TNA will win by default.
Not because it even tried to do anything new, because doing something new is easy, making it stick to a human mass media that does nothing but spew the trash and call it good is hard.
Saturday Morning Slams episode with the Man as part and parcel of the reason Haim Saban, a noted political and Hollywood insider and Vincent Kennedy McMahan/Linda McMahan created a block of shows combined from the remints of 4Kids Entertainments demise and a smattering of Warner Brothers, Disney (marvel) and Hub (Hasbro) shows, John Cena; is the reason why both the animation business in North America, and the wresting business in the states are in decline and heading into illreveance.
The episode - and the block itself is part and parcel of what is left of Neo-Conservative America - a America that supported the troops (as long as they were white), supported a back standing of not only buildings brought down my monsters but how human beings in the first stages of life got nourishment. A support of anti-violence when there is violence
It shows how Conservatism ends, the hubris to the nth degree mired by half truths, convenient censorship when there should be none, doing the wrong things to get the right result and a confusion of sexuality when there should be an acceptance of ones own unique soul.
This is what has happened after The Brand ended its Attitude era, a era that was more rip-off of Phillys and South Jerseys scream and warning to America of its continuing mainstreaming of the perfect conservative lifestyle without all of its people having a stake in it. ECW was great in scope, powerful in its storylines, dark and foreboding about a future with no hope. Mutants whose children now run the world via reality TV. The same reality TV WWE is trying to compete with and losing.
This is what I saw when I saw The Vortexx. I saw what I was warning about years ago when I was on G-Faqs and IGN to a anime community budding trying to get rid of the censorship of a anquanted industry, already censoring the Classics because of their southern supporting roots. Haim Saban the man, I have no problem with. Haim Saban the political force I dont care much about. Haim Sabans Religion makes no difference to me. But when he uses all of it for his business the business he so wrecked 15 years ago, that we and others fought during the days he had Escaflone days when Pokemon was the fad, days when Al Kahn and Saban had a blood war. Days when Disney keep fucking up trying to find that fad. Days when Cartoon Network needed spark. Days when The Brand, was the Federation - and had Stone Cold, the Rock, Mankind etc
those days we were trying to get that Saturday Morning lineup more in tune with Vinces Attitude era. Them Cheeky Chicks. That Lita. That Stratus fighting them scary girls. Thumb tacks, chair shots, candy asses?
Those days. Of Toonami. Of That era.
Saban took it all away.
But he needed to go.
Al Kahn proved everybody wrong. You see nobody knew this but years and years ago It was Kahn, good old Al, who asked Vince to do a show like Slam. Vince
said no. No matter Kahn didnt need Hollywood at one time, Hollywood needed him.
Nevertheless, things dont work out now. You think about it now for those fans of Crunchyroll if Kahn was successful with One Piece. One Piece would have become the second global fad from that company. I am not wrong about these things. You dont think the whole world wouldnt have heard Avrils cover for the new movie (which would have been the third in the states IMO if it was successful?).
But those otaku from arlong park and Crunchyroll fought against him.
And no matter how much he tried to restart the genre that brought him fame, it wasnt enough.
He made very bad choices.
I never forgave him for it but in the end it was trumped up charges.
Now, anime the symbolic sister of Pro Wrestlings extreme era is suffering a fate worse than its demise.
Its suffering being ripped away from its core, by men who are omega males who are nothing more than invalids, in any other decade of human history, and pirates made to kings over night by using Chinese governmental technology to screw the Japanese over in any way possible by any means possible.
Pro Entertainment is being done the same way, but this time by those who forgot that its not time for preaching, censoring, supporting those that wish your destruction because youre not agreeable or adjusted .
There is a reason why the bronies exist. Because they dont want to fight the battles against censorship we fight before, and we continue to fight today. Many, not all are sexless souls who fear the act and fear attachment. Those many are no better than the Japanese Otaku who sold their brothers out for that sexual but non-sexual contact with some one who is cute, ready to bloom. Sold their brothers to a government edict. Sold there brothers, the animators and the design artists to less wages and more :SDBurtons. Sold them all out for some sort of retarded manifestation of what a Japanese woman should act and behave like. The bronies feel safe in a place where friendship is magic, there is no worry, no inter dialogue, just fun and jokes all around and a few weak ass bad dudes
That is what pro entertainment is about to become
Because that Vince that said those words of honesty back in 1997, is now caught up in his wifes hubris trying to become a senator billions of dollars lost, lying to his shareholders about PG.
The same Vince that used John Cena as a successful version of Tommy Dreamer who never reached the title (and was going into a major rivalry with RVD if ECW stayed beyond 2001), has now backed himself into a corner with him.
That Vince that used to be the great heel, fourth wall breaking dude is now dead inside.
He sold his soul to a man just as demonic an executive as he is.
And for that and for those that support Saban and his ilk of business tycoons that play Hollywood like fiddles, there is no forgetting.
There is a difference between someone like Saban and Vince, and somebody like Kahn.
I remember back in 2001 when everybody and their momma were censoring left and right no planes, no broken buildings etc., etc
even Saban got into the whole thing.
But Al Kahn said fuck them all and left Ultraman Tiga alone. Thats a man.
The last time anything near what Al Kahn did, was the first two episode of the now canned Thundercats series.
There both gone.
And what we have left is confusion, weakness, stupidity, a lack of understanding about the truth and in the end, bullshit.
TNA will win by default.
Not because there is nothing left to try. There is.
What I saw was the countdown in to the final days of the WWE as a brand, as a wrestling company- as even existing in its current form.
It has become like Disney a factory of dream makers that take and can no longer create.
And now, Just Like Disney its going to take everything it wants.
Its going to become so big some say its too big to fail.
But its going to fail.
And when it does, no one will hear its noise.