They’ve been that way for a long time and it really pissed me off. They really just do not pay attention, and I think they do it because they think it’s funny and relatable to act confused. They would also do that a lot with information they’re not directly familiar with. They have an encyclopedic knowledge of certain dumb and obscure things, but the idea that Taskmaster was a popular Marvel villain, for example, gets played up into this crazy wild nerd concept for them to act baffled about. I don’t even care most of the time, it’s just annoying when they pretend like having some information or context is somehow beneath them.
Mr. Sunday Movies does it well where they have James as the one who knows everything (be it from researching it or existing knowledge) and explains it to Mason, and you get a funny back and forth out of that. Superhero Stuff You Should Know does a similar thing but they’re not particularly funny, just informative. If no one on the show knows what they’re talking about to fill in the others, it becomes a problem.
My original point with the RLM tangent was that the criticisms of the prequels were mostly correct. No one has really disagreed with that, just disliked the presentation.
Nah, the Plinkett reviews had excellent presentation and idiotic arguments.