9. But First: Rybaxel Breaks Up And We Get Closure!
We just want to bring this up because its a great example of how a storyline can be closed with literally one segment. When Ryback returned from injury before Survivor Series and was clearly being positioned for a baby-face solo run, the audience assumed that WWE had just decided to forget that he was ever in a heel tag team with Curtis Axel, and so we the audience should too. But in fact it didnt go like that. In one of the funniest and most original sequences of the year, Ryback and Axel actually chatted about the fact they hadnt seen each other, how Ryback was going to go on a solo run, and how they were still friends and might even team again in the future. It was a few minutes long and it was incredibly self-deprecating. But it was amazing and important because it acknowledged that their storyline was coming to a close and sent the viewer off knowing what had happened. For that reason alone it was absolutely brilliant and one of our high points of the WWE storytelling year. http://youtu.be/gpBYZetmb5k Which says a lot about the current product if a five minute 'c show' segment, that features a mid-card, losing tag team saying goodbye to each other is the high point of your narrative adventures then there are some serious problems with that colossal writing staff WWE has.