How WWE Should Bring Back Bray Wyatt

Is it finally time for us to collectively abandon the curve that has for years - decades even - existed in how WWE is discussed and analysed?

For over 20 years, everything about watching and enjoying WWE with even a shred of critical thinking has involved finding just how low the bar can go, or earnestly praising something good with tones of shock and surprise. Major compromises, and ones that simply wouldn't be necessary with other shows.

Plenty of television devotees are guilty of seeing their favourite dramas through to the bitter end even if the quality has dipped, but there's at least an unspoken agreement in place between the viewer and show that the relationship is finite. The show will provide a conclusion eventually. Wrestling doesn't and never will promise that. Wrestling's the show that never ends, and WWE became even less like a typical scripted show whilst adding more scripts to its creative process.

It's that broken system that birthed, nurtured and destroyed multiple versions of the Bray Wyatt persona. And with shock returns being the symbol of Triple H's nascent spell as creative head honcho, it's time to assess exactly how different things could be for umpteenth time around. Not against all of Vince McMahon's foibles or WWE's wider failings, but as a wrestler on a wrestling show.

New era, new rules, new Bray?

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