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twooffour
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RedLetterMedia's Revenge of Nadine [TPM 108 pg Resp. [RotS Review+RotS Preview+ST'09 Reveiw+Next Review Teaser+2002 Interview+AotC OutTakes+Noooooo! Doc.+SW Examiner Rebuttal+AotC Review+TPM Review]
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15-Jan-2011, 12:48 PM

Akwat Kbrana said:

Quackula said:

Plus, the title of his rebuttal is "A Study in Fanboy Stupidity".

LOL! I'm sure his little rebuttal is a study in fanboy stupidity...the title is apropos, just not in the way he intended.

Seriously, how sad is this? Does he really think anyone besides his fellow Lucas gusher nerds is going to care? The reason so many people watched RLM's reviews is that they are 1) Video, not text; and, 2) Amusing in their own right. So they're easy & enjoyable to watch.

But virtually no one is going to want to read through 100+ pages of some geek's "rebuttal" of a youtube video review of a Star Wars movie. Personally, I doubt I'd even be all that interested in watching a video rebuttal, and he expects people to slog through a book-length document just to find out why he disagrees with someone's negative review of TPM? Frikkin' hilarious.

 

Actually, I'm planning to read it. Not because I'm a fan of the prequels, but because both the films and reviews are within my scope of interest, and I prefer viewing both critically at any time - documents such as these can open new perspectives, if written well.

As for people watching the reviews cuz they ain't text - fuck that, what you're writing right now is text. Packing content into an easly digestable, amusing package can help attract people's interest, but that doesn't mean people who're already interested in the topic aren't taking a look anyway. A negative side-effect of being charismatic and entertaining is that the stupider folk ends up attached to your persona and becomes uncritical, protective fan dumb.

Kinda like your old history class - the smarter kids interested in history are going to listen even if the teacher is boring; the stupider can end up admiring and quoting their cool and hip and funny teacher without consideration for a long time.

 

Personally, I think your comment is "sad", and "frikkin' hilarious" - in its premise, 50 times more blindly fanboyish than the object at hand, and completely superfluous: if you're not gonna read it, don't comment.