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June 13, 2006
YOU FUCKED UP!! YOU FUCKED UP!!
There are those who say the new ECW on Sci-Fi was too extremely shitty, even for ECW. And we would be hard pressed not to agree..
First, Danny Doring is FAT. I'd never have guessed the fat guy in the crew cut and pink tights was the Danaconda.
Besides that, there are a lot of problems that need to be addressed.
Who are the faces and heels in ECW? They're gonna have to cut back on WWE guys crashing their show eventually and establish their homegrown characters, their personalities and rivalries. Right now, any RAW guy is a heel, every ECW guy is a face, which includes Kurt Angle and Big Show but not the Zombie apparently.
Presentation is another letdown. ECW isn't edited or structured any differently than RAW or Smackdown. And it's way too bright in that arena. ECW is supposed to be dark and dingy. You're supposed to feel like you need a shower after coming out of a show, and that's because you do. At the very least, they could try cutting the house lights out and have a spotlight on Sandman when he enters. Without "Enter Sandman" it would be a help. Same with Sabu. Sabu is supposed to suddenly appear after the lights are off for a few seconds. Anything that's "different" from how RAW and Smackdown are presented ought to be the goal.
The crowd was dead. As expected, that wasn't an ECW crowd. Way too many little kids in Rey Mysterio shirts in the audience, but that can't be helped. Taping the show before Smackdown did them no favors just to appease NBC Universal, and their fears the crowd would chant obscenities was unfounded. We won't know unless they actually go live next week after Smackdown if the crowd will thin out to more adults, hopefully drunk, who will act more like an ECW crowd. (And it's pretty absurd that they switched the time of the show to before Smackdown to appease NBC Universal's fears, the crowd WASN'T obscene, and then they showed the clip of Tazz vs. Lawler from Sunday with the crowd clearly chanting "You suck dick!" at Lawler. Brilliant move.)
And edited, censored, it's the night Kelly danced atop the ECW arena. And couldn't unstrap her own bra.
They've got a ways to go, but it's only week one. Hopefully they'll figure this stuff out as they go along and the show will gradually become less horrible.
If they have any brains, The Zombie vs. The Great Khali in a promo debate would be MONEY.
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