(I can’t talk about it. Don’t make me.)
Am I the only person in the world who thinks Flair took out Orton to get into the vote himself? Because it seems that way.
IF THEY ARE DOING IT THAT WAY, I would’ve changed how the RAW ending was presented; if the big swerve is “Flair really is gunning” on his own, then they shouldn’t diminish with the lesser swerve of “Flair turns on Orton.” Instead of building it up like Flair was absolutely going to turn, JR should’ve been hoping against hope Flair would turn, and then treated it like a “we’ve seen this before, I can’t believe Evolution did it again” type of deal, setting it up to not be what we’ve seen before in these situations
I think I like that idea better just because it brings the continuity of the announcers knowing the history between these people beyond the last PPV cycle; usually it takes people chanting names for the announcers to be clued in about their dumbest people in the room status.
(If they aren’t doing it this week, it was really nice of Flair to fake tension with Batista for something we’re supposed to pretend only Batista and Flair were aware of happening. That dedication to fooling the cameraman for no particular reason is apperciated.)