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* The comparison between 1996 and 2005 during the ''Film/IndependenceDay'' / ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'' review. It brought home to me in a way that I've never really seen so clearly articulated before how much better and hopeful the world seemed between the end of the Cold War and 9/11, compared to the shock, dread, and trauma of the first decade of the 21st Century.

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* The comparison between 1996 and 2005 during the ''Film/IndependenceDay'' / ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'' ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' review. It brought home to me in a way that I've never really seen so clearly articulated before how much better and hopeful the world seemed between the end of the Cold War and 9/11, compared to the shock, dread, and trauma of the first decade of the 21st Century.
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* Her documentary ''The A Word'', one of her most serious works, reveals that Lindsay had an abortion and feels conflicted about it (as she says again in her "Shut Up and Talk Interview"). Whatever your opinion on abortion is hardly matters because ''we don't even know what the situation was.'' Did Lindsay actually have a choice, or did some medical problem force her to abort? Did she make her decision with misinformation of some kind? Is it really all not that huge of a deal to her and we're just reading into it too much? We'll obviously never know.

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* Her documentary ''The A Word'', one of her most serious works, reveals that Lindsay had an abortion and feels conflicted about it (as she says again in her "Shut Up and Talk Interview"). Whatever your opinion on abortion is hardly matters because ''we don't even know what the situation was.'' Did Lindsay actually have a choice, or did some medical problem force her to abort? Did she make her decision with misinformation of some kind? Is it really all not that huge of a deal to her and we're just reading into it too much? We'll obviously never know.----
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* While the character of LetsPlay/TheNostalgiaChick is nowhere to be seen, it'd still be a shame not to put ''The A Word'' - Lindsay's poignant look at abortion, including dealing with her own - on here.

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* While the character of LetsPlay/TheNostalgiaChick WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick is nowhere to be seen, it'd still be a shame not to put ''The A Word'' - Lindsay's poignant look at abortion, including dealing with her own - on here.
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* Her [[http://namebrandlindsay.com/2014/08/12/why-some-peoples-minds-try-to-kill-them/ post]] on Creator/RobinWilliams and when she had her own suicidal feelings.

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* Her [[http://namebrandlindsay.com/2014/08/12/why-some-peoples-minds-try-to-kill-them/ post]] on Creator/RobinWilliams Creator/RobinWilliams, the suicide of a former TGWTG colleague and when she had her own suicidal feelings.
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* Her documentary ''The A Word'', one of her most serious works, reveals that Lindsay had an abortion and feels conflicted about it (as she says again in her "Shut Up and Talk Interview"). Whatever your opinion on abortion is hardly matters because ''we don't even know what the situation was.'' Did Lindsay actually have a choice, or did some medical problem force her to abort? Did she make her decision with misinformation of some kind? Is it really all not that huge of a deal to her and we're just reading into it too much? We'll obviously never know.
* The Loose Canon episode on 9/11. Unsurprisingly, Lindsay delves into heavy territory regarding a terror attack that claimed 3000 lives and set up many other wide-reaching and destructive events in the years following. It's made worse by the fact that Lindsay is a New Yorker herself and recently experienced a release of suppressed emotions she didn't even know she held back when visiting a museum about 9/11. It's not entirely mournful, but the tragedy of the attack definitely shows.
* In "RENT - Look Pretty and Do As Little as Possible," Lindsay mentions throughout the essay that one of the biggest reasons why she hates ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'' is because of how much it mitigated a legitimate grievance within America regarding the government's reaction to the AIDS crisis into [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy some]] [[DesignatedHero unlikable]] [[EightDeadlyWords dreck]] [[CluelessAesop that ultimately misses the point, trying to sanitize a dark historical truth and replacing it with "hip," vague attempts of "sticking it to the man."]] To illustrate exactly how horrible this is, she begins the first 3-and-a-half minutes of the video discussing the terrible real-world AIDS/HIV crisis of the 1980's in full [[SincerityMode with no jokes]], describing the nation-wide shunning of the LGBT community, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat the failure of the Reagan administration in treating the massive HIV spread]] - being told [[TitleDrop "To look pretty and do as little as possible"]] - then [[NeverMyFault telling people there was nothing they could've done about it]] after it had already claimed thousands of victims; [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming that it was those infected's faults.]]
** To really drive the point home, she closes the video by intercutting "La Vie Boheme" - in which characters loudly celebrate how hip and avant-garde they are - with Larry Kramer's enraged [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN9fjecqxLM "We are in the middle of a fucking plague!"]] rant from the documentary ''How To Survive a Plague.''
* In her video on ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Lindsay talks about how this movie affected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].
* Part 1 of "The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy" ends as this, with Lindsay summarizing how disappointing and disillusioning ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy was, especially heartbreaking since ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy -- which was made by much of the same people -- was such a massive inspiration to her. She doesn't even really get angry at it, she just feels ''nothing'', making her wonder what even led her to loving ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and the works of Creator/JRRTolkien in the first place.
** It then turns into happy tears when [[spoiler: Nella shows up as Lindsay is about to leave for New Zealand, echoing the last scene from ''The Fellowship of the Ring'']].
** And then there's the ending of part 3, "The Desolation of Warners", where [[spoiler: Lindsay returns home after learning about the exploitation of New Zealand labor that contributed to the making of the ''Hobbit'' trilogy. At the very end, she says "Well, I'm back," and stares blankly at her room. It alludes to the ending of ''The Return of the King'', but while that scene was (mostly) uplifting, this one is anything but.]]
* In the wake of former producers speaking out about their mistreatment at the hands of Channel Awesome staff, Lindsay was asked if she had any memories of good times during her run as The Chick. [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/983040626265477120 Long story short, she didn't]]. She only auditioned because she was jobless and desperately needed the money, she was uncomfortable working as someone's DistaffCounterpart, she felt her earlier reviews were cringeworthy with how little effort was put into them, and from the second anniversary event onward, she realized the Walkers didn't consider her a friend. She specifically mentions how she got no money from her ''Film/MoulinRouge'' crossover with Doug, despite how he and Brent made money and crashed in her apartment for it, and how she ended up {{Misblamed}} for opinions she didn't have but Doug wrote for her character. Lindsey makes it clear that this is the last time she ever wants to discuss Channel Awesome, which means that for anyone who enjoyed her time as the Chick, the whole thing is closed with the knowledge that she was utterly miserable the entire time.

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* Her documentary ''The A Word'', one of her most serious works, reveals that Lindsay had an abortion and feels conflicted about it (as she says again in her "Shut Up and Talk Interview"). Whatever your opinion on abortion is hardly matters because ''we don't even know what the situation was.'' Did Lindsay actually have a choice, or did some medical problem force her to abort? Did she make her decision with misinformation of some kind? Is it really all not that huge of a deal to her and we're just reading into it too much? We'll obviously never know.
* The Loose Canon episode on 9/11. Unsurprisingly, Lindsay delves into heavy territory regarding a terror attack that claimed 3000 lives and set up many other wide-reaching and destructive events in the years following. It's made worse by the fact that Lindsay is a New Yorker herself and recently experienced a release of suppressed emotions she didn't even know she held back when visiting a museum about 9/11. It's not entirely mournful, but the tragedy of the attack definitely shows.
* In "RENT - Look Pretty and Do As Little as Possible," Lindsay mentions throughout the essay that one of the biggest reasons why she hates ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'' is because of how much it mitigated a legitimate grievance within America regarding the government's reaction to the AIDS crisis into [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy some]] [[DesignatedHero unlikable]] [[EightDeadlyWords dreck]] [[CluelessAesop that ultimately misses the point, trying to sanitize a dark historical truth and replacing it with "hip," vague attempts of "sticking it to the man."]] To illustrate exactly how horrible this is, she begins the first 3-and-a-half minutes of the video discussing the terrible real-world AIDS/HIV crisis of the 1980's in full [[SincerityMode with no jokes]], describing the nation-wide shunning of the LGBT community, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat the failure of the Reagan administration in treating the massive HIV spread]] - being told [[TitleDrop "To look pretty and do as little as possible"]] - then [[NeverMyFault telling people there was nothing they could've done about it]] after it had already claimed thousands of victims; [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming that it was those infected's faults.]]
** To really drive the point home, she closes the video by intercutting "La Vie Boheme" - in which characters loudly celebrate how hip and avant-garde they are - with Larry Kramer's enraged [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN9fjecqxLM "We are in the middle of a fucking plague!"]] rant from the documentary ''How To Survive a Plague.''
* In her video on ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Lindsay talks about how this movie affected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].
* Part 1 of "The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy" ends as this, with Lindsay summarizing how disappointing and disillusioning ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy was, especially heartbreaking since ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy -- which was made by much of the same people -- was such a massive inspiration to her. She doesn't even really get angry at it, she just feels ''nothing'', making her wonder what even led her to loving ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and the works of Creator/JRRTolkien in the first place.
** It then turns into happy tears when [[spoiler: Nella shows up as Lindsay is about to leave for New Zealand, echoing the last scene from ''The Fellowship of the Ring'']].
** And then there's the ending of part 3, "The Desolation of Warners", where [[spoiler: Lindsay returns home after learning about the exploitation of New Zealand labor that contributed to the making of the ''Hobbit'' trilogy. At the very end, she says "Well, I'm back," and stares blankly at her room. It alludes to the ending of ''The Return of the King'', but while that scene was (mostly) uplifting, this one is anything but.]]
* In the wake of former producers speaking out about their mistreatment at the hands of Channel Awesome staff, Lindsay was asked if she had any memories of good times during her run as The Chick. [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/983040626265477120 Long story short, she didn't]]. She only auditioned because she was jobless and desperately needed the money, she was uncomfortable working as someone's DistaffCounterpart, she felt her earlier reviews were cringeworthy with how little effort was put into them, and from the second anniversary event onward, she realized the Walkers didn't consider her a friend. She specifically mentions how she got no money from her ''Film/MoulinRouge'' crossover with Doug, despite how he and Brent made money and crashed in her apartment for it, and how she ended up {{Misblamed}} for opinions she didn't have but Doug wrote for her character. Lindsey makes it clear that this is the last time she ever wants to discuss Channel Awesome, which means that for anyone who enjoyed her time as the Chick, the whole thing is closed with the knowledge that she was utterly miserable the entire time.
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* The comparison between 1996 and 2005 during the '''Film/IndependenceDay'' / ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'' review. It brought home to me in a way that I've never really seen so clearly articulated before how much better and hopeful the world seemed between the end of the Cold War and 9/11, compared to the shock, dread, and trauma of the first decade of the 21st Century.

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* The comparison between 1996 and 2005 during the '''Film/IndependenceDay'' ''Film/IndependenceDay'' / ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'' review. It brought home to me in a way that I've never really seen so clearly articulated before how much better and hopeful the world seemed between the end of the Cold War and 9/11, compared to the shock, dread, and trauma of the first decade of the 21st Century.
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** And then there's the ending of part 3, "The Desolation of Warners", where [[spoiler: Lindsay returns home after learning about the exploitation of New Zealand labor that contributed to the making of the ''Hobbit'' trilogy. At the very end, she says "Well, I'm back," and stares blankly at her room. It alludes to the ending of ''The Return of the King'', but while that scene was (mostly) uplifting, this one is anything but.]]
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* Her [[http://namebrandlindsay.com/2014/08/12/why-some-peoples-minds-try-to-kill-them/ post]] on Creator/RobinWilliams, [[WebVideo/JewWario Justin Carmical]] and when she had her own suicidal feelings.

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* Her [[http://namebrandlindsay.com/2014/08/12/why-some-peoples-minds-try-to-kill-them/ post]] on Creator/RobinWilliams, [[WebVideo/JewWario Justin Carmical]] Creator/RobinWilliams and when she had her own suicidal feelings.
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* In the wake of former producers speaking out about their mistreatment at the hands of Channel Awesome staff, Lindsey was asked if she had any memories of good times during her run as The Chick. [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/983040626265477120 Long story short, she didn't]]. She only auditioned because she was jobless and desperately needed the money, she was uncomfortable working as someone's DistaffCounterpart, she felt her earlier reviews were cringeworthy with how little effort was put into them, and from the second anniversary event onward, she realized the Walker's didn't consider her a friend. She specifically mentions how she got no money from her ''Film/MoulinRouge'' crossover with Doug, despite how he and Brent made money and crashed in her apartment for it, and how she ended up {{Misblamed}} for opinions she didn't have but Doug wrote for her character. Lindsey makes it clear that this is the last time she ever wants to discuss Channel Awesome, which means that for anyone who enjoyed her time as the Chick, the whole thing is closed with the knowledge that she was utterly miserable the entire time.

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* In the wake of former producers speaking out about their mistreatment at the hands of Channel Awesome staff, Lindsey Lindsay was asked if she had any memories of good times during her run as The Chick. [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/983040626265477120 Long story short, she didn't]]. She only auditioned because she was jobless and desperately needed the money, she was uncomfortable working as someone's DistaffCounterpart, she felt her earlier reviews were cringeworthy with how little effort was put into them, and from the second anniversary event onward, she realized the Walker's Walkers didn't consider her a friend. She specifically mentions how she got no money from her ''Film/MoulinRouge'' crossover with Doug, despite how he and Brent made money and crashed in her apartment for it, and how she ended up {{Misblamed}} for opinions she didn't have but Doug wrote for her character. Lindsey makes it clear that this is the last time she ever wants to discuss Channel Awesome, which means that for anyone who enjoyed her time as the Chick, the whole thing is closed with the knowledge that she was utterly miserable the entire time.
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** It then turns into happy tears when [[spoiler: Nella shows up as Lindsay is about to leave for New Zealand, echoing the last scene from ''The Fellowship of the Ring'']].

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** It then turns into happy tears when [[spoiler: Nella shows up as Lindsay is about to leave for New Zealand, echoing the last scene from ''The Fellowship of the Ring'']].Ring'']].
* In the wake of former producers speaking out about their mistreatment at the hands of Channel Awesome staff, Lindsey was asked if she had any memories of good times during her run as The Chick. [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/983040626265477120 Long story short, she didn't]]. She only auditioned because she was jobless and desperately needed the money, she was uncomfortable working as someone's DistaffCounterpart, she felt her earlier reviews were cringeworthy with how little effort was put into them, and from the second anniversary event onward, she realized the Walker's didn't consider her a friend. She specifically mentions how she got no money from her ''Film/MoulinRouge'' crossover with Doug, despite how he and Brent made money and crashed in her apartment for it, and how she ended up {{Misblamed}} for opinions she didn't have but Doug wrote for her character. Lindsey makes it clear that this is the last time she ever wants to discuss Channel Awesome, which means that for anyone who enjoyed her time as the Chick, the whole thing is closed with the knowledge that she was utterly miserable the entire time.
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* In the review of ''Grease'', after failing to make over Nella, the Makeover Fairy starts to cry. While obviously played for comic effect, she sobs so hard that it really can make one feel sorry for her.

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* In the review of ''Grease'', ''Film/{{Grease}}'', after failing to make over Nella, the Makeover Fairy starts to cry. While obviously played for comic effect, she sobs so hard that it really can make one feel sorry for her.



* While the character of LetsPlay/TheNostalgiaChick is nowhere to be seen, it'd still be a shame not to put "The A Word" - Lindsay's poignant look at abortion, including dealing with her own - on here.

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* While the character of LetsPlay/TheNostalgiaChick is nowhere to be seen, it'd still be a shame not to put "The ''The A Word" Word'' - Lindsay's poignant look at abortion, including dealing with her own - on here.



* Her documentary "The A Word," one of her most serious works, reveals that Lindsay had an abortion and feels conflicted about it (as she says again in her "Shut Up and Talk Interview"). Whatever your opinion on abortion is hardly matters because ''we don't even know what the situation was.'' Did Lindsay actually have a choice, or did some medical problem force her to abort? Did she make her decision with misinformation of some kind? Is it really all not that huge of a deal to her and we're just reading into it too much? We'll obviously never know.

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* Her documentary "The ''The A Word," Word'', one of her most serious works, reveals that Lindsay had an abortion and feels conflicted about it (as she says again in her "Shut Up and Talk Interview"). Whatever your opinion on abortion is hardly matters because ''we don't even know what the situation was.'' Did Lindsay actually have a choice, or did some medical problem force her to abort? Did she make her decision with misinformation of some kind? Is it really all not that huge of a deal to her and we're just reading into it too much? We'll obviously never know.



** It then turns into happy tears when [[spoiler: Nella shows up as Lindsay is about to leave for New Zealand, echoing the last scene from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring]].

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** It then turns into happy tears when [[spoiler: Nella shows up as Lindsay is about to leave for New Zealand, echoing the last scene from Lord of the Rings: ''The Fellowship of the Ring]].Ring'']].
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* Part 1 of "The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy" ends as this, with Lindsay summarizing how disappointing and disillusioning ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy was, especially heartbreaking since ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy -- which was made by much of the same people -- was such a massive inspiration to her. She doesn't even really get angry at it, she just feels ''nothing'', making her wonder what even led her to loving ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and the works of Creator/JRRTolkien in the first place.

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* Part 1 of "The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy" ends as this, with Lindsay summarizing how disappointing and disillusioning ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy was, especially heartbreaking since ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy -- which was made by much of the same people -- was such a massive inspiration to her. She doesn't even really get angry at it, she just feels ''nothing'', making her wonder what even led her to loving ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and the works of Creator/JRRTolkien in the first place.place.
** It then turns into happy tears when [[spoiler: Nella shows up as Lindsay is about to leave for New Zealand, echoing the last scene from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring]].
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* In her video on ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Lindsay talks about how this movie affected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].

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* In her video on ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Lindsay talks about how this movie affected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].Yondu]].
* Part 1 of "The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy" ends as this, with Lindsay summarizing how disappointing and disillusioning ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy was, especially heartbreaking since ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy -- which was made by much of the same people -- was such a massive inspiration to her. She doesn't even really get angry at it, she just feels ''nothing'', making her wonder what even led her to loving ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and the works of Creator/JRRTolkien in the first place.
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* She pulls as much dark comedy out of it as she can, but the MiloAndOtis clips of the kitten(s) and pug getting hurt will make you want to cry if you're an animal lover.

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* She pulls as much dark comedy out of it as she can, but the MiloAndOtis ''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfMiloAndOtis Milo and Otis]]'' clips of the kitten(s) and pug getting hurt will make you want to cry if you're an animal lover.
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* In her video on ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyV2'', Lindsay talks about how this movie affected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].

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* In her video on ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyV2'', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Lindsay talks about how this movie affected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].
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* In her video on Guardians of the Galaxy v2, Lindsay talks about how this movie affected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].

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* In her video on Guardians of the Galaxy v2, ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyV2'', Lindsay talks about how this movie affected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].
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* Before Dr. Tease comes in to the ''Film/XMen'' review, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Chick was going to break down crying any second.

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* Before Dr. Tease comes in to the ''Film/XMen'' ''Film/XMen1'' review, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Chick was going to break down crying any second.
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* In her video on Guardians of the Galaxy v2, Lindsay talks about how this movie effected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].

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* In her video on Guardians of the Galaxy v2, Lindsay talks about how this movie effected affected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].
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----* In her video on Guardians of the Galaxy v2, Lindsay talks about how this movie effected her, [[spoiler: comparing the death of her own father with the death of Yondu]].

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