Really?!  That explains so much!  Like the sounds of frogs in my head.

I adore Kane.  I always have, and probably always will.  He's my absolute favorite WWE person of all time.  I like him in the mask, out of the mask, in any costume.  I like him as a Heel, I like him as a Face, I just like him Sam-I-Am.  :)

I was intrigued by the new intro music, that is so VERY reminiscent of his earlier themes.  I always look forward to hearing what he has to say, and I laughed so hard last night during Kane's announcement on RAW. 

I admit that I was kind of stuck on the fact that Kane pronounced Rey's name as "Rey Mysterioooooo" which made me giggle.  But I will cheer any time I see Kane, no matter what he's up to.  I cheer harder when he teams up with or goes against his brother, but I will always choose Kane first!  :)

I'm looking forward to seeing what else he does with Rey and this theme!

Jericho is heading back into Whiny Boy Jerkface.  Which I think is fantastic.  I love when he does that.  I think Chris Jericho is one of the all around most Versatile people that RAW has.  He can be a face, and he can believable flip that around and be a great heel as well. 

My personal opinion is that one of the reasons Colin Delaney was let go is because the fans didn't respond to him with the abrupt heel turn he took.  I was discussing that with my wrestling social group last night.  We decided that the most probable reasons for the lack of reaction was twofold. 

1. The heel turn did not seem to make any sense.  He claimed he was being held back by Dreamer, and yet after turning, he did not start winning matches.  He just appeared to flail around trying to find someone else to cling to. 

2. Most of his story arcs had been drawn out about 2 to 3 weeks too long, and so the fans (with their nototriously short attention spans ;) had already decided that he was never going to amount to much, and hey, this is a good time to go get a soda. 

I believe that if he had been allowed/able to win more than once, especially if it was somehow due to help from a mentor, he might have gotten more of a stable fan base.  As it was, he showed no skills on the mic, no interesting emotions other than "please don't squash me TOO hard", and he had no real depth to his persona. 

From experience, I've run characters like this.  They are lackluster, uninsteresting, and easily forgettable.  Colin should have been shown with the proverbial extra head to generate interest.  Some options might have been, spunk, grit, and fire:  good mic skills to be able to verbally assault and insult people to the point where they attack him and he gets thoroughly squashed, but he comes back and does it again.  This time, LEARNING from his previous attempt, and he manages to get the upper hand for a few seconds, and then is squashed.  But that learning would be critical.

Another option could have been what I almost thought they were going for originally...  the bookworm/nerd stereotype who slowly morphs into the brawny hero figure.  However, Colin showed no muscle development in the last 9 months, and showed very little apparent improvement in skills or techniques.  (Both of which seemed odd, since he should have, and didn't.)

There were plenty of options.  I wrote characters for improv and games, that frequently started out like Colin, and generally improved.  But a couple just went haywire and I dumped them. 

Others...  ah, there were others who spirals rapidly out of my original plans, but became so hugely popular that they ended up being in use for over a decade.  I rather miss designing characters and their storylines. 

Anyway, I didn't mean to prattle on about Colin Delaney... 

Short version of my thoughts on RAW...  I enjoyed it.  I look forward to what happens next.  I think the Championship Scramble is interesting, but I think it sucks for Punk, since he hasn't had the belt long, however, it will be VERY interesting to watch!