There's still too much garbage, but it does have more bright spots, yeah.
Last night I think I liked everything except the Authority stuff. That faction needs to end already. Harper and Rowen need to rejoin Wyatt, too.
There's actually very little garbage right now. They are utilizing the full brunt of most of their talent currently, which is mind boggling.
The tag team division is currently in an excellent place. New Day owns. Cesaro and Kid
Lucha Dragons
Prime Time Player has been off for months doing video packages, but the result?
https://streamable.com/k8fwOver. The fact that Titus hasn't done that nor wrestled in months yet still got that reaction is a testament to the current tag tag divisions quality.
Bo Dallas doing his thing?
Kevin Owens?
Neville is over. Barret in an actual storyline.
They have so many storylines going right now, and so much awesome from week to week, I have no idea how you can just consider them bright spots.
Those are not bright spots. Wrestling is rarely ever perfect. For a three hour show, they have surprisingly very few flaws week to week. The biggest of which being their use of women wrestlers and not giving them a storyline. NXT has one hour episodes, and can feature two women's matches in a row, plus multiple promos featuring them in that time span, but Raw struggles inserting women in small ass matches with 15 second promos. That is Raw's biggest flaw currently, and one that has yet to be fixed, though it has been "acknowledged" by the higher ups.
Here's what they should do to make the shows better from here:
- Axe the 20 minute intro promo. It's predictable and boring. We need some ACTION in the first slot, and the tag team division is perfect for that.
- Give the women more storylines to follow and give them more promo/match time. In three hours there should be more than one women's match per night, and more than one women's feud going on at one time.
- Stop with the lame tag team finales to Raw.
Other than that, if they continue their current trajectory, they're golden. It's only a matter of time till they fuck things up, but enjoy this for now, because it fully feels like the transitional period we've been waiting for.
One thing I love about the Open Challenge is that it brings back the element of surprise that has been missing since the AE where like, one night Jericho would be on Nitro, and the next week, he'd be on Raw. Surprising swerve shit like that. NXT helps bring that feeling back, because no one legitimately knows who's going to show up. It really keeps things fresh. Cena making there NXT stars look strong in the time span of a month? Amazing. Granted, those are HHH's guys and they seem protected. I wonder if we'll get Finn Balor against Cena soon?
