Easily the most level-headed and the closest to the truth review I've seen of him yet.
I agree with pretty much everything you've said, and one more thing I'd point out is that every now and then, he goes on to bash something that at least to me, was just supposed to be a joke - maybe not a great joke, but definitely not something to take as seriously as he did. I sometimes wonder if this isn't a side effect of his Asperger's Syndrome...
That said, I still watch him at least for those moments where he raises legitimately good points. One can learn quite a bit about the pitfalls of storytelling from those.
Glad to see a more reasonable review. Overall, I agree with this one. The guy isn't that bad, but he isn't fantastic either. Still, his reviews do have some good points and are interesting to watch. Sure, they aren't very humorous, but that's not his point doing them.
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Polarizing, huh?
Just looking at this review page, opinions of this guy span the entire specter: Some people find him brilliant, others think he's trash.
As for me? I fall somewhere in the middle. I don't think he's that great, but I don't think he's that bad either.
Mr Enter may not be an entertainer, and his videos not the most impressive thing ever, but he's got a fairly decent turn of phrase, is good at getting his points across and — most important, at least in my eyes — he doesn't needlessly bash series or creators the way a lot of other Internet reviewers do. Even the animations he hates, he generally does his best to be fair to them and he's good about explaining what he has a problem with and why he has a problem with it.
Now, this isn't to say he always hits the mark. In fact, he surprisingly often seems to miss the point about what the cartoons he's reviewing are actually trying to do — for example, he has been known to complain about the lack of continuity in a show that very blatantly and deliberately doesn't have any continuity, or complain about a show being annoyingly silly and nonsensical when it's supposed to be silly and nonsensical, and then treat this as a failure on the cartoon's part. Sometimes he makes blatantly false statements that show he hasn't done proper research — and then accuses the cartoon of not doing proper research.
All this aside, though, he's a decent enough reviewer of the kind you might occasionally check out a video of, if he's reviewed something you're familiar with and you want to hear what he thought about it. He keeps the focus firmly on what he reviews and doesn't try to make himself the star of the show. And occasionally he even makes some points that are worth listening to.
I wouldn't follow his videos regularly, but checking them every now and then to see if he's done anything I might be interested in? Yeah, I'll do that.