It's Official: AEW Is As Good As WWE Is As Bad
Omega won the title in an awesome Winter Is Coming main event, and with Moxley in ass-kicking vengeance mode, supported by Death Triangle after the Bullet Club recognised and neutralised the threat of Rey Fénix entering the form of his life, a gang war has exploded. The brawls and the matches are alive with fire, and all of this extends beyond the promise of so many potential Blood & Guts match permutations. All isn't well in this new faction itself - the Bucks are quietly pissed at the Good Brothers swanning into AEW after bantering it off back in 2019 - and that faction is an offshoot from the original New Japan Bullet Club. They, as expressed with a curt "Shut the f*ck up" from the invading KENTA (!), are not aligned with this splinter faction. The Forbidden Door has opened, and beyond it lies a vast canvas of thrilling possibility.
This multi-stranded, white-hot, endlessly fascinating form of storytelling that is pulsing with inter-promotional dream match potential - or black goo pouring out of the mouth a woman playing an eight year-old girl?
Measured against virtually every criteria, AEW is as good as WWE is bad.
The long-term narratives are storyboarded meticulously. Even the failures are noble. In the case of Miro and Kip Sabian Vs. Best Friends, the dirt-worst thing on the show, it feels very much like long-term storytelling for long-term storytelling's sake. Lance Archer Vs. Eddie Kingston is a drawn-out saga that should feel more immediate to better suit the players involved. But in addition to the Bullet Club storyline, MJF-takes-the-Inner Circle is a details-rich mystery, Hangman Page's near two-year arc is drenched in a new strain of pathos, and when it pops, Darby Allin Vs. Team Taz is great, sprawling fare.
In WWE, that which is good is repeated constantly to the detriment of itself, and very little is good.
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