Anyway... on to the show.
We open with a video clip of the Rock's storyline, which is essentially Austin's.

Too Much come out, and Scott Taylor takes the mic. "I've got something to say... I have to get it off my chest, this comes from deep inside me. Brian, Too Sexy, Christopher, I love you man!" (ooh, I hope they push that gay angle!)

Al Snow comes out and says, "Time for fun and games is over. This business operates on two principles: the carrot and the stick. Some of us are tired of getting the stick. There is a secret organisation in the wwf, PUSH, and we're here to fight the evil empire, push." He intros two members of the J.O.B. Squad (the black and blue crew), Bob Holly and Scorpio. Too Much Vs Holly/Scorpio
I'm more interested in the fact that Head is wearing Socko than this match. While I think Scorpio is a good wrestler, he lacks the personality to really get him over for me. And I've never liked Holly. if they REALLY push the gay angle, I'll support the Too Much boys, because well, I want to see how that works out. Bob Holly and Scorpio win the match, though, not surprsingly. I dare say the JOB Squad will end their time as jobbers, no?

Val Venis/Terri video Backstage interview with Val: He's asked if he thought he was insensitive to Terri: "Sure I was insensitive. But you have to understand, she is conniving, she is manipulative, she is a liar." He's asked how he can be so sure and he says, in one of the "speech of the year" nominations, "One has to take precautions in my line of work. Years and years ago... I had a... vasectomy. Believe me, if there were any seeds in this watermelon, they'rd be lots of Valbowskis walking all overm and you know there's only one Big Valbowski". I don't know, I couldn't stop laughing at this. Interesting angle turn. So who's the daddy? (God, my "violent soap opera" quip about why I like wrasslin' is starting to get more and more true every day, huh?)

X-Pac/Steven Regal Xpac comes out, only to have the Undertaker come out (for whatever reason). I get sad at this point, because I realise I won't get to hear the "maaaaaaan" song, which amuses me much, much more than it should. Paul Bearer yells, "Well, well, what do we have here, XPac, little boy, you should go stand in the corner" XPac takes the mic, and says, "Wait- I have utmost respect for you, Undertaker, but I got Steven Regal coming out here, so get your own tv time..." and then looking to Bearer, "and you, if you disrespect me one more time, I'll kick your fat ass"
The response to this, is, of course, a chokeslam.
Paul Bearer says, "We'll talk about this later, little boy".

Now this is a mind boggling angle... why is the Undertaker picking on XPac, who's only, oh, one hundred something pounds lighter than he is? Bizarre... and in this feud, I'd love to see UT lose to XPac, just on principle.

Stooges are backstage, waiting for McMahon's limo. there's a sling on Slaughter's arm. mcMahon arrives, and they all really lay on the ass kissing. McMahon asks if they've learned their lesson, they say yes, McMahon says, "discipline is the cornerstone of corporate communication." And they say, "yes sir". This is getting scary. ;)

Marc Mero (with Jackie) vs Godfather (with "friends", as the screen said)
Shane McMahon as ref
Shane lets the hos into the ring (I bet they just called them friends, since no one knows how to properly spell hos). Godfather says, "Shane, since you gonna be the boss someday, you see what I got, you come talk to me, I'll hook you up." Shane gets this puppy dog grin on his face. Then, Godfather turns to Mero, and says, "With your luck with women, I think I'm gonna leave mine away from you and just kick your ass". Jackie gets upset by this. the match starts. Have I mentioned that I LOVE Pimp Godfather? And doubly now that he has the feather? (Tell me Scorpio isn't seething... "hey, I was the OP- Original Pimp!") This match isn't so much about the match, as it is Shane in the ring, as shown by the switching to bacsktage, McMa and the stooges "let's see how he does this" to which someone says, "or.. ring crew" and Brisco says, in the most lascivious voice, "ring crew,oooooh yeah". Scary stuff. McMahon throws off "one time, the US Govt thought I'd end up in stripes" which was pretty funny, and well, the match goes on and on, with their comments, only to have Godfather win by "Pimp Drop" (They could have come up with a better name, if you ask me)

Jackie hits the Godfather after the match
And then we're "treated" to Sable's intensive training. Again, as always, GO JACKIE!!!

XPac is backstage (with NAO) He challenges Undertaker on Raw tonight. "I'm not saying I'm going to beat you, but I don't back down and neither does anyone in DX"

New Age Outlaws come out. ooh. beaded braids.
they do the intro, huge pop, and then McMahon comes out to huge boos. He says I've got two words for you, triple threat... At Survivor Series, they'll be fighting Headbangers AND D'LO/Henry for the belts. *sigh* Just in case this goes bad, my roommate has decided he'll sit on a different couch than I will be. *grin* And... pardon me, but that's it? I had read somewhere they fought the Hardy Boys. I was REALLY looking forward to that fight. A lot. My two favourite tag teams (Al and Mankind aren't officially tag team status) in the ring? Sheesh.

Owen comes out. Now, the best part of this, was, if you looked right behind him, there was a deranged fan, getting way close to him, making stupid faces, chanting "nugget". He's retired, he's not the blue blazer, etc, etc.

Jarrett (with Grandma Debra) vs Droz
Geesh. The commentary involves Cornette ass kissing Owen, telling him, he admires him for retiring once he realised his body was a lethal weapon, and that he was so dangerous in the ring. Owen kept insisting he was retired. Hawk comes in to attack Droz, Animal and Droz double team Hawk, and *gasp* (lol) deliver a Doomsday Device to him. "He was hit with his own move! Never, in 14 years have I ever!" mmhmm. Whatever.

Rock comes out, and talks about how McMahon's candy ass better let him in the tournament. I'm bored by him. MCMahon comes out and re-does the "people's champion thing" and then says, "I can't get to each and every one of these people... oh, I wish I could" and then goes on to say he would get at them, by getting at the Rock, who has to fight Mark Henry tonight on Raw, with a stipulation: win by pinfall or submission or be fired. (where have we seen a stip. like THAT before?) McMahon then gets a nice one off, "You have the people's EYEBROW, the people's ELBOW, so you carry the weight of the people on your back... but you're nothing more than the people's ASS. " The Rock would rather be the people's ass than to kiss McMahons, and the show ends.

A rather lackluster event, all in all. I suppose the theme of the night was "angle progression" but it still fell short for me. There weren't enough matches worth watching, IMO. And roommate boy whined about there being no Austin. Well, of course there isn't... Rocky got his push.