IIIIIIII LLLLOOOOVVVEEEEE....to send Wrestlemania 25 pitch scripts

**DrA** · 12-09-2008, 05:29 PM

It's a meaningless streak that means nothing because it is meaningless. If they didn't go out of their way to hype it every chance they get no one would even notice or care. What is the incentive for beating The Undertaker at Wrestlemania? The ego boost? Ok, that works for a character like, say Chris Jericho ten years ago who was all about shallow achievements. But for it to suddenly be the ambition of Michaels and Kane who have been established stars for a while, it just makes the characters seem one dimensional. "We have both beaten The Undertaker before, but that doesn't count because we have never beaten him at this particular show, which is something that sounds good to make a couple of months of storylines over." Alright, sure.

It's like with that Michaels/Flair match earlier this year, where Michaels "retired" Flair. The only reason why he retired Flair was because of some stupid storyline where Flair had to win all of his matches in order to stay a wrestler, which was all an antic for that match to take place in the first place. The WWE "force feeds" these storylines and their motives because they sound good, but they don't seem to have the patience to actually put effort into making them seem as a natural development.

I'm all for a Michaels vs. Undertaker match, with the two big Wrestlemania stars going at it. But when the whole motive of the match is to want to suddenly end some over-rated excuse to create a match, then that is poor writing. It needs more substance than just that one aspect.

12-09-2008, 05:29 PM	#11
DrA Posts: 24,527	It's a meaningless streak that means nothing because it is meaningless. If they didn't go out of their way to hype it every chance they get no one would even notice or care. What is the incentive for beating The Undertaker at Wrestlemania? The ego boost? Ok, that works for a character like, say Chris Jericho ten years ago who was all about shallow achievements. But for it to suddenly be the ambition of Michaels and Kane who have been established stars for a while, it just makes the characters seem one dimensional. "We have both beaten The Undertaker before, but that doesn't count because we have never beaten him at this particular show, which is something that sounds good to make a couple of months of storylines over." Alright, sure. It's like with that Michaels/Flair match earlier this year, where Michaels "retired" Flair. The only reason why he retired Flair was because of some stupid storyline where Flair had to win all of his matches in order to stay a wrestler, which was all an antic for that match to take place in the first place. The WWE "force feeds" these storylines and their motives because they sound good, but they don't seem to have the patience to actually put effort into making them seem as a natural development. I'm all for a Michaels vs. Undertaker match, with the two big Wrestlemania stars going at it. But when the whole motive of the match is to want to suddenly end some over-rated excuse to create a match, then that is poor writing. It needs more substance than just that one aspect.