Scott's Blog of Doom

Hey Scott,
I've got a question for you and for the blog:
How the hell does NXT actually work? When people get "eliminated," do they just go back to FCW? Were all of them even from there? If they're all getting called up eventually, how are they going to explain it? I liked what Danielson did in his "farewell" promo this evening, but they can't use that for everyone. I give him a pass for it since his internet presence and history were very largely acknowledged and very much a part of his angle, but for anyone else it would be like when Sean Morely wasn't allowed to be in the IC Title battle royal since he wasn't a former IC champ, but Val Venis was allowed, or when they kept coming up with goofy ways for fired Alliance members to stick around after the InVasion angle ended (Lance Storm the janitor!).
And about the challenges: does WWE have wrestlers who they want to win the challenges, and therefore everyone else has to throw them? Did Wade Barrett reallyslip off the monkey bars twice, or did they tell him to? This approach couldn't work for all the challenges (Talk the Talk and selling programs, both of which were determined by the audience), so even as someone who's been a smark for years now, I admittedly can't get my head around how this particular show works. It's like it's this weird mix of shoot and kayfabe.

 

Having never watched an episode (it doesn’t air in Canada) I couldn’t get into any kind of in-depth discussion on the subject, but I’d say from everything I’ve read that it can best be summed up by “an interesting experiment that went totally and completely wrong”.  The Danielson losing streak was set up from day one to build to a US title win over the Miz, and that went out the window at some point, and really left the rest of the show totally pointless from the sounds of it.