Welcome back, as another episode of “TNA Impact” comes to a close. With tonight’s show, the company put the finishing touches on the build to tomorrow’s TNA Sacrifice, and it was a fairly uneventful installment as a result. It was an especially System-heavy episode, so your mileage with this one may depend on how much you’re willing and able to put up with the current state of that faction. As you’ll soon find out, not everyone here at Wrestling Inc. is a fan. TNA Wrestling/X

TNA doesn’t really have a good relationship with the concept of the wrestling faction, smashing together all manner of names over the years and hoping for the best, the result being not so much the best. And that appears to be the matter with the System too, despite the very deliberate attempt to try and make them something that matters.

They are legitimately everywhere on every single show, but they are more often than not some of the more mundane moments of the show. It’s all obvious, trodden and trodden again road, yet they continue to do it in lieu of what they could be doing.

One might say TNA is filled with veterans and those either yet to be or not quite on the radar of the bigger two companies, but there are also some really good names on the roster that could be getting the attention that is being given to them. Every week TNA goes for what feels like contented middle-of-the-road booking and while it’s great that they have this landmark TV deal it doesn’t feel as though its done any good for them creatively speaking. It’s just really frustrating.

The issue is the very nature of what the System is and how the System has been presented means there’s only going to be more of this, and it has an effect on the overall desire to watch the show every week. There is so much more the promotion can be doing, so very much like in real life, the System is broken and it’s beginning to grate on me.

Written by Max Everett