The entire show is basically built around Paul Heyman. It's also interesting to see everything intertwined like this. I can't remember the last time we had a storyline that reached out to multiple characters. WWE dealing with some complex shit for a change. I wonder if they're actually able to pull this off and get it right.
BTW, did anybody else catch that fan trying to attack Sheamus through the crowd, only to have his ass bumrushed by security, and Sheamo jumping over the dude laughing all the way? Priceless.
Swagger straight up BOSSING on Santino
Punk vs Jericho great match
Cesaro doing WORK
Sheamus going BEAST
Brock destroying Miz
Henry's return
and Alex Riley's return
- Big Show/ADR Hotel scene was a fun little fight, and best of all... something different, exciting... this is the kind of moments you need to let all feuds (even midcard ones) have so they get the intensity and hatred between the two guys over. That scene where Big Show had the food delivered was pretty pointless though.
- Maddox with the weird Bane impersonation and... well I'm not sure what the hell he was going for. Cena was supposed to call out the Shield right? Did they change course halfway through the show and decide to have Maddox become the scapegoat for Team Cena? Why'd Maddox allow himself to get beaten up? It was a pretty dumb segment but whatever, I enjoyed it, in some unintended ways maybe, but nevertheless.
- Lesnar tearing shit up
- CM Punk/Jericho was a fantastic match
The Bad
- That first hour may very well have been the worst hour on RAW in a long t-... well, in a few weeks at least. Literally nothing happened but one dull Ryback/Cesaro match followed by piles and piles of recaps, app plugs and commercials.
- Big Show/ADR segment was quite awful.
- Miz/Heyman/Vickie. I actually really like (non-corny face) Miz and Heyman on the mic but even the latter couldn't save it: that segment was pretty bad.
- All the recaps and commercials during the rest of the show were annoying as always
- Orton/Barrett, ugh
- That crowd was an abomination. Yeah yeah I know, how can expect them to be awake after some of the crap they pull but even so, you're supposed to be giving a reaction no matter what. If you fall asleep I do too, don't be so selfish.
Overall, looking back on it I felt pretty bored during a lot of the show but the good moments were really good and enough to leave me satisfied. It actually was a pretty good RAW, and by pretty good RAW I do mean compared to most RAWs recently and really that isn't saying much as this is supposed to be the run up to only the biggest damn PPV of the year, but I guess at this point we have to take what we can get. Pretty good RAW.
Nothing was particular bad tonight but a lot of it just felt like filler. The first hour was seriously a whole lot of nothing. The only parts I seriously liked was Henry's return, Jericho/Punk and Lesnar kicking The Miz's ass. The ending was alright, I liked The Shield's live promo. I mentioned it in The Shield thread but I thought Roman Reigns came across very well on the mic, better than I expected him too. I thought he did better than Seth Rollins (Ambrose did better than both, though, obviously).
This thread is easily the weekly highlight of RAW for me. Even when the show is crap (which is quite often recently) this place at least keeps me watching. If not for this thread I'd probably find something more productive to do.
In all fairness, this episode wasn't really awful, but wasn't great. The amount of commercials absolutely kills the flow of the programme though, and the commentating is horrendous.
First hour-unbelievably bad.
The other two- acceptable
Good show.
LOL at Maddox's promo and the way his voice went up and down, star in the making. Very little seen of Bo Dallas which is also good. Punk v Jericho was excellent. Big Show was tonight's GOAT, Brock a close second.
Moment of the night= Miz getting a chair fucked at him...hard. Must find the vid.
Just awful, the small portions of the show that weren't fucking video packages or WWE app plugs were devoid of anything entertaining. We got absolutely nothing exciting in this show whatsoever, a dead crowd, and what may be the worst thing I've ever seen in an absolutely ATROCIOUS babyface Del Rio promo. I knew he would be awful as a babyface and, despite doing decently during his post match promo at the Rumble on WWE.com, I was absolutely correct.
0.5/10
The 0.5 was for the ten second promo the Shield cut while walking to the ring.
Maddox still doesn't have a WWE contract right? I wonder if this storyline will get him a contract? He can go to his boss and say he gave them the video of Paul Heyman and the Shield now I want a contract or something like that.
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