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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan
Sounds like Orton-Rollins all over again. Remember when Orton got curb stomped and then made his return like a one man wrecking crew to get revenge on Rollins and then he just... re-joined The Authority so he could turn face again? It's crazy how the simplest storytelling is like brain surgery to them.
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That is
exactly the example that kept creeping into my brain. In the world of wrestling, it makes perfect sense for Orton to come back as a total bad-ass looking for Seth's head to put in a spike. Instead they do that Freudian mind games shit that they apparently thought was so good they'd bring it back for his feud with Wyatt. It dilutes the fan reaction. They think that their stories are "complex," when they actually just diffuse all dramatic tension instead of blowing it up.
It's sad they've gotten Bayley to the point where they've had to turn her, anyway. I'm not her biggest fan, and there are obvious holes in her game (big ones, actually), but the goodwill with the niche live audiences was there. You book around her and try and tell a story of her needing to adjust to the main roster -- the sort of stuff they are giving to Ronda Rousey now to take away her bad-ass edge. She really should have been a babyface for YEARS until they get to the point where her heel turn is genuinely shocking and should have been comparable, if obviously not as big, to the Hulk Hogan heel turn. "Good Girl Gone Bad" should have been a teaser on magazine covers after she turned. Instead it's just another failed NXT gimmick switching allegiance. And then they try and throw a wet blanket over that the following week.