Back when I was in college, I used to watch Smackdown every thursday. However, when I came home after I graduated, there was no UPN affiliate here, so I have missed a few years of it. Sure, I read the coverage online after the shows, but it just isn't the same. |
So, I hear the news about the CW... I'm suddenly very happy. We have a WB affiliate, so it looks like I'll be getting me some Smackdown later this year. I figured I really had missed the blue brand. Well, I happened to be out of town last Friday, and I ended up being within range of a UPN affiliate. Sweet, I was gonna see me some Smackdown..... |
So, it was Smackdown time, Rey Rey won the Rumble Sunday (despite the fact he won't be anywhere near the main event picture come Mania) so he comes out. He did it for Eddie and Eddie intervened.... ok, that's getting old Rey, use by date on the exploitation is about 2 months expired, but sure. Here comes Randy Orton to make me wonder why I missed watching Smackdown. He cuts a promo which seems to be either the lowest attempt for cheap heel heat I may have ever seen, or a blatant attempt to try to cause some controversy and get some media attention because of WWE's tasteless storylines. The latter obviously doesn't work because the media doesn't care about a storyline involving a dead wrestler. So, it has to be for the heel heat.... or maybe it's just to piss off the fans.... or to piss on Eddie Guererro.... or.... well, you know what, I'm actually not sure what they are trying to do by putting Randy and Rey in this storyline, but it just isn't good. |
It's almost surreal, after seeing years of similar storylines involving the Undertaker, where people would say he'd dead, and he would return and beat the high holy hell out of them. People would heavily anticipate the return and get all excited, and when he came back, there was the payoff pop and buyrate. The difference here is that this storyline is based on a legitimate death, yet the kayfabe chip in the back of your head, being trained for years, starts going nuts, and you almost expect Latino Heat to appear on the ramp and whip Orton senseless.... that is until you regain your sense of reality and remember that it can't happen.... and thus.... there is NO payoff for this storyline.... there is no good way to end it.... there's not even a good way to hold it steady.... the only way this can go is down, unless they abandon it soon and fast. Either way, it would sure be nice if Eddie could come back and haunt the people who wrote this slop. |
So, I haven't seen an episode of Smackdown forever, I come back, and here we are. This storyline essentially ruined the show for me. The truly sad thing is that my two only real mark out moments of the night were seeing the Boogeyman (you hear so much about his guy, and despite the fact that he can't wrestle, he is seriously amusing.... in an odd, sadistic kind of way) and the Mexican midgets I recognized from Lucha Libre. So, other than also seeing an ok Benoit match, the pros column includes a gimmick wrestler and midgets, while the cons column has everything else, highlighted by the exploitation of the death of Eddie Guererro. Maybe I should just stay away from the blue brand, and just stick with the red.... no, not RAW, TNA. |
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