It has the sirens and the dog barking. Yeah it's kinda generic, yet I find it catchy and it suits a Steiner. I also loved Priest's old music. Now someone like Dragon Lee has awful theme music.
Also Dom looking for his vest tonight was definitely inspired by Mr. Burns.
"See my vest! See my vest! See my vest"
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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.
Even Bray couldn't make it work, and The Field was pretty terrible towards the end.
He and Vince apparently had vastly different visions for The Fiend which isn't surprising because it's Vince and he can ruin a good thing pretty quick.
I think with HHH he would have let him do what he wanted and it could have survived longer than it did.
I thought from a stylistic point of view, its was a pretty cool looking debut, too bad it looks like Chad Gable got shot in the face with a shotgun and he's dead now.
I don't know where it goes long term, and the biggest problem for me, is there isn't that great worker in the group, that can actually get it down in the ring, and that's needed for any group to work. I hope we're not going to get clown sledgehammer shots, like they did with the fiend.
It also pulls you out of it, when you look and see Nikki Cross, who when we last saw her was a complete job person. I think they're going to have to bring Alexa back into this thing.
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Just make them ruthless and vicious. (Stuff like Fiend's debut when he used the neck snap move on Balor).
I was likening this more to the creepy kids from the Strangers, more than anything super natural... a bunch of psychopaths not witches... can't say i was watching for any of the previous Wyatt family stuff so i don't know how super natural they went previously... but i'll give Triple H a bit of rope on this one, see where it goes.
I bet Alpha academy are back at Gables side next week helping him recover after being murdered last night LOL
^ But Gable has a triple threat MITB qualifier match next week. That's my worry, that they'll act like this "never happened". The WWE has been pretty on point with their long term story building under HHH. This may throw a wrench in the equation.