Currently, Smackdown! is on UPN... and I'm taping it to watch later. Normally I'd watch the whole thing, but after two matches, I was horrendously bored... and suddenly, it didn't become so urgent to watch.

Vince McMahon and the WWF "brain trust" just don't get it; the story is that they may end up cutting people from their roster as a cost cutting measure; that won't help. When the main event is yet another match between Steve Austin and The Undertaker - guys who couldn't pull off an interesting match together a few months ago - why would this one be any different? Vince, your act is STALE, kapeesh? Change it, or you're doomed to keep repeating failures.

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I was talking with a friend about the whole "Kurt Angle defecting to the Alliance" storyline... he raised a potential plot point that wouldn't save the WWF from accusations of bad booking... but it would bring a shred of sense to otherwise senseless storytelling:

What if this defection is nothing but a swerve, a way of pulling the wool over Austin's eyes, leading to Kurt switching back at the worst time?

I guess we'll find out in a few weeks.

OK... I had to read the final RAW results online, because TSN's feed messed up... but I read it and still said "What the f---?"

I think that WWF creative folks have dried up on original ideas, and now want to just imitate the nWo "storyline" formula: just have another wrestler defect to their camp for no logical reason every few weeks.

Kurt Angle won't add a lick of interest to the still mind-numb feud, nor sizzle of any sort. Only the Rock / Jericho feud is different (and I hope Chris ultimately wins it, or it'll be "same old, same old"), and Austin / RVD, because it's also different (both are feuds in their own organizations, not the easy "WWF versus Alliance riff the writers have used to death). Sadly, I don't think Vince and two of 34-D Steph "get it" enough.