#5 Not rolling with the punches
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Everything previously said has already happened and there’s nothing WWE can do about it. The Emmalina experiment has failed and it’s time to make a decision of where to go from here.
When they came to the conclusion that Emma wasn’t the right fit for this type of character, what course of action did WWE take? They had her come out to say the idea was scrapped and to tell us to forget about it.
Basically, this equates to waiting 17 weeks to hear “nevermind.”
Why not try to turn into the skid? Why not try to build something out of this? Spending all that time setting something up just to have it yield nothing is a poor work ethic.
Some of the most basic day-to-day products we use all the time were birthed out of failures. Bubble wrap was supposed to be a wallpaper texture, but nobody wanted it and it was then sold as a packaging material. The Slinky was created to stabilise instruments on boats and turned into a childrens’ toy.
Why can’t WWE take this and get something good out of it, instead of throwing it away and just reverting back to what seems to be the heel Emma character from before, who wasn’t really connecting with the audience all that much anyway?
If WWE treats this more like a job interview and says Emma didn’t prove herself able to do the job, so she’s not hired for it and is back to square one from before the whole interview process, it shows the character archetype is more important to them than the performer, who in the end is the actual person making them money.
People wanted to see Chris Jericho when he was The Liontamer, The Ayatollah of Rock ‘n’ Rolla, the suited quiet heel and more. He was allowed to adapt to whatever would work and if the same courtesy isn’t given to Emma, she will be stuck in limbo.
All of this combined resulted in 17 weeks being spent promoting something that will not actually pan out, so neither the WWE itself, nor Tenille Dashwood, nor the WWE fans will end up getting anything out of it but wasted time watching those cheap vignettes.
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