Official WM Go-Home Raw in NYC Thread: 3/28/2016

you're depressing. I genuinely feel sorry for you and the downer of a life you must live.



Yes! Finally some positivity in this section. It's not something you come across much here. But yes, Wrestlemania will be a hell of a show.

I'm expecting Ambrose to pick up the win though and hopefully put him in the title hunt.

There's plenty of people that have indicated it could be very well be a good show, but that the card, and the build, has been senseless and miserable. Myself included.

Last year was really no different, though it at least made more sense than this year's show.

And for the record, no, it's not a kids show. I don't know why we're still debating that. The main target demographic is still 18-49 year old males. That's the number that mattered twenty years ago, and that's the number that matters today. Just because they frame the show in a manner that makes it more widely accessible to a larger age group, doesn't mean the core has changed.

If it were aimed primarily at children, the show wouldn't air on an adult demo network in multiple primetime week night slots. If it were aimed primarily at children, WWE wouldn't have spent millions of dollars building a network loaded to the brim with nostalgia content.

Of course they want children to watch, they want everyone to watch.

I couldn't even bring myself to comment on Raw as I've just lost the will at this point, but something has to be said for that closing segment. The audacity they had to try and recreate a locker room brawl was plain embarrassing, especially in contrast to the Brock Lesnar vs Undertaker one 6 months prior. The crowd was extremely invested in that, they couldn't get enough of it, which is why it went on for a solid 20 minutes, it was chaos. Thus however, didn't even fall on boo's, it was 90% uninterested silence. Wether this was because we already had something similar happen earlier on in the night or not I'm not sure, but even during that first promo the fans weren't entirely invested. They should have started the show with Triple H attacking Roman backstage on his way to the arena, had the second segment later on, with the Shane leap of faith to close the Show.

I still feel like if it wasn't for the title then the fans would be a lot more invested, but once again they've just screwed themselves and now they're going to have to wallow in their own misery. It'll be comical if they do end up opting for a double turn now as it clearly was never their plan. They can't keep hiding Roman away in backstage skits week after week and not letting him talk. Even Triple H look fed up with his own promos now, he doesn't seem engaged in this one bit, even he must know it's now a tired act.

I'm mainly looking forward to seeing how a lot of it pans out rather than anything. I do hope the Title match goes on last so that it falls on burnt out, uncaring, flat ears.