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You hear it all the time around these parts.
"Every episode of Raw is the same".
And they are right.
We have witnessed every conceivable storyline, every conceivable scenario... so much so that the cycle has been repeating itself for close to 20 years.
Next week someone is going to start the show and talk. Then someone is else is going to come out and throw insults. Then after a brief scuffle the GM is going to declare they have a match later that night. Cue filler segments, cue matches between the same wrestlers for the 300thtime, cue network plugs, cue fake historical declarations... etc, etc. etc. etc.... main event. By next week you won't even remember any of it.
Now take a show like Monday Night Football. Despite being on TV for almost 50 years, you will never hear anyone say that every episode of MNF is the same. Why? Because it's not an 'episode' of anything. It's just a display of pro football. The storyline... the 'drama'... is a byproduct of caring about the football. Not the other way around. Now if the same teams played every week, every show had the same predictable outcome, and there were no standout players or teams... then we might have something that looks like Raw.
Basically what I'm saying is they need to stop writing Raw like a soap opera about wrestling and go back to writing it like it were a fictional wrestling organization... that just so happened to be a soap opera.
"Every episode of Raw is the same".
And they are right.
We have witnessed every conceivable storyline, every conceivable scenario... so much so that the cycle has been repeating itself for close to 20 years.
Next week someone is going to start the show and talk. Then someone is else is going to come out and throw insults. Then after a brief scuffle the GM is going to declare they have a match later that night. Cue filler segments, cue matches between the same wrestlers for the 300thtime, cue network plugs, cue fake historical declarations... etc, etc. etc. etc.... main event. By next week you won't even remember any of it.
Now take a show like Monday Night Football. Despite being on TV for almost 50 years, you will never hear anyone say that every episode of MNF is the same. Why? Because it's not an 'episode' of anything. It's just a display of pro football. The storyline... the 'drama'... is a byproduct of caring about the football. Not the other way around. Now if the same teams played every week, every show had the same predictable outcome, and there were no standout players or teams... then we might have something that looks like Raw.
Basically what I'm saying is they need to stop writing Raw like a soap opera about wrestling and go back to writing it like it were a fictional wrestling organization... that just so happened to be a soap opera.