Dixie and AJ Are Such Good People!

Most of my complaints involving TNA's storylines revolve around them being boring and repetitive. The feuds are often dry. This recent storyline involving Dixie Carter and AJ Styles does not fall in that same category, but it is so bad, I have to mention it.

A lot of people would say that pro wrestling is a lot like a soap opera. TNA has just proven that point. For weeks now, Christopher Daniels and Kaz have been terrorizing AJ and Dixie, claiming that they were sleeping together. This week on Impact, the truth was finally revealed, supposedly. A woman came down and said she was an addict whom AJ and Dixie were trying to help. That is supposed to explain everything. That is one of the craziest things that could have come out of this storyline. Too dramatic. I would agree that TNA needs to come up with some elaborate storylines to appeal to more than just wrestling fans, but the direction this storyline has taken is over the top. They had an elaborate feud between Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle last year. That was a good feud with a reasonable storyline. Well, reasonable in comparison to what is going on now. The feud became personal through Jarrett bringing in Karen. That feud was based on something that actually was real and it made sense. What is going on with AJ and Dixie is obviously just a storyline to cause drama. Once again, I think they are taking it too far in a stupid direction.

What should they do? I would hope it is revealed that Dixie paid that woman to lie. She wanted to cover up the truth. I am not saying Dixie needs to turn heel. The way the storyline is going, it is sickening to see them make Dixie and AJ look so virtuous. They go to all that trouble to help that woman? It is just a hard storyline twist to swallow, which makes me really dislike this whole thing. I hope this all does not end with the tag title match coming up.

Since I am on the subject of TNA, how about the ratings? How have ratings been doing since the disastrous number the first night they went live at the new time? From that night, it took 2 weeks just to get back to a 1.0. Yeah, that is pretty sad. You never had any episode drop below a 1.0 during the summer of last year. So far, it would seem that going live and starting at an earlier time is having no positive effect. The response will be to wait until people get used to the new time, but where will that get you? 1.2?