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Quoted By: >>10485321 >>10485384
TV audiences connect with individual characters and always have. People have their favorites, the people they root for and want to see succeed, no different from wrestling.
One reason I stopped watching AEW was because the guys and girls that I liked would disappear for months (or a year) with no explanation, and when they did show up, it was in pointless matches put there to fill time.
If you were watching like a new drama and the guy you really liked vanished with no explanation for a season and a half except for one time where he showed up in a non-speaking role baking bread in the background or something, would you find that to be good television?
What's wrong with having a 30-40 person roster so everyone gets TV time and you're forced to actually WRITE some storylines. Characters can build relationships to each other organically, the storytelling would be more complex. It would feel like a real roster and a real backstage with living breathing people that actually interact with each other.
At least to me, AEW feels like someone running a sim on a wrestling game but with real people. It's a show of exhibition matches. Their "backstage" segments are not believable in the slightest, I don't believe for a second the characters are actually back there interacting. Even WWE at its worst feels like its own universe with unique characters that could plausibly interact and be around each other.
Territories drew money because they had a solid, small core roster of people that the fans saw all the time and got connected to, so they could OCCASIONALLY debut a new character or new threat and it would actually mean something.
One reason I stopped watching AEW was because the guys and girls that I liked would disappear for months (or a year) with no explanation, and when they did show up, it was in pointless matches put there to fill time.
If you were watching like a new drama and the guy you really liked vanished with no explanation for a season and a half except for one time where he showed up in a non-speaking role baking bread in the background or something, would you find that to be good television?
What's wrong with having a 30-40 person roster so everyone gets TV time and you're forced to actually WRITE some storylines. Characters can build relationships to each other organically, the storytelling would be more complex. It would feel like a real roster and a real backstage with living breathing people that actually interact with each other.
At least to me, AEW feels like someone running a sim on a wrestling game but with real people. It's a show of exhibition matches. Their "backstage" segments are not believable in the slightest, I don't believe for a second the characters are actually back there interacting. Even WWE at its worst feels like its own universe with unique characters that could plausibly interact and be around each other.
Territories drew money because they had a solid, small core roster of people that the fans saw all the time and got connected to, so they could OCCASIONALLY debut a new character or new threat and it would actually mean something.
