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I also don't mean to come off as disrespectful to anyone, not that it really matters if I do, I just find a big hole in the things people say in justification that everyone should be satisfied with the Attitude Era being over. There isn't any disconnect with reality here, we all know it's over. It is not just simple bitterness about that so much as being surprised at how low expectations have plunged. This is also because a few people have even gone as far as to call nostalgic folk idiots for praising Attitude over what's going on today years later. I happen to think the opposite, that you have to be an idiot to think it's even close.
I could stop watching wrestling if I didn't like it, and I did for a few years. I got made fun of for sticking around because of Bret Hart, which was around when I got back into it. I understand that Bret can no longer wrestle.
But being ridiculed for watching because of Hart is just as confusing to me as people apologetically defending what is usually not even half as good as a little over ten years ago.
Bret Hart almost invariably had excellent matches. Today, a lot almost invariably have lackluster to bad matches.
Peh. I dunno. I'm still going to call a shitty match shitty. I'll hope for the good stuff to keep coming. But I won't embrace the notion that because the Attitude Era is over that you should just sit back and "enjoy" the parts that suck. I don't care who is doing their best, or whatever.
The truth is, if changes were made, the ratings would be a lot higher than they are now.
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