Besides wrestling, what other industries have "armchair booking" talk?

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by thedamndest When I was a mark I didn't take the time to armchair book what I wanted to see. I just accepted the WWF's shows. But the smark creates a show based on who will work well together and that isn't usually something the mark takes into account. But for many other purposes, you don't really have to "smarten up" to say "I would have done it this way." Then again, you can say that on several different levels about anything. If you watch football for the first time and say "I would have thrown the ball here," then you may be completely oblivious to the reasons why the QB threw it out of bounds. I guess maybe smartening up isn't the right term, just the one associated with professional wrestling. Level of involvement maybe.

I'm not sure there's any definition by which you can apply the standards to pro wrestling and not to other media. I'm pretty sure if you did, it would involve some serious gerrymandering.

Marks do try and book shows, and to be honest, few smarks take armchair booking tto any level that's better. Most of the time it's same shit, different focus. It still mostly comes down to what I want, rather than what would make a good show. Now, that smarks might like the work of other smarks is more due to common interest than it is an indicator of greater quality. There are internet communities similar to the wrestling community for most media, and that IWC booking tends to play better with the IWC doesn't mean it's not ignorant of the reasons WWE or another company "threw the ball there." Or, for that matter, any different from any other fanfic community. And you can extend it to armchair QBs, coaches, whatever.