I would take Vince, Stephanie and even Shane over Linda anyday, she is a tool that is used to further storylines when need be, she is never always there, the ability to sell your character in wrestling is something essential, you cant just stand there and talk for an allotted time because people will start giving her adamlee heat, and that isn't good heat its the you have no business being here heat.
If she is a Face President, she is not going to get booed.
As far as the "ability to sell your character" .... where as that is true in most cases. However, if your on-screen character and title are truly representative of your true position with the company, like Linda McMahon and Dixie Carter ... the fans will then grade you along a curve, as opposed to simply looking like you as if you are any other performer with the company.
Like I said, the fans will give her acting skills a pass, just because she really is the TNA President, and everyone knows that.
I would say yes, if she just came on once and awhile, but if she is there for the long haul then no, her novalty will wear off fast due to the fact that she is bland, in order for her to actually make her character stick she will need to develop a personality which at this time she doesn't have.
That's pretty much what I said and was advocating.
the factor here that your ignoring Sidious is the fact that she needs to be able to sell the angles shes promoting, making the fans care about her decisions and how it would effect TNA as a whole, if she cant do that then why is she there in the first place?, you cant just thrust someone in there and say be the authority, it wont work and will make her and the product look weak because of her inability to make us care about the impact her decision just made.
Well, in a way yeah, I suppose you can say that I am ignoring it. However that is only because the Mainstream Audience will ignore it, as well. She really is the TNA President, and as I stated, this gives her credibility an immediate boost over everyone else on the roster.
If she got up and spoke, she would have more credibility in the fans eyes as opposed to Mick Foley or Jim Cornette, regardless of how she is on the mic, because people know she is the real TNA President. When you have that kind of power in a company, and are an on-screen character, you will get a pass as far as your acting skills.
However, as stated, it isn't like people such as myself are advocating her to be a presence on TV each week, anyway. As I stated, less than 5 times a year, and only being brought in for major angles, is enough for her. The rest of the year, she can be put over for her kayfabe decisions and matchmakings simply on commentary.
Its not complaining, its the fact that these two are not being used correctly, Cornette is on the sidelines whilst collecting a paycheck, this i believe is a waste, the guy has charisma, ability to sell important angles and a great mind for the business, so why isn't he being used as such.
Cornette is also reportedly a booker with the company. He's always at TV regardless if he is used on TV or not, because of his backstage responsibilities.
You don't have to sell me on what Cornette can do, as I am quite familiar with what he can do. I think he is best served at what he does best ... and what he wants to do, and that is be a manager.
Foley on the otherhand cannot wrestle, his body is beaten he said it himself that he cannot wrestle a full time schedule, even though TNA is part time, Foley wouldn't be able to do himself justice and would end up ending his career for good, this is not a good idea.
Well, if I were TNA, I would have to simply give him something else to do. Nobody buys that he has any ownership in TNA anyway, so it really is kind of pointless, not to mention not credible, having him in that position.
If he can't wrestle a Full Time schedule with TNA, than perhaps another suggestion would be to put him in the Broadcast Booth with Tenay and Taz. Turn Taz Heel (which he should have been from the Get-Go) and make Foley the Face Commentator. They could either do that or simply have Foley be an Ambassador of sorts and work with the PR Department in promoting TNA events.
Foley is credible in his position if he is not being booked in such an inane manner, he needs to put his foot down more and actually act like he gives a damn, at this time he's not really doing much with it, but he is capable of much more.
I don't think he is credible at all, only because people know damn well that he doesn't have any ownership stake in TNA whatsoever. He would be more credible as a Commissioner, but to have a major title like Majority Shareholder, is simply asinine. I just want him out of any Authority position with the company. He needs something else to do, since nobody is buying that title from him.
Just because she's real doesnt mean she can do the job, its like taking an authority figure from an office and say well go on tv and act like a manager from an office, due to the fact that the guy has no acting experience or prior knowledge of what hes doing he will screw up, it just wont translate, the same being said for Dixie, the only thing that saved her this week was the fact that Bobby Lashley is blander then her, his promo was god awful.
Well, I am not a huge fan of Lashley anyway, and never was. However, I think he would be a better Heel than he would be a Face, but at the same time, they want to promote him in MMA as well. So I suppose they figure that they have to market him as a Face.
I would rather turn him Heel and give him Jim Cornette as a manager.
As far as Carter, her having less acting skills may, in a strange way, make her even more credible in fans eyes, because she will actually come across as more "Real" ..... as opposed to the same old, same old over-the-top, evil zany Chairman of the Board, or the power-hungry Daddy's Girl, etc. Combine that with her immediate credibility for actually being the real TNA President, and I think you would be surprised with the amount of fans who would be willing to bypass her lack of acting skills and who would simply go with the flow with her.
Well it did nothing, IMO it sounded more like boasting and a lame attempt to promote Bobby Lashleys TNA signing, this is how bad the booking has become, firstly he was in a feud with the MEM a feud that should of seen him in a match with Kurt Angle, instead he has been given a match out of the blue against Rhyno because Dixie said so, that doesn't sound right to me?, I can understand why they did it, but from a booking perspective pointless, she may have well said, Bobby heres a jobber for you go nuts!.
It was definitely more of a PR interview. However I don't think there is necessarily anything wrong with that. That would be the type of interview I would expect out of a real company President, as opposed to an over-the-top one.
I wasn't a fan of her announcing that Rhyno would be his first opponent, as that really took the wind out of the interview, since not one person will be expecting someone like Rhyno to win that match. So I would have definitely omitted that part from the interview.
But I think they used that interview as a way for the fans to simply "get to know" Dixie Carter and her personality a little better to establish herself.
Lashley simply isn't a good speaker. But what are you gonna do? Like I said, if I had my way, I would give him Cornette and turn him Heel.
