There was an interesting moment at the beginning of the main event this week, which, when he is connected to another, made it beautiful storytelling. Moose, Oba Femi and Je'von Evans used a very reluctant trick Williams as a weapon against Darkstate outside the ring. Trick not only took out the crew, but looked like his old baby face for a second. He came back into the ring and for the first time looked like someone who was happy to be part of the team. Compare this with the past, where he made it known that he had LS, each of his teammates as soon as this night ended.
When the match reached its climax, the same man who looked like he was finding that his old spirit returned to the person he is now. The TNA champion observed how Darkstate completed the young OG and did nothing when he could have given at least two helping hands. This moment showed a man who might come back from the edge and his old I wanted to be, but just can't avoid. It added complexity and humanity to one of the longest -based wrestlers from NXT, which he lacked a little in the past few weeks.
The problem is that I do not trust that NXT goes somewhere because it is such an inconsistent show. The fact that Darkstate was the main event of the episode shows that this point is perfect.
The territory still has no beat. Are you NWO-Lite or just another faction? Do you want to take over NXT or do you just want to wrestle against someone? Are you a rebel group that wants to exterminate management or are you not different from the rest of the violent perpetrators of NXT? When Oba spoke his day partners, he noticed that this was her moment to get rid of the Darkstate threats. I asked Oba (what I do often on TV) how they are a threat? Sometimes they are on TV, sometimes not. And when they are, their motivations are fluid. Nothing to say that they are so hellish to take over NXT that they have made a Pitstop in TNA.
Darkstate is currently a microcosm of everything in NXT. Since this show is basically TNA X NXT, wrestlers come and go. Things that seem important for a week will fall in the next, only to be one thing later. There is no momentum for something because there is simply too much of everything else instead of telling precise stories that help the talent in Orlando. I cannot be invested emotionally if I know that there is a chance that this wrestler or this action will not lead anywhere or will disappear much too long.
The CW show of the WWE is promising, but it feels missed at the moment because it is not in spare. This is ironic for a company with a group that describes itself as a vision.
I didn't like this show. The opening game released it well and while the main event certainly had moments, I simply have no connection to Darkstate. At the moment they are a symptom for a bigger problem that NXT faces. I am not sure how to fix. I understand the business reasons for this TNA connection, but to respond to so many masters, makes a disco -concrete show. As Geno said, NXT does not seem to know what to do with someone who is Oba Femi called.
It's not a good thing.
What do you say, Cage Siders?