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[Juan]

Exactly. People are too afraid to look like marks and just sit there instead of actually enjoying the show.

[Damian Rey]

Originally Posted by Juan Exactly. People are too afraid to look like marks and just sit there instead of actually enjoying the show.

I don't understand the idea of not getting your money's worth when going to a show. When I went to the Austin-hosted Raw back in March, I marked like a 5 year when Austin, Bret, and Jericho hit the ring. And I booed my lungs out for Cena. I didn't give a shit about about "keeping it cool".

Also, from an entirely different angle, it's hard to cheer and boo for people you just don'r care about. The character development has been atrocious in the WWE since about 2004, the year Eddie and Benoit finally got their due.

It's pretty damn difficult to truly get behind a guy when the minute he starts to garner a reaction, the booking blows their load and pushes straight to the top. Cena is a good example of this. He started getting great reactions with the rapper gimmick. Then they turned him face, had him pandering the crowd more and more, and a year after winning his first singles title, he's given the top belt in the company.

Everything these days seemes so rushed. I like the MITB concept, and it worked the first time when Edge won it. Well, for me atleast. He deserved the win. Guys like Cena, Batista, Swagger, hell, even Punk had no buildup to their win. One minute, they're in the midcard working with midcard guys, then they're all of sudden thrust into the main event and we're expected to all of sudden pop. I don't think it is supposed to work that way.

/rant

[BigCrippyZ]

Originally Posted by Damian Rey It's pretty damn difficult to truly get behind a guy when the minute he starts to garner a reaction, the booking blows their load and pushes straight to the top. Cena is a good example of this. He started getting great reactions with the rapper gimmick. Then they turned him face, had him pandering the crowd more and more, and a year after winning his first singles title, he's given the top belt in the company. Everything these days seemes so rushed. I like the MITB concept, and it worked the first time when Edge won it. Well, for me atleast. He deserved the win. Guys like Cena, Batista, Swagger, hell, even Punk had no buildup to their win. One minute, they're in the midcard working with midcard guys, then they're all of sudden thrust into the main event and we're expected to all of sudden pop. I don't think it is supposed to work that way. /rant

Thank you, somebody who gets the importance of character development. It seems to me like they don't develop characters much at all, then they push them into the main event and THEN start to develop the character and expect us to already love/hate them because they're a top guy now. Jericho is a guy I can buy and actually care about as a main eventer because when guys like Austin, HHH, and Rock were main eventing, he was in the mid card having great feuds and plenty of mic/promo time with the Y2J gimmick. Same thing with guys like Rock, Austin, HHH, even Kane got the same kind of development before being pushed as the top guys. Although Kane was never truly given permanent main event status, I don't think.

[Damian Rey]

Originally Posted by BigCrippyZ Thank you, somebody who gets the importance of character development. It seems to me like they don't develop characters much at all, then they push them into the main event and THEN start to develop the character and expect us to already love/hate them because they're a top guy now. Jericho is a guy I can buy and actually care about as a main eventer because when guys like Austin, HHH, and Rock were main eventing, he was in the mid card having great feuds and plenty of mic/promo time with the Y2J gimmick. Same thing with guys like Rock, Austin, HHH, even Kane got the same kind of development before being pushed as the top guys. Although Kane was never truly given permanent main event status, I don't think.

Yea, that was my point exactly. You can't be emotionally invested into a guy when there's nothing to emotionally invest into. Right now, I am hoping to God that they don't blow their load with Orton. He is, by and far, their most over face. They need to have his rise back to the top be a slow and steady journey. But, knowing the booking team, they will put the strap on Orton before the summer.