The only good Vince is a dead Vince?
When it first aired last Monday, I was excited by the potential of the car bombing of Mr. McMahon’s limo and the storyline it could generate. It was a move reminiscent of the classic Dallas cliffhanger, “Who Shot J.R.?” I could imagine it played up for fun and suspense, perhaps generating summer T-shirt sales (”Who firebombed Vince?”) and maybe leading up to a campy Halloween resurrection storyline involving The Undertaker bringing back “the First Evil.”
No such luck, however. The storyline is being played entirely too seriously for a death everyone knows is fake and for storyline purposes. The segments based around Vince’s death are about as thin on humor as a person taking Phentermine is on excess body fat.
Playing it so similarly in tone to recent actual WWE deaths, especially the recent passing less than two years ago of Eddie Guerrero, is a tacky move, cheapening what the WWE does when a real, actual death does occur within their ranks.
I’m sure at a story session, some idiot spoke up and insisted, “We have to do this straight or the fans will never buy in to the story.”
Sorry, Vince. Wrong choice.
Tags: Phentermine, Vince McMahon, WWE
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:03 am
i agree, the only thin they do now, even IF they couldv’e made the draft a little bit more exciting because the only thig they do know is talk about McMahon This, McMahon that