The "positive" people on last night's show are all saying the same thing that is weird to me (paraphrasing):
"I liked the show and thank God we are finally done with Reigns/Lesnar. It was masterful booking of the main event to dodge the crowd."
If you have to dodge crowds and have a terrible year long feud, I respect people who say it's good because it's over, but it seems everyone is saying it was good for the wrong reason. It wasn't good because the quality was excellent. It was "masterful" because how they played the crowd.
Isn't that... sad? I listened to Cultaholic, Wrestletalk, and WhatCulture. I like keeping it on in the background in the office while I work. Those groups all seemed to say the same thing, which I found a tad weird. It's sad that we celebrate something just being over instead of being great.
I honestly have a hard time believing these blogs and websites actually like this crap, and many of the writers don’t want to burn bridges with the company by trashing it. Though maybe they are just blind fanboys.
If you have to work this hard to keep the crowd from turning on you, it isn’t masterful that you somewhat pulled it off, it is a testament to how bad you are booking your show.
It also says nothing of how stupid you made Braun look in the process, and in turn you made KO look even worse because he was sacrificed so Braun could look like a dummy here.
Nothing was paid off here. Braun still has the briefcase, Roman/Brock isn’t really settled, and honestly Brock looks like the only face here which is incredibly stupid.
I see similar things with the Becky heel turn. “Look st the reaction!” See the thing is anything Becky does will get big reactions right now because she is already over. She didn’t need a heel turn to get more over.
What she needed is to finally get her big win. The crowd would have ate it up. Instead you get a cheap turn for a crowd reaction to set up Charlotte’s next feud in what will almost certainly be another long title reign.
