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Originally Posted by Xero Limit 126
They'll never be able to replicate it, just like they'll never be able to replicate the 80's WrestleMania era. It was a new style and they had huge stars. Essentially we're still in the Attitude era's style, it's just gotten stale and they have less star power.
They'll need to do something new to have anything the size of the Attitude era again.
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I think this is spot on.
They've TRIED to do the things they did back in the late 90's that sparked such huge ratings. They've tried numerous times. John Cena's war with Bischoff over his WWE Championship (shortly after his draft from SD) mirrors that war between Stone Cold and Vince McMahon. They tried with DX against the McMahons, and that didn't work either, because it's not the same, and it's all been seen a million times and done over a million times again.
They tried to do the edginess of DX again, despite HBK's resistance to participate. But the jokes are tired. The horse is dead and its been beaten. And their shit just is not funny anymore.
They can't do anything over again that they did before. They have to find a new thread that burns with the fans and follow that thread through, week after week. Their problem is they have these set ideas of "what the fans want," but it's more along the lines of "what the fans WANTED." They don't know what we want anymore. Until they figure it out, we will not see a spike in the ratings or a turn around in the shitty story writing that we're experiencing now.