It often feels like they’ve learned all of the wrong lessons from the Bloodline Story and Cody’s ascension up the card being successful. There’s been a vocal focus on “long-term storytelling” in this regime but instead of focusing on the details that made those stories (that fell into their laps) appealing, they’re focused on THE Moment. They have end goals in mind but the body of work it takes to get there is lacking as of late. They’re now in this counter-productive pattern of initially teasing high potential angles/match-ups before shifting into inconsistent follow-throughs( Gable-Otis still hurts), stagnant & repetitive cycles of booking, or just straight up dropping it altogether. This being such a reoccurring issue lately has affected the fans. The people in attendance are often sitting on their hands if it isn’t a top talent because “why should I get emotionally invested in someone who can disappear from TV for weeks at a time?” “Why should I care about this midcard story if the last few good ones didn’t even get an ending?” I’m not a booker but something, on some level, has to change. [Example above: Giulia (C) and IYO SKY were advertised for a singles match on SD in the middle of WrestleMania season. At the time of the announcement, both women were basically directionless (with IYO’s original feud being iced and changed due to the firing of Kairi Sane) so WWE fans online & those whose were on the way to the Arena were very excited for the long-awaited match between the two women. So excited, that WWE reportedly took notice and decided to pull the match from the card to save for later. With 0 implication or follow-up of when “later” might be.]   submitted by   /u/Dbthesage [link]   [comments]