easily the best episode yet. All of his puppets were shaking when he was set to reveal his new self. He is wearing a creepy mask, black leather jacket, black gloves, and striped pants. In the background video some children's toys and a rocking horse were shown and you could hear him say, "Let me in... let me in"
This really makes me want to watch WWE again. I can't wait until he has his first match with this character. Image him facing Fin Balor again with this gimmick.
lol I just posted the same thing and then I saw your post.
The correct reply to this is hopefully every damn one of them got terrified. It's been a long time since any character has truly made anyones skin crawl or been crazy enough to mess with people like takers or mankinds sick twisted things they did.
I honestly thought this was cool as shit. It's one of the better things I've seen WWE done in a while. Bray is really good when he has the right material, and he's looking healthier as well.
Sadly, I'm cautious because WWE fuck things up a lot, but Bray had tons of potential and hopefully he gets a better run of things
In the end, it won't matter. Nothing about Bray ever matters because at best he wins matches for awhile only to eventually start jobbing to Vince's favorites again. Worst case, he jobs right away.
He seems to go through a lot of changes, but it doesn't seem to be for the right reasons (ie. having multiple gimmicks like Mick Foley because they actually worked & the fans loved them).
People need to keep an open mind. They've dashed Wyatt on the rocks repeatedly, but I personally find this to be an intriguing, logical character evolution, and I refuse to get upset about something that hasn't happened yet and isn't necessarily inevitable.
One thing I've wondered about is if they change his music. You would think they would have to since that music was a big part of the original Bray Wyatt character, and they've pretty much killed that old character. Not abandon it, they reference it all the time, but a lot of the Firefly Fun House has been making fun of his old gimmick.
I'm putting more thought into this than they will in the long run probably, but I would make him have 2 themes. 1 for Mr. Rogers Bray and 1 for Dark Bray.
I try to not get excited because as the past has shown us, if he gets any traction they will shut his gimmick down and turn it into a joke or him into a joke. So much potential though.
Well apparently a lot of this is Bray's brain child. And even if "Yowie Wowie" was a Vince idea, it's something fans were chanting in the main event of MITB where Bray wasn't even involved. So like it or not, it's working.
I hope so. For 4 weeks in a row they had 4 weeks of fresh, new content with these Funhouse videos and with how quickly this company gets bored, a video like the one we saw on Monday can be worrisome, even if it was well done.
Well I fucking love this, and it works in large part because Bray is the best talker they've had since probably the likes of CM Punk and Jericho. His acting is brilliant. He's so good as the Mr Rogers clone. I only just watched them all now.
The opposites they're working with are great - the dark underbelly beneath the bright and happy exterior provides lots of avenues to go down. I really liked both looks to be honest.
What they need to do is build him up slowly like a Sting-Crow 97 thing. Keep it minimal. We get more vignettes each week. Then, what you do is progress into videos using that 'found footage' shaky cam style. It's Bray behind the camera this time narrating, creeping around maybe even outside the damn arena, claiming he's almost ready to come home or something like that. He turns the cam on to himself to reveal the nice guy Bray scowling.
Then he shows up maybe backstage just at a glimpse, behind someone else's promo, just quickly, and also maybe leaves weird things around. People turn up beaten up with a freaky mark on them. Week after week it escalates. Keep him out of the ring as long as they you can and let the slow burn happen.
By the time you get closer to an actual ring debut, you don't start with an actual match - the lights go out, he turns up in the ring and beats the living crap out of whoever then disappears.
Damn I should be a booker.
The best they can do is produce the character unlike the norm in every way.
I can't believe in the arena they don't turn all the lights off when they play them but anyway.
The Sting 97 route isn't a bad way to go. Even if WWE book this well, which is unlikely but still,the gimmick will lose some of it's luster when Bray is back in the ring. Whether backstage, outside the arena, or in the crowd, tease Bray as much as possible and build the mystique around him, and only have him wrestle a true match when you have a big name lined up for him.
After tonights Firefly Fun House, with obvious subliminal messages and no Bray content, either Vince took over or Firefly Fun House is done. I wanted it to last until Summerslam, but Bray may show uo in ring next week. It's unfortunate that Vince has creative ADHD.
Yeah Bray wasn’t available I’m guessing, hence why they just recycled footage. Hopefully there’s more next week.
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