He got me breh. For the first time in forever I was actually invested in what was going to happen on RAW, wasn't expecting a new era right away, wasn't expecting huge changes but I'll admit that I was expecting something similar to RAW 1000 or the first RAW after the 2016 draft, not the magnitude of those shows, but if you go back and look at those shows, WWE was able to at least make RAW feel different for a little bit before it went back to the same old shyt.
Tonight was bad because they announced changes and we got the same old shyt and then they made Corbin the scapegoat, I hope they really don't think Corbin was the lone reason for RAW being shytty because if so then they're more tone deaf than I thought.
This. Both of those RAWs definitely felt different. The 1,000th one introduced a brand new set, new logo design, new theme song, the first one to officially be three hours, gave us a brand new authority figure, turned Punk heel, and set up the eventual feud between him and The Rock.
The first episode after the draft gave us the beginning of Finn Balor's push (before he got injured and they just gave up on him), the announcement of a second world championship, and Sasha Banks winning the women's belt for the first time. Also, new set, new theme song, new logo/design, and changes in commentary. That's what real change looked like. Did it eventually turn back into what it's always been? Yes, but I want to say that at least up to Kevin Owens winning the Universal belt, the show definitely felt more interesting.
The difference is, they weren't telling us over and over in either of those instances that there was change coming. The events of both episodes spoke for themselves. Telling us that things are going to change and then giving us the same watered down bullshyt you give us every Monday doesn't represent a conscious effort to try and do anything different. It's just the company thinking that if they start running with the idea of change every week and promoting it, then we'll all start to believe it and stop complaining.
And you know what? That opening segment got me too. The only reason I tuned in was so I could see what Vince was going to do about the quality of the show. Then I wasted three hours watching what felt like a rerun of the past eleven months' worth of episodes.
. No.
you know they should definitely just do a end of the year best of next week, sell the tickets for half price and just do the slammys or some shyt.. come back the second week of january