Game Of Thrones - even the necessarily trimmed down TV adaptation - features a cast of dozens of different characters, with all manner of different personas and motivations. WWE? Not so much. First of all, the roster as it stands is alarmingly short on babyfaces, a problem that WWE have known about for a while and utterly failed to fix. Now, with so many of their fan favourite performers on the shelf, the roster isnt so much thin, as skeletal. Secondly - all kinds of wrestlers work on a card. Back in the days of the Attitude Era, not everything worked (people have rose-tinted spectacles when it comes to looking back on the WWFs product back then) but everyone had a role to play, and everyone had some form of storyline: the lower card guys were never lost in the shuffle like they are in 2015. Today, WWE has arguably its best ever roster in terms of ability, both on the mic and in the ring. Most of those quality performers have nothing to do: no personalities, no storylines they just aimlessly wander around backstage in their underwear, waiting for a match thatll probably never be booked. Good god of gamblers, but thats a sad sentence to type. Game Of Thrones gives even the smallest characters something to work with: motivations, personalities, a role to play, or even just some cracking dialogue before they get axed in the face. No one gets left on the shelf. WWE need to think about how they can apply that ethos to their own roster of performers, because right now theyre wasting the best years of their employees careers.
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