History YMMV / TheUncannyValley

* BrokenBase: When first announced, fans were divided over whether or not it'd have been better to do the usual "Bring the gang together for fun adventures," kind of movie, or if it'd be nice to get five stories for the price of one.
** Unfortunately, none of the shorts were met with widespread approval. ''Dragonbored'' was [[ClicheStorm unoriginal]] and full of UnfortunateImplications. ''Dragged In'' [[ItsShortSoItSucks was too short]] and had inferior production values compared to ''Dragonbored''. ''The Reviewers'' was SoOkayItsAverage. ''Internet Dating and Me'' [[SlowPacedBeginning had a dreadfully boring opening]], and some weren't happy that it was the only short to feature the site's producers as their online personas. Finally, ''Dark Side of the Internet'' is considered by some to be boring with an [[CaptainObviousAesop obvious Aesop]] (Cyberbullying is bad!).

* TheScrappy: The Meditation Guy, for his reedy voice, being the standard New Age TakeThat, and always interrupting The Webmaster's cool moments. [[TakeThatScrappy Luckily]], [[spoiler: Diamanda Hagan made him, Nash and the Critic explode, and watched them burn in hell for a while before reversing time]].
** Fans weren't the only ones who disliked the character. Rob [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=47487&start=260#p834620 hated being him too]], and he only existed because Doug was compulsed to change things at the last minute.
** In Welshy's ''Shut Up And Talk'' episode, both he and Doug discuss how badly Rob's character was received, and Doug {{Suspiciously Specific Denial}}s that he had anything to do with the writing of those segments.

** In his review, Critic gets the JerkassHasAPoint stick, calling WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee “the most viewed, most expensive and the most effort put into it” special and ''Uncanny Valley'' Doug's “fuck off I'm tired and I've got nothing else to offer” follow up.

* ''YMMV/TheReviewers''

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Webmaster. Combined with Nash pulling a HeReallyCanAct moment, fans have taken to him well.

** Unfortunately, none of the shorts were met with widespread approval. ''Dragonbored'' was [[ClicheStorm unoriginal]] and full of UnfortunateImplications. ''Dragged In'' [[ItsShortSoItSucks was too short]] and had inferior production values compared to ''Dragonbored''. ''The Reviewers'' was SoOkayItsAverage. ''Internet Dating and Me'' [[ItGetsBetter had a dreadfully boring opening]], and some weren't happy that it was the only short to feature the site's producers as their online personas. Finally, ''Dark Side of the Internet'' is considered by some to be boring with an [[CaptainObviousAesop obvious Aesop]] (Cyberbullying is bad!).

** Unlike the WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee DVD, where you could pre-order while it was still going on, The Uncanny Valley's DVD took a little under a year to come out. Even people who enjoyed the series had forgotten it by that point.

** And in a beautiful moment of self-destruction, the anniversary week ended with the site putting up WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee's making-of-feature, which has the added bonus of Doug being shyly proud of giving WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic such a good send-off.

* BrokenBase: When first announced, fans were divided over whether or not it'd have been better to do the usual "Bring the gang together for fun adventures," kind of movie, or if it'd be nice to get five stories for the price of one. ''Dragonbored'' helped get people on board with the concept.
** Unfortunately, for some ''Dragonbored'' [[ToughActToFollow set a standard the other shorts couldn't live up to]], both in story and production values. In addition, all of the shorts had things to complain about. ''Dragonbored'' was [[ClicheStorm unoriginal]]. ''Dragged In'' [[ItsShortSoItSucks was too short]] and had inferior production values compared to ''Dragonbored''. ''The Reviewers'' was SoOkayItsAverage. ''Internet Dating and Me'' [[ItGetsBetter had a dreadfully boring opening]], and some weren't happy that it was the only short to feature the site's producers as their online personas. Finally, ''Dark Side of the Internet'' is considered by some to be boring with an [[CaptainObviousAesop obvious Aesop]] (Cyberbullying is bad!).

* ToughActToFollow: Coming after ''To Boldly Flee'' didn't help it in the eyes of many. Unlike the anniversaries that got higher ratings for everyone and plenty of fan talking for months after, everything in this special (excepting "Dark Side Of The Internet") quickly fell off the radar of interest.

* ToughActToFollow: Coming after ''To Boldly Flee'' didn't help it in the eyes of many. Unlike the anniversaries that got higher ratings for everyone and plenty of fan talking for months after, everything in this special (excepting "Dark Side Of The Internet") quickly fell off the radar of interest.

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[[folder:Dragonbored]]
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Dragonbored:
** Is Jimbroth a heroic, noble soul who finds the good in everyday life and normal existence, and therefore truly deserves the "treasures" Carl ignored and took for granted? Or is he a backstabber who betrayed the man who gave him purpose and stole his life with minimal effort?
** Is Carl an entirely loathesome person, who is lazy, ignorant of his girlfriend, friends and job, and therefore deserves his final fate? Or was he so disillusioned with his nagging girlfriend, his job where he was treated like dirt, "friends" who only seem to care about his work or show up at his apartment and drink and eat his food without his permission, and everything else that he felt the game was the only place he could find solace? [[WordOfGod Word of Rob]] says they were intending the former, but see DeathOfTheAuthor
*** On a similar point, if Carl ''is'' an unsympathetic jerkass, [[spoiler: did he really deserve to be trapped in the game at the end, or was that taking an otherwise karmatic punishment a bit too far?]]
* ClicheStorm: Dragonbored is not the most subversive thing ever. Rachel plays a nagging girlfriend who reads self-help books, wants her boyfriend to propose and swoons over the ValuesDissonance guy, Malcolm is the uptight but dorky black best friend, Carl's the deadbeat manchild you see in so many Hollywood summer movies while Doug plays the FishOutOfWater who takes over the StraightMan's life and is far better at it, and so on and so on.
* DesignatedHero: Jimbroth is said to have "lived" Carl's life, even though Carl's girlfriend seemingly fell for him less than a minute after he introduced him to her, and received his job by physically attacking Carl's boss, who then hired him on the spot (Jimbroth wasn't even seeking a job at this point, and did not intend for this to happen). His "inspirational speech" was nothing more than the writing on the back of the game box. Basically, he got everything Carl had within a few minutes with no effort or even intention whatsoever. [[spoiler: His refusal to help Carl at the end didn't seem very heroic either; in fact, he may have did it (along with "lending" the game to Taylin) purposely because 1. he felt Carl deserved his fate, and 2. he decided if Carl came back, it would jeopardize Jimbroth's new life.]]
* DesignatedVillain: Carl must have been a decent person at one point to have Jessica for a girlfriend and to have been hired in the first place. Once he gets addicted to the game, only Jessica seems worried that it's affecting him as a person and tries to help him; his friend, co-workers and especially his boss show no interest in trying to help him. Eventually, Jimbroth comes and everyone instantly turns away from Carl even further to hand Jimbroth respect, and eventually an upper level management position, all of which could have pushed Carl further into the game out of frustration.
* EsotericHappyEnding: For Jimbroth; he has Carl's life now, but it's debatable how good that life is since we see him getting henpecked by Jessica over the phone. He also complains that [=LeBron=] is "riding his ass", meaning the initial approval [=LeBron=] gave to Jimbroth may be wearing off, and he's now treating him similarly as he treated Carl. Then again, this ''was'' the evening of an important cocktail party for Jessica so it might have been an exception to their normal every day life and relationship, and he's clearly doing well in his job.
* MisaimedFandom: Carl was a deadbeat manchild who dodged responsibility by gaming, and victim-blamed his girlfriend for his friends getting her drunk and vulnerable. Most people got this and hated accordingly, but some members of the fandom seem to feel sorry for him. Rob, Film Brain, Y Ruler Of Time and [=ChaosD1=] have all expressed "[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement reactions]]" to this.
* TheScrappy: Carl was made to be hated, but a lot of fans hate him so much it drags down the rest of ''Dragonbored.''
* UnfortunateImplications: While Carl is a thoroughly unlikable character, many of the things Jimbroth focuses on are common introvert traits like a dislike of drunken parties.
** At said drunken party, Jessica is drunk, half-naked, all the men leer at her and for some reason this is seen as her fault. She breaks up with Carl for the video game caricature, not his blaming her for it.
** What's the tipping point for Jessica finally leaving Carl? Carl creating a new RPG character who, this time, is a female sex object with her face, implying some commentary on masturbation.
** Carl's ending "punishment" was him getting feminized. Confirmed by Rob, who said Doug wrote that bit by himself because he thinks "guys dressing up in drag is so funny and humiliating". [[note]][[{{hypocrite}} Excepting]] the first DVD menu, WebVideo/SuburbanKnights and Tacoma in WebVideo/DemoReel where it was all lampshaded {{fanservice}}.[[/note]]

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[[folder:Dragged In]]
* ItsShortSoItSucks: Not that ''Dragged In'' is a bad movie, but many fans pointed out how it was just over a third of the length of ''Dragonbored'', for better or for worse.
* TearJerker: The reactions of [[TheCinemaSnob Brad Jones]] and [[ObscurusLupa Allison Pregler]] over [[spoiler:having their cats stolen]]. The other owners' reactions are comedic, but those two sound genuinely distraught, with Brad in in a hopeless state of denial and Allison blatantly depressed, without any jokes or comedic atmosphere to be had.
** This is especially the case because Brad's cat Lloyd and Lupa's cat Ash are characters in their own right on their owners' shows.
*** Especially since one of Lupa's cats has since died, sadly.
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[[folder: The Reviewers]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: Rickhead is, of course, a massive dickhead, and he spends most of what we see of his review spouting homophobic slurs and being unneededly cruel, but he's not exactly wrong about their videos being unfunny. Its not much of a point of course, since he's a tool.
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[[folder:The Dark Side of the Internet]]
* {{Anvilicious}}: Giving in to {{GIFT}} is bad. {{Online Persona}}s might not be the same as RealLife people, but words still hurt. (And Cyberbullying is ''extremely'' bad.)
* HateDumb
** Inevitably, the people who needed it most didn't enjoy it, [[https://twitter.com/Welshy_Who/status/362248278160572416 some even declaring it advocated censorship]].
** One criticism directed at the short was it was "[[DarkerAndEdgier too dark and depressing]]". This is despite the fact the short makes no pretenses as anything other than a serious documentary, and ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com [[ComedyGhetto has had]] [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/36225-scooby-doo some]] [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/oancitizen/brows-held-high/37590-brows-held-high-ep-50-melancholia serious]] [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/ol/olp/37473-100th-episode-evil-dead-2 videos]] [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/38009-the-review-must-go-on before]].
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: For such obvious morals, there are an astonishing amount of people who don't seem to realize them (or [[{{Jerkass}} don't care]]).
* TearJerker: Might bring up bad memories for anyone who was cyberbullied or groomed. Plus there's Lupa alluding to the threats she got, and Doug being shown right after the narrator discusses internet celebs sometimes having shoddy self-esteem.
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* ToughActToFollow: Coming after ''To Boldly Flee'' didn't help it in the eyes of many pre-release.

* HateDumb: Inevitably, the people who needed it most didn't enjoy it, [[https://twitter.com/Welshy_Who/status/362248278160572416 some even declaring it advocated censorship]].