| There is a TNA script that done got leaked on the Internet. Never have men laughed so hard. It's for the January 3rd Impact. The individual responsible for Dear Dixie, which is a column burying TNA that has appeared anonymously on the Wrestling Observer website, leaked the script on our message board Sunday, and within hours it was all over the entire Internet. The best part was people e-mailing me asking if I'd seen it, which is at least understandable, but should tell you how fast it spread around. By Tuesday it had been downloaded more than 31,000 times (that's apparently stats from one of several sites it appeared on). From talking to someone who has seen recent WWE scripts, the TNA version is like something out of the dark ages of sports entertainment (read: 1998 -- you're shocked, I know). The drafting is "crude and antiquated by WWE standards". This person did notice that TNA is now following WWE's lead in calling folks "producers" instead of "agents". They added: "Talk about obsession. Aspiring to be WWE to that extent? My God someone please help these people." They noted the Russo consolidated all the work and assigned himself to virtually all the segments, which explains the "poor quality and logic flaws" on nearly every segment. They noted that he writes the exact same way for everyone, regardless of whether they're a man, woman, heel, babyface, etc. I should note that the script does make some things clear which had not been made necessarily clear to me on television. Chris Harris is still considered a babyface. I know this because BABYFACE is written next to his name in all his segments. I'd have never known. Petey Williams is also, shockingly, a BABYFACE. The video recap at the start of the show is supposed to run down AJ looking for advice, AJ's indecision, Kaz's attack on Dustin, the Roode/Booker T fight, the Sharmell/Traci fight, and the Abyss sitdown interview. All of this is given a grand total of 60 seconds. Vince Russo is, as noted, producer for nearly every segment. What a shocker. The show opens with, seriously, "PYRO AND BALLYHOO". I laughed. Everything is completely scripted, and, as noted, it all sounds exactly the same. Glenn Gilbertti, the former Disco Inferno, is listed as a producer of a few of these segments. This is the show with THREE GAUNTLET MATCHES, all three of which conclude in less than 25 minutes (that's total, not each). No joke. They break the matches down minute-by-minute and script out who is doing what to whom during that minute. I would last literally zero days in this company. I would be handed this script and quit on the spot. Angle is given dialogue designed to make him look stupid, like a line about how he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. The one thing I got more than anything else out of this script is that when you watch Impact, it's patently clear that the people primarily responsible for writing this show have no understanding of wrestling. This is magnified 100 times when you read this script. These people have NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE DOING. AT ALL. The script is also more impossible to follow than the TV show, which is mind-boggling. |