I've been meaning to write about this for a while now. I guess it's been almost a month
since the wwf did the angle with the Rock and the ambulance attack. They say a picture is
worth a thousand words, so first, here's the picture, and then I'll give you the thousand
words anyway.
Now, let's look back at some thoughts I wrote down the day after that angle, but never posted here:
The biggest problem with Raw was that they did a huge angle with the nwo attacking
the rock, putting him in an ambulance, and then destoying the ambulance with a semi. That
itself wasn't the biggest problem, the problem was the way they portrayed it afterwards.
They took forever to move on, and when they did, they had everyone come out looking
concerned, and not into their matches... and the BIGGEST problem is the way the annoucers
handled it. I am not a big fan of when injury angles are taken that deathly seriously.
It's the same problem from the royal rumble 2001, where they did an injury angle with chyna.
I'm not dumb enough to believe that rock was actually in the damn ambulance when they
destoyed it, so I feel it's insulting my intelligance when they try to portray what just
happened as "real life" rather than just as part of the show. If it's part of the show,
oh, they did an injury angle, rock'll be off tv for a week or two... get some vacation time
in, whatever. I can deal with that, and buy into the storyline as much as I do any other
storyline. But when they play it as "real" I have to say horseshit. There is a time and
a place reserved to be that serious, and that time is when things really ARE that serious.
Like the night Owen died. Heaven forbid it ever happens again, but if it did, I wouldn't
want to think, oh, it's all just part of the show, JR and Lawler are acting just like they
always do when they do a stunt like this. I wasn't watching the ppv the night Owen fell,
but I was watching Thunder some three years ago the night Buff Bagwell was paralyzed in the
ring, after Rick Steiner f'd up a bulldog. Buff really was hurt, he was temporaily
paralyzed, and the show, live, stopped for about 45 minutes while they tended to him.
Now we all know he eventually recovered, they used his injury as the basis for a couple
angles, and he went on to be a mediocere wrestler. But it was serious when it happened,
and if I'd seen the same basic thing happen a half dozen times before that, but they guy
was back two weeks later, I might not have realized it was serious, and just figured it was
another stunt. I don't want that to be the case. And that's why I don't like those angles
to be taken that seriously.
And that's what I think about that. This is what was wrong with that angle. This is what
was and in many ways still is wrong with the wwf. And what really blows the mind, is that
three weeks later, Rock and Hogan are apparently friends, forgeting all about this
vehicular assult/attempted murder. I really do wish the WWF would acknowledge that fans
have a memory that streches more than a week back in time. Tie up your loose ends once
in a while. Eh?
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