I've started deep into WWF 1999 just past Mania XV. The story telling is a hell of a lot better and far less erratic. You have a ton of random, crazy shit on a given night but the constant rejection and disintegration of members within the MOD (that shit scared me as a kid and I love it now -easily one of my most favorite groups) and the corporation at least makes sense. Shit blowing up with The Brood, Big Show, now Shamrock, HHH just had a horrible match alongside Test in ways that all echo chaos that happens in the real world and how fickle it really is. It beats matches ending for no reason and rules that make no sense. There's still some of that but it's not as bad.
Probably the best part is there are fewer wasted matches. If I had a dollar for every time I skipped a match with the AOD, Oddities and the LOD being treated like some sort of dysfunctional joke over the last 2 years of programming I've ingested, I'd have enough for a paid vacation.
Just finished the show where Rock tossed the Skull belt into a river in Detroit. Now THAT shit is entertainment. Wish we had more of it these days.
Side note: vaguely remember "The Union" as a kid and I think I can see how the pieces of a 4 man team of Shamrock, Test, Big Show and Mankind starting to come together. Gonna be cool seeing it again for the first time since it happened. Oh yeah and the Corporate Ministry