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finally got around to watching old WWF stuff since current WWE sucks ass right now, decided to start from the post-mania RAW (March 24) to the April 28th episode, I don't want to go head first into full-blown attitude era just yet, I wanna see the transition, also wanna see Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels in their prime too since they both are no longer active by 1998
im a PG baby and was literally not alive to see this for myself, i got no nostalgia glasses, so lets se how it was like back then
>the biggest angle of this period is the Austin-Hart Foundation blood feud, very kino and is practically the only thing worth watching RAW for, by this point, Stone Cold is at his prime and is already the WWFs most popular guy judging by crowd response, anti-american heel Bret is so good as well, he can actually be amazing on the mic and at playing a character when he's not just the "I wrestle really good" guy that he was for most of the New Gen era, I'm also pretty sure about a solid third of every RAW is dedicated to this one angle, with frequent segments peppered each episode, its so unlike modern day RAW/SmackDown where every angle is neatly given its own little segment or two, it does make it feel like its a live developing story, rather than the structured format of today.
>Downside is, anything other than the world title scene or the biggest angles are POORLY, poorly developed. the midcard and lowcard is extremely grim, the wrestlers are barely given or any time to promo or to show off any character, the most they are getting is a subpar, thrown-together match for 5 minutes, this is something modern WWE does much better by giving midcarders the necessary screentime to show off
>worst still, since this is New Generation, the undercard is mostly bad, dimeless cartoon gimmicks performed by people knowing they aren't moving anywhere up the card and are clearly just there to cash a check, neither the crowd or the performers give a shit.
