10 Things Only '90s Wrestling Fans Will Understand
2. Wrestling Is Meant To Be Fun
Remember when Edge was a laugh?
Edge used to have patter. He used to have a quick wit. Once upon a time, were Randy Orton to have insisted he continued to stay away, Edge might have said something funny in response, like "I didn't actually realise I was out that long, Randall, but it might as well be 2011 for how much has f*cking changed with you around".
Something like that.
Yes yes career-ending injuries aren't exactly fertile gag material but for f*ck's sake, lighten up a bit. You can say entertaining sh*t even in the context of a programme high on personal animosity. It's called trash talk. It's called entertainment.
The WWF was fun in 1998, but if Steve Austin and Mr. McMahon clashed heads under the pen of this creative team, it's not getting over. McMahon is constantly reminding Austin that he was fired from WCW. Austin is telling us all that he scratched and clawed to make it to the WWF, as if he is not a badass pro wrestler but rather a house cat.
It's so tediously intense nowadays, as if it's somehow more believable that way. Edge's "grit" quota gives the script away somewhat so maybe give him the kazoo back or something. Anything.