The One Where Bret Gets Run Over

I'm just going to link to WO here since I'll pull information from them for this entry. I watched Raw last night for the first time in a couple weeks. Of course it is a totally lackluster show after 3 weeks of good shows. All the good shows I missed. Just bad timing I guess. Brett Hart came out in the first hour to give what turned out to be a farewell speech. He claimed since he could not get his match with Vince there was no reason for him to hang around and he was going to give his last goodbyes.
Now Dave Meltzer says the promo was weak, probably because Bret didn't' believe in it since the next part was ridiculous. I didn't think it was a bad promo, it was just unbelievable. No one of course bought the idea that Bret is done with this angle and, while the live crowd went along with it, the feeling where I watched it was this promo was a miss. Little did we know how much worse it would get.
As we're watching Bret get into the Limo, you could see the random car driven by a random blond getting ready to back up which totally telegraphed the rest of the sequence. This random woman backed into the limo door which trapped Bret's leg and he had to be carried away in an ambulance. Me and my friends both though that the ambulance driver would be revealed to be Vince in a call-back to the Austin angle. But no, they missed a great opportunity for a memorable moment.
To sum up my feelings on the angle, I'm going to quote writer Todd Martin of Figure Four Daily:
This is exactly the sort of scenario we all feared WWE would do with Bret and Vince: substitute the real life issue between the two for some contrived, WWE scripted bulls**t. After weeks of quality build I had completely let down my guard and assumed WWE was going to follow through this angle well, and then they pull this s**t.

Case Closed.

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