Reflecto
Hank Scorpio
The Sorceress' Knight
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Post by Reflecto on Sept 6, 2013 15:37:52 GMT -5
Personally, I'd rather have fewer early Raws if they're running a boxset like this, just because they were one-hour shows. If they're going to run something like this, I'd sooner you keep mostly two/three hour Raws in this box set to get as much as possible. (Of course, my previously said wish for complete season box sets also helps that, since the early one-hour shows would be far easier to put six months in at a time and sell as "Season 1, Part 1" if this succeeds.) I dunno, it's hard enough sitting through three hour Raws the first time. Even the ones that have good moments here and there are still laborious viewing for the most part. I can see the argument against one hour Raws but I'd apply that moreso to the ones extended to three hours. WWE has never had a sense for how to structure or pace a three hour Raw that doesn't feel like they're simply stretching 2 hours of content over 3 hours of running time. My argument for what to include/exclude would also take into consideration that 1993, 1994, and 2009-2012 all have dedicated sets that cover them while the other years do not. In fact, while I don't endorse editing or censorship I think if this was essentially "The Best of Raw, 1995-2008" and had the same running time but was in the format of the yearly best of Raw release it would be a lot more valuable than a grab bag of 20 episodes. That makes sense for most modern Raws, but the three-hour Raws is also important, at least prior to Raw 1000, simply because during the time when WWE had some three-hour special Raws, they usually were important enough shows to make them worthy of consideration for a set like this. Most times, they ended up as drafts, Slammy Award shows, big moment shows, and other things like that.
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