After last night’s edition of WWE Monday Night RAW, there was a lot of talk about segment featuring the Wyatt Family and the New Day at the Wyatt Family Compound. There have been a lot of people comparing it to last week’s Final Deletion segment that Impact Wrestling did featuring Matt and Jeff Hardy. The first thing that showed was there are a lot more people who watch Impact Wrestling than they let on, just based on the amount of people who compared the two segments and preferred one over the other. Most of the reaction was a lot of people believed that the Final Deletion was the better segment for a wide range of reasons. Those reasons included that “the final deletion was so bad it was good”, “WWE missed the point of what Final Deletion was”, so on and so forth. While I enjoyed aspects of the Final Deletion from a creative stand point, people were too busy trying to compare the two segments than actually realizing what the Wyatt Family Compound segment was suppose to represent.
To start off with, the Wyatt Family Compound segment was a fight on location, unlike Final Deletion which was a match, which meant Final Deletion had the ability to come to a conclusive finish, which the Wyatt Family Compound segment wasn’t meant to have a decisive finish. Now once you take that part of it out, then you look at what the Wyatt Family Compound segment represented.
For starters, you had the New Day arrive in a situation that was unfamiliar to them. In the world that the New Day live in, it is sunshine and rainbows with unicorns every where, at the Wyatt Family Compound, there is none of that. They were able to show the other side of positivity, with all of the darkness and trees, they were able to show the type of world that the Wyatt Family lives, which isn’t as upbeat and positive as the world that the New Day lives in. The segment was also able to portray the Wyatt Family as what they truly are, Monsters. Everyone talks about how people shouldn’t fear the Wyatt Family, put them in an environment where they are comfortable, put them in situations where they are allowed to be terrifying, the Wyatt Family are extremely dangerous, which they showed during the segment. Everything from trying to tackle people through car windows, chop people’s heads off with a pickaxe, you name it, the Wyatt Family were able to portray it. As mention, it showed the Wyatt Family as monsters including Braun Strowman who looked like a terrifying monster straight out of a horror movie, which is exactly how the segment was filmed.
In 2016 it is hard to portray grittiness in film especially in the High Definition world without using a lot of filters and camera cuts, which WWE used during this segment. Was some of it over the top, probably, but it worked for this segment. Just like the over the top nature of Final Deletion, the Wyatt Family Compound segment as some of it, but there was more realism to this fight, than the entire Final Deletion angle.
To deem this angle a success is up to WWE with how they follow up on it. WWE usually has it’s performers come out and be who they normally are, whether they are injured or not, nothing is suppose to affect the superstar, however in this situation, the New Day needs to be affected. In the build up to this confrontation, Xavier Woods was the only one who sold the Wyatt Family as a legit threat and monsters. Going forward, Big E and Kofi Kingston need to take something away from this confrontation with the Wyatt Family and take a more serious approach whenever interacting with them. They were put in a situation where they may have not returned, now they need to show those affects. The build up to the match up needs to be less fun and games and more serious, show a different side of the New Day act, show that they are more than unicorns and trombones. They now get a chance to be put in to a situation where they can benefit from this angle and show that they can be serious people when they need to be, which would make them more rounded performers in the long run.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion between the two angles. To me, while one may have inspired the other, the two angles were meant to be two different things. One was the conclusion of a story, while the other was just a bridge in the story.
Agree or Disagree? Feedback is welcomed if you so choose. This was just one man’s opinion.
