Ryan0rz wrote:Cheers for the link Rog. I enjoyed this weeks impact actually, and I quite liked the ending aswell.
Removed the link because the end glitched up in VLC. Did it work for you? If it did I'll stick it back up.
Baron Zemo wrote:Rog wrote:The end is gooseberry fool. Massive letdown. It's a mess and not the good kind. The first Nexus spot gooseberry fools all over this from a great height.
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Hey if it's good I'll say it's good and vice versa no matter which company it's from. But that was bad. There was no reason to care because we know the ECW guys and they are all past it. I know they're not a threat. Like BS said it looked like a gooseberry fool battle royal. TNA guys coming out two at a time to some of the scrappiest offence. There were so many people in the ring by the end that you didn't know who was who or on who's side. Agents like D'lo and Simon Diamond getting in on the action, how am I supposed to give a gooseberry fool about them. It was a mess from start to finish. Been signposted for over a month so it wasn't a surprise, the "invaders" don't look a threat, the only guy they clearly beat down was Abyss but he's a heel, there are no clear faces or heels - TNA guys help TNA guys and ECW the same so there is no clear way to root for one side because both have faces and heels fighting their corner, Carter gets a closeup in which you see she doesn't really give a hoot about the fighting she is just looking for her cue and finally her delivery of the final lines that are meant to promote shock are delivered in piss poor fashion. They don't linger on the small trace of shock there is at all. It ends flat. Plus Dixie invited them, so they've been turning up for FIVE weeks and Dixie only just now decided to say "oh yeah I invited them". Ridiculous.
Then add in that we already know it leads to nowhere on the next show and you're looking at a joke of an ending.
The Nexus angle on the other hand. They didn't go overboard and kept the tone ominous with the lack of commentary and the editing. It meant something.
The Nexus showed up on that show out of the blue and never in a million years were we expecting what happened. Genuine shock. Not five weeks of making it obvious what was coming.
They took out a couple of the big stars and completely wasted the biggest of all, Cena. They went from nobodies to a viable threat in the space of that angle. They were vicious. Not some old men flailing around who we already know aren't worth gooseberry fool. People care about Cena and seeing him being picked apart ruthlessly got people going. Impact nothing really happened, no one was getting destroyed for the audience to be bothered.
Nexus literally peeled back the layers of the WWE to show things we hadn't seen before like under the ring canvas. It felt like this wasn't meant to happen. Impact had signposted it for five weeks ffs. When the show ended WWE had a destroyed ring, ringside and Cena left battered. That image and the deadly silence........gold. TNA ended on a load of guys in a ring, nobody looking hurt, staring at Carter and her crappy acting. ECW didn't even manage to get a chubby Dlo Brown on the floor.
TNA looked peachy compared to the bleak state of WWE after Nexus hit. It just wasn't out of control. Way too planned and it showed.
Nexus Invasion >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "ECW" "Invasion"