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Old 02-24-2017, 10:55 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by #BrotherVito DELETED View Post
For somebody who by his own admission has enjoyed very little of the product since 2008 and only seems to watch in small spurts now, he sure bitches about it a lot.
I think maybe that's the problem.

When I stopped really watching the product between September 2015 and May 2016, I found myself really disliking it and I was so close to stopping all together.

I only watched Raw sporadically and when I did, I would skip pretty much the entire show. Eventually, I just stopped watching Raw completely and just watched PPV's, still skipping past most of the events.

I didn't like the majority of the new talent (or what was new to me at the time), the angles, the decisions that were being made, I found Raw to be terrible and SmackDown to be "Raw V2" and a whole lot of other stupid stuff.

Luckily for me though, the Brand Split was happening soon, and that gave me the opportunity of a "fresh start" so to speak.

Beginning then, I watched both Raw and SmackDown with open minds and I let things develop. New talent arrived and even though I didn't like most at first, I still gave them the chance to win me over and over time, it worked. For example, like I said in the SmackDown thread and others before it, I really didn't like Alexa Bliss at first but I kept watching her and she won me over.

I think the reason I didn't like what I was watching before was because I wasn't invested in the product. I wasn't watching because I really wanted to, I was watching because I felt I needed to. It was just a habit. I wasn't following angles and watching other matches and because I wasn't following them, I was lost and I had no idea what was going on and things didn't make sense and because of that, I thought it was because the product was shit.

It also really didn't help things that a little bit of me was watching with my nostalgia glasses on.

Now, I enjoy SmackDown more than Raw, I very rarely skip things but when I do, it's pretty much just the Cruiserweight matches, as after giving the division around five months to win me over, I just knew it wasn't clicking for me.

So I think in order to enjoy the product, investment is needed. You're not going to really enjoy the product if you just watch sporadically.
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