8 WWE 2014 Storylines That Will Never Be Resolved

9. But First: Rybaxel Breaks Up And We Get Closure!

We just want to bring this up because it€™s 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 didn€™t go like that. In one of the funniest and most original sequences of the year, Ryback and Axel actually chatted about the fact they hadn€™t 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.