History Headscratchers / TheSpoonyExperiment

* In his Film/{{Tekken}} movie review, he expressed [[BerserkButton annoyance]] when Jin said "You are in my way." Was this a reference to a previous game/movie he reviewed (because this troper hasn't seen all of his videos)?

*** So far, the best explanation (aka the one on the Final Fantasy Wiki) is that Jecht was teasing Shuyin like that because Shuyin ''looked like'' Tidus. So, going by that, either A: Jecht was just confused when viewing Spira form the the Farplane and thought it was Tidus when it wasn't or B: Jecht decided "hey, he looks like my kid and seems prone to overreacting--the same insults should work". Neither makes much sense either, though.

** I think Spoony's frustration here is due to the fact that we had a 20 year franchise that has managed to maintain a consistent level of quality over 10 installments and was just inches from the finish line before suffering a complete and total collapse. The best analogies here come from the world of sports where something like the Red Sox Bill Buckner incident in the 1986 World Series affected people in much the same way for decades. In sports there is in fact total helplessness because you can't change the past and an individual can't do anything to change the trajectory of their favorite sports team except perhaps boo and throw batteries, which is basically what this review is. Spoony needs to have the ''video game'' series finished properly and Fan Fiction or some low budget fan movie isn't going to accomplish that goal. True that with today's development tools one could potentially launch a fan project to build a replacement finale, however without access to the either the Ultima VIII or IX engines or modding tools such a project would take non-trivial development effort, most of the original creative team has dispersed and EA probably wouldn't look too kindly on such an effort and at the very least could not be counted on for any official assistance. Could Spoony and other fans create a new Ultima IX? Certainly. Could they recreate WhatCouldHaveBeen? Probably not and that is what is what caused Spoony to cross the DespairEventHorizon. Yes, fans did eventually get their "90% good" restorations of things like the Beach Boy's {{SMiLE}} album and the Richard Donner Cut of ''Film/SupermanII'', but that took decades and the pressure of large fan bases. What chance does Ultima have of reaching even that level of success?

* If Spoony's brother is a deputy for the Maricopa County Sheriff's department, why haven't we seen a crossover with the RealLife Maricopa County SWAT team after Spoony's much lauded LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/SWAT4''. Police departments love that sort of positive press and will frequently run Snow-n-tells for much less well connected groups. Having a real SWAT officer inform Spoony that he is in his way would be priceless. Would also be interesting to see if video game skills translate to Real Life skills.
** I think SWAT teams have better things to do than perform cameos for silly video game reviews.
*** Right now, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department is probably too controversial to include in the reviews - it would automatically politicize Spoony's videos. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Let's not get into specifics here, but Google the department if you want details.]]

*** {{GIFT}}, what else?

*** From what I gathered, it's a mix of HollywoodHomely / HollywoodPudgy scorn. She's fairly attractive, but not supermodel-level -- and {{GIFT}}ers hate that!

* In his review of ''Warrior #1'', Lewis!Insano [[note]]For the purpose of this question, it doesn't matter who's playing who or what I call them.[[/note]] gives Noah!Linkara a choice [[note]]Whether it was actually a choice is irrelevant to my question.[[/note]] between the comic and his suicide pistol. Noah!Linkara asks for the gun, and Lewis!Insano says "you will read the comic!" while threatening him ''with the same gun''. I thought that was funny, but I can't tell if it was intentional or not.

*** Right now, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department is probably too controversial to include in the reviews - it would automatically politicize Spoony's videos. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Let's not get into specifics here, but Google the department if you want details.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1EACJxttw4 Finger of Fear (1:45).]]

** Looks like Atop the Fourth Wall will deal with this issue, as the end of ''Marvel Team-Up #74'' suggests Dr Insano is behind [[spoiler: the Magic Gun turning off.]]

** She doesn't appear because of the FanDumb. I don't know the full story, but shit went down. Shit went down, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]].
*** She appeared once. '''''Once.''''' It was his acceptance video for the award he won. For whatever reason his, FanDumb attacked her in that video. A video in which he made an acceptance speech for an award he won. Make sense of that.
*** :| That's probably one of the dumbest cases of FanDumb I've ever heard.

*** To be exact, the antagonist is simply the force which is acting in opposition to the protagonist, human or not. An antagonist doesn't have to have physical form or personality (although it often does for the reason that it's easier for the audience to recognise and identify with a human antagonist), it simply has to be something which is preventing the protagonist from achieving his or her goals. So it is technically accurate to call the volcano in ''Dante's Peak'' the antagonist (or an antagonist at least)

* In his {{Tekken}} movie review, he expressed [[BerserkButton annoyance]] when Jin said "You are in my way." Was this a reference to a previous game/movie he reviewed (because this troper hasn't seen all of his videos)?

** He's a supervillain, and so is obliged to [[ForgottenPhlebotinum forget his phlebotinum]].

* Why does he keep labeling vlogs as "reviews?" When I click a link called "Transmorphers: Fall of Man Review" I want the review and nothing else! I don't want to wait ''almost eight minutes'' before he even mentions the name of the movie! And that's not the only video he does that with. Is it too much to ask for a simple list of relevant timecodes and to name the video "Vlog Date X (includes review of ''Transmorphers: Fall of Man'')"?

* Why did the Ultimate Warrior get a Red Lantern ring?Red is supposed to be rage,yet the Ultimate Warrior doesn't show a hint of true anger.Not even base anger like Spoony shows.He's just utterly insane

* What happened to Dr. Insano's orbital deathray?

* Can someone explain to me if Spoony changed its criteria about judging movies recently??? because When he review Tranformers 3 he said that just a few awesome things happening at the last hour cannot redeem the movie for the sheer bullshit that you have to endure (ok fair enough, after all 90% of crap aren't worth the 10% of whatever coolness may have) BUT THEN in some vlog that i cant remember well right now (UPDATE: It was the Eclipse Vlog) he said something about Sin City that baffled me. He said that he could have enjoyed the movie if it wasn't for Jessica Alba performance and it just ruined the whole experience. Ehm....what? how this makes any sense? so in one case we got crap that overwhelms the good bits but THEN in another case just one thing manages to ruin all the movie experience and cant let it go? how can a single moment ruin a entire experience even if in the long run the whole thing was satisfactory?
** Well there is the Dethroning Moment of Suck Trope for those kind of moments but i agree that there isn't much of a reason unless he was going to the movies with the "Must-Hate" mentality (specially for something as transformers)The moment that he mentioned in the Sin City reference was the actress Jessica Alba, isnt it? i also tough it was unbearable but not a deal breaker

* You know? I find weird that Spoony doesnt get by the time Twilight Eclipse came out that the series is more Escapism to proyect into the "character" (sarcastic quotes) of Bella Swan than anything else. Sort of like Indiana Jones is there for the people to BE him doing the adventures rather than caring about him (Dont look at me like that, Its what Mr. Plinket said) I am missing the point? Do you think i have missed something important in Spoony's razoning? I mean, besides Bella being a horrible person to use as escapism.

* If Spoony's brother is a deputy for the Maricopa County Sheriff's department, why haven't we seen a crossover with the RealLife Maricopa County SWAT team after Spoony's much lauded LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/SWAT4''. Police departments love that sort of positive press and will frequently run Snow-n-tells for much less well connected groups. Having a real SWAT officer inform Spoony that he is in his way would be priceless. Would also be interesting to see if video game skillz translate to Real Life skills.

* His rant on the Ultima IX Part 4 about how is better to die before see everything you love become meaningless and utter betrayal....i dont get it. Doesn't he know the concept of Fan Fiction? If the writers cant properly make a decent ending to a series why can he just write one himself? Sure, he may say that he sucks at screen writing but given the sheer amount of incompetent idiots that end up writing scripts for, say, Transformers 2, i would say that he is on the same ground as them. The only difference is that he cares about the source material at least. In fact, didn't he mention Spiderman's One More Day? does he even know that Joe Quesada was actually a fanboy of the material before assuming control of Marvel? Isnt that like a clear evidence that there is actually hope in "correcting" what went wrong? if a hack like him could, then Spoony could just take the reins on a Highlander production someday. I just don't see why is this a big deal, i am missing something in this picture?

*** But he was talking about everything else before mentioning "Fuck, my fucking life!..." Again, if waiting for some executives and developers to be nice to a movie/videogame franchize will only lead to failed expectations and betrayal, then why doesn't he try to write a story on his favorite series and be the master of his own destiny rather than wait for a bunch of heartless people to do what is clear that the fans can do on their own?

*** But the alternative, being depressed that the games are forever defiled by EA and do absolutely nothing about it, isn't all that appealing. In fact, it would have been more noble and efficient if Spoony did a bit of research and made contact with the people that were doing the remake/remastering of the Ultima games (cant remember witch one they started with) so at the end of the review, he could list ALL the people that haven't forgotten the Ultima legacy and promote their efforts REGARDLESS if he can or cannot help them with programming the games. That way, the newcomers that now know the series thanks to Spoony's Retrospective can now lend a hand to restore what once was the best Western RPG series. And that is better than just waiting for the planets to align and for Garriot to recover the licence from EA.

** Also, as he revealed in his Baring Of The Soul moment, Spoony has a deeply emotional, lifelong attachment to the Ultima series: it was the first game he played, it shaped a large part of his personality, and his first concious memories are of playing Ultima with his brother. Therefore, it's a larger [[MemeticMutation BETRAYAL!]] than a game series that has been around for a lot less time and has probably had a much smaller level of influence in his life.

*** But there is, Death was supposed to be the antagonist. I am all into meta horror and stuff, but if i ever write a horror movie and i explicity say that "Free Will is an illucion and Destiny will arrange history into making you all die horribly" i expect the audience to understand that. Or is this concept too play out or cliche at this point, that any effort on ANY writer in doing this is seen as "a transparent way of hiding the fact that there is no real antagonist"? Now, for me to understand further, how about movies that DO have an Antagonist like Jason of Freddy? Isnt the audience ALSO responsible for the deaths of the red shirts here too since they wouldnt be dead if we didnt see the movie? cant Jason and Freddy be our "avatars" that go forth and satisfy our hedonistic desires of seeing unlikeable characters die?

** Then why he (or more people) didnt reach the same conclusion with Dante's Peak? both Death(or Destiny) and a volcano are forces of nature but i dont see people saying that its the audience itself who is against the protagonists.

** He May have been referring to disliking it in a similar way as FF IX. He disliked things in it to the point of disliking it in the sense that they are not the kind of things he enjoys in a game, but that does not mean he outright hates it, he just doesn't like it, but is willing to aknowledge it has good things.

** I think Spoony's frustration here is due to the fact that we had a 20 year franchise that has managed to maintain a consistent level of quality over 10 installments and was just inches from the finish line before suffering a complete and total collapse. The best analogies here come from the world of sports where something like the Red Sox Bill Buckner incident in the 1986 World Series affected people in much the same way for decades. In sports there is in fact total helplessness because you can't change the past and an individual can't do anything to change the trajectory of their favorite sports team except perhaps boo and throw batteries, which is basically what this review is. Spoony needs to have the ''video game'' series finished properly and Fan Fiction or some low budget fan movie isn't going to accomplish that goal. True that with today's development tools one could potentially launch a fan project to build a replacement finale, however without access to the either the Ultima VIII or IX engines or modding tools such a project would take non-trivial development effort, most of the original creative team has dispersed and EA probably wouldn't look too kindly on such an effort and at the very least could not be counted on for any official assistance. Could Spoony and other fans create a new Ultima IX? Certainly. Could they recreate WhatCouldHaveBeen? Probably not and that is what is what caused Spoony to cross the DespairEventHorizon. Yes, fans did eventually get their "90% good" restorations of things like the Beach Boy's {{SMiLE}} album and the Richard Donner Cut of SupermanII, but that took decades and the pressure of large fan bases. What chance does Ultima have of reaching even that level of success?

* If Spoony's brother is a deputy for the Maricopa County Sheriff's department, why haven't we seen a crossover with the RealLife Maricopa County SWAT team after Spoony's much lauded LetsPlay of {{SWAT4}}. Police departments love that sort of positive press and will frequently run Snow-n-tells for much less well connected groups. Having a real SWAT officer inform Spoony that he is in his way would be priceless. Would also be interesting to see if video game skillz translate to Real Life skills.