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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Oct 22, 2013 21:58:17 GMT -5
but the weak link thing was out of thin air too. A switch also went off there. And as I recall Bryan was angry after AJ, but not actually nuts. She screwed him over with the fake wedding and becoming his boss and he was pissed about it. The therapy was unecessary, for the most part, but something he had to do. Actually if they ever do explain why Bryan isn't so bothered by Hunter that can be it. "All you're doing is screwing with my matches. I've worked for my crazy ex-fiancee, who insisted on controlling my life even when I wasn't wrestling." He was deranged so much at AJ and the loss of his belt that he began going crazy when the fans chanted yes at him, wherein he got right into children's faces and yelled "No!" in return. It was amusing, but it was clearly meant to be a mental break. Normal, adjusted people don't do that. He was then forced to go to anger management by the GM, along with Kane, but never learned to be normal, somehow becoming even more furious in the interim (threatening a child in a goat mask for example). He then simply became a little hairy bi-polar furball who eventually became weirdly paranoid about his perception. Then, bam, he's just a normal guy. Like overnight. The weakest link thing at least was a variation of his already established mental issues. I enjoy his shtick, but they never bothered to ever create a reason (let alone yours) for why he's this normal dude now. You can make up fake headcanon to try and rationalize it, but if they don't ever mention it, its just another lazy inconsistency. Headcanon is not canon. Writers tell stories, not audiences. And I say this as a fan of his work and character. I'd like to think that that made him become a normal guy was beating Randy Orton and later John Cena, and proving that he could hang with the big boys. Getting victories over the top guys quelled his insecurities. For me the only inconsistency I see is that he chose to keep the beard once he mellowed out despite the fact that growing it in the first place was a side effect of that mental break down.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Oct 22, 2013 22:01:44 GMT -5
You make no sense. As usual. He went insane after AJ, had to seek months of counseling, became bi-polar with the Yes/No thing, became paranoid of being the weak link out of like thin air, then turned normal, adjusted guy the night after Summer Slam. It is the very definition of inconsistent. There was no transition. A switch went off. It's poor writing. but the weak link thing was out of thin air too. A switch also went off there. And as I recall Bryan was angry after AJ, but not actually nuts. She screwed him over with the fake wedding and becoming his boss and he was pissed about it. The therapy was unecessary, for the most part, but something he had to do. Actually if they ever do explain why Bryan isn't so bothered by Hunter that can be it. "All you're doing is screwing with my matches. I've worked for my crazy ex-fiancee, who insisted on controlling my life even when I wasn't wrestling." Not necessarily. The weak link issue came from the fact that he seemingly couldn't get right; he was losing his matches, his momentum, and his confidence along with it, something that wasn't helped by the fact that his tag partner Kane essentially accused him of weighing them down and, if I'm not mistaken, blamed him for being the reason they lost the tag titles. As to the second point, wouldn't the fact that AJ did it to him before actually make it worse? Last time, he couldn't get the WWE Title simply because he couldn't beat Punk - AJ messing with him didn't come until later, and she did so because he was a bad boyfriend and she held a grudge. Compare now, where you have Triple H - a man he never had a personal history with - has decided to actively keep him from a WWE Title that he'd otherwise have won! The former was a lover's spat that wasn't exactly keeping him any lower than he already was; this is some stranger keeping him from a championship that, by all means, should be his!
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Post by MichaelMartini on Oct 23, 2013 0:12:42 GMT -5
It's a straw man argument. Who's saying they want wrestlers to be angry all the time? But when wrestlers are pissed at each other doesn't it make the upcoming match more exciting? You see, they used to have angles where heels would do despicable things to get under the skin of their opponents, or simply because they were sadistic bastards. Rick Rude slapped Jake's wife, the Horseman break Dusty's leg, Edge steal's Matt's girlfriend, Bossman feeds Al Snow his dog, Orton terrorizes the McMahons, just a few examples of guys who should be pissed. Seriously, is it that hard not to get why seeing guys who want to kill each other might be more exciting to some than watching two chill dudes having a competitive match?
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