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KELLER'S RAW REPORT - A show that was very good until the very end (where it got very bad) Jul 15, 2008 - 12:57:39 AM
PWTorch editor Wade Keller covered Raw start to finish, liking most everything for the first two hours and five minutes, but hating the final minute. You can read his entire report here. (VIP members can hear his 38 minute Daily Keller Hotline audio analysis of the show with a rant about the final minute of the show, followed by a breakdown of why most everything else was particularly good, leading to confusion about how the show was overseen by the same writing team.) Don't forget to also scan down the Main Listing below for the HOLT correspondence report from the arena, reader reax to the show, and later today the Hitlist and more reax...
EXCERPT: Things got bad here, though, as JBL got in another car and drove it right into Cena. The camera didn't zoom in, but JBL's reaction was that of someone who got rid of a rival once and for all and might have even thought he took things a step too far. That one single scene almost ruined the entire show, as everything up to that point was pretty good to very good, but that scene was a credibility killer as it just took one big step outside of the bounds of the world WWE creates. Not that WWE hasn't crossed that line before, but it raises the stakes so high - vehicular homicide - that it crushes the impact of anything else on the show and just causes most viewers to roll their eyes, not react with concern and outrage...
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