Monday Night Raw is a three hour show which is comprised of 30 minutes worth of recaps. While it may not actually be that much time, it sure feels like it. Did you just see a big angle before a commercial break? Well, dont get too excited for any sort of follow-up or the show moving onto something else hot, because youre going to see what you just saw, and then listen to the announcers give their reaction to it. Oh, and then later that night you'll watch it again. When Raw expanded from two to three hours, there was hope for a stronger tag or womens division, or maybe even the Cruiserweights coming back to fill out the extra time. Nope. Besides a bunch of matches that are tossed out there, which are now suspiciously 33% longer, we end up getting a lot more recaps than anything exciting. WWE either thinks that you cant remember what you watched earlier in the night, or that suddenly hundreds of thousands of new viewers just tuned in and need to be caught up to speed. Or, theyre just trying to kill time. No matter what, they dont exactly appreciate your time. They think youll stick around no matter what. Theyre starting to find out theyre wrong.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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