FromTheSouth
You don't want it with me.
Well, Spawn, I can't say I disagree entirely with you. I do agree that the writing is shitty, but my opinion is that it is because average writers aren't given much to work with. The company chooses who to push, so the writers have to make it work, and it gets old. I'm not going to paste the whole message, but I will rebut a bit.
First of all, I think the bad story lines have more to do with the brand split than anything else. The writers have to write 75% of the time about the titles. Too many titles ruin the soup, more than too many cooks. If you took your top writers and told them to write 40% of the show about the champions, you could work a staff for midcard, for cruisers, for women, etc. I agree that specialists are needed, the only problem being, in the current state, those shitty writers are writing the top storylines. I believe that one championship storyline would improve the card all the way down. Feel free to disagree, my logic could be wrong.
I like Finaly too, no argument here. As I said above, if written correctly, everyone would be given a shot. There are only certain guys that deserve time EVERY show. The way the WWE works, you can use 4-6 of them in one tag match, that including promos takes up 20 minutes of a show. All the feuds and histories can be tied up neatly into a package. I look at WWE like a TV show. I was a fan of the West Wing. That show had 8 major characters, all with two story lines about them. But so many of the storylines overlapped, that resolution, or at least continuance could happen for multiple angles at the same time. The WWE needs to be creative, but I think a well rounded show featuring several characters weekly seems attainable, especially with 4 to 5 hours of time to do it in.
Tag feuds take seconds to start. TNA does this effectively time and again jsut by having one team interrupt an interview and taking it from there. If Cody Rhodes and Holly are telling Diva Search Winner Todd Grisham about how dominant they are, and Cantino come up and tell them about their singles losses, you can start a match. If London and Kendrick talk about loving the fans and Cade and Murdoch walk up and tell them that they better love the fans because they don't have the size to compete, we can find out after this break. A tag match doesn't take a lot of build-up. A singles feud does. A singles feud needs motivation for two "loners" (all wrestlers seem to be loner tweeners now) to have a conflict. With tag teams, the psychology goes that one is braver with his backup next to him. Shit is talked, bonds are forged, hostilities heated, and so on.
ECW already looks like a minor league show. I jsut want Kane off of it. Why does Kane have to be champion of the shit characters while Snitsky gets to fight HHH?
I grant you that competition kept ratings up, but there is no competition now. TNA would get crushed by WWE head to head, based merely on brand recognition. The WWE needs a way to get ratings up. You have to figure that some of the roughly 10 million viewers go in and out of shows based on a weekly basis. If you have compelling storylines, there is a likelihood that all the people who watched last week, will watch again, and the guys who missed last week, but are tuned in this week would be added. Now instead of 5 million hardcore week to week fans can be added to the 10 million on and off guys, Make WWE must see tv again. You don't need TNA or WCW to do that, you need good stories. With more combinations of feuds, I think it is more easily attainable with a brandsplit.
First of all, I think the bad story lines have more to do with the brand split than anything else. The writers have to write 75% of the time about the titles. Too many titles ruin the soup, more than too many cooks. If you took your top writers and told them to write 40% of the show about the champions, you could work a staff for midcard, for cruisers, for women, etc. I agree that specialists are needed, the only problem being, in the current state, those shitty writers are writing the top storylines. I believe that one championship storyline would improve the card all the way down. Feel free to disagree, my logic could be wrong.
I like Finaly too, no argument here. As I said above, if written correctly, everyone would be given a shot. There are only certain guys that deserve time EVERY show. The way the WWE works, you can use 4-6 of them in one tag match, that including promos takes up 20 minutes of a show. All the feuds and histories can be tied up neatly into a package. I look at WWE like a TV show. I was a fan of the West Wing. That show had 8 major characters, all with two story lines about them. But so many of the storylines overlapped, that resolution, or at least continuance could happen for multiple angles at the same time. The WWE needs to be creative, but I think a well rounded show featuring several characters weekly seems attainable, especially with 4 to 5 hours of time to do it in.
Tag feuds take seconds to start. TNA does this effectively time and again jsut by having one team interrupt an interview and taking it from there. If Cody Rhodes and Holly are telling Diva Search Winner Todd Grisham about how dominant they are, and Cantino come up and tell them about their singles losses, you can start a match. If London and Kendrick talk about loving the fans and Cade and Murdoch walk up and tell them that they better love the fans because they don't have the size to compete, we can find out after this break. A tag match doesn't take a lot of build-up. A singles feud does. A singles feud needs motivation for two "loners" (all wrestlers seem to be loner tweeners now) to have a conflict. With tag teams, the psychology goes that one is braver with his backup next to him. Shit is talked, bonds are forged, hostilities heated, and so on.
ECW already looks like a minor league show. I jsut want Kane off of it. Why does Kane have to be champion of the shit characters while Snitsky gets to fight HHH?
I grant you that competition kept ratings up, but there is no competition now. TNA would get crushed by WWE head to head, based merely on brand recognition. The WWE needs a way to get ratings up. You have to figure that some of the roughly 10 million viewers go in and out of shows based on a weekly basis. If you have compelling storylines, there is a likelihood that all the people who watched last week, will watch again, and the guys who missed last week, but are tuned in this week would be added. Now instead of 5 million hardcore week to week fans can be added to the 10 million on and off guys, Make WWE must see tv again. You don't need TNA or WCW to do that, you need good stories. With more combinations of feuds, I think it is more easily attainable with a brandsplit.
