10 Things Everybody Gets Wrong About Triple H's WWE

5. Everything Makes Sense Now

Roman Reigns Sami Zayn
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But does everything make sense?

As if "Well, it makes sense now" is even something to celebrate. Unless David Lynch is involved, unless the art is meant to confound, something making sense is the absolute bare minimum for anything that deals in the traditional narrative format. For so long, WWE was such a staggering outlier in the medium. Apply the standards of latter-day Vince-led WWE to any other genre of TV, and it wouldn't make air. No exec would make it past the first page of the script.

Disqualifications are far less frequent, but they still happen, and there is no hint of what the repercussions may be - which doesn't explain why the heels don't simply choose to take the easy way out every time. Impromptu matches continue to happen, leaving pedantic viewers wondering what might happen on the show were two wrestlers not to have a convenient squabble.

A gigantic camera appears in the faces of various talents conducting candid conversations on a show that someone like Jey Uso could simply watch back and show to Roman Reigns and prove that Sami Zayn is conspiring against him. Job done!

It doesn't quite make sense - it is simply less deranged - but that's the curve against which Triple H's WWE benefits.

 
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