i seriously never thought the day when yelling YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
(etc)
would become a gimmick in wwe, but it is. with random WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION inserted at times, to not be completely monotonous. i mean jericho was stealin' that last week!
but seriously, i don't know who made this gimmick but man. awesome.
in other news, is anyone else confused how ace is still heel. like is this an experiment in 'how hard can punk bury somebody' or something. yeah, ace did two big heel things - ryder match with kane and punk screwjob story (which ultimately include ziggler's wins whoops) - but he was quite fair and just to a lot of everyone else. he screwed over the heels, he screwed over the faces. tendency leaned a bit more to the heel side but not exclusively and was more of a smark way than anything else. dude was pretty damn fine. like at the start of this it seemed like what hhh was saying - here was a guy who backstabbed his boss to get his position.
....except he didn't. in fact, he was the only one who didn't screw hhh. he warned hhh in advance that he needed to be more management-like (which is undeniably true and even he'll admit it) then the vote of no confidence bit happened. after that he took control. now at this point the story seemed like ace had been planning all along to get the position. y'know, the CONSPIRACY angle that truth started, then miz joined, then punk joined too before lawler did too. 'there is a force that does not want hhh as boss.'
that force looked to be johnny ace. and then the angle was dropped, nash came in, a different angle was run, truth got wellness'd, and the conspiracy that APPEARED as if it would lead to a major faction split of some kind never happened. nothing happened with it. instead ace got put into the GM position and has been pretty damn good at it. it's clear they had a storyline and for some reason through everything away to leave us where we are now. awesome truth + ace would've been a start, but you could've had others join too, like del rio, ziggler, swagger, etc. y'know, the group of 5 or so heels that got together to try to take hhh out of power? perfect group for a brand-crossing conspiracy. hell, you even have the means to kill it within the group itself, truth eventually realizing that he IS the conspiracy and decides he wants to kill it. or that he'll join it to kill it from within. gets you what that's different? face truth. like, y'know. what we have now.
now yes, del rio and christian are injured. so? use that as a statement of 'we've got positions to fill, ziggler's trying to fill in, are you interested' to some guys. pitch offers to have them join. actively recruit them.
but none of that's the case. instead we have dropped angles into ace and..... nothing really majorly negative that he's done that's had any impact, save for ryder's match with kane.
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