Happy Halloween Week! So much is happening. Candy, the end of Daylight Saving(s), candy, Braun Strowman being beautifully and tenderly birthed from the womb of a contracting garbage truck, candy - it's a precious parade of moments and memories!
RAW didn't even land on Halloween this year but it, more or less, like it do, co-opted the holiday from SmackDown Live - which DID land on Halloween.
I know we're in the midst of a SmackDown vs. RAW brouhaha/hullabaloo/shpadoinkle, but nothing says "RAW hogs the spotlight" like RAW putting on a Trick or Street Fight match the day before Halloween and SmackDown not doing anything. I feel like this should have been brought up by Shane - RAW doing Halloween shtick when it that should have fallen to SmackDown this year - but then I realized that wouldn't have worked because Shane has the power to book whatever matches he wants so he could have easily done something ookity and spookity if he wanted to. So it's an actual underlying issue that speaks to the company's view of both brands that couldn't be brought up for the fake feud that's going on.
Meanwhile, Braun's a big ol' haunted trash golem now.
I know there've been famous corny segments in the past that have been overproduced to the point where we're supposed to ignore the fact that there are camera men in impossible spots shooting at improbable angles. The infamous inside-the-coffin cam when we watched the casket lid shut through Ultimate Warrior's eyes. The extreme close-up on Jake's cobra when he was trying to attack Miss Elizabeth with it during her wedding reception. The forklift cam during The Rock and Mankind's empty arena Halftime Heat title match. They wouldn't stand out so much if WWE was ever constant with how they treated their use of cameras.
Lucha Underground is able to do really effective movies and skits because it set the rules up early on. Unless we're at ringside or in the ring, there are no cameras. We're just watching life. WWE runs into constancy problems a couple times a year when they abruptly shift to "there are no cameras" mode and things look ridiculous. And by "consistency problems" I mean, of course, the things we care about and bitch about that they give absolutely no s***s over. They do not care. We do. And then they make fun of us for caring about things making sense because we're just the crybaby IWC and we live to complain and nitpick. It's a fun cycle. So much fun. All the fun.
Anyhow, aside from the actual gimmick tag team match that featured all the jack-o-lanterns and colored kendo sticks, RAW went full "monster movie" with both Braun and Kane. Daniel Bryan got locked in a dark rook (he said the door was locked even though he never moved from his one spot) and then chokeslammed by Demon Kane (footage not found) all while the camera ceased to exist. Even though it had JUST existed seconds before when Bryan was talking to Shane. And continued to exist to everyone EXCEPT Bryan because we all watched him get attacked and the announcers openly announced it. The camera guy just disappeared for him, in his dimension, but remained for us.
Here's how Lucha is able to use this technique well. Most of the time, the segments we see are just for us, the viewer. The announcers, Vampire and Striker, don't see them. Even if it's just a bit happening in Dario's office. In WWE, the announcers still see everything even when we're supposedly just looking through a magical portal.
Anyhow, Bryan getting taken out wasn't the most absurd part of that segment anyhow. Nor was it the fact that Kane is somehow getting his umpteenth monster heel push here in 2017, allowing him to beat guys like Balor and Rollins. It's was...what was Bryan doing on RAW? We know he disagrees with Shane about the Under Siege attack, but what was he trying to tell Kurt? He can't broker peace, right? There's an entire PPV built around this inter-brand feud. All the matches are happening. Was he just there to let Kurt know that he didn't approve of the ambush? What good does that do other than paint Bryan out to be a little weasel? Snitches get Chokeslams!
Now, onto Braun, who, like any decent horror movie monster, has now meshed and merged with the device that killed him. Braun is now a mammoth vengeful filth beast who can summon the power of garbage.
Not only can he magically place trash bags filled with rotting food in any place he desires, he can travel anywhere he wishes inside the belly of a garbage truck that he can control with his mind. Braun is now part of the truck and the truck is an extension of him. Fueled by the power of putrid waste, Braun hiber-sleeps inside the warm center of the rubbish, gaining strength and replenishing hate, until the time is right for the vehicle to gently release him into reality in order to wreak havoc.
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