You can tell that it was a real change from clips to management to a focus on the wrestlers; no one from the management chive in to set a match, immediately after a dispute (e.g. part of the Club attacking New Day; things like that may be stopped by Mick, whereas this was a last visage of input from Stephanie); also, notice the reappearance of the local jobber; I definitely noticed the change in style; it's become obvious that it's Mick Foley's program now.
Yeah, I guess as long as it works, what we saw a week to three weeks ago appears to be over for the time being, as long as Mick is successful; and, as I said I was afraid of, it does indeed seem to be passing the torch down to the GMs and the disappearance of Shane and Stephanie (and Triple H, as last night's programming seemed clearly from the writing suggestions of Mick, being in a very dominant and leading role in the input), I guess, until some major change is required, possibly similar to the disappearance of Vince until some groundbreaking announcement is about to occur. But, I could be a little off.
But, definitely, you could really also notice and tell that there was a difference in tone to the program; it appears to be shifting from the villains to the baby faces winning most of the time again, something I noticed after Sasha's and Finn's wins and that would be a shift from Stephanie to Mick; now, we'll really tell, once the results of Finn versus Seth is known from Summerslam, with Finn winning (and, we'll also have about 5 more weeks of Raw programming to examine, but, it was quite clear from Raw last night); it's like Seth having the buy was the last major push from Stephanie, with Mick now in charge. However, what Shane does on SmackDown tonight will obviously be a major factor on any plans, if, say, he's more involved; however, Shane's and Daniel's styles seem to jive well so it would be hard to tell if there were any real difference; we'll just see if Shane makes any backstage appearances. I actually liked Stephanie's frequent appearances, but, this might have to be a "so long" to Stephanie appearances on Raw for a while (is Stephanie following in Triple H's footsteps?); unsure about Shane, but, that seems likely as well.
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