Stop piping in the crowd reactions you want on taped shows like Smackdown. Stop editing the wrong reactions out of taped shows like Smackdown. Its terrible, terrible programming, and the audience can tell the difference between cheap, piped in heat and organic, real life heat. It destroys the illusion youre trying to create, and ruins that all-important suspension of disbelief. If your performer isnt getting the right reactions, try looking at why that is and fixing the problem, not faking the reaction you want for television in an attempt to train the people at home into reacting the right way. Its weird. Were not performing monkeys. We care about who we care about, were not going to start cheering for people were not interested in just because we saw a show where you manufactured a fake pop. If youve got a marquee performer you want to get over, take the time to do it properly and have the good grace to change your plans if theyre not working out and if someone else seems to be inexplicably getting over when they werent supposed to, try giving them the ball and letting them run with it. Messing with crowd reactions on Smackdown (at tapings and in the editing suite) to make it seem as if someones over when theyre not is some seriously manipulative crap and it doesnt actually work. Stop it at once.
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