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Post by michael on Apr 12, 2019 23:23:49 GMT -5
...isn't so much the characters, matches or writing. It's the care taken with the booking.
It feels worthwhile and safe to invest time and emotion in all the aforementioned, whereas on the main roster I can't help but wonder the point of investing when the story might be abruptly dropped or the momentum squandered by the very next week at random.
It's almost like I can feel the difference in the level of care taken with the booking of NXT as opposed to the main roster, and it earns my trust to invest time and care in return.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 13, 2019 0:02:53 GMT -5
NXT tapes 3-4 weeks at a time, building to a PPV every 10 weeks roughly. Unless something major happens, like the Ciampa injury, they’re committed to what’s taped so they have to stick to a vision for atleast the 10 weeks. Tv time is limited, so pretty much everything they do has to be building to something. You know stories are going to get paid off somewhere
Basically everything that drives us insane about Vince’s constantly changing booking, is almost impossible to do in NXT.
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Post by Prince Petty on Apr 13, 2019 0:19:10 GMT -5
The WWE needs to be written like a professional TV show is - Planning out arcs and storylines ahead of time, and then sticking with them. There should be enough writers to produce material for everyone, and then the higher ups decide which stuff gets used now, and which is used later or not at all. And there shouldn't be anyone who can just stomp in and say, "throw it all out, here's what we're doing instead!"
I think this is what happens in NXT. And sure, some stuff is still crap (that French guy who shaved his head and started to think he was a hideous monster, for one example), but on the whole it's really well done. It would be harder for the WWE to copy NXT's process, because they're on the road all the time, while NXT staff are Florida based, but there's no excuse for the writing in WWE to be as slipshod as it is.
Becky's story over the last six months is probably one of the best that the WWE has offered in a long while, and it's still full of their incompetence - Forcing the heel turn and then sticking with it for weeks, even though it was obviously not working. The injury angle after Wrestlemania that just went on and on. Some of the social media stuff from Ronda.
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Post by michael on Apr 13, 2019 2:10:50 GMT -5
It seems like WWE main is trying to draw from NXT but is missing what makes it work. You can't just transplant the same characters or even match styles onto the main roster, because they mean so much less without the context of carefully and dare I say 'lovingly' crafted booking.
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Post by Dean-o on Apr 13, 2019 2:17:10 GMT -5
Imagine NXT with 5 hours of content a week instead of 1, plus a PPV once a month, and on a network rather then in house.
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Post by michael on Apr 13, 2019 2:31:32 GMT -5
Imagine NXT with 5 hours of content a week instead of 1, plus a PPV once a month, and on a network rather then in house. Is that to say that it would then inevitably suffer the same problems as WWE main? |
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Post by Dean-o on Apr 13, 2019 2:56:26 GMT -5
Imagine NXT with 5 hours of content a week instead of 1, plus a PPV once a month, and on a network rather then in house. Is that to say that it would then inevitably suffer the same problems as WWE main? Oh yea. How they book the majority of their call ups is enough evidence. I even forgot to mention the travel & house show schedule. |
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