WWE's Production Sucks Right Now

[romanstylesiii]

I am not here to say AEW is better, but AEW has managed to give their shows some sort of atmosphere. This just is not the case for WWE. It's stale and hard to watch.

This is a very unique problem, but they need to find SOME solution. 

[EvenBaldobombHasAJob]

It's amazing how much having the other wrestlers sit and watch the show adds to the presentation.

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Michael Cole is the problem.

[cabbageboy]

WWE has become the NCAA tournament in modern times. Every venue looks the same, the production is the same, and it's so sterile that it's monotonous. Look back at old tourney games where they let the venue stay the way it usually does and each game had a unique vibe to it. 25 years ago you could see that weird Boise court for instance, but now they would just make it a boring court that looks like every court in the tourney. That's WWE. AEW is doing the NCAA tournament from 2-3 decades ago.

[FALLOUT Goldashausen #BLM]

Mar 28, 2020 16:37:59 GMT -5 cabbageboy said:

WWE has become the NCAA tournament in modern times. Every venue looks the same, the production is the same, and it's so sterile that it's monotonous. Look back at old tourney games where they let the venue stay the way it usually does and each game had a unique vibe to it. 25 years ago you could see that weird Boise court for instance, but now they would just make it a boring court that looks like every court in the tourney. That's WWE. AEW is doing the NCAA tournament from 2-3 decades ago.

This has been a problem throughout WWE's history, especially in the late 80s and early 90's when arenas were made to look 100% similar in order to compile matches filmed in different arenas onto a single show.

It's refreshing to see cards from the early/mid 80's where Prime Time Wrestling would play up the fact a certain match came from a certain arena with its own quirks. The infamous WWE branding machine soon kicked in and arenas all began to look the same.

I thoroughly enjoy the departures from that, like with Beast In The East and many of their large arena shows (I actually like their "dugout set" from the past few Rumbles).

But those shows are too few and far between, and the novelty of the PC shows pretty much wore off for me. Mania has to be out of the box or special in some way, otherwise they'll have to live with this being the worst on record.

If there's one thing AEW has over WWE, it's spontaneity. The vast majority of their shows feel organic and on-the-spot, a far cry from the intense micromanagement that goes into WWE most nights. And that micromanagement definitely shows.

[crowley1986]

Right Now?

[dbrussel]

Come on man. Kevin Dunn is having some hard days since he cant show random people from the crowd. He's not himself now.

[Cyno]

I think the rows of empty chairs in the performance center looks so awkward. Even without AEW having ringside wrestlers this week, they tarped off the rows of chairs and dimmed the lights so atmosphere was preserved. They're also using all the same camera shots they'd use for a regular WWE show that take advantage of showing off the crowds (which are completely empty now). This is another area where AEW adapted by changing the hard camera to face the stage and entrance ramp instead of using a now nonexistent audience as a backdrop.

Though to be perfectly fair to WWE, a lot of it is because of the limitations of the venue. AEW shoots its empty arena Dynamites in an actual arena where they can have a lot of the things like a regular looking stage and pyrotechnics (which is certainly an advantage of having a billionaire family bankrolling your company; they own literal arenas and a football stadium). The mini-arena in the Performance Center likely isn't coded for pyro and they can only do so much for staging compared to a Raw or a Smackdown.

[Bang Bang Bart]

To be faie, WWE did fix things up with the hard camera facing the stage and doing away with empty seats, replacing them with LED columns.

[Sponsored by Groose Wipes]

Right now?

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Now?

Try for years... the empty arenas have only highlighted it.

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Mar 28, 2020 17:38:13 GMT -5 Sponsored by Groose Wipes said:

Right now?

Yeah, it's been sucking for a good many years now.

It's funny how the switch to HD signaled a change in their production for the worst. Notice I'm saying production and not resolution, before someone gets smart.

[Wieners=$$$]

Mar 28, 2020 17:17:15 GMT -5 crowley1986 said:

Right Now?

[Susan "Poison" Candy]

Mar 28, 2020 21:32:24 GMT -5 Wieners=$$$ said:

Mar 28, 2020 17:17:15 GMT -5 crowley1986 said:

Right Now?

this is such a Kevin Dunn edit

[Dub H]

Mar 28, 2020 21:32:24 GMT -5 Wieners=$$$ said:

Mar 28, 2020 17:17:15 GMT -5 crowley1986 said:

Right Now?

Smooth transition

[Toilet Paper Roll]

WWE is just a nightmare right now.

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Everything has to look samey in WWE; the sets, the crowds, even the graphics. That's one reason why they would just not bother mentioning most places they're at when they were touring since they felt it was such an indignity to be in Sioux Falls or Evansville, rather just telling you the arena name. But arenas aren't all cookie cutter, at least they try not to be.

It's a control freak's nightmare.

[romanstylesiii]

Mar 28, 2020 17:20:44 GMT -5 dbrussel said:

Come on man. Kevin Dunn is having some hard days since he cant show random people from the crowd. He's not himself now.

I wish he would just randomly copy and paste himself in the crowd and have that as the cheering

[romanstylesiii]

Mar 28, 2020 17:38:45 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Now?

Try for years... the empty arenas have only highlighted it.

Yeah, loud crowds can mask some of WWE's production issues, but with no crowd, my god

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WWE's production is basically exactly what you get when you have production headed by someone who hasn't actually learned anything or expanded their skillset any in well over 20 years whose only attempts to modernize have been buying more cameras, doing a shit-ton of shaky cam, and putting LED boards everywhere.