PHOENIXZERO
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It's fucking annoying how big moves have becomes just false finishes or transitions, like the DDT has been since the late 90s, while for some reason its a finish for others. IMO any move that impacts that head or neck shouldn't be treated as anything but a potential match stopper. The best thing they've done is limit pile driver usage, even if that was for legit concerns their doing that took a move that was kind of getting over exposed and pulled back on its usage to where now the only ones generally trusted to do it are Kane and the Undertaker on any sort of regular basis.
WWE has absolutely driven into the ground the idea of false finishes after big moves, the 50/50 booking prevents just about everyone from getting on any kind of roll and they even had one of their performers actually tell us that "wins and losses" don't matter, why should anyone care about a match if it doesn't matter who wins it? From a story telling aspect it's absolutely shit as well and it doesn't help when your heel champion, who is booked to look like a complete wimp, wrestles as a face or the face of your company is completely incapable or unwilling to sell anything other than merchandise to prepubescent children. There's no psychology, rhyme or reason in anything that's done in a WWE match and that's on top of the generic "WWE style". I've seen better psychology in a game of Rock'em Sock'em Robots than the average Raw.
The matches need to matter, 50/50 booking needs to stop because no one gets built up that way and if need be either relegate guys to be jobbers or hire local guys as enhancement talent again for those you want to push to beat the shit out of like they would back in the day. Push men/women who the crowd is actually responding to instead of pulling the rug out from under talent whenever they get any momentum leading to the apathetic audiences we see almost every week. Like what was already said, not even the guys who made it in the Attitude era could get over with today's booking, then again those guys wouldn't accept as much bullshit as it seems like many do today. Obviously doesn't help that your options as to where to potentially make big money are rather limited compared to back then.
That's not even getting to the outside the match shit they do... I'd probably just repeat more of what's been already said but it also drives me nuts on how WWE is up on this "reality" bullshit when really it's a selective reality like the awful "reality TV" crap while at the same time treated like some entity in its own "universe" (which is probably really code for the bubble Vince and his suck ups men live in) where the "Superstars and Divas" sometimes are able to go back too look back and reference something but other times are completely unaware there's a camera operator right there and pretend what's going on isn't being recorded. The inconsistency drives me up the fucking wall and aside from the old tension causing getting hit from behind spot (which WWE has also killed) leading to a misunderstanding another glaring example is the downright awful Rusev/Ziggles feud and the stupid shit with Summer Rae and Lana who has been made to look like a total moron while they completely ruined her character.
Speaking of inconsistency, there's rules and their enforcement, an area WWE and wrestling in general has usually sucked but today it doesn't feel like there's a clear understanding of really any rules as they get made up for whatever suits them at the time. It goes to how neutered heels have become, how can a heel break rules that the audience doesn't know exist? The worthless commentary that couldn't sell water to a man dying of thirst doesn't help either. Referees are just bodies no, they need power, get rid of the authority figures and let the refs do what they're supposed to be doing when it comes to matches, get them some respect so when heels do shit behind their backs some heat can be had. I think people just view refs now as the guy who counts or asks someone if they want to submit and calls for the bell.
The act of working like a heel be it singles or in a tag team is basically dead in this company. Hell, the most heelish thing I've seen in a match under the WWE umbrella recently was the Sasha/Bayley match from last week. I was kind of disappointed when Sasha and the Bayley fangirl made up afterwards, wish at the very least that could've been kept quiet and backstage even though who knows what the fuck any woman on the main roster's alignment is because I'm not sure any of them are actually heels aside from I guess, Paige... Maybe? I don't know WTF "Team Bella" is supposed to be they don't come off as faces when they talk but in the ring they're completely inconsistent as heels. Example in that tag match where the ref's back was turned but Brie or maybe it was Alicia didn't do a damn thing with the opening to cheat. Today's "heel" is just a generic coward who backs down when confronted and might insult the local sports team and maybe will attempt a cheap shot when the face's back is turned. There was a day when everyone wasn't a chickenshit heel, where the bad guy actually did bad things and didn't just run away. I mean, yeah you had the New Day "wreck" Cena and the Dudley's shit last week (after Big E was made to look like wimp) but so what? What came of that? Are they even heels anymore? Due to that segment with Stephanie, who cares?
Inconsistency goes with a near complete lack of continuity which is inexcusable in 2015 but again it's certainly a Vince thing with the idea of the audience being too stupid to remember things, that's bugged me since I was a kid. Understandably after so many hours and so many years shit is bound to get clustered up but I think it would go a long way if they just attempted some long term continuity. Just start with character histories, hire some people to keep track of that shit just like they do on shows and movies (well, sometimes I guess), even if in those cases their role might just be something as basic as keeping certain things consistent from scene to scene or shot from shot. Vince likes to pretend their making movies, so much so now they pretend with their own studio, then maybe he and Dunn should actually take some notes from real writers and directors.
Well this went a lot longer than I wanted and I know I'm rambling, it's almost 8am and I've been writing this for over an hour in between my nodding off... Fuck I need sleep.
If I remember correctly one rating point equaled 1.25 million back then, not sure if the scale is the same now or not so that would be just over six million viewers.
Vince's ability of making someone a star has always been over rated and today his hard selling of someone he wants just doesn't work at all anymore.
WWE has absolutely driven into the ground the idea of false finishes after big moves, the 50/50 booking prevents just about everyone from getting on any kind of roll and they even had one of their performers actually tell us that "wins and losses" don't matter, why should anyone care about a match if it doesn't matter who wins it? From a story telling aspect it's absolutely shit as well and it doesn't help when your heel champion, who is booked to look like a complete wimp, wrestles as a face or the face of your company is completely incapable or unwilling to sell anything other than merchandise to prepubescent children. There's no psychology, rhyme or reason in anything that's done in a WWE match and that's on top of the generic "WWE style". I've seen better psychology in a game of Rock'em Sock'em Robots than the average Raw.
The matches need to matter, 50/50 booking needs to stop because no one gets built up that way and if need be either relegate guys to be jobbers or hire local guys as enhancement talent again for those you want to push to beat the shit out of like they would back in the day. Push men/women who the crowd is actually responding to instead of pulling the rug out from under talent whenever they get any momentum leading to the apathetic audiences we see almost every week. Like what was already said, not even the guys who made it in the Attitude era could get over with today's booking, then again those guys wouldn't accept as much bullshit as it seems like many do today. Obviously doesn't help that your options as to where to potentially make big money are rather limited compared to back then.
That's not even getting to the outside the match shit they do... I'd probably just repeat more of what's been already said but it also drives me nuts on how WWE is up on this "reality" bullshit when really it's a selective reality like the awful "reality TV" crap while at the same time treated like some entity in its own "universe" (which is probably really code for the bubble Vince and his suck ups men live in) where the "Superstars and Divas" sometimes are able to go back too look back and reference something but other times are completely unaware there's a camera operator right there and pretend what's going on isn't being recorded. The inconsistency drives me up the fucking wall and aside from the old tension causing getting hit from behind spot (which WWE has also killed) leading to a misunderstanding another glaring example is the downright awful Rusev/Ziggles feud and the stupid shit with Summer Rae and Lana who has been made to look like a total moron while they completely ruined her character.
Speaking of inconsistency, there's rules and their enforcement, an area WWE and wrestling in general has usually sucked but today it doesn't feel like there's a clear understanding of really any rules as they get made up for whatever suits them at the time. It goes to how neutered heels have become, how can a heel break rules that the audience doesn't know exist? The worthless commentary that couldn't sell water to a man dying of thirst doesn't help either. Referees are just bodies no, they need power, get rid of the authority figures and let the refs do what they're supposed to be doing when it comes to matches, get them some respect so when heels do shit behind their backs some heat can be had. I think people just view refs now as the guy who counts or asks someone if they want to submit and calls for the bell.
The act of working like a heel be it singles or in a tag team is basically dead in this company. Hell, the most heelish thing I've seen in a match under the WWE umbrella recently was the Sasha/Bayley match from last week. I was kind of disappointed when Sasha and the Bayley fangirl made up afterwards, wish at the very least that could've been kept quiet and backstage even though who knows what the fuck any woman on the main roster's alignment is because I'm not sure any of them are actually heels aside from I guess, Paige... Maybe? I don't know WTF "Team Bella" is supposed to be they don't come off as faces when they talk but in the ring they're completely inconsistent as heels. Example in that tag match where the ref's back was turned but Brie or maybe it was Alicia didn't do a damn thing with the opening to cheat. Today's "heel" is just a generic coward who backs down when confronted and might insult the local sports team and maybe will attempt a cheap shot when the face's back is turned. There was a day when everyone wasn't a chickenshit heel, where the bad guy actually did bad things and didn't just run away. I mean, yeah you had the New Day "wreck" Cena and the Dudley's shit last week (after Big E was made to look like wimp) but so what? What came of that? Are they even heels anymore? Due to that segment with Stephanie, who cares?
Inconsistency goes with a near complete lack of continuity which is inexcusable in 2015 but again it's certainly a Vince thing with the idea of the audience being too stupid to remember things, that's bugged me since I was a kid. Understandably after so many hours and so many years shit is bound to get clustered up but I think it would go a long way if they just attempted some long term continuity. Just start with character histories, hire some people to keep track of that shit just like they do on shows and movies (well, sometimes I guess), even if in those cases their role might just be something as basic as keeping certain things consistent from scene to scene or shot from shot. Vince likes to pretend their making movies, so much so now they pretend with their own studio, then maybe he and Dunn should actually take some notes from real writers and directors.
Well this went a lot longer than I wanted and I know I'm rambling, it's almost 8am and I've been writing this for over an hour in between my nodding off... Fuck I need sleep.
If I remember correctly one rating point equaled 1.25 million back then, not sure if the scale is the same now or not so that would be just over six million viewers.
Vince's ability of making someone a star has always been over rated and today his hard selling of someone he wants just doesn't work at all anymore.
