OAO 3/18 Impact Thread

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

1 Hour is certainly enough time to get over the angles and wrestlers, they just don't know how to use it. Lost, CSI, etc. have one hour a week and some how, some way, they are able to put on good shows, tell effective stories, and develop characters and you are telling me that TNA can't? Bullshit. 1 hour is enough. If they can't use 1 hour right, I have little faith in them using 2 hours. In the beginning I gave them the benefit of the doubt and saw their initial tv booking as a learning curve, but now it's clear they are simply imcompetent. They are like you, blaming it on not having enough time, when they should be blaming themselves for trying to get every wrestler on their roster on TV rather than focusing on 2 or 3 main storylines and just a handful of wrestlers. The parity booking and inconsistency when pushing guys doesn't help much either.

[Guest Princess Leena]

Exactly. If you're putting filler on, and refusing to show your stars in 1 hour... how will it be better with 2? I've never understood why people think 2 hours will suddenly cure Impact...

[RedJed 0]

I was, previously, the same train of thought that the problem was just that "oh, well they dont have enough time to give the product justice" - but like you two said, its a case of too little too late in a sense. They are stuck with one hour and will continue to be for awhile, so with that said, they need to change up the shit and work within their limits. Plus to be perfect honest, if they really wanted to do it, they could make Xplosion a complete "B show" - eliminating alot of the BS from Impact and putting it on there, and from there, making Impact MUCH more better. But they dont and continue to stay shallow in mediocrity. And its just sad because I really do think the company has so much more potential than this.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Here's all they need to do: Put two or three feuds on TV and dedicate the TV time to those storylines. PPV's are usually sold on the top matches, and all it takes is 2 or 3 to sell it. So that's all they need to focus on. Everything else is a waste of limited tv time. You look at any TV show and they have an A and B storyline and they use the shows to develop them, the same should be for Impact.

 

Now, someone would say "Well what about the other PPV matches! You can't just have 3 matches on a show that people care about!" Well, for one thing, 3 matches people REALLY care about is more than 9 matches that people don't really care about at all. Two, the person who has already bought the PPV doesn't really care about the undercard matches, and you don't really have to sell those matches cause the show has already been sold. Look at the UFC model - people buy the show to see the top 2 fights, but are there for the undercard and sit and watch and see new stars and new threats develop. Three, you can still air the shit building those matches on-line and through syndication, and then use a minute of TV to direct people to the website to see the undercard guys and review it a lil bit.

[razazteca 0]

1 Hour is certainly enough time to get over the angles and wrestlers, they just don't know how to use it. Lost, CSI, etc. have one hour a week and some how, some way, they are able to put on good shows, tell effective stories, and develop characters and you are telling me that TNA can't? Bullshit. 1 hour is enough.

The NBC lineup of cop, lawer, reality shows don't have 40 people to build up each week for a monthly prime time special if you will. The NBC shows have ONE story to tell each week while iMPACT thinks that it has to promote 4 or more angles a week with 3 of them involving Jeff Jarrett none the less. Its like having 5 Law & Order shows with all of them focusing on NYC, its crazy.

 

Exactly. If you're putting filler on, and refusing to show your stars in 1 hour... how will it be better with 2? I've never understood why people think 2 hours will suddenly cure Impact...

To build up new stars! Because eventually AJ vs Daniels vs Joe and AMW vs Naturals and JJ holding everybody down will get boring. Some of the filler has to go, people like Bob Armstrong, Jackie Gayda, A1, are not exactly setting the orlando amumusement park studio on fire.

[Bruce Blank 0]

I'll second that - every single word of that.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

The NBC lineup of cop, lawer, reality shows don't have 40 people to build up each week for a monthly prime time special if you will. The NBC shows have ONE story to tell each week while iMPACT thinks that it has to promote 4 or more angles a week with 3 of them involving Jeff Jarrett none the less. Its like having 5 Law & Order shows with all of them focusing on NYC, its crazy.

 

The answer to this is very simple. Don't build 40 people each week. There's nothing in the wrestling TV rule book that says you have to flood your television with wrestleres. Select a few guys and have them be your primary cast and build your A B and C storylines around them.

[razazteca 0]

The champions should be the focus of the show but TNA does not believe in that philosophy. TNA has the nWo D-list Team lead by Jarrett and Steiner as the focus of the show with Jarrett trying to do heel promos and failing everytime and Steiner being the intense meanie that uses colorful language which has the audience go mild. All storylines revolve around Planet Jarrett in TNA even the secondary storylines are pulled in by the gravity of JJ. At the moment the NWA Tag Team champions AMW are the satillites of Planet Jarret and are always seen around Jarrett. The only other stable that gets decent tv time, Team Canada revolves around Planet Jarrett as an astroid belt...the rings of jarrett if you will. If there is a C storyline it will look bad as in the case of LAX vs James Gang, which was doomed at the start.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

They should change their opening to the Beverly Hills 90210 opening.

 

*Jumbled picture*

*Upside down group picture*

*group picture*

 

Du-nu-na-nu Du-nu-na-nu CLK CLK (AJ Styles fake punches Jeff Jarrett, with his other arm around his neck. David Young on their side.)

 

Quick cuts of everyone having a good time and laughing, wearing pastels infront of a white background.

 

Group picture with JJ holding Jackie Gayda up.

 

"Total Non Stop Action: IMPACT" in the 90210 graphic with IMPACT in the middle.

 

Various stock footage of people having fun on the beach.

 

Samoa Joe wearing Rayband sunglasses and raising an eye brow lookin at the ladies with his head tilted and sideburns in full force.

 

AJ lowering his sunglasses mighty gayly.

 

Starring:

 

AJ Styles (AJ with a sports coat and white shirt turns to the camera - as Jason Priestley)

Traci Brooks (as Shannen Doherty)

Jackie Gayda (as Jenny Garth)

JJ with a smug grin on his face (Ian Ziering)

Gail Kim biting on her glasses (as that smart chick)

Samoa Joe sitting on his motorcycle taking off his helmet, looking out of his convertable (as Luke Perry)

David Young doing a really guy hip hop danceroo (as the very gay Brian Austin Green - complete with mopish top)

A1 being useless (as Tori Spelling)

Dixie Carter as the Mom

Bubba Dudley as the Dad

 

The final shots are of them taking off and givin each other the cool hand shakes.

 

It SO works.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pshbeRGL4&search=90210

[BUTT 0]

Meltzer would love that.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Meltzers head would explode and then he'd try to break it apart and explain why it doesn't make sense.

[BUTT 0]

But Dave loves 90210, so I've heard.

[Exslade ZX 0]

Eric Young is awesome. (There's no thread, so figured I'd just post it here)

 

The passing out during the national anthem was funny as hell.

[gWIL 0]

Great episode of Impact tonight, one of the best yet and very little filler.

[LJSexay 0]

agreed.

 

But no Christian? This is becoming a problem FAST.

[gWIL 0]

In all fairness the main angle of the show was about Christian.

[razazteca 0]

Terry Funk needs to be the guest ref for the arm wrestling match.