The gap between Survivor Series and TLC was a scant three weeks, leaving barely enough time to digest the departure of the Authority and set up an eight-match pay-per-view. But the gap between TLC and Royal Rumble? That would be six weeks, with the usually slow, no-angle advancing weeks around the Christmas and New Years holidays in the middle. This means that storylines most likely will move slowly, almost repeating themselves over the next couple weeks. There were a couple major developments Monday night (more on them in a bit), but given that two of the six bouts were rematches from TLC, another was a tag team match combining two other TLC contests and a fourth was a singles match derived from a TLC tag team match, it seems like the slow doggie-paddle toward Royal Rumble is underway.