It was also nice of Bully to fall perfectly in place for the swanton on the table.
edit: That table was in the perfect place.
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It was also nice of Bully to fall perfectly in place for the swanton on the table.
edit: That table was in the perfect place.
Good god, she's younger than AJ. I don't know how she does it, but she looks twenty years older than that.
SousedLouse
Member
"Oh no! The hammer for the bell fell to the side. I'll just place it on the edge of the table, hint hint"
slightconfuse
Banned
all good commentators have hammers with them
SousedLouse
Member
Oh my GOD, did Tenay just add a sound effect for the replay? That's hilarious.
*boink*
*boink*
Dave Meltzer
Banned
SHUT THE MUSIC UP.
That's how I felt watching this. Those spots were cool but damn it was poorly set up.
That was Taz making that noise when Bully hit Jeff with the hammer.
SousedLouse
Member
Ah, that makes more sense. Still pretty silly, though.
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I like that TNA are legitimately going for long term stories (Aces & Eights, the AJ Styles Crow Sting thing), though of course, the actual execution is...varied.
Aces & Eights was fairly dull for the majority of the 9 months it was a mystery group, and so far the Crow AJ thing is spinning its wheels.
"Hey AJ what's up with the 'tude?"
"Well, you see-"
SORRY ABOUT YOUR DAMN LUCK
"MY NAME IS JAMES STORM AND I BELIEVE IN SHOUTING. LOTS OF SHOUTING. I AM A COWBOY AND I DRINK BEER. AJ YOU SHOULD LEAVE NOW AND DELAY YOUR STORYLINE FOR AT LEAST ONE MORE WEEK".
But TNA is getting a lot better, all the same.
Aces & Eights was fairly dull for the majority of the 9 months it was a mystery group, and so far the Crow AJ thing is spinning its wheels.
"Hey AJ what's up with the 'tude?"
"Well, you see-"
SORRY ABOUT YOUR DAMN LUCK
"MY NAME IS JAMES STORM AND I BELIEVE IN SHOUTING. LOTS OF SHOUTING. I AM A COWBOY AND I DRINK BEER. AJ YOU SHOULD LEAVE NOW AND DELAY YOUR STORYLINE FOR AT LEAST ONE MORE WEEK".
But TNA is getting a lot better, all the same.
jobber
Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
RIP Jeff Harvey
DMczaf, where ever you are, do not enter the Samwell Tarly be Pimpin' thread or you will end up going for a very long walk.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Problem with long term storylines is its really hard to keep them interesting for that long. I'm sick of Crow AJ already.
Well AJ is not quite Sting. He looks less like Crow Sting, the dark warrior, and more like he pulled a bender for a week and is a bit out of sorts.
slightconfuse
Banned
Just like the Wrestlemania build this year?
Net_Wrecker
Member
This. It's an illusion of long term storylines. You get like one inch of progress a week then some badass recap promo video in 8 months that makes the storyline look like an epic.
Well you can't stick with the same thing for eight months. You either need to use light touches (occasional comments in passing, touching on future opponents in promos months ahead of time) and slowly add more involvement between people until a full feud develops.
OR
You take a character arc and draw it out subtly (lolwrestling--I know) over several feuds. Del Rio learning not to take Ricardo for granted would have been a
You mean like how Cena's LIFE GOT TURNED UPSIDE DOWN DUE TO THE ROCK?! How The Rock caused Cena's divorce and caused him to go into a year-long TAIL SPIN?! I FELT THAT TENSION, MAN! FOR ONE WHOLE YEAR! THE VIDEO PACKAGE WAS SUPER INTENSE!
Both companies do this shit, and when it's edited in a music video, it DOES feel much more epic than fans who have actually been paying attention to the lame slow build know that's not the case.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Yeah. That's the real problem in TNA, what you get is "well we want AJ to win the title at Bound For Glory against Bully, so lets have him be depressed and shit until he realises his true calling and challenges Bully". Which is cool, but then you have 8 months with a handful of meaningful progressions.
It's better than just pretending Cena had a bad year, I guess.
Net_Wrecker
Member
At least TNA has some semblance of planning to the angles. The WWE will straight up lay the entire feud on the shoulders of their video editor to make fans think anything of significance happened. The Rock/Cena video was embarrassing.
Kind of, except WWE didn't start the story lines until 3 weeks before WM, where TNA starts them 8 months earlier and just doesn't do anything with it.
cartoon_soldier
Member
Still seems better than WWE story telling.
WWE's style is to jam 1 month's of story into one week, then forget they did it the next and do nothing, then two weeks later its the go-home show to a PPV so they do a different month's worth of story in one week.
This is only for the World titles. The rest of the show doesn't get stories.
There stories really do suck nowadays. It was nice to see actual "feuds" start last summer rather than squash after squash... but there's nothing behind some of these random feuds.
slightconfuse
Banned
With less PPV's TNA might be able to do long form telling better with bigger payoffs at their 4 or so ppvs
I doubt it. They're going to have shows like tonight where everything builds up to an episode of Impact for DA RATINGS, which is probably for the best since they have such low buy rates. I feel like if they don't bleed out from all the added expenses, they might do away with PPVs all together next year.
They charge too much for PPVs as is. TNA's just not a financially responsible company at this point. I genuinely hope they gain some traction and more attention from hardcore wrestling fans and newbies alike, but it's tough when the WWE clearly has better production and more history/name value.
Spider from Mars
tap that thorax
Is papa Panda ever going to pull her funding? Do they even notice it on their financials?
Welcome to indie tag team wrestling.
Dragon Gate is the same. I've just stopped noticing at this point. It REALLY bothered me when I first started watching both promotions, but now I just accept it.
slightconfuse
Banned
Cesaro
Booking it a month at a time might not be a bad idea.
also long form story telling is hard to do. i gelt chiakra spins it wheels at times as well. but the payoff is usually very satishfyinh(see:archibald peck and assaliant ants face turn)
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Well once he drops the title at Extreme Rules he can just feud with anybody. Maybe The Miz?
Gotta get those MOVES in.
jobber
Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
What about him and Big E feuding with Brodus Clay and Tensai?