Post by michael on Dec 25, 2018 23:20:53 GMT -5
Long-time listener; first-time caller.
I'm on my first break from WWE after 15 years of watching religiously, and one of the things I'm reflecting on is how I tend to feel exasperated when heels always cheat to win.
It feels like a long, competitive match is negated (if not nullified) when cheating for the win. What did it prove? I know that's supposed to build heel heat, but I find myself feeling like my time was wasted, and rather than build heat it makes me switch off because I feel like too many matches end in this disappointing way which settles nothing.
Can a wrestler not be a heel just because of their persona and perspective, while being perfectly competent in-ring? In fact I find it builds more heat with me when a heel wins clean and it inflates their ego, and then I'm more eager to see them toppled fair and square to shut them up.
Is it that turning heel makes you suddenly incompetent? Or even if it's rather that a heel is just more open to cheating, well... surely even heel characters should have more variety in their 'values' or morality.
Am I being too naive, or rather even too jaded? Do others feel the same deflation and loss of goodwill toward these results?
I'm on my first break from WWE after 15 years of watching religiously, and one of the things I'm reflecting on is how I tend to feel exasperated when heels always cheat to win.
It feels like a long, competitive match is negated (if not nullified) when cheating for the win. What did it prove? I know that's supposed to build heel heat, but I find myself feeling like my time was wasted, and rather than build heat it makes me switch off because I feel like too many matches end in this disappointing way which settles nothing.
Can a wrestler not be a heel just because of their persona and perspective, while being perfectly competent in-ring? In fact I find it builds more heat with me when a heel wins clean and it inflates their ego, and then I'm more eager to see them toppled fair and square to shut them up.
Is it that turning heel makes you suddenly incompetent? Or even if it's rather that a heel is just more open to cheating, well... surely even heel characters should have more variety in their 'values' or morality.
Am I being too naive, or rather even too jaded? Do others feel the same deflation and loss of goodwill toward these results?
