Finally finished Impact. The angle was as good as it was going to be. Yes they had to throw something together at the last minute and this is definitely the best thing they could have done. AJ as the face of the company is definitely a good thing as he's been the backbone of the company for years. Him going off on Bischoff and talking about how this is what needed to happen is months in the making. That leads me to the bad part.
This should have happened FOUR MONTHS AGO. Fourtune has been the popular faction in TNA for MONTHS. There was never any need at all for them to join up with Immortal and again, IT MADE NO SENSE! Flair wanted to piss off Dixie and did that and then his boys were far more powerful than Immortal but kept the alliance anyway to be lackies. THAT MAKES NO SENSE!
So now it’s Fourtune/Angle/Steiner/Crimson/Anderson/probably Morgan vs. Gunner/Murphy/Hardys/Jarrett. That doesn’t exactly sound riveting as you have the titles and the power with Fourtune who are supposed to be the underdogs as the, you know, good guys. Here’s where you see the criticisms of Bischoff and Russo shining through.
This is, once again, the NWO vs. WCW and the Millionaires Club vs. New Blood. It’s a faction war with the heels being led by the corrupt leader and the good guys being all about keeping things like they were before. Like I said, this is the right choice but it’s not like this is something we’re going to be riveted by as we’ve seen it before. That’s not good but it’s what Russo and Bischoff do: they have one idea and that’s all you see out of them.
Anyway, this was as good as they were going to get but I don't think that's saying much.
Oh and anyone talking about the Rumble being underwhelming because Kong wasn't there is really quite stupid. It was never announced on WWE TV or the main WWE site that she signed. A few fans knowing about it means nothing as the company never once said she was coming. Is Eve a boring addition to the match? Yes. However, that's nothing you can compare to the top storyline in a company. Also, Booker and Nash were in the Rumble less than 4 minutes combined. Again, that's what WWE does. TNA makes guys in their 50s and 60s that aren't wrestlers the three top heels in the company. That's not the same at all but have fun convincing me that they are.
