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Post by offspring515 on Mar 14, 2006 1:05:32 GMT -5
No no, I actually have almost the opposite view. I thought some of the storylines (Austin vs. McMahon, alot of the Foley and Rock stuff) was incredible. The problem was that matches on Raw during that time became 30 second to 2 minutes affairs. Even many of the main events. Every match was merely a setup for a run in/brawl/angle/interview...anything OTHER than wrestling.
Pay per views did have some good wrestling, but on TV it was an afterthought.
But you can't argue with results, and they did huge business so...what do I know? lol.
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Post by tafkaga on Mar 14, 2006 1:39:08 GMT -5
I was referring to the PPV's when I said "great wrestling". There were also some good storylines in the Russo era. The Austin/McMahon thing was great...but there were also a lot of stupid storylines that made me want to claw my eyes out. The sad part for me was the day I realized that all of the things I hate about modern wrestling are the things that casual fans eat up the fastest.
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Post by LWPD on Mar 14, 2006 8:41:54 GMT -5
It's a credit to you that you realized and accepted this fact. It can be very difficult for a fan of any entertainment product to accept that 'what I like' and 'what works in the real world' often have little in common. It's a paradox that the most loyal audience of any particular entertainment product...the group which becomes the most ardent and critically discerning of the content...eventually grows _AWAY_ from sharing a commonality of interest with the broader market that enables the product to grow and prosper. Very often the concepts and preferences of the most 'astute' segment of the audience become the least relevant. You'll see disaffection set in as seeing things contextually becomes a challenge that runs counter to the 'enjoyment factor' which lead to them 'getting into' the content in the first place.
On the Internet you'll see this backlash where booking concepts and performers which _DRAW MONEY_ are often labeled as 'bad'...while concepts that have little appeal outside of tunnel vision are considered 'right think'. It's blatant context dropping of why' pro wres exists in the first place. An adult age fan either gets enjoyment out of seeing the 'big picture', grows too disaffected to get much enjoyment out of it at all (usually dropping out entirely or at least intermittently) or continues to watch with the mind of a child (not a good thing for an adult).
At the very least tafkaga you can take solace in the fact that you're a fan 'who gets' the broader implications and challenges of long time fandom!
Like Watching Paint Dry (Russo was successful because he brought pro wres up to speed with pop culture trends and matched the content to what appealed to the broadest common denominator...his most enduring and widespread creative influence was writing television which broke through the heretofore unbreakable 'fourth wall')
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