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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Sept 2, 2014 19:21:22 GMT -5
Every time i see his last name i automatically think it says lasagna.
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Post by Clawley Race on Sept 5, 2014 3:12:11 GMT -5
He's not Russo
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Post by benstudd on Sept 5, 2014 5:44:45 GMT -5
One thing I remember is that Russo left as "Creative Director" after BFG 2011 and was replaced Pritchard and the shows went drastically better. It was far less all over the place, there were was less of a hot shotting vibe. It was like TNA suddenly went out to take a good calming hot coffee. The storyline got more simple yet they felt more epic like Storm vs Roode and Roode's title run. I think Lagana came in in late 2011 or early 2012 as wrtiter.
It went south when they had Roode loose the title which screwed up the Storm-Roode feud or when they had Aces & 8s appear or the Clair Lynch stuff but I'm not sure if that was down to creative or bad booking decisions of the top guys in charge. Maybe Bischoff wanted another invasion. And Daniels said that Clair Lynch was all AJ/Kax/CD coming up with stuff in hotel rooms. I know it got rally bad when there was the Bully-Hogan-Brooke stuff and nobody associated with that did anything good.
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Post by weaselboy on Sept 8, 2014 15:59:00 GMT -5
He booked Ross to look weak against Bruce Willis, which failed to help get Elizabeth over. I admire his decision to give Joey a new tag-team partner in Cheese, but the angle never went anywhere after a promising start. Had Rachel stare at the ceiling for Bruce Willis, which was an interesting booking move considering he was just a part-time Hollywood A-lister and she was a regular member of the roster. Also failed to book Chandler and Phoebe in anything meaningful.
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Sept 13, 2014 14:07:01 GMT -5
He sometimes watches movies and TV shows that have good writing.
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Post by Woo on Sept 14, 2014 15:00:05 GMT -5
So if the shows improved when Laguna replaced Russo and TNA improved when Cornette left and Russo was sole booker I guess it goes:
Laguna>Russo>Cornette
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