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Originally Posted by Gorgeous Dale Newstead
CyNick is top notch in his commitment to his argument. I don't necessarily think he's trolling, I think he's doing his best to see the good in the programming. To US though, the programming sucks. It is subjective though, he can think it's as great as he wants... but he's not going to change our minds and we aren't going to change his.
I think the main issue, is as we've all gotten older (I think even Matt Hardy made this point) is we get into these awesome HBO shows and AMC shows and we want a little more sophistication in the product... and WWE ain't about that. I think there was a time (and no, not the attitude era) when they were. I think it was many moons ago. But wrestling takes a LONGGGG time to move with the times. Soon, Vince will be done, HHH will take over and we'll see what the product looks like then. I actually think the more sophisticated kind of product can be seen in the days of the territories, when it was treated as more of a sport than a spectacle. I personally think they need to treat the product as more of a sport as opposed to trying to make it a variety (three) hour(s) and an action show. Not to say they need to stop with making it a spectacle, it NEEDS to be a spectacle and grandiose, but dial it down about a billion fucking notches. Make it feel more real. Just because everyone knows it's scripted doesn't mean everything needs to seem incredibly scripted. But this is just the broken tape recording. Good t.v. is good t.v. And that doesn't mean 45 minute matches of work rate, that means exciting and fresh title matches, tournaments, feuds and results of feuds that mean something... DARE I SAY continuity in EVERY SINGLE story line.... and hell even having guys intermingle and feud with other guys while they're still feuding with someone else. Guys used to feud for years on end, continuing their feud while other guys came into the mix, but also only wrestling once or twice in that vicinity. Kevin Owens and John Cena wrestled 3 times in like a month. What the actual fuck. make it 6 months, and have different co-mingling feuds go on where both guys win and talk shit on each other and attack each other. It's not complicated.
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Not all forms of entertainment should be the same though.
Why would you cater a show to a more adult audience? Modern sports entertainment for the most part (save the late 90s early 00's) was always geared towards the family, and specifically kids. Its a real life cartoon. What you have is a bunch of people in the 30s and 40s complaining that the show doesnt appeal to them. Its really strange.
When you promote to adults, you get one ticket, when you promote to kids, that kid needs to bring someone to the fights. There's benefits to keeping it that way.
10-05-2015, 12:42 PM
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