I don't know if the booking of Mania is going to play into the long term things, but it's fucking awesome how they've made Randy Orton into Superman right now. Dude gets to survive the STFU for like two minutes, gets beatdown the whole match by Triple H and Cena, yet comes out in the end with the Concussion kick. Next night on RAW he gets hit with a Twist of Fate on the outside by Matt Hardy, gets tossed back into the ring and then hits an RKO out of nowhere, as if he were playing possum, even though he just took one of the more protected finisher on the outside.
Cena has been humanized in a way, with not being able to put Orton away with the STFU, and after about 3 years of kicking out of every main event finisher, all it takes is one Pedigree to do the job this year.
Edge got put over the most with being able to dominate and have an answer to everything Taker wanted to do, up until he took a moment to regroup his gameplan and magically got caught with Taker's Gogoplata. The same move that has had everyone on the roster tapping within 5 seconds of the hold being locked onto them, even the MONSTERS (Khali, Henry, BDV, etc.) and Edge gets to survive a full minute and almost break out of it.
I don't know if they're going to continue this for the long term, but I can't wait to see how things develop, especially for Edge. He was built up as the worst Taker opponent for Mania yet... I expected a weak 20 minute match with him doing nothing but cheating having the Majors run-in, expecting Vickie Guerrero to come out and try to reverse the decision... and yet he gets put over strong for over half an hour, and even gets a segment where he stands toe to toe with the "WWE'S BEST PURE STRIKER IN THE BIZ OF ALL TIMES!"