Post by mrjl on Oct 17, 2013 16:25:04 GMT -5
you remember how people were complaining that the whole faces doing nothing thing makes them look cowardly? This is worse. In your scenario, everyone gets to stay a coward except for one man. IN WWE's the other guys had to be even braver because "Shit, they're so serious about this they'll even find a way to screw over and maybe fire the guy with the ironclad contract. They'd fire me in a second. But dammit, I just can't watch this any more."
In that case, I'm not sure why you think that Show would be all the help Bryan would need. Why would they all need to stay as cowards? The logical development would be for Show to be Bryan's sole ally at first, as none of the others could help. He and Bryan would put up a fight but they were still very much outnumbered. The faces would at that point need to find a way to avoid being fired and still help Bryan. Who says that they would need to stay doing nothing? The scenario you are proposing is one where we change a vital point in the story then have it run the same course as the one the WWE had for no reason.
In addition, the WWE didn't make the faces look particularly brave because their actions had absolutely no consequence. They made them look like idiots, really. I mean what happened to them? They were squashed by The Shield later...o...kay? Wow, that's so different from what the faces usually do(being squashed by Del Rio).
The WWE presented this scenario:
"If they help Bryan, they are fired."
The logical storytelling to follow this would be:
"They bravely find a way to help Bryan without being fired."
What we got was:
"They help Bryan, but aren't fired for some reason rendering the entire conflict absolutely pointless."
There's no reason to cheer for heroes that face no consequence for their actions. Good storytelling would have them DEAL with those consequences in order to, after a hard fought battle, do what they want to do. Bad storytelling(like we got) has them suddenly deciding not to care about consequences and have the consequences magically disappear. Then it becomes less of "How can he decide between helping a friend and being fired?" and more "Well, why didn't you do it sooner?" which makes them look like idiots.
I think Cody RHodes had already been fired by this point. Trips had allowed Orton to try to cripple Miz and I think by this point the Shield had taken out Christian. Then ten guys come running out to help Bryan as one big group. You can't get rid of a quarter of the roster at once, so that pretty much insulated them from firing, especially when that group consists of two of your top tag teams and four or five guys who are always top contenders for singles belts.