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Post by WHATAMANOOOVER on Aug 19, 2006 23:20:16 GMT -5
What do you find to be the most distasteful angle in pro wrestling in recent memory?
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Post by The Jeebus on Aug 19, 2006 23:28:44 GMT -5
Katie freaking Vick.
Necrophilia? Out of everything WWE Creative came up, they chose necrophilia? Someone actually thought necrophilia would be a good idea for a wrestling angle? WTF?
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Post by HoldingBackTalent aka bugz9987 on Aug 19, 2006 23:28:59 GMT -5
The Eddie angle shouldn't be their because his family agreed to it.
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Post by WHATAMANOOOVER on Aug 19, 2006 23:31:31 GMT -5
The Eddie angle shouldn't be their because his family agreed to it. Well, Mrs. Pillman, Hawk and Roberts agreed to their specific participation as well. Doesn't mean the angles are tasteful because the people gave their A-OK. |
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Post by Naniwa on Aug 19, 2006 23:32:17 GMT -5
HLA...
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Post by HoldingBackTalent aka bugz9987 on Aug 19, 2006 23:32:35 GMT -5
The Eddie angle shouldn't be their because his family agreed to it. Well, Mrs. Pillman, Hawk and Roberts agreed to their specific participation as well. Doesn't mean the angles are tasteful because the people gave their A-OK. Well if the family agrees I won't have a problem with it, but I guess it still doesn't mean its not bad. |
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Post by Milkman Norm on Aug 19, 2006 23:34:11 GMT -5
the religion angle was in horrible taste
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Post by angryfan on Aug 19, 2006 23:38:08 GMT -5
Of all these, I'd say the religion angle. As for the arguement that "if the family agrees to it, or the performer does, it's ok", my take is this. If they are ok doing it, that's fine, however, considering it's an entertainment program, if it doesn't entertain me, and makes me feel offended or uncomfortable, or even just blurt out "why the blue f*** is this taking up time on my TV?" then that, to me, makes it distasteful. Make sense?
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Post by Hakumental on Aug 19, 2006 23:53:06 GMT -5
Speaking as a fairly sincere Christian, the religion angle didn't bother me- at all, really- but it just didn't DO anything for anyone involved in it. Ideally it should have been Vince mocking Shawn for "reforming" and trying to get him to snap, but it was just...complete BS.
Of course, ideally, that angle should ALSO have concluded with Shane hitting Vince over the back of the head with a shovel and wheeling him off to the Shady Pines Retirement Home after it became clear how bat**** insane he was, but ideals mean nothing to the WWE.
Katie Vick was just stupid.
So I go with Eddie. It's really uncomfortable to watch them try to base fictional rivalries on someone's real-life death. It's even more disconcerting when you think of Eddie's family. Even if they don't watch Smackdown, they probably hear about what's going on, and being constantly reminded of the death of a son, brother, uncle, cousin, husband, father...it's not just sitting down at the dinner table and seeing that spot that's never going to be filled again. It's a company making the EFFORT to bring him up over and over again. That sucks, man. You don't want to forget (God, no), but having a family member and a family friend pretend to fight each other over Eddie's passing- that's not in good taste. I really wish they'd drop it.
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Post by vincemark on Aug 19, 2006 23:56:12 GMT -5
I'm not religious and I loved the McMahonism angle, but I can understand why they ditched it after seeing the buyrates for Vengeance.
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Post by Paul Servo on Aug 20, 2006 0:05:14 GMT -5
Katie freaking Vick. Necrophilia? Out of everything WWE Creative came up, they chose necrophilia? Someone actually thought necrophilia would be a good idea for a wrestling angle? WTF? I love the justification they had. Saying it was "black humor" like the type used on CSI or X-FILES. CSI's "humor" in reference to a corpse is always just a bad pun about ho the A-plot victim died (and necrophelia is the only sexual deviance the show has not touched). And X-FILES's humor wasn't that dark. And neither were bad taste to the point of causing the need to apologize |
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Aug 20, 2006 0:06:01 GMT -5
the Oklahoma stuff. its one thing to do something when the people agree. But when you make fun of somebody's shortcomings with a diseese, that is too far
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Post by The Masked Mr TZ on Aug 20, 2006 0:14:38 GMT -5
I agree %100. And as for the Oklahoma thing, I thought it was some of the funniest stuff in wrestling history. SUPLEX!!! SUPLEX!!!
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Post by angryfan on Aug 20, 2006 0:18:23 GMT -5
Juventud Geurerra, great defensive lineman from Tiajuana State.
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Post by WHATAMANOOOVER on Aug 20, 2006 0:20:37 GMT -5
I think the biggest sad part about all these things is the point of an angle is to make someone want to watch a TV show, buy a ticket, purchase a PPV, etc. These writers and staff members actually believed this crap would make someone want to see more and pay for it.
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Post by akumashogun on Aug 20, 2006 0:26:09 GMT -5
I didn't vote for it in 'other' but even as a 12-year old mark Turncoat Sgt. Slaughter vs. Hogan and America made me uneasy.
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Post by mo on Aug 20, 2006 0:31:03 GMT -5
I don't give a f*** who agreed to do it, I don't like the Eddie angle
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Post by Loki on Aug 20, 2006 5:44:53 GMT -5
Eddie.
Because it's sad WWE are still milking his death after nearly one year. Plus, they have involved too many people in the feud. Using a dead performer to get heat/pops is plain tasteless. For so many reasons.
Now let's hope Rey's injury can kill the whole thing, but I'm not keeping my hopes high.
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Post by s2k on Aug 20, 2006 8:38:17 GMT -5
The Pillman's wife thing was pretty disgusting. They not only interviewed her on television, but they HYPED UP THE DAMN THING! "Stay tuned to watch Brian Pillman's wife self-destruct on television while speaking of her dead husband...but first, Shawn Michaels will gyrate to the ring and dry hump the floor. Don't change the channel!" Considering the WWF was losing to Nitro at that time, it made it even worse. Exploting a woman's grief for ratings, how nice. This is a wrestling show, not 20/20.
Eddie's angle is actually worse. At first I thought Pillman's wife being interviewed was worse, but as I'm reading the spoilers for this angle, it's completely disgusting. If an employee passed away under my watch, I'd be ashamed of it. The WWE seems to be proud of it. They used Eddie's name and Eddie's wife to create a "moment" at the WWE Hall of Fame, then used Eddie's name to give Rey Mysterio one of the least sympathetic gimmicks in the modern babyface era. Now this. It's almost been a year....ONE YEAR....since his death. Enough already.
Katie Vick was pretty bad too, but it wasn't distasteful as much as it was embarrassing.
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Post by King Rich on Aug 20, 2006 9:09:28 GMT -5
I thought the operation on JR's ass was in bad taste.
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