The One Problem EVERYONE Gets Wrong About WWE's Bloodline Saga
For the sake of a story that can't be a masterpiece because it is told in such a forced way.
At least somebody is even more of an idiot than usual here, and that's without picturing the actual camera positioned in front of their faces. Sami's plot, to appeal to Jey's good nature, was stupid. The babyface was an idiot. The idea that we all should just pretend that the camera isn't there is an insult to intelligence.
And again: nobody really cares in those buildings or in front of their TV set. Sami is too sympathetic, too endearing and too talented for this to matter. Every key in-ring segment might warrant the masterpiece label. The sight of Zayn, looking pitiful as Jey ripped the Bloodline t-shirt off him, was as scary as it was heartbreaking. Jey Uso literally leaping to Sami's defence during the Trial was the stuff of pure fist-pumping endorphins. The Royal Rumble angle balanced redemption and heartbreak to near-perfection.
As a wider story?
No.
The plot holes are too gaping (and frankly, the backstage acting is often the standard you'd expect from performers trained to do their acting in a wrestling ring). Masterpieces do not have plot holes; by definition, they are perfect.
A ****1/2 - ****3/4 story is still great, and that's what the Bloodline saga is: a tremendous, emotive, twisting saga undermined by poor plotting.
The idea, echoed everywhere online, that AEW must do something like the Bloodline saga is a load of b*llocks. They have to do something - the storytelling is nowhere near what it was between January 1, 2020 and Revolution 2022 across too much of the show - but the invisible camera need not exist.
Wrestling is more of a masterpiece without it.