The Dart Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 That's not what you said. You said you're surprised in general that children follow storylines.
MungoChutney Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 My son is 6 and he can name 3/4 of all Royal Rumble winners. He follows the storylines more closely than I do as well. I've said on here before but I love watching wrestling with him because of how enthusiastic he is about stuff.
UK Kat Von D Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 It's hardly like WWE storylines are hard to follow. Some parts will probably go over her head but I assume she understands the simple rivalries. Children are easy to impress anyway, so they don't need to know back stories as long as the announcers explain "this is important because..."
Paid Members Daaaaaad! Posted July 23, 2016 Paid Members Posted July 23, 2016 (edited) Of course you're wrong.So you know for sure that she follows WWE storylines week in week out right? "STOP GETTING WRESTLING WRONG!!!" Edited July 23, 2016 by Daaaaaad!
Guest Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 Kids these days are a lot more aware, she probably posts on here too.
d-d-d-dAz Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 You shouldn't underestimate children's ability to grasp things that are, fundamentally, tailored for them just because we've decided they're too complicated for them. I remember there was a big hooplah about Steven Moffat having made Doctor Who too complicated, so the news quizzed a bunch of kids and a bunch of adults about it; predictably, the kids wiped the floor with the adults.
Guest Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 I didn't get into wrestling until I was about 11, but because I was in an internet age, I spent hours, days reading up on every imaginable wrestler, reading up on past, the best, the worst, the inner workings of the business. you couldn't get me to pay attention to anything else. so when I picked it back up as an adult it was incredibly easy to do Hilariously, a porn site once hoarded the url brocklesnar.com and that was my first taste of that shit... weird latex fetish stuff IIRC, i didn't think much of it, it wasn't wrestling and didn't pique my stats-obsessed, list-making, aspergers-spectrum interests
d-d-d-dAz Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 I've just watched the Resurrection of Jake the Snake on Netflix. Pretty good, if a bit annoying for Jake's maudlin self pity early on. DDP is such a good dude, with the patience of a saint. I'd have hung the cunt over the top of a skyscraper until he took some responsibility. But, I'm not as good a guy as DDP. Chuffed it worked out for Jake, though. Following his Twitter is a joy at the minute, he seems to be really enjoying himself.
Guest Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 I think it would have been much better of it had been Scott hall from the start. Much more like able
MVP RULZ Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 What a strange comment. I bet she enjoys it 10x more than most on here! But surely at that age she would only take notice of her faves winning a match etc? Or maybe I'm wrong and they do actually follow the storylines. If she enjoys seeing John Cena win and cheering him on whats so wrong with that?
handspants Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 I only go and watch football because John Terry slept with Wayne Bridge's wife, and I want to find out how that rivalry plays out. There's also the Suarez heel turn, who then got backed by the Liverpool Authority. Not to mention that Stevie G backstage assault, and Balotelli doing a Pillman and pulling a gun on someone, but then turning face and giving money to tramps in Manchester.
Porkchopcash Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Garvin "The Terry Garvin school of defence didnt teach that" Monsoon used to mention it often when jobbers were getting manhandled by the stars in the 80s. He looks a menace.
Guest Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 It always startles me when people seem to instantly forget what it's like to be a kid the moment they start thinking of themselves as an adult. So many people underestimate the intelligence and awareness of children, as if they're all oblivious vegetables till they hit sixteen. Not that comprehension of the storylines is a prerequisite to being "obsessed" with WWE at that age, but I wouldn't be surprised if kids on the whole pay much closer attention to every match and every promo than the average blasé grown-up who'd be labelled obsessed by their non-fan friends.
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