How come most people clamor for The Attitude Era to be brought back ?

[jminter2698]

Most people say Vince McMahon is out of touch with today's WWE product and maybe in some ways he is. But you Attitude Era fans are just as out of touch than he is, if you think LED lights and high definition graphics on titantrons, turnbuckles on the ring curtains, social networking, selfies, texting on cell phones and older and current WWE programming being available to watch on their own Network which is similar to what Netflix is, is the norm nowadays. The stuff that happened in The Attitude Era was back when you didn't have any of that, except for the Internet but you had to deal with really slow connections, the websites were very primitive and we didn't have YouTube yet, no Facebook and Twitter and it even pre-dated MySpace. The quality of the programming may have been better and that's what you really want back, but do you really want to go back to not having what we have right now ? (no cell phones, tablets and no YouTube). If anything this generation allows us to do things that we couldn't just a few decades ago, you couldn't even snap pictures on your cell phones back then, and the pictures we did get looked like crap. Part of me does say I'm glad those years are over.

 

[RedDwarfTechy]

I doubt anyone wants to time travel when they say they want the attitude era back.

For most part I reckon they just want the edgyness back in the stories and not have it all be PG.

Time travel is cool tho.

 

[The Sheik]

Nobody says that. You can't bring back an era.

The Attitude Era happened because they were going to war with WCW so they were showing more 'attitude' if you will.. They don't have any direct competition anymore.

I think you mean the fans want TV-14 back, and that's only because WWE will have more freedom to do what they want.. They're not aloud to do that anymore with all the sponsors and shareholders and all that bullshit.

 

[Redboy123@]

People just want the the good elements form the attitude era back. IMO they are foolish and are looking through rose tinted glasses. Everything was so much better in the past. sport, films, TV, music and of course wrestling. Stop looking back in the past and enjoy the present and look forward to the future.

Its only natural for people to think the past is so much better. I think thats why Hollywood have no new ideas and put out shit Star Wars movies every year.

 

[Irwin R. Schyster]

I've never heard or read wrestling fans asking for the attitude era back...Either way, times have changed, it would not fly today, so, there would be no point in bringing it back, anyway.

 

[Grievous 3D]

Because the Attitude Era was insane, interesting
& weird and was populated by actual characters.

Sure most of the wrestling was pretty ordinary when
compared to today's standards...but at least it was
creative & fun...at least everyone seemed unique
& different from each other...at least they weren't
afraid to book some matches with some insane
& weird ideas that actually worked as entertainment.

We don't need the Attitude Era back...we just need
some of those "larger than life" interesting characters
in this day & age.

Every heel is an arrogant prick...
Every face is a down to earth goofball...
&
Everyone just seems the same.

I remember watching an episode of RAW that featured
an opening promo by the Rock which also featured an
appearance by: Mankind, Triple H, Kane, Chris Benoit
& Kurt Angle...all 6 of those guys were their own unique
character meaning they were all interesting in their own
different way.

Now...everyone seems the fucking same.

I swear one of the main reasons Nakamura & Asuka
are popular is because their different...only because
they're Japanese...but at least that's something.

Finn Balor & Becky Lynch are Irish...I mean that kind
of gives them character right? They have an accent?
That counts right?

All I'm saying is the Attitude Era was more interesting &
fun & I think WWE fans want the product to be interesting
and fun again.

And I'll be honest...I'd rather hear the television crowds
cheers for someone & be happy with the product...instead
of them booing some greasy haired Samoan out of the building
every night.

Keep the wrestling the same...but actually write something
interesting for these performers to do & develop them as
characters.

Keep it PG-13...just make it interesting.

Its fucking wrestling...let it be theatrical!

For fuck sake...if Lucha Underground can do it...then the WWE
with all their money & resources surely could do the same but
even better.

 

[Koko B.]

So that we never have to hear a superstar say sufferin succotash again.

 

[Grievous 3D]

So that we never have to hear a superstar say sufferin succotash again.

Oh that's so good...I have tears in my eyes from laughing!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

 

[Jacob Fox]

Well first I have to point out your thread title is misleading from the scenario you present. Bringing the Attitude Era back is not quite the same as traveling back in time to the AE or changing everything in the world to the state it was during the AE. Bringing it back would mainly be bringing back the elements that made it successful.

People tend to see the past as better than the present. It's hardly a new phenomenon. Most people tend to even look at the past and view their past difficulties as less dire than their current ones.

That being said, I've never heard a single person ever say they want to time travel and live in the past during the Attitude Era ever again. However, if one were to reverse time to live in a period of time where smartphones, ipads and today's internet didn't exist, one would assume that person would have no knowledge of those things and therefore could not miss them. Hell, I was in my early 20s during that time and I was pretty happy with the current advancement of technology and video games and the internet. You cannot miss what you don't know exists.

I doubt anyone who did go back to that time to relive the AE would want to retain their memory.of the time before them, because if they did, they could just watch the AE on the WWE Network.

 

[edge4ever]

I doubt anyone wants to time travel when they say they want the attitude era back.

For most part I reckon they just want the edgyness back in the stories and not have it all be PG.

Time travel is cool tho.

This

 

[Solid Snake]

This would be a waste of time travel.

As for "bringing it back" that would not only be stupid but impossible. During this time, they had to rely on doing things that were not only questionable but honest down right wrong. They had a bunch of men and women running around the place not following guidelines or sticking to scripts/story lines. Some were severely overpaid while others were severely underpaid. It was run more like a frat house than a business. Sure, there were good memories some of you may have had but had they kept going that direction, I am almost 100% certain WWE would not be around today.

I don't know a single person who wants that era back. I know of several who would prefer WWE to be more open with scripts and allow creative freedom to their wrestlers though.

 

[Redboy123@]

If the attitude era was in 2018 smarks moan about all the matches being less then 3 minutes and Stone Cold only doing 5 moves.

 

[Jacob Fox]

I think that another good point is that the Attitude Era ran its course. WWE continued doing the content with the more excessive violence and sexual related story lines well into the 2000s. And I think most people got sick of it. The AE worked at the time with the wrestlers they had and because it hadn't been done in wrestling before. It's been done and it's best to go a new direction.

The Attitude Era is actually the reason I took the one and only hiatus from watching wrestling in my entire life. I didn't like that direction for pro wrestling and to get me to stop watching it, that says something about it.

 

[Jacob Fox]

If the attitude era was in 2018 smarks moan about all the matches being less then 3 minutes and Stone Cold only doing 5 moves.

I doubt that complaint would be limited to smarks.

 

[Solid Snake]

They would be complaining about waaaaay more than 3 minute matches and Stone Cold...

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