9 Exact Moments WWE Booking Stopped Making Sense
6. Adam Pearce No-Sells Bayley's Nervous Breakdown
Or at this point, should that be "everybody" no-sells Bayley's nervous breakdown?
This would be a wider criticism of WWE's house style and usage of the invisible camera had they not gone some way to making abuse of the tactic a little less egregious over the years. Conversations still take place with a ginormous lens and boom mic leering close, but typically the company will work mostly within the bounds of reality elsewhere. This hasn't been the case with the introduction of Bayley's "inner" thoughts, and that's served to make everybody who speaks matter-of-factly about it sound callous and unbothered.
Following a failed run-in at SummerSlam and talk of a long losing streak she'd been on, Bayley's backstage vignettes found her sat in a darkened room listening to her old heel and babyface personals warring with one another. Not nonsensical on a fundamental level, but the fact that Lyra Valkyria and Adam Pearce can hear all of it and sit respectively between mild concern and not giving a single toss presents them both as naive at best and carelessly stupid at worst when she makes her inevitable warped return.
The future's not bright for it; the company has experimented with stories that ask for engagement beyond the realms of reality elsewhere, but the whole thing inevitably gets reduced to rank-and-file in the end...