WWE opening segment's becoming like Groundhog Day?

[GW_Hart86]

Is it just me? or does anyone else feel like the WWE is becoming like Groundhog Day with the RAW and SmackDown opening segments every week?

I really feel let down lately by the WWE creative team and storyline writers attempts at entertaining us every week with really boring and repetitive material. I watched RAW and SmackDown this week and their opening segments were almost identical and so predictable that I actually knew what was going to happen before it actually happened!

SmackDown has been like this for a while (especially with Teddy Long as GM) but RAW has only in recent weeks started to become like this and I'm getting really bored with the whole thing.

Thoughts.....

 

[hello]

Yea, especially SD. Teddy Long has been the GM for what, 7 years? he's boring as hell and says the same thing every week... "hold up playas, it aint goin down like that, it's gonna be (superstar 1 and 2) vs (superstar 3 and 4) in a tag team match, holla holla"

Raw's more or less the same thing with Cena coming out and getting interrupted, or a heel starting the show and Cena interrupting him. Time to change things... start with a match, or have the opening segment NOT involve Cena or Orton (imagine that!)

 

[Wade's Public Transit Bomb]

You haven't been watching for very long, have you?


I think the promo is that the opening segments lately just haven't been very good. Just look at the past week: Raw started with a crowd killer that was followed by two total bombs and a crazy, ranting black man. The crazy, ranting black man was the only good part of the whole thing, but he was in and out of there too fast to save the segment. Over on SD, it starts with a guy who kept going on and on and on and on about the fucking peeps. The same fucking peeps who choose to lose their shit over Randy Orton as oppose to be being sad that you lost your title last week.

I know a lot of people on the internet shitted all over the Nexus angle last year, but it was at least refreshing to a) see a new guy get so much damn heat and b) said new guy actually hold everything together.

 

[Iversen]

You know what I liked? I liked it when we opened mid beat down with, I believe, Edge and Evan Bourne. It instantly caught your attention because 1) it was fresh and new and 2) you automatically wanted to know what was happening. Of course you can't do that every week because then it would become like the already mentioned stuff.

It was the same during the guest host concept. It nearly always started with the guest host coming down speaking, a heel coming down to interupt and then Cena or another face coming down to help out.

They just need to mix it up a bit. Sometimes start with a match sometimes start with a promo. It doesn't need to be amazing eye catch TV every week but it needs to be different. Sadly neither SD, Raw or Impact to be honest seem to be able to do that.

 

[whoopin' ass]

it has become formula tv because that is what the audience wants. think of movies over the last few years - how many remakes have you seen? how may movies have the same basic plot as another movie? yet they all make enough money to be considered successful. same here. the wwe know what their audience wants and gives it to them. after a ppv, you can tell who won the title match by the first person who comes out, or doesn't come out. for example, miz and cena. miz is the heel champ and loses to cena. first thing on the show, cena comes out to celebrate. this happens anytime the face beats the heel. usually they hold off on the heel coming out until later in the show if they retain the title. truth is, without wcw being on the air before them and wwe having to be creative to grab people attention, they have fallen into a pattern. when wcw was around and started a hour before them, they needed to do something unusual to grab viewers away. this carried over to smackdown since that was the mindset they were in. over the last 10 years, they have gotten away from that.

just remember, when i say audience, i mean their wwe universe and fans who can remember a time when cena was not even in the title picture don't neccessarily fall into that catagorie anymore.

 

[JJ15776]

You haven't been watching for very long, have you?

My thoughts EXACTLY. I lol'ed at "recent weeks" because it's been this way for...what, 16 years or so? They pretty much always use the opening segment to set up the main event.

Sometimes things are predictable or repititive because they work. A face coming out to save another face from two heels to set up a tag team match just makes sense. Sure, it'd be nice if they tried something different or inventive...but that's not easy to do, and they really have no reason to do so. They're #1, they're going to stay #1, so play it safe and go with what you know works.

 

[blueskyy]

Opening isn't new... but the matches were. That's what I look out for. That's what entertained me -- the matches. Well... some people like to gossip, some like to bicker... I don't do neither... that's just me... I'm very happy with what I've been seeing on Smackdown these 2 weeks. No complaint from me.

 

[Reddog1146]

I liked it when the draft came on and the first thing you saw was people fighting in a battle royal. That got my attention because i wanted the draft to start ASAP and they delivered. Also i did not expect it, it was a nice change. Smackdown did something like that when they moved to SyFy and they had the MVP vs Dolph Ziggler match for the IC title to start the show. That was great, they need to mix it up more. Sometimes open with promos, sometimes with matches,. That way i do not have a reason to work for thirty minutes with the show paused to fast forward through the boring stuff.