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HOW AEW COULD STRENGTHEN STORYLINE DETAILS FOR THEIR VIEWING AUDIENCE, REALITY TV IS USUALLY ANYTHING BUT AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2020-12-28 10:00:00

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I still do not understand AEW Heels. Their site tells you next to nothing, and their social is just lazy retweets of the main brand mostly. It seems like a terrible waste of time, money, resources, etc. What am I missing?

It's where women come together for AEW, or something like that!  I looked at their site, Alleliteheels.com, and don’t really see much more than that.  They should definitely flesh it out better than they have, no doubt.

So ever since Kenny Omega's Heel entrance started, with the dancing girls and the announcing of all of his accomplishments, they always make some sort of reference to North Carolina as well.   Is there some significance there that I'm missing, or is it just something funny to say?

There must be some significance and yep, you are missing it (and you aren’t alone).  This is one of my major pet peeves of AEW, they just put things out there and expect the audience to know what it means.  It’s exactly how you DON’T tell stories.  The dancing sweepers are a reference to Kenny’s New Japan character, The Cleaner.  How women with brooms have anything to do with that, I have no idea.  But that’s why they are there.  It would be great if they actually explained it to us.  The North Carolina thing is just goofy.  I wondered the same thing, as did Lance Storm.  So he tweeted:

Kenny responded.

The fact that he thinks he is leaking an “industry secret” just blows my mind.  Wrestling is supposed to explain to us who the characters are, not make us go to the internet to figure out why they are doing what they are doing.  They just expect everyone to say, "That's for a 57 former basketball player, why of course it is!"  Unreal.  Oh yeah, that was a month and a half ago and they STILL have not explained it on TV.  

Is Miz and Mrs totally scripted?

I can’t say if it’s 100 percent scripted or if they allow riffs and adlibs but there is no way that show is spontaneous.  Almost all “reality” shows are anything but real.

With the entire current season of Total Bellas revolving around the concurrent pregnancies of the twins, a theme one would think is right in the wheelhouse of their audience, why do you think the ratings for this season are the lowest they have ever been?  Is the show in serious jeopardy of cancellation because of the low ratings?

I am not exactly the target audience but as is the case with most TV shows over time they lose audience.  It’s just natural in the business.  People watch for a while and then move on to something else.  It may also be affected by the fact that they aren’t on WWE TV anymore.

Is AJ Styles' henchman Omos intentionally ripping off Rock's early 90's black turtleneck and gold chain look?

Until he gets the bad hairdo I will say it’s just a coincidence.

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