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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 21, 2013 14:50:38 GMT -5
Not a fan of them already pulling the trigger on AJ reverting.
I'm fine with building him back up to top babyface status, but say he's slotted to win the BFG Series: in that case you have two months to do it. This is rushing it.
I don't really see how tweener AJ was "bombing" in any noticeable way, and I just hate to see anything hot shotted without a good reason. I'm sure they'll have promos/backstage stuff, and maybe it's all more complex than it reads in a couple sentence-long spoiler, but in my book this isn't the right move yet. The most egregious part is that he turns back face by helping MEM; the whole "Lone Wolf" thing could've worked fine, but this is a complete 180. Again, maybe it'll come off better on TV, guess we'll see.
This all said: Austin Aries vs. EGO would be amazing.
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Post by Michael Coello on Aug 21, 2013 14:55:05 GMT -5
This all said: Austin Aries vs. EGO would be amazing. I'm sure the Ego will be unbearable to deal with. And the Roode Stable will be heelish, too.
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Post by Ryushinku on Aug 22, 2013 5:19:32 GMT -5
Even if it's abrupt, I'm happier to get this version of AJ back. I'll miss the unintentional hilarity of Mopey AJ, but otherwise this is better.
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Post by cabbageboy on Aug 22, 2013 9:17:39 GMT -5
The problem with emo AJ is that there was simply nowhere to go with the storyline. If anything him moping around was a horrible reminder of all the bad angles he's been involved with over the past year or so (Claire Lynch, no title shot for a year, possible drug addict/alcoholic). If indeed AJ is winning the BFG Series he needs to be a total babyface going against a heel Bully Ray, not some odd tweener anti hero.
It seems like no matter who books TNA the company just does random, hilarious stuff. Tito Ortiz as the Aug. 1 Warning guy, his heel turn to join Aces and Eights, Sabin's entire baffling title push, everything AJ related over the past year. I thought the idea of Ortiz on the MEM team was hysterical. Consider such a team. You'd have 3 actual TNA wrestlers (Joe, Magnus, Sting) and the two MMA guys in Jackson and Ortiz. Thus, in a match where the guy who loses has to leave, the MEM would really lose no one if either Rampage or Tito took the pin!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2013 14:24:46 GMT -5
I'll see how it plays out, but why in the world is Joseph Park winning matches!?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2013 16:03:40 GMT -5
I'll see how it plays out, but why in the world is Joseph Park winning matches!? I haven't been keeping a close eye, but I believe Park's only two wins, counting this spoiler, have come against Jay Bradley (who makes Robbie E in last year's BFG Series look good). He's lost all his others matches, I believe.
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 22, 2013 22:03:45 GMT -5
Well, having watched it now...I still don't like it.
I've been citing "No One" Aj as a sign that TNA actually books things with consequences in mind, that characters change and develop due to what happens to them in previous feuds and what have you.
Here...they just flushed it for no reason.
I'm fine with a return of classic AJ. I'm not fine with it being done with no buildup, still two months out from BFG. That's just a stupid move, and smacks of desperation in the wake of what happened with Angle.
As said before, this could've easily been a spot to slide in Sabin so he could get some heat back and get revenge on Aces and Eights. Instead they just took AJ's development (including his awesome, more violent moveset) and cast it aside like it never happened. Bad move.
Hopefully they do something next week that justifies it better, but as I said in the main thread, after this I can't really see AJ winning the BFG Series and having it feel anything other than anti-climactic now.
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