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Lorcan's been impressive every time I've seen him. He had a really fun YouTube/WWE.com exclusive CWC match with Cedric Alexander.

I think I was a lot less into this episode than some of you. The opening match was excellent with a genuinely shocking result, and Nikki vs. Carmella was fun until the ending. But the character inconsistencies with the Usos, Carmella and Bayley really, REALLY irritated me.

1) There's still a chance that SDL could end with Team SmackDown standing over Team Raw, and 2) Roman is immune to 50/50 booking.

There are stakes in it for me since I don't like Raw and actually enjoy watching SmackDown, but I doubt that's what they were aiming for.

But Kalisto's feud with Corbin is actually starting to heat up now, if he beats Kendrick then he'll be off to that isolated cruiserweight island where people over 205 lbs don't exist.

Work that promo into a shoot, brother!

So does literally everyone agree that SmackDown wins the tag match and Raw wins the other two?

The worst thing SmackDown could do is have the entire episode be about how strong Roman is. That's exactly what I watch SmackDown to avoid.

There were some great moments in that final segment which really made me excited for the men's Survivor Series match, like Wyatt's promo and Ambrose, Styles and Shane working together to take out Strowman. But then Roman broke out of not one, but two finishers in the finisher spam sequence and the show ended with his

I think it was pretty heavily implied that The Revival were faking.

Huh, guess it's just showing up wrong on my phone then.

But it doesn't even look like someone's done that yet. According to the graph, every vote has been a B+.

How can the community rating be a B when it looks like literally everyone gave it a B+?

I doubt Dolph loses the title that quickly after putting his career on the line to get it. Also Cesaro will probably be in the tag match at SS, so he's not a likely choice. I'd love for Dolph to have a match with Sami, or Neville or…hell it's been long enough, I'm ready for another match with Rusev.

A very nice, very solid little SmackDown. Carmella and Alexa came off great in their back and forth promo, this situation with Randy and the Wyatts is really drawing me in, and sorry LaToya but I'll never get sick of the Miz/Bryan feud.

The Ascension are the least interesting, least talented tag team on the SD roster. Not as charismatic as the Hype Bros, Breezango or the Spirit Squad, and not as good in the ring as American Alpha, the Usos or the Vaudevillains. They're right where they belong.

If you still hate Mojo after his Talking Smack appearance last week, you may just have no joy in your life.

One of the things that used to make NXT great, and that does make SmackDown great, is having mini-storylines that play out entirely on TV. Everything on NXT is just building up to the next TakeOver now, the weekly show doesn't feel as important as when you had Charlotte helping Sasha against Dana and Emma in return

I was pretty impressed by Natty here. Her in-ring heel work seems to have improved (no more "YAAAAAAAAY"), and the tweaks they're making to her character have made her feel a little less generic.

Nooooooooooope.