1) Vince got Rickrolled! How funny would it be if Vince, completely unfamiliar with ringback tones (which are pretty much the scourge of the universe, btw) just hung up on the guy and went to the next number? I would have laughed for a good 20 minutes.
2) Ugh, we’re two segments in and these constant money segments are really pulling down the show.
3) Hey just what a third boring segment needed. A Mae Young spot! This would be one of those Raws that I would be really, really angry if I went to.
4) Here’s something I don’t understand. Ostensibly, Vince is giving away a million dollars to bribe people into watching Raw, right? One would assume the point of this is to make people want to watch Raw when not giving away a million dollars. Wouldn’t it stand to reason that you’d want to put on some blockbuster Raws? Maybe featuring some title changes or something? Not completely waste it in building a PPV that no “new” fans are going to buy?
5) The hulk hands are getting more play tonight than anything. They were on American Gladiators earlier and they make an appearance on Raw tonight. How is it that I don’t feel like this movie preview has worn me out of wanting to see the actual movie. How bad is Raw tonight that I’m making a point about green, styrofoam hands?
6) Thank GOD the Jericho heel turn has finally arrived. I, for one, look forward to this. Until, of course, Michaels squashes him.
7) It seems to me that another problem with trying to draw old fans back to a wrestling program would be the actual, you know, wrestling taking a backseat to a silly cash giveaway.
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Terrible Raw. One of the worst I’ve seen since I started watching regularly watching again. I have to hope that ratings tanked on this episode so this terrible, terrible experiment ends sooner rather than later.
Yeah, Raw was pretty bad. Still don’t care about the money thing. They might as well be saying “Screw this WRESTLING crap, who wants to win some cash?” Charlie Haas arbitrarily showing up got a laugh out of me, however.
The Highlight Reel segment was markout city. Jericho was very Foley-esque in his heel turn - he was straight to the point, had solid reasoning and explained himself clearly as to why he turned, and feels completely justified in doing so. (It’s a shame Jericho and Foley never had an extended program together, actually.) It’ll be very interesting to see what they decide to do next with Batista regarding this, if anything at all. Also, I really think Jericho has GOT to go over, because outside of JBL, he’s now the only main event heel Raw has.
Lilian Garcia does not have a 38 inch chest. Sorry, it had to be said.
I’m coming around on the Next-Gen/Revolution stable idea, but that’s only because Rhodes, Smith and now DiBiase look so helpless and bland. And don’t forget Carlito too.
The Cena/HHH thing has been paint-by-numbers and HHH tripping Cena on the announce table was lame as hell, sorry. Mixing Jeff Hardy into the feud makes THREE babyfaces fighting each other, and I’m not sure that’s going to work very well. Better idea to build Cena/HHH: JBL destroys Cena through the announce table as HHH is sitting there mere feet away, doing nothing to help. Cena comes down for HHH’s match against whoever, which leads to a heel beatdown, with Cena returning the favor and watching HHH get his ass kicked, the show closing with Cena and HHH locking eyes. I suppose the big problem with that is that Raw doesn’t have any heels to deliver said beatdown, but whatever, still would’ve worked better.