MartialHorror
Mid-Card Championship Winner
So the Authority angle might die off after Survivor Series, which I think is a good thing considering it has grown stale...So stale that the creative team couldn't even think of a cool way for them to target their enemies.
It seems like Triple H was more devious and deadly when feuding with the Shield. In fact, he's doing the same thing to John Cena, but to a much smaller degree. Ziggler losing the belt due to the corruption sucks and all, but the odds were more in his favor when compared to what Ambrose went through. When fighting fighting the Shield, the Authority used the ENTIRE (heel) locker room against them. I was expecting for Triple H to put some sort of bounty on Team Cena's head, so you'd see backstage segments where guys like Cesaro would suddenly jump our heroes. But nope. Instead the authority gives out warnings...
I really don't think their team even looks that impressive on a story level. Harper and Rusev are good choices because one is a team player and the other is arguably the strongest heel right now, but Kane rarely wins (this is even sort of acknowledged by Cena in the last RAW), Rollins runs away so much that I no longer buy him as a main event threat and Mark Henry has been shown to lose his temper and ignore the rules too often...has he even really overcome his losing streak? Team Cena seems more impressive by proxy and now the Authority seems like the underdogs.
I kind of wish they'd focus more on the internal tensions within the group. Rusev and Mark Henry working as a cohesive unit just feels...odd and OOC. Rollins seems like the worst person you'd want to be Captain because he keeps pissing off other authority members (Triple H should be Captain).
So considering the stakes, I'm surprised at how bored I am with this current storyline. Why do a watered down version of the 'Authority vs Shield' feud within the same year of said feud? Just makes this one seem weaker.
So what do you think? Has this current feud been compelling? Or do you think it has been rather limp during its potential dying days?
It seems like Triple H was more devious and deadly when feuding with the Shield. In fact, he's doing the same thing to John Cena, but to a much smaller degree. Ziggler losing the belt due to the corruption sucks and all, but the odds were more in his favor when compared to what Ambrose went through. When fighting fighting the Shield, the Authority used the ENTIRE (heel) locker room against them. I was expecting for Triple H to put some sort of bounty on Team Cena's head, so you'd see backstage segments where guys like Cesaro would suddenly jump our heroes. But nope. Instead the authority gives out warnings...
I really don't think their team even looks that impressive on a story level. Harper and Rusev are good choices because one is a team player and the other is arguably the strongest heel right now, but Kane rarely wins (this is even sort of acknowledged by Cena in the last RAW), Rollins runs away so much that I no longer buy him as a main event threat and Mark Henry has been shown to lose his temper and ignore the rules too often...has he even really overcome his losing streak? Team Cena seems more impressive by proxy and now the Authority seems like the underdogs.
I kind of wish they'd focus more on the internal tensions within the group. Rusev and Mark Henry working as a cohesive unit just feels...odd and OOC. Rollins seems like the worst person you'd want to be Captain because he keeps pissing off other authority members (Triple H should be Captain).
So considering the stakes, I'm surprised at how bored I am with this current storyline. Why do a watered down version of the 'Authority vs Shield' feud within the same year of said feud? Just makes this one seem weaker.
So what do you think? Has this current feud been compelling? Or do you think it has been rather limp during its potential dying days?