The crowd were just fine in the sense that they came to the arena hyped as fuck. But WWE deflated their interest with not only a terrible opening, but a poor opening hour. Things started boring and stayed boring up until Hell In a Cell began.
The reason this is important is because, as any kind of live performer knows, you're supposed to use your strongest material at the beggining and at the end. The opening sets the tone for the show and affects how much fun you have, while the ending completely affects how you remember the show after its over (Death Note and Mass Effect are two good examples of a consistently solid series in every way that will be forever tainted by the disappointing final moments).
The ending for the WM28 main event was interesting, definately. But not very satisfying or climatic, kind of abrupt. Whether it made sense or not, if Brock Lesnar's music so much as hit at the end I'd probably be remembering the show right now as "OMG SO FUCKING AWESOME!!" but I'm not.
If only Sheamus and Bryan got a proper match and the Tag Title bout was bumped up to the show, I think I'd have loved the show so much more (don't worry about practicality, there could have been an abundant amount of time for them if we scrapped most of those bloody awful "comedy" segments and sped up the 12 man tag a little).
And although, apart from the very beggining, I don't think there was anything really bad on the show (despite what I've said in the other threads), I still walked away quite bitter simply out of how disappointed I was by the show overall. Punk/Jericho was my MOTN, Hell In a Cell was a lot of fun (if messy and slightly transparent but I'm not beating that horse again), and Rock/Cena of course had a very enjoyable energy. Everything else seemed like WWE just trying to get everyone else out of the way.
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