Once again, Foley is god

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by RVDmark At the time, the angle was perfect, I'm not really sure why people think it was in poor taste. To be fair, an exploding limo isn't exactly original either.

With the commonality of death in wrestling, and the fact that two deaths followed this angle pretty closely, I think that kind of speaks for itself.

I know people say "Vince couldn't have predicted the future," But within minutes of the limo blowing up, people were already predicting a wrestling death would end it. Why? Because deaths in pro wrestling are about as hard to predict as a full moon.

So, yeah. If you can't think of a single reason people might think it was in poor taste....

[RVDmark]

Originally Posted by Kane Knight With the commonality of death in wrestling, and the fact that two deaths followed this angle pretty closely, I think that kind of speaks for itself. I know people say "Vince couldn't have predicted the future," But within minutes of the limo blowing up, people were already predicting a wrestling death would end it. Why? Because deaths in pro wrestling are about as hard to predict as a full moon. So, yeah. If you can't think of a single reason people might think it was in poor taste....

So its now poor taste to do a death angle on the off-chance that someone might die soon after? If it was the other way round and Benoit (or anyone) had died the week before the limo explosion then yes I agree it would haven been extremely poor taste.

Not only that but whilst there are comparitivley more deaths related to wrestling than the average, but theres an awful lot of people involved in wrestling these days. Everyone's going to die one day, me, you, everyone on this board, unfortunately punctuated by the recent untimely loss of Pepsiman (R.I.P).

If The Rock was found dead tomorrow, would that be classed as a wrestling related death? For many years he was the industry's top performer (or one of a few at the very top anyway).

You say that predicting deaths in wrestling isn't hard, can you point to one post here that predicted Benoit was even likely to be next?

Also its not like any of the deaths in wrestling have been limousine or bomb related (AFAIK). Its a storyline, please can the world learn how to seperate fiction from reality, death happens, its not nice, but it does.

[Hanso Amore]

Originally Posted by RVDmark So its now poor taste to do a death angle on the off-chance that someone might die soon after? If it was the other way round and Benoit (or anyone) had died the week before the limo explosion then yes I agree it would haven been extremely poor taste. Not only that but whilst there are comparitivley more deaths related to wrestling than the average, but theres an awful lot of people involved in wrestling these days. Everyone's going to die one day, me, you, everyone on this board, unfortunately punctuated by the recent untimely loss of Pepsiman (R.I.P). If The Rock was found dead tomorrow, would that be classed as a wrestling related death? For many years he was the industry's top performer (or one of a few at the very top anyway). You say that predicting deaths in wrestling isn't hard, can you point to one post here that predicted Benoit was even likely to be next? Also its not like any of the deaths in wrestling have been limousine or bomb related (AFAIK). Its a storyline, please can the world learn how to seperate fiction from reality, death happens, its not nice, but it does.

Death should never be used. Whether Benoit happened or not, a death storyline is somwhat pushing it.

[RVDmark]

Originally Posted by MatthewAllenHanso Death should never be used. Whether Benoit happened or not, a death storyline is somwhat pushing it.

Whatever you do don't ever watch a soap opera will you, or a film. Many of these will involve death angles, also no-one forced any of them to become wrestlers, getting into the business through WWE is possibly one of the hardest things to do.

Its death, it happens, it WILL happen to you one day, the same as it WILL happen to me one day. As I said, not my favorite fact, but true none the less.

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by RVDmark So its now poor taste to do a death angle on the off-chance that someone might die soon after?

The off chance? Are you oblivious to the world around you?

There's an off chance that a plane will fly into a building. There's an off chance you'll get hit by lighting. There's a pretty damn good chance wrestlers will die, and specifically die young.

Yeah, yeah, I know. You said wrestlers die more than average. At the same time, you're more or less downplaying it at the same time. And continue to do so in subsequent posts.

Everyone's going to die some day. Hmmm...That's a nice, open, pointless argument that's repeated, and probably will be ad nauseum. So what? The same fatalistic argument could be argued for everything. If you're writing one of those useless pop psychology books, it's a great, trite statement.

Also, in terms of separating the real world from fiction, there are two important points:

WWE panders to a lot of children who may not fully understand the difference, especially in a field where Vince McMahon plays a character named "Vince McMahon," where they go "behind the scenes" a lot, etc.

Also, and this does tie into the previous notion, they kind of did what they did for a real death and paid tribute to him. Of course, there were a lot of differences, but they did pay tribute to him, they encouraged mourning, etc.

Ah well. You asked why anyone would have a problem with the angle, and you've been given several answers. You can complain that they're not valid, disregard that they are legitimate feelings that people have, or whatever else you want.

I'm gonna go back to making Chris Benoit jokes. It's part of my coping mechanism to crack wise at dark subjects.