Here is a simple question for Vince McMahon: On your television show Monday Night Raw, do your wrestlers know there is a cameraman in front of them at all times or not? He would either be unable to answer that, or say that they sometimes do and sometimes they dont. This is the showrunner of a television show that airs worldwide who has not developed a consistent logic for the presentation of his own narrative. How is that possible? If a wrestler is cutting a backstage promo with Renee Young or JoJo, they clearly see the camera in front of them and know its there. Otherwise, why would they be talking to someone with a microphone? But if they are walking around backstage, they dont appear to know they are being recorded. Lets take the September 14 edition of Raw for an example. Dolph Ziggler gave Summer Rae a present at ringside. Behind Rusevs back she took the gift, which is stupid enough, since he will either watch the show later, or one of his friends will, and let him know what happened. But when they got to the back, Rusev went in the locker room and Summer paused in the hall briefly, looking around to see if anyone was watching her open the gift. Yes, three million people were watching, because there was someone filming her two feet in front of her face! There have been so many cases of heels scheming backstage, and yet none of the friends of the faces bother to tell them whats about to happen. Were just supposed to assume that we can see this...and the announcers...but not the other wrestlers? Why? Weve seen countless times that wrestlers watch matches on backstage TVs! It happens almost every week. So what do they see on the TVs when the show goes to the backstage areas? Nothing? How has something so amazingly simple never been figured out?
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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