Annoying "Smark" critisisms that can be explained

[Steve J. Rogers]

Sometimes I swear recappers (Got to throw legends like Keith and CRZ in this group as well) will rely too much on certain smarkish "cliches" almost to keep their Smark ID card valid or something

 

Probably the one that annoys me more than most is the "Aren't they WATCHING THE SAME SHOW?" excuse for why say Wrestler A falls for a plot hatched plain in front of a camera, or the recapper will say if a wrestler is looking at a monitor "He's watching him/herself (or themselves)" to which I always seem to want to point out that it could be some sort of closed circuited monitor that only shows whats happening in the ring, and of course a good excuse could also be, "Why would they want to watch the crap we are forced to watch?" It wouldn't surprise me if most baseball players (the only other sport I know of where the athletes (unless injured or ejected of course) hang around the locker room while the event is in progress) rarely actually watch the game they are participating in, s

 

Though it would be kind of cool once to have the old Spaceballs effect and have them film a lockerroom with monitor segment "live" and have a "whats happening now" shot of the monitor, kind of like a mirror effect behind the people talking

 

Steve

[Nighthawk]

I think they've leaned more toward simulated television than simulated sporting event in that regard. The "Now that we're alone, here's my secret plan." with a cameraman in their face thing, I think we're just supposed to realize it's a fictional show.

The ones complaining about that are a buncha marks.

[Steve J. Rogers]

I think they've leaned more toward simulated television than simulated sporting event in that regard. The "Now that we're alone, here's my secret plan." with a cameraman in their face thing, I think we're just supposed to realize it's a fictional show.

The ones complaining about that are a buncha marks.

I've written a fan fict once with Benoit and AA talking at the end of a coridor, AA realizes a camera guy is at the end of the hall and starts running towards him, cursing about privacy and such

 

WCW once did this during Flair's "Presidency of WCW" where he told the camera guy to stop filming but I think thats the only nod that I've ever seen

 

Interestingly enough, one of the biggest things that doesn't get enough crap from smarks is when shots are gotten that are obviously meant for a show. Foley actually takes a shot at one such one from the "Empty Arena" match between him and Rocky for Halftime Heat back in 1999. You get a "birds eye view" of Rock as the fork lift is being lowered onto him. In other words you couldn't get that shot "live" unless you saw the camera guy jump on the forklift

[DrVenkman PhD]

Interestingly enough, one of the biggest things that doesn't get enough crap from smarks is when shots are gotten that are obviously meant for a show. Foley actually takes a shot at one such one from the "Empty Arena" match between him and Rocky for Halftime Heat back in 1999. You get a "birds eye view" of Rock as the fork lift is being lowered onto him. In other words you couldn't get that shot "live" unless you saw the camera guy jump on the forklift

I don't think anyone has ever said anything (that I'm aware of) about Mick FOley's apparent cybernetic eye camera implants that were able to film Christian faking his illness at Fully Loaded 2000 when Foley stood on something and peered into the stall from above.

[Guest ShootingStylesPress]

I watched that a while ago, I thought Foley got up and looked and the camera guy went with him.

[Si82]

I watched that a while ago, I thought Foley got up and looked and the camera guy went with him.

Well he must be pretty damn fast then. I mean, he managed to get up there, see it before Foley, despite carrying a camera, and then hop down and run round to get a shot of Foley looking down into the stall.

[Guest Sturgis]

I don't think anyone has ever said anything (that I'm aware of) about Mick Foley's apparent cybernetic eye camera implants that were able to film Christian faking his illness at Fully Loaded 2000 when Foley stood on something and peered into the stall from above.

You know I've never noticed that until now.