Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Just got finished watching the SciFi debut of ECW. If at any time I seem agitated during this post it's because being the clever son of a gun that I am I managed to delete it off my DVR moments ago. I had such high hopes for collecting every episode on DVD+Rs. That isn't happening now. Excuse me...ARRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!...I feel a little better now.
So what did I think? Not a lot really. It came across as an episode of Sunday Night Heat compared to the new cutting edge brand it was touted as being.
It opened with a ten minute angle featuring Heyman/RVD/Edge/Lita/Cena. A ten minute opening angle is fine for a two hour WWE show, but this being only one hour it took up a full sixth of the show. Overkill.
I must admit I did like the Sandman/Zombie match. Kind of reminded me of 911 chokeslamming Santa Claus. I guess the new ECW is going to rip on the SciFi Network just like they did with TNN.
Angle squashed Justin Credible in a very convincing fashion. I understand Angle has to get over as the new killer, but they could have brought in some unknown job guy for this spot. The ECW roster isn't big enough for Angle to run through everybody. If he squashed one person every week like he did tonight it would only take fifteen weeks before there'd be nobody left.
Can somebody please tell me what the point of the stripper show was? Exactly what did it accomplish?
The main event was an all weapons legal battle royal with the winner facing Cena at Vengeance. It was a nice surprise seeing Trinity debut as the valet for the FBI. Big Show was just out there mowing through people (and killing their credibility). In the end Sabu came out on top. At first I thought the win was to establish him as one of the top stars. Then I realized they were just building him up a little steam before he loses to Cena at Vengeance.
Well, I was extremely underwhelmed by this debut. I feel embarrassed for all of my "give it a chance" posts on several forums. Lets just hope they can just produce a better offering next week.
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