Are you slightly more optimistic now or not?

[Crayo]

RAW had its 3 hour episode and most of us think it was a relatively good show to be honest. Anyone more optimistic over the up-and-coming permanent 3 hour shows?

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

I didn't sit through the show in it's entirety which probably helped.. sooo many commercials and useless segments still, it's hard to stomach. I especially hate when they come back from commercial, have entrances for a match, show 30 seconds of the match, and go to another commercial.

 

[Crayo]

The worst part is when they don't even have matches. They go to commercial, come back, backstage segment, cole advertises match, commercial.

 

[Victoria Justice]

no because the shows could be 3 hours of bordem

 

[Leo C]

Well, I think that for what everyone expected to be a disaster, it was a pretty good show. I believe they're "training" with three-hour shows to be able to run them every week.

 

[I'll See Ya Kia]

Hmmm. I don't want to sound like a girl, here but when I watch my soaps the last thing I need is time increases. I don't see RAW too different from when I watch Y&R and 1 hour is fine I think. Sooo, yes RAW should be simpler and sweeter. I vote 2hrs

 

[Lockard 23]

One good three hour Raw doesn't mean they'll be able to pull it off every week. I still wish for it to be two hours since now Raw is gonna be technically longer than their PPVs. And I know WWE's new genius business plan is to focus on increasing ratings instead of increasing PPV buyrates (the thing that actually makes them money) but I happen to think that is ass backwards.

 

[Matt]

I enjoyed the show. hopefully they will all be good

 

[Aids Johnson]

yeah buddy, monday night raw = cleaning and cooking night. I got a grip of stuff done around here in the few minutes of commercials....5-10 minutes of raw 3 minutes of commercials.

Ill have it on the tv while it plays, and anything i feel like i really missed, ill rewatch on tube the next day. Gotta love the people willing to stream off their satellite and then youtube it just because.

 

[Snowman1]

We had a 4/10 Smackdown followed by a 6/10 Raw.
That's 10 points in 1 week... they used to be lucky to get 4.

There's only one person who deserves the credit, erfect: getting plenty of time means the show can't possibly be less than a 3.

Plus, they can fit in the Ryback/Sin Cara segments and they feel like a small part of the show instead of way too much of it. However, the commercials last night felt like 3/4ths of the show. They had plenty of backstage segments (thank you, even though the ones this week sucked) wrestlers like Daniel Bryan got more mic time to establish a character (thank you), we actually got longer matches that didn't feel like complete wastes of time (thank you)... I guess we don't have much of a reason not to be optimistic, it seemed to help the show tremendously!

 

[Crayo]

One good three hour Raw doesn't mean they'll be able to pull it off every week. I still wish for it to be two hours since now Raw is gonna be technically longer than their PPVs. And I know WWE's new genius business plan is to focus on increasing ratings instead of increasing PPV buyrates (the thing that actually makes them money) but I happen to think that is ass backwards.

Why does their business plan matter at all? Good ratings = more viewers = more buys. Them wanting good consistent ratings is a good thing for fans. I'm not sure how the IWC can find something to complain about around that.