It’s Official: The Supernatural Has No Place In WWE

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Think of a horror movie. Use the original 'Friday The 13th' as an example. When their fellow counsellors were brutally murdered one by one, did Alice and Bill investigate the grisly deaths, or did they just get on with their own business, like cleaning up the cabins ready for the campers and engaging in a spot of how's your father?

They did in fact react to this dangerous, terrifying and life-endangering situation because it was a dangerous, terrifying and life-endangering situation. The RAW roster does not. Then again, these people are as thick as f*cking pig sh*t. They succumb to distraction roll-ups constantly. They think not losing is a victory. They are literally unable to tell the time.

But they should be somewhat concerned, given that, on Monday Night RAW, our very understanding of the material world has been warped entirely. Alexa is capable of voodoo, and a few weeks back, she simply materialised on the entrance ramp on her swing set. The wrestlers in the wrestling ring continued to wrestle. This was like the cast of a sitcom continuing to crack jokes and flirt with one another in the midst of an alien invasion.

They are not concerned because they are preoccupied in different storylines that reveal the entire disaster to be a heavily scripted sham disconnected from itself.

In horror films, the action is often driven forward by ignorant characters who dismiss the concerns of the protagonist. This in itself is contrived, but the plot device is even more contrived in the context of WWE.

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