Post by rnrk supports BLM on Apr 21, 2010 7:06:42 GMT -5
You know, giving it some thought, I think this may be WWE's most intriguing, best-written angle of 2010 thus far, and I say that as someone who doesn't particularly care for CM Punk.
They've done a careful job of not playing their hand too early with where Young's going, and he's functioning as one of the company's all-too-rare tweeners for the moment. We're at a point where for him to either join the Society or to reject them would both be logical extensions of his character and motivations, and that's something for bookers who generally aren't able to keep a single simple plot thread coherent for more than a couple weeks.
Young's character actually feels like he's grown and developed since NXT began. Barrett's big and evil, Gabriel's cute and flips around, Bryan loses, Skip is goofy, Tarver is a pathetic loser, Otunga's kinda-sorta a celebrity and is a dick about it, and Slater is an idiot, but Young actually feels like he's a multilayered character, and he's moving in unexpected directions.
And that's without getting into the fascinating triangle of a relationship between him, Gallows, and Punk. It's doing more to establish Gallows as a character beyond a generic enforcer, and to make Punk come across as a genuinely malevolent, manipulative demagogue than anything that's been done with the two of them on Smackdown since the faction started up. With the possible exception of Miz/Bryan, it's the only NXT angle that's building up and helping out its Pros as well as its Rookie.
I'm genuinely intrigued as to where this is going, and that's more than I can say for practically anything else on WWE's shows at the moment.
They've done a careful job of not playing their hand too early with where Young's going, and he's functioning as one of the company's all-too-rare tweeners for the moment. We're at a point where for him to either join the Society or to reject them would both be logical extensions of his character and motivations, and that's something for bookers who generally aren't able to keep a single simple plot thread coherent for more than a couple weeks.
Young's character actually feels like he's grown and developed since NXT began. Barrett's big and evil, Gabriel's cute and flips around, Bryan loses, Skip is goofy, Tarver is a pathetic loser, Otunga's kinda-sorta a celebrity and is a dick about it, and Slater is an idiot, but Young actually feels like he's a multilayered character, and he's moving in unexpected directions.
And that's without getting into the fascinating triangle of a relationship between him, Gallows, and Punk. It's doing more to establish Gallows as a character beyond a generic enforcer, and to make Punk come across as a genuinely malevolent, manipulative demagogue than anything that's been done with the two of them on Smackdown since the faction started up. With the possible exception of Miz/Bryan, it's the only NXT angle that's building up and helping out its Pros as well as its Rookie.
I'm genuinely intrigued as to where this is going, and that's more than I can say for practically anything else on WWE's shows at the moment.
