2 Cents: 3 Hour Raws
Posted: Sep 4th, '12, 15:27
Raw has now been three hours long for about six weeks now. How do you feel about it?
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THIS!Serujuunin wrote:[rant]
WAY TO F*CKING LONG. Seriously, we all have lives to live and they want us to sit through three hours of the same old crap they fed us for the two hour ones, only more of it? I don't think so. And for those of us (like me) who suffer from a strange sort of OCD where I need to know what's going on, we're stuck in the stupid trap of listening to three hours of trash and dribble. The matches aren't even better or longer or anything, it's just more of those stupid skits and talking and crap. And with school starting soon, I'm thinking about forgetting about RAW altogether and just reading the results. I'm so p*ssed about this three hour thing. RAAAAAAAAGE.
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Pretty much this.Big Red Machine wrote:THIS!Serujuunin wrote:[rant]
WAY TO F*CKING LONG. Seriously, we all have lives to live and they want us to sit through three hours of the same old crap they fed us for the two hour ones, only more of it? I don't think so. And for those of us (like me) who suffer from a strange sort of OCD where I need to know what's going on, we're stuck in the stupid trap of listening to three hours of trash and dribble. The matches aren't even better or longer or anything, it's just more of those stupid skits and talking and crap. And with school starting soon, I'm thinking about forgetting about RAW altogether and just reading the results. I'm so p*ssed about this three hour thing. RAAAAAAAAGE.
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This is HILARIOUS! :ymapplause:Serujuunin wrote:[rant]
WAY TO F*CKING LONG. Seriously, we all have lives to live and they want us to sit through three hours of the same old crap they fed us for the two hour ones, only more of it? I don't think so. And for those of us (like me) who suffer from a strange sort of OCD where I need to know what's going on, we're stuck in the stupid trap of listening to three hours of trash and dribble. The matches aren't even better or longer or anything, it's just more of those stupid skits and talking and crap. And with school starting soon, I'm thinking about forgetting about RAW altogether and just reading the results. I'm so p*ssed about this three hour thing. RAAAAAAAAGE.
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there hasn't been an episode that i thought, "good thing we have an extra hour"Big Red Machine wrote:I think it really depends on how good the show is. Sometimes it feels like it's flying, but when there is either way too many short matches or way too many long talking segments, it is unbearable.
No, but I' sure matches like the Cena vs. Cesaro matches would have been significantly shorter and worse. Remember that awesome gauntlet Daniel Bryan ran that one time? That would never been allowed to be so awesome on a two hour show.cero2k wrote:there hasn't been an episode that i thought, "good thing we have an extra hour"Big Red Machine wrote:I think it really depends on how good the show is. Sometimes it feels like it's flying, but when there is either way too many short matches or way too many long talking segments, it is unbearable.
that is something i can't disagree with, match length has been a lot better, but we have also been getting the same match over and over and over again because there is now time to address all storylines. However, I will say, if WWE wanted, they could easily run those matches on a 2 hr show. They ran an ironman match before on smackdown.Big Red Machine wrote: No, but I' sure matches like the Cena vs. Cesaro matches would have been significantly shorter and worse. Remember that awesome gauntlet Daniel Bryan ran that one time? That would never been allowed to be so awesome on a two hour show.
The whole "same matches over and over again" thing is an issue of creative being lazy and just stuck in a detrimental way of doing things. They decided they wanted to have a four way for the tag titles at the PPV, so they spent all five weeks on both Raw and Smackdown sticking various pairings of the four teams in the ring together with no rhyme or reason or consequences, (usually with at least one other team on commentary all the time so people can yell at each other after the match) until you've seen everything they can do and are completely numb to the matches... then they expect you to get excited about the match on PPV. And they did the same thing for Elimination Chamber just two months ago.cero2k wrote:that is something i can't disagree with, match length has been a lot better, but we have also been getting the same match over and over and over again because there is now time to address all storylines. However, I will say, if WWE wanted, they could easily run those matches on a 2 hr show. They ran an ironman match before on smackdown.Big Red Machine wrote: No, but I' sure matches like the Cena vs. Cesaro matches would have been significantly shorter and worse. Remember that awesome gauntlet Daniel Bryan ran that one time? That would never been allowed to be so awesome on a two hour show.
Realistically, 3 hrs should be so bad with a good show, RAW just isn't one.