Monday Night Yawn…
Ok, so I just got done watching WWE RAW from this Monday. I tend to watch it live (or at least semi-live, on a half-hour delay so I can skip most of the annoying adverts) but I had Uni on Tuesday and there was no way I was going without sleep.right
So yeah, you know if I’m talking about WWE RAW on my blog then it’s bad, right? But this week it was amazingly bad. They forced the whole Jackass thing down our throats to a ridiculous degree and had them plug their website about fifty times. Yeah, we get it, you’ve got a website. If I didn’t care the first ten times, why would I care for the other forty?
Plus they had “The Boogie-Man” and “Hornswaggle” on RAW again. For those who don’t know, “The Boogie-Man” is a guy who comes out from under the ring in red and black face paint and pretends to be the man for whom he’s named. Hornswaggle is a midget (political incorrectness ftw) who they parade around because someone somewhere finds him funny.
If that wasn’t bad enough they continued this Cryme Tyme vs. Miz/Morrison thing AGAIN, and this time Miz/Morrison just pretty much reused every insult they used last week. Obviously they couldn’t be bothered to write anything new. Wonderful entertainment right there. Then we were privileged to see “Kelly Kelly” and… um… the girl who sings really badly as her gimmick (I do know her name, I just can’t think of it right now, but then that could be because I’ve repressed the memory of most of her stuff. She’s not even good looking!) joining them for a six-person tag match. Yawn!
Batista and Shawn Michaels had a match, but that was so long and dull I wound up fast forwarding through most of it.
The little facts told me that RAW was the most watched “entertainment program” on US cable last week for the third week in a row. I can only assume it was a very short list of “entertainment programs”.
They announced that it would be The Undertaker vs. The Big Show at Cyber Sunday, just further reason not to ever buy a WWE PPV since that’s YET ANOTHER match from last month that they’re doing again this month. Remember when after a PPV match happened people would move on in to different feuds to keep things interesting? Vince McMahon doesn’t. They also showed the footage of Big Show beating down Undertaker again, because the seventy-five times they’ve showed that weren’t enough apparently.
You think I’m exaggerating, don’t you? I’m not. They show that footage every ten minutes on Smackdown. I kid you not…
They played the “text this to that” bullshit for people to vote who they think should face certain people, and of course it’s only available to “US cell phone subscribers”, once again screwing the rest of the world who also watch the show live out of the ability to do something. But then I’m getting used to that by now, WWE’s competitions are always to US only. Not even Canada, who also watch the show live. And yet they expect the foreign fans to pay even more than the US ones to come and see them live? They can take a long walk off a short plank for all I care, I quit buying WWE PPV’s quite a while ago due to the crap with all their offers being to US citizens only.
There were, however, three highlights. Charlie Haas imitating Hulk Hogan as “Haas Hogan” was pretty funny, until he got squashed by that idiot Bradshaw. Santino Marella was HILARIOUS, but then his comedy is about the only decent thing on any WWE programming right now, and Chris Jericho took on CM Punk. If anyone hasn’t seen RAW yet and wants to know what to watch, just check out those three things on something like YouTube and save yourself the mental pain of having to sit through the rest.
Other stuff probably happened as well but whatever it was it made so little of an impression on me that I don’t even remember it.
In conclusion I leave myself wondering why it is I still watch WWE. Somebody help me out here, there must be a reason!
That is all.