Monday was a step in the right direction but so far this run has felt like a missed opportunity to me, like Rock and his team were scared that people buying into his heel character too much would hurt his brand. And I get it, if he leaned into it for 3 months he'd have some marks thinking that's really him and hating him for a while. But it would've made for better TV.
At the press conference it seemed like he was coming back to play a serious villain throwing his weight around to get what he wants, and getting booed as The Rock was a hard task but he was pulling it off. In a non smark city like Vegas too. It definitely wasn't 50/50 there.
The last month he's been doing fun heel sh1t and winking at the audience. The audience laughed along with him like a comedian roasting the audience, it's all in fun. And so he basically turned face again.