10 Ways WWE Was Made Worse By Being Lazy
9. No Pyro
More cheap than lazy, the lack of pyro directly informs the lack of atmosphere on WWE shows.
So do the stilted promos and formulaic TV matches and all the other sh*te, but WWE used to feel like a show. It used to get your blood pumping. It used to obscure the average talent and further enhance the real stars by detonating mortar blasts and creating sparkles of visual electricity that energised the audience like a current.
The sheer noise they generated - massive, screeching eruptions - was irresistible to the atmosphere. The pyro didn't just look cool, or spectacular: the sensory overload served a genuine psychological purpose. It overawed the senses of the crowd, removing them from their inhibitions well before the opening babyface shine, effectively conditioning them to enter fan mode immediately.
It's a sort of laziness, in that WWE deems the product enough, when it so clearly isn't.
The absence of pyro is a not considerable part of WWE's all-encompassing apathy: here's a thing, and because we've monopolised it, here's a half-a*sed version of it.