| Re: TNA Impact sucks
Here's the bottom line. I watch TNA Impact and I enjoy it. I do not watch WWE television because I can not stomach it. It's a matter of opinion and saying that either one is a factual better program is false. It has to do with personal preference. You can't really even play the rating card because the age and stage of both companies are nearly polar opposite. But TNA impact doesn't suck, not in comparisson to PRESENT alternatives.
The commentary in my opinion is better, maybe due to the fact I have seen them live and realize there is more raw passion for what they do than there is in any other announce team... period.Before I sat near them and talked with them and realized this, I would have agreed. I agree that Angle is featured more than needed and I agree there is room for improvement, but it has good action and not over-the top love stories from a flabby armed widow and someone who is being buried... not in his standing in the company, but watching it makes me wish I was 6' under at times.
it's not that i am marking for one over the other cause I will watch WWE programming from time to time and will continue to watch it when it is decent. (which it's been awhile) But TNA to me is much more entertaining right now. Not to say that will always be, but Impact is much more enjoyable for me than any other wrestling program presently. i did watch some old nitro and raw from the mid - late 90's recently.. both companies have a long way to go to get to that high point that wrestling was then. WWE has regressed and TNA hasn't taken off. But of the 2, I look at TNA in a better place to get there now even though WWE is ahead in ratings. They are still new enough to be looked at as an alternative to what WWE has turned so many off of. It's easier to go to something new than to go back to someone who's done you wrong.
TNA needs to showcase all of their talent, bringing up some of the younger guys which they have been doing a decent job of, but could always do more of and more effectively. Kill the gimmick matches, aka Rat on a Pole. Leave your cage, table, and Ultimate X. Replace your other gimmicks (Case matches) with submission, iron man, or other matches that are based on actual in ring competition. It could do more legitimacy with the GREAT mix of comedy that you have with Tomko/Styles, MCMG/3D, Young/Storm, and Shark Boy and Machismo.
I'm not a mark either way and will watch whichever is most entertaining. I think if TNA did these things it would have more appeal to more people and would be better off. But to me WWE will have a harder time getting the fans back on their side, maybe not just because Steph is in control of creative (Soap Operas are bad mmkay) But because it is harder to go back to someone that's done you wrong than it is to try something new... something TNA has at it's advantage. |