10 Ways WWE Can Finally Get Their Audience Back
3. Bring Back Vignettes
What's heavily ironic is that the WWE stans who bury AEW for not expanding on the events of Dark (which is free-to-air) watched on with no complaints as Vince McMahon for years debuted NXT acts with no vignettes on the RAW after WrestleMania.
What would the casual fans think?!
If Vince McMahon has lost all faith in NXT as a star-making mechanism, he would do well to recognise that simply debuting NXT stars devoid of context was always a piss-poor display of laziness. Debuting an act in front of a hardcore flown-in audience was an attempt to get them over through inference. It never worked because, if they were lucky enough to get booked beyond two weeks, they were handed the same sh*tty material as everybody else. This is another, far more significant issue, but as it stands, these people have no chance of even getting over to a degree that might allow them to transcend the b*llocks imposed upon them.
Everybody loves a vignette. Vignettes were commonplace when WWE was good; they tease a game-changer and shape their characters. In the interests of balance, AEW should experiment with vignettes because their incessant love of the shocking debut!1 has yielded decidedly mixed results.
A vignette in itself, irrespective of the content almost, acts as evidence that WWE actually gives a sh*t. Of course, the next time WWE screens one, the Dark Father will be invoked as counter. They actually don't give a sh*t, on that evidence.
This brings us to...