In some ways, Impact was good tonight. This was the best Aces and Eights looked in awhile. In fact, I'd say that it's how the angle should have started. Well, maybe with different principals. Ken Anderson is a shitty Scott Hall, but whenever either former-Dudley is doing things, or whenever DOC or Knux are around, well, the quality output is going to match the narrative strength. I wouldn't have ended the show with a Bully Ray soliloquy, but at the same time, it did what it had to do. It set up TNA as a company that needed a united front, and people like Christopher Daniels and Robert Roode need to eventually band together or else the bikers are going to overwhelm them.
The words "When you're with [Aces and Eights], you'll never walk alone," are endearing out of context, and the company is treading a line when the people the bikers are against are for the most part unlikable. However, if the journey means that there'll be a united front with characters who grow, then yeah, this will be seen as a good starting point. For me, Samoa Joe and Magnus are the two best characters that I want to get behind. AJ Styles is going to be the lynchpin. But there's a certain positivity imbued in the uncertainty. It's a strange new world for this company.
In other ways, I wanted to throw a brick at the TV screen with the Knockouts stuff. First off, why is it so important that they have a separate Knockouts referee? They got along fine with regular referees for years before Earl Hebner started having inappropriate relations with Madison Rayne. Brian Hebner and Slick Johnson are able-bodied wrestlers whose penises aren't dowsing rods for certain Knockouts' lady parts, right? It's such a superfluous story that was set up for one lone sight gag - Joey Ryan as a sleazebag corrupting the integrity of the competition.
Couple that with this new Knockouts site that's going to launch in a couple of weeks. Judging from the promotional material, all it's going to be is a site with JO pictures. Do they really need to have an entire site dedicated to cheesecake? This is the Internet. The average Internet user can get hardcore pornography quicker than you can say "BEWBS." If you're going to have a site for the Knockouts separate from the regular TNA site, it should highlight them as something that would be revolutionary in the mainstream/corporate world... as wrestlers.
The words "When you're with [Aces and Eights], you'll never walk alone," are endearing out of context, and the company is treading a line when the people the bikers are against are for the most part unlikable. However, if the journey means that there'll be a united front with characters who grow, then yeah, this will be seen as a good starting point. For me, Samoa Joe and Magnus are the two best characters that I want to get behind. AJ Styles is going to be the lynchpin. But there's a certain positivity imbued in the uncertainty. It's a strange new world for this company.
In other ways, I wanted to throw a brick at the TV screen with the Knockouts stuff. First off, why is it so important that they have a separate Knockouts referee? They got along fine with regular referees for years before Earl Hebner started having inappropriate relations with Madison Rayne. Brian Hebner and Slick Johnson are able-bodied wrestlers whose penises aren't dowsing rods for certain Knockouts' lady parts, right? It's such a superfluous story that was set up for one lone sight gag - Joey Ryan as a sleazebag corrupting the integrity of the competition.
Couple that with this new Knockouts site that's going to launch in a couple of weeks. Judging from the promotional material, all it's going to be is a site with JO pictures. Do they really need to have an entire site dedicated to cheesecake? This is the Internet. The average Internet user can get hardcore pornography quicker than you can say "BEWBS." If you're going to have a site for the Knockouts separate from the regular TNA site, it should highlight them as something that would be revolutionary in the mainstream/corporate world... as wrestlers.