of professional wrestling and this is is something that as a professional wrestling fan makes me very happy. Since it would have been very freaking easy to have this show just a few references to professional wrestling and nothing more then that but nope this episode at least takes the time to describing what certain wrestling terminology means and this episode actually takes the time to fully explore what happens when the wrestling show has ended and when the next wrestling show is about to begin and that right there shows that the makers of this show have a tremendous amount of respect for the world of professional wrestling and for professional wrestling a s whole in my opinion anyways / at least.

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Now then I was expecting there to be at the very least like two or but there are so many references to the world of professional wrestling in this one episode alone. Like for example during a brief thirty second video package we see what I think is TNA Impact Wrestling along with Abyss and heck even the style in which that video package in question is done is done very much in the style of the XWF hosting / host segments.

While I personally did enjoy alot of the references to the wider professional wrestling there's one certain company which gets alot of love in this episode and it's the WWE / WWF. Now then even tho they don't outright mention the WWE / WWF at all when they mention a company up north is looking to sign Ace and thus send Ace down to developmental it's pretty freaking clear which professional company that there are talking about and they straight up mention both Vince McMahon and WCW by name I personally don't really see alot of non wrestling fans understanding are even getting alot of the much more wider refences to the much more wider world of professional wrestling in my opinion anyways / at least.

I honestly wasn't expecting the ending of this episode to pretty much be the now very infamous Montreal screwjob since everything that lead up until that point didn't point to that ending. Heck since Jack was busy trying to think of an ending to his match with his brother Ace I came up with a pretty solid ending which is Ace's valet Crystal costs Ace the match and thus she can now turn heel and she can now possibly be allowed to compete in the ring full time it's a literal win win situation and surprised that no one else even suggested that ending as being a possibility.

Now then what I personally found to be rather interest is the role reversal between Jack and Ace's fictionalized versions of themselves and the real life version of both Jack and Ace. Since in the world of professional wrestling Jack is the heel and Ace is the face (heel=bad guy and face=good guy for those of you who aren't professional wrestling fans.) and yet in real life outside of the world of professional wrestling Ace is kind of a bad guy and Jack is kind of a good guy. This was something that I personally found to be rather interesting because it was something that I honestly didn't expect to be a thing that's in this / apart of this very / particular show but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways / at least.

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Now then incase your wondering why this post is out early (i'm writing this post very early on the Sunday evening) well it's simply because Starz released this episode online a day early and once things get released online early it's only a matter of time before it ends up on some ahem "other methods" type of viewing websites if you catch my drift and well. It's using those exact same "other methods" types of websites I personally was able to view this very / particular episode but that doesn't mean that I condone using the methods that I used to view episode since i'm a very strong believer of if you can watch it legally then you should most defiantly watch this episode or any film or TV show / episode of any TV show legally but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now then this very / particular episode has / had a grand total running time of exactly one hour and two minuets and thirty eight seconds and while this episode had more then enough there story wise / plot wise to cover that running time. I will also very freely freaking admit that this episode does get bogged down quite a bit in the shows second act this is simply because at that point in the episode there's still no hint of what the plot of the episode is and so all your left doing is watching these newly introduced characters just go about there day and just living their very mundane lives which isn't entertaining in the slightest bit in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then since this show is a dram show after all that means that I have to actually talk about the actual drama that's featured / presented to us in his very very / actual / particular episode and well in my honest opinion I in all honesty think / feel that the drama that's featured / presented to us in this very / actual / particular episode was really good. Yes it's the best drama since the main drama of this episode only gets introduced very freaking late into this episode but what little drama we do get in this episode was handled very freaking well in my opinion anyways / at least.

Overall this was in all honesty a really freaking good debut episode and I in all honesty cannot wait to see what comes next from this show heck just the ending of this first episode got me excited to go and see episode two because that's how good of a first episode that this first episode well and truly was in my opinion anyways. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this episode in this post and since this only my first impressions I as will not be giving you a rating for this show or for this episode as one good doesn't mean that the rest of the show will be any good.

Now then as for where I got all of the images that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the image that I personally used in this very review from the Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page , the official Young Rock fandom wiki page , the official Heels fandom wiki page and the official Heels fandom wiki page. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this episode being Google Images this is simply because the official Heels fandom wiki page actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on the official Heels fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition.

WWE / WWF Raw Is War April 2nd 2001 Review

 

Ladies and gentlemen and wrestling fans alike every single wrestling fan who is worth their salt will tell you that the first Monday Night Raw after Wrestlemania. Is always something that's not only truly special but the first episode of Monday Night Raw after Wrestlemania is also something that is to be watched to be believed and so join me as I review the April 2nd 2001 episode of the flagship show of the the WWE / WWF with the show in question being called simply just "Raw" enjoy.

Now then of course the main storyline for this episode of the show is the formation of The Two Man Powertrip and if i'm going to be honest here people I really did like how this episode of the show. Dealt with that storyline since they spend most of the episode building up the fact that Triple H could possibly be turning face since both he Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin are deadly rivals and yet they pull a last minuet plot twist which while it doesn't necessarily make sense for the character of Triple H it is still an interesting plot twist in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then the se/ stage / stage set for this era of Raw is perhaps one of the most iconic sets that Raw has ever had in my opinion anyways / at least. This is also the stage /set that I personally grew up with / watching and it is in all honesty a set that holds up really well since it still looks really good twenty years later and in all honesty it's a set that I in all honesty cannot find any single fault with because it's that good of a set in my opinion anyways / at least.

There is in all honesty nothing more that I can say about this set that probably alot more people have already said. Since this set is that iconic altho I will admit that I don't really see any point in incorporating the TNN logo into the top of the set since you can barely see it anyways and so from a promotional standpoint it makes no sense in having it being featured so prominently at the top of this set in my opinion anyways / at least. 

Now then this episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw was the first episode of Monday Night Raw to be held post Wrestlemania Seventeen and as such a huge portion of this episodes running time was spent with the commentators wondering why Stone Cold Steve Austin shook hands with his arch rival Vince McMahon and well sadly we don't get an answer to that question in this episode. Which is a shame because it could have made for a really cool plot twist with / in Stone Cold Steve Austin's plot line Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

Now then for some dumb and rather strange reason instead of having Trish Stratus vs Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley end in a no contest. Which really shouldn't be the case at all since this match is a nothing match it's a strap match so you could very easily have a winner and loser in this match and thus having this match end in a no contest projects nobody because neither woman is that well established at this point in their wrestling careers and so it was honestly pointless having this match end in a contest in my opinion anyways / at least.

Also being pointless is the very fact that we even had a strap match since both the strap match match and the Rhyno vs Crash Holly match are literal pee break matches. Altho the Rhyno vs Crash Holly match does help further the fact that Rhyno is just this unstoppable wrestling machine and so having that match be as short as it is oddly makes sense in that regard but at the same when you have to matches back to back which are / that are basically just pee break matches and noting more then that it makes your overall product seem fairly bad but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways / at least. 

Now then having your opening promo be at the very least fifteen to twenty minuets long isn't a bad thing if your episode / show has at the very least a two plus hour running time. Which sadly isn't the case for this episode and as such having the opening promo at the very least be fifteen to twenty minuets long doesn't work as it only takes up time that could and more importantly should have been given to other matches or to other segments but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways ' at least.

Now then this very / particular episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw has / had a grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty seven minuets and thirty six seconds and well given how long the opening promo for this show is I really do feel like / that this very / particular episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw should have been a little or even alot longer. This is simply because that there are alot of matches that are this particular / very episodes match card that could or even for that matter should have been alot longer then what they actually were / ended up being in my opinion anyways / at least. 

Now then since this is a wrestling show after all that does infact mean that there infact some actual wrestling matches that are to be found on this wrestling show and so that means that I have to actually talk about the actual wrestling matches that are featured /presented to us on this particular / very wrestling show and if i'm being honest apart from the strap match the wrestling matches that are / featured / presented to us on this particular / very wrestling show are indeed fairly decent at best. This is simply just because alot of the wrestling that are on this show just simply aren't given enough time which is a shame because one of those matches which isn't given more then enough time is the main event which is The Rock vs Stone Cold Steven Austin inside of a steel cage and is for the WWF Championship this match should have been at the vert least twenty to thirty minuets long since both. The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin can more then keep audiences attention for that long of period of time but instead the match is over and done with in ten minuets which means that things get rushed and thus match should have been great is at best ok in my opinion anyways / at least.

Overall this wasn't a bad post Wrestlemania Raw but at the same time it's also not a good post Raw Wrestlemania either since there are alot of things that bog this episode down and all of those things could have been and more importantly should have been better if this episode was at the very least two hours long in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are featured / presented to us in this particular / very episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw and as such this episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw erns a grand total score of an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I got all of the image that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Google Images , the official Heels fandom wiki page and the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this episode being Google Images this is simply because Google Images actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition.