And that's a terrible thing for a feud to be about. It's exactly the same argument about Cena during his worst superman runs, or Hogan - there's no suspense, anticipation or excitement when it's established from beginning to end that one guy is out of his league and can't actually win.
SPOILERS the face will win in the end. The other title match was the one where unpredictability reigned. This was a character arc about Christian. You know he's going to lose in the end the whole time. That's not important. You know that going into pretty much any movie that evil will lose. The point is the journey, and how that journey concludes. I clearly valued it a lot more than you did, for whatever reason.
Which also makes no sense when this all began with the crowd being super supportive of him for finally winning the title. The crowd was split down the middle during their first two matches, to the point of Christian support being louder than Orton support for periods. Even with Orton still being the more popular overall, actually getting that much support against the guy is crazy. Everyone wanted to support Christian for finally achieving his dream and then refusing to get mad when it was taken away and instead trying to earn it back. So they turned him heel and completely changed his entire personality. The story was already in the gutter then, since any feud that involves a guy doing a complete character 180 is no longer consistent or coherent.
I think you're looking at Christian's character in the short term. Historically, he's always been the guy we saw the last couple months, except when things are going his way. He has NEVER handled setbacks well at all.
Now, granted, this DOES involve Randy Orton potentially being out of character a lot, but at least this story is not about him. He's the antagonist (in the sense that he's the opposing force to the main character, not that he's the bad guy), and at least when push comes to shove he's the same Orton as ever.
Remember when Christians motivation was proving that he deserved to be champion and that he could indeed beat Orton? Remember when he spent a month being the guy who refused to go down the "sell out your beliefs to win" route by staying respectful and vowing to prove himself? Yeah, so do I.
No, I don't. I remember when Christian SAID that those were his motivations. I even believe that, as long as he was able to still get the title back, he wouldn't choose to violate them. But eventually he had to. He had a choice between morality and the Championship once his rematch well ran dry, and he chose the gold.
You REALLY can't have a "only one guy he can't beat" storyline going when the show right before showed that he's terrified of Sheamus and can't beat him either.
Fair enough, I actually haven't seen SD this week yet.
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Thank you, Eddie Guerrero.
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