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King Koopa
He's just a Sexy Kurt
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Post by 67 more on Oct 4, 2010 8:47:51 GMT -5
I never miss an episode myself.
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dannyrctv
Trap-Jaw
Big Time Wrestling video guy
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Post by dannyrctv on Oct 4, 2010 12:57:35 GMT -5
I concur with this and add in a bit of just ' I got old' to the m ix as to why I can watch or not any given week. I've been watching for nearly over 30 years (beat that ) and it's never been consistently compelling 'must see' tv at any point. Just that overexposure (ppvs, main eventers on nearly every show etc) hasn't made anything special whatsoever. I can beat that! I've been watching for 35 years and I'm 43! I agree withyou WWf/E has never been that compelling since the whole rock n' wrestling thing made it cartoony and more geared toward little kids and not so realistic. It's had it's moments though and what I've been screaming for is they need to get back to presenting WRESTLING (not Sports Entertainment) is a realistic believable fashion to the point people think it's REAL! Even if we know it's a work but it's not that hard to do. When people think it's real and can't wait to see what happens next that's when wrestling is done right. That's why wrestling thrived so much during the kayfabe days and that's how it worked. I'll start watching more religiously again when they make you question if it's real or not!
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Post by HMARK Center on Oct 4, 2010 16:17:02 GMT -5
The WWE and WCW both took the poison pill when they decided to go to the Monday Night prime time format.
On the plus side, both companies got insanely popular, got high exposure, and made money hand over fist.
On the negative side...both companies did those things over an INCREDIBLY short amount of time. After that short time? WCW folded, and WWE has never exited the malaise, although they continue to make money due to the business changes they made in the wake of the Attitude Era.
The 1996-1999 business model was unsustainable from a creative standpoint, yet since then, WWE has only created more TV shows and pay per views. You can't have a shocking twist and storyline turn every week without burning your audience out (again, see the WCW ratings drop and WWE's eventual drop), but you can't have SO many hours of TV and pay per view every week/month and keep trotting out the same names for every single main event.
The first model results in a burn out and crash, the second one results in stagnation and boredom.
Lost are the days of weekly "recap" shows being the cornerstone of your weekly programming, with interviews and squash matches thrown in to build storylines and build up individuals for bigger feuds. You can't recapture that anymore, Pandora's box was opened with the explosion of the Raw/Nitro "wars". Yet no wrestling company has really adjusted to that reality yet.
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