Misc. Stuff, mostly wrestling

[redfiona99]

I'm kind of a bit bleh about how badly my wrestling fics are progressing, and how many of them are set in the way past. Part of the problem is that try as I might I cannot get back into wrestling.

I can't watch any WWE, not on a regular basis, and the one Smackdown I did see gave me something I would have enjoyed immensely back when I was a regular viewer (Kane, with a world title, yay!!) and yet it was causing almost zero response. I say almost zero, because it was Kane, with a title, and Paul Bearer and it's not my fault that that gives me a warm glow.

So, instead, I'm watching the occasional bit of TNA, which has decided that making sense is for other people. In the roughly 6 hours of TNA I have watched in the past two months, the only segment that caught my interest was the one with Angle and Jarrett where Tazz made the save, because you've got your good guy doing the right thing, despite no-one else coming out and doing anything about it (although, by the way, way to make your entire roster of good guys look like wimps twice in one show, TNA).

In many ways, that's part of the problem, of that trio, they were all world champions at least 10 years ago, where are all the shiny new people? I swear there used to be shiny new people in TNA. What happened to that?

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On to happier news, it pleases me that there is still one country in the world where, if you're the best swordsman in the country, you get shiny things. Like publicity shots. And, in the case of Aldo Montano, a deodorant ad campaign that verges on the obscene (in the good way).

However, since I can't find the ad, have a publicity still of Andrea Cassara



Why yes, my sport has the most attractive body shape ;)

And also swords, I recall giving extra points for swords before now.

Comments

[angstbunny.livejournal.com]

TNA, which has decided that making sense is for other people

LOL, but isn't that the epitome of wrestling in general?

There were shiny people in TNA for about five minutes back in 2005.

Burned out.

[opera142.livejournal.com]

I hear ya on the lack of response. I watch out of habit, when I watch at all. I feel like a tourist, enjoying (or not) what's happening on v. superficial level and nothing more.

I think the problem is, not only are there old tired faces, but they aren't even the old tired faces I like. No Christian, Punk or Jericho.

It's like both feds are so busy trying to capture lighting in a bottle, that they've forgotten wrestling itself can be that. And so it's become TNA swearing just to swear, and WWE lurching ever more slowly toward PPV that seem to be coming every 3 weeks now.

[one-more-cherry.livejournal.com]

As always in this business, the shiny new people get held down by the Old People Who Think They Run The Show :p

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

I swear they used to be more coherent. Either that, or I was paying more attention.

I miss the steady flow of potentially shiny new people.

Re: Burned out.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

I do think the trying to fake the lightning is the problem. Because even when it's old faces I like I'm getting nothing out of it. For example, I should be all over Fourtune (or however they're spelling it) but, despite them being half made up of people I adore, they bore me.