When E Rod first joined TGWTG, I got into his stuff, and enjoyed it well enough. I even went back and checked out his pre-TGWTG reviews on YouTube. However, as time went on, I slowly grew disinterested in his main Blockbuster Buster reviews. There really wasn't much to them to separate them from the work of other bad movie reviewers, and the films reviewed mainly felt pretty predictable and obvious after a while. I mean, having a huge series long build up to a review of Episode I couldn't end up as anything other than anticlimactic, with how widely criticized and picked over that film was. Also, I was never hugely into the large casts of characters in other review series so they did little for me here.
That being said, I've found almost all of his other videos outside of the BB series to be fun, entertaining, and informative. Be they Honest Reviews, Pros 'n' Cons, Casting Couch, or even simple vlog reviews of TV shows, I've found myself continuously tuning in and watching them. It's similar to how I feel about Nostalgia Critic these days. I couldn't care less about his main review show, but I often find the editorials to be more than worthwhile. E Rod's wide knowledge of the subjects he reviews are best demonstrated here, without the constraints of staying in character. All in all, these "secondary" videos are great, and the only downside being that the dropping of ad revenue and the ultimate fall of Blip.tv have forced E Rod to lock his vlogs up behind a paywall at Patreon. A permanent paywall, unlike the timed exclusivity other reviewers like Brad Jones practice. But hey, there's nothing that can be done about that.
So, while I find the Blockbuster Buster series to be mediocre on the whole, E Rod's other videos are very good, and worth watching at least once.
The Main Series... meh. Everything else...
When E Rod first joined TGWTG, I got into his stuff, and enjoyed it well enough. I even went back and checked out his pre-TGWTG reviews on YouTube. However, as time went on, I slowly grew disinterested in his main Blockbuster Buster reviews. There really wasn't much to them to separate them from the work of other bad movie reviewers, and the films reviewed mainly felt pretty predictable and obvious after a while. I mean, having a huge series long build up to a review of Episode I couldn't end up as anything other than anticlimactic, with how widely criticized and picked over that film was. Also, I was never hugely into the large casts of characters in other review series so they did little for me here.
That being said, I've found almost all of his other videos outside of the BB series to be fun, entertaining, and informative. Be they Honest Reviews, Pros 'n' Cons, Casting Couch, or even simple vlog reviews of TV shows, I've found myself continuously tuning in and watching them. It's similar to how I feel about Nostalgia Critic these days. I couldn't care less about his main review show, but I often find the editorials to be more than worthwhile. E Rod's wide knowledge of the subjects he reviews are best demonstrated here, without the constraints of staying in character. All in all, these "secondary" videos are great, and the only downside being that the dropping of ad revenue and the ultimate fall of Blip.tv have forced E Rod to lock his vlogs up behind a paywall at Patreon. A permanent paywall, unlike the timed exclusivity other reviewers like Brad Jones practice. But hey, there's nothing that can be done about that.
So, while I find the Blockbuster Buster series to be mediocre on the whole, E Rod's other videos are very good, and worth watching at least once.