Post by King Devitt on Jan 8, 2019 5:33:03 GMT -5
But it's not really an Homecoming if it's a completely different entity that were there before. At least give the fans at the asylum a nostalgic vibe that make them remember the old TNA. If you do a ECW homecoming, you damn right that there's gonna be Dreamer and Francine and Sabu. To make the fans happy that maybe are not that into the new things. When a son come home, it's not some other guy completely unrelated to the family. lol That is how you generate emotion which Callis doesn't seem to get.
If you do an ECW tribute show, those sorts of people will be there because ECW isn't a thing anymore and there's little point in trying to serve nostalgia up with different faces. But Homecoming isn't about Nostalgia and it's not about making happy the fans "that maybe are not into the new things". It was was about returning to its original home for a night as the company it is now, and starting the year off continuing to move forward with what it has. Where it pays tribute to its past with Abyss in a Monster's Ball match and bringing back Ultimate X, the emphasis is still on being in the present instead of being a nostalgia show. You're criticizing the show for being something it was never meant to be and for not doing things it never promised and feasibly can't do with how many people are no longer available to them to do such a show with.
to add to this: this was also this was a literal "homecoming" for the show, not a figurative/nostalgic one.
The opening video montage we had was more than enough for them to honor the past.
Just b/c ECW wants to recreate itself for "homecoming" shows doesn't mean that's what the word has to mean when it comes to pro-wrestling.
They returned to where it all began, thus, coming home, thus, homecoming.
Nothing about the word homecoming said it has to be nostalgic, and for people to hate on Impact because they have preconceived notions of what something should mean even though it doesn't have to and was never once intimated or sold that it would be a 'reunion' show is just really reaching on the "let's nitpick complain about Impact/TNA"
I'd rather they returned with the product they are now, to where they began, and put over CURRENT talent, than to waste their roster by doing the tired ECW shtick.