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| 3 | ->''"Hello, my beautiful watchers!"'' |
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| 5 | 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 {{review}}er of books, graphic novels, movies, TV shows, video games, and 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]]. |
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| 7 | 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]]. |
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| 9 | In 2014, he was picked up by Website/ChannelAwesome, though he has since left as of April 2018. You can now find all his videos on his [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPtiXdv7RoU8IkrJeNY73qw YouTube channel]]. |
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| 11 | In April 2019, he stopped using The Dom in his titles due to the AccidentalInnuendo it creates (since his subscribers were literally "subs" to the "dom"), rebranding his main channel to "Dominic Noble" (he was originally going to use his real last name, but as there's a Baseball player with the same name, he couldn't use it for branding purposes). |
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| 13 | !!This show provides and discusses examples of: |
| 14 | * AccidentalInnuendo[[invoked]]: |
| 15 | ** 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. |
| 16 | ** A blooper in the ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' review shows him trying to use the word "dom" casually in the ''other'' context, only to stop when he realizes it's too awkward; this is why he instead uses "dominant" throughout the review. |
| 17 | ** In order to avert this trope, he's since dropped the moniker in favor of "Dominic Noble" as of April 2019. |
| 18 | * AccidentalNightmareFuel: [[invoked]] Dominic's often notes that Stephanie Meyer (author of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'') occasionally shows great skill as a horror writer. The most dramatic example of this is when he realizes that Meyer has inadvertently 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. |
| 19 | -->''This story about two people who don’t make each other very happy, or don’t even seem to like each other very much but are drawn together by an involuntary mutual magnetism... is a love story. There’s... nothing special about love. There never was. Love is just a nonconsensual result of things.'' |
| 20 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: |
| 21 | ** Dominic is frustrated with ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' and ''Film/EllaEnchanted'' films for dumbing 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. |
| 22 | ** 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. |
| 23 | * AdaptationDisplacement: InUniverse examples crop up frequently in the ''Lost in Adaptation'' videos. |
| 24 | ** The most notable example is in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''. Out of the 20 people Dominic asked, 18 had seen the movie, but not a single one even knew there ''was'' a book. |
| 25 | ** {{Lampshaded}} in his episode on ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' with his statistics. People asked: 30. Saw the film: 30. Read the book: 1. Surprised to hear there WAS a book: 11. |
| 26 | ** Lampshaded again in his episode on ''Film/DieHard'': Saw the film: 24. Read the book: 0. Had to be convinced there was a book: 19. |
| 27 | * AdaptationInducedPlotHole: These tend to piss Dominic off the most. He feels that if they're going to make changes, the least they can do is have changes that make sense within the context of the film's own universe. The ''[[Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Percy Jackson]]'' films and [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire fourth Harry Potter movie]] are probably the biggest offenders to date. |
| 28 | * AdaptationOverdosed: [[invoked]] |
| 29 | ** ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'' 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. |
| 30 | ** ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' has had too many film adaptations to count so Dom focused on only five of them; four of them selected by his patrons and the fifth one selected by the specific patron who requested the adaptation episode. |
| 31 | ** For his review of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', Dominic ended up formatting his video as an awards show where instead of reviewing all of the countless adaptations, he went through certain criteria (Best Scrooge, Best side-characters, etc.) and analyzed which adaptation handled them the best (based on votes from his Patreon supporters). |
| 32 | ** ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' got a similar 'greatest hits' video. |
| 33 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: Almost inevitable with Hollywood, but some peeve Dominic more than others. |
| 34 | ** ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Most noticeably Clarisse the six-foot, body-building athlete, and Tyson the tall, homeless, unhygienic cyclops in ''The Sea of Monsters''. |
| 35 | ** Dr. Calvin in the book ''Literature/IRobot'' is a plain 65-year-old woman. In the film, she's a gorgeous 30-something year old who doubles as Creator/WillSmith's LoveInterest. |
| 36 | ** ''Film/HarryPotter'': Dominic cannot get over how [[Literature/HarryPotter book Hermione]] is bushy-haired and buck-toothed, while Creator/EmmaWatson is gorgeous enough to be on ''Cover Girl'' (much as he admires the actress). He does, however, feel that [[HateSink Dolores Umbridge]] going from looking like a toad to a sweet grandmotherly type only serves to [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon highlight]] her SugaryMalice. |
| 37 | ** In ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'', while the book leaves it ambivalent how attractive Mia is pre-makeover (she's down on her own appearance, but other characters seem to think she at least looks nice), the movie does the standard Hollywood thing of casting a beautiful actress and adding just enough unfashionable hair and clothing so the makeover will seem like a difference. Dominic snarkily suggests that Mia and Hermione form a support group. |
| 38 | * AdaptationalBadass: Dom 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. |
| 39 | * AdaptationalDumbass: |
| 40 | ** 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. |
| 41 | ** ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' is either this or a case of AdaptationalHeroism. In the comics, he's very sharp, witty, observant, and sardonic, and willfully unaware of or indifferent to how his selfish actions hurt the people around him. The film keeps his selfish actions, but frames him as an oblivious NiceGuy. |
| 42 | ** ''Film/ArtemisFowl'' is turned from a genius criminal mastermind who single-handedly discovers the existence of TheFairFolk through his own ingenuity, to an average kid whose ''father'' discovered the existence of TheFairFolk and informed Artemis, and Artemis' supposed intelligence is informed to the viewer in the very last scene. |
| 43 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Dubbed "The Creator/AnneHathaway Effect," due to her appearing in every film thus far where a noteworthy example of a thoroughly unlikable parental figure is ''significantly'' more likable in the film. To date: |
| 44 | ** ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'': Mia's horrible, selfish father and grandmother (who both constantly use, neglect, manipulate, and strong-arm her in the book) are depicted as fiercely loving and compassionate in the film. |
| 45 | ** ''Literature/EllaEnchanted'''s selfish, greedy, con-artist father who often marries rich women to get himself more money is changed in the film to be a loving, kind-hearted father who is forced to marry rich in order to keep their tiny cottage. |
| 46 | ** While not an Anne Hathaway example, Dominic notes that all the characters in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' are ''significantly'' more likable than their book counterparts in ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit'', which is a very gritty, hard-boiled [[FilmNoir Noir]] [[HardboiledDetective detective]] [[MysteryFiction mystery]]. |
| 47 | ** Bastian becomes an example by omission in ''Film/TheNeverEndingStory'', which cuts out the book's second half in which he [[spoiler:lets his powers go to his head and starts a civil war in Fantasia.]] |
| 48 | ** Dominic is particularly horrified by this treatment being given to the Witch of the Waste from ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', who was an irredeemable murderer in the book. |
| 49 | ** Most of Severus Snape's relentless psychological torment, abuse, and mean-spirited bullying toward all non-Slytherin students (particularly Harry and Neville) is gone in the films, and the third film even added a scene of him selflessly shielding Harry, Ron, and Hermione from a werewolf for good measure. Dominic calls bull on that. |
| 50 | ** Christian Grey, while not a good guy in the film, is ''light years'' better than his book counterpart. He devotes an entire segment of the review of the final film to describe all the subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways in which the character is changed to make him a more likable and sympathetic person compared to his counterpart. |
| 51 | ** ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}'': Maxim de Winter is not only [[spoiler:not a murderer]] in the film, but he's shown to be a generally much more attentive and considerate husband to his second wife, whereas in the book he was cold, detached, and selfish. |
| 52 | ** Rambo from ''Literature/FirstBlood'', who goes from killing everyone to going out of his way to not kill anyone. |
| 53 | ** The dwarves (particularly Thorin) from Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheHobbit'' are much more concerned with honor, dignity, and courage than their book counterparts, who often acted more like petulant children with a knack for greed and cowardice. |
| 54 | ** 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). |
| 55 | ** When covering the different adaptations of ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', from book to play to movie, Dom notes how Raul gets progressively more likeable with each adaptation. |
| 56 | ** All film adaptations of ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' make the main characters significantly more heroic. D'Artagnan in particular is so radically changed that Dominic said that ''none'' of the film d'Artagnans were a good adaptation of him because they were all far too likeable compared to the rapist douchebag of the book. |
| 57 | ** The film version of ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'', the [[Film/ArtemisFowl movie's]] detriment. |
| 58 | ** Rob from ''Film/HighFidelity'' is described by Dom as [[DamnedByFaintPraise less of a prick]] than his counterpart in [[Literature/HighFidelity the book.]] |
| 59 | ** [[invoked]] George and Harold in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'', presumably as a way to avoid the characters coming off as UnintentionallyUnsympathetic like in the [[Literature/CaptainUnderpants earlier books.]] |
| 60 | * AdaptationalJerkass: |
| 61 | ** Dominic found Paul from ''{{Film/Dagon}}'' to be a completely insufferable jerk, as opposed to the unnamed protagonist of ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth''. |
| 62 | ** While they were always ruthless killers, Dominic notes the Career Killers in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' were not mean-spirited sadists who tormented their victims or made mocking impressions after their deaths the way they do in the movie, and compares them to frat bullies. |
| 63 | ** Miles from ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' goes from being a kind, wise, chill guy in the book to an angry, bitter dickhead to everyone in the 2002 Disney film, much to Dominic's heartbreak. |
| 64 | ** While Book Adrian from ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' later [[spoiler:commits VanHelsingHateCrimes against Vivian]], otherwise he's a pretty decent guy. The film changed him into an entitled creep who ''relentlessly'' sexually harasses and stalks Vivian till he ''finally'' wears her down (even after she straight-up ''flees'' from him several times), [[NeverMyFault then gets mad at HER for not staying away from HIM when he finds out she's a werewolf]] -- [[SubvertedTrope yet the film acts like we're supposed to find him roguishly charming]]. |
| 65 | * AdaptationalVillainy: |
| 66 | ** 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. |
| 67 | ** Likewise, in his ''Film/DieHard'' review Dominic notes that book Gruber [[AmbiguousSituation could very well have been]] a WellIntentionedExtremist AntiVillain who firmly believes YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters in regards to his goal of exposing the corrupt and illegal activities of a huge oil corporation. In the film, he got the "full asshole makeover" where Gruber is definitely a straight villain. |
| 68 | ** Teasle and the police force in ''Literature/FirstBlood'' got the "full asshole makeover" in the film, which stripped all their sympathetic qualities and then gave them even more despicable actions and characterizations for good measure. |
| 69 | ** 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). |
| 70 | ** While Dominic finds Book Gabriel from ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' to be a sexual harassing cradle-robber, he still laments that he went from an otherwise honorable leader who tried to protect his pack and minimize violence between humans and werewolves, to a ruthless crime lord who regularly kidnapped humans that he and his pack hunted down for blood sport. |
| 71 | ** While examining the film adaptation of ''Literature/FiftyShadesFreed'', he points out that the architect Gia is significantly meaner and more villainous compared to her literary counterpart, more condescending to Ana, more seductive to her husband, and starting out proposing a wasteful architectural plan for their new house that was originally Grey's idea. But he ''then'' argues that this actually ''improves'' the story compared to the novel, since it makes Ana's confrontation with her come across as the formerly-shy-girl-standing-up-for-herself scene it was originally intended as, rather than the mean-spirited bullying of someone she has in her power it feels like in the book, and he congratulates the filmmakers on adapting the ''spirit'' of the scene better than the original artist, whose abilities he has a very low opinion of. |
| 72 | ** Notes that in the original ''Literature/ThePrincessAndTheGoblin'' books the goblins weren't evil so much as targets of mockery because Victorian readers honestly thought [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman they were by default]]. Knowing this wouldn't fly for 1990's audiences, [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheGoblin the film]] went out of its way to make goblings evil, petty, abusive bastards who scoff at the absurd concept of being ''nice'' to others. |
| 73 | * AdaptationalWimp: |
| 74 | ** The [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 2005 film version of Arthur Dent]], much to Dominic's disgust. |
| 75 | ** 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. |
| 76 | ** The film version of Vivian from ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'', due to the director being a FemaleMisogynist. |
| 77 | * 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. |
| 78 | * AllJustADream: Feels that ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' is the only story that can get away with this ending, since book Alice encounters so much wackiness yet never seems to feel anything beyond mild curiosity, like how many people act in dreams. |
| 79 | * AluminumChristmasTrees: In-universe, 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''. |
| 80 | * AlternateAesopInterpretation: [[invoked]]Discussed in regards to ''A Series Of Unfortunate Events''. Dominic mentions that some of his ''viewers'' believed the books were sending a message about never giving up, but he didn't get the same message: |
| 81 | -->"...While it is true that the Baudelaire orphans never give up, and are always there for each other, the books are also constantly reminding you that they won't ultimately get a happy ending after all this, so, the message you're left with isn't '''Never Lose Hope''', it's....'''Hope Won't Save You'''." |
| 82 | * AnachronismStew: The film version of ''Film/{{A Series of Unfortunate Events|2004}}'', which involves a mix of technology and items from different decades, makes Dominic feel this was strange adaptation choice for the seemingly timeless setting of the book. |
| 83 | -->'''Dominic:''' The weird mix of technologies, wherein a car would have a phone and wireless locking system but also have an analogue clock, and people would have modern sunglasses and drive speedboats but trains would still run on steam, isn't really in the book. That is to say, the book did exist in a weird timeless setting, but it preferred to ''avoid'' mention of decade-specific items... The film went the ''opposite'' route by intentionally flaunting the contradictory development in your face all the way through. |
| 84 | * AprilFoolsDay: For April 1st 2022, Dominic did a Lost in Adaptation "review" of ''Film/TheRoom2003'', 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]]). |
| 85 | * AscendedExtra: |
| 86 | ** Dominic and Calluna reenact some scenes from Literature/TheHobbit in order to show how minor some of the film characters really were. |
| 87 | --->'''Calluna:''' ...This is a recreation of how much Azog the pale orc featured in the Hobbit originally:\ |
| 88 | '''Gandalf:''' Hey, remember how your grandfather was killed by that orc?\ |
| 89 | '''Thorin:''' Oh, yeah. That guy sucked. |
| 90 | ** Dominic is ''not'' pleased with how Netflix's ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' keeps finding excuses to bring back Mister Poe. |
| 91 | --->''I must confess, I never would have predicted Mister Poe would ever be the recipient of the Legolas effect.'' |
| 92 | * AudienceSurrogate: [[invoked]] Dominic speculates that ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' never took off in popularity the way later supernatural teen romances like ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' and ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' did because the lead is an EscapistCharacter readers presumably wish they could be, rather than a relatable blank slate for readers to insert themselves into (like Bella and Ana). |
| 93 | * BaitAndSwitch: When Terrence casually reveals he's cheated on Calluna and is now dumping her for Thrandruil from ''Film/TheHobbit'' films, she's devastated... but not for the reason you think. |
| 94 | -->'''Dominic:''' Hey, I warned you he was a douchebag.\ |
| 95 | '''Calluna:''' Aw, I can't even be mad! [[WhamLine They make such a cute couple.]]\ |
| 96 | '''Dominic:''' ''(does a DoubleTake)''\ |
| 97 | '''Calluna:''' Yeah, I ship it. |
| 98 | * BaitAndSwitchComment: |
| 99 | ** 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]]!" |
| 100 | ** Also crops up in the ''{{Franchise/Dune}}'' review, when Dominic is describing how his fans had given him dire warnings about the [[Film/Dune1984 movie]] when they requested it for a ''Lost in Adaptation'' episode. |
| 101 | --->"But now that I've seen it, I've got to say, you guys... To be completely fair to the film, you really ''didn't warn me enough!''" |
| 102 | * BelligerentSexualTension: 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. |
| 103 | ** Dominic prefers the romance between [[Literature/HowlsMovingCastle Howl and Sophie]] in the film to their romance in the book because it ''doesn't'' use this trope. |
| 104 | --->"Howl and Sophie's romance is in the book, but I was actually tempted to put that in the next section (What they changed) as they have much MUCH better chemistry in the film. In the book, I could've sworn the romance came out of nowhere at the end until I remembered the 'they really annoy each other so they must love each other' trope. Attention writers and screenwriters everywhere! I know you guys love that shit, but in the real world NO ONE OVER THE AGE OF THIRTEEN DOES THAT!" |
| 105 | ** Likewise, Terrence finds the book version of ''Literature/EllaEnchanted'''s romance to be ''refreshing'' because it portrays love as two people getting along instead of hating each other, and is annoyed by the movie dumping this in favor of the overused cliche. |
| 106 | ** [[invoked]] Dominic literally ''growls'' his frustration with the 2002 Walt Disney film version of ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' for making Winnie and Jesse's relationship not just a RomanticPlotTumor, but... |
| 107 | --->"The film takes it upon itself to add in my least favorite of all the tropes, the romance that starts with instant dislike and hostility between the two participants. ''(growls)'' I would like to politely remind authors and screenwriters that that ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Never. Actually. Happens]]'' in real life and I'm more than a little sick of seeing it in ''EVERY '''FUCKING''' STORY.''" |
| 108 | * BerserkButton: |
| 109 | ** 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. |
| 110 | ** 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/MillenniumSeries The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'', 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. |
| 111 | ** He also ''really'' hates the ''Percy Jackson'' films as a big fan of the books. Expect the Calm Intellectual Filter to be used a ''lot'' in his reviews of them. |
| 112 | ** Films making pointless changes from the book that also harm the quality of the film. While Dominic can understand practical changes for things like time, pacing, technical limitations, etc., altering parts of the book that don't need to be altered that ''also'' make the film worse overall will usually invoke a [[RageBreakingPoint Calm Intellectual Filter]] moment. |
| 113 | ** RomanticizedAbuse, TheMasochismTango, and BelligerentSexualTension all infuriate Dominic. At best, he feels they're unrealistic portrayals of what a fulfilling relationship can be. At worst, they're genuinely harmful and set real people up to get hurt. He has admitted that it's partly due to personal experience with a very toxic and abusive relationship putting him on a very sensitive hair-trigger for that sort of thing. |
| 114 | ** 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/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'' reviews. |
| 115 | ** Every time [[Series/GameOfThrones Catelyn Stark]] appears on screen, Dominic can barely contain himself from bursting out "FUCK YOU, CATELYN STARK!" |
| 116 | *** Without the all caps, it's now become his official name for her even in a recent review of an episode where she's actually reasonable and helpful. |
| 117 | ** Correcting him on Twitter when he makes a grammar or spelling mistake (which happen frequently due to his dyslexia) will cause him to mute your account on-sight. |
| 118 | ** Adults who emotionally abuse children who've done them no wrong, especially when the adults are [[SinsOfTheFather taking out their anger over something their parents did on them]]. As such, he will not cut [[Literature/HarryPotter Severus Snape]] or [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Catelyn Stark]] any slack. |
| 119 | ** PlayedForLaughs, [[ClassyCravat ascots]] will usually elicit an angry "Fuck that ascot!" from him, {{lampshading}} how often villains wear them in movies. |
| 120 | * BestialityIsDepraved: |
| 121 | ** In his Q&A video, Dom is asked whether he'd rather have sex with a goat and nobody know about it, or not have sex with a goat but everyone thinks he has. After giving it some thought (while a superimposed goat wanders around the background) he starts removing his shirt. While sobbing. |
| 122 | ** In his ''Literature/HarryPotter'' reviews, Dominic takes full comedic advantage of Aberforth's in-series love of goats. |
| 123 | * BetterByADifferentName: |
| 124 | ** His view of ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]'' is that it's ''Franchise/StarWars'' in a ''StandardFantasySetting.'' |
| 125 | ** Dominic and Calluna feel that many of the [[{{Expy}} characters]] that appear in Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheHobbit'' films were better in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies. |
| 126 | ** Finds the 2002 Disney film adaptation of ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' to be a poor ''Film/Titanic1997'' imitator. |
| 127 | ** Describes the ''Literature/AlexRider'' book series as "Franchise/JamesBond meets Franchise/HarryPotter," complete with shamelessly ripping off Creator/JKRowling's writing style. |
| 128 | * BilingualBonus: His April 2022 video about ''Film/TheRoom2003'' claims it was based on a book by an author called Prima Aprilis. Try translating that name from Latin. |
| 129 | * BlackGuyDiesFirst: Suspects this to be the reason Hallorann is killed off in the film adaptation of ''Film/TheShining'', whereas he survived and became a surrogate father/husband for Danny and Wendy in the book. |
| 130 | * BlatantLies: |
| 131 | ** "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." |
| 132 | ** In his review of ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}'' episode "The Chimes of Big Ben", Dominic mocks Number Six's blatant passing off of a wooden '''[[RunningGag BOAT]]''' as "modern art". |
| 133 | --->'''Dom (as Number Six):''' (''standing in front of a biplane'') It, uh, represents our fear of the unknown... |
| 134 | ** In "A Very Brief Recent History of [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Westeros]]", he mentions newborn Daenerys Targaryen being given the appellation "Stormborn", which "would almost certainly be the only title she would ever pick up in her life." |
| 135 | ** In the opening of his review of ''Series/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians2023'', Terrance gives a recap of his previous appearances for newcomers to Lost in Adaptation. Among other things, he claims that he was "super crazy popular with everyone all the time" at Hogwarts and was "absolutely not traumatized at all in any way" by the events of [[Literature/HarryPotter that series.]] |
| 136 | * BrainBleach: [[invoked]] During the ''Half-Blood Prince'' review, when Terrance realizes that [[FridgeHorror love potions are basically magical roofies]], he finds the revelation so traumatic that he'd rather give himself LaserGuidedAmnesia via ''Obliviate''. |
| 137 | * BringMyBrownPants: |
| 138 | ** After an encounter with the Wicked Witch of the West, Dominic decides to go visit the Wizard of Oz to request some new trousers. |
| 139 | ** After describing the EldritchAbomination that Literature/{{Coraline}} could [[NothingIsScarier sense but not see or hear]] in the corridor between the Other Mother's world and her own, Dominic remarks, "I don't care who you are, that's brown trouser time my good friend." |
| 140 | ** In his ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'' review he points out how the book mentioned that the first Quarter Quell involved each District being forced to vote on who got sent to the Hunger Games, remarking that it's "brown trouser time for the ass-sod in the community." |
| 141 | * UsefulNotes/BritishAccents: |
| 142 | ** 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?'' |
| 143 | ** Being a Brit, Dominic recognizes Tom Riddle's fan dub accent as Yorkshire for ''Voldemort: Origins of the Heir'', and has a good laugh with his fellow Brits over this. |
| 144 | ** Terrence's accent sees Dominic put on a more Posh version of his own to play him and make him seem smarter. |
| 145 | * BrokenAesop: Since the ''Tuck Everlasting'' film mimicked ''Titanic's'' lesson that it's better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable too closely, Amus Tuck's sudden [[WhoWantsToLiveForever "living forever sucks"]] speech at the end not only comes out of nowhere, but directly contradicts how [[LivingForeverIsAwesome awesome]] living forever seemed for the entire film before that. |
| 146 | * 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 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. |
| 147 | * ButHeSoundsHandsome: In his review of ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld 2}}'', Dominic suddenly finds himself on the bridge of the Hiigaran flagship. He is then tackled by the Hiigaran Lieutenant [[invoked]] ([[ActingForTwo also played by Dom]]). His reaction? "You punch as hard as you are handsome!" |
| 148 | * CallBack: |
| 149 | ** [[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's particularly [[{{Narm}} narmy]] [[ChewingTheScenery scenery chewing]]. Their verdict? [[spoiler: Hysterical laughter.]] |
| 150 | ** His review of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' has an aside mocking the parts of the novel where Harry's jealous feelings toward Ginny are described as a metaphorical "scaly monster", with a skit imagining a conversation between Harry and the monster; the voice of the "scaly monster" is provided by the same person who provided a comic voiceover for the basilisk, a literal scaly monster, in the earlier ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' review. |
| 151 | * TheCameo: |
| 152 | ** [[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''. |
| 153 | ** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic appears in the first half of the same review when Dominic calls him and asks if an "Owl-Credit Card" would bother him. |
| 154 | ** Linkara appears again in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''; apparently Neville's grandmother is none other than Fat Grandma! |
| 155 | ** Linkara appears again in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'', though this time it's, [[LampshadeHanging in his own words]], "a pointless waste of a cameo." The Nostalgia Critic also makes an appearance in that review. |
| 156 | ** [[WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions Red]] makes a brief appearance in his remake of his ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' review when Dominic talks about Heinlein's later works -- specifically, ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand''. |
| 157 | * CameraAbuse: When Dominic gets into a [[ComicalOverreacting firefight]] with some passionate fans of ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld 2}}'', a stray bullet hits the camera lens, shattering it. |
| 158 | * CapsLockNumLockMissilesLock: The trigger for Dominic's chest-bomb (see DisproportionateRetribution) has been implanted in his left palm. He accidentally arms the device while making an emphatic gesture. |
| 159 | -->'''Dom:''' [[OhCrap Cancel!]] ''Cancel!'' |
| 160 | * CatchPhrase: Hello, beautiful watchers! |
| 161 | ** SigningOffCatchPhrase: He tends to [[EveryEpisodeEnding wind up each video]] with: "[[ThirdPersonPerson The Dom's]] final thoughts..." This later got compressed into merely: "Final Thoughts..." |
| 162 | * CerebusCallBack: Terrence wears sunglasses at all times. Initially this seems to be just part of him being an arrogant arsehole until the ''Deathly Hallows: Part Two'' episode reveals that he wears them because he lost an eye during the Battle of Hogwarts. |
| 163 | * CharacterDevelopment: He freely admits he has grown and developed as a reviewer. Where once he held the book as sacrosanct and minor derivations needed to be called out, he now understands to better fit the intent of the story, sometimes movies need to do their own thing. They are different mediums and cannot be wholly the same thing. |
| 164 | * ChivalrousPervert: Pervert in that he admits in the ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' reviews that he is a porn consumer and has briefly dabbled in UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}}. Chivalrous in that he understands the concept of mutual consent and rips Christian for his abusive treatment of Anastasia. |
| 165 | * ClusterFBomb: Dominic's reaction to seeing a navigator from the Spacing Guild and pus-faced Baron Vladimir Harkonnen flying in ''Film/Dune1984''. |
| 166 | * CompressedAdaptation: |
| 167 | ** 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. |
| 168 | -->'''Terrence:''' The possibility of splitting the story across two films was strongly considered by the studio, and... this would be the ''one'' time that I was okay with that. There's just NOWHERE NEAR enough time in a single film that they can do justice to the fourth book, and that REALLY shows. They cut the good, they cut the bad, they cut the essential to the plot. This movie cut its own legs out from underneath it and then was ''surprised'' when it fell flat on its face. |
| 169 | ** ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' is another example of this, since it's the longest book in the series, but the shortest film adaptation. |
| 170 | ** 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 letdown in comparison to the books' versions of events. |
| 171 | ** Terrence and Dominic even remark that the final two ''Harry Potter'' films were the metaphorical Judgement Day where the filmmakers' sins came back to haunt them. Every bit of {{Foreshadowing}} and ChekhovsGun they cut for time became important in the final book, so they now had to cut it or introduce it during these films just to have any kind of payoff since they didn't show it before. |
| 172 | ** Dominic predicted and is thrilled that the film version of ''Fifty Shades Darker'' played up the few semi-interesting plot-advancing scenes that came and went really briefly throughout the book, and cut out all the incessant fighting, fucking, and "Ana giving Christian his way"-ing that made up 90% of the novel. |
| 173 | * ContinuityLockout: [[invoked]] Talks about how the later ''Harry Potter'' films were made most likely for the readers of the books first and everyone else second, with how much was left out of them in the end at the end of the ''Harry Potter-athon.'' He states that the producers most likely chose this route because they didn't want to have to adapt the books for an audience comprised mostly of people who'd read the books already and wanted to get the important stuff in the films over extraneous details. |
| 174 | ** However, one detail from the third ''Harry Potter'' film he notes is that they never took the time in any of the later films to point out who Mooney and Prongs were. Peter Pettigrew was called Wormtail in several of the films and Sirius was called Padfoot in the fifth film, but good luck guessing who the other 2 are without a glance at a Wiki page, or reading the book. |
| 175 | * ContinuityReboot: |
| 176 | ** 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. |
| 177 | ** Notes how ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'' is not only a reboot of the 2004 film, but of the books as well, since they have many elements of what would go into reboots, with tweaked storylines and plot points from the books, like introducing the VFD stuff early on and tweaking characterizations and other things seemingly just to be different from the books most of the time. |
| 178 | * ControlFreak: Dominic hates both [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Christian Grey]] and [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Catelyn Stark]] for being this. Christian because of the CorruptCorporateExecutive abusvie tendency this gives him, and Cat because of the MyBelovedSmother KnowNothingKnowItAll it makes her. |
| 179 | * CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Even though it's Dominic's favorite of the books, he admits that the plot of "Goblet of Fire" was needlessly complex and that Voldemort, by all accounts, should have been able to get back his body in the first week of class. |
| 180 | -->'''Fake Moody:''' Okay, welcome to the first week of term. Potter, hand me that book, will you?\ |
| 181 | '''Harry:''' Huh? Uh, okay.\ |
| 182 | ''(Harry is instantly transported to the graveyard)''\ |
| 183 | '''Fake Moody:''' LOL! |
| 184 | * CouldSayItBut: For ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' episode, Dominic admits upfront that he's not the book's target audience and hence that "it would be unfair to categorically say that I'm convinced that the only people who could possibly enjoy this book are teenage girls... so I'm just going to imply it heavily." |
| 185 | * CriticalBacklash: [[invoked]] Discussed. Dominic mentions that he desperately tried to avoid this when doing his ''Twilight'' reviews even saying he was hoping he could be the guy to say "''Twilight'' wasn't that bad" only to end up falling into it when he read the books for himself and felt they actually were that bad. |
| 186 | * DamnedByFaintPraise: |
| 187 | ** Dominic notes in his Harry Potteraton that he finds himself saying, "At least it's better than nothing" ''a lot'' regarding book material that made it into films, and argues that he shouldn't ''have'' to say it all the time to give it positive adaptation points. |
| 188 | ** In his ''Literature/EllaEnchanted'' review, Terrence acknowledges that the book's author praised the film, but notes that she went out of her way to praise ''Creator/AnneHathaway's'' performance, rather than stating that she thought it did justice to her story, so it doesn't improve his opinion of TheFilmOfTheBook. |
| 189 | ** Dominic concedes in his ''Fifty Shades Darker'' review that the second book was marginally less painful than the first one - that it feels like being repeatedly kicked in the arse rather than the genitals -- but argues it's still a painful experience. |
| 190 | ** Then in the ''Fifty Shades Freed'' review, he states that both versions of Christian Grey are horrible and he wants to run them over with a combine harvester... He'd just be more inclined to do it quickly with the film version. |
| 191 | ** [[invoked]] As stated under CriticalBacklash, Dominic tried to give a charitable review of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''. However, the best he could give for the first book was along the lines of, "It's not for me, but it had some redeeming qualities." [[{{Sequelitis}} And then the sequels attacked]]. |
| 192 | * DarkerAndEdgier: |
| 193 | ** Dominic suggests that Hollywood needs to create a remake of ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' which includes the second half of the [[Literature/TheNeverendingStory book]]. |
| 194 | ** Dominic and Calluna, however, do not feel this approach works for the film adaptations of ''Literature/TheHobbit'', since the book is a whimsical comedy, while the films have an very dark, serious tone. Keeping the comedic antics of the cowardly dwarves from the book but giving them more somber and honor-obsessed attitudes just clashes. |
| 195 | * DecoyProtagonist: Notes that the film version of ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' sets Vivian up as the lead, but quickly shifts its focus to her (creepy, entitled, stalking, sexist) human love interest and spends most of its run-time glorifying what a ''badass'' he is. |
| 196 | * DerailingLoveInterests: [[invoked]]Brings up in his ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Eclipse]]'' review how Jacob, previously a NiceGuy and overall cool dude, is suddenly turned into a possessive, controlling jerk who graphically forces a kiss on Bella at one point without explanation, most likely because Myer didn't like that he and Bella were a FanPreferredCouple. For the same reason, Edward partway into the book suddenly goes from an unpleasant ControlFreak to a much more understanding and likeable person, a tonal shift Dominic found so jarring to where he concocted an elaborate BodySurf theory to explain it. |
| 197 | * DesignatedHero: [[invoked]] {{Discussed|Trope}} on several occasions. |
| 198 | ** [[invoked]] Dominic acknowledges in his ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' reviews that Scott is "genuinely the worst," (an apathetic slacker who mooches off his roommates, has a creepy relationship with a 17-year-old Asian girl even though he's a 23-year-old white guy, [[StalkingIsLove stalks a girl at a party]], then two-times said girlfriend [[UnfortunateImplications for an older white girl]] [[DirtyCoward until he's forced by outside forces to break up]], and has left a string of broken hearts behind in his life), but Dominic is easy on him because he once related to Scott. |
| 199 | ** [[invoked]] ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' and d'Artagnan from the original novel, whom Dominic finds too lazy, cowardly, self-absorbed, dishonest, AxCrazy, misogynistic, and incompetent to find anywhere remotely sympathetic. |
| 200 | * DesignatedVillain: [[invoked]] Dominic remarks that while ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' presents the two aristocrats who'll inherit the Genovian throne if Mia declines as if they're the bad guys, but doesn't show ''why'' they're bad apart from wanting the throne and being jealous that Mia is better-looking than them. |
| 201 | ** [[invoked]] Dominic notes that Milady Du Winter from the original ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' novel is presented as the BigBad, but she doesn't do really anything worse, morally speaking, than the four main characters, and she's at least competent and Gets Shit Done while they aren't, and don't. |
| 202 | * DevilInPlainSight: |
| 203 | ** Dominic doesn't mind Henry Selick changing WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'s Other Mother from being this to a BitchInSheepsClothing who becomes increasingly creepy [[VillainousBreakdown as her plans unravel]], since it didn't make sense for Book Coraline to trust her ''at all'' then. |
| 204 | ** Terrence spends a lot of the ''Film/EllaEnchanted'' review riffing on the film's characters for not catching onto Prince Char's [[ObviouslyEvil Obviously]] EvilUncle, since all you have to do is ''look at him'' to see that he's the villain. |
| 205 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: When covering the theater version of ''Phantom of the Opera'', Dom points out an obvious flaw in Raoul's plan to use the Phantom's own play to lure him out and capture him; since the Phantom wrote the darn thing, it means he knows the placement of all the characters and thus, know the best time to get close to Christine whilst in disguise. |
| 206 | ** In the ''Crimes of Grindlewald'' review, Terrence points out that the writers didn't think through the implications about [[spoiler: Nagini actually being a south korean woman trapped in a curse, specifically the part where, in the present day of Harry Potter, she's owned as a pet by a white british man and treated as just another thing.]] |
| 207 | * DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: The ''Lost In Adaptation'' episode for ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' ends with Dom saying the movie would be vastly different in a parallel universe where they'd gone with the early concept where the [=FBI=] chase the Cullens on jet skis. He then pulls out a ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' portal gun to visit this universe, he comes back saying the movie was interesting but in that world humanity is enslaved by koalas so it's not worth the trade off. |
| 208 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Dominic is so incensed by the inanity of ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Mass Effect 2: Arrival]]'' that he has a 16-megaton bomb implanted in his chest. |
| 209 | -->"When one of your favourite game series disappoints you, surely the only logical course of action is to threaten to destroy the world." |
| 210 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Dominic finds the ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' werewolves' sense of racial superiority toward humans, the males werewolves' EntitledToHaveYou attitude toward the heroine just because they're the same species, and the "stick to your own kind" message at the end ''very'' reminiscent of pro-segregation, white supremacist mentalities. |
| 211 | * DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Dominic is not a fan of this, as shown in his reviews of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'' and ''Literature/ForrestGump''. |
| 212 | * DullSurprise: Dominic's impression of film [[Literature/TheHungerGames Katniss Everdeen]]. He argues that keeping her TheStoic might be a faithful ''adaptation'' choice, but it's not necessarily a good ''film'' choice since the audience is left staring at a lead who doesn't seem invested in her own struggles. |
| 213 | ** Mocked in the fan-made movie ''Voldemort: Origins of the Heir'', where the actors look bored or calm but the dubbed English voice actors make them sound emphatic. |
| 214 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: |
| 215 | ** It took a while for the purple void to become the regular background. In the early reviews, Dominic would greenscreen different backgrounds related to whatever he was reviewing (ie., [[ItMakesSenseInContext a T-Rex's stomach in the]] ''Film/JurassicPark'' review). |
| 216 | ** Dominic would also greenscreen himself into the movie for gags early on. This would be dropped a few years in, with the Potterathon [[{{Retcon}} establishing that]] only wizards could do that. The greenscreen gags still remain, but it's now usually Dominic as different characters. |
| 217 | * EarWorm: The theme song from ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''. |
| 218 | -->"Well, ''that's'' going to be stuck in my head forever." |
| 219 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Dominic scathingly rips into the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 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. |
| 220 | ** Dominic is also revolted by ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' male werewolves acting ''entitled'' to the heroine's romantic affections just because they're the same species, and them riding her for dating a human because they feel she's "giving him something" she should reserve for them. |
| 221 | * EscalatingWar: In the Harry Potterathon, Terrence's attempts to hijack the show and Dominic's attempts to steal it back, which begin with them knocking each other unconscious and escalate to the threat of deadly force and further to the point where Dominic goes after Terrence while driving a tank. |
| 222 | * 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]].]] |
| 223 | * EverybodyHasStandards: While Terrence may be an insufferable braggart, he is revolted when he realizes that Fred and George are selling what are essentially magic [[SlippingAMickey date rape drugs]] to teenagers. |
| 224 | * FairForItsDay: [[invoked]]Discussed with his review of the book version of ''Film/CapeFear'', which was surprisingly feminist and anti-racist for its time. Far from being a helpless white damsel ([[ValuesDissonance like most 1950's heroines, like in the film]]), the protagonist's wife is a smart, confident, part Native American woman who is not only in on her husband's plans to protect her and their daughter from a convicted rapist, but often picks up the slack where other incompetent men fail, and the narrator often proudly attributes her fierce spirit and intelligence to her "Indian blood!" ... Which can be a tad uncomfortable wording by today's standards. |
| 225 | * FanCommunityNickname: "Beautiful watchers." |
| 226 | * FascinatingEyebrow: Dominic is a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d76ad56594724efc61ce559270cfbee9.png master]] of [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1a119096b371df66e007a407263bf983.png this]]. |
| 227 | * FemaleGaze: Notes that in the ''Fifty Shades'' films, what little we see of Ana's boobs is shown very briefly and matter-of-factly, while Christian's chiselled abs, buttocks, and workout routines are depicted with almost religious reverence. |
| 228 | * FemaleMisogynist: Discussed for both versions of ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'', oddly enough. |
| 229 | ** He finds book Vivian unlikable because she mentally brags to the reader that she doesn't get along with other girls because she thinks they're just jealous of how incredibly hot and big-boobed she is. |
| 230 | ** He's ''surprised'' to learn the director of the film is female, given how the film makes Vivian an AdaptationalWimp while glorifying the male characters acting macho, creepy, entitled, and sexist. |
| 231 | * TheFilmOfTheBook: Features prominently in his series ''Lost in Adaptation''. Typically, he discusses three things: What was the same, what was changed, and what was left out entirely. |
| 232 | * {{Flanderization}}: |
| 233 | ** Dominic is not impressed with how the villains from ''{{Literature/Dune}}'' made their way from the book to the [[Film/Dune1984 movie]]. In particular, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is changed from a complex, scheming, [[invoked]] MagnificentBastard to a one-dimensional, flying thug with [[LargeHam no indoor voice]] and a serious case of [[FacialHorror space herpes]]. |
| 234 | ** [=HBO=] really played up the "party boy" aspect of Tyrion's character for ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', replacing scenes of him being dignified and {{bookworm}}ish with yet more scenes of him getting drunk and sleeping with sex workers. |
| 235 | ** Actually discussed in his ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' review, where he notes many incidental character traits get pumped up to their most logical extreme in the film. Winnie's family is a little better off than the rest? Now she's BlueBlood! Winnie thought playing in the forest would be more interesting than playing in the yard? Now she's trapped in a GildedCage! The man in the yellow suit wanted to meet the Tucks to see if immortality was real? Now he's a crazed, obsessed, phantom-like stalker who's been on their tail for months! NiceGuy Miles was sad his wife and kids left him? Now he's ''angry'', bitter, and a total dick to everyone because of it. |
| 236 | * FormallyNamedPet: ''Sir'' Terry Pratchett, a ginger cat named after Dominic's favourite [[Creator/TerryPratchett author]]. |
| 237 | * FranchiseOriginalSin: [[invoked]] {{Discussed|Trope}}. Dominic remarks in his final ''Fifty Shades Freed'' review that the chemistry, dialogue, and sex scenes between the two leads was always wooden and awkward, so the films always tried to make up for it by bombasting pop song after pop song in every scene to try to compensate for it. However, while it wasn't that noticeable or distracting in the first films, it's become so bad in the third that he finds it almost unwatchable. |
| 238 | * FreezeFrameBonus: Though you ''can'' see them when they're on-screen, pay attention to the Harry Potter reviews hosted by Terrence after Prisoner of Azkaban if you rewatch them, specifically when the Marauder's Map appears. Terrence's name will appear and he'll be doing something hilarious. Mostly while other stuff you'd most likely be paying attention to is going on. |
| 239 | * FridgeBrilliance: {{Invoked}} for the ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' review. Dominic finds it odd that Dinah, the cat from the supposed "real world," noticed odd things and waved... until he remembered that [[AllJustADream Alice was already asleep by that point]]. |
| 240 | -->"Well-played, Disney. Well-played." |
| 241 | * FridgeHorror:[[invoked]] Dominic can't stop thinking about the horrific implications of ''The Sheep-Pig'' by Creator/DickKingSmith (the otherwise harmless children's book that inspired ''Film/{{Babe}}'') giving animals sapient intelligence yet making them fully aware of (and ''okay with'') being raised for slaughter. |
| 242 | -->'''Dominic:''' "I may be ewe, I may be ram.\ |
| 243 | I may be mutton, I may be lamb.\ |
| 244 | But on the hoof or on the hook.\ |
| 245 | I ain't so stupid as I look."\ |
| 246 | 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?!]] |
| 247 | ** Terrence's revelation about Love Potions in Harry Potter being essentially Date Rape drugs. |
| 248 | * FridgeLogic: (InUniverse) ''Don't You Think That's Fucking Weird?'' |
| 249 | * GettingEatenIsHarmless: In the ''Film/JurassicPark'' episode, Dominic is eaten by a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. He then does the rest of the review from inside its stomach. |
| 250 | -->"I've just got to figure out how to set up a [[ChromaKey green screen]] in here now." |
| 251 | * TheGhost: Reginald, the clone butler who mans the [[TactfulTranslation Calm Intellectual Filter]]. |
| 252 | ** Lampshaded by Terrence, who feels it's a shame Dominic never gives him any screen time. |
| 253 | * GrayAndGreyMorality: Dominic notes how author David Morrell intended for the original Rambo book, ''Literature/FirstBlood'', to portray Rambo and police chief Teasle as equally flawed people who equally contributed to the escalating fights that resulted in the blood bath. The film chucked this in favor of pure BlackAndWhiteMorality. |
| 254 | * GuiltyPleasures: Dom admits that ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress2017'' is this to him, a movie he knows is far from a perfect adaptation but he greatly enjoys anyway. |
| 255 | * HateSink: |
| 256 | ** Count Olaf from the book series ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', something that both [[Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2004 the film]] (AffablyEvil) and [[Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017 the Netflix series]] (FauxAffablyEvil) have yet to get right. |
| 257 | ** [[invoked]]Dominic remarks at one point that Creator/JKRowling has a talent for writing antagonists that the reader "just wanted to ''punch right in the face'' '' '''so badly''' ''", but this rarely comes across in the films since they're usually too bland or [[DracoInLeatherPants too likable]]. That is, except for [[SugaryMalice Dolores Umbridge]]. |
| 258 | ** The trope gets a shout-out his review of ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'', saying his favorite villains are either those who are complete hate sinks or whose motivations are genuinely sympathetic. |
| 259 | ** The trope gets name-dropped again when he describes the comic version of Gideon from ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' as "the best HateSink since Count Olaf and Dolores Umbridge." |
| 260 | * HaveAGayOldTime: Comes up in his video on ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' where there are several passages that take on a ''very'' different meaning in today's context. |
| 261 | * HePannedItNowHeSucks: (InUniverse) In the ''Lost in Adaptation: Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' video, we find out that fans of ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld 2}}'' did ''not'' appreciate Dominic's scathing review in an earlier episode. |
| 262 | * HiddenDepths: Terrence is a Douchebag, but the final Harry Potterathon reviews reveal [[spoiler:he participated in the Battle of Hogwarts, where he lost several friends and an eye]], has a few PetTheDog moments throughout the series, and [[AccidentalPublicConfession accidentally confesses]] in a [[InVinoVeritas drunken rant]] that the real reason he still wears Ravenclaw robes is [[spoiler:he's still traumatized from the Battle of Hogwarts]]. |
| 263 | * HilariousOuttakes: Several episodes have outtakes played during the end credits, showing Dominic flubbing lines, fumbling with props, or just messing around while in costume for a skit. |
| 264 | * HollywoodHomely: [[invoked]] {{Discussed|Trope}} when it comes to quite a few examples of AdaptationalAttractiveness. |
| 265 | ** Feels this way about Creator/EmmaWatson playing [[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]], especially in the [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire fourth film]] where Hermione's plainness ties into the plot. |
| 266 | --->"It was a bit off-putting that she was leagues prettier than the girls who were ''supposed'' to be the mind-bogglingly hot ones, Krum's attraction to her seems perfectly understandable in the film, and the makeover that shocked everyone at the ball doesn't seem all that different from her usual look aside from her hair. Book Hermione was not excessively ugly, ''but'' she did ''not'' have the potential to be a Cover Girl like Emma Watson." |
| 267 | ** Though to give Emma a fair shake, Dominic later acknowledges that Creator/DanielRadcliffe shouldn't have hit the gym so hard since his ripped muscles don't fit with book Harry's signature skinniness. |
| 268 | ** Also rips into the film adaptation of ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' for trying to portray ''[[Creator/AnneHathaway Anne-freaking-Hathaway]]'' as ugly just because of some [[TheGlassesGottaGo glasses]], [[BigOlEyebrows eyebrows]], and [[QuirkyCurls curly hair]]. |
| 269 | * IdiotPlot: [[invoked]] {{Discussed|Trope}}. Dom savagely lambasted the plot of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2: Arrival'' for making no goddamn sense and essentially RailRoading the player into committing a war crime that is barely touched on in the future and happened only to justify Shepard being in Alliance custody and relieved of duty at the start of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''. |
| 270 | ** AdaptationalAttractiveness notes the whitewashed American film version of ''Manga/DeathNote's'' Light and L are so '''rock stupid''' that the only reason they get away with half their moronic plans as long as they did is because everyone around them is ''even dumber.'' |
| 271 | * ImStandingRightHere: In the LIA of ''Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince'', Terrence points out that the scene where Ron and Harry talk about Dean Thomas takes place after bedtime, while they're in the room they share with Dean Thomas, meaning he was probably within earshot. Terrence mentions he can sympathize with that and the scene then smash cuts to a bunch of Ravenclaws badmouthing Terrence regarding how much of an insufferable prick he is and how they wish they could transfer him out of Ravenclaw. When he indignantly points out he's sitting right there and can hear them, the rest yell "GOOD!". |
| 272 | * ImprobableInfantSurvival: In both versions of ''Film/JurassicPark'' Hammond's two grandchildren survive, but in the book some raptors managed to sneak onto the mainland. Dominic proceeds to CG a raptor walking out of a maternity ward and burping up a teddy bear. |
| 273 | ** In his final ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'' review, he notes that in the book Katniss sees a toddler get mowed down by bullet fire while wailing over the body of her mother following a first-wave bombing attack. In the film, he notes they chose to omit that. |
| 274 | --->'''Dominic:''' I mean, I wasn't ''hoping'' to see it, but still. |
| 275 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Dominic's reaction to seeing Music/{{Sting}}'s futuristic Speedo scene from ''Film/Dune1984'' is to drink an entire fifth of Southern Comfort, all in one go. He then [[spoiler:passes out]]. |
| 276 | * InNameOnly: Frequently {{Discussed|Trope}}, seeing how he works with adaptations: |
| 277 | ** ''[[Film/IRobot I, Robot]]''. The [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]] from the [[Literature/IRobot book]] are used in the movie... [[ZerothLawRebellion more or less]]. Other than that, very little of [[Creator/IsaacAsimov Isaac Asimov's]] original stories remain. Dominic points out how problematic it is that the movie involves a [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters robot uprising]], considering that Asimov wrote the original book specifically to ''[[SubvertedTrope subvert]]'' this idea. |
| 278 | ** Dominic references this trope by name in the ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' review, when he invokes the In Name Only Clause: since the [[Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit book]] and the movie have so little in common, he's forced to dispense with the normal format of his show (What They Changed/What They Didn't Change/What They Left Out Altogether), instead summarizing each version separately. |
| 279 | ** The ''Literature/EllaEnchanted'' book and film are both about a young girl named Ella (who lives in a StandardFantasySetting) being cursed with the "gift" of obedience by a foolish fairy named Lucinda on the day of her birth, and her falling in love with a prince who goes by Char in her teens... and that's about it. |
| 280 | ** Ironically, in spite of ''Film/BladeRunner'' being one of the main examples Dominic had in mind when he came up with the "In Name Only" clause, he found out to his surprise that the film had just enough in common with the [[Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep book]] to avoid invoking that clause. |
| 281 | ** ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' was a "no fucks given" adaptation. |
| 282 | ** A good deal of ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' is this to its ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' comic counterpart, since the film squeezes six books into one average-length film. Some parts of the film have only ''7 or 8%'' of an entire comic book's parallel storyline in them. |
| 283 | * InstantlyProvenWrong: In the review for ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}'': |
| 284 | -->'''Dom:''' For the first time in a while, this is a film that I've never actually seen before, mainly because of my aversion to horror. But I'm sure I can handle this one. Let's do this!\ |
| 285 | ''[walks off screen]''\ |
| 286 | ''[5 seconds of offscreen Thing noises]''\ |
| 287 | '''Dom:''' ''[flees screaming]'' |
| 288 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 289 | ** Notes in a number of his ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' reviews (especially ''Fifty Shades Freed'') how the films making changes end up conveying the ''spirit'' of what E.L. James was trying to convey better than she could, and than if they'd stuck to the scene by the letter. (Like the film making the architecht hitting on Gray an AdaptationalJerkass so Ana standing up to her ''actually'' comes across as a moment of "timid girl finally standing up for herself" empowerment rather than a case of mean-spirited employer-to-employee bullying like in the book.) |
| 290 | ** In his review of ''Literature/TheMissus'', he notes that by writing a novel where not much actually happens and most of the characters' problems are easily solved, E. L. James has actually ended up portraying the lead couple as having a healthy relationship and showing the importance of good communication skills. |
| 291 | * JerkJock: Terrence the Douchebag... The name says it all, really. |
| 292 | * JugglingLoadedGuns: In an interstitial in the ''Film/DieHard'' video, Dom tries a bit of GunTwirling then sticks the gun down the back of his pants like a badass who doesn't need a proper holster... and it goes off, resulting a panicked expression from Dom. |
| 293 | * JustAKid: Dominic tends to forgive Sansa from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' for being a PoorJudgeOfCharacter who constantly gets people killed just like her mother Catelyn Stark, since Sansa is 11 while Cat is a grown woman who should know better. |
| 294 | * KilledMidSentence: Terrence the Douchebag, in the PseudoCrisis at the end of part 1 of the two-part ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' adaptation review. |
| 295 | * LampshadedTheObscureReference: Dominic reviews of an episode of ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}'' which features a character named Cobb (played by Creator/PaulEddington), who is brainwashed by the Village. Dominic suggests that Cobb was subsequently sent undercover as [[Series/TheGoodLife Jerry Leadbetter]] to keep tabs on some "anarchists" (Tom and Barbara Good). We then get a caption that says: "1000 Awesome guy points to any non-Englishmen who got that reference". |
| 296 | * LastSecondWordSwap: Dominic's ultimate opinion of ''[[Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Lightning Thief]]'', due to [[TheIgor Reginald]]'s activation of the [[TactfulTranslation Calm Intellectual Filter]] halfway through: |
| 297 | -->"''That's'' why this film sucked, and ''that's'' why it can kiss -- its reputation goodbye." |
| 298 | * LessDisturbingInContext: [[invoked]] Dominic describes the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' books as "the heartwarming tale of a middle-aged man who constantly undresses infront of two preteen boys". |
| 299 | * LoveMartyr: These tend to drive Dominic up the wall. Looking at you, [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Anastasia Steele]] and [[NoNameGiven unnamed narrator]] of ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}''. |
| 300 | * MaliciousMisnaming: He hates Catelyn Stark so much that, in ''[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire A Dom Of Ice and Fire]]'', he only ever refers to her as "Fuck You, Catelyn Stark!" By the nineth and tenth episode he says it calmly, and occasionally uses the nickname "F U, Cat." |
| 301 | * MoralLuck: Discussed between Dominic and That Movie Chick in their joint review of ''Film/TheThing1982''. In both the film and [[Literature/WhoGoesThere short story]], the humans are driven to paranoid madness and turn on each other thanks to the alien that can impersonate humans, resulting in a few murders. In the film, one of the poor souls is proven human, highlighting the tragedy of how humans can become just as animalistic and monstrous as the alien they're fighting. In the original short story, the only people killed turned out to be the alien after all, thereby "justifying" the murder, and in-universe the ones who did the killing get let off the hook due to their victim turning out to be the alien (even though for all they knew it could have very easily been a human coworker). |
| 302 | * MortonsFork: Dominic sees the ''Film/DeathNote2017'' American filmmakers as putting themselves in this situation by adapting ''Manga/DeathNote'': If they make changes, [[TheyChangedItSoItSucks they'll piss off the very fanbase they were trying to attract]], and if they don't make changes they're just adding another [[SoOkayItsAverage mediocre]] addition to the huge AdaptationOverdosed pile. |
| 303 | * MST3KMantra: [[invoked]]Occasionally has to remind himself not to over-analyze fiction that's meant to be enjoyed, though especially in his ''Film/{{Babe}}'' review (since it was based on a harmless children's book). |
| 304 | * MyFutureSelfAndMe: The Lost in Adaptation review of ''Total Recall'' guest-stars ''two'' future versions of Dominic, one who has travelled back in time to prevent himself from just doing [[Film/TotalRecall1990 the 1990 version]] and skipping [[Film/TotalRecall2012 the 2012 version]], and one who has travelled back in time to make sure he still reviews the 1990 version as well. |
| 305 | * MyNaymeIs: It's Terence the Douchebag, but viewers spelled it "Terrence" so often that Dominic eventually had to change it. |
| 306 | * NetworkDecay: Soundly within the Major Shifts that Fit category, but as time goes on the channel has come to also include book and audiobook reviews and reviews of audiovisual spinoffs to various adaptations alongside its usual mission statement. |
| 307 | * NeverMyFault: Dominic tends to hate characters who have this attitude that we're supposed to find sympathetic. |
| 308 | ** He absolutely ''hates'' Catelyn Stark from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' for being this (according to him). She refuses to take any responsibility for 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. |
| 309 | ** He completely loathes Christian Grey from ''Fifty Shades Of Grey'' for constantly blaming Ana for his abusive, possessive, controlling behavior toward her. |
| 310 | ** He is ''disgusted'' with Film Adrian from ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' sexually harassing, stalking, and refusing to take "no" for an answer from Vivian (who tries to flee in an alley and ''scales a building'' to get away from him) until he finally wears her down into agreeing to date him, then after finding out she's a werewolf he blames HER for dragging him into her world and claims ''she'' should have avoided ''him''. |
| 311 | * NightmareRetardant: [[invoked]] '''"[[Literature/TheShining HEDGES ARE]] [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire NOT SCARY!]]"''' |
| 312 | * NoAccountingForTaste: [[invoked]] Discussed in his ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' review, as the LemonyNarrator comments that Westley and Buttercup getting together is probably an EsotericHappyEnding, speculating that once Buttercup's looks start to go Westley will lose what little enchantment he has with her (since they only ever snipe at each other when they're actually in the same room together), and start to realize [[TheMillstone what a useless, self-absorbed sycophant she is]]. |
| 313 | ** Rips ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' apart for this, naturally. He especially finds it damning that Anastasia has to keep verbally justifying why she and Christian are together (to the reader and other characters), as when you take away the CharacterShilling it's clear that they have ''nothing'' in common and can barely stand each other. |
| 314 | ** 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 an "ugly, smelly man who lives in a sewer." |
| 315 | * TheNotLoveInterest: Nearly every GirlOfTheWeek that the [[NoNameGiven unnamed protagonist]] encounters in ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}'', since the lead actor adamantly refused to go along with the writers' desires for [[NoHuggingNoKissing romances and sex scenes]]. |
| 316 | * ObligatoryJoke: When Dominic mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition in his review of ''The Vile Village'', he naturally makes a "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition" joke -- but it's got a bit of a twist on it. |
| 317 | -->'''Dominic:''' I just didn't get a Nazi vibe from the vile village [...] it's all way more "Spanish Inquisition" than "Fascism". Oh my goodness, I suspected the Spanish Inquisition! No one suspects the Spanish Inquisition! |
| 318 | * ObliviousToLove: While Dominic is not against this trope in principle, the trend of YA heroines like Katniss from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' and Mia from ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'' remaining steadfastly oblivious to the fact that a guy likes them even though it's so obvious [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Everyone (Else) Can See It]], and expressing extreme bewilderment to what the guy can possibly mean by it when he spells out that he loves her, tends to annoy Dominic a bit. |
| 319 | * OldShame: Everything but his most recent videos. |
| 320 | --> “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&t=124 Source]]) |
| 321 | * {{Omegaverse}}: Dominic has made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BePhKs3KsT4 a video explaining and discussing this trope]], focusing mainly on Alpha Male/ Omega Male Wattpad romances (and the MisterSeahorse trope)- in contrast to the heterosexual stories shown in Lindsay Ellis's video, the Omegaverse stories that Dominic covers are notably LighterAndSofter. |
| 322 | * TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: Dom isn't very fond of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga}}'', but he admits that Creator/StephenieMeyer does occasionally write some genuinely terrifying horror scenes. |
| 323 | * OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: [[invoked]] Dominic ''used'' to believe every film should be required to by law have every still-living author screen write (or at least have a huge say in the writing process) to ensure adaptation loyalty. He's since relaxed on this view after seeing a few disappointing film adaptations written by the original authors. |
| 324 | * OrphanedSeries: His retrospective on ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' has officially been abandoned eleven episodes in, as he felt he couldn't do the series justice. He's also since abandoned the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'' reviews. |
| 325 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: Discussed in his review of ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter''. He said he wrote an essay comparing vampire mythology to Darwinian Evolution, with the traits people like catching on as canon, and those people view as stupid (e.g. [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga sparkling]]) as dying out because nobody liked them. |
| 326 | * {{Padding}}[[invoked]]: Dominic feels that most of Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheHobbit'' is this. |
| 327 | * PeripheryDemographic: [[invoked]] Dominic was astonished to realize that he was kind of drawn into the social drama between teenagers in Literature/VampireAcademy. |
| 328 | * PeripheryHatedom: [[invoked]] |
| 329 | ** Discussed and contentiously averted in his ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'' and ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' reviews. Dominic admits that even though he didn't like them, he understands they were never meant to appeal to him to begin with, and admits when he thinks someone within their TargetAudience might like them. |
| 330 | ** [[invoked]] In fact, whenever Dominic reviews a work he's clearly not the intended audience for (especially teen romance and fantasy stories, being an adult male sci fi fan), Dominic is usually great about admitting he is ''NOT'' the work's target audience, examines whether his feelings toward a work are due to its own merits or his own preferences (only ''[[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades]]'' really falls short due to its abysmal writing and RomanticizedAbuse), and discourages viewers from invoking ReviewsAreTheGospel regarding fiction that was clearly never geared toward him to begin with. |
| 331 | ** [[invoked]] Dominic, inspired by Creator/LindsayEllis' video on the series, tries to judge ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' fairly. However while he acknowledges that a lot of the reasons people hated it back in the early 2010s were stupid (i.e., the audience being tween girls and the sparkling vampires), Dominic ends up concluding that the series ''is'' as awful as its reputation suggests. |
| 332 | * PetPeeveTrope: Having admitted to being a victim of a controlling abuser at one point in his life, Dominic has a ''very'' low tolerance for tropes like RomanticizedAbuse, TheMasochismTango, or even pretty modest BelligerentSexualTension, not only because they dig up bad memories and associations for him but because he feels that using them in stories is setting people up to get hurt via unrealistic portraits of what normal relationships look like. Even when they're portrayed as a strictly negative thing, that kind of controlling abuse or relationship friction often leaves him incapable of enjoying a story that utilizes them. |
| 333 | * PivotalWakeup: Dom, in character as a vampire, does one at the beginning of his review of ''Film/BramStokersDracula''. |
| 334 | * PromotedFanboy[[invoked]]: Dominic spends the beginning of one of his videos [[{{Squee}} squeeing]] over the fact that he has been picked up by Website/ChannelAwesome, as he is a big fan. |
| 335 | * ProtectionFromEditors: [[invoked]] Discussed. Dominic notes that ''Literature/BreakingDawn'' was the most divisive of Creator/StephenieMeyer's ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight Saga]]'' because she evidently intentionally missed many deadlines and didn't submit her final draft for editing until just before the publish date. By then, ''Twilight'' had become such a runaway success that they had to meet the deadline and make minimal changes before pushing it out the door |
| 336 | * RageBreakingPoint: |
| 337 | ** Dominic completely loses it when the film adaptation of ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'' 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. |
| 338 | ** PlayedForDrama in his ''Fifty Shades of Physical and Emotional Abuse'' video, where a clip of E.L. James claiming that ''Fifty Shades'' is a "love story" pushes him over the edge and causes him to break the screen behind him. |
| 339 | --->'''Dominic:''' I don't care that [Christian] calls it "spanking." The words [Ana] uses are, "Please don't hit me." THIS IS THE FURTHEST THING FROM A LOVE STORY!! ''(smashes the glass screen behind him)'' |
| 340 | * RapidFireNo: Dom's first attempt to watch ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}'' quickly leads to him fleeing across the screen shouting "Nope nope nope nope nope". He has the same reaction at the end when guest reviewer That Movie Chick suggests that he should do ''Film/{{The Fly|1986}}'' next. |
| 341 | * 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 thinks 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. |
| 342 | * RashomonStyle: He discusses this at the start of his ''House of the Dragon'' video. The original story is an in-universe historical text written by a historian after the fact, using three sources that were present for ''some'' events but absent for most, prudish and unwilling to document anything they found distasteful, and a horny jokester who wildly exagerated certain events for fun, and all of them frequently give different accounts of the same events. |
| 343 | * {{Retcon}}: Remember in the early ''Lost in Adaptation'' episodes that had cold openings where Dominic appeared in parodies of films or TV shows? Apparently, as of the ''Harry Potter-athon'', that's a thing only wizards can do, never mind that Dominic's reviews take/took place in Channel Awesome's Review-verse, where everyone who was on the site or had crossovers with those people are established as living in a universe where these kinds of things happen all the time. |
| 344 | ** Parodied in the ''Deathly Hallows Part 1'' [=LIA's=] cold opening, with Dominic having a tank out of nowhere, justifying it in that the ''Harry Potter'' films, as a result of different directors and writers over the years not knowing what was important in the books and, thus, had to add in things that are important in the later books that were left out of the earlier movies as if they'd been established rather than giving them any kind of setup when they're introduced. |
| 345 | * RetroactiveLegacy: His AprilFoolsDay video claimed ''Film/TheRoom2003'' was based on a Polish book from the '70s called ''The Room I Died In''. |
| 346 | * ReviewsAreTheGospel: [[invoked]] Actively discourages this, especially whenever he has to review a work he is clearly ''NOT'' the {{target audience}} for. He'll say whether he thinks a work can be enjoyed by a PeripheryDemographic if it worked for him, or its own TargetAudience even if he didn't personally enjoy it, but otherwise makes it ''very clear'' that his opinion toward something that was never meant to appeal to him to begin with should be taken with a grain of salt. |
| 347 | * RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: From the ''Film/IRobot'' review: |
| 348 | -->'''[[InAWorld Announcer]]:''' We designed them to be trusted with our homes. With our way of life. With our world. But did we design them... to be trusted?\ |
| 349 | '''Dominic:''' [[BigWordShout YEEEESSSSSSS!!!!]] Yes. The answer is ''yes''. |
| 350 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: Dominic starts the ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' reviews by admitting that when he was younger he judged the series for the typical reasons (i.e., the audience being tween girls and the sparkling vampires). He tries to give the series a fair look, only to end up concluding that the series ''is'' as awful as its reputation suggests, just not for the reasons he thought when he was younger. |
| 351 | * RomanticizedAbuse: Dominic ''' ''rips into'' ''' ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' for this. |
| 352 | * RomanticPlotTumor: [[invoked]] Arthur's crush on Trillian in the radio show and books becoming a full blown WillTheyOrWontThey major plot of the film. |
| 353 | ** Finds the 2002 Disney ''Tuck Everlasting'' film to be less compelling than the book, partly because the aged up Winnie's relationship with Jesse completely replaces her bonding with the rest of the Tuck family, and bumps the WhoWantsToLiveForever lesson right on the sideline until the [[BrokenAesop last minute]]. |
| 354 | * RuleOfFunny: Discussed in Dominic and Calluna's creator commentary for their first ''Film/TheHobbit'' review. Calluna is bewildered as to why Dom wanted her to be Gandalf and Beorn while Dom played the shorter character in the comedy skits, when she's shorter and a girl. Dom tells her that's exactly why he chose her; it's just funnier that way! |
| 355 | * RunningGag: |
| 356 | ** "I may be paraphrasing a little bit..." from the ''Lost in Adaptation: ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'''' episode. |
| 357 | ** "DURRRR!" from the ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Mass Effect 2: Arrival]]'' review. |
| 358 | ** The Harry Potterathon, in which all the Harry Potter movies get the ''Lost in Adaptation'' treatment, had its own running gag where every even-numbered movie review began with Terrence the douchebag wizard hijacking the show and doing the review in place of Dominic, only for Dominic to steal the show back at the beginning of the subsequent review. |
| 359 | ** "Azkaban!" in the ''Lost in Adaptation: Literature/HarryPotter'' episodes whenever the books and ''[[AdaptationDecay especially]]'' the films had the characters do something that would logically land them in Azkaban. This is taken to its logical conclusion in Part Two of the Half-Blood Prince episode when Terrence realized that the {{Love Potion}}s are essentially legal magical date rape drugs and proceed to put ''everyone'' in Azkaban and wipe his own memory to continue with the review. This is later referenced in Part One of the Deathly Hallows episode when Terrence points out the massive violation of the Statute of Secrecy in the film during the fight with the Death Eaters as Harry leaves the Dursleys. |
| 360 | --->'''Dominic (as a random wizard):''' As you're probably aware, you've all been sentenced to a few months of mandatory intensive lessons as an alternative punishment because, after half the Wizarding World was sent to Azkaban for sexual misconduct, there is now no more room for any more inmates. |
| 361 | ** During his ''Literature/EllaEnchanted'' review, every mention of the Prince's [[ObviouslyEvil Obviously]] EvilUncle includes a hilarious nickname pertaining to his DevilInPlainSight status, like "Uncle [=McObvious=]-Nasty," "Malice Incarnate," "Uncle Seriously, All-You-Have-To-Do-Is-Look-At-Him," and others. |
| 362 | ** Similarly, during his ''Fifty Shades Darker'' review he never calls Christian's gun-wielding submissive by name, so every time she comes up on-screen he refers to her by a new tongue-in-cheek nickname, like "Subby-[=McSubsub=]," "Cuckoo-For-Submissive-Puffs," "Heat-Packing Sub," among others. |
| 363 | ** When advertising for his patreon, for the people who can't/won't pledge, he says "If, however, right now you are thinking: 'My goodness, The Dom, I can't do that, I...'" then goes off on some fantastical scenario. Examples include hiring alien strippers, buying goats to feed dragons, bribing the Ferryman to get the soul of a recently deceased dog, and [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda being a Hylian immigrant who just found out]] [[RewardingVandalism that smashing other people's pottery results in losing money instead of gaining it]]. |
| 364 | ** For his ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' reviews: ''' '' "MOTHER-FUCKING DRAGONS!!!" '' ''' (''CGI dragon drops in and roars'') |
| 365 | *** For his ''A Brief History of Westeros'' reviews, would-be invaded kingdoms going, "FUCK OFF!" followed by the would-be invaders getting their asses kicked and then going, [[SourGrapes "Fine! It's too bloody cold/hot up/down there, anyway! You can keep it, X!"]] In the same videos, [[TheParanoiac King Aerys']] cries of "TREEEEEAAAASSSOOOOOON!" |
| 366 | ** Throughout his ''Film/{{Babe}}'' review, '''" WARNING - TAKING A CHILDREN'S BOOK TOO SERIOUSLY - WARNING - "''' flashes in bold red block letters on screen every time Dominic starts thinking too deeply about the implications of animals with human intelligence being raised for slaughter on farms. |
| 367 | ** Dominic's inability to pronounce any given author or filmmaker's name has become a {{Lampshaded}} RunningGag. |
| 368 | ** When talking about characters from the heavily whitewashed ''Series/{{Earthsea}}'' TV adaptation, he often prefixes their names with "White": "White Ged", "White Vetch", etcetera. |
| 369 | * SadlyMythtaken: All over the place with the Percy Jackson films, much to Dominic's annoyance. |
| 370 | * SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: One of Dominic's nitpicks regarding ''Film/StarshipTroopers''. |
| 371 | * SelfFulfillingProphecy: Dominic mentions Hollywood unintentionally doing this in "Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents, Lost in Adaptation": |
| 372 | -->'''Dominic:''' This is another fine example of Hollywood's tradition of being just sure enough that they won't get a sequel that they do everything in their power to make SURE they don't get a sequel! |
| 373 | * {{Sequelitis}}: [[invoked]] Discussed. Doing his retrospective on the ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', Dominic accuses the series of suffering from this, as he found each sequel to be of worse quality than the last. By ''Literature/BreakingDawn'', Dominic admits that he considers the series just as bad as ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''. |
| 374 | * SerialNumbersFiledOff: [[invoked]] {{Discussed|Trope}} in the look at ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]''. Dominic finds the book to be a blatant scene-for-scene, character-by-character, backstory-for-backstory rip-off of ''Franchise/StarWars'', just in a StandardFantasySetting with different names. He compares it to when a student copies an essay online, but then changes a few key words around hoping you won't notice. |
| 375 | * SharedUniverse: Thanks to being included on Channel Awesome and his various cameos and crossovers, he's part of the Reviewaverse. |
| 376 | * ShipperOnDeck: Calluna can't even bring herself to be mad at Terrence for cheating on her with, and dumping her for, Thrandruil from ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy, because of they make such a good couple. |
| 377 | -->'''Calluna:''' Yeah, I ship it. |
| 378 | * ShoutOut: Dominic tries to invoke the [[Film/StreetFighter "OF COURSE!"]] [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic meme]] when suggesting that the hotel from ''Film/TheShining'' may have been trying to take over the world. When it doesn't happen, he figures he hasn't earned it yet. |
| 379 | ** He [[RunningGag tries again]] in a later episode, only to have [[spoiler: the "[[ButForMeItWasTuesday It Was Tuesday]]" clip play instead]]. |
| 380 | * SingleIssueWonk: Dominic can barely contain his frustration at book Mia from ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'' whining about her height and lack of breasts "''the whole way through''" the book. |
| 381 | * SkewedPriorities: |
| 382 | ** Dominic cannot fathom how Book Mia from ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'' can find out she's a literal princess of an entire country, and never think about it beyond how it might impact her everyday teenage social standing. |
| 383 | ** Dominic is mildly disturbed that the [[NoNameGiven unnamed narrator]] of ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}'' can find out that [[spoiler:her husband ''murdered'' his first wife]] and feel not only completely unbothered by this, but ''elated'' that that means he loves ''her'' more than his first wife. |
| 384 | * SoBadItsGood: [[invoked]] Discussed regarding several works. |
| 385 | ** [[invoked]] Dominic admits that he finds both versions of ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'' to be this. |
| 386 | ** [[invoked]] Dominic doesn't personally find ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' or the ''Film/EllaEnchanted'' movie to be this (''Fifty Shades'' due to its RomanticizedAbuse, ''Film/EllaEnchanted'' due to dumbing down a smart story), but can see where other people might like it under the right circumstances. |
| 387 | * SoOkayItsAverage: [[invoked]] Again, frequently Discussed. |
| 388 | ** [[invoked]] Dominic describes the film ''Film/ManOfTaiChi'' as "a big old cup of meh." |
| 389 | ** [[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. |
| 390 | ** [[invoked]] While Dominic found the 2002 Disney film adaptation of ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' to be competently shot, he just found the whole thing dull, dull, dull, dull, dull. |
| 391 | ** [[invoked]]''Film/MinorityReport'': While Dom enjoyed it when it first came out (he was 14), he admits that most general audience's reaction was, "[[SoOkayItsAverage Well, it was pretty good... You, uh, wanna grab something to eat?]]" |
| 392 | ** [[invoked]] Apart from finding ''Film/ArtemisFowl'' to be an ''insult'' to the book by making Artemis an AdaptationalNiceGuy, Dominic ultimately finds it to be just an okay film overall; competently shot and edited in places, decent CGI, etc. But nothing memorable. |
| 393 | * SophisticatedAsHell: |
| 394 | ** Dominic imagines what it would be like if the book ''[[Literature/TheNeverendingStory The NeverEnding Story]]'' actually contained events that happened in ''[[Film/TheNeverendingStory The NeverEnding Story 3]]''. Sitting in an elegant-looking study with harpsichord music playing in the background, wearing a bow tie and [[WaistcoatOfStyle waistcoat]], he reads from a leather-bound tome: |
| 395 | --->'''Classy Dom:''' (''in German'') Meanwhile, Creator/JackBlack was being a massive asshole and tearing up the library and shit... |
| 396 | ** Does this again for ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', where he tries to imagine how a few added film scenes trying to evoke GirlOnGirlIsHot and UsefulNotes/FurryFandom would sound if the writings of classy, dignified Bram Stoker himself had been read out loud before a contemporary UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain audience. |
| 397 | --->'''Classy Dom:''' And now, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a reading from the recently published novel ''Dracula'' by esteemed theatre manager, Bram Stoker. *clears throat* "And then Lucy and Mina ran around in the rain giggling while their dresses got all wet and see-through. And then they totally started making out and stuff..." |
| 398 | * SpaceIsAnOcean: Dominic is frustrated that the Hiigaran spaceships in ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld 2}}'' resemble present-day naval vessels despite that making no sense. |
| 399 | -->'''Dominic:''' I call it the "''Film/WingCommander'' Movie Effect". I also call it "disappointingly dull". |
| 400 | * [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]]: While Dominic and his friend Feeblemew are discussing the ridiculous JigglePhysics in ''[[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball]]'', Feeblemew suggests that there should also be ''Dead or Alive: UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}}'', featuring guys with [[GagPenis exaggerated packages]]. |
| 401 | * SpellMyNameWithAThe: Back when Dominic used "The Dom" as his main moniker, he was "''The'' Dom". Even when he was using an honorific. He would also refer to himself as "[[TheTheTitleConfusion Captain The Dom]]" and "Uncle The Dom". |
| 402 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Dubbed "The Legolas Effect" for the Lost In Adaptation series, where a character in an adapted work (usually a fan favorite) is given more glory and screen time at the expense of other characters (as it is often done by way of lifting moments from other characters in the books, and just having that character do it instead). [[TropeNamer Legolas]] himself for the ''Film/TheHobbit'' films, and Hermione for the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films, are the biggest offenders to date. |
| 403 | * StalkingIsLove: Dominic is ''not'' a fan of this trope, and not afraid to blast it every time he sees it. |
| 404 | ** ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'': E.L. James glorifying Christian Grey stalking Ana (like Creator/StephenieMeyer did with Edward and Bella before them) drives him to {{Angrish}} many times. |
| 405 | ** ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'': Film Adrian relentlessly harassing and stalking Vivian after she makes it clear she doesn't want anything to do with him, following her to her place of work unannounced, and chasing her through an alley to the point that she has to ''scale a building'' to get away from him, all being portrayed as romantic, enrages Dominic as much as Christian Grey ever did. |
| 406 | ** Dominic is creeped out by the implication that Film Miles from ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' stalked his wife and children after they left him (and thus how he knew what happened to them), rather than feeling moved by how tragically Miles loved them as the film seems to suggest. |
| 407 | ** [[invoked]] ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'': Strangely enough, Dominic isn't that enraged by Scott stalking Ramona at a party, getting her private info from her friends, and later dropping by her place unannounced after she made it clear she wasn't interested. He does discuss the filmmakers having this attitude regarding Knives stalking Scott after he dumped her (since they [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally planned to use this]] to have them get back together at the end), even though the comic made it clear her stalking was a sign of her unhealthy fixation on him that she needed to grow out of. |
| 408 | ** d'Artagnan does this a lot to different women in ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', and Dominic is horrified by it. |
| 409 | ** Is a tad uncomfortable that Raul and the Phantom both do this to Christine in the original ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' novel, and is relieved that it was at least a little toned down in subsequent adaptations. (Though the ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' film added a new layer of creepy by revealing that the Phantom had been doing his "Angel of Music" shtick to Christine since she was ''eight,'' meaning he'd been [[WifeHusbandry effectively "grooming" her]] since she was a young child.) |
| 410 | * StandardFantasySetting: Dominic finds the setting of ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' to be this, finding nothing really remarkable about most of the fantasy races and cities apart from the dragons and the dwarves home kingdom. |
| 411 | ** Terrence also doesn't need to spend much time describing the setting of either version of ''Literature/EllaEnchanted'', since it's pretty much your standard pseudo-medieval setting with elves, gnomes, ogres, giants, etc. He does note that the book has enough unique features to the fantasy races that it's still a very smart and engaging read. |
| 412 | ** Notes that ''Literature/ThePrincessAndTheGoblin'' was cited as a direct inspiration for a lot of 20th century fantasy authors, including Creator/CSLewis and Creator/JRRTolkien. |
| 413 | * StealthPun: In the video for ''Mockingjay Part 1'', Dominic says that movie scenes that weren't in the book but didn't actually contradict anything in the book were arguably the "best part of the whole '''damn''' movie" - he says this while showing District 5's attack on the hydroelectric dam. |
| 414 | * StiffUpperLip: When [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Number Six's]] reaction to discovering he's been spectacularly conned by Number Two is simply a [[TheStoic stoic]] "Be seeing you," Dominic allows himself an outbreak of patriotic fervor. |
| 415 | * StrangelySpecificHoroscope: In the ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2'' review, he mentions that his horoscope predicted he'd be killed by a mob of ravenous fangirls when such a group attacks him and Terrence for saying Snape's backstory didn't excuse his horrible behavior or make him any less of an asshole. |
| 416 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: |
| 417 | ** In [[Series/GameOfThrones A Very Brief Recent History of Westeros]]: |
| 418 | -->'''King Aerys:''' Why don't you [Rickard Stark] come down here, and we'll, we'll discuss it...I ''definitely'' won't ''burn you alive''. |
| 419 | ** Despite retiring the character Terrence and swearing to stop talking about Creator/JKRowling and her work anymore; Dominic will still occasionally mention [[Literature/HarryPotter "those wizard books I don't talk about anymore"]], even when he could easily pick something else to reference. |
| 420 | * 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 rant-inducing slight...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]]. |
| 421 | * TargetAudience: Refreshingly for a Website/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. |
| 422 | * TechnologyMarchesOn: |
| 423 | ** [[invoked]]He's a little perturbed to realize that when ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' was first published in 1898, the British Empire had the strongest navy in history at the time, and their best weapons were armadas with cannons. When those failed to stop the invading tripods, Britain fell quickly. However, human warfare technology advanced ''so rapidly'' in the century that followed that every adaptation since (the 1930's radio drama, 1950's film, and ''especially'' the 2005 film) has had to [[AdaptationalBadass amp up the aliens' armor and weapons]] so they can outmatch US rockets, missiles, submarines, tanks, and eventually ''nukes''. |
| 424 | ** [[invoked]]While reviewing the 2009's ''Film/DorianGray'', an adaptation of Wilde's ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'', he notes this movie did something the previous 1945 version didn't. The 2009 version incorporates the jump in technology that occurs during Dorian's 20-year or so span. |
| 425 | * TemptingFate: On Dominic's Twitter, he said that he'd review ''Fifty Shades Darker'', in spite of his earlier adamant statement that he wouldn't, if his ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' review got a thousand retweets...which it ''did.'' When he does the review, one of the first thing he does lamenting this mistake. |
| 426 | * ThatCameOutWrong: |
| 427 | ** 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]]…" |
| 428 | ** In his review of the Website/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". |
| 429 | * TheyChangedItNowItSucks[[invoked]]: |
| 430 | ** 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. |
| 431 | ** 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." |
| 432 | ** Years further down the line, while looking over the film version of ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' (the musical), he admits that it is a virtually perfect adaptation of the source material... yet, it is deeply flawed in part ''because'' it refuses to adapt itself to a new medium. He describes this as the culmination of his "real life character arc" of slowly wrestling and coming to terms with the simple fact that sometimes it sucks ''because'' they don't change it. |
| 433 | * ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs[[invoked]]: Dominic speculates about this while talking about the sequels to ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''. |
| 434 | -->"The third film went so completely off the rails I can only assume the writers were smoking a [=NeverEnding=] Doobie while they worked." |
| 435 | * ThrowingOffTheDisability: Toward the end of the Harry Potterathon, after The Dom and Terrence have settled their differences, Terrence magically cures Dom's astigmatism, allowing him to discard his glasses. (In real life, Dominic had been treated with laser eye surgery some time before, and had been wearing fake glasses as The Dom to maintain his on-screen persona until he could work in an in-universe transition to a glasses-less look.) |
| 436 | * ThrowTheDogABone: |
| 437 | ** 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 rest of the cast (including Lestat) just stand back and watch, in the film version ''all'' the characters (save for Jesse) are actively involved in the climax, as [[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]] |
| 438 | ** Having read ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' he believes that Creator/StephanieMeyer got ''far'' too much flak for her sparkling vampires, considering that other authors have come up with ''much'' weirder vampire lore. He points out that "Quite late into her series, Creator/AnneRice 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." |
| 439 | * TooBleakStoppedCaring: [[invoked]] {{Discussed|Trope}}. Dominic didn't enjoy the ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' books and resents having to review the [[Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017 Netflix series]] due to finding the series too dark and depressing, since he feels so bad for the orphans and their ShaggyDogStory. |
| 440 | * TooKinkyToTorture: In a skit parodying Rico's lashing in ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Dom as Rico is shown enjoying it after the third hit and the instructor calling it off when he realizes Rico's enjoying it on the fourth one. Dom!Rico even slips up and calls Zim "Daddy" before correcting himself. |
| 441 | * ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: Hogwarts students singing a song with "toil and trouble" mentioned in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' caused Dom to wonder if Shakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' is a true story in the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' universe. |
| 442 | * {{Understatement}}: Dominic and Terrence are shocked and disgusted when, during the seventh Franchise/HarryPotter film, Ron refers to death of an innocent goblin as "unfortunate." [[DiscussedTrope Dom notes:]] |
| 443 | -->'''Dominic:''' Unfortunate? ''Unfortunate? Mister Weasley'', you and your friends used an ''unforgivable'' curse on an innocent bystander, and lead him to a painful death, and all you can say is "That's unfortunate"? |
| 444 | * UnEqualPairing: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] with [[Literature/{{Rebecca}} Maxim de Winter]] and his [[NoNameGiven unnamed second bride]], considering their difference in age, social standing, and [[spoiler:the fact that he's already murdered a previous wife to avoid the scandal of divorce]], which doesn't leave her much bargaining power in their marriage. |
| 445 | -->'''Dominic (as Narrator):''' Maxim, dear? Could you walk Jasper? I've done it every night this week and I could really use a break...\ |
| 446 | '''Dominic (as Maxim):''' (''cocks gun without even looking up from his newspaper'')\ |
| 447 | '''Dominic (as Narrator):''' You know what? I could really use the exercise. Come along, Jasper! |
| 448 | * UnfortunateImplications: [[invoked]] Will occasionally discuss adaptation changes that have serious baggage. |
| 449 | ** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': Dominic snarks that the film removed all the things Fleur was good at but kept her failing all the time, and speculates it was meant to humiliate the one female Tri-Wizard Tournament contestant. |
| 450 | ** Also from earlier in the Harry Potter-athon, due to not seeing it as was intended with Harry accidentally killing in self-defense, Dom thinks that he killed Quirrell in cold blood because of how the scene played out in the first movie toward the end. |
| 451 | ** ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}'': Notes that Book Mrs. Danvers had been the late Rebecca's governess and loved her like a daughter. Creator/AlfredHitchcock removed this so she comes across as a PsychoLesbian ''and'' gave her a horrific on-screen suicide, so Dominic is uncomfortable with how Hitchcock effectively demonized and "punished" the one coded lesbian character. |
| 452 | ** ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'': Dominic finds the book werewolves' [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything racially superior attitude toward humans]] and EntitledToHaveYou attitude toward Vivian, combined with the "stick to your own kind" message at the end, to be pro-segregationist white supremacy propaganda. He's also disgusted with the FemaleMisogynist director making Film Vivian an AdaptationalWimp and DecoyProtagonist while making Film Adrian (her human love interest) an AdaptationalBadass and SpotlightStealingSquad. |
| 453 | ** In ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain'', he points out that one of the scientists has experienced a GenderFlip, and that, while he wouldn't normally mind adding at least one woman to the book's [[ChromosomeCasting male-dominated cast]], they ''also'' took away the other characters' heavy flaws and piled them all onto her instead. |
| 454 | * UnintentionallySympathetic: [[invoked]]Milady Du Winter might be presented as the FemmeFatale BigBad of ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', but considering she doesn't do anything worse than the {{Designated Hero}}es, yet she's fiendishly intelligent and capable while they're self-absorbed and often incompetent. She's Dominic's favorite character in the book. He's also predisposed to be a bit sympathetic to her, given she's been mistreated by ''two'' of the main heroes for extremely flimsy and selfish reasons, one [[TilMurderDoUsPart trying to hang her to death after years of marriage just because he learned she was an ex-con]], the other using a BedTrick to engage in rape-by-deception and then bragging to her about it. |
| 455 | -->'''Dominic:''' Well, I guess if you want to Get Shit Done, you go to Milady Due Winter. |
| 456 | * UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: |
| 457 | ** [[invoked]] Everyone in ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', naturally. |
| 458 | --->'''Dominic:''' ''(through forced cheerfullness)'' All of these characters are scum! |
| 459 | ** [[invoked]] Dominic finds Maxim de Winter, the ByronicHero of ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}'', to be "a total wanker" at best, [[spoiler:a cold-blooded murderer]] at worst. Dominic also finds it jarring how little the second wife is concerned [[spoiler:about the murder of his first wife]], or de Winter's emotional distance with and frequent inconsideration to her compared to the film or a healthy couple in real life. |
| 460 | ** Dominic finds every character in both versions of ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' to be unlikable. The lead being a vain FemaleMisogynist, her human love interest eventually committing VanHelsingHateCrimes, the male werewolves of her pack being EntitledToHaveYou, and the DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything racial superiority the werewolves all feel toward humans all combined with the [[spoiler:"stick to your own kind"]] message at the end. |
| 461 | ** [[invoked]] Dominic acknowledges that the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' show creators' decision to have Khal Drogo [[MaritalRapeLicense straight up rape Danaerys on their wedding night]], rather than seek consent first like he did in the book ([[QuestionableConsent or as much consent as a girl in her situation can give]]) can put an "irredeemable douchebag" mark on Drogo, and [[RelationshipWritingFumble undermine the supposed sweetness]] [[AMatchMadeInStockholm of their later evolving romance]], to some viewers. |
| 462 | ** ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' and d'Artagnan, whom Dominic finds too lazy, cowardly, self-absorbed, AxCrazy and hedonistic (in their own ways), not to mention misogynistic pick-up-artists who treat women like garbage (from stalking to rape to murder). |
| 463 | ** Dominic actually found the cruel teachers in ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' to be more likable than George and Harold, due to how many of George and Harold's pranks wound up making people miserable. |
| 464 | --->''They glued everyone's asses to their seats, presumably ruining their clothing, they sabotaged the other kids' science projects that they clearly worked very hard on [...], they [[{{gaslighting}} gaslit]] a teacher into questioning his own sanity, drove multiple members of staff into resigning their jobs, and spoiled the lunch ladies' attempts to surprise the entire school with delicious muffins!'' |
| 465 | * 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 wank session. |
| 466 | * ValuesDissonance: [[invoked]] {{Discussed}} in his review of ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}''. |
| 467 | ** 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. |
| 468 | ** 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. |
| 469 | ** Discussed in his ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' review, as he points out that Creator/CSLewis was a middle-aged man in TheForties and it shows in his writing, since he had the character [[SantaClaus Father Christmas]] expressively forbid Susan or Lucy from participating in the upcoming battle because "women are not supposed to fight in wars," even though it ended up being redundant since they ended up missing the battle anyway. |
| 470 | ** [[invoked]] Observes how ''Literature/ThePrincessAndTheGoblin'' often goes out of its way to explain how noble-born children like Princess Irene are just ''naturally'', inherently more graceful, polite, well-mannered, and moral than common-born children, which most modern viewers find absurd. (And which Creator/TerryPratchett mocked relentlessly in his ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series). Also how the goblins are somewhat {{designated villain}}s and the narrator thinks nothing of human characters driving them out of their homes deeper underground and effectively committing ''genocide'' at the end, when most post-Imperialist Western societies now question the ethics of displacing and wiping out native populations. |
| 471 | ** [[DefiedTrope Defied]] for ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. Not only do d'Artagnan and the titular three musketeers come across as sleazy, lazy, self-serving, and misogynistic by today's standards, but Dominic reveals that apparently even contemporary readers found their behavior terrible when the book was first published, and Alexander Dumas used the now-familiar excuse "their behavior was acceptable during the time the book takes place in" (the 1610's) as an excuse even to 1840's readers. |
| 472 | ** Unsurprisingly, Dominic finds Erik and Raoul to both be creepy, possessive, controlling, jealous stalkers and emotional manipulators ([[DomesticAbuse at best]]) to Christine in the original ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' novel, even though when it was written it was believed that StalkingIsLove. |
| 473 | * 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. |
| 474 | * ViewerPronunciationConfusion: [[invoked]] |
| 475 | ** 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".) |
| 476 | ** He has difficulty with the last name of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' author Creator/LFrankBaum, eventually deciding to refer to him as "This Guy" and "The Author". |
| 477 | ** He misnames Creator/MichaelCrichton as "Michael Christian" in the ''Film/JurassicPark'' reviewn. |
| 478 | ** Although he doesn't seem to have noticed or addressed this, he mispronounced Adrian Veidt's name in the ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' review. |
| 479 | ** He fully admits to butchering the name of director Creator/AlfonsoCuaron several different ways in his ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' review. He says the same for Creator/GuillermoDelToro. |
| 480 | ** 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. |
| 481 | ** 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. |
| 482 | ** 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. |
| 483 | ** 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. |
| 484 | * WantingIsBetterThanHaving: In his ''Lost in Adaptation'' review of ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', Dominic bemoans the fact that Grandpa Joe's story about Prince Pondicherry and his chocolate palace did not make it into the movie. Since Dominic found it a particularly funny part of the [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory book]], he wishes it could've been left in. In an AlternateUniverse where Dominic reviews Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' instead, which ''does'' include this scene, Dominic finds the whole thing pointless and rather racist, and wishes that it could've been left out. |
| 485 | ** This trope is discussed quite a bit for ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' books. |
| 486 | *** Dominic learned to regret wanting ''every'' film to be a super loyal adaptation of the book once he got to ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' reviews, as the films follow the books so closely that the "what they didn't change" section of [=LiA=] doubles as a plot synopsis that takes up most of the episode, and the "what they didn't change/left out" sections are so threadbare he really has to struggle to find anything to talk about. |
| 487 | *** Similarly, while Dominic ''hated'' the DownerEnding of ''Mockingjay,'' Creator/JenniferLawrence's contented smile at the end of the final movie made him feel like the seeming happy ending was now a cop-out. |
| 488 | *** Dominic also discusses how ''Film/TheHungerGames'' filmmakers' decision to keep Katniss's introversion and stoicism for a visual medium makes it hard to feel invested in a DullSurprise lead character, but concedes that in another universe he's probably making this same episode ranting and raving about how the actress they got to visually and verbally express Book Katniss's inner thoughts and feelings comes across as a hysterical, cartoonish, overacting clown. |
| 489 | * WastefulWishing: One of the hypothetical scenarios for why you might not be able to contribute to Dominic's Patreon involves finding a magic lamp that grants three wishes, "and I ''meant'' to wish for infinite wealth, but, uh, well, long story short, I have three jetpacks now." |
| 490 | * WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: |
| 491 | ** Occurs during "Beer Talk, Part One" after a catastrophic spillage of beer. |
| 492 | ** [[invoked]] Happens during the ''{{Franchise/Dune}}'' review. Dominic is absolutely disgusted by all the [[{{Squick}} squicky]] things that go on in Baron Harkonnen's [[BloodierAndGorier introductory scene]] (none of which are in the original [[{{Literature/Dune}} book]]), and begins to go off on director Creator/DavidLynch. |
| 493 | --->'''Dominic:''' What the fuck is ''wrong'' with you, Lynch? Is this just how you get ''off'', you creepy son of a [[CurseCutShort bi]]-- ''(cuts feed)'' |
| 494 | ** Happens at the end of his ''Fifty Shades Darker'' book review where he descends into such {{Angrish}} about Christian's abusive behavior that the video cuts to a fan art of him stabbing the book with a sword and the accompanying message "Whoops! Looks like this reviewer is temporarily out of commission." |
| 495 | * WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Paul from ''{{Film/Dagon}}''. Dom describes him as a "science-computer man doing smart stuff." |
| 496 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Dominic and Terrence are ''horrified'' by the last Harry Potter film depicting a goblin being put under the Imperius Curse by Harry and the gang, being forced to lead them to the Gringotts dragon, and then being directly abandoned to suffer a fiery death by the dragon as "unfortunate," ''just'' because he's a goblin. They argue that he was a ''person'' they just killed, and they should be sent to Azkaban for ''murder'' just as if he had been a human. |
| 497 | ** Dominic is ''horrified'' that Creator/DickKingSmith gave farm animals near human intelligence in his book that inspired ''Film/{{Babe}}'', but kept the real-world practice of humans raising animals for slaughter. |
| 498 | * WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[https://youtu.be/3lnPaXM862c?si=sl5IRTww-YHvEECv This video]] which essentially collates all the WordOfGod given about what happened to all the surviving characters in ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' after the Battle of Hogwarts. |
| 499 | %%* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Dominic multiple times throughout this reviews of it. |
| 500 | * WifeHusbandry: Dominic is grossed out that the ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' Phantom had been doing his "Angel of Music" singing lesson schtick with Christine since she was ''eight,'' making his plans for her effectively this. |
| 501 | * WildMassGuessing[[invoked]]: Since the fandom of ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}'' is [[WMG/ThePrisoner full of this]], Dominic warns the viewers that their interpretations of the episodes may be completely different from his. |
| 502 | * WishFulfillment: To give ''Fifty Shades'' and ''Twilight'' fans a fair shake, Dominic acknowledges in one of his ''Fifty Shades'' reviews that he can see the appeal in a story (especially for people with low self-esteem) where an impossibly handsome and rich member of the opposite sex becomes hopelessly infatuated with an ordinary AudienceSurrogate and does all the work of bringing them together... The problem is the suitors in these ''particular'' stories are [[RomanticizedAbuse controlling, abusive, manipulative, sociopathic stalkers]]. |
| 503 | ** Likewise describes the ''Literature/AlexRider'' book series and subsequent ''Film/{{Stormbreaker}}'' film as "Franchise/JamesBond meets Literature/HarryPotter," and tends to forgive the 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. |
| 504 | * WorldOfWeirdness: The Reviewaverse. So weirdness on his show can and has happened. |
| 505 | * YouKeepUsingThatWord: |
| 506 | ** Dominic is ''emphatic'' that the "BDSM" in Christian and Anastasia's relationship has ''nothing to do'' with [[SafeSaneAndConsensual true]] [[CasualKink BDSM]], but Grey simply being [[RomanticizedAbuse manipulative, controlling, and physically and emotionally abusive to Ana]]. Dominic further notes that if in-universe Grey really didn't know the difference between his own twisted ControlFreak MommyIssues and real SafeSaneAndConsensual [[HeroicBDSM BDSM]] that'd be one thing, but ''[[WordOfGod E.L. James herself]]'' keeps writing passages saying that Grey went to official BDSM classes where he picked up past Subs, which Dominic stresses does ''not'' hold up to any kind of scrutiny. |
| 507 | ** Ana naming the judgmental part of her brain (the metaphorical [[GoodAngelBadAngel shoulder angel]] that disapproves of her for getting into the kinky sex with Grey) her "subconscious" nearly drives Dominic up the wall since ''that's not what "'''subconscious'''" means!'' |
| 508 | ** "The End of the Universe" mentioned at the end of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'' 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. |
| 509 | * YourHeadAsplode: Dominic claims that if Christian Grey ever met a 'real' feminist, who wouldn't put up with his controlling nature his head would literally explode from not being able to comprehend it. |
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