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The Survivor Series hype train is full speed ahead and Tuesdays episode of SmackDown Live offered some serious shakeups to the Survivor Series teams, including the addition of Shane McMahon to the mens 5-on-5 match.Since the WWE brand separation draft in mid-July, theres been very little crossover between WWE Raw and SmackDown. There was a singular co-branded effort in August at SummerSlam, but since that point, each show has felt like its own unique entity, through each shows ups and downs.SmackDown Live, despite its smaller roster and shorter broadcast (but partially because of it) stepped up to the plate and provided a platform for stars such as?AJ Styles to shine brightly, while also giving young up-and-comers all of the time they could want to prove and improve themselves.After thriving in independence, perhaps it shouldnt come as a surprise that during the last couple of weeks of intertwining stories with Raw, that there was a bit of an awkward transition. But by the close of the show Tuesday, SmackDown Live had returned to the kind of cohesive storytelling and logic behind actions that helped make it so watchable before the brand split.The beginning of the show was a bit of a bait-and-switch situation, although SmackDown Live opened in very much the same way that Raw did this week by presenting all of the members of the mens Survivor Series team and laying out all of the internal conflict between the team members. Styles, as team captain and WWE world champion, kicked things off by claiming that Dean Ambrose cheated, laying into James Ellsworth and a list of other offenses against them, but happy to set them aside to take on Raw.He was just ramping things up when Baron Corbin interrupted him, and in that moment it became clear just how much of a carbon copy SmackDowns team was to Raws. There was the heel champion, the No. 1 contender, the big guy outsider who was out for himself and two top stars within a partnership that could be exploded into a million pieces at the first real sign of trouble.For as much as the stakes beyond show vs. show pride havent been defined, there is a lot to look forward to in this particular match. Theres the matter of the two world champions going head to head for the first time since the brand split, the inevitable Braun Strowman interaction with his old mentor Bray Wyatt, and Ambrose going up against his former Shield brethren Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins.It was a nice piece of foreshadowing that Corbin excused himself from a six-man tag team match later in the evening, only to have to back out of the match due to injury (and more on that in a bit). That match, which ultimately ended up closing the show, had on display the best and worst of what SmackDown has had to offer in the last few months.On the one hand you had Ellsworth, who inserted himself into the Survivor Series match as the teams mascot early in the night, getting one of the biggest reactions of the night from the crowd in Glasgow, Scotland. Hes been used almost to excess, but not quite, and SmackDown has gotten the absolute most out of the diminutive Ellsworth. On the other hand, theres Kane, still getting in there in high-profile conflicts simply because theres no one else on the roster to fill that spot. He looked particularly slow and choppy in this match and spent the majority of the match as the guy in the ring for his team -- something that did him, the show and the fans no favors. He can still have value, even at this point in his career, but hes currently overused and overexposed -- and that needs to change.As soon as the match ended and tensions boiled over, Shane McMahon ran out to the ring and tried to calm tensions. It made all the sense in the world for Daniel Bryan to insert McMahon himself as the fifth man, as SmackDown Live, despite the problems between its members, now has a centering force that should help make up for some of the gap in star power between the two Survivor Series squads.Both Raw and SmackDown did a pretty good job at shuffling the Survivor Series deck around this week, switching out team members to keep at least minimal stakes riding on a match that otherwise might have been filler in the lead-up to the pay-per-view. While Goldberg vs. Brock Lesnar will inevitably steal a lot of the headlines in Toronto, the build to the three traditional Survivor Series matches has made the outcome somewhat nebulous and unpredictable -- setting the stage for one or more of these matches to really define the nights action.Add in a pair of cross-branded title matches and Survivor Series is quickly shaping up to be a big enough show to fill up its four-hour time slot -- up and down the card.Hits and misses? The Womens championship video package with Becky Lynch and Alexa Bliss helped tell the story well and served its purpose as a hype mechanism. It highlighted just how good Bliss has been in this rivalry. It has helped elevate her from a seemingly overmatched rookie, as she was when she was drafted, to a real player in the SmackDown womens division. The transformation of her character had a lot to do with her pairing with Blake and Murphy in NXT, but her road to becoming No. 1 contender and feud with Lynch has helped showcase just how far her in-ring work has come.All that said, calling a match that airs midway through the show a main event, be it a weekly program like SmackDown or a pay-per-view event, is just a little bit disingenuous. It seems like its a move that WWE is making more often, especially in the case of multiple main events, but theres really little reason that a six-man tag team match, rather than a womens championship match, should have closed out the show in the traditional main event spot.As for the match itself, the beginning was slow but deliberate, as Bliss worked over Lynchs left arm. Bliss hit a few of her signature moves that seem to get sharper every week, including a backflip into double knees. The match was incredibly stiff at times, especially in their exchange of forearms midway through the match, and things seemed to be picking up momentum when they hit a sudden end. Bliss getting to the ropes out of sight of the referee and tapping with her leg on the bottom rope is an easy way to carry this rivalry on through TLC, and I think thats good for both women involved.? Its hard to say whether the Raw or SmackDown women will have more trouble keeping the peace with their teammates, as the Naomi-vs.-Natalya match with Nikki Bella on commentary quickly devolved into heated outside of the ring action between Nikki and Carmella.? Breezango has been doing some strange backstage segments as the fashion police that have only really aired online, as well as a surprisingly long segment on this weeks episode of Talking Smack. The combination of those outfits and kilts seemed to make that pairing the de facto faces in their match with The Vaudevillains, but as nice as it was for them to qualify for Survivor Series, it was largely just another sad indication of just how far The Vaudevillains have fallen.? The return of Kalisto after a long layoff was nice, and it was nice to see him not simply serving as cannon fodder for Corbin again despite an attack before their match even begun. Its been a big head-scratcher to see Sin Cara continue to participate in the cruiserweight division on Raw despite his dubious weight qualification. while his former tag team Kalisto wallowed away on SmackDown without much to do. Its likely a pipe dream to imagine that Brian Kendrick, a bright spot in a cruiserweight division trying to find its identity, would drop the title and allow the division to move to SmackDown, but its a fun thing to try to imagine. Itll be great to see how the pair works in the ring.? The Miz made the briefest of appearances on SmackDown Live proper this week, with Miz refusing to communicate directly with either Bryan or McMahon. He whispered to Maryse as his go-between, and she ultimately accepted an Intercontinental championship rematch on next weeks 900th episode of SmackDown Live. On Talking Smack, Maryse again spoke for Miz when she all but demanded a trade to Raw, which Bryan acknowledged and seemed to embrace. Whether or not these kinds of arrangements will become reality remains to be seen, but the simple mention of the possibility is an appreciated nod to the possibility of some roster-shuffling in the near-future.? Speaking of the 900th episode of SmackDown, well have the return of The Undertaker and a Cutting Edge segment with Edge to look forward to, along with the Intercontinental title match. 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