The Harsh Reality Of WWE's Recent Improvements
If this wasn't a spiteful burial, imagine if it was the plan. Imagine. Imagine if WWE thought this would inspire yet another "Yes! Movement" retread. The fanbase is so numb to all of this that hope is impossible. The dumbest and most repetitive angle imaginable is hardly going to galvanise these people.
Aleister Black lost, too, in a parody of how WWE does things. He was of course "protected", by burning through the OC in consecutive clean finishes, even though the OC are a pushed tag team again, before falling to AJ Styles. This was all pretext for AJ's match against the Undertaker at WrestleMania. The supposed protection did not protect him - it never does - and it did nothing for AJ Styles nor Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. This was an omni-disaster of a segment that won't matter because there wasn't a gigantic animatronic fake-as-f*ck spider in it.
Even if WWE improves again, once the part-time relics have once more entered their slumber, doesn't it feel like a few years too late for a patch?
Even this tentatively good version of WWE feels antiquated. The promos are still scripted. Awfully. WWE continues to impose an in-house ring style that prohibits the brilliance of a roster that transcends it. And if it's not aggressively shocking booking, it is the synthetic quality that pervades everything. So little bleeds through that polished sheen and feels real. You are reminded of how fake everything is, all the time, in a monumentally counterproductive quest for showbiz perfection; matches are impromptu, the camera is invisible, the commentary is bereft of authority, vitality and sense, the interviews ask asinine questions, there's an inescapable feeling that what you are watching couldn't not be predetermined.
WWE long ago lost the desire to care about that sort of thing, and WWE long ago lost about half of their audience.
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