I'm not a huge fan of the Wyatt spooky-wooky stuff either. The WWE is pretty hot right now and shouldn't need to rely on silly gimmicks like this to make waves. It looks cool, and seemed to go over with the live audience... but it's straight up camp and runs out of steam fast. Even Bray couldn't make it work, and The Field was pretty terrible towards the end. I respect Hunter for giving it a chance and employing Bo Dallas, but couldn't they have found something more suited for his talents?
I think giving him the Wyatt cult leader mantle would have worked. Bray delivered on the cult leader persona, as did Luke Harper. Why not do the same with Bo? The demonic angle never works (other than Taker). It didn't work for Bray, it didn't work for Judgement Day/Edge, it didn't work in AEW with The Dark Order. Even Retribution leaned into that, and failed miserably. The one person who sort of made it work was Matt Hardy, but only because he knew it was cheese and treated it as straight up camp. In a professionally run organization it's just a bad look.
So they took out the 'entire' roster... now what. Where do they go with them? They almost made it seem like Nexus or an invasion angle, as they wiped out everyone backstage. So are they going to seek vengeance next week? Will anyone care... or will they just move on with their current feuds? It's a stable full of lower card talent as well. The Wyatt Sicks do not belong in the main event. It's just bad booking. I guess they're aiming to sell merchandise and create buzz... but I think it will cripple Raw if they make this the focal point of the show. In a show with Punk, Drew, Priest, Rollins, etc they shouldn't waste time on this.
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