Questions and such
By Scott Keith on April 9, 2012
Hey Scott,
Two statements then a question;
Firstly, can you re-open the old rspwfaq.com site? I'm trying to read back your old rants and getting nowhere.
Secondly, can you please do a rant with links to all of the hot pokers rants? They're fantastic to read as to gather a sense of how truly awful the product at the time was, not to mention fucking funny.
Anyway, my question;
What's your favourite under-explored/abandoned angle/character of all time? My personal two favourites are Jericho's "5-0 vs. Goldberg" that lead to no blowoff 'cept a stiff spear on Nitro, and Sean O'Haire's "devil's advocate" gimmick. Would be keen to know if I've missed anything.
1) The old site is going away and I will be migrating all the old posts over to Blogger once I figure out how to convert six years worth of XML backups from WordPress format to Blogger format. rspwfaq.com will permanently redirect here, however.
2) Honestly, Google is your friend there because I don't even remember the shows that I used them for. A search for "Hot Poker Up The Ass Rating System" would probably yield good results, although I take no responsibility for any weird stuff that might pop up.
3) The Sean O'Haire one was indeed great. The assorted Vince murder mysteries had potential to go somewhere neat and actually utilize their soap opera writers for once, but it was abruptly dropped both times. Berlyn of course is a famous example of unlimited character potential squandered by WCW in favor of pushing the bodyguard. I foolishly thought that the Masterlock challenges were going to lead to an actual payoff at some time down the road, but no, they just kind of ended. The Edge/Lita/Matt Hardy real life love triangle that got dropped into Vince's lap in 2005 could have revitalized everyone involved and only ended up benefiting Edge at all. Recently Santino was looking for a tag team partner to recapture his former tag team glory, and that went nowhere. Ken Kennedy as the illegitimate son of Vince McMahon was an interesting idea because lord knows there's gonna be some of those out there in real life, but that got dropped. I dunno, those are the ones off the top of my head, but there's dozens more.
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