I was sad to hear that Gail Kim decided to leave TNA back for the WWE. I thought Gail was one of the highlights in watching TNA because she gave the company credibility and was fairly decent in the ring. Definitely, compared to her initial WWE run, she had gotten better. Her feud with Awesome Kong gave her something to really sink her teeth into and made her a more well rounded wrestler. Her selling got better because learned how to play the babyface role superbly. On the other hand, hopefully, she'll do well in the WWE this time around.
Saw TNA Impact last night. I really hate their interview segments minus the "Rough Cuts" pieces. The interview parts are horribly contrived, the lines are awful and they aren't even funny if they're meant to be funny. When they're serious you can't take them seriously either. For instance, the Booker T - Kurt Angle part was meant to be serious but I felt that the segment looked like a joke. The crux of the whole segment was to make the older generation look like a threat. It didn't even come close. They were trying to make it like the NWO, but everything just fails. Everytime you see Kurt Angle or Booker T, you see a comic book character.
Now, as far as this angle will be played out, it makes little sense. For example, why should Sting suddenly go to the dark side after XXX number of years of playing the baby face character? The writers NEVER think of those details. Here's a simple suggestion for those so-called writers: just have Sting come out and rally all these older people to him. His purpose in the end is to bond together the older wrestlers because he feels these younger guys don't deserve to take their spot. Have him give a speech to guys like Samoa Joe, etc. about paying their dues and going out and taking these guys' spots away. When that happens, Sting, etc. can go home and feel satisfied. That's how I'd play out this angle and set a retirement angle for him.
I don't want to see these little turns every single time without justification. I want to see unification, consistency and a purpose until the story achieves its purpose. I doubt those idiot writers at TNA read my blog, but they ought to. This angle is so damn simple but effective and TNA will screw it up in the end because they can't execute the simplest storyline.
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