What's interesting, BTW, is that less than a week has lapsed from "Give it time," and "Jericho's return was awesome!" and "fuck you!" and so on. Now, it's all excuses. So I guess the proper time to accept that Jericho's return wasn't all it was cracked up to be is four weeks, not three.
BDC, I think you owe everyone an apology for jumping the gun.
But seriously, it seems a lot of people are coming around and waking up to the fact that this isn't all that great. The problem being that now they're shifting the blame from the naysayers to WWE, which is more or less swapping a lie for a lie.
Jericho's return took about a month. I mean, I'm sorry people got pissed off that it "took too long" and "wasted" interest, but it really isn't all that unreasonable to build something for a month. People were pissed off, though, as though WWE had let them down, when they didn't. That's what Jericho said, too. That people were mad at him for something he never promised, something that was never advertised.
Vince didn't screw you, Chris didn't screw you. WWE didn't screw you. You screwed yourself by believing the hype. People were still angry.
Jericho's return with the torch carrier bit was kinda...Well, it could have been better, but it was fine. And if Jericho put on a show that was half as good as he used to, that crowd would have been completely on fire. It wasn't the crowd's fault, it wasn't WWE's fault. That was Jericho being lazy. And people defended him and everything. That's fine.
Beyond that, people still stick up for Chris as though this was someone else's fault. WWE probably could have done better, and I admit it, but I think the Lion's Share (Pun intended) of blame falls to Jericho. I mean, whoever came up with the idea that he was saving us from Orton also screwed the pooch. That was lame. But the Jercho's a big part of the problem, and people don't want to see it.
This post is probably bordering on Alienoid length by now, so I'll end here instead of rambling.