The world is weird. The world is funny. The world is eccentric. And the world is crazy. There is all kinds of madness here. And every madness has its own audience. Every kind of madness has its own admirers. And the television is our eye that opens up to the madness of this world. There are programmes that show you the madness of the real world; the utter chaos, the politics, the morbid affairs of people who could be role-models of some of, the sordid affairs of people who were traditionally revered and even worshiped, the criminal affairs of those who claim to be protectors of the Law!
There are programmes that show you the madness of our homes. They show you, blown up to horrible and disgusting proportions, the madness that goes on in the minds of selfish individuals who’s at least, in their imagination, go to any extent to have it their way.
And then there is this madness called World Wrestling Entertainment. Madness is the true word for this programme and ’’moron’’ is the word for those who watch it with relish. To start with, there is no sanity in watching people thrash each other with abandon and without any clothes on them. Furthermore, it is absolute insanity in watching it with enjoyment and genuine interest when it has been confessed tonnes of times that all that madness is faked violence. What really shocks me is- people follow it like a story they want to finish!
Let me, however, try to remain composed and sane. Let me therefore review this and expose all the insanity that it contains in a very formal manner.
What is Good
If there is any?
I suppose with the introduction I gave you, you understood the significance of the sub-title. You may wonder, still, why I actually open up to write on the good things of WWE. There is a reason for that. I said that in my two contradictory reviews on the War on Iraq and I say it here once more. There is nothing purely bad or purely good. Because the world is grey. If there is something that is bad, then in its own way, it ought to be good as well. Underline in it’s own way.
One thing good about WWE is that it has no vindictive content that targets real individuals. There is seldom anything provocative about real events or people. You will also not find anything particularly disdainful about any kind of society or religions. Yes you will find certain rather rash comments about races and nationalities of individual characters therein, but you’d notice a prominent element of American-patriotism in it. Therefore I say there is little vindictive content.
Another thing good about WWE is that the people in it themselves confess it’s all faked and the wrestling is a bunch of stunts and nothing more. So in a sense, they do themselves try to quell the violence that they might ignite. Or let me put it this way. They do very openly try to control the violent actions and mentalities that young children might develop after watching WWE. Which is a good thing. Now, why they show such stuff in the first place is not the issue of discussion.
Furthermore, WWE contains good entertainment. It is in a sense enjoyable to watch a little bit of bash-up sometimes. I confess I have enjoyed WWE quite a few times, though never regularly. Everyone knows WWE is faked and so it does not make anyone tense while watching it. On the contrary, it often gets so ludicrous that you actually end up laughing, even if Shawn Michaels comes out of the game with a big injury in his head, or Stone Cold continues to lie motionless after Brock Lesnar’s dealt with him.
This is how I’ve justified my title. Notice that as a part of every review of mine!
The Bad Things
Of which there are quite a lot?
I don’t think I’ll indulge in any preamble. Let me get to some serious pointing-out. Below is a list of the bad things you need to watch out for.
This is Bad Entertainment: I always personally believed that if something is entertaining, then it has to be something which kicks the stress out of me and refreshes me to get back to my work. That is my definition sort of for entertainment. WWE fails here. Every time you watch a WWE game and shut the TV set after that, you are full of a very funny kind of aggression. Something like having a lot of adrenaline inside your blood. You just can’t get back to work after this. It stays in your mind all the time, haunts you till you get up from your work frustrated with the lack of concentration. This is bad entertainment.
It Pumps You Up Too Much: People who watch WWE regularly develop very noticeable ticks that sensible individuals would prefer to not have. They are verbally very aggressive. They have this unintended tone of ’’I’m the Best’’ in everything they speak. It is true that even just an hour of WWE everyday for a longish period can get those things in you. Furthermore, the physical assault tactics shown are simple enough to execute making regular viewers a potential hazards to others. A simple Angle-Lock is horrible enough to twist your ankle and the Cross-Face is painfull enough to really knowck you cold. You don’t have to talk about the Spear, or DDT, or the Stunner or the ever-feared Choke Slam.
These things are the two most important bad-things about WWE that I’ve noticed. I suppose they include everything else inside it. I mean, there are other vices associated with WWE but they’re all covered up and accounted for above.
Let me tell you some information so that, if you are crazy enough to watch it, you won’t have any problems:
The Rock:
The name is all about how his brain works.
Stone Cold Steve Austin:
His moma was like that.
Goldberg:
His dad used the ice in his soda. His tooth fell off.
The Undertaker:
He wondered how he could improve in his work.
Kane:
His dad surely spared it.