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TheShawshankRudotion

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  1. To me, the main WWE problem is structural, with nearly everyone within trying to justify their existence in order to keep their job, or their spot. The WWE has gotten so big, so corporate, and so complicated that it has strayed away from the core of professional wrestling: simplicity. They have TEAMS of writers coming up with storylines, scripting promos, etc. FOR WRESTLING! And not only do they have writers, but the writers themselves have assistants! And they have meetings, and pitches, and they have drafts, and they script and they rewrite. They have giant white boards where they write ideas on. It takes a full week to write one 2 hour wrestling show! You need to have a degree to write for wrestling! You actually need to go to school to learn how to write. for. professional. wrestling. Does this not seem insane to anyone else? You need to go to school for 4 years, then have 3 years of experience, in order to come up with reasons as to why two (or more) guys (or girls) would want to fight each other. Seriously. It's all the result of insecurity. Truly over-complication for the sake of complication, in my eyes. Their desire to have a "system" stems from the notion that they are/should be like every other television show out there, and therefore should operate under the same system. Anything less would make them seem like less. Who cares if the actual writing produced sucks, it was produced with a system! With educated writers who have written for other professional-type television programs, so it can't possibly be bad because it followed the same process that Friends does! There was a CRAFT involved, for crying out loud! INSECURITY, anyone? Not to mention Vince McMahon is batshit insane and has done what many legacy-building buffoons have done, which is put their progeny in key positions in the company in order to continue the family business, without cause or concern about their competency in said positions. Think about this: Stephanie McMahon has been in charge of writing for nearly 6 years now. How many quality storylines can you name - ones that you would compare with any other tv show out there? 1? 2? None? Even with those tv writers, they are still the worst written show on television, for 6 straight years. And she is nowhere close to being fired. In her time as writer, the ratings, buyrates, attendance, etc. have all fallen. And she is nowhere close to being fired. Infact, I can't recall many of the "professional" writers ever being fired from the WWE, they usually just leave, or get moved into other divisions. The benefit, of course, of having a system in place is to make sure that no one is actually held accountable. A team of writers came up with ideas, the team then focused and edited and worked on those ideas, different people "okayed" it, and different people produced it. Though, ultimately, the wrestlers end up being the ones held accountable, as evidenced by the large turn over in the past few years. They just didn't deliver the material properly. That Smackdown, ECW, Raw are differentiated is laughable. They have never been. Smackdown has never been "the wrestling show". Raw has never been "the entertainment show". On a fundamental level, they are all the same show. The same type of booking, writing, dialogue, characters, action, etc. The only thing that is different is the wrestlers and the time given, and that's it. Anything else is superficialities. The same system produces each show, and as a result, the same show is produced. And TNA is just trying to be like the WWE. Which is hilarious. Same system set up, same procedures, same layout and outlines. They are (both) functioning off an outdated, 1996, model of producing wrestling on television. Think about that. 10 years and no one has come up with anything new. It's ridiculous. There needs to be a paradigm shift in not only what wrestling is, but what it can be. And they have no idea. Either of them. WWE wants to be a television show, but they don't aspire to have the content of other television shows. They don't want to have the plot twists of LOST, the characterization of House, the satire of south park, the intensity and drama of 24, the acting of Studio 60... in fact, even mention this to ANYONE affiliated with professional wrestling - be it the promoters, wrestlers, writers, or FANS - and they'd think you are nuts. That it's unreasonable and somehow out of reach. They want to be a television show, they want to have the status of LOST, 24, House, etc. and will even cite these shows whenever they get criticism from outside groups (Aka the "Well, CSI does it" defense) but when it comes to criticizing the quality of their writing? their acting? "Well, it's just professional wrestling". They try to have it both ways, and in that, they have no idea what or who they are.
  2. Yeah, pretty much universally Kate Hudson is picked. My buddy was up for Christmas and he kept asking everyone that question and was bewildered by everyone picking Hudson. It was pretty quick too, everyones responses, which is odd considering how hot Portman is. Ok, an actual questions this time; they require short, to the point, answers rather than long, drawn out philosophical explanations. 1. What are the main problems with the WWE (as opposed to symptoms of the problem, ie: 50/50 booking, Trump/Rosie skits, etc)? 2. What would do you do fix them, and name 5 things to improve the product (?). Ditto TNA. 3. What, if any, techniques would you use from MMA in improving pro wrestling in North America? (Pro Wrestling = either TNA or WWE) 4. What gets you more randy, Rachelle Leah in a bikini, or Shinya Aokis grappling?
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