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Wildwood wrote:
> Finally...  Michael  has come back to
> rec.sport.pro-wrestling.moderated...
> 
> 
>>Wildwood wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It still wouldn't matter a lot, since the writers don't care about
>>>continuality, but at least an explination would be given, even if it
>>>was only in passing.
>>
>>I understand they're seriously looking for someone who's job it will be 
>>to help keep continuity, research continuity, etc. for feuds and 
>>storyline angles.
>>
>>2 years of soap opera writing experience is required I think.
>>
> 
> 
> *sigh*  Why hire an outsider?  Why can't they just assign it to Paul
> Heyman since he still isn't medically cleared and isn't an active part
> of the writing team anymore?  He's got a great wrestling head on his
> shoulders, and kept the convulated ECW angles straight.  

I think Heyman's been cleared, they just haven't decided what to do with 
him yet.

> All they'd have to do would be fax him copies of the preliminary
> scripts the morning of the shows, have him fax them back problems
> (along with suggested fixes), and then have a phone line so that they
> can immediately contact him for last minute changes.  Or, have him at
> RAW and PPVs to make corrections in person, and available by phone
> and/or fax on Tuesday for the Smackdown taping and Wednesday to
> "approve" the in-studio announce scripts for the taped shows.  I chose
> in-person RAW because most of the glaring errors are on RAW, with
> Smackdown being more tightly written.
> 
> It's not complete rewrites I'm talking about here - just changing or
> adding a half-dozen words of a promo here or there or scratching out a
> line to be fed to an announcer would take care of 90% of the problems.

Jim Cornette might also be a good choice, but I think he's having too 
much fun with OVW.

Michael


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