>>7344356I'm retarded.
I always had this notion that overreacting or getting really into it wasn't necessarily the same as the person believing it was all completely real.
It's a pain in the ass to explain even in my own head. But I think even if someone knows something like the wrestling show they're watching is fake or scripted, they also know that it tries to present itself as real. Usually, when a wrestler fucked up a spot or made a mistake trying to sell something, the wrestlers wouldn't just stop in their tracks and tell the audience "Wait, wait it wasn't supposed to go like that please forget the last 30 seconds" but they just kept on or worked the unexpected event into their story.
I think there are fans who even knowing its fake, would see this and then say "well then if I stop this person from hurting my favorite character, they will" because they know they will roll with the punches a bit. Unlike jumping up on a stage and trying to save Romeo and Juliet where they'd break it up, stop the play, then probably resume it pretending it never happened.
So it's like the wrestling fans know they might be able to effect the script, even a little. Kind of like playing pretend with them.
Obvious this isn't saying every fan who jumped a rail was like this, there were plenty of people fearing for the life of a wrestler with no acknowledgement of it being fake. But I think the people I describe existed too to some degree. It's the only way I can sleep at night I guess, I don't want to believe absolutely everyone was 110% or seeing it like a cartoon.
Does this shit make sense to anyone else?
I'm retarded.
