History Headscratchers / TheNostalgiaChick

** She listed the entirety of SpringAwakening

** What I'm more confused about is the Critic having evidently ''watched'' the Dark Nella saga (in his Franchise/{{X-Men}} review) when he died at her hand in the actual storyline.

* 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.)

** When {{Kickassia}} first aired, Linkara posted on Spoony's forum in response to the ''Hercules'' review. The answer is yes; the whole crew was cracking Plinkett jokes in Reno.

** And there's also the fact that the characters in ''Rocky Horror'' are all human, or at least humanoid, and therefore acceptable to stick you dick in it. It's far less acceptable to stick your dick in, say, the pseudo-homunculus from ''{{Splice}}'', or a dish-doing robot slave.

* [[MST3KMantra Trivial but curious]]... The Chick notes that [[RealLifeWritesThePlot three months have passed]] between her ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' and ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' reviews. Meanwhile, the Critic wakes up from her chloroforming him. Was he slumped on his desk for three months?

* [[MST3KMantra Trivial but curious]]... The Chick notes that [[RealLifeWritesThePlot three months have passed]] between her ''{{Transformers}}'' and ''{{Armageddon}}'' reviews. Meanwhile, the Critic wakes up from her chloroforming him. Was he slumped on his desk for three months?

* So, why hasn't there been a team Nchick video since november? Any explanation given by any of them? Just asking questions.

** Didn't she say in on of her reviews (was it Fifth Element?) that she was actually using the term in not the strictest sense, at least for the sake of the review. Not that it makes it "better", but she owned up to it, anyway. Besides, MacGuffin is much easier to say.

* Given her feminist opinions, shouldn't she be offended by the term "Nostalgia ''Chick''"? I understand that in the beginning she was pretending to be a more pure DistaffCounterpart to Doug, and the title was sort of foisted on her. However, at this point she should be able to rename her persona, right?

** She gushed on ''Disney/TheLionKing'' in that Disney retrospective and did a tribute to ''{{Daria}}''. But remember it's not her character to be all fangirly; Critic's still a child with his heart on his sleeve, she complains about how human emotions suck.
** If we're including teenage years with stuff you liked as a "child": She reviewed the X-Men cartoon, TLC (not a movie or show, but still nostalgic for her), Kate and Leopold, Titanic, Showgirls (she admits to having a strange fondness for the movie), Labyrinth, and Mulan (and Disney in general). That's all I can think of, and with the Lion King and Daria example above, there's plenty of stuff she's reviewed that she likes.

** She gushed on ''TheLionKing'' in that Disney retrospective and did a tribute to ''{{Daria}}''. But remember it's not her character to be all fangirly; Critic's still basically a child with his heart on his sleeve, she complains about how human emotions suck.

** What I'm more confused about is the Critic having evidently ''watched'' the Dark Nella saga (in his XMen review) when he died at her hand in the actual storyline.

** Also, the Critic ''does'' own a car. Watch his ''Neverending Story III'' review.

*** YourMileageMayVary on that. I found the music seriously distracting.

** This will have to be a YourMileageMayVary thing, because This Troper ''definitely'' agrees with the Chick. Yes, Po had to work to gain kung fu skills, but the fact is that "destiny" passed up on six or seven people who were ''already'' masters, who get beaten soundly by Tai Lung while Po, with only a few days' training, is somehow already better. And in the end Po beats Tai Lung with a move that Shifu already knew anyway, so what was the point of Po having to be the one to do it? "Chosen Ones" often have to work for it, but being "Chosen" still seems totally arbitrary.

* 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...
** Does he carry them home? Yes. Does that explain the presence of the Esther Williams tribute? No.
** But the only reason they needed to be carried home was because they were brought to the big lipped alligator's place to begin with. If that scene never happened, they wouldn't had been brought to a place they needed a ride home from.
*** Here's how this troper sees it: it's like the below-mentioned 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?
*** The fact that he dies isn't a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, the fact that he's ''devoured by crows'' is. The crows come out of nowhere with no explanation, their presence makes no sense, and the crows are never referenced again.
*** Except that the crows have been around Screweyes the entire movie, and prior to his death scene they were implied to be his pets or something. The fact that they were just waiting for a chance to eat him was a minor plot twist.
*** Okay, since when do crows eat people, and what caused him to attract the crows to him like that?
*** 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.
** The trope "is named after the random musical dance number". It's the dance number people that constitutes the BLAM, not the alligator. Also, the crows just land on Screweyes in a bird-shape, sit there and then he's gone. They don't eat him, he's just gone. THAT's the BLAM.
*** Yes, but the purpose of the musical number in question was to set up the alligator's reason for a) not eating Charlie and b) later returning and saving Charlie from drowning (and killing his enemy) - he thought Charlie had a beautiful voice and enjoyed making music with him. I agree that Bluth could have found a less contrived way of freeing Charlie from the anchor and getting rid of Carface in the end, but what can you do? Oh, and my guess is that the crows from "We're Back" were supposed to be symbolic. Screweyes was consumed by his own fears.
**** You know, for kids!
**** They established that King Gator was enamored of Charlie's voice in the bit in which Charlie howls and King Gater spits him out ''right before the music number''. And then the scene ''morphs into a completely different location'' with a giant freaking clam, ''for no reason whatsoever, never mentioned again or commented on''. So no, King Gator's presence and his liking of Charlie's voice isn't a Big Lipped Alligator Moment, the actual water ballet number is. It's established right before the number starts that King Gator likes Charlie's voice. You could take the entire number out and still get Gator happily saying "How can you expect me to eat a voice a sumptuous as this?" which would pretty clearly indicate that he likes the sound of Charlie's voice.
***** Here's the thing though, and this is truly where the BLAM falls apart, King Gator DOES refer to the musical number. When he returns for the climax, he sings the "Togetherrrr" part of the song. Rumor even has it that Doug & Lindsay found out they were wrong about King Gator's song being a BLAM and apologized on the TGWTG Forums, but by then, it was far too late (but not too late for them to stop using the gag, which they both seemingly have).
**** 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.

* How in the heck is ''Enchanted'' a Cinderella retelling?
** It's not a retelling but more on a comparison and analysis on a modern take of the traditional fairy tale archetype.
** It also has a poor, downtrodden girl who is being targeted by a wicked stepmother who dreams of meeting her prince charming and living happily ever after.
*** That's also the premise of Snow White. Enchanted was a parody of Disney movies and fairy tales in ''general'', not a retelling of Cinderella.

* [[MST3KMantra Trivial but curious]]... The Chick notes that [[RealLifeWritesThePlot three months have passed]] between her ''{{Transformers}}'' and ''{{Armageddon}}'' reviews. Meanwhile, the Critic wakes up from her chloroforming him. Was he slumped on his desk for three months?

** Didn't she say in on of her reviews (was it Fifth Element?) that she was actually using the term in not the strictest sense, at least for the sake of the review. Not that it makes it "better", but she owned up to it, anyway. Besides, MacGuffin is much easier to say.

** Unless she somehow got a real, working penis hooked up there, the thing's basically a glorified masturbation machine.

* Yet another baffling "Did we watch the same movie?" moment for me. In her review of ''The Worst Witch'', she talks about how she doesn't like "Chosen One" movies (with the exception of Harry Potter) and cites ''KungFuPanda'' as an example. Again, did we watch the same movie? Kung Fu Panda's message was pretty much that being the "chosen one" didn't automatically make you "super special awesome". That you actually have to work hard and use your own unique skills to achieve your goals.
** This will have to be a YourMileageMayVary thing, because This Troper ''definitely'' agrees with the Chick. Yes, Po had to work to gain kung fu skills, but the fact is that "destiny" passed up on six or seven people who were ''already'' masters, who get beaten soundly by Tai Lung while Po, with only a few days' training, is somehow already better. And in the end Po beats Tai Lung with a move that Shifu already knew anyway, so what was the point of Po having to be the one to do it? "Chosen Ones" often have to work for it, but being "Chosen" still seems totally arbitrary.

* Has she ever actually reviewed a real nostalgic movie? I mean, a movie that she liked when she was a kid and still likes. Not "I liked it as a kid, but I was stupid back then and liked stupid movies." Even Doug does stuff he currently likes every now and then.

* I remember finding this ''{{Jem}}'' joke funny, but FridgeLogic: wouldn't "engage in a little desegregation" mean the exact '' opposite'' of a TokenMinorityCouple?

* When she criticized ChristopherNolan for not using female villains in the DarkKnightSaga at the end of her Top 11 Villainesses video, she seemed to be remembering Batman the Animated Series through rose-tinted glasses in terms of interesting female villains. There were four main female villains, which is far fewer than the number of male villains that could be considered, two of whom (Harley and Talia) could not be used in the first two films because the male villains they're associated with had to be established first. Poison Ivy was a possibility, Catwoman we actually got for the third film (all though we didn't know that at the time). Sure, there were a lot of other villainesses like Baby Doll and Roxy Rocket - but did NChick seriously expect a major film with Baby Doll or Roxy Rocket as the lead antagonist? Also, this criticism seemed uncomfortably personal to me, she seemed to suggest Nolan has DaddyIssues, which seems excessive for an artistic criticism. She was calling out Nolan for not having enough females in his movies, not kicking puppies.