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Post by "The Tie-Dye Dream" Ricky Cool on Sept 7, 2005 19:56:44 GMT -5
What so people make of The "UPN Network Representative" Palmer Cannon on WWE Smackdown recently??
I have to admit I like this gimmick.
Vince again copying one of Paul Heyman's brain waves. Rememmber Cyrus The Virus the TNN Representaive.
Also slightly remanisant of the Right To Censor angle. In both cases Vince is takeing a pot shot at a group of people who have attaked the WWE or in this case who he feels are interfering way to much in his company.
I think that Palmer could become a very good on-screen Heel character (god knows he already on his way there now.) Provideing WWE don't screw the angle up, Maby Palmer should follow Cyrus's lead and recruit a few Smackdown Wrestlers to help hin ensure that.
What The Network Wants. The Network Gets.
(Hey that would make a good catchphrase for him. ;D )
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Post by Wrestling Chick on Sept 9, 2005 0:03:14 GMT -5
Yeah, Cyrus was definitely an entertaining part of ECW. Palmer Conner is growing on me as well. He looks like the Assistant Dean of Students here at my university. LOL I hope he actually makes an appearance on the Friday Night Smackdown debut.
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Post by Iceman on Sept 9, 2005 1:01:47 GMT -5
I missed it or him, but sounds like it could be a good idea.
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Post by tysontomko on Sept 9, 2005 1:07:06 GMT -5
Yeah, Cyrus was definitely an entertaining part of ECW. Palmer Conner is growing on me as well. He looks like the Assistant Dean of Students here at my university. LOL I hope he actually makes an appearance on the Friday Night Smackdown debut. He did make an appearance on SmackDown! |
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Post by Dr. Wrestling on Sept 10, 2005 17:05:57 GMT -5
The WWE network angle is a cheap rip off of the ECW TNN angle. The WWE network angle doesn't really make sense because Smackdown doesn't really have that many things to censor. The ECW network angle made sense because there were storylines that couldn't be put on t.v. and having a network character made sense. I think eventually the WWE network character will become stale because there aren't that many things to censor on Smackdown.
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Post by "The Tie-Dye Dream" Ricky Cool on Sept 10, 2005 18:31:17 GMT -5
Hmmm I don't think it's quite the same as the ECW angle.
That was about censorship.
This is just about (what Vince see's) as UPN interfering in the running of Smackdown.
Thats what Palmer's been doing. Interfering with the card and what have you. Not nesercerily censoring the show.
But re-booking changeing etc.
Kind of what UPN has been doing recently with the Muhammad Hassan thing and the sudern swith to Friday.
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Post by Dr. Wrestling on Sept 10, 2005 22:43:42 GMT -5
The WWE network character censored the Christy Hemme v.s. Stacy Kibler match.
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Post by Wrestling Chick on Sept 11, 2005 0:03:09 GMT -5
^^That was just one occassion, Dr. Wrestling. For now, I think he's just there to observe, stepping in when necessary.
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Post by Cradle Shock on Sept 11, 2005 11:31:41 GMT -5
It's like all decent WWE angles, a modified ripoff off great ECW angles. However, at least WWE had the decency to modifiy them, WCW just did a straight ripoff.
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Post by Mickey 4 Life on Sept 12, 2005 10:52:26 GMT -5
how long before it goes cannon v long on smackdown i give it a month.
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Post by Dr. Wrestling on Sept 12, 2005 18:28:44 GMT -5
The point is the WWE network angle is about censoring the show and that's what the ECW network angle was about so the WWE network angle is a cheap rip off of the ECW network angle.
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Post by Wrestling Chick on Sept 13, 2005 1:17:20 GMT -5
Every wrestling company uses competition's storylines/angles eventually. It's just a part of the wrestling business.
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