11 Ups & 0 Downs From AEW Dynamite (Mar 31)
10. Women's Roster Benefits From Shared Universe
Jade Cargill cut a very decent pre-tape promo early in the night.
The pauses are gone. The visible line recall is gone. She's a far more confident and aggressive presence just months after her first exposure to national television.
"There are too many factions in AEW!"
Bullsh*t.
You can never form too many connections because AEW's trademark storytelling vehicle - in addition to preserving the biggest PPV matches and creating endless permutations on TV - underscores characteristics without horrendous exposition.
Michael Cole saying "I spoke to Red Velvet earlier today, and she told me that she values loyalty."
OR
Red Velvet demonstrating loyalty by appealing to QT Marshall to save the man who believed in her? This neat, immersive continuity made Jade Cargill - who subsequently attacked Red Velvet backstage in a lowkey brutal scene - look even more of a heel.
Across two dovetailing segments - nothing simply exists in itself as a contrived, obviously written thing - the Jade Cargill Vs. Red Velvet storyline was deftly advanced.