Well, that was a baffling ordeal. The damn show BEGAN with a Christmas Chaos six sides of steel Christmas lights match (with ribbons on the cage), then somehow got more insane with even more confusing match stipulations.
The Ray as Santa segment had some funny moments, but dragged on, the skits weren't as funny as last month's, but did lead to Phi Delta Slam being beaten up by Awesome Kong, the official bathroom monitor of TNA Wrestling.
Impact ending with a video set to "Misleading" was quite possibly the funniest thing on the show, along with Joe making some valid points about how a company can afford to throw a party when they can't pay him more money, also noting that fans want wrestling, and not the party on their TVs during a wrestling show.
This was the most confusing TNA broadcast I've ever seen. Mike Tenay trying to explain Rellik's purpose in the company just left me more confused, and the Santa stuff was just... wow. I guess Santa's a viral marketer for TNA, since DW was just shilling the TNA site (WHICH NOW HAS 100% MORE TNA WRESTLING, IT'S TNA WRESTLING 24/7) and their merchandise being available in stores, which might've worked well had they actually shown any of the merchandise on-screen beyond the foam fingers.
The ladder match was actually quite good, with some incredible spots (like the moonsault-DDT off the ladder) which made me wonder why it wasn't on PPV, and for something more important than a reindeer head. To be fair though, that reindeer head was mentioned more on this show than any TNA title, so it might actually be the most important prop in TNA.
The candy cane double North Pole match was fine. Nothing really sticks out now other than Ray's pre-match jokes, his pants falling down constantly during the match, the horn-headed Little Shelley doing wazzup, and Johnny Devine dressing up like the world's gayest elf.
The street fight was... something. The tree dangling around the ring reminded me of Plan 9's flying saucers, which lead me to view the rest of this show as Plan 9 in a ring, which helped me enjoy the match involving the son of Satan, a gladiator in a Muta mask, a shark, a skeleton-man, and a scarred retard.
The opener was decent, but I felt bad for Rave, who took a cracker jack into the cage... which was surrounded by Christmas lights and had ribbons on it, and Homicide took a press slam back-first into the cage, in a match that meant nothing.
The knockouts match was okay, but I found it impossible to take the post-match angle seriously due to all the fucking toys in the ring, and the same goes with Joe getting all serious and angry. These things might've actually worked well on a regular show, but with all the Christmas decor, it became impossible to do that.
The Thanksgiving show worked because it never took itself seriously, this show did, and far, far too often given how absurd the show's storylines are and the whole Christmas theme of it. It's a shame that a show with two good matches was bogged down by so much bullshit.
Last edited by Jeremy; 21 Dec 2007 at 12:54 AM.
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