James Caldwell, Torch Assistant Editor (4.5)

Not a good show for the purpose of leading to the Final Resolution PPV. The show was focused on everything beyond the PPV that viewers weren't given a strong-enough reason to order the PPV until 119 minutes into the show. Unfortunately, the final quarter-hour of the show drew the lowest quarter-hour rating of the entire show, so by the time they got around to selling Styles vs. Daniels and Angle vs. Wolfe on Sunday, a strong percentage of the audience was not watching the show.

The show also lost viewers from the beginning to end of the show as the Jeff Jarrett Saga played out involving the key characters of Mick Foley, Dixie Carter, and Kurt Angle. The audience lost interest in this storyline despite TNA trying to add more and more layers to keep building up Hulk Hogan's routine. It's too inside, too difficult to follow for casual viewers, and not well-acted, while distracting from the actual wrestling in the ring and wrestlers on the roster. Six out of the last nine weeks have delivered fewer viewers in the second hour of the show when the goal of Vince Russo's episodic TV is to build an audience, not turn them away. It's an indictment of the writing team that they can't build interest in the second-half of the show.

The worst problem with the show was the complete lack of hype for the two main events on the show. TNA threw out a five-second plug for a ten-man tag match in the first hour, then gave the match three minutes with two brawls backstage and one brawl in the ring where TNA World champ A.J. Styles was a complete after-thought. It would be one thing if the main non-wrestling storyline (Jarrett Saga) was drawing an audience, but when that's not drawing and the wrestlers are being pushed to the side, it's a double whammy that should be cause for concern with TNA management.

Greg Parks, PWTorch.com Contributor (5.0)

This show was a lot better than last week's offering, but that's not saying much; TNA could've opened the show with nothing but a jar of mayonnaise on the screen for 25 minutes and it still would've been a better show. ODB vs. Roxxi and Wolfe vs. Daniels were two matches I thoroughly enjoyed. The disappointing aspect is they, and the TNA Heavyweight Champion, took a backseat to Jeff Jarrett's Drama of the Week.

I still don't get the point of putting "legends" over Jay Lethal, especially since this was supposed to be an every-week angle leading up to Hogan coming in, and they've only done it twice. Christy Hemme is already a better interviewer than Lauren. Beer Money did pretty much the same interview they did last week talking about the Feast or Fired Match. There was nothing really memorable on the rest of the show, a probably in and of itself for TNA.

Curtis Shanks, PWTorch.com Contributor (6.5)

This week's Impact was much better than the garbage we saw last week. Unfortunately there were just too many videos and skits on the show. Hulk Hogan and Jeff Jarrett don't spend any time inside the ring, but they are what we get the most of on Thursday nights rather than guys like A.J. Styles and Desmond Wolfe. It was a shame that A.J. yet again took a backseat and couldn't have been booked for anything more than two minutes of in-ring action during a dud of a ten-man tag on the go-home show before a PPV.

Wolfe and Daniels put on an amazing match this week. Great display of the European style mixed in with some athleticism and mind games. But we got zero hype for this match. Jarrett and Hogan get dozens of video packages each show, but I doubt we will ever see one for this match. A wrestling show needs to have storylines and non-wrestling segments, but TNA just can't find the right ratio to deliver a stellar show. It was good to see Roxxi back. I've always been a fan of her style, character and look. You'll hear no complaints from me if she's part of Impact each week.

The Dixie/Jeff/Kurt saga has some good material and intrigue, but only we insider fans have any idea what the storyline is about. TNA loves to appease the five percent of the viewers who are Internet smart fans, but sometimes forgets about the other 95 percent. WWE may consistently irk those five percent with the stuff they present each Monday, but that's only because they're focused solely on the other 95 percent. I enjoy the insider stuff on Impact, but feel guilty because I know it's not helping the overall quality of the product.

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