Doug Walker (TGWTG, Nostalgia Critic, Bum Reviews, and other projects)

You know Themyscira isn't that difficult to pronounce.

It's pronounced pretty much how it looks. The only thing I could see tripping people up is the "c", but it only makes sense if it's a hard c.

Right, not like Odd1 might not have the money or the time to do it. Odd's stated numerous times that he's not always able to see most of the movies the clipless reviews focus on.

edited 23rd Jun '17 2:11:03 PM by AdricDePsycho

And that's Doug's fault how?

Haven't seen it don't watch the review. It's not like the review is going anywhere, it will still be there when you catch the movie on Netflix.

Somebody just mentioned that the Bebes Kids review was taken down. So don’t be so sure. Of course, it’s a clipless review, so it’s less likely to be taken down, but still, anything can happen.

Where did I imply it was his fault? At this point I feel like Doug just makes these clipless reviews for extra cash and he should tone these reviews down.

edited 23rd Jun '17 8:02:27 PM by AdricDePsycho

He's admitted he's Only in It for the Money at this point and is probably still mad about Demo Reel. Whatever brings in views.

It's that kind of shit that's largely why I've soured so much on him, not to mention his constant boneheaded foot-in-mouth comments and his refusal to listen to any criticism aimed at him. I've just slowly lost a lot of respect I had for him as he shows more and more why the internet has largely moved on from his style of reviewing.

Well now he says it's a case of tradition. "We always do skit reviews of a DC superhero movie when they come out." Which isn't a lie. But you could just see that as yet another excuse he uses for the money.

It is. Just like how the Transformers reviews are allegedly a tradition. He just made the video about The Last Knight for the revenue.

I don't know if that is the only reason, people probably would never shut up about it until he did one.

It was pretty accurate too from everything I have been hearing.

Also if it gets taken down on You Tube it will exist elsewhere, if there are fans it is damn near impossible to delete something off the internet.

He was accurate, yeah, but it felt kind of unnecessary. I really don't think there's that many people who care about what he has to say when it's clear he's gonna dislike them.

Depends what you consider "a lot". If there's only a hundred or so people who are upset about it, but they all send him angry, profanity-laden messages written in ALL CAPS, that can seem like quite a lot to the person on the receiving end.

Thing is that Doug depends on these videos for his livelihood. It's not a big deal TO THE FANS if a video gets taken down, but to him that's a big problem. He loses one source of revenue on one hand, and on the other he suffers the effects of a copyright strike on his whole youtube channel.

Except most of them are being, shocker, reasonable in their criticisms. There's some people whose complaints make little sense (the guys who call Doug an SJW and too politically correct, odd for a guy who's gotten heat for blatantly sexist remarks) or are overreactions, but that's at best a vocal minority and a strawman for Doug to pull out to shift any criticism from his shoulders and put them on his fans.

I'm confused, where'd the topic of Doug's videos getting taken down come from?

Of course, but none of that had anything to do with what we were talking about.

That directed at me or the comment above?

The post above yours.

I was responding to your post here.

So we're not even considering that maybe, just maybe, Doug likes doing clipless reviews for a variety of reasons? Does it have to be because he's a greedy asshole who doesn't care about what his true fans want and is still butthurt that his previous show failed?

No one is forcing you to watch his videos. If you haven't watched the movies he's reviewing and don't want to be spoiled, just don't watch the damn video, like I did when he reviewed Jurassic World.

I think clipless videos are hit and miss. This was okay, nothing great and I think that's at least in part because it's a legitimately good movie and Doug's never been great at being funny while reviewing things he likes.

It's him getting to do something close to Demo Reel, and a way to stick it to people for getting it cancelled.

It's been four years. No offense to Doug but he should just move on already. Also, nice usage of the "don't like it don't watch" fallacy.

edited 24th Jun '17 6:39:33 AM by AdricDePsycho

I'm not sure "don't like don't watch" is a traditional argumentative fallacy... Also it's sound advice? Doug doesn't owe you anything as a creator and you don't him anything as a fan. If his videos aren't entertaining you and you're frustrated by his direction, just... don't.... watch? At this point the opinions on clipless reviews have been pretty firmly established on all sides.