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It's so odd how the company has slid into what it is content-wise now. It feels like we've had the same thing for a long time, but when you look at what WWE is now to what it was, the difference is jarring. It's just...a fucked presentation, haha.
I used to think of Vince as a promo guy, but no one talks really well anymore. Everyone has a script and they just stand around and try and sound witty and eloquent without offending anyone. It's like...where are the balls in these promos? Vince always seemed like a guy who was all about the presentation of people as stars and these star personalities, but now he's almost phobic of anyone with genuine charisma.
The work in the ring is so fucking gentrified. It's one of my least favorite aspects of wrestling today. Everyone does the exact match, they just have different "trademark moves" that you just slot into the position. They really do wrestle like video game characters that have been programmed to all have a few specials. It's so fucking gross, and I object to the suggestion you occasionally hear that the work is better now than it's ever been, because the matches are longer and there are lots of great wrestlers on the roster. None of them can hold my attention because their work isn't organic and structured to make me believe in them or invest any emotion. They aren't working properly.
The promos suck, the ring work sucks, the personalities suck, the presentation is this bright pinwheel of slogans and gloss. I just want the work back in the WWE, with some genuine stars who talk shit and wrestle like they're in something that's actually competitve, instead of the socialist compound that wrestling has become. I want the politics and the backstage shoot for position to come back, because that at least made something about the business real. That the top guy had a spot they wanted to protect instead of petitioning for Zack Ryder to get a token run with a belt.
The business has got no balls to it anymore. No one means it and the only people that are getting into it are geek marks that kind of perpetuate the tropes that get in the way, because we're all so used to them. No one tries to work anymore, and weirdly enough people think that working is "bad" and disrespectful to fans or whatever. People have forgotten what the goal of this is, and why that makes the business so fascinating.
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