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StealThisSheen posted...

I mean, again, WWE can't just do literally nothing for four months without changing their business model pretty heavily like MCU can, so...

There's a pretty glaring difference that you seem to be hand waving for some reason

WWE does literally nothing for four months. It's called September to December in WWE. Just because there is content does not mean there is valued content. WWE currently chooses to drive itself on January through April and again in July through August. These are the months that it pushes as its most active in terms of advertisement and in terms of potential for live show revenue.

When Vince McMahon says, "our competition isn't other wrestling shows. Our competition are the other shows on television," what he's saying is that he compares the success of his product to the success of any other product on television. When WWF was at its height in the Attitude Era, after it was becoming clear that they had beaten WCW, do you know what Vince did in meetings? He pulled out merch sales and compared individual wrestling characters to the merch sales reported for South Park characters. Vince considers his competition to be any franchise built on a successful entertainment IP. So why should I NOT hand wave minor differences? Storytelling is universally simple - you take archetypes, you take Freytag's pyramid, and you build a feud. As long as the feud remains engaging, it can last as long as I want or have as many chapters that consistent of it as I want. Marvel took 50 years of Avengers to make 10 years of films (so far). It's clear that it's the same system - it's build, it's push, it's hype, it's event, and it's payoff. Those are what WWE use as well. The number of films doesn't matter. The results matter. Being caught up in the nuance of how a story is told is why these arguments always fail.
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