Nostalgia Critic and the Masters of the Christmas Special!

[figmentPez]

Nostalgia Critic reviews He-Man and She-Ra - A Christmas Special

Funny, and I enjoyed it, but for goodness sake NC, learn to use Wikipedia, or Google, or anything. If you don't remember something, look it up! Don't preface a video with "I don't really remember, so if I get something wrong that's why." If you don't know something about the show, look it up or ask someone! I wanted to enjoy the jokes with getting Hordak's name wrong, and I would have if he hadn't said anything about not remembering the show. A joke about incomprehensible dialogue became just another facepalm of the NC not bothering to look anything up.

 

[Bowielee]

Yeah, the Hordak joke would have been much better if he hadn't acknowledged that he doesn't even know who the character is.

 

[CynicismKills]

This has always been the one thing I really don't like about him. I mean seriously, if you don't remember it you either need to look the shit up or just don't review it. It's not nostalgic if you don't know what it is to begin with.

 

[LittleSin]

Oh please.

His reviews are about what he remembers and his impressions as he watches the thing. He then scripts those thoughts. It isn't really about research.

Like, there are many times I'm watching something and I can't remember a name of a character...it doesn't stop me from riffing on it.

 

[Piotyr]

This has always been the one thing I really don't like about him. I mean seriously, if you don't remember it you either need to look the shit up or just don't review it. It's not nostalgic if you don't know what it is to begin with.

No, it's not nostalgic if you have to research what you should react to before hand. What's nostalgic is what you remember of the franchise.

 

[Heavan]

Hell, isn't the whole point of nostalgia the 'Man that was a great series, I need to rewatch that... wait, who's that guy? What's going on? I don't remember any of this! This series is terrible!' factor?

 

[figmentPez]

No, it's not nostalgic if you have to research what you should react to before hand. What's nostalgic is what you remember of the franchise.

I disagree. Nostalgia is a desire to return to something in one's past. It doesn't matter if you augment your memory with research, it's still nostalgia if you're going back to days gone by. Grabbing out a yearbook so you can remember the name of that guy you were in drama club with doesn't mean you can't have bittersweet memories about your times together. In fact, I've found that, when sharing old stories with my family, hearing something I didn't recall on my own only serves to heighten nostalgic feelings.

In fact, much of what the Nostalgia Critic does is anti-nostalgia. He has no desire to return to many of these movies, and actively disillusions as many fond memories as he can. It's a nice bit of comedic irony, really. The normal source of melancholy in nostalgia is wishing to return, but knowing it's not really possible. With the critic, the movies are out there to watch, but you don't really want to return to them.

Oh please.

His reviews are about what he remembers and his impressions as he watches the thing. He then scripts those thoughts. It isn't really about research.

Like, there are many times I'm watching something and I can't remember a name of a character...it doesn't stop me from riffing on it.

It doesn't bother me that he gets things wrong, it bothers me that he prefaces his segment by telling people he doesn't remember. I think it detracts from the humor to say something like that.

It's one thing to say "I can't remember who this character is, but..." and another to skip that, call the character by some mocking nickname and get on with the joke. The audience doesn't need to know you're calling the bad guy "Suzy" because you didn't remember his real name. Just throw a name out there and get on with the gag. Be spontaneous and off-the-cuff, or do the research and be a little more thoughtful in your humor, but don't apologize for it whatever you do.

 

[CynicismKills]

Yeah, really if he wanted to be truly nostalgic he'd review things he likes.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Yeah, really if he wanted to be truly nostalgic he'd review things he likes.

But it is hard to be insulting to things you like. I meant funny about things you like...

 

[figmentPez]

Oh, almost forgot. I'd meant to link to this in the first post.

Doug Walker, Lewis Lovhaug (Linkara) Riff on Dragonball: The Magic Begins. Apparently they did this MST3K-style video mocking at Youmacon in front of a live audience. Pretty cool set-up, and the movie certainly deserves mocking.