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Saying someone COULD become viable is kind of worthless. I know it's more or less the point of the thread, but you talk about this company as though it's not the same one that couldn't be arsed to make its progamming watchable until after they lost their FSN deal. The problem is, you gotta hook 'em with the kind of strong programming they've been lacking. Yeah, some of the webcast shit I saw was an improvement, but I was barely interested and I'm one of those pathetic smarks who'll watch pretty much anything. I'm not really the market they have to sell to, and even I'm going..."meh."
Yeah, they've got great talent and great potential, but they're also more vanilla, with less of the colorful personas and the soap opera bullshit that brings in the casual fans. This can't be built on pure wrestling to attract more than like net fans. The upside to this is that they shouldn't have any problem getting the 0.5 rating they need to stay afloat., The downside is they were bleeding money before, this won't change things.
As negative as I sound, I want them to succeed. I WANT someone to make the WWE worried. It's just not going to happen at thsi rate, and it would take less than a possibility...We're looking at "Jarrett Parting the Red Seas" or better. Well, maybe Christopher Daniels "rain of frogs" would work. Still, miracle level.
That being said, I reserve judgement on how serious they are until they hit Spike. If they can pull it off there, I will give the props they deserve. But even then, they've got a long way to go even to get to "fair share," let alone competition.
IF they can pull in single digits in that timeslot though, I'll be fucking ecstatic.
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