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Originally Posted by Tom Guycott Everyone was so eager to jump on the sarcasm express and shit all over the poster, that it seems most of you missed the point AEF was trying to make. Season 1 of Tough Enough was, for all intents and purposes, a "reality" show. They found flat out nobodies and turned them into superstars overnight... if you recall, Maven got a lot of shit and resentment for winning a job "overnight" most guys in the 'E at the time worked the better part of a decade or more to get. Season 2 and foward sought to eliminate some of the preliminary "dead weight" (and some of the backstage resentment) by asking participants to actually HAVE a wrestling background, but still, it was moving towards a shot at working WWE, which none of them did. What Mr. Fan was trying to say, though not so elegantly, was that now, it's pretty much a joke- an angle. Not only are the guys in the "competition" ALREADY more or less under contract with the company via FCW, but that it seemed that this guy was already given the keys to the kingdom before the first episode was even in the can. It's not so much the "GASP! IT'S SCRIPTED?!" reaction, it's the fact that Tough Enough, like NXT, the whole production is a total angle from start to finish designed to do the work that vignettes for debuting wrestlers used to. (Example, NXT 1 was merely a tool to set up all those guys for the Nexus angle... didn't truly matter that Barrett "won", they all got called up anyway.) A far cry from the original show. They could essentially just eliminate all this "stupidity" and fabricated "contests" simply by televising FCW.

Seems that you are missing the point about TAEFan coming in periodically only for us to neg rep him and make us feel good about it.