The Nostalgia Critic |OT| He Remembers It So You Don't Have To

Shard said:
Honestly, the best person to have reviewed this probably would be JesuOtaku.
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Her, or the Nostaliga Chick. I seem to remember Nostalgia Chick mentioning she watched this quite a bit. I was actually a bit surprised that there was no guest appearance by JesuOtaku in this.
 
Honestly... yeah while he isn't fit for this, the best season isn't the first season to begin with. It's either R or S.

DrForester said:
Her, or the Nostaliga Chick. I seem to remember Nostalgia Chick mentioning she watched this quite a bit. I was actually a bit surprised that there was no guest appearance by JesuOtaku in this.
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Nah she (Chick) admits that she didn't get into this, so I think JO is the best.
 
DrForester said:
Her, or the Nostaliga Chick. I seem to remember Nostalgia Chick mentioning she watched this quite a bit. I was actually a bit surprised that there was no guest appearance by JesuOtaku in this.
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Apparently, JO is really mad at Doug, especially for bringing back NC cause it renders To Boldly Flee's ending moot and all the work she did pointless.
 
BatDan said:
Apparently, JO is really mad at Doug, especially for bringing back NC cause it renders To Boldly Flee's ending moot and all the work she did pointless.
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I wouldn't say it was pointless. I loved her part in Boldly as much as I loved Lindsay's in Kickassia. Even though I didn't know who she was playing until fairly recently in one of Critic's videos.
 
BatDan said:
Apparently, JO is really mad at Doug, especially for bringing back NC cause it renders To Boldly Flee's ending moot and all the work she did pointless.
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that's a really dumb reason to be mad at someone. she played a character that she didn't create from a tv show far more popular than her internet thing.
 
Wow...that "14 Years old" bid in the Sailor Moon thing was even downright cringeworthy...to me it sounded so typical American, he even mentioned human trafficking...really?
 
ABC said:
Wow...that "14 Years old" bid in the Sailor Moon thing was even downright cringeworthy...to me it sounded so typical American, he even mentioned human trafficking...really?
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well, the oversexualization of children in Japanese media is a really big problem. It's gotten so bad that when I play a new JRPG i'm relieved that the little girl or little girls in the game aren't created for wank fodder.
 
TEJ said:
well, the oversexualization of children in Japanese media is a really big problem. It's gotten so bad that when I play a new JRPG i'm relieved that the little girl or little girls in the game aren't created for wank fodder.
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No it is not, it is just your opinion, nothing more. And 14 year olds are not children anymore.
 
ABC said:
No it is not, it is just your opinion, nothing more. And 14 year olds are not children anymore.
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14 year olds are still kids until you are 16 or something. Most 20 year olds are still kids, legality notwithstanding. But a 14 year old is still a child. I can't believe that anyone would try to argue different.
 
Good grief, I couldn't stand this more than ten minutes. Doug really seemed unprepared. This has to be his worst video yet. His review had so much stupid stuff that could've been dodge if he acutally saw the show.
 
Yeah one of his terrible vids yet. He should've at least gotten someone who's good with SM. Maybe Suede? Speaking of which where's my Pokemon Movie 4 review, Suede?

With that said... first Sailor Moon is terrible (though not as bad as Super S).
 
ABC said:
Not in my country. With 14 you are legally no longer a child.

Some of you guys should stop thinking that 14 year olds a little innocent 4 year olds.
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14 year olds are mentally still kids, regardless of if you can legally fuck them or not. Unless you have some hardass, old country style 14 year olds in your country who were working in factories since they were 8. They aren't 4 year olds, but they certainly aren't adults.
 
Oh god, my facebook feed is erupting over the backlash of this.

Kind of don't understand why NC does any anime considering the grand majority of it was past his time and he's expressed that he has no love for the medium.
 
AniHawk said:
looks like phelous is hanging it up.

i always liked his stuff. he had a good run though.
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Yeah Phelous really grew on me, but it seemed like his only real interest was Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil and Silent Hill, he always came back to do a show on those rather than newer stuff most of the time.
 
As a person who didn't watch Sailor Moon growing up (Ronin Warriors / Yu Yu Hakusho 4life) I found the review quite hilarious.

And is there really a debate about whether a 14 year old is a child or not up in here? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?! Just because it's a different culture that doesn't mean it should be acceptable. It is wrong.

Did you know there are still many countries that sell their children who are a lot of the time 11 and under to old ass men to be married? You can shove your cultural differences up your ass, that shit is FUCKED UP. Period.
 
strobogo said:
14 year olds are mentally still kids, regardless of if you can legally fuck them or not.
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Mentally many +25 year olds are still kids. But you have to draw a line at some point, and I think that line can't be further down than the line of when a person can be thrown in jail. *shrug*
 
Chariot said:
Good grief, I couldn't stand this more than ten minutes. Doug really seemed unprepared. This has to be his worst video yet. His review had so much stupid stuff that could've been dodge if he acutally saw the show.
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see also: his review of hey arnold.

it's one of the best animated shows from the 90s and he's like, 'the kids are dressed up as fruits. that seems wacky! what a wacky show.'

also, i haven't watched sailor moon, nor do i care to watch it or even a 'review' of it, but i feel that if you're going to criticize or evaluate something at length, you should put in the work and see it through to the end (or close to it). i would have said eureka seven is a shitty show if i'd only seen even a fifth of it, but i watched the entire series and now i know that opinion is justified because it only gets better in the last ten minutes of the final episode.
 
Azula said:
Confused, so Nostalgia Critic is back?

Has his new episodes been good?

EDIT: Da fuck? I must have been living under a rock. He came back in January.
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I'd argue that Doug's Nosalgia Critic stuff since he came back is his best yet. The extra time he's been able to put into each episode by making them bi-weekly instead of weekly has really paid off. Plus the in-between smaller episodes have been pretty interesting thus far.
 
Loxley said:
I'd argue that Doug's Nosalgia Critic stuff since he came back is his best yet. The extra time he's been able to put into each episode by making them bi-weekly instead of weekly has really paid off. Plus the in-between smaller episodes have been pretty interesting thus far.
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the editorials come across really half-baked to me. the whole format of answering a question no one asked rubs me the wrong way too.

but yeah, the new episodes are a lot better.
 
Loxley said:
I'd argue that Doug's Nosalgia Critic stuff since he came back is his best yet.
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I really don't like those new little skits with other "actors". Did he feel guilty about cancelling that short-lived series?

EDIT: Huh. You guys weren't kidding: the Sailormoon review is pretty bad.
 
The Dutch Slayer said:
2nd to last Avatar ep
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Every time Rob shows up the quality of the vlog takes a nose dive. He spoon-feeds Doug misinformation and they end up "discussing" trivial things for far too long and completely miss important parts of the episode.

Also, "her flames turned blue". Really. You didn't notice that they were always blue? Their "that means they're colder" comment aside...
 
i really liked the last airbender, but the solution aang found didn't feel organic within the show. it's not totally tacked on, but there could have been more to explicitly build it up. considering the final resolution of the question how can pacifism overcome violence, they kinda cheat with aang's god mode.

one thing i liked about korra, was the whole sins of the father angle. i like that aang's solution wasn't the best. it's treated as a generally good thing in the last airbender though.
 
BatDan said:
Avatar Aang

It's over! We can has live-action movie review now?
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I was actually expecting the last episode review on Tuesday adn for the NC this week to have been the movie.

Says at the end of Avatar Aang that the Last Airbender review will be 2 main reviews away.

Editorial

Something he did at Con Bravo

Editorial

Last Airbender
 
He going to do vlogs for Korra :D

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http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/40234-cons-and-korra
 
Definitely. Timeless too.

Personally Disney shorts are the weakest among Tom and Jerry / Looney Tunes / Disney shorts series.

Also I disagree on him with "it's easy to side with Jerry". If anything, I feel for Tom more than the asshole that is Jerry.
 
His "Spirit of Competition" vlog is pretty scathing, and rightfully so for such a horrible episode, honestly. His observations:


  • City is getting boring and lacks variety.
  • Probending is starting to "bore the sin out of him" (he compares it to the Harry Potter quidditch matches).
  • The love triangle is generic and silly. Bolin's part shouldn't have been "played for laughs".
  • The formula is just "Korra does something stupid, learns her mistakes by the end of the episode." (Wait until he finds out she never really learns anything.)
  • Had a chance to do something different with the romance subplot (Mako ends up not being interested, she finds out she relates to Bolin more, maybe?), instead went for the cliché route. "Tedious, annoying, boring..."
  • ...Animation's still nice?
 
The Spirit of Competition is actually my favorite episode of Korra, even though it has a lot of really obvious problems in the third act.

The problem with the episode is how it all has to be tied off nicely at the end of 22 minutes. For whatever reason, the writers decided that it would be best to confine pretty much all of the show's romantic tension to one episode, meaning that we have to go through several possibly bountiful story arcs and skim over every opportunity to really make the love triangle interesting. There are great ideas that could have been explored in Spirirt of Competition and later episodes:

- Korra not knowing what she wants out of a relationship and hurting both of the people she has feelings for.

- Korra having terrible taste in relationships (pining for Mako for his mysterious attitude and looks over Bolin's genuine chemistry with her).

-Bolin having to deal with, yeah, guess what, sometimes girls don't just want someone who can make them laugh.

-All of these characters having to deal with the fact that hey, feelings can sort of suck a lot!

There's a veritable goldmine of character development possible from the scenario presented in this episode, but they wrap it up with a neat little bow after one of the most heart-wrenching act breaks in the series. I highly disagree that Bolin's feelings are played for laughs; sure, he's goofy, but that's sort of the point. It's amusing, but it still struck a chord with me. The dumb part is Mako and Bolin proclaiming for no real reason "yeah ok we're cool" and fist bumping not three minutes later in the episode. The amount of potential squandered here is staggering. Then Asami and Mako get hitched for seemingly no reason and Bolin ceases to express any interest in Korra.

Sidenote: I do find it funny how many people get upset about Bolin not getting Korra in this episode. It sometimes has a whiff of projection to it.
 
It's musical time! Joined by Paw, Kyle Kallgren, and a bunch of other people at ConBravo, NC looks at the 2012 film version of Les Miserables. http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/vi...ostalgia-critic-les-miserables-musical-review

Oh shit, set-up for The Last Airbender

Also, an announcement at the very end for a charity drive they're doing on Saturday. All proceeds will go towards the One Step Ahead camp, a camp dedicated to kids with cancer.
 
BatDan said:
It's musical time! Joined by Paw, Kyle Kallgren, and a bunch of other people at ConBravo, NC looks at the 2012 film version of Les Miserables. http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/vi...ostalgia-critic-les-miserables-musical-review

Oh shit, set-up for The Last Airbender

Also, an announcement at the very end for a charity drive they're doing on Saturday. All proceeds will go towards the One Step Ahead camp, a camp dedicated to kids with cancer.
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He already said TLA would be after this big con-bravo review.
 
I've not enjoyed a lot of his stuff for the last few years. Did like this one for some reason though. The russel crowe parody was the best thing about it.
 
Just noticed that the Indiegogo drive reached past the $65k mark. It's gonna be really interesting to see Doug's take on comics, let alone a comic show. :o

Also, that Les Mis review was glorious.
Poor Lewis, though. XD
 
"On the gravestone of Eisenstein" got me.

I wish Lindsay was in this one since she already discussed the musical back in 2011, and they totally shortchanged my favorite song, and the one I consider the most emotional ("A little drop of rain").

Great review, nevertheless.

And, Brentalfloss is awesome. Once again, he steals it like in the Moulin Rouge review.
 
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