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Post by Rocky Van Heineken on Jan 24, 2007 23:21:58 GMT -5
Nope.
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Post by Timmy8271 on Jan 24, 2007 23:24:25 GMT -5
No it's not getting better. It might be better if they stopped saying "We Are Wrestling".
I actually like VKM now that they don't focus on the WWE. The Sting/Abyss/Joe/Angle crap is just mind boggling stupid.
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Post by Josh DELUXE on Jan 24, 2007 23:25:20 GMT -5
I think I tried watching once when Russo took over. My head exploded. I refuse to watch it again until Russo is out of there. His storylines and bookings make me cry...
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Post by Michael Coello on Jan 24, 2007 23:29:12 GMT -5
Looking at it from a buisness point, TNA is getting better. Ratings that were rare occurrences before seem to be the norm now, a slow launch in touring outside the iMPACT Zone for PPVs, with Lockdown being the second PPV away from Orlando, and Spike is very happy with them, and seem to want them to get more time on TV.
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Post by "IcePic" Rick Cobos on Jan 24, 2007 23:30:09 GMT -5
Ratings are up more because of the time slot than the actual product.
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Post by Godhand on Jan 24, 2007 23:51:41 GMT -5
People are just overly critical of TNA.
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Jan 25, 2007 0:03:41 GMT -5
TNA is ok, but nothing really earthshattering right now. I thought the Paparazzi segment was boring, and no one gives 2 shits about Eric Young anymore.
Angle/Christian sounds interesting, but not enough for me to order the PPV. Abyss/Sting I could give a damn about, just not interested.
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Post by The Line on Jan 25, 2007 0:10:13 GMT -5
I think its getting a ton better. Undercard guys are getting character(something Russo always excelled at), Storylines are interesting, Wrestling is good. There was a time a few months ago where Impact was barely watchable. Now its becoming must-see.
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Post by Timmy8271 on Jan 25, 2007 1:13:50 GMT -5
What Wrestling? Has there even been an hour of Wrestling in the past month on this show? All it is is Backstage segments, Interviews and maybe 10 minutes of wrestling a show. It's Ridiculous. Hell I even miss the Jarrett days. And I should never have to say that.
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Post by kitsunestar on Jan 25, 2007 1:27:45 GMT -5
I think its getting a ton better. Undercard guys are getting character(something Russo always excelled at), Storylines are interesting, Wrestling is good. There was a time a few months ago where Impact was barely watchable. Now its becoming must-see. The internet doesn't want storylines, they want it treated like a sport. Pure competition. I personally think the wrestlers themselves are more interesting than they were a few months ago, but that the way things are being booked right now, they badly need a 2 hour show.
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Post by 8-BitAssassin on Jan 25, 2007 3:27:52 GMT -5
I'd love to see more wrestling, but I can honestly say that I've been entertained by TNA lately. It's not quite as good as Smackdown, but it's better than RAW by leaps and bounds.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jan 25, 2007 4:42:32 GMT -5
I think its getting a ton better. Undercard guys are getting character(something Russo always excelled at), Storylines are interesting, Wrestling is good. There was a time a few months ago where Impact was barely watchable. Now its becoming must-see. The internet doesn't want storylines, they want it treated like a sport. Pure competition. But, see, that's not even true. Think about TNA awhile back; the major complaint was "These guys don't have personalities!". ROH used to catch flack for not having enough storylines/characters in many people's eyes (though I don't see how that criticism could hold up today), and people constantly talk about how their favorite parts of WWE shows are typically the character-centered segments. People just have strange ways of expressing their love/hate relationships with the wrestling industry. I also agree that people tend to overly-criticize TNA in relation to how they seem to view WWE (i.e. a few bad minutes of Impact = "I'm not watching this again", a streak of horrible Raw's tends to equal "Well, I'll just give it FIVE more weeks, but that's IT!...") To me, TNA looked a LOT better once Russo took over (I was very sick of D'Amore's booking towards the end of his run...pity, considering how good the first part of it was), but started tapering off over the course of the last couple months, which seemed to culminate in what I felt was, outside of a few matches, a mostly mediocre show in Final Resolutions. However, a couple recent developments have made me look at things a bit differently, namely Joe and Angle moving on from their feud, Christian holding the title and running like gangbusters with his heel character, and news that they might soon take some steps to differentiate the X-Division from the rest of the show. Thing is, I've been mostly entertained by TNA since around summer '05; in my view, it's only fallen off track for about a month and a half or so, so I still feel mostly positive about it. I do feel like the show's gonna have an air of stagnation about it the longer they remain trapped in Orlando, though. Even looking past our own thoughts about the Impact Zone fans themselves, just seeing the same people, in the same places, week in and week out, having the same reactions...it hurts the product.
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Post by BrodietheSlayer on Jan 25, 2007 7:08:59 GMT -5
TNA>WWE
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Post by THE Dinobot on Jan 25, 2007 7:20:34 GMT -5
At this point, even getting rid of Russo, it's going to take a very long while for TNA to grab it's balance from this loose state that it's currently in. The booking/storylines have been in shambles, even before Russo returned, and adding him didn't really improve things much more.
I'll just compare TNA to Carlito (because comparing a company to another company's worse worker is fun). Just because Carlito started doing some (awful) flippy moves doesn't make him any better. Ditto for TNA, adding a wacky, and clearly insane, man to do a great deal of your booking or whatever isn't a wise choice.
Sure, TNA has their bright spot every now 'n then, but they're very seldom these days. Not saying the company is doomed, not by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not because of the over booking in for an hour show (though it doesn't help any), it's just that when there's so much crap on top of the hidden treasured moments, it starts to stink more than shine.
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Post by BD Punk AKA SUSPENDED! on Jan 25, 2007 8:51:01 GMT -5
I kept track of the talking to wrestling ratio of iMPACT in the iMPACT thread last night. It ended up being 28 minutes of talking to 16 minutes of wrestling. I would like a little more wrestling, but I think it is getting better.
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Post by hollywood on Jan 25, 2007 9:25:14 GMT -5
I imagine I'll catch some flak for this, but I just don't see it. The most impressive group of guys on the roster, the X-Division, have been reduced to weekly punchlines having pogo stick competitions. And with the belt swapping hands seemingly every other week, it's hard to remember who's the champ anymore. But I think I may be the only guy hear who doesn't like the PCS skits. "I'm with Lance Storm" on this one.
On the other hand, I actually liked VKM, but only when they were doing short vignettes about "invading" Titan Towers or "hunting down" HBK. Then they cut a 4-year long promo to open a PPV with Christy Hemme's God-awful "women can wrestle, too" promo that made the E look more and more credible for firing her.
Angle/Joe was incredibly rushed. What could've been a phenomenal rivalry is apparently over after just three months, with Angle coming out ahead, the guy who really didn't NEED to come out ahead. I guess they had no choice here, but it really came off as a disappointment.
LAX is probably the only group that still interests me, but this new feud with Team 3D is killing that interest off.
But that's just my opinion. I'm hardly the casual fan, so maybe their ratings will improve despite my dislike. I want them to succeed, so that wouldn't bother me at all.
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Post by Captain Sunhat on Jan 25, 2007 10:36:29 GMT -5
Your all so damn pesiermistic!
At the moment I think that TNA is excellent. Mostly because I just watch the PPVs (free in the UK) and rarely watch the impact! episodes inbetween. Most of you seem to hate TNA just because of Russo being there.
Until we see Paris Hilton vs Linsey Lohan with celebrity impersonators, Samoe Joe jobbing to The Great Khali and a giant spinning TNA welded to the NWA title, chill the hell out fellas.
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Post by The Line on Jan 25, 2007 10:48:23 GMT -5
What Wrestling? Has there even been an hour of Wrestling in the past month on this show? All it is is Backstage segments, Interviews and maybe 10 minutes of wrestling a show. It's Ridiculous. Hell I even miss the Jarrett days. And I should never have to say that. this past week they had a really good X-division 4-way, and the Main Event was good. The Abyss/Sting brawl was pretty good,too.
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Jan 25, 2007 11:07:02 GMT -5
This week's Impact was one of the most boring I've seen in recent months. There were only two (very short) matches, and now apparently we're getting a gimmick overhaul for Christopher Daniels? Why him of all people?
Also, Eric Young has a small penis. Ell Oh Ell.
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Post by WHATAMANOOOVER on Jan 25, 2007 11:14:17 GMT -5
Until they have matches on TV that last longer than 5 minutes, I just can't settle down and watch impact. I'm not thrilled with all the storyline after storyline after storyline rush they have on the show. Settle down, it's not a race.
And before anyone talks about TNA PPV, sure the quality may consistantly be there in some form but they still get barely anyone to buy them.
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