Post by clashofchampains on Dec 28, 2010 1:27:20 GMT -5
your mistake was expecting stuff.
That is a bit unfair. I know it was likely just an off handed remark but they(TNA) give us a good show every few weeks. The Styles/William match made this last week's show for me and if I thought hard enough I could probabily bring up a few more examples.
What does the Williams-AJ match have anything to do with EV2? Williams-AJ is just two guys wrestling. EV2 was something that touched every part of TNA as it sparked the "They" storyline that will eventualy become Immortal.
The problem I see too often in TNA, especially when it involves Russo is that instead of taking something and making it cool, they create something just to feed a storyline and they wonder why afterwards they have no idea what to do with that concept afterwards. Basically that is why things keep getting thrown in the trash and everything is short term and no people can espect a decent push. TNA never intended to make EV2 interesting. They never even intended to make Fourtune cool-Hell remember before this they kept jobbing them over when Wolfe was with them. And a few months later, when the storyline is over, EV2 is meaningless and Fourtune has no direction other than being Immortals' water boys and doing infighting amongst themselves.
Bottom line, in the writer's mind, everyone is disposable and when it was all said and done neither EV2 and Fourtune was put over in the storyline(even if Fourtune won more than its share of matchs). If TNA have wanted they could have made EV2 cool, they could have made them crazy dangerous badasses, using their reputation how they fought in a Hell hole and how they're ready to do anything. But all they came off as was a bunch of old jobbers that kept crying. It seems to me like no one in TNA understood what ECW was all about and as such they didn't know how to really make them work. So it was rejected when they had no use for them.
That's why TNA has always done short term booking and why no one has ever been put over because what's important to them is the storyline more than the wrestlers. They don't care about long term wrestlers' growth and how you groom one to become a star. They're writing something first and then put the wrestlers they think may fit in the storyline. When the story is over, wrestlers are forgotten, they're thrown in the trash until the next storyline kicks in.
Wich is the opposite of what I view things as imo every wrestlers should be protected to show the fans they have something to offer. In TNA most of the guys ends up looking badly other than maybe one guy(Jeff Hardy).