Thought of the Day: How The Kayfabe Has Fallen
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So often these are the same people that whine and complain about how bored they are with modern wrestling, yet when a character on a wrestling show does something different or old school like this, the “fans’ freak out about how stupid it is. Is Hogan telling the truth? No, but then again neither is almost anyone on the show when they say anything at all.
Here’s a little something for you all to chew on: isn’t it interesting that the two peaks of wrestling, the Golden Era of the 80s and the Attitude Era, were all about being as unrealistic as possible? It’s almost like the formula that made wrestling work in the first place (this is all fake and the fans are just along for the ride) never needed to be tweaked at all and when it does, the results are nowhere near as successful.
Then again that would mean that internet fans and smarks are mostly schnooks that have no idea what they’re talking about and are nowhere near as smart as they think they are and are actually bad for the business. That just couldn’t be true, could it?
I’d say it goes both ways though. Wrestling being fake is all well and good and I like it like that but if that’s the case then stay off Twitter with it. What annoys me is when Brooke Hogan goes on Twitter after Lockdown and goes “it’s so real the pain!” and then she’s getting married in real life. It’s like, keep the TV on the TV. I don’t see Neil Patrick Harris tweeting in character as Barney Stinson. The show is the show and if you want to follow the stories on it, watch it.
The lie is love.
To me the issue was the silliness of seeing TJ selling the beatdown as if it was Ace’s And Eights that did it. Not to mention how he went from a mysterious badass in a costume to a beat up average guy “trying to put food on the table for his family and make ends meet”.
Articles like this is why I come to this site. Thanks KB.