History Headscratchers / TheNostalgiaChick

* I don't really find her as laugh out loud funny as the Nostalgia Critic is.

**** PRETENDING to be alluring?! She doesn't need to pretend!

**** Fair point, thank you. And like I said, it was just a little bit of bother that I can't really give a good reason for and the overall joke was ridiculously awesome.

** So it's an [[AllegedlyFreeGame AllegedlyFreeWebsite]]?

*** Yeah, but TvTropes uses "trope" in a sense (which IIRC the Chick used) different from the academical one.

** Anyway, she's namely mentioned TVtropes now in "Ever After".
* It just bugs me, well, that the NostalgiaChick isn't really reviewing Nostalgic movies so much right now. I mean, yeah, I get that there is a ''point'' to what she says, but at the same time, I started looking at what she did because I was hoping that there would be a female point of view for certain movies. (Like TheSwanPrincess- I would ''love'' to see a review of that!) Instead, we get videos on the female:male ratio, and Disney Princess (just in general). I mean, I ''get'' that's she done a lot of reviews, and that's awesome, I guess... I just wish she'd do ''movie'' reviews instead of talking about gender (in)equality in kids cartoons... Am I nuts?
** That bugs this troper a little as well, but she lets it pass for two reasons: The first is that the Chick is enrolled in a Master's degree program at USC which is apparently taking up a lot of her time, thus not leaving her with as much time to think up reviews. The second is that with the Smurfette Principle at least, there was a pretty good reason for her to apply it to Nostalgia cartoons (as she put it, she herself was basically the knock-off female counterpart to the Critic). I also suspect that she did so many Disney cartoons at that time because ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' was coming out and thus a lot of people were talking about Disney princess movies. On a final note, this troper would also love to see ''TheSwanPrincess'' reviewed.

** Her My Little Pony review seemed sort of aimless, she seemed uninterested, looked tired, and mostly just discussed the brand in general instead of actually review anything, maybe trying to make videos so close to finals is getting to her?

** Fact is, that the SmurfettePrinciple and reviews on princesses in general ''does'' count as a female viewpoint, because quite frankly, all these stereotypes an injustices are things that most women pick up on in their lifetime, often in their childhood before gender roles start to set. Quite frankly, if the whole section was to be reviews made without any reflection on why the market is divided into mainstream and "girls" and everything that goes with it, it might as well be the Nostallgia Critic himself doing it. The gender perspective is not only part if Nostalgia Chick's niche, it's an all too often ignored viewpoint of many a woman.
* Did Lindsay watch All Dogs Go to Heaven before the Ferngully review? The original BigLippedAlligatorMoment ISN'T a BigLippedAlligatorMoment! The Alligator carries the main characters home, if that doesn't advance the plot, I don't know what does...

*** Here's how this troper sees it: it's like the belowmentioned death of Screweyes thing. It's not a BLAM that King Gator is introduced, it's the fact that he launches into a full-blown water-ballet number for absolutely no reason. It's also worth mentioning that the Chick said that a BLAM has ''little'' to no relation to the plot, not "none at all". Splitting hairs yes, but still...
** The Alligator shows up again and rescues Charlie at the end. He's apparently also responsible for the antagonist Carface being in the afterlife at the very end, since he's last seen licking his lips and chasing after him...I'd say that he's pretty integral to the plot resolution myself. The point of the musical number, as far as I could see, was to set-up his reason for feeling so protective of Charlie in the first place...he enjoyed "making music" with him. Slightly rickety plotting if you ask me, but hardly a BLAM (and certainly no more so than any other song and dance number in any other animated musical). Oh well, it's too late now - the name's stuck.
** Also, in We're Back, how is Professor Screweyes dying a BigLippedAlligatorMoment? The main antagonist of the movie is killed! How does that not advance the plot?

**** Rumour? And besides, the last time Doug used it was a bored variant in his Flubber review, which was only a month or so ago.
* Why is it that, when the NC makes a joke about autism, there's an uproar, yet when the Nostalgia Chick says VERY CLEARLY in her Enchanted Christmas review "I'm going to throw an autistic temper tantrum!" [[DoubleStandard no one says anything about it?]]. Is it just that she's a "hot woman" again?

** There's an uproar? really? All this troper saw was "LOL @ AUTISM" because Autistics are still Highly AcceptableTargets.

* The Nostalgia Chick's video Ever After. It seemed unsure of itself, she didn't particularly review any one movie with much detail, it didn't seem to analyze Cinderella remakes so much just give examples of them, and the use of Nella seemed gratuitous and not very relevant to anything in particular besides dresses. Her reviews seem to be getting more and more vague, I miss her giving straightforward reviews like with Showgirls.
** You say that like it's been years since Showgirls. It was two reviews ago. And watching the actual review, it seems like the problem is that it shouldn't have been labeled as an Ever After review. Like Blonde Girls and Disney Princesses, it should have simply been advertised as an analysis of the Cinderella story rather than any one retelling of it. And at this point, BFF Nella is basically fanservice. She's awesome.
*** But Nella didn't even do anything in that video. She just sort of stood around in a dress trying to be funny with nothing to go on. And I don't have problem with her analysis videos, but this one just felt weak. She didn't really discuss or deconstruct or bring anything profound to the table, it felt more like "Here's some clips of Enchanted. Here's some clips of Cinderella. LOL this song is weird. h, that was only three minutes? Here's some clips of Nella for padding." It was just sub-par.
**** In her review of Grease the Nostalgia Chick said at the end that she needed to raise money for her thesis. Also, in Film Brain's commentary for ''Kickassia'', it was said that the Nostalgia Chick spent every bit of free time that she had working on a paper for college. If she has indeed been that busy [[Tropers/{{loracarol}} I]] could ''totally'' see why her videos might be considered "subpar"- she's still putting them out for us, though, and for that I'm grateful.
**** Seconded. This troper actually enjoyed the Ever After review personally, if only because it was refreshing to see someone acknowledge the UnfortunateImplications and WallBangers those stories have while at the same time pointing out the good and enjoyable qualities they possess. Most people seem to swing one way or the other.
* How in the heck is Enchanted a Cinderella retelling?

** Probably a bit of personal appeal for Lindsy. She mentioned in a previous review how she liked Enchanted and thought it was underrated. She probably just figured it could fit in and wanted to talk about its interesting take on fairy tale relationships in the real world.
* Nostalgia Chick's reaction to the end of {{Mulan}} just bugs me. Here we have a probably 16/17(if not younger) year old girl who just fought in a war that doesn't allow women, defeated the BigBad, "regained" her families honor, and now she wants to go home. What's wrong with that? I mean- RealWomenNeverWearDresses much?
** Tbh, I was more bothered about her aside comment on BuffyTheVampireSlayer at the end of her She Ra review, about how the feminism is countered by Buffy's name. I might be wrong, she might love the series, but that threw me off a bit.
** In the Ever After review, it seemed that the Chick was more peeved that Mulan opted to go off and get married rather than take a position of wealth and influence by the Emperor. Of course, she also states in the same review that opinions on things like that basically boiled down to a person's viewpoint on the matter. For the record, the Chick said that she really likes ''Enchanted'' and ''Beauty and the Beast'', both of which have heroines that act pretty feminine and ultimately get married as their happy endings, so it's hard to say on her views of that particular trope.
*** My beef with that though is that Mulan ''doesn't'' go home to get married. She just decides to go home. Then the guy follows her there, but the movie doesn't end with them necessarily starting up a relationship. Just him staying for dinner. Yeah the sequel added the whole marriage thing, but it wasn't made by the same people and is considered non-canon by like 95% of Disney fans. Can't really judge the movie's ending based on what a lesser sequel decided happened next.

*** It might be the fact that the ending of her turning down political influence and a shot at becoming something important in order to run off and be a normal housewife was a little too close to the ending of Anastasia, which also seriously irked Lindsay, only Anastasia blatantly left for a boy.

** Except for when she went into detail about how the music didn't seem right. Wild sassy gospel choir music and roman myth she said were too unrelated to eachother to really make sense. And she did go into detail about how Meg is a complex character and her relation with Hades is interesting and almost like a sassy friendship. She also talked about how Hades seemed to go by his word moreso than Hercules did, and discussed how Hercules is an incredibly bland character. And what do you mean by "the movie does not revolve around the plot"? What else is a movie supposed to follow, besides the ''plot''?
* While I did find her skit about rules every MadScientist should follow to be pretty entertaining. I couldn't help but be [[IncrediblyLamePun bugged]] by the fact that she utterly ''missed'' the MostTriumphantExample of "Don't put your dick in it". Four words, people-[[RockyHorrorPictureShow Rocky. Horror. Picture. Show.]] I mean, the whole conflict of the movie was due to the fact that Frank (disguised as Brad) screwed Janet, Frank (now disguised as Janet) screwed Brad, Janet sees Brad and Frank together on a monitor, Janet feels betrayed and has sex with Rocky out of spite...Frank finds out and gets insanely jealous, and, well, you see where this is going. Plus, it doesn't help that Rocky was pretty much created for no other purpose other than for someone for Frank to fuck to his heart's content and that Rocky has no self-control of his libido...So why would Lindsay NOT include this as an example of "Don't put your dick in it"?

* I'm just sorta curious if anyone else noticed this - I don't watch her reviews too often, only I saw a few of them recently and noticed something. Does anyone else think she kind of imitates [[RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]] at times? Her question to Hades - 'Why do you have that? Hey I asked you a question - why do you have that?' And a few others instances I can't remember too well - interestingly enough, it almost sounds like she's been watching Plinkett, did anyone else happen to think so? (I assume as a part of the reviewer community, she's familiar with RLM)
* Nella in the Grease review just bugs me. You really couldn't consider me much of a fan of her character to begin with, but that review is when I finally just couldn't take her any more. Nearly every time she appears it's just "grr, I'm ambiguously nerdy and angry a lot" and... that's it. If she does anything else, her delivery is so flat, and whatever she's involved in is barely even tangentially related to the review. I don't think it's even entirely her fualt, the Nella sequences are just a horrible idea and she's given a completely flat character to try to do something with them. The fact that she's in nearly every video now has more or less made The Chick unwatchable.
** YourMileageMayVary. She's in videos a lot because she's popular with a lot of the fans. Some dislike her some don't. Taste in humor is, as it turns out, a matter of personal taste.

** Ella Enchanted (the movie) is based off a book of the same name. If you read the book, then it becomes very clear how it's a Cinderella retelling.

* Nostalgia Chick's reaction to the end of {{Mulan}} just bugs me. Here we have a probably 16/17(if not younger) year old girl who just fought in a war that doesn't allow women, defeated the BigBad, "regained" her families honor, and now she wants to go home. What's wrong with that? I mean- RealWomenNeverWearDresses much?

* Nella in the Grease review just bugs me. You really couldn't consider me much of a fan of her character to begin with, but that review is when I finally just couldn't take her any more. Nearly every time she appears it's just "grr, I'm ambiguously nerdy and angry a lot" and... that's it. If she does anything else, her delivery is so flat, and whatever she's involved in is barely even tangentially related to the review. I don't think it's even entirely her fualt, the Nella sequences are just a horrible idea and she's given a completely flat character to try to do something with them. The fact that she's in nearly every video now has more or less made The Chick unwatchable.

* I'm just sorta curious if anyone else noticed this - I don't watch her reviews too often, only I saw a few of them recently and noticed something. Does anyone else think she kind of imitates [[RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]] at times? Her question to Hades - 'Why do you have that? Hey I asked you a question - why do you have that?' And a few others instances I can't remember too well - interestingly enough, it almost sounds like she's been watching Plinkett, did anyone else happen to think so? (I assume as a part of the reviewer community, she's familiar with RLM)

*** Maybe more people take the subject personally. This is a shot in the dark, but there are probably be more people online who have friends with disabilities like mild Autism or ADD than, say, Parkinson's diseas, or more rare/severe things. (Which does not make the double standard right, of course.)

** Probably because Rocky Horror is more of a comedy than straight sci-fi. Also, she had plenty of other examples to choose from.

* While I did find her skit about rules every MadScientist should follow to be pretty entertaining. I couldn't help but be [[IncrediblyLamePun bugged]] by the fact that she utterly ''missed'' the MostTriumphantExample of "Don't put your dick in it". Four words, people-[[RockyHorrorPictureShow Rocky. Horror. Picture. Show.]] I mean, the whole conflict of the movie was due to the fact that Frank (disguised as Brad) screwed Janet, Frank (now disguised as Janet) screwed Brad, Janet sees Brad and Frank together on a monitor, Janet feels betrayed and has sex with Rocky out of spite...Frank finds out and gets insanely jealous, and, well, you see where this is going. Plus, it doesn't help that Rocky was pretty much created for no other purpose other than for someone for Frank to fuck to his heart's content and that Rocky has no self-control of his libido...So why would Lindsay NOT include this as an example of "Don't put your dick in it"?

** Except for when she went into detail about how the music didn't seem right. Wild sassy gospel choir music and roman myth she said were too unrelated to eachother to really make sense. And she did go into detail about how Meg is a complex character and her relation with Hades is interesting and almost like a sassy friendship. She also talked about how Hades seemed to go by his word moreso than Hercules did, and discussed how Hercules is an incredibly bland character. And what do you mean by "the movie does not revolve around the plot"? What else is a movie supposed to follow, besides the ''plot''?

** IIRC, there is a deleted scene that can be found in which Screweyes explains his history with crows and how not only did they eat his original eye, but he keeps them around to keep himself in a constant state of fear, going on his whole fear circus routine.

**** In her review of Grease the Nostalgia Chick said at the end that she needed to raise money for her thesis. Also, in Film Brain's commentary for ''Kickassia'', it was said that the Nostalgia Chick spent every bit of free time that she had working on a paper for college. If she has indeed been that busy [[Tropers/{{loracarol}} I]] could ''totally'' see why her videos might be considered "subpar"- she's still putting them out for us, though, and for that I'm grateful. ^_~

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