THIS WEEK ON IMPACT WRESTLING! Jeff Hardy has his title match, and... Gail Kim organizes another #1 contenders match for the Knockouts Championship? EC3/Matt Hardy/Mike Bennett continues! Where is it all going?
Much ado about nothing
Here's the problem when you don't have a monthly PPV to build up to: you need to make sure your weekly episodic television is really good and riveting. We're all used to the paradigm WWE has created (and others have followed) that we expect arcs to follow the same pattern—build for three to four weeks, and either move on to the next chapter or wrap the story up at the big event.
Even though shows like Lucha Underground get it right by always keeping the story moving in a nice way, it's still weird to see the wrestling story float in and out of arcs without huge punctuations. That's why LU works hard, because it knows it only gets one big event, and that's the season finale. TNA knows this with Impact Wrestling as well, but because…
Much ado about nothing
Here's the problem when you don't have a monthly PPV to build up to: you need to make sure your weekly episodic television is really good and riveting. We're all used to the paradigm WWE has created (and others have followed) that we expect arcs to follow the same pattern—build for three to four weeks, and either move on to the next chapter or wrap the story up at the big event.
Even though shows like Lucha Underground get it right by always keeping the story moving in a nice way, it's still weird to see the wrestling story float in and out of arcs without huge punctuations. That's why LU works hard, because it knows it only gets one big event, and that's the season finale. TNA knows this with Impact Wrestling as well, but because…