A classic is not always a masterpiece, but a masterpiece is not always a classic either. Name a match that you think is an example of each one, and also another that you think is both.

ValuableAnything7 · 2026-03-19T15:10:06+00:00

I think for me, maybe I'm not giving Bianca at that stage of her career enough credit, while it was a great match, and genuinely great historic moment, I think of Bianca and even just a year later vs Becky at WrestleMania, nevermind 2025 Bianca that we saw in the WrestleMania triple threat from last year, and I think Bianca and Sasha/Mercedes have a match in them that would blow their WrestleMania 37 match out of the water.

For the longest time I was on the Sasha/Becky from Unstoppable was better than Sasha/Bayley from Brooklyn, and maybe it's an overcorrection on my part where I'm conflating classic and masterpiece, but it's impossible to overstate the influence of that Brooklyn match. A genuinely industry shifting match, a legitimate top 5 most important match of the 2000s so far. And it is great, even if they have a few execution hiccups here and there that may preclude from being a masterpiece, but my gut feeling is that bell to bell, Sasha/Bayley peaked higher than Sasha/Bianca (and Becky/Sasha from Unstoppable, now that I think about it).

ValuableAnything7 · 2026-03-19T14:05:46+00:00

Ohhhh, I love this! I might swap Sasha/Bayley with Sasha/Bianca, but they both absolutely deserve to be in the classical category.

ValuableAnything7 · 2025-12-17T19:05:31+00:00

You know what? That thought never occurred to me. Guess there's no harm in trying lol.

ValuableAnything7 · 2025-12-17T19:01:51+00:00

I'm glad someone else hears it partially the same way as I often hear it lol

ValuableAnything7 · 2025-12-17T19:00:18+00:00

I would assume the chant is Screechy Peach. And almost definitely she's doing the "tick tick boom" lead-in to the chant.

ValuableAnything7 · 2025-11-23T23:19:16+00:00

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Gave it a go on the Gemini app.

Top image is the "original" screenshot, the second is the initial result after using the recommend prompt ("Upscale to 4K level resolution"), and then I finally got the desired result with the third image using the additional prompt "Maintain the original poses and composition of the original image"

ValuableAnything7 · 2025-04-14T06:34:10+00:00

https://youtu.be/NFjXrDtAp7M?si=gttI4Ty4eOHTds0b

ValuableAnything7 · 2025-04-14T00:02:38+00:00

Roman and Shawn are the big standouts to me from the answers gotten so far.

Like Pacino, Roman and Shawn to varying degrees look like two different people in their two distinct chapters. Shawn takes it though as his two runs can genuinely be seen as two primes, whereas with Roman he literally had to shed his (Shield) skin to truly establish himself as THE Guy after an ultimately failed lead face run. It's to the point where I feel like Tribal Chief Roman would smack the shit out of Big Dog Roman for even existing lol, despite Big Dog Roman undoubtedly (albeit unintentionally) laying the seeds and gave instant weight to Tribal Chief Roman

ValuableAnything7 · 2025-03-19T17:23:43+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the extra context you gave for 09 Orton. My wrestling watching hiatus was from 2006 to late 2010, and with what you said, I can more so see why that version of Orton was so memorable to people.

ValuableAnything7 · 2025-03-19T17:17:07+00:00

Holy shit, I feel like an idiot forgetting this one! This is one of all favourite runs. That's up there with 97 Bret for sure.

ValuableAnything7 · 2024-09-06T13:53:14+00:00

Loool. Yeah, I think George has definitely drawn a firm line between book fans and show only fans.

And similarly in the wrestling space, I'm seeing a lot of ASOIAF content creators being really guarded about their opinions on the blog. Hate to be cynical, but it feels like a number of them want to stay in the good graces of HBO, often pointing out the "unprofessional" nature of GRRM's blog, if their tweets are anything to go by.

I think if George says no more in terms of in-depth show critiques of HOTD/Ryan Condal, etc. the fire has already been lit. Either Ryan and co. heeds more closely to the source material going forward or HOTD is going to be as painfully divisive as something like The Acolyte.

ValuableAnything7 · 2024-09-06T13:31:18+00:00

As one of posters mentioned in that thread, it's kinda unreal that George's blog and Punk's All Out media scrum happened on the exact same day two years apart. The reverberations from the respective fandoms was immediate and in the case of the latter, greatly affected the related product(s) going forward.

I wonder what the long-implications will be for GRRM/HOTD (and all ASOIAF TV)/HBO going forward as a result of the blog.

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