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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Sept 10, 2016 11:38:40 GMT -5
Sorry to crash the lovefest but the sequel didn't equal the original in the most important thing to TNA: Ratings. As expected the NFL ate their lunch doing a monster number with Impact doing less than the previous week. Don't help that you could skip Impact completely because of how quick the video showed up on Youtube. And that's another thing. Impact sucked ass on Thursday so I switched to the NFL game the first chance I got, knowing fully well that I could just watch this shit on Youtube the next day if I really wanted too.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Sept 10, 2016 11:51:22 GMT -5
Sorry to crash the lovefest but the sequel didn't equal the original in the most important thing to TNA: Ratings. As expected the NFL ate their lunch doing a monster number with Impact doing less than the previous week. Don't help that you could skip Impact completely because of how quick the video showed up on Youtube. And that's another thing. Impact sucked ass on Thursday so I switched to the NFL game the first chance I got, knowing fully well that I could just watch this shit on Youtube the next day if I really wanted too. That's the same problem as the Final Deletion. TNA put out of a show with filled with Mike Bennett overdose and mediocre action using Hardy craziness to hope people stay tuned. Folks got hip to it and just wait for the Hardy segments to pop up online. Sparring themselves from Impact and no reason to tune in next week or the week after that because the good stuff will show up on Youtube. Defeating the purpose of making Impact destination tv and improving ratings. Nowadays, buzz don't equal ratings because the younger demographic don't watch traditional cable. And this won't bring money to TNA because they don't tour or try to sell ppvs. But let me stop before I'm accused of killing everyone's vibe.
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Post by evenbroddt on Sept 10, 2016 12:43:07 GMT -5
I must admit that as much as I love to bask in the Broken Brilliance, I was part of the problem when it comes to the ratings.
Sorry Hardy's, a Denver boy has to watch his Broncos.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 10, 2016 13:38:06 GMT -5
I watched the build up but didn't see the actual segment. And honestly? ...I kinda don't want to because I'm worried it'll leave a bad taste in my mouth and not live up to expectations. It's real easy to go back to the well too many times with something like this. Don't worry, this time it's going to a well that's just different enough.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Sept 11, 2016 1:51:18 GMT -5
so Brother Nero is dead now, right? Only mostly dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. I want to see Matt take him to an eccentric old miracle worker next week to help him recuperate.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Sept 11, 2016 9:46:52 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 11, 2016 10:04:05 GMT -5
I doubt even an injection of Broken brilliance could make Bennett watchable.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 11, 2016 14:11:32 GMT -5
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Sept 11, 2016 14:51:09 GMT -5
Forget the failed attempt at a one-week ratings boost; the idea of anything you use to draw viewers in should be designed to use the buzz gained to show people the other reasons they should watch the show. That's the idea behind every big match you put on free TV, every celebrity appearance, every major shakeup. Pull people in with something that might pique viewers' curiosity, and then use every second of the show before that as a sales pitch meant to entice people to keep watching. TNA, naturally, failed to do that, putting on a shitty episode of Impact that had Mike Bennett on it multiple times--just like the Final Deletion episode--and that overlong Lashley/Carter brawl. Twice now, TNA has put on dire episodes of Impact hoping desperately that people would stick it out until the Hardy segment instead of waiting for it to hit Youtube, and even without football I don't think people fell for it this time. And the next time they do this again, it'll meet even fewer returns.
I said when the viewership spike hit that if TNA won't shake up their show or at least try to turn the rest of the show into the Madhouse Hammy Bullshit Variety Hour, then putting all their ratings hopes onto the backs of the Hardys wasn't going to work. Instead, we got Billy Corgan's AWF and a whole lot more of Mike "A Trophy Husband Insofar as the Prize In a Box of Crackerjacks is Trophy" Bennett.
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Post by Rican on Sept 11, 2016 19:11:32 GMT -5
I would kill for video of Broken Matt running up to a bewildered Vince as he leaves WWE headquarters demanding to know where Señor Benjamin is.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 11, 2016 19:26:05 GMT -5
I would kill for video of Broken Matt running up to a bewildered Vince as he leaves WWE headquarters demanding to know where Señor Benjamin is. Vince being the strange old bastard that he is would probably end up being entirely comfortable in conversation with Broken Matt.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2016 19:29:59 GMT -5
Only mostly dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. I want to see Matt take him to an eccentric old miracle worker next week to help him recuperate. Should be DDP.
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 11, 2016 19:49:27 GMT -5
I would kill for video of Broken Matt running up to a bewildered Vince as he leaves WWE headquarters demanding to know where Señor Benjamin is. Vince being the strange old bastard that he is would probably end up being entirely comfortable in conversation with Broken Matt. I desperately want to see that now; Matt speaks in his Broken tongue, Vince just starts rambling about Bobo Brazil and Gary Strydom, both appear to be talking 100% past one another, nobody knows what the hell is going on...and by the end somehow it's clear that only those two understood what the other was saying.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 11, 2016 20:17:53 GMT -5
Vince being the strange old bastard that he is would probably end up being entirely comfortable in conversation with Broken Matt. I desperately want to see that now; Matt speaks in his Broken tongue, Vince just starts rambling about Bobo Brazil and Gary Strydom, both appear to be talking 100% past one another, nobody knows what the hell is going on...and by the end somehow it's clear that only those two understood what the other was saying. See, now I'm hoping that Matt was actually in Stamford meeting with WWE officials about a possible return once the Hardys' contracts are up with TNA, which would make that scenario ever so slightly less unlikely to ever happen.
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Sept 11, 2016 22:37:56 GMT -5
Forget the failed attempt at a one-week ratings boost; the idea of anything you use to draw viewers in should be designed to use the buzz gained to show people the other reasons they should watch the show. That's the idea behind every big match you put on free TV, every celebrity appearance, every major shakeup. Pull people in with something that might pique viewers' curiosity, and then use every second of the show before that as a sales pitch meant to entice people to keep watching. TNA, naturally, failed to do that, putting on a shitty episode of Impact that had Mike Bennett on it multiple times--just like the Final Deletion episode--and that overlong Lashley/Carter brawl. Twice now, TNA has put on dire episodes of Impact hoping desperately that people would stick it out until the Hardy segment instead of waiting for it to hit Youtube, and even without football I don't think people fell for it this time. And the next time they do this again, it'll meet even fewer returns. I said when the viewership spike hit that if TNA won't shake up their show or at least try to turn the rest of the show into the Madhouse Hammy Bullshit Variety Hour, then putting all their ratings hopes onto the backs of the Hardys wasn't going to work. Instead, we got Billy Corgan's AWF and a whole lot more of Mike "A Trophy Husband Insofar as the Prize In a Box of Crackerjacks is Trophy" Bennett. I didn't think it was a shitty episode. Besides Delete or Decay(which was awesome), I thought both of the Grand Championship Tournament Matches were pretty good & the press conference with Lashley & EC3 was good, too. Also, while I'm not Bennett's biggest fan(personally, I'd have E-LI-DRAKE ahead of him as the #3 heel), he was only in 2 segments, and both of those happened in the first 15 minutes of the show, so it didn't kill the show for me.
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Post by Super Duper Dragunov on Sept 12, 2016 3:56:53 GMT -5
More people need to be talking about this, not even the camerapeople could maintain their composure I love that Jeff completely loses it and ducks out a frame at the end. Right when Matt starts yelling "punish me! Punish me!" I had to pause at this part because I was laughing so hard when he said "punish me!" Then again at the 'spot monkeys'part. And little things like Matt looking for Rosemary and going "ahhh-AHHH-ahhhhhh-ahhhhh-ahh-ahhhhh" the whole time with a red light and mist was fantastic. Abyss was meh as always but Crazy Steve and Rosemary were great. Paint regeneration was so random it was awesome. I want a Broken Matt Hardy documentary style TV show. Camera's just need to follow him going to regular places like the grocery store, or taking his family out to play miniature golf.
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Post by 01010010 01101001 01100011 on Sept 13, 2016 0:37:27 GMT -5
SENIOR BENJAMIN HAS BEEN FOUND!
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Post by jimmyjames on Sept 13, 2016 3:28:17 GMT -5
SENIOR BENJAMIN HAS BEEN FOUND! Is that James Storm's torture/sex barn Senor Benjamin's in?
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Sept 13, 2016 7:38:00 GMT -5
Did the Decay accidentally end up in the Wyatt Family compound?
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Sept 13, 2016 8:55:10 GMT -5
Forget the failed attempt at a one-week ratings boost; the idea of anything you use to draw viewers in should be designed to use the buzz gained to show people the other reasons they should watch the show. That's the idea behind every big match you put on free TV, every celebrity appearance, every major shakeup. Pull people in with something that might pique viewers' curiosity, and then use every second of the show before that as a sales pitch meant to entice people to keep watching. TNA, naturally, failed to do that, putting on a shitty episode of Impact that had Mike Bennett on it multiple times--just like the Final Deletion episode--and that overlong Lashley/Carter brawl. Twice now, TNA has put on dire episodes of Impact hoping desperately that people would stick it out until the Hardy segment instead of waiting for it to hit Youtube, and even without football I don't think people fell for it this time. And the next time they do this again, it'll meet even fewer returns. I said when the viewership spike hit that if TNA won't shake up their show or at least try to turn the rest of the show into the Madhouse Hammy Bullshit Variety Hour, then putting all their ratings hopes onto the backs of the Hardys wasn't going to work. Instead, we got Billy Corgan's AWF and a whole lot more of Mike "A Trophy Husband Insofar as the Prize In a Box of Crackerjacks is Trophy" Bennett. I didn't think it was a shitty episode. Besides Delete or Decay(which was awesome), I thought both of the Grand Championship Tournament Matches were pretty good & the press conference with Lashley & EC3 was good, too. Also, while I'm not Bennett's biggest fan(personally, I'd have E-LI-DRAKE ahead of him as the #3 heel), he was only in 2 segments, and both of those happened in the first 15 minutes of the show, so it didn't kill the show for me. But do you generally like and watch TNA? Because if so then cool, not shitting on that, but my issue is that TNA needed to use that episode to hook in new people and lapsed viewers. I'm a lapsed viewer, and what I saw really didn't impress me at all. It needed to do more than appeal to the consistent audience who will tune in to always watch it. I think your post is the first one I've seen on this board to praise any element of last week's episode that wasn't Delete or Decay, and if the show already has you as a viewer then it hasn't really made any gains. Which is what should be the point of TNA riding the Broken Matt Hardy hype train and making it the focal point of these episodes.
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