Om even terug te komen op die Raven storylines. Ik ben ff op zoek gegaan naar een review van dat shoot interview (een RF interview), en kwam het volgende tegen.
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The Seven storyline- Since you can’t kill people and just beating someone up isn’t very good, proven because they do that on RAW and “Brian Gerwitz is an idiot.” He thinks “he fucked me royally business-wise.” Since psychological damage lasts longer, he wanted to do that based off of the seven deadly sins. The first three would have been jobbers or guys like Coach, in order to get things started without bogging down in a feud. The fourth one would become a feud, which would last a few months, which would end with Raven losing an “I Quit” match. You’d think it would end the storyline but he’d then actually come back two weeks later and come in for the fifth sin. The last ones were going to be envy and lust. He wanted take a face like Matt Hardy and show him on a bar in a videotape kissing a girl who isn’t Lita, checking into a hotel with her, etc., all the way up to the shot of the “Do not disturb” sign going on the door. The next shot would be of the aftermath of the night before, with beer bottles and condom wrappers abound, then pulling back to show Raven consoling Lita. While he would be consoling her, he would be feeling on her and trying to kiss her but she’s too busy sobbing. It would come out later that Matt didn’t actually do it. The next week, he’d be gone while Hardy would be trying to find him for revenge. The week after, Raven would have Lita in the ring and insist on playing the tape again because, while Matt’s sin was lust, Raven’s was envy because he was envious of Matt’s perfect life and perfect girlfiend and so forth. Immediately after saying that he was guilty of envy, he’d act like his soul was purged despite completely screwing over all those other people. Matt would beat the piss out of Raven, Lita would knock Matt out with an international object, and Lita would leave with Raven. He’d then feud with Matt and it would turn out that Lita had cheated on Matt first and that their relationship was already in trouble but that Matt had been trying as hard as he could to hold it together. Raven booked it out to be a six month program with at least two major feuds within that time but he was later asked by Stephanie McMahon where he would go afterwards. Raven felt that he’d be made by that storyline for life at that point and that they wouldn’t NEED to find other sins to have programs on.
His final storyline before getting fired- He was going to turn Hurricane heel in a program with Tommy Dreamer and himself. He’d turn Hurricane into such a heel that Hurricane would turn on him, which would make him a tweener. Dreamer would be trying to play the angel and keeping Hurricane as a face while he would be the Devil and trying to turn him heel. There’s more than that but that’s the simplest form of it. After that, Hurricane would then bring in an OVW sidekick and a girl who would supposedly be the head of his fan club. The long and short of it would be that Hurricane would become a major player, getting over an OVW guy as a monster, Hurricane’s valet, revitalize Raven and Dreamer’s careers, etc. without having to work with a Triple H or other big star to do it. The first reason he couldn’t do it was that Brian Gerwitz didn’t want to turn Hurricane heel since he’d come up with the Hurricane character. Then Gerwitz wanted to make Hurricane heel but use his own idea “which probably fucking sucks and he wanted to cock-block me out.” (Gerwitz’ idea was for Hurricane and Trish Stratus to tag against Stevie Richards and Victoria, they win and hug after the match, Hurricane thinks that Trish likes him and writes her a note, she tells him sorry because she’s got a boyfriend, he turns heel. Raven’s right… it sucks.) “That’s the stupidest fuckin’ idea I’ve ever heard” and that his blows Gerwitz’ away on so many levels it isn’t funny. He knew he was gone as soon as he’d heard the idea because he had also heard that he’d be offered a writing position after he left but figured the writers kept it from happening. He wouldn’t have taken it anyway because he wouldn’t want to see his work trampled by incompetence. He says that Gerwitz can write good promos for The Rock and comedy for Edge and Christian but that’s about it.
Why is Gerwitz still around? He thinks that Gerwitz is a good yes man and knows how to play the game. He says that the writers tend to look down on the talent and names both Gerwitz and Dave Lagana specifically. Lagana did help him out on a storyline but Raven could read him enough to know that Lagana didn’t really want to do it because he’s an underneath guy.
Being stuck on Sunday Night Heat- He sold the Seven idea to Vince and he also gave the Hurricane idea to him at the same idea. Vince then said he’d have to talk to the writers then, two days later, sent word that he was fired. Back to the point, Vince told him that he needed to quit as the Heat announcer in a storyline and would lose to Jerry Lawler in a countout instead of getting pinned like the original plan. It pisses him off a bit that they told Lawler the reason for it was that he politiced his way out of it and that Lawler put it in his book. The next week, he thinks that Pat Patterson got in Vince’s ear and shot it down because Patterson never got his gimmick. Gerald Brisco, on the other hand, didn’t get it but would see people dressed like him when he went to his son’s wrestling tournaments. He feels part of the problem was that he thinks management has no clue about his career as Vince probably thinks that he spent seven years in ECW after he left the WWF in 1994 while Patterson never saw any of his better work to know how good he really is. Because of it, they were unwilling to invest as much in the angle as it deserved and were going to start it on Heat and, if it took off, move it to RAW. “Five months later, they still hadn’t start it” because his friend on the writing staff wouldn’t do it without Brian Gerwitz or Stephanie McMahon’s approval and Gerwitz was telling the guy to just do it on his own. Four months after going on Heat, he asked Vince if they were ever going to start and “Vince said ‘We haven’t?’, which obviously shows how much he watches Heat.” Vince took an interest in his Heat matches for about two weeks then started ignoring the show again.¨
Yes, that sequence of words I just said made perfect sense.
I've got my propaganda, I've got revisionism. I've got my violence in hi-def ultra-realism. All a part of this great nation. I've got my fist, I've got my plan, I've got survivalism.