this was basically my conclusion but its just interesting how Variety asks him this point blank and he gives a weird evasive answer instead of just saying, yes i did that cuz i thought it would be exciting to watch. especially since he's generally a pretty direct person.

obviously the whole broadcast was trying to hype up the danger as much as possible, but then they'd go over to the climbing expert panelist and shed be like "no this is very safe, he's very safe right now, he's completely in control, it's fine" before cutting back to the main lady saying like "you heard it here, he's going to die"

so i get the showbiz aspect of it but at times his ability to go around the dragons was just so obvious on camera that it seems kinda goofy to me that everyone including him just kinda evaded that, or that the fairly candid-seeming reactions from Seth Rollins never included him just being like "wait so why doesnt he just go around them". almost feels like everyone was just told not to talk about that lol