What's with this hankering for TV 14?
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Farrrooq Garrett Bischoff said:
The difference between now and then is that there were more wrestlers with gimmicks. Now wrestlers are just people with the exception of very few and the gimmicks back then were more over the top than the ones now.
What I think went wrong is that the Attitude Era brought about this age of realness. Less gimmicks and more real people and it worked because people weren't limited as to what they wanted to say because of TV-14.
When PG came back WWE failed to recognize what made it successful were the gimmicks. Now there's a whole bunch of wrestlers who are just people and not as over the top like the 80's. It's like trying to run the attitude era under PG, as if trying to satisfy both types of fans. It's not working IMO, it's similar to the reason why Jerry Springer isn't PG, it doesn't work well because then it'd just be civil people talking out their differences and who wants to see that.
