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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jun 8, 2015 13:57:58 GMT -5
The WWE is personally out to get YOU specifically. They're somehow able to do this regardless of who YOU is. Each of us actually gets our own personalized telecast specifically designed to piss you off. For example if you're a Roman Reigns fan, he's been losing to Fandango for the last 4 months.The only constant is that Steph always looks strong, because that's universal. I'd watch that show.
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Post by Captain & Diet on Jun 8, 2015 14:51:22 GMT -5
Because they're publicly traded and don't want to affect the stock price. Things aren't broken so they don't want to rock the boat. I think it's this, combined with Vince's infamous fickleness. It would've been a risk to scale Cena back and really try Punk or Bryan in his place; they didn't want to chance ANY slip in ratings (ironic, given how many less viewers they have now compared just a few years ago), so they didn't dare take any creative risks and chance a minor slowdown while they rebuild the show and presentation style. WWE's biggest problem for well over a decade now has been its inability to craft storylines, character arcs, feuds, or scenarios that feel like they have tangible, lasting consequences. Consider that they have the absolute biggest game-changing character in modern wrestling history available to them: Brock Goddamned Lesnar. Lesnar appearing on Raw should be the equivalent of a DC Crisis event, the equivalent of the 9th episode in a season of Game of Thrones, the equivalent of taking a well-crafted drama and just dropping a freaking F5 (no pun intended) tornado on it so that anything you were just invested in is now irrevocably screwed. They even DID partially attempt this: they had him go full-scale Doomsday and freaking kill Superman at SummerSlam 2014. What was the consequence of this? Absolutely nothing. The reasons why nothing changed are varied; they used up Brock's contracted dates super early for no good reason. They still wanted to make sure Cena was seen as "the man" despite his loss. Vince remains fickle and changes what everybody's doing on a regular basis. The writers may be capable of more, but most of them don't really grasp the industry and many of them are too afraid of losing their jobs to risk making creative waves. There are stockholders, there's the Network to consider, and the company refuses to risk anything that could lead to a short term loss of viewers...meanwhile, over the long term, they're losing viewers in droves. There are no stakes, nothing matters, no characters change, because taking creative risks isn't best for business. Kevin Owens may be the main show's chance to prove that they're capable of more than they typically show; the dude is a complex character going back to his days as Kevin Steen, clearly had a good creative and in-ring track record in NXT, and is now in the limelight with a clean win against Superman himself. If they can show Owens creating consequences, show changes in him and characters around him, then maybe that's a sign of better creative ideas to come. If we get back to "lol Cena wins" and nothing changes, well...it'll be the same as it's been since about 2002. Damn dude I know you're a mod but quit showing off! You've got my vote for post of the year. You ought to be booking WWE.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Jun 8, 2015 15:40:25 GMT -5
Honestly, I think WWE's been aight recently. Kinda reminds me of TNA during the second half of last year or most of the Impacts this year until the last month or so. It doesn't make you sad to watch like TNA though. There is some dumb shit, yeah, but on the whole, it's inoffensive. Even...good occasionally. Certainly better than the shit they were doing in January.
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Post by wisdomwizard on Jun 8, 2015 17:10:09 GMT -5
Yeah, WWE really hasn't been doing that badly for the last couple of months. Heck, they had a string of good Raws recently, and the guy responsible hasn't been kicked out or quit yet so I have a feeling things will get even better soon.
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