It's a bit difficult to get excited about it given the total lack of talent involved. Multi-way fights for the belt are more intriguing if you don't basically know it can only be one or two results.
I'm really not criticizing the booking on this. The cupboard is just so bare.
Oh, and Heath Slater came out and asked for a spot in the tag title match. He has to get a partner before the end of the night, and Shane says he has to ship the whole tourney and win the belts in order to get a contract.
My guess is that he just loses in the first round tonight, alongside whoever.
Yeah, I think Smackdown booking has actually been pretty good so far since the split. It's just like you said, there's not much to work with depth wise.
So every week except the first one I've enjoyed smackdown more than raw despite the massive talent discrepancy between the two. It seems to be taking a much more patient approach overall (first ep was introducing everyone, have many people care about the title and having matches to get the chance to fight for it, etc). And while I do think the booking for smackdown has been better (Styles vs Cena was booked great and the promos for Ziggler/Ambrose were awesome) I don't really think that's entirely it.
I think it's the fact that it's two hours. Less filler, less draining as a viewer, and the result is a more focused product which allows segments to have purpose and get to the point.
Yeah the Miz/DB bit was great. Turns out all Miz's gimmick of being an A-lister and being better than all of us needed to succeed was his super hot wife to return and show us that he really does have it better than all of us!
