The Frontline is AJ STYLES , SAMOA JOE , TEAM 3D , ERIC YOUNG , JAY LETHAL , CREEDE , ODB and the MOTOR CITY MACHINE GUNS once in a while . Their main goal is to battle the Maine Event Mafia yes but they are also fighting for TNA in general . Fans that can't see that are one of two things Blind or stupid which one are you ? If TNA made every Impact and every PPV about MEM -VS- FRONT LINE Striaght up and down the card fans like ALL OF U would shit all over it like you are now so stop ur bitching and watch TNA !!! CROSS THE LINE and PLEASE I BEG OF ALL OF U PLEASE STOP MARKING OUT TO THE SHIT VINCE FORCE FEEDS U 5 HOURS A WEEK AND FOR 3 HOURS ON PPV !
TNA IS THE FUTURE OF WRESTLING !!!!
Ok...that was a perfectly rational response. I can assure you, I'm neither blind nor stupid. However, after watching Destination X(thank dog I wasn't paying for it or I would have been pissed off.) I'm inclinded to believe that the people behind the creative process of TNA are both of those things.
It's not blind allegiance to Vince Mcmahon that hurts TNA, it's the fact they have the wrestling equivalent of Robot Chicken writers scripting their stuff.
TNA Frontline vs. Main Event Mafia is supposed to be the big angle that TNA is running. Yet, when pressed, most people so far on this board can't even remember who the Frontline is. This was supposed to be a way for the established veterans to give the rub to the young talent who are going to be expected to carry the company after the MEM have all left. Unfortunately, Sting didn't want to be a heel and since everyone in TNA is too gutless to tell him to suck it up and do the right thing for business, he get's his way. And now we've Sting in a feud with Kurt Angle, which does absolutely NOTHING for anybody. You've taken two possible programs that could have elevated Joe and AJ as an example, and instead combined them into an inter-MEM feud, which won't elevate anything(especially buyrates).
The Frontline should be those who have been there before the big money contracts, standing up to the greedy ****es who are making big paycheques off of their hard work. That should be the central idea. And yet, the Frontline is consistantly been booked to be the most ineffective, useless, pointless, gutless, brain dead, bullshit excuse for a faction since the Spirit Squad. These guys wouldn't be a threat to the Cabbage Patch Kids.
How are we supposed to get behind the Frontline when TNA is constantly pushing the MEM's as "cool heels". Here's a wrestling lesson for all of the fans who joined us post NWO: heels are not supposed to be liked. We aren't supposed to laugh at them, and we aren't supposed to think they're cool. We see week after week that the MEM are given more tv time than anybody else, and then sends a very powerful subconscious message: these are the people you should care about. Now, in a perfect world you should care about both the heroes and the villains but most importantly, the audience has to care about the heroes for the story to work.
What kind of message does it send, that rather than come back from his injury and face the MEM in the ring, Samoa Joe comes back and starts attacking people with a machete? You ask any average Joe(no pun intended) on the street and tell you that that's the mark of a total pussy. There's nothing heroic about putting a knife to someone's throat. Standing up to evil and beating them even after they have cheated is the mark of a true hero.
How about a few weeks back when the Mafia took over the show and in the latter half, Foley came back and stacked the deck against them and the Frontline still couldn't get the job done. Without realizing it(because he has no real knowledge of how wrestling is supposed to work) Vince Russo made the MEM the babyfaces...which is what helped kill WCW by the way. The young guys need to go over strong because they are going to be expected to carry the business, it's simple wrestling logic.
I can obviously tell that you don't like what Vince puts out and really like TNA, but to excuse utter incompetence just for the sake of going against Vince is rediculous and I would submit that the one who is blind is you.
In my mind, the central TNA angle should have been the Main Event Mafia(as heels..if Sting doesn't like it, tough titty) vs. the Frontline(which should have been comprised of people who were there before TNA became a cash cow for aging veterans: AJ, Joe, Daniels, Abyss for some muscle, and I would probably turn Beer Money face and have them join, with 3D going to the Mafia for a tag feud).
The whole point of this angle should have been to elevate the next generation of stars to that next level. But so farr, all it's elevated is my blood pressure.
This is why TNA will be seen as a second rate WCW(1999), until they make some major changes.
There...rant over.
