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[ SECRET POST #5819 ]

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Do you do this? I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one.

But it definitely depends on the analysis. I will happily watch Amanda the Jedi discuss movies I’ll never see in a million years. But doing the same with CinemaWins sometimes feels wrong – like I’m intentionally getting an exclusively positive take.

That's half the content I consume lmao, so you're definitely not alone. KrimsonRogue's been my particular poison lately.

AYRT – I’ll have to check out their channel!

yep, especially for things I know 100% I'll not consume. And most of the time I feel like consuming it after I watched a review-analysis of it.

AYRT – very rarely I’m actually convinced to watch or read something, but I guess it does happen

Sometimes. I watched Jenny Nicholson talk for 2.5 hours about a CW vampire show I never watched and I'm not sorry.

(All I really remember is the China Beach stuff, but whatever.)

See also "Jenny Nicholson talking for an hour about church plays" or "Jenny Nicholson talking for hours about theme park stuff"

Sometimes - I often don't mind being spoiled so I may watch it as a "review" because it's more interesting.

I definitely do this. If I think the person doing the analysis is interesting on their own terms, then I'm not really going to worry if I'm familiar with the underlying work.

I watch/read more analysis where I know the commentator but not the source material than I do vice versa. Most people who talk about media don't have anything interesting to say. So it's very rare that I'll go and actively seek out analysis for something I've seen.

Well said! I was trying to work out why I also do this before reading your comment, but I think you got it exactly. The few commentators I like are able to be interesting and insightful whether I know the media or not. And in my experience, that’s a serious minority of commentators.

Not really, no. I'm not a fan of any particular commentators, so why would I get invested in some rando's opinion of a movie I've never seen? (I like reading reviews fine, but I can't sit through a video essay unless I'm really interested in the subject matter.)

Yeah. I have deal-breakers that can't be summed up as easily as the dog dying. This helps me decide if a piece of media is worth my time.

I read fanfiction without knowing the canon they're drawing on, if I like the author well enough. But I've never wanted to do this with media analysis, because the people I've seen trying to make it put me off. It's partly a matter of how they express themselves: fandom as I remember it had plenty of people writing long, complex essays on canon, and back then, I definitely had people that I would read no matter what. These days, everyone seems to expect you to put up with their podcast or their video, and if anyone even bothers to make a transcript of the thing, you're looking at so much wasted time with the introduction and the ending spiel and the stupid jokes and the verbal crutches. It's such a mess. And the few times I've bothered to try to sit through that, I feel like what they had to offer in the first place was minimal.

Sometimes.
I don't do it with things I am going to watch, but sometimes I just like analysis for the sake of it

I do this. I am often not convinced enough to watch/do the show/movie/whatever, but it's interesting to hear what people got out of an experience I likely will never do (for whatever reasons).

On the chance I have experienced it or do it later, it's not super important to compare my takeaway from the creator(s) but it's fun on a vapid/quick level.

The bigger thing is just being entertained by what the creator shares.

Some are better story tellers than others.

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