Thoughts about WWE. Who is your current favourite?
I used to be quite interested in the WWE (then called the "WWF") back in the 1980s when I was a teenager but, other than watching it briefly again at the turn of the century, have pretty much gone away from it until the last few weeks. I feel these days like I need something mindless to watch to take my mind off of work and what could be more mindless than the WWE?
I have noticed a few things while watching again recently:
There isn't much of an attempt being made to pretend that this is real anymore. When I look at my TV guide on TIVO, they actually list the main attraction for RAW that coming week such as Shane McMahon returning to confront his father or Undertaker returning to confront Mr. McMahon about his upcoming Wrestlemania match against Shane.
I know that we have all aged over the past 15 years or so but Shane really has btw.
I love how the camera closest to the action will move up and down with every punch or elbow smash so that you can't tell as easily that a connection is not being made. However, it seems more apparent than ever just how fake the whole thing is from the regular camera angles.
I have thought over the last 15 to 20 years that this is really no different than a soap opera. Hell, the currently storyline involving the McMahons could have been taken from the old TV show Dallas.
Who is your current WWE favourite? I would have to say that mine are Dean Ambrose and The New Day. Ambrose takes a licking, enjoys it and keeps on ticking. The New Day are just fun to watch. The new thing these days seems to be these three or four man tag teams. I am amused by the League of Nations and the Social Outcasts as well. Calisto, btw, should ditch his tag team partner and just wrestle individually as he never wins in tag team matches. Finally, I am not a Brock Lesnar fan but do enjoy listening to his advocate, Paul Heyman, speak his words of wisdom.
Whatever happened to Linda McMahon?