For me, the central issue for this episode was that Eurus was simply too complex a character for their episode format. If you break her down, she is a brilliant character, someone who felt desperately lonely as a girl and committed a horrendeous deed in order to draw her brothers attention, only she overestimated her…

In many ways I'm really hoping that Chidi won't confess his love for Real Eleanor as she is just so boring. I know she is intended that way, but at the moment she doesn't elevate the scenes as a straight woman. Although don't get me wrong, I don't want him to confess his love to Fake Eleanor either.

For most of the episode, I was torn on which was the best line of the episode: "I love you too, egg" or "This will be the 4th most important party that I’ve ever thrown!”. Then Shawn finally arrived and we got "Because she is stealing my train", and I just couldn't stop losing my heart to that excellent delivery.

Which again is fair, but my counter-point still is that those really special matches rarely have any in-story reasoning aside from they want to prove themselves the best and their feud feels significant enough. Especially when hitting those specific PPVs.

Fair enough and I do agree that this was probably one of those lost in translation situations, which are bound to happen and which is why I tried to acknowledge in the very start that this might very easily be an interpretation issue from my end.

Don't you even float the possibility of Maryse, the unsung hero of the current Canadian invasion, being banned from ringside. Don't you dare. After all, why should deprive the Miz from his wive's loving support during those title defenses. Some might even claim that without her unconditional love and intangible…

Valid counter-arguments, even if there are a couple of points I disagree with.

And that has nothing to do with my complaint? Cena knew the match he was doing and still chose the oversell the hell out of it.

I have to apologize for this, as I always hate making comments like this, but there was a part of the review that just utterly baffled me. I've read the paragraph in question a couple of times already, but I just continue be puzzled by the claim there.

As a sidenote, this is probably the most excited for the actual Rumble match I've been for ages as I honestly have no idea who is winning it as based on Meltzer's there's been a lot of changes with the previous plans.

With the addition of the Cruiserweight title match to Royal Rumble, it is starting to look like there's room for two matches at this point. It's a four hour show, but the Rumble will take over an hour and both the WWE and Universal title matches will take at least 20 minutes each. Additionally, I don't think the…

I thought this was probably the weakest Talking Smack I've seen, partially due to Shane being really bad for that role as he did not have skill to be a dynamic presence in the discussion. Even the women's face-off just felt really weak as they just repeated old talking points and made some bizarre statements. For…

I loved that opening segment with Ambrose/Miz/Maryse so much that it is still making me smile. Just everything hit the right note, well almost anything as the crowd didn't seem to get the obvious cue about what to chant, but it was just so great. From Dean wanting to have brought that alligator, damn you goverment…

When watching the main event, I kept thinking about the Cena/Ambrose match a few months ago, and I was hit by a suspicion that I don't Cena is able to do good 10 minute matches anymore. It just feels that he has this need for them to be this epics, even if the time doesn't allow for it, and he ends up just overselling…

Charlotte and Sasha were neck and neck, but Charlotte was ultimately the winner of that feud in a decisive manner in the Iron Man match and they are leaning now on her being the Queen of PPV. Hence the concept that it would require something special to beat her there.

On a more positive note, two WWE related social media links that brought me endless amount of joy tonight.

I guess I disagree. It never felt like the long term program for me and Seth is much higher in the hierarchy than Sami, so the rub is able to give for Braun is also more efficient on that front.

While I overall enjoyed the women's segments on this episode, I did also feel like they are trying to juggle two narratives that aren't compatible. For Rumble, they want to run the Bayley of the Masses story where people will rally behind their own against the preppy mean girl who only has her title because of…

I'm currently really liking what Rollins and Braun are doing together and thought the start of the episode was by far the best part of it. It makes Braun look important while Seth makes him look like a million bucks, and in return Seth actually has a meaningful story that makes him feel like someone you want to cheer…

This was for me probably in the bottom three Raws. They really staked the episode on those two big star returns, yet both of them just kind of failed. That Undertaker segment was bizarre in content, not to mention the hysterical over-enunciation of each word he uttered, while HBK just seemed to be dying a slow death…