11 Wrestling Easter Eggs You Totally Didn't Notice
2. Kenny Omega Reveals His Own Plan In Plain Sight
Episodic weekly television isn't meant to be as exceptional as this. One week is meant to inform the next. That's how the model is meant to function. Under AEW's advancement of the form, one week is retrospectively enriched when taking into accounts the events that followed.
Consider Kenny Omega's sit-down interview with Tony Schiavone on the November 4 Dynamite.
It's a nice, wholesome scene by clinical design. Kenny Omega is maintaining the pretence that he's a good and fair guy, what with his collected talk of entering "singles competition" and his refusal to outright turn on or bury former partner Hangman Page. The audience knows something is up - Omega is fabulously disingenuous - but they've no idea what. Schiavone showed his enormous value here. The beloved announcer played with Omega's dog.
"I have a confession," Omega said. "This isn't even my dog, it's not even my home."
This was genius. Nobody probed this and Omega knew nobody would probe this because he delivered the line in the same irreverent manner consistent with his personality. It was, as shown by the picture in shot, the home of Don Callis.
Callis himself called Omega's superb match with Hangman Page at Full Gear, as he often did in New Japan, in what was viewed as simply another additional presentational touch crafted to get over the notion that Omega was "a star" "now". The messaging effectively obscured the secret storyline. This was incredible.
This was something more than a mere easter egg buried for the most attentive to find, though literally nobody did: it made the Winter Is Coming swerve coherent, and put Omega over as an arch mastermind. This, in turn, puts over his in-ring performances. A star so intelligent is hardly going to lose that AEW World Title any time soon.
Remember when people said Kenny Omega wouldn't "get" TV wrestling?
Jesus wept.