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Originally Posted by Dids
I think they did lousy job with both of these. We've seen Miz(dow) disagree enough before that I didn't read that as a definitive split, and then Mizdow gets snap bounced.
Dusts was teased in the same way they always do something like that a the rumble, but not followed up on at all.
It's hard to "aside from Roman" because even Bray became a footnote in Vince's desperate quest to make Roman the only thing that mattered.
That's my point tho. If you weren't building to that god-awful ending spot, those stories would've had a chance to develop.
Bray had a nice open, doing the monster heel thing, but his ending was basically 10 minutes of hiding followed by getting quickly tossed to set up Reigns v. Authority. If that's not the ending, he has a chance to tell a complete story (and Ziggler has a chance to do something other than get punched in the face and tossed...to set up Reigns v. Authority).
The Dusts could've had a few minutes to work with each other and Mizdow could've had more than 30 seconds to really do well and actually further a "Miz gets jealous" angle that could have paid off.
Instead, everything is rushed and has to be neatly tidied up before it's time for Reigns v. Authority, which completely killed the story telling ability of otherwise decent plots.
Edit: I realize that isn't a hot take at all currently, I just think it's interesting how much the decided upon ending managed to **** on the rest of the Rumble despite it's not directly involving those parts.