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It was a big night on WWE Raw for The Fiend, Randy Orton, and Alexa Bliss storyline
We got not one, but two segments dedicated to Alexa Bliss and Randy Orton, so let’s
take a look and breakdown those WWE segments between Alexa Bliss and Randy Orton
Let’s start off with the first segment.
Alexa Bliss’ “moment of bliss” seems like it as been converted to “Alexa’s
playground”
Alexa’s playground has a few similarities to both moment of bliss and the firefly Funhouse
Alexa Bliss opens the playground segment by mentioning some of the things she mentioned
last week
Alexa Bliss talked about how The Fiend built this playground for her
Alexa Bliss made a few jokes about The Fiend being set on fire and continues to tease his
WWE return
Alexa Bliss teased The Fiend returning on next week’s Raw to attack Hulk Hogan and
some of the legends
Alexa Bliss then proceeds to invite Randy Orton out to the playground multiple times,
but he doesn’t come out
The firefly Funhouse intro plays and we’re led to believe that Bray Wyatt would be coming
on screen, but that he wasn’t the case at all
Randy Orton emerges through the Firefly Funhouse door and we see that the Firefly Funhouse
has been completely abandoned
No one is inside the funhouse and the puppets are all just lying around the room
Randy Orton proceeds to break and destroy every single one of Bray Wyatt’s puppets
while he mentions to Alexa that he wants to make sure there isn’t anything left for
The Fiend to come back to
Seeing the funhouse get destroyed triggers something within Alexa Bliss and she begs
Orton to stop and invites him to get into the ring with her later in the show
Alexa Bliss comes out in the main event segment of Raw and she has switched her attire
Alexa Bliss is no longer wearing her funhouse attire, she’s now wearing an all black dress
and her face is beyond serious
Randy Orton comes out right after Alexa Bliss and he’s looking all over the arena for
The Fiend just assuming that this must be a trap
Orton then asks Alexa where is he, but she says that it’s not about him, it’s about
her
Alexa grabs a present and it’s a gas container and a box of matches
Alexa Bliss places it in front of Randy Orton and tells him that she wants him to do the
same thing to her that he did to the fiend
Alexa lies on the floor and waits, but orton doesn’t do anything
That led to Alexa creating a trial of gas from Orton to the center of the ring, but
still nothing
Alexa continued to beg orton to do it and even poured the gas over herself at one point
Obviously it goes without saying that Alexa Bliss’ acting in this entire segment was
off the charts as usual
From the second she came out, all the way to the second that we see her dripping in
gas, her facial expressions alone tell the whole story
It appears that she’s serious and angry, but it also looks like she gets a little teared
up towards the end as well, so the way she manages to keep all those facial expressions
going on at once is insane and deserves serious acknowledgement
If you’re a Hollywood director, Alexa Bliss should be jumping off your screen right now
more than any other superstar
But credit to Randy Orton as well because he matched Alexa’s intensity and that really
felt like a dark side to Orton that we never saw before, maybe that’s The Fiend’s effect
on him, maybe this is what The Fiend has turned Randy Orton into
Randy Orton assures Alexa Bliss that he will do it and not to test him
Randy Orton goes goes to pull out the match, but the lights start going out and it seems
like The Fiend is coming out
The screen fades to black, but the camera comes back on and we see Randy Orton still
holding the match and laughing while it appears that drops the match
The commentators were also screaming at Randy Orton not to do it the entire time
So a few things I really love here from this closing moment.
Starting off with the first person camera switch, I thought that was an amazing touch
that really put us in Alexa’s shoes and we saw what she was seeing from that first
person view of looking at Randy Orton
That’s what that final moment was all about, us the viewers were basically Alexa Bliss,
we saw Randy Orton right in our face about to light that match, so I thought that was
a great touch to really help us connect with Alexa Bliss and truly see what she was seeing
The second thing that I loved was the fact that this was a traditional cliffhanger
Lots of people don’t like cliffhangers because they think it’s a cheap way to keep your
audience’s interest, but you can’t deny the fact that it works and that’s what all
major TV shows do, they always leave you with a cliffhanger at the end of the episode to
give you that extra motivation to check out the following episode
We usually don’t see WWE use cliffhangers that often, but this was most definitely a
cliffhanger and it was perfectly executed, that’s how you close out Raw on a high note
and keep that interest flowing towards the following episode
So now we have a full week to speculate about Alexa’s fate
Did Randy Orton drop that match on Alexa Bliss or did something stop him in time?
That’s gonna be the question that the first Raw of 2021 will answer for us
Since it was such a huge cliffhanger, I would expect Randy Orton and Alexa Bliss to go dark
on social media just for this week
It was one of those big moments that require you sort of keep the immersion intact
Everyone is on edge right now about what happened to Alexa Bliss, so I think it would be a smart
move if Alexa and Randy stay off of social media for the week just to build that suspense
and intensity
The cliffhanger won’t have as much weight to it if we see Alexa and Randy orton posting
tweets and pictures on social media like that nothing happened
Similar to when the Fiend first captured Alexa Bliss, this is just one of those moments that
require them to stay off of social media for the sake of that huge cliffhanger moment
But I absolutely loved the cliffhanger and wish WWE would do things like that more often
This week’s Raw left you wanting more and you didn’t want it to end, compared to most
weeks where you just get a big sense of relief once Raw is finally over
So you can call the cliffhanger a cheap television method, but it absolutely worked and the story
is just absolutely amazing right now
The viewership on WWE’s Youtube channel also let’s you that the fans really only
care about this storyline from Raw
Last week’s segment between Alexa Bliss and Randy Orton was easily the highest viewer
highlight clip out of all the raw clips and this week’s segments seem to be no different
Alexa Bliss and Randy Orton’s two segments already have the highest viewership out of
all the other raw clips for this week, so this is where the fans’ interest is at,
this is what they care about the most
We also got the big reveal that Bray Wyatt is in fact gone.
We thought maybe he would still be around, but that doesn’t seem like the case
The fact that Randy Orton walked inside the funhouse and just destroyed everything let’s
us know that Bray Wyatt must’ve been burned along with the Fiend
As far as the big question, did Randy Orton burn Alexa Bliss?
The way raw ended, WWE sort of left it up to the viewer to decide for themselves
Sure, it appeared as if Randy Orton dropped the match, but you can also make the case
that we never saw flames, so maybe he didn’t drop it
Orton could’ve dropped it because he knows Alexa Bliss is the weakness so if he doe light
Alexa Bliss up, that will give him the satisfaction of knowing if the Fiend is really gone or
not
If he’s still around, he’ll definitely pop up to save Alexa Bliss, but if The Fiend
isn’t around anymore, no one will save Alexa Bliss
If he did light Alexa Bliss up, it’ll be more complicated to bring Alexa Bliss back
from that
It’s believable for The Fiend to come back from getting set on fire because he’s this
monster like figure, but despite her connection to the Fiend, Alexa is still an ordinary woman,
so it’ll be harder to explain her surviving the fire
But if WWE uses Alexa Bliss getting set or fire to transition Alexa Bliss into a monster
character herself then that could work as well
But what did you think of the Alexa Bliss and Randy Orton cliffhanger?
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