i thought that opening was probably the weirdest opening to any wrestling show i've ever seen. i felt like i was watchin a youtube video of someone remixing an opening w/ the auto-tune. i won't be surprised if that ends up bein on itunes or something.

i thought somethin felt weird about the disoriented RVD segment. at first i thought it was RVD. like i was waitin for him to realize that he had suffered a bit of brain trauma, but i guess it was good that he kept that up. i did like wen Hervey chuckled and said "yea you did get your bell rung" i kinda thought that was clever, but i was still waitin for him to be like "here lemme help you to your lockerroom" or somethin

i think AAA wasn't quite done w/ helpin Hernandez w/ his promos. there's a difference between cuttin promos in spanish and english, ya know?? he has some skills, but he definitely needs more work done. his facial expressions were pretty good though, i think.

idk wat it is about buildin up tag teams to be a threat to the championships and after they fail the first time, they wanna break em up. its like "well the first time didn't go so well so i guess it's time to go our separate ways". at least they got an edge over Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre. yea they were tag team champions, but they weren't even together long enough to get their name. the Dashing Ones was a pretty good name.

I must say I really like the tag team of Steiner and Crimson. Keep them together TNA. And this is a great way to use Steiner and a great way to get Crimson some experience and get him over slowly. This is how RVD should be used. Helping to put over younger wrestlers, and not in the main event. Don't get me wrong, I think RVD is doing a good job, but I really don't care to see his schtick any more, because we've already seen it a thousand times already. I'm tired of the 5 star, I'm tired of rolling thunder, I'm tired of the same old stupid tights he wears. If he were playing a different character or were a heel, then that would be interesting, but it's the same old RVD we've seen the past 12 years. Either change up his character, turn him heel, or put him in a tag team with a young guy and help elevate the young talent instead of taking up somebody's spot in the main event with some upside like Matt Morgan and Robert Roode.

Matt Hardy, Bully Ray and Abyss seem out of place with Ric Flair. There's no stylin' and profilin' with that bunch. Matt Hardy has only himself to blame for not getting over in WWE. I remember they pushed him hard with the whole "Mattitude" character, and the MF'ers. It seems like right when he was about to go over, he let the whole Edge/Lita thing derail him. Now he's just another guy who's seen his better days.

And only a woman with extreme flexibility could pull off that Boston Crab off the ropes like Mickie James did. A man would have broken his back.

The Pope is making a come back! I like his character a lot better as a heel than a face. Samoa Joe is stuck in limbo along with Matt Morgan. It seems like this Anarchia needs to be the talker for the Mexican faction. He said one sentence and had more personality and charisma than Hernandez did in his whole promo.

"Well, either that or Love’s blood sugar level dropped from a lack of food."

Ouch!

Anarchia?!! Don't you mean Sean Waltman? It appeared that he was channeling Eddie Guerrero when he was on the mic. You know it's taped but when Hogan shows up live on American Idol, one really has to work had at suspending reality and the belief system.

The lack of attention to details on this show just drives me nuts. So, last week here's Abyss being stripped of the TV title, which makes no sense because he's a member of the faction in charge of the show. But he's stripped of it, only to return to the show NEXT WEEK. What, he couldn't tell them he's almost ready to return? They couldn't just wait a week?

And then there's Hernandez being offered a spot in Immortal, and accepting, then not actually being in the faction for some unknown reason. And why can't his new faction just be LAX? That was a great name.

I'm just amazed, week after week, that the people in charge of this company don't realize what a lousy product they are putting out.

Too much Anderson. He is totally bland as a character and wrestler. Roode, RVD, Morgan, and Storm are much better alternates to go to main event or upper main event status. Samoa Joe should be the Vader of TNA; the legit tail kicker who is in the title hunt.

Winter is annoying. I wish Flash, ODB, and Daffney would be back on the show. More Steiner too, especially on the mic.

Despite the lack of continuity that some of the other commenters mentioned as it concerns Abyss, Hernandez and others, I thought that at least the main event program was well done.
Anderson's opening segment was a bit drawn out-but the match with RVD ending in another inexplicable finish was at least very well worked--I don't know how many people actually noticed that Anderson and RVD have obviously cooperated a lot to produce some great spots. I liked Anderson rolling quick across the mat the wreck the Rolling Thunder and stopping the Monkey Flip-it's good in-ring storytelling that actually is, I believe--as one commenter suggested--RVD helping to put Anderson over as a younger star.
From the cool "neckbreaker" that Anderson pulled out that we haven't seen from him before, to his overall ring storytelling as far as selling some real emotion with Sting and RVD-it goes to prove that no matter what someone's initial talent, he or she needs to be given a chance to work good programs with good wrestlers in order to improve and capitalize on that talent.
Anderson is FINALLY getting a shot, (despite the fact that they hung the title on him once before and then took it away and relegated him almost to a mid-carder)--and I hope no one will be surprised to see him improve every week that he's given a chance to.
Also-the Hernandez angle is offensive and dangerous. There are actually violent situations and human suffering going on right now as it concerns the debate on immigration. Without adhering to a right and left side and starting an inevitable argument with a proponent of either side that might read this and get ticked off---an issue this volatile is better not used to create heat on a wrestling show. Which is the persisting problem with iMPACT. Between the bookends of opening and main event, the show still suffers from moronic programs. Fix the middle, and you would start to see them creep up in numbers and prestige.

I'm beginning to think with so many references to "The Network" dictating matches lately, that maybe a storyline is going to be that Dixie has bought "The Network" and that will further the battle with Hogan/Bischof.

@Mike K

Unfortunately, I think the "Network", as many angles come up with by Russo and Bischoff, is malleable. They've no doubt thrown the concept out there to see what reaction it induces, and then they'll either make it into whatever they deem will keep it going, (which probably won't, but will just make it even more illogical), or they'll scrap it if it becomes entirely inane, with little or no heraldry or explanation, leaving the fans to wonder where it went even if they didn't like it, and creating more frustrating holes in future programs, since they must by necessity ignore any and all backstories which involved it.
This is the way that this particular creative team often works. They actually experiment and test market on-air and then wait for IWC and other fan reaction to gauge their ideas, so that we as fans have to deal with story ideas that should have been hashed out in conferences well before they were ever allowed to air by a creative dept. that is not actually...creative.
They've laid a few options out for themselves, even to the point that Mr. Anderson has frequently questioned the legitimacy of the "Network", most recently to Sting on this show-leaving open a potential heel turn for Sting, (gasp!-he's been working for Hogan and Bischoff the whole time-kind of like "They" for the third time now)-or a situation like the one you suggested with Dixie Carter-or the continuance of the idea that it actually IS Spike, which leaves open a space for a completely new representative--if Russo forgets how hated he is-it might even be him...
Which is the point-storylines should be thought out and angles written for the characters and situations within them ahead of time-not thrown out randomly with gaping holes so that whatever seems to work at the time can be filled into the empty spaces, like the writer's form for a Harlequin novel. This is much of why TNA often vacillates between near greatness and the depths of idiocy. Making it up as you go along is not a very smart way to do things. The only consistent angle is the obvious Russo-influenced drive to make the show more like a reality TV show, which has been even more prevalent since the Hardy debacle.
The problem with what exactly the "Network" might be is the same as most other problems in TNA. It is difficult to deploy compelling stories and develop three-dimensional, enjoyable characters if you don't take the risk of once in a while having a downturn in viewership while you build a foundation to rest them on.