Thread: When wrestling "Jumps The Shark"
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Old 08-28-2011, 07:30 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by CSL View Post
if you're going to use examples like those with Vince, professional wrestling jumps the shark every week, I know some people like to make themselves feel better about what they're watching/like to think they should be aiming for the same standard as The Wire or something but that's ridiculous, it's usually the most ridiculous, over the top stuff that's the most entertaining (see: Bedpan McMahon, Eric Bischoff's mime selling when Sting showed up in a helicopter, Batista's overselling, R-Truth and Miz this week and so on) and some (well, quite a bit) of it simply falls flat. Now if we're talking about stuff that isn't so much "character based" and is straight up preposterous, it has to be stuff like Robocop, Rick Steiner vs. Chucky and so on
There can be really bad angles and they don't "jump the shark". Jumping the shark is the start of a really bad downward trend for a character, angle, etc. They can recover from it, but there has to be a pretty lengthy time, IMO, where it's just pretty bad overall to be considered "jumping the shark". And that's a point where I see the Mr. McMahon character beginning to be really shitty for pretty much years on end.
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