The supernatural gimmick era is done!

[theheel916]

My general rule is that they just shouldn't have powers. Something like Sting or Abyss is great, because they have their characters that inherently make them special, but they aren't shooting lightning or doing telekinesis. That's where, these days, it becomes a joke to me.

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[Brad Boyd]

Supernatural gimmicks are fine. Wrestlers are no different than actors and superheroes in movies. Yet people want to make wrestlers to be as reality based as possible even to the point of assuming that wrestlers shouldn't have standards to meet as the actors that they are. Hulk Hogan was pretty much a superhuman that can tolerate a ridiculous amount of pain, Undertaker resurrected from the ashes after being burned alive, Fiend teleporting and doing the same shit as Taker etc. It's all the same shit and it's never gonna change.

The problem with a character like Bray is there no creativity behind it. People shit on Bray for being a poor ring worker when he is one of the best mic workers in the company, but yet people shit on his mic skills and his level of charisma too. He wouldn't be put in positions where he's feuding with top stars like Cena and Orton if he was shit and unover. It'd be nice if Bray was given good material instead of these garbage, childish abysmal stuff like the Firefly funhouse.

 

[theheel916]

Supernatural gimmicks are fine. Wrestlers are no different than actors and superheroes in movies. Yet people want to make wrestlers to be as reality based as possible even to the point of assuming that wrestlers shouldn't have standards to meet as the actors that they are. Hulk Hogan was pretty much a superhuman that can tolerate a ridiculous amount of pain, Undertaker resurrected from the ashes after being burned alive, Fiend teleporting and doing the same shit as Taker etc. It's all the same shit and it's never gonna change.

The problem with a character like Bray is there no creativity behind it. People shit on Bray for being a poor ring worker when he is one of the best mic workers in the company, but yet people shit on his mic skills and his level of charisma too. He wouldn't be put in positions where he's feuding with top stars like Cena and Orton if he was shit and unover. It'd be nice if Bray was given good material instead of these garbage, childish abysmal stuff like the Firefly funhouse.

They should be looked at like actors in movies but it doesn’t it comes off as hokey. They worry about corporate and mainstream acceptance more than good creativity

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[CakeWalker]

Wrestlers are carney folk, not actors. That the WWE's problem, and a lot of their fans fault too. Carny boys and girls, aren't going to become actors over night. WWE should just hire actors for some of these characters really.

 

[Deezy]

Hire actors and have stupid rasslin fans harass them online to the point of leaving social media?

Always a good solution

This shit is done badly, if it was a movie, it would be a shitty movie.

 

[CakeWalker]

Hire actors and have stupid rasslin fans harass them online to the point of leaving social media?

Always a good solution

This shit is done badly, if it was a movie, it would be a shitty movie.

I mean wrestlers can be just as affected by social media, just the same way as actors. Not sure what point you are trying to make.

 

[Deezy]

Actors who have been hired for angles have been harassed by stupid ass rasslin fans far more than anyone who took a course from a journeyman jobber.