I've been making my way through 96 WCW and when I check your reviews of the ppvs, they seem incongruous with the crowds that are absolutely molten for everything involving the nWo. In retrospect, is this due to not having access to Nitro, which you really needed to watch to witness the build for all of these matches, to get the emotion behind it and feel the importance?
Secondly, I just watched the Nitro episode after Fall Brawl and Sting gives this super emotional fired up promo about how people doubted him and they were wrong and he feels betrayed and they can stick it. The audio of the promo makes it seem absolutely amazing. One problem. HE HAS HIS BACK TO THE HARD CAMERA THE WHOLE TIME! It makes it super distracting and really kills it. Say what you will about the WWE method of hammering home working for TV, but in this case they are 100% right and that would never happen under Vince. He'd be screaming in 2 seconds for someone to tell him to turn around. It also isn't an accident that this is the first episode without Mean Gene who really anchored a lot of those promos/interviews in WCW. His work is really underrated.
Anyway, 96 Nitros are great, even if you have to put up with Blue Light Special Glacier matches with Eazy E going into minute detail on each kick and the techniques behind them.
Not sure where you're coming from there. i thought at the time that Bash 96 and BATB 96 were two of the greatest PPVs of all time and I still do. Was there some other fantastic shows they did in 96 that I'm missing?