>>5643699I think you misunderstand my post and my point. My argument was that people who watch AEW year-round for most weeks - it doesn't have to be 100.0% of weeks - are not going to suddenly flip the channel to follow some random NBA match-up.
All TV shows have different components of their audience - their die-hards, their usually-watchers, and casuals (with shades of gray in-between). AEW by all appearances is catering too much to their die-hards who would - and I mean this literally - tune in to watch a 60 minute ironman match between Dax Harwood and Jungle Boy, and they'd cheer and whoop and holler for the entire time, and afterwards, would proclaim it an instant classic.
Do you think casuals want to watch that shit? Do you think the usual-watchers want that? Nobody other than die hards want matches like that. That's hyperbole obviously, but it's not hard to apply that same kind of thinking to a match like Cole vs Harwood that went 15 minutes last night. It's just unnecessary. Give the crowd 8-10 minutes, get your offense in, get your shitty finish in and end the match. If there's enough demand, have a rematch in a few weeks (or whenever Cole is eliminated from the tourney).
But the AEW formula right now clearly isn't working. You can't have 30 second promos and 12 minute matches, it doesn't work. If we can't get the entertainment and persona-enhancing stuff on Dynamite/Rampage, they could at least add it to Dark/Elevation. And the characters/segments that get the biggest response on D/E, you try them out on D/R. But the show has to be about more than unnecessarily long matches just for the sake of having longer match times and an otherwise stale product.
