Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Jul 23, 2020 17:35:48 GMT -5
There's dropped plot points and characters who vanish, but it's on a different level with WWE. Shows will lose track of things, showrunners or major pieces of the writing staff will change and elements will get dropped, things will go one way and then go another. Hell you can even point to the "because Warner Brothers" thing with Suicide Squad in Arrow as a case of a show having to drop something because a bunch of corporate suits are idiots. But WWE, with no real meaningful change in leadership across decades, does this constantly. It's scale that I think really drives home how much WWE is operating on another level with its writing failures. Stuff doesn't just sometimes lead to nothing or get completely undermined, it does this regularly and to an exhausting extent that is absolutely without peer.
I think the pinnacle example of this is when their post-Russo and Ferrera head writer, Chris Kreski, used basic storyboards to keep track of angles, feuds, and character relationships... and was mocked for it. The McMahons want to be seen as more than just cheap producers of pro-wrestling, but they fail to even rise to the minimum standards of any other form of scripted programming.
I bang on a lot about how they were shit to Chris Kreski while he was churning out their best years of TV, and that Prichard burying the dude on his podcast and then getting hired back to be Vince's right hand again is all the proof you need of how WWE works. How much contempt they have for the creative process and for adopting anything to make their show run normally. Vince has aspirations of competing with mainstream entertainment and being real television, but it's all surface level and he has no intention of putting in that work. With a room full of industry minds or with seventy nine professional television writers, it's still the same carny nonsense and nothing is going to change it.