Loss Posted January 2, 2013 Report Share Posted January 2, 2013 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted May 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Elizabeth does an understated, classy appeal to Jack Tunney to reinstate Randy Savage as the crowd goes crazy with the "Reinstate!" chant. Great stuff building up excitement for Savage's return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenjo Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 I can't help thinking that this might have been done slightly differently in the Attitude Era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted May 11, 2013 Report Share Posted May 11, 2013 I shudder to think how trashy they could have really made it then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 I was totally looking through my sleazy Attitude Era glasses on this one and seeing more than what was really going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 As good as she was used throughout her WWF stint and as over as she was, I generally think Liz is a horrible performer. She got over by proxy from Randy, by looking good, and being a one-of-a-kind presence simply by virtue of being a petite good-looking woman. That said, she's tolerable in measured, pre-taped settings like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 This is one of Liz's better acting jobs as she pleads with Tunney for Savage's reinstatement. I love the interaction between Piper and Randy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 Sorry, but this didn't work for me. Classy, demure Liz just wasn't enough under these circumstances. I'm not saying she should have been screaming and swearing, but a little anger might have helped. Even giving her Randy's line at the end about Tunney being no more of a man than Jake if he turned down Randy's reinstatement would have been enough of a shock to let everyone know that she meant business, dammit. As it was, Randy said it better than she did in about one-eighth of the time. I'm not sure if Liz was a bad performer, as Pete said, or if the confines of the Miss Elizabeth character just didn't allow her to reach her potential as a performer. (By the way, why do they still refer to her as "Miss Elizabeth" when she's married on-screen? For that matter, why did they start in the first place? It's not like she was playing a classic Southern belle, the type of woman whom you might refer to in that way.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted October 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 Liz was originally envisioned to be a cunning and manipulative woman in the mold of the show Dallas, similar to how Woman was later portrayed. They soon decided that presenting her as the demure one as a contrast to Savage being such a loose cannon was a better dynamic. Anyway, I think the name "Miss Elizabeth" was left over from the original plans for how to present her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I knew about Liz being originally presented as a schemer, but I've never heard about the "Miss Elizabeth" name being part of it, even as a theory. It makes sense, though, considering that the patriarch of the Ewing family was Miss Ellie. Given Vince's penchant for direct steals and bad puns, we should be grateful that she wasn't called Miss Smelly or Miss Jelly. Thanks, Loss! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 I thought Liz did well enough with this. She wasn't supposed to be dynamic or anything over-the-top. She was just a woman pleading with her husband's boss to let him do something we all want to see him do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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