10 Biggest WWE Creative Mistakes Of 2020
7. Survivor Series
Survivor Series is a mistake every year, creatively, because the big matches while awesome don't mean anything, really.
The TV is rotten, woefully unconvincing fare that casts its star talent as moths, in effect, mindlessly driven to a colour even if they once wore that colour the month prior. Nobody has a favourite brand, even if SmackDown gets away with a lot by virtue of not being RAW. Rarely does the inter-brand warfare inform the events to come. It's always meaningless and damaging drivel that we put up with because we get an unreal Brock Lesnar match.
This year was different because, for the first time since early 2019, WWE's main roster had generated not inconsiderable critical acclaim as the summer faded into view. RAW was always RAW. Sh*te. But SmackDown was developing a reputation as earnestly good TV driven by a menacing top star drenched in a new charisma and a cracking top programme in Sasha Banks Vs. Bayley. Underneath, Sami Zayn was in the form of his main roster career.
Survivor Series torpedoed that momentum, and the focus has since wavered and allowed old, piss-poor habits - like the Mysterio clan playing heels against heel Baron Corbin because Vince McMahon values awfulness as a virtue - to resurface.