And tonight illustrates the one thing I hate about professional wrestling...

No one appreciates continuity. (Note that this rant may be erased by what happens on next week's Raw, but I doubt it.) Now, I watch wrestling, and I occasionally watch my wife's soap opera. Even with things like The Kid Trick(aging a kid 20 years in 2 or 3 years) and long-lost sibling, they manage to keep a logical continuity going with most of their shows. Obviously, the soap opera's an everyday thing, and they go every week all year round with no reruns. But so does wrestling. WWE runs one show a week, plus house shows, and a PPV 12 times a year for each of its divisions. And no one has ever heard of continuity.

A perfect example is tonight's show. HHH faced Eugene with the stipulation by evil Eric Bischoff that if Trips did not "destroy" Eugene, he wouldn't get the number one contender status. Now the last few weeks, they've been selling the idea that no one who wrestles Eugene realizes how skilled he is. (That's because no one watches the monitors unless it matters to the plot, but that's a rant for another time.) The problem I have is that HHH didn't actually destroy Eugene. He was about to do so when Benoit came out to attempt to save Eugene. Benoit accidentally pasted Eugene with a chair, and then HHH pedigreed Benoit. Arguably, there was no "destruction". Eugene and Benoit were left laying, but HHH was lucky to leave with his non-win(the match was most likely a no-decision, as the ref never actually counted a pin or DQ'ed HHH for bringing the chair in.) Next week, I'm sure HHH will get his title shot, despite the fact that he barely survived Eugene. (Some sites have suggested that we may find out in a week or two that Nick Dinsmore was just playing "Eugene" to get a job, and then he'll go heel and maybe join Evolution(which is an interesting idea.))

Of course, I'm complaining about continuity in a company where Val Venis went from "porn star" to "censorship advocate" to "porn star" to "Bischoff's bitch" to "porn star" again.

The rest of the show was pretty good. The Rock put in an appearance, seemingly for no real reason at all, unless they're laying the seed for a Big Five PPV return at Summerslam. He and Orton jawed with each other, but it didn't really seem to mean much.
And they're working on a Katie Vick-level doozy of a plotline involving Lita, Matt Hardy, and Kane. Lita is preggers, Matt assumes it's his, but Lita apparently boinked Kane(as scary a thought as that is) so the baby may be Kane's "demon seed"(an idea suggested by a few websites recently.) Of course, this storyline also allows us to see some high-quality(yeah, right) acting by Matt and Lita, who had a torturous crying scene tonight.

Overall, not bad at all.