It doesn’t much matter, it is a huge night for FWD. (Does the Condamned only travel by zip line? If so, I love it.) The lights go out, and when they come back, Jack and the Condamned are gone. But, as the rest of the FWD surrounds Jack, the Condamned flies in on his trusty zip line. ![]() Gully, too, finally gets to land a punch on Jack’s face. Alas, it is all a ploy to get Jack in the ring - Crystal has betrayed him! She slams him with a chair and signs the contract with Gully. That’s when Jack swoops in to show just how loyal the members of the DWL are to one another. By the time she’s yelling DWL for life, the rest of Dystopia has entered the ring to back up their boss. And by “pretty much,” I mean she smacks him in the face. Crystal goes on and on about how the Spade brothers gave her a home and have supported her and pretty much tells Gully to go to hell. Here’s how it goes down: After Crystal’s Dystopia opponent ditches her in the ring, Gully shows up to make Crystal Tyler an offer she can’t refuse: He wants her to ditch the Spade brothers, accept a major signing bonus, and join Dystopia. Seriously, did you see that guy? He is so into it. In the end, we are all Brooks Rizzo, staring up at the ring completely enthralled with the story playing out in front of us. But the last ten minutes of this episode are so much fun and can only be pulled off if we’re in the dark, so I get it. If this Brooks Rizzo guy is impressed by what he sees, it could change the game for Gully and Dystopia.Īt first, I was a little torn over Heels, a show that is supposed to be a behind-the-scenes look at professional wrestling, not giving us any behind-the-scenes as to how this main event is pulled off and instead just plopping us right into it as if we were audience members at Dystopia. And it must really be something, since Gully goes along with it knowing that a rep from Continuum, a streaming site and social-media app, is coming to scope out Dystopia to possibly put them on their service. Thankfully, part of Jack Spade 2.0 includes listening to ideas from other people, and after a little brainstorming session with Ace, Bill, and Willie, they apparently have something spectacular to offer Gully. Both Spade brothers are trying to be better people, and it is nice to see that they seem to really mean it when they say they want things to be different from now on.Īll of this is to say: Jack needs to come up with a plan that somehow makes everyone happy. I’d argue that the only reason Jack had the opportunity and motive to smash Gully in the face was because Ace was being a real baby about stuff, but no one cares what I think. He doesn’t care that they are still building that character or that he’s supposed to be a “slow burn.” When it comes down to it, Ace is willing to give Gully what he wants and wrestle Rooster at Dystopia for the good of the DWL, but Jack knows he is the one who punched Gully and Ace shouldn’t have to be the only person making sacrifices around here. ![]() ![]() It certainly doesn’t help matters that immediately following the Condamned’s big entrance in the middle of what was supposed to be Rooster and the Hole’s invasion of the DWL ring, Gully demands that Jack make the Condamned perform in the cross-promotion. Jack Spade is the Nicole Kidman AMC Theater Speech of Independent Wrestling Promotions - I say that as a compliment, mostly - and he’s not going to give that up for this barbed-wire-loving bully. The ridiculous name only makes Gully more livid that Jack and Ace went rogue for the kickoff of the DWL and FWD cross-promotion - “My top guys got beat up by a non-word” - and from the outset it looks like the Spade brothers are going to have to pull out a few tricks if they want to both appease Gully (who keeps waving that lawsuit over their heads) and keep the story and characters they’ve built intact. No one understands why Ace is the Condamned, not Condemned, and that includes my autocorrect. One of the reasons I love Heels is because it is a show unafraid to introduce a new gimmick that is clearly meaningful to one of its characters, that is clearly meant to be taken somewhat seriously, and then spend an entire scene just gleefully ripping on that gimmick.
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