Is the Immortal Storyline Getting Too Jumbled?

[MrHashasheen]

This isn't a complaint, but more of a observation.

Immortal began on 10/10/10, though Bischoff and Hogan made their claims that it was months in the making. They started out rather well, being a huge dominating faction to be initially dominant and targeting the faces. While I personally expected a counter-faction of the already existing faces in TNA to rally against them (Samoa Joe, RVD, Pope, Kurt Angle and later on Matt Morgan and Dougie Williams), that didn't happen. A failed attempt with the Mafia returning instead led to Fortune turning and taking their belts with them, crippling Immortal rather nicely. In the meantime, Samoa Joe restarted his issues with the Pope, while Jeff Jarrett beat Kurt Angle.

Anderson then won the belt and put another nail in the coffin of the Immortals. What followed was Jeff Hardy swiftly getting his championship back at the next PPV, Matt Hardy getting brought in along with Hernandez to bulk up Immortal numbers, and suddenly Immortal is getting bullied by Spike TV?

Now, the network idea is a very old gimmick and only used in ECW, so its perfectly fine to reuse it. All wrestling companies do that. But when your heel faction suddenly get neutered by an unseen force, then your champion loses his belt again to the surprise return of Sting, and less than half of the anti-Immortal wrestlers are just laying about (RVD, Steiner, Crimson) or aren't even being targeted by Immortal loyalists (Kazarian, Beer Money), I have to wonder: what's going on? Where is this all heading?

Help?

 

[AntiChristDeicide]

Everything you said is somewhat true. But like i said in another thread, my bet is that the network is a group headed by Dixie Carter to screw with Bischoff and Hogan. Maybe fortune is part of the plan. Anyways like i said in the other thread think of it like a power struggle and it will all play out at Lockdown.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

Getting jumbled? Such a statement would imply it hasn't been jumbled from the very beginning.

Adding Fourtune. Detracting Fourtune after bumbling the M.E.M. angle. Flair turning on Fourtune. Gunner and Murphy becoming wrestlers. No one (Hogan, Bischoff, Flair, Dixie) ever explaining exactly what's at stake in this legal battle. Matt Morgan being a member, and his abrupt exit. Pope leading the charge against Immortal one week, and stealing charity money the next (turning heel). Abyss being murdered.

Every piece of this storyline has been jumbled, bumbled and fumbled (clever, I know). I'm in complete shock that it's still going on. Actually, with Russo in charge, I'm not.

 

[DethMetal]

Getting too jumbled?? dude, it's been one big mess from the get go. Too many people, no consistency, not going after who they should be going after currently(exactly), Immortal was kind of a cool idea at first, but I notice that it's just one big power group with no direction.

 

[Jay_Dee_007]

The Immortal storyline still has potential to end out ok, but yes it is very jumbled. The biggest confusing component is Pope's turn.

It made absolutely NO SENSE. How do you go from crusading against Immortal, Hogan, and Bischoff, to being followed by a Samoan and his Asian videographer and turning heel? It just didn't add up. The only way I can see why they did this is if the ending result is to turn Joe heel and "acquaint" himself with Immortal. Kind of like how Hernandez's character is.

Fortune turning on Immortal wasn't bad, and I think it'll be better in the long run, if they do it right. Keep the guys who helped build your company at the forefront, use the older guys to help establish the talent.

My main question is what's going on with Anderson? I think he might be suffering from Bret Hart Syndrome ala WCW, meaning that TNA has no idea what to do with him. He's heel, he's face, he's tweener. What the hell is he at this point?

 

[WZMember####]

The Network thing was used in ECW but remember ECW was on TNN and TNN is now SpikeTV. There is sort of a reference there maybe even a clue. Oddly enough just a random question I thought the dirtsheets said WWE Copyrighted Network or something for when WWE's TV Network got on the air?

When Fourtune turned and AJ done his speech about wrestlers not belonging or bringing in too many people and Fourtune was there since the start... Anderson was laying under them smiling. I wasnt soo much confused as like...hang on...this has to lead somewhere. Why would AJ opening talk about wrestlers like that when Anderson is one of them??

So, for me...I wanted to see Anderson go rogue...a man without an island. You just dont know what he is or where he is suppose to be thats the point.

Also, I think Immortal is what its always been. The players might change but the puppet masters are the same. Maybe Pope had to turn because Nash and Sting was gone. It didnt make much sense afterwards for him to stay against Immortal. To me its almost like they skipped and the "crooked pope" was going to be next years storyline but Nash and Sting left so they jumped to it. Then they decided to add Joe to the storyline.

I am wondering if after being soo outspoken recently if this Sting will actually be more slient...and just watch....