It sounds really simple, doesn't it? You would think that hiring people who have some sort of background in wrestling would be easy to do, but instead, WWE continues to try and reach out to soap opera writers and other Hollywood types, and it becomes clearer and clearer that these people didn't grow up as wrestling fans. When you have people writing wrestling shows that weren't/aren't wrestling fans, it shows. I'm not a sci-fi fan at all, and if you asked me to write the next Star Wars movie, holy hell, would my ignorance show. It makes so much sense that I often stop and wonder if I'm crazy for thinking it, since it doesn't seem to be happening in actuality. I'm not saying WWE needs to hold an open casting call to every Joe Schmoe who wrote an e-fed show once in their lives, but Lord knows it can be valuable to have writers capable of catering to the fans because they were those people sitting on their couches or in the arenas at one point. They know what they want to see during shows, so they write from that perspective. Different aspects can come from different writers, all of the same "genre". Go back to the e-fed example for a moment... most e-feds have a team of writers, not just because it would be difficult for one person to write every match on every show, but because some people excel in certain categories. You might have this e-fed writer who excels in writing hardcore-style matches. You might have that e-fed writer who excels in character development and writing angles. This other e-fed writer might excel in pacing an entertaining technical match. When you put them all together, they make for a fun show from top to bottom. Why can't we have that in real life? I know I'm not asking for too much.
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