BRM Reviews The 4/12/2012 Impact

[Big Red Machine]

OPENING SEGMENT- the lackluster crap of the Bischoff feud continues, with no real build at all. What they have done here, is taken the Eric vs. Garrett feud, and have completely super-imposed over two feuds that everybody cares cares a hell of a lot more about (Aries vs. Bully Ray, and AJ vs. Kaz & Daniels). Meanwhile during this entire segment, the crowd was chanting "WE DON'T CARE!" and WE WANT AJ!"
Then, when Garrett comes out, the crowd mic gets turned down (you can still hear the chanting in background if you listen very closely) and the canned cheers come in.

GUNNER vs. MR. ANDERSON- 5/10.
I really disliked the finish.

EY & ABYSS' BROTHER -see, this is what I mean by this feud has to go somewhere. EY telling Abyss' brother to start looking at the Immortal guys is some actual progression in this angle.\

TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH HYPE SEGMENT- GREAT! Great promos from everyone here and I liked the one-upsmanship between the two teams.

CHRISTOPHER DANIELS vs. AUSTIN ARIES- 6/10.
Good match. I really liked the spot with both guys getting caught trying to use the the tights and actually getting caught.

JEFF HARDY PROMO- I really liked Jeff cutting the promo inside the cage while it was being built. Little to0uches like watching the cage being built is the kind of thing just makes it seem more real and less televised. The promo itself was short and sweet.

EY, SARITA, & ROSITA SEGMENT- you know what... this wasn't actually bad.

EY & ODB WEDDING- Is there anyone who found this entertaining, or thought that this was a good thing to put on your wrestling show?
And someone needs to tell Rosita that she is supposed to be Mexican. Sounding like a stereotypical black woman does not help this help.

BOBBY ROODE PROMO- decent

BULLY RAY (w/most of Team Eric) vs. AJ STYLES (w/most of Team Garrett)- 6.25/10
Did what it was supposed to do perfectly.

AFTERMATH- HORRID! Team Eric has just cheated to get an advantage... then Hogan comes out and forces them into a position that helps Garrett by forcing either Flair or Eric into the ring... and Hogan gave garret a few days to find a fifth person for his team while he gave Eric a few minutes? yeah, that's a good way to get sympathy for Garrett. Give him a major advantage.

I also think that revealing RVD as the mystery partner was a big mistake. This is already an important match, so you don't need RVD's presence to sell the PPV. By saving RVD as a surpise for the PPV, it makes future PPVs feel more must0see because if you don't order the PPV, you might miss something major, like an RVD return. Something else that was bad here was that neither Taz nor Tenay (nor anyone else, but if RVD isn't cutting a promo, it really is the announcers' job) mentioned that the reason that we haven't seen RVD in months is because Gunner injured him with a DDT onto the concrete floor!

STORM-ROODE VIDEO PACKAGE- great! THIS is the sort of build this feud should have been getting. None of this crap about standing up for Sting and Dixie.

VELVET SKY & MICKIE JAMES vs. GAIL KIM & MADISON RAYNE- 4/10

ROODE-STORM SEGMENT- AWESOME! THIS is what we should have been getting all along!

Overall, this episode of Impact wasn't too bad, if you just ignore the giant waste of time that was the EY-ODB wedding. it also did a very good job as a go-home show for Lockdown, although I think that Morgan and Crimson should have gotten some hype. Also with the way they did the wedding, I think it would have been better to have that lead to a Knockouts' Tag Team Title match at Lockdown, and have that on the card instead of Robbie E. vs. Devon for the TV Title almost no build.

STUPID ANNOUNCER QUOTES:
1. Tenay says that Garrett revealing the members of his team throughout tonight's show is good strategy because "it will keep Eric guessing." Garrett just found out who was on Eric's team TEN MINUTES AGO! So Garrett will an advantage for two hours, three days before game day. Yeah. I can see THAT being a major factor.

2. Taz misuses the term sacrificial lamb.

[badnewzxl]

Pretty stupid comment here dude:

And someone needs to tell Rosita that she is supposed to be Mexican. Sounding like a stereotypical black woman does not help this.

pretty ignorant.

I can't believe you're criticizing Rosita for being a "stereotypical black woman" when EVERYONE KNOWS stereotypes don't hold up. Did you ever stop to think maybe that's the way Rosita speaks? Have you ever met a Mexican person who speaks "like a black person?" People don't subscribe to stereotypes by default; they try to be themselves. Using the word "honey" and speaking with urban vernacular does NOT mean you're being "black".

Furthermore, it's ridiculous that you made space to note this in your review; I haven't ONCE seen anyone challenge Otunga for not being "black" bc of the way he talks. It's pretty f'n ignorant to challenge Rosita, just for the sake of challenging her (speaking like a "stereotypical black woman" does NOTHING to cloud the fact that Rosita is a Mexican woman. You'd have to be an idiot to be confused about someone's ethnicity just because of the way they talk; and you sound like a bigot when you challenge someone with a stereotype as your only ammo.

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[Big Red Machine]

Pretty stupid comment here dude:

And someone needs to tell Rosita that she is supposed to be Mexican. Sounding like a stereotypical black woman does not help this.

pretty ignorant.

I can't believe you're criticizing Rosita for being a "stereotypical black woman" when EVERYONE KNOWS stereotypes don't hold up. Did you ever stop to think maybe that's the way Rosita speaks? Have you ever met a Mexican person who speaks "like a black person?" People don't subscribe to stereotypes by default; they try to be themselves. Using the word "honey" and speaking with urban vernacular does NOT mean you're being "black".

Furthermore, it's ridiculous that you made space to note this in your review; I haven't ONCE seen anyone challenge Otunga for not being "black" bc of the way he talks. It's pretty f'n ignorant to challenge Rosita, just for the sake of challenging her (speaking like a "stereotypical black woman" does NOTHING to cloud the fact that Rosita is a Mexican woman. You'd have to be an idiot to be confused about someone's ethnicity just because of the way they talk; and you sound like a bigot when you challenge someone with a stereotype as your only ammo.

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Mexican America's gimmick is that they are stereotypical Mexicans. So Rosita had damn well better sound like one. Also, she is (non-kayfabe) Puerto Rican, not Mexican.

Of course no one has ever challenged Otunga for not being "black!" It is completely irrelevant to his gimmick. With Rosita, being a stereotypical Mexican is the entirety of her gimmick (because TNA is too dumb to actually try to develop characters. If Otunga randomly started collecting toys to give to orphans, I would challenge that because that is out of character for a stereotypical lawyer. Rosita's incorrect accent (it wasn't just vocabulary here, it was also accent and inflection) is like If Daivari started doing his "Sheik Abdul Bashir" gimmick again, but was walking around wearing a yarmulke instead of a keffiyeh.

[badnewzxl]

Pretty stupid comment here dude:

And someone needs to tell Rosita that she is supposed to be Mexican. Sounding like a stereotypical black woman does not help this.

pretty ignorant.

I can't believe you're criticizing Rosita for being a "stereotypical black woman" when EVERYONE KNOWS stereotypes don't hold up. Did you ever stop to think maybe that's the way Rosita speaks? Have you ever met a Mexican person who speaks "like a black person?" People don't subscribe to stereotypes by default; they try to be themselves. Using the word "honey" and speaking with urban vernacular does NOT mean you're being "black".

Furthermore, it's ridiculous that you made space to note this in your review; I haven't ONCE seen anyone challenge Otunga for not being "black" bc of the way he talks. It's pretty f'n ignorant to challenge Rosita, just for the sake of challenging her (speaking like a "stereotypical black woman" does NOTHING to cloud the fact that Rosita is a Mexican woman. You'd have to be an idiot to be confused about someone's ethnicity just because of the way they talk; and you sound like a bigot when you challenge someone with a stereotype as your only ammo.

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Mexican America's gimmick is that they are stereotypical Mexicans. So Rosita had damn well better sound like one. Also, she is (non-kayfabe) Puerto Rican, not Mexican.

Of course no one has ever challenged Otunga for not being "black!" It is completely irrelevant to his gimmick. With Rosita, being a stereotypical Mexican is the entirety of her gimmick (because TNA is too dumb to actually try to develop characters. If Otunga randomly started collecting toys to give to orphans, I would challenge that because that is out of character for a stereotypical lawyer. Rosita's incorrect accent (it wasn't just vocabulary here, it was also accent and inflection) is like If Daivari started doing his "Sheik Abdul Bashir" gimmick again, but was walking around wearing a yarmulke instead of a keffiyeh.

They are stereotypical URBAN Mexican's; the accent she used was URBAN, not "black."

And you may understand things that way, but that's why you are wrong in this situation. You don't know what you're talking about. You're being lazy and leaving it up to stereotypes to decide whether or not someone's representing themselves correctly.

that's baloney.

[Big Red Machine]

Mexican America's gimmick is that they are stereotypical Mexicans. So Rosita had damn well better sound like one. Also, she is (non-kayfabe) Puerto Rican, not Mexican.

Of course no one has ever challenged Otunga for not being "black!" It is completely irrelevant to his gimmick. With Rosita, being a stereotypical Mexican is the entirety of her gimmick (because TNA is too dumb to actually try to develop characters. If Otunga randomly started collecting toys to give to orphans, I would challenge that because that is out of character for a stereotypical lawyer. Rosita's incorrect accent (it wasn't just vocabulary here, it was also accent and inflection) is like If Daivari started doing his "Sheik Abdul Bashir" gimmick again, but was walking around wearing a yarmulke instead of a keffiyeh.

They are stereotypical URBAN Mexican's; the accent she used was URBAN, not "black."

And you may understand things that way, but that's why you are wrong in this situation. You don't know what you're talking about. You're being lazy and leaving it up to stereotypes to decide whether or not someone's representing themselves correctly.

that's baloney.

I don't see how it is wrong to leave it up to stereotypes to determine if someone is doing a good job when there job is to be a stereotype. What other measure of how good of a job they are doing is there?

[badnewzxl]

Mexican America's gimmick is that they are stereotypical Mexicans. So Rosita had damn well better sound like one. Also, she is (non-kayfabe) Puerto Rican, not Mexican.

Of course no one has ever challenged Otunga for not being "black!" It is completely irrelevant to his gimmick. With Rosita, being a stereotypical Mexican is the entirety of her gimmick (because TNA is too dumb to actually try to develop characters. If Otunga randomly started collecting toys to give to orphans, I would challenge that because that is out of character for a stereotypical lawyer. Rosita's incorrect accent (it wasn't just vocabulary here, it was also accent and inflection) is like If Daivari started doing his "Sheik Abdul Bashir" gimmick again, but was walking around wearing a yarmulke instead of a keffiyeh.

They are stereotypical URBAN Mexican's; the accent she used was URBAN, not "black."

And you may understand things that way, but that's why you are wrong in this situation. You don't know what you're talking about. You're being lazy and leaving it up to stereotypes to decide whether or not someone's representing themselves correctly.

that's baloney.

I don't see how it is wrong to leave it up to stereotypes to determine if someone is doing a good job when there job is to be a stereotype. What other measure of how good of a job they are doing is there?

They are Mexican AMERICA; they are AMERICAN as well, so I don't see her speaking like a "stereotypical black woman" (by that I guess you mean American Black women) as stepping out of character bc ALL American women switch into that accent when doing things like that at times.

I just don't see why you saw that and felt it was worth mentioning; it came off (to me) as you nitpicking, and I really hate when folks nitpick about race. I see where you're coming from now. I disagree, but I do apologize for saying you sound like a bigot and calling your statement "ignorant."

[Big Red Machine]

They are stereotypical URBAN Mexican's; the accent she used was URBAN, not "black."

And you may understand things that way, but that's why you are wrong in this situation. You don't know what you're talking about. You're being lazy and leaving it up to stereotypes to decide whether or not someone's representing themselves correctly.

that's baloney.

I don't see how it is wrong to leave it up to stereotypes to determine if someone is doing a good job when there job is to be a stereotype. What other measure of how good of a job they are doing is there?

They are Mexican AMERICA; they are AMERICAN as well, so I don't see her speaking like a "stereotypical black woman" (by that I guess you mean American Black women) as stepping out of character bc ALL American women switch into that accent when doing things like that at times.

I just don't see why you saw that and felt it was worth mentioning; it came off (to me) as you nitpicking, and I really hate when folks nitpick about race. I see where you're coming from now. I disagree, but I do apologize for saying you sound like a bigot and calling your statement "ignorant."

The gimmick was a group of Mexicans who were trying to take over American culture and claimed that they were superior to Americans. They are called "Mexican America" because, in their mind, they represent the beginnings of a Mexican takeover of America.

I understand the complaint about nitpicking but my major pet peeve (for any form of serial fiction) is continuity, both of the characters and the plot because, in my opinion, that is the essence of good storytelling, and storytelling (whether it is the overall storyline, or just the story of an individual match) is the thing that I enjoy most about wrestling.