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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Mar 15, 2022 5:36:04 GMT -5
Even the talent find the excessive replays annoying, which might be the lone good thing having the wrestlers sit in the ring for minutes on end during the pretapes has produced.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2022 7:19:41 GMT -5
This is how watching WWE makes me feel in general.
Its like the Itchy and Scratchy Movie: 53% new footage!
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 15, 2022 7:21:40 GMT -5
I'm not sure which seems like the more horrifying waste of time to me, paying to see someone walk to the ring then stand there for 25 minutes or being paid to walk to the ring and stand there for 25 minutes.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Mar 15, 2022 7:23:04 GMT -5
I'm not sure which seems like the more horrifying waste of time to me, paying to see someone walk to the ring then stand there for 25 minutes or being paid to walk to the ring and stand there for 25 minutes. Being paid is always better than paying.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 15, 2022 7:24:52 GMT -5
I'm not sure which seems like the more horrifying waste of time to me, paying to see someone walk to the ring then stand there for 25 minutes or being paid to walk to the ring and stand there for 25 minutes. Being paid is always better than paying. On the flipside though, if you're paying for it it's an experience you're just going to need to sit through over the course of the one night. When it's your job this is what you have to look forward to every Monday, which sounds like just an awful torture to me.
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Post by eJm on Mar 15, 2022 7:27:13 GMT -5
Being paid is always better than paying. On the flipside though, if you're paying for it it's an experience you're just going to need to sit through over the course of the one night. When it's your job this is what you have to look forward to every Monday, which sounds like just an awful torture to me. Yeah, I can see both sides on this but it's also the thing I've grown to realize is that if your job is a certain thing and you're not doing that certain thing for a certain amount of time, it makes you not sure if you're worthy of being paid after a while. I can't compare my "year off" my job to standing in a ring for 25 minutes but still.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Mar 15, 2022 7:33:50 GMT -5
On the flipside though, if you're paying for it it's an experience you're just going to need to sit through over the course of the one night. When it's your job this is what you have to look forward to every Monday, which sounds like just an awful torture to me. Yeah, I can see both sides on this but it's also the thing I've grown to realize is that if your job is a certain thing and you're not doing that certain thing for a certain amount of time, it makes you not sure if you're worthy of being paid after a while. I can't compare my "year off" my job to standing in a ring for 25 minutes but still. Yeah, but in this instance this is just standard WWE production and Kevin Owens is standing around to do a promo or segment related to working with the guy WWE considers its biggest star ever. I get that it's painful, but I still think hanging around in a ring for a bit is a small price to pay for what I presume is a real nice living for these folks.
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Post by eJm on Mar 15, 2022 7:35:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I can see both sides on this but it's also the thing I've grown to realize is that if your job is a certain thing and you're not doing that certain thing for a certain amount of time, it makes you not sure if you're worthy of being paid after a while. I can't compare my "year off" my job to standing in a ring for 25 minutes but still. Yeah, but in this instance this is just standard WWE production and Kevin Owens is standing around to do a promo or segment related to working with the guy WWE considers its biggest star ever. I get that it's painful, but I still think hanging around in a ring for a bit is a small price to pay for what I presume is a real nice living for these folks. I guess. I don't know, I think it's more in this case that you psyke yourself up to be out in a crowd to perform and then that motivation slowly goes as the ads and promos play and the like when all you want to do is perform and do your job. Like you said, it's not a big deal but I'm more going from my experience of being "both sides of the aisle" so to speak.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2022 8:30:01 GMT -5
Being paid is always better than paying. On the flipside though, if you're paying for it it's an experience you're just going to need to sit through over the course of the one night. When it's your job this is what you have to look forward to every Monday, which sounds like just an awful torture to me. If someone wanted to pay me to stand around for 25 minutes, I would be okay with that. How is that torture?
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Post by eJm on Mar 15, 2022 8:32:03 GMT -5
On the flipside though, if you're paying for it it's an experience you're just going to need to sit through over the course of the one night. When it's your job this is what you have to look forward to every Monday, which sounds like just an awful torture to me. If someone wanted to pay me to stand around for 25 minutes, I would be okay with that. How is that torture? I mean, like I said, if your job was to stand around for 25 minutes, you'd be doing what the job requires you to. If you're someone who has to get psyched and ready to go out in front of thousands of people on a regular basis and then have that momentum squandered because you need to show interview segments and replays and the like, I could imagine it being hard to keep yourself psyched when you should be doing your job. Like I said, it's not the worst thing in the world but I can absolutely understand the frustrations of it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2022 8:37:15 GMT -5
If someone wanted to pay me to stand around for 25 minutes, I would be okay with that. How is that torture? I mean, like I said, if your job was to stand around for 25 minutes, you'd be doing what the job requires you to. If you're someone who has to get psyched and ready to go out in front of thousands of people on a regular basis and then have that momentum squandered because you need to show interview segments and replays and the like, I could imagine it being hard to keep yourself psyched when you should be doing your job. Like I said, it's not the worst thing in the world but I can absolutely understand the frustrations of it. But when you're a WWE superstar you know ahead that they do that shit. They've been doing it for years. Standing in the ring during commercial breaks and stuff is part of the job.
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Post by santmare12 on Mar 15, 2022 8:39:22 GMT -5
I thought the same thing. I haven’t seen an edited-to-music recap of same day footage since the post-WrestleMania recaps at the conclusion of the PPV.
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Post by eJm on Mar 15, 2022 8:40:19 GMT -5
I mean, like I said, if your job was to stand around for 25 minutes, you'd be doing what the job requires you to. If you're someone who has to get psyched and ready to go out in front of thousands of people on a regular basis and then have that momentum squandered because you need to show interview segments and replays and the like, I could imagine it being hard to keep yourself psyched when you should be doing your job. Like I said, it's not the worst thing in the world but I can absolutely understand the frustrations of it. But when you're a WWE superstar you know ahead that they do that shit. They've been doing it for years. Standing in the ring during commercial breaks and stuff is part of the job. I mean, not to the extent that it has been. Like, an ad break before the match, sure, but they don't usually have as many backstage interviews, recaps and more commercials in between entrances and matches.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Mar 15, 2022 9:12:18 GMT -5
If someone wanted to pay me to stand around for 25 minutes, I would be okay with that. How is that torture? I mean, like I said, if your job was to stand around for 25 minutes, you'd be doing what the job requires you to. If you're someone who has to get psyched and ready to go out in front of thousands of people on a regular basis and then have that momentum squandered because you need to show interview segments and replays and the like, I could imagine it being hard to keep yourself psyched when you should be doing your job. Like I said, it's not the worst thing in the world but I can absolutely understand the frustrations of it. Do you feel match quality has suffered because of the effect of talent standing in the ring?
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Post by eJm on Mar 15, 2022 9:14:12 GMT -5
Do you feel match quality has suffered because of the effect of talent standing in the ring? See, I'm no expert because I haven't watched much WWE nor would I claim such a thing, I'm just more saying the potential is there to happen. They're likely professional enough to get some kind of motivation back, I'm just more saying when you have the crowd or you as a talent are most ready for it, they should just do it rather than delaying it.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Mar 15, 2022 9:22:41 GMT -5
Do you feel match quality has suffered because of the effect of talent standing in the ring? See, I'm no expert because I haven't watched much WWE nor would I claim such a thing, I'm just more saying the potential is there to happen. They're likely professional enough to get some kind of motivation back, I'm just more saying when you have the crowd or you as a talent are most ready for it, they should just do it rather than delaying it. I can say that for me personally, it has really impacted the in-person experience. I have no intention of attending any shows that aren't PPVs whenever they're in New York City or Jersey. It's not fun to sit around, especially during three-hour shows.
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Post by eJm on Mar 15, 2022 9:26:30 GMT -5
See, I'm no expert because I haven't watched much WWE nor would I claim such a thing, I'm just more saying the potential is there to happen. They're likely professional enough to get some kind of motivation back, I'm just more saying when you have the crowd or you as a talent are most ready for it, they should just do it rather than delaying it. I can say that for me personally, it has really impacted the in-person experience. I have no intention of attending any shows that aren't PPVs whenever they're in New York City or Jersey. It's not fun to sit around, especially during three-hour shows. Oh I can absolutely imagine that. Nobody wants to feel like they're paying money to watch ads and promos in a seat looking at people wondering around a ring like it's a weird high concept art piece about the deficit of attention in the public or something.
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Post by Legion on Mar 15, 2022 9:29:16 GMT -5
When you're ordered to make 1 hr more TV, but dont really want to.
Recaps.
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Post by 06vwgti on Mar 15, 2022 9:49:17 GMT -5
I mean, like I said, if your job was to stand around for 25 minutes, you'd be doing what the job requires you to. If you're someone who has to get psyched and ready to go out in front of thousands of people on a regular basis and then have that momentum squandered because you need to show interview segments and replays and the like, I could imagine it being hard to keep yourself psyched when you should be doing your job. Like I said, it's not the worst thing in the world but I can absolutely understand the frustrations of it. But when you're a WWE superstar you know ahead that they do that shit. They've been doing it for years. Standing in the ring during commercial breaks and stuff is part of the job. I don't remember it being that bad previously. At least it seemed both workers would come out right after another vs the current way. It was bad during the empty pandemic shows and only gotten much worse since they've had crowds back.
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Post by polarbearpete on Mar 15, 2022 9:52:13 GMT -5
See, I'm no expert because I haven't watched much WWE nor would I claim such a thing, I'm just more saying the potential is there to happen. They're likely professional enough to get some kind of motivation back, I'm just more saying when you have the crowd or you as a talent are most ready for it, they should just do it rather than delaying it. I can say that for me personally, it has really impacted the in-person experience. I have no intention of attending any shows that aren't PPVs whenever they're in New York City or Jersey. It's not fun to sit around, especially during three-hour shows. What’s the difference on the in-person experience whether they play the backstage segments and recaps before the wrestlers’ entrance or after? I don’t think they’ve increased the number of backstage segments and recaps, it seems like they’ve just re-ordered things to try to use the entrance as a hook to keep people watching. I definitely agree though that PPVs and house shows are better in-person experiences than TV, but that’s been the case at least for me going back to the 90s.
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