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Topic Started: Nov 8 2012, 07:55 AM (317 Views)
Lita Maivia
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The only way I support hide Kitazawa flying through space on a giant robot dino is if this dino turns into a flying galleon that takes the name Red Liner/Linersaurus Rex. I also highly request that Kennedy and Lucas (while wearing his entrance coat) get to tag along for the ride (and any extra head punching that needs to be done while hide is juggling three or more pistols).

Also, I want to add that in NGIW I find it very difficult to ignore stuff that's "not supposed to be filmed" because NGIW doesn't follow the television series format in that it's been stated numerous times that it's got a Big Brother-style setup where cameras are placed all throughout NGIW's property to catch all the action.
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Minister Wighty
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What Lita said. Additionally it's just part of the internal consistency. I guess you could just chalk it up to that ill-fated wrestling logic, like how back in the day two tag team members who don't get along and had a fight will wait a whole week to try and confront one another over what happened just so it's on TV, but I'd like to avoid it as much as possible. As much of a supernatural/reality TV/dramatic TV feel this fed has to it I like to remember that it's an e-fed. There don't need to be Big Bads or expository segments and the like. It should probably be presented as wrestling fodder with incredible production values.
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Minister Wighty,Nov 10 2012
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What Lita said. Additionally it's just part of the internal consistency. I guess you could just chalk it up to that ill-fated wrestling logic, like how back in the day two tag team members who don't get along and had a fight will wait a whole week to try and confront one another over what happened just so it's on TV, but I'd like to avoid it as much as possible. As much of a supernatural/reality TV/dramatic TV feel this fed has to it I like to remember that it's an e-fed. There don't need to be Big Bads or expository segments and the like. It should probably be presented as wrestling fodder with incredible production values.

Well, to be fair, pro-wrestling as a whole has been moving in that direction in terms of appearance. Things like the more often use of backstage segments with the invisible camera and/or the parties not acknowledging it, even when doing an interview. WWE has been, admittedly, stopping and going several times throughout the past decade with it even further. Namely with Kane and Undertaker related stuff. As it seems like that's what they want it to be, but then the mixed reaction it gets generally makes them have cold feet about it. Which I think is more of a conditioning matter, and that's a topic for a whole other time.

That said, it isn't like NGIW is without the things you mentioned. Pro-wrestling promos are pretty much expository segments at their heart. And, NGIW has a big bad in a classic sense, or did, and has had a few throughout my time in the fed, just they're heels.

Case in point, the one, and probably only, thing Vince McMahon, Eric Bischoff and Paul Heyman all seem to be able to agree upon is that at it's core, pro-wrestling is just like those TV shows. Least when it's good. And, they all seem to believe you can pretty much take any plot from any movie or TV show and transplant it into a pro-wrestling angle.

I mean, it's pretty much those very things you were pining for NGIW to have not that long ago in another OOC thread. Plots that stretch beyond a few shows, segments that further characters and said plots, big moments between heroes & villains.

Which isn't hard to see, WCW at it's peak was a glorified TV drama, ECW, as Heyman freely admits, was a TV soap filmed on a hand camera in a reality TV style. And, some of WWE's most memorable moments have been glorified TV drama storylines transplanted into a pro-wrestling setting. Steve Austin, the biggest draw in the company's history, had a main event run that was basically a TV drama, one storyline after another. From the conspiracy he came up with to the revealed big bad trying to keep him down to fighting a a lord of darkness, and alot of stuff in-between & beyond.
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Minister Wighty
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Yes, and I agree, but I don't really see what that has to do with those "unrecorded" segments. To me, they're two separate entities that happen to get used within the same circles; in no way intrinsic to one another.
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