10 Fake WWE Moments You Can't Un-See
1. Memorising The Promo
As with most forms of traditional fiction, the idea is to make the audience get lost in the story.
Through the magic glow of the television screen, they want to believe what they are seeing is real. The world might even be ridiculous, but if the characters believe and feel authentic within it, it makes sense, in its own daft context, when the viewer is locked in a certain frame of mind.
WWE often makes this quite difficult by asking athletes with no prior acting experience to recite pages upon pages of scripts. Unhelpfully, they ask these non-actors to say something that nobody would say in real life. In, to compound things, a bizarre, uncanny cadence.
They speak...like this...before getting...to the next line...and this way of speaking...makes it all too easy to realise...that they are struggling to remember...the words of a writer...who was considered too much of a hack by the producers of real TV shows, even Scream Queens.
This is more "can't un-hear" than "can't un-see", and poor AJ Galante could not have done more on NXT 2.0 recently to expose the fact that the promos in WWE are heavily scripted.
The poor f*cker looked more lost than Amelia Earhart.
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