[un]Creative mess

In this update the topic is the writer's, and the apparent lack of knowledge they seem to have about wrestling. It's not difficult to see why the shows are so poor. All you need to do is have a look at the WWE's official website and check the job's section. Any writing job openings require the candidate to have experience in television writing. That's it. There is nothing about wrestling knowledge. All you need, is to have experience in writing for a television show. As long as you can make up stories, the rest is not important. So what if you don't have a clue about how to build feuds in a wrestling company? You know how to capture the audience with great soap opera style twists and tension. This is what the WWE needs.

This week's Raw was a fantastic example of bad writing [and bad decisions]. You have a multiple time champion and the long time number 1 guy in the company with an injury, so to keep him active, you put him in one of the worst story lines I have seen in wrestling [probably not the worst, but it's right up there]. You have a female wrestler who has been on top of the women's division for the past few years, and she loses a match to the former Raw GM, then the match gets restarted, allowing her to win. No matter though, not long later she is fired for not getting the job done properly. Now add to that the fact that you have the same finishing segment to Raw being put out over and over again, basically ending with CM Punk running like a frightened little girl and Ryback standing in the ring to 'Feed me more' chants. Wait a minute? Didn't they just have a match at a PPV and didn't Ryback get beaten? So his little streak is over now right? Then why is this story still continuing? There is just no way Ryback was or is going to win the title any time soon because there is no way The Rock is going to return to fight him at the Royal Rumble.

Raw is currently at it's worst. The writers, or whoever is in charge of them, have no clue what to do, so they keep churning out the same stuff every week. I can just imagine the conversations they have around the table. 'Oh that Ryback kfinish got a lot of heat and put him over at the end of the show. Let's do that again.' Only they probably don't use terms like 'heat' and 'being over' in the writer's room since they have no idea about wrestling. It's not the writers that are to blame here though, it's the WWE. Obviously a writer with 'experience in writing for TV' is going to apply for a job in a big company that pays well, if it's available. It's the WWE who make this pathetic criteria for getting a job and hire these people. Then we find out that they are unhappy with the fan reaction at the last Raw and PPV before that. Is it so surprising that proper wrestling fans might be a little pissed off with what they pay a lot of money to go see? Not to me it's not.