History WebVideo / TheDomReviews

* UnreliableVoiceover: In the Lost in Adaptation Episode of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Dominic describes the NSFW pictures of Jessica Rabbit which appear [[TheInternetIsForPorn on the internet]]. As Dominic's voiceover explains that the existence of these images is something he can "neither confirm nor deny" and would be something someone would only find accidentally while looking instead for something completely innocent and above board, we can clearly see Dom at his computer, enthusiastically getting prepared for a [[ADateWithRosiePalms wank session]].

** ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Most noticeably Clarice the six-foot, body-building athlete, and Tyson the tall, homeless, unhygienic cyclops in ''The Sea of Monsters''.

** The film version of ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' is either this or an AdaptationalDumbass. In the comics, Scott is very sharp, witty, and sardonic, and willfully unaware of or indifferent to how his actions hurt others. The film kept his despicable actions but portrayed him as an oblivious NiceGuy. (They also shorten the age gap between himself and his 17-year-old girlfriend so he seems like less of a cradle-robber.)

** Both Thranduil and the Master of Laketown for ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug''. In the book, they were greedy but ultimately {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s who only acted against the dwarves due to the dwarves' own shenanigans. (In Threnduil's case, they trespassed in his kingdom and then refused to tell him why. For the Master of Laketown, they became [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave The Things That Would Not Leave]] until he had to move them along.)

Dominic Smith (b. 5 July 1987), professionally known as Dominic Noble, and formerly as "The Dom," is a [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses bespectacled]] [[note]]until he got laser eye surgery[[/note]] British-American reviewer of books, graphic novels, movies, TV shows, video games, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a wall]] [[note]](he didn't like it)[[/note]]. His most popular series is ''Lost in Adaptation'', where he compares [[TheFilmOfTheBook films to the books that inspired them]].

** He absolutely ''hates'' Catelyn Stark from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' for being this (according to him). She refuses to take any responsibility for [[WhatAnIdiot her many stupid decisions]] throughout the series, always reasoning that her love for her children justifies her every action, no matter how many people (including said children) get hurt as a result of her decisions.
** He completely loathes Christian Grey from ''Fifty Shades'' for constantly blaming Ana for his abusive, possessive, controlling behavior toward her.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Dominic struggles to figure out the pronunciation for the last name of Creator/MichaelEnde, the author of ''[[Literature/TheNeverendingStory The NeverEnding Story]]'', guessing "En-day" and "En-dee" before settling on "End". (Ende's name would actually be pronounced "En-duh".)
** He also has difficulty with the last name of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' author Creator/LFrankBaum, eventually deciding to refer to him as "This Guy" and "The Author".
** He also also misnames Creator/MichaelCrichton as "Michael Christian" in the ''Film/JurassicPark'' review for some reason.
** Although he doesn't seem to have noticed or addressed this, he mispronounced Adrian Veidt's name in the ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' review.
** He fully admits to butchering the name of director Alfonso Cuarón several different ways in his ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' review. He says the same for Guillermo Del Torro.
** In his first 3 ''Harry Potter'' reviews, he pronounces the stunning spell "Stupify" as "Stuplify" for whatever reason, even as Terrence. This ''is'' corrected by ''Goblet of Fire'''s review, but is still weird when you rewatch the videos. Not that it ''wasn't'' weird if you're a fan of the franchise coming into the reviews knowing the correct pronunciation beforehand though.
** He also, for whatever reason, has a slight tendency to pronounce words that don't have either the "sh" spelling, or sound in them as such when they only have "s" in them. For example; he, in some of his 2-part reviews, says "previoushly" instead of "previously" & in the Part 2 of his ''Goblet of Fire'' review, he says "obvioushly" instead of "obviously." There are some other examples, so pay attention when he does them when rewatching his videos. Whether this is an accent quirk or not has yet to be explained, though can most likely be chalked up to that.
** At this point it's become a {{Lampshaded}} RunningGag that if the creator's name is even slightly more exotic than John Smith, Dominic ''will'' mispronounce it.
** And then he manages to nail Creator/EoinColfer's name[[note]]It's pronounced 'Owen'[[/note]], who is infamously TheUnpronouncable to people unfamiliar with Irish names. The irony is immediately lampshaded.

* EntitledToHaveYou: Dominic scathingly rips into the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy20005 2005 film version of Arthur]] for ([[AdaptationalWimp among other things]]) passive-aggressively grilling Trillian about her decision to date Zaphod instead of him, arguing that she shouldn't ''have'' to defend her right to date whomever she wants just because Arthur wants to date her.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: During his review of ''Who Framed Rodger Rabbit'', he notes how, due to Book Jessica being the toon equivalent of a porn star, all those Rule34 pics of Movie Jessica are technically ''canon''.

--> “I am horribly ashamed of all of my old work and I classify anything more than a week old as “old” so…life is hard for me…” ([[https://youtube.com/watch?v=wIWObdnREn4 Source]])

* BelligerentSexualTension: [[invoked]] Dominic discusses how he considers this a PetPeeveTrope of his, because he sees it as an unrealistic representation of actual relationships at best and actively encouraging toxic ideas about love and romance at worst. If a story uses jealousy or bickering as a sign of romantic spark, he can be relied upon to point it out and complain about it.

** While he considers the cinematic version of ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'' to be a hot mess, Dominic believes that it handles the defeat and death of the villain Akasha in a much more satisfying way than the book's version of the climax. [[note]]Instead of a DeusExMachina in the form of [[spoiler:Mekare bursting in and dispatching Akasha by herself]], while the other characters (including Lestat) just stand back and watch, in the film version the cast are actively involved in the climax; [[spoiler:Lestat betrays and drains Akasha enough for the elder vampires to pile in and take her down, several of them sacrificing their lives in the process. Dominic also argues that it has more emotional impact for Maharet, the matriarch of the 'great family', to make the ultimate sacrifice for all those she loves by finally killing Akasha and becoming the new 'queen of the damned'.]][[/note]]

** Dominic is also not a fan of tedious prose. He had difficulty reading ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' because every action in the story was written in such excessive detail as to kill any sense of pace ([[Administrivia/TropesAreTools However, compare this with]] ''Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo'', where he finds the extreme level of detail to actually serve a purpose in the story). Similarly, he found ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'' interesting (while admitting he was not in the target audience) because of the way it mimicked the speaking style (and not the writing style) of a stereotypical teenage girl.

* ControlFreak: Dominic hates both [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Christian Grey]] and [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Catelyn Stark]] for being this. Christian because of the CorruptCorporateExecutive BastardBoyfriend tendency this gives him, and Cat because of the MyBelovedSmother KnowNothingKnowItAll it makes her.

* AccidentalInnuendo[[invoked]]: Dominic's old moniker. He was going for a SpellMyNameWithAThe vibe, à la "The Todd" from ''{{Series/Scrubs}}''. He says he didn't make the connection to the ''other'' [[{{UsefulNotes/BDSM}} possible meaning]] until Creator/DougWalker made a joke about needing a SafeWord to watch his videos.

* AdaptationDisplacement: InUniverse examples crop up frequently in the ''Lost in Adaptation'' videos

* AdaptationalDumbass: Light and L in the ''Film/DeathNote2017'' American adaptation are ''so rock stupid'' Dominic finds their existence to be an ''insult'' to the original fiendishly intelligent characters.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Dominic found Paul from ''{{Film/Dagon}}'' to be a completely insufferable jerk, as opposed to the unnamed protagonist of ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth''.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Pointed out in the review of ''Film/JurassicPark'', where lawyer Donald Gennaro is given, as Dominic puts it, the "full asshole makeover". Dominic also points out the [[invoked]] UnfortunateImplications of changing the story so that Gennaro is eaten by a T. Rex, given that in the [[Literature/JurassicPark book]] Gennaro talks about planning a birthday party for his young daughter.

* AffablyEvil: Creator/JimCarrey as Count Olaf in the film adaptation of ''Film/{{A Series of Unfortunate Events|2004}}''. Dominic doesn't feel Carrey was the right casting choice since Carrey always comes across as a "lovable, overacting dope," while Count Olaf is ''supposed'' to be a HateSink.
** He seems to be even harder on the Netflix version of the series for this, repeatedly pointing out how cartoonish Neil Patrick Harris' version of the character is in comparison to the novels' characterization of him.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Dominic discusses ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Mass Effect 2: Arrival]]'', he says: "I'm not saying that ''Arrival'' was the worst [[DownloadableContent DLC]]. It's not even the worst ''Franchise/MassEffect'' DLC. It's the [[WorstWhateverEver worst]] ''[[WorstWhateverEver thing]]'' [[WorstWhateverEver ever]]!"

* BerserkButton: Dominic is ''not'' a fan of Creator/OrsonScottCard, and spends quite a bit of time [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech going off on his homophobia]] and other questionable values which make themselves apparent in ''[[Literature/EndersGame Ender's Game]]'' and its sequels.

* BlatantLies: "No, baby. I'm really looking forward to spending the evening with your mother. Yes, I ''do'' know she's really into cross-stitching now."

* UsefulNotes/BritishAccents: Dominic, himself a Brit, cannot mimic Creator/SeanBean's [[OopNorth Sheffield accent]] while he discusses ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' in an episode of ''Don't You Think That's Fucking Weird?''

* TheCameo: [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] appears in the second half of his ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' review to justify the ending of the comic book, and to remind Dominic that of course it was a little silly -- it's a ''superhero comic''.

* CompressedAdaptation: Terrence berates the people behind ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' for, in his words, "hacking and hacking" away bits of the book's storyline until they were left with a more bare bones story in comparison, which he claims makes the film make not a lot of sense. To him, not only was it a bad idea not to split the book into two films like they considered, but the filmmakers didn't help by indiscriminately cutting away at random plots both big and small to create a jumbled mess, instead of cutting fairly inconsequential side plots but keeping the {{foreshadowing}} and [[ChekhovsGun chekhov's guns]] contributing to a strong central narrative and climactic finale.

* ContinuityReboot: Reviewed both the original ''Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'' and its reboot, ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'', first as separate videos, then he uploaded a combined version after.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In [[Series/GameOfThrones A Very Brief Recent History of Westeros]]:

* TargetAudience: Refreshingly for a Youtube media critic, Dominic often takes these into account when reviewing media. If he is the target audience he'll encourage people with similar tastes to give it a chance or not, and if he's clearly not the work's intended audience he'll try to be fair and encourage viewers to take his opinion with a grain of salt.

* ThatCameOutWrong: Dominic describes how in ''[[Literature/EndersGame Ender's Game]]'' the Formics came to the conclusion that "every human is a bit of a [[HiveQueen queen]]…"
** In his review of the YouTube Playbook 2020 he asks for people to turn on their notifications by saying "Maybe you guys might wanna... consider ringing Dom's bell". He immediately follows it up by saying "Ow, that came out wrong".
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks[[invoked]]: Pretty much the whole point of ''Lost in Adaptation'' is to discuss this trope, which results in a mixed bag of [[SubvertedTrope subvertions]], [[InvertedTrope invertions]], [[AvertedTrope avertions]], and straight examples. Dominic's stated that he doesn't automatically think the books are better than the movies, or that [[TruerToTheText closeness to the book]] correlates with quality. Sometimes changes are necessary and forgivable, sometimes they're pointless, sometimes the movies improve on or leave out some of the book's weaker aspects, sometimes they leave out or water down its strengths, sometimes the inherent advantages of an audio visual medium make up for losing the advantages of a text-based one, and sometimes the changes don't matter too much. He'll forgive changes as long as they capture the spirit of the book and what the author was trying to accomplish. As a result, what seems to get his goat more than anything else is when talking about an adaptation is when the film makers just didn't care about the source material.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: [[invoked]] Everyone in ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', naturally.

Dominic Smith (b. 5 July 1987), professionally known as Dominic Noble, and formerly as "The Dom," is a [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses bespectacled]] [[note]]until he got laser eye surgery[[/note]] British-American reviewer of books, graphic novels, movies, TV shows, video games, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a wall]] [[note]](he didn't like it)[[/note]]. His most popular series is ''Lost in Adaptation,'', where he compares [[TheFilmOfTheBook films to the books that inspired them]].

** Likewise describes the ''Literature/AlexRider'' book series and subsequent ''Film/{{Stormbreaker}}'' film as "Franchise/JamesBond meets Literature/HarryPotter," and tends to forgive unrealistic plot of a 14-year-old British Intelligence spy since it's clearly ''meant'' to be a self-insert power fantasy for teens, especially teenage boys.

** ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' has had so many adaptations over the years, many of them based on multiple ''other'' adaptations, that Dom had to create a separate video just to explain their connections to each other, complete with flowchart.

** The [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 2005 film version of Arthur Dent]], much to Dominic's disgust.
** The Cowardly Lion from Film/TheWizardOfOz is this, which annoys Dominic because it means that the medal he receives in the end would be far more suited to the lion from the book.

** Dominic is also not a fan of tedious prose. He had difficulty reading ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' because every action in the story was written in such excessive detail as to kill any sense of pace ([[Administrivia/TropesAreTools However, compare this with]] ''Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo'', where he finds the extreme level of detail to actually serves a purpose in the story). Similarly, he found ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'' interesting (while admitting he was not in the target audience) because of the way it mimicked the speaking style (and not the writing style) of a stereotypical teenage girl.

** Film adaptations that intentionally dumb down genuinely smart, subtle, nuanced stories seems to be fast becoming this for Dominic, given his ''Film/EllaEnchanted'' and ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' reviews.

** [[invoked]] In his review of ''Film/ManOfTaiChi'', Dominic calls on the assistance of [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Number Six]], [[Film/EndersGame Admiral Rothschild]], and the [[Literature/TheNeverendingStory Secretly Gay Guy]] from previous episodes. He wants to get their reactions to some of [[Creator/KeanuReeves Keanu Reeves's]] particularly [[{{Narm}} narmy]] [[ChewingTheScenery scenery chewing]]. Their verdict? [[spoiler: Hysterical laughter.]]

* EntitledToHaveYou: Dominic scathingly rips into the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 2005 film version of Arthur]] for ([[AdaptationalWimp among other things]]) passive-aggressively grilling Trillian about her decision to date Zaphod instead of him, arguing that she shouldn't ''have'' to defend her right to date whomever she wants just because Arthur wants to date her.

* EverybodyHatesHades: Dominic is ''[[BerserkButton not]]'' a fan of the film version of Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians portraying Hades this way. [[spoiler:Especially since the book series is one of the precious few in modern times not to depict Hades as evil or [[SadlyMythtaken the lord of the Christian Hell]].]]

I mean, WOW, right? "On the hoof or on the hook"? The sheep's password is all about how they're going to be killed and eaten someday. [[{{ExplainExplainOhCrap}} And they mention they teach this to]] ''[[{{ExplainExplainOhCrap}} lambs]]'' [[{{ExplainExplainOhCrap}} as soon as they're old enough-- Oh, no. Lamb chops. These poor sheep have to watch some of their CHILDREN being]] ''[[{{ExplainExplainOhCrap}} slaughtered]]'' [[{{ExplainExplainOhCrap}} for the sake of slightly nicer meat for picky humans]]! [[SuddenlyShouting THESE FARMS ARE DEATH CAMPS! WHAT HORRORS HAS KING-SMITH CREATED?!]]

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: During an in-video promotion for the audiobook seller Audible, Dom suggests that his beautiful watchers can use the service to listen to many of the books he has discussed in his previous videos. The examples he gives are: ''[[Literature/{{Dune}} Dune]]'' by Frank Herbert, ''[[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Journey to the West]]'' by Wu Cheng'en, ''[[Film/ForrestGump Forrest Gump]]'' by Winston Groom, and ''[[Creator/ChuckTingle Pounded in the Butt by my Own Butt]]'' by Chuck Tingle.

** Comments this to be the case between Christine and Raoul in the original ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' novel, surprisingly enough. He comments that Christine and Raoul never seem to actually enjoy being in each other's company, as Raoul clearly has an [[LovingAShadow idealized version of his]] [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friend]] in his mind and is constantly ''angry'' with the real Christine for failing to live up to his idealization of her, and that Christine is "clearly settling" since her only other option is a "ugly, smelly man who lives in a sewer."

** He also has difficulty with the last name of ''[[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' author Creator/LFrankBaum, eventually deciding to refer to him as "This Guy" and "The Author".

** In his first 3 ''Harry Potter'' reviews, he pronounces the stunning spell "Stupify" as "Stuplify" for whatever reason, even as Terrence. This ''is'' corrected by Goblet of Fire's review, but is still weird when you rewatch the videos. Not that it ''wasn't'' weird if you're a fan of the franchise coming into the reviews knowing the correct pronunciation beforehand though.

* RageBreakingPoint: Dominic completely loses it when the film adaptation of ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' misrepresents the Restaurant at the End of the Universe as a restaurant located at the ''physical'' end of the universe (something which should be literally impossible) instead of the temporal end of the universe, screaming and running away.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Not regarded as such in-universe, but when d'Artagnan rapes Milady Du Winter via deception by posing as her lover in a dark room (so she think she's consenting to sleep with her lover when she's not), Dominic loses what little respect he might have had for d'Artagnan and considers him pure scum from then on.

** [[invoked]] This is also Dominic's opinion of the film Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey, when you take out the abysmal lines and characterization it inherited from the book.

*** In-universe, Dominic often wonders if some of the odd things that Daphne du Maurier wrote her characters as doing so matter-of-factly would have made more sense to 1930's contemporary readers; like no one raising an eyebrow at Rebecca [[spoiler:[[KissingCousins having shagged her cousin]]]], Maxim's decision to [[spoiler:shoot his wife rather than deal with a messy divorce]], and the police allowing a man accused of murder and the lover of the said deceased to take over in the investigation of said murder.
*** In a meta sense, Dominic also discusses how UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode not only impacted Creator/AlfredHitchcock's adaptation choices, but how those changes come across to modern audiences. For instances, he suspects that UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode forced Hitchcock to change [[spoiler:how Rebecca died]] to make Mr De Winter more sympathetic, which worked in the long run since [[spoiler:the stigma against divorce has gone away since TheThirties]]. On the other hand, it allowed Hitchcock to [[PsychoLesbian effectively demonize]] and [[BuryYourGays "punish" the one lesbian-coded character in the movie]], which flies less with modern audiences today.

* VampiresAreSexGods: Doesn't feel the over-use of this trope works for Film/BramStokersDracula, arguing that while in the hundred years since the novel was written [[OurVampiresAreDifferent that's what vampires have evolved]] ''[[PopCulturalOsmosis into]]'' that's not how they were seen [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain when the book was written]], so trying to shoe-horn it into the story now comes off as awkward and out-of-place.

** "The End of the Universe" mentioned at the end of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' movie is the end of ''time'', not the end of the ''physical'' universe (like the cinematography seems to imply). Dominic is so enraged by this he has a massive FreakOut and tries to RageQuit.

* TactfulTranslation: The Calm Intellectual Filter, made so he comes off as not being a ripoff of other {{Caustic Critic}}s when he's hit a RantInducingSlight...but doesn't censor his body language, which means [[SophisticatedAsHell there's generally a calm, friendly voiceover to him bouncing off the walls in sheer rage and making insulting gestures]].

Dominic Smith (b. 5 July 1987), professionally known as Dominic Noble, and formerly as "The Dom", is a [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses bespectacled]] [[note]]until he got laser eye surgery[[/note]] British-American reviewer of books, graphic novels, movies, TV shows, video games, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a wall]] [[note]](he didn't like it)[[/note]]. His most popular series is ''Lost in Adaptation'', where he compares [[TheFilmOfTheBook films to the books that inspired them]].

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: [[invoked]] Dominic's often notes that Stephanie Meyer (author of ''Twilight'') occasionally shows great skill as a horror writer. The most dramatic example of this is when he realizes that Meyer has inadvertantly implied that there is no meaningful difference between love and a predator's method of attracting its prey, and Dominic slowly realizes he is completely unable to refute this claim.

** Dominic is frustrated with ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' and ''Film/EllaEnchanted'' films for dumming down the intelligent book plots and adding more goofy comedy, but admits each film had a few scenes that got a slight chuckle out of him.
** When reviewing ''Film/FiftyShadesFreed'', he reacts with shock at an actual funny joke. When Ana offers to cut Christian's hair assuring him she has experience from cutting her father's, Christian's response of, "I don't want to look like your father" gets a "What?!" sound effect and the words "A FUNNY JOKE?!" appear on the screen from Dominic.

* AdaptationalBadass: Domn has a trope he calls the "Legolas Effect" where a character becomes more badass and gets to accomplish things that were originally done by another character. [[Franchise/TheLordOfTheRings Legolas]] and [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]] are infamous for this.

** He seems to be even harder on the Netflix version of the series for this, repeatedly pointing out how cartoonish Neil Patrick Harris' version of the character is in comparision to the novels' characterization of him.

* BrainBleach: [[invoked]] During the ''Half-Blood Prince'' review, when Terrance realizes that [[FridgeHorror love potions are basically magical roofies]], he finds the revelation so tramatic that he'd rather give himself LaserGuidedAmnesia via ''Obliviate''.

* BrokenPedestal: J.K. Rowling is this for him due to her anti-trans statements. This ''really'' hit Dom hard as he mentions Harry Potter was pretty much the the reason for the creation of the series. As such he made a video stating he refuses to cover any more ''Wizarding World'' adaptations and content further and stricken any mention of Harry Potter from his merchandise, replacing it instead with Percy Jackson. The video ends with his Hogwarts persona, Terrence, destroying his wands and getting a note from his father (voice by Dom's real life father) who sends him a package with a shirt to one of the greek camps from Percy Jackson.

** The series overall also didn't fully adapt Snape's storyline and character arc until it became a plot point in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth movies. He credits Alan Rickman's performance with being able to not mind it as much, but the story arc for him is a bit less impactful without some of the more crucial moments from the earlier books. Peeves the Poltergeist is also left out of all of the films based on the books he appeared in, which Dominic and Terrence feel lets the reworked scenes they wrote around his absence feel like a bit of a let down in comparison to the books' versions of events.

** [[invoked]] ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' and d'Artagnan from the original novel, whom Dominic finds too lazy, cowardly, self-aborbed, dishonest, AxCrazy, misogynistic, and incompetent to find anywhere remotely sympathetic.

* AprilFoolsPlot: For April 1st 2022, Dominic did a Lost in Adaptation "review" of ''Film/TheRoom'', of all things. Creating a story where Creator/TommyWiseau "adapted" ''The Room'' from a Polish novel ''The Room I Died In'', then goes on to explain that some of the movie's oddities, such as "I did not hit her! It's not true! It's bullshit, I did not hit her! I did not naaaght! Oh, hai Mark." was an internal monologue in the book and "Oh, hi Mark" was just Book Johnny noticing Mark there. Or "Haha... What a story, Mark." was the result of Johnny zoning out during Mark's story and trying to cover it. And yes, Claudette's breast cancer subplot was a proper subplot in the book. Then goes on to explain how the book was actually ''more'' off-the-walls than the movie with the least minute reveal that Johnny was a [[MythologyGag vampire]] and testing Mark and Lisa to make them his immortal companions ([[CaptainObvious which they failed]]).

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks[[invoked]]: Pretty much the whole point of ''Lost in Adaptation'' is to discuss this trope, which results in a mixed bag of [[SubvertedTrope subvertions]], [[InvertedTrope invertions]], [[AvertedTrope avertions]], and straight examples. Dominic's stated that he doesn't automatically think the books are better than the movies, or that [[TruerToTheText closeness to the book]] correlates with quality. Sometimes changes are necessary and forgivable, sometimes they're pointless, sometimes the movies improve on or leave out some of the book's weaker aspects, sometimes they leave out or water down its strengths, sometimes the inherent advantages of an audio visual medium make up for losing the advantages of a text-based one, and sometimes the changes don't matter too much. He'll forgive changes as long as they capture the spirit of the book and what the author was trying to accomplish. As a result, what seems to get his goat more than anything else is when talking about an adaptation is when the film makers just didn't care about the source material.\\
** However, to some degree or another, he also judges adaptations on how they work ''as movies''. While he won't completely trash a movie he doesn't like if it's a good adaptation (like ''[[Film/EndersGame Ender's Game]]'') he'll be far kinder to a not-so-faithful adaptation if it works as its own movie. For instance, he recommended putting some distance between the books and movies of ''Franchise/StarshipTroopers'', ''Literature/TheNeverEndingStory'', and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' since both were enjoyable (albeit for very different reasons) while trashing movies like ''Film/IRobot'', ''Film/Dune1984'', and ''[[Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Lightning Thief]]'' for failing as both adaptations and movies since they disrespected the source material and gave little to nothing in return. When faced with the dilemma at the end of ''Film/TheShining'' episode of both liking the movie and sympathizing with Creator/StephenKing's [[DisownedAdaptation resentment of it]], the conclusion he came to was "If you're going to make seemingly pointless changes, it better be for a ''very'' good movie."\\

** While he considers the cinematic version of ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'' to be a hot mess, Dominic believes that it handles the defeat and death of the villain Akasha in a much more satisfying way than the book's version of the climax. [[note]]Instead of a DeusExMachina in the form of [[spoiler:Mekare bursting in and dispatching Akasha by herself]], while the other characters (including Lestat) just stand back and watch, in the film version the cast are actively involved; [[spoiler:Lestat betrays and drains Akasha enough for the elder vampires to pile in and take her down, several of them sacrificing their lives in the process. Dominic also argues that it has more emotional impact for Maharet, the matriarch of the 'great family', to make the ultimate sacrifice for all those she loves by finally killing Akasha and becoming the new 'queen of the damned'.]][[/note]]
** Having read ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' he believes that Stephanie Meyer got ''far'' too much flak for her sparkling vampires, considering that other authors have come up with ''far'' weirder vampire lore. He points out that "Quite late into her series, Anne Rice decided that vampires were created because [[spoiler:ten thousand years ago the ''founder of Atlantis was abducted by aliens, modified into a lizard man, became a spirit, and fused with the blood of a recently stabbed Egyptian queen,'']] and we gave '''''her''''' less shit than we gave ''Meyer'' for saying their skin twinkles in daylight."

The channel has a few supporting characters ''also'' played by Dominic Smith, including Reginald, the clone butler, and [[Franchise/HarryPotter Terrence, the Douchebag from Ravenclaw]][[note]](though Terrence was later {{Retcon}}ned as actually being from [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Camp Half-Blood]] after Creator/JKRowling made some comments that Dom perceived as transphobic.[[/note]].