[ SECRET POST #2402 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2402 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Sound of Music]


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[Saki]


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[Akumu-chan / My Little Nightmare]


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[Nostalgia Critic]



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[Arrested Development]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #343.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - ships it ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

His newer stuff is kind of tainted. Everyone knows he wanted to move onto to do different things, like Demo Reel. He just isn't a good writer, and the show was just a huge disaster of failure. Watching them is just a reminder that he failed at something he poured his heart (and over 200k money!) into. Also, he's begging for donations now. It's....really sad that he made internet reviewing his day job. Not stable at ALL.

[(Anonymous)]

It's sad he felt pressured to go back to reviewing nostalgic stuff.

And wow, I had no idea how much money he put into it, though thinking about it, it makes sense. And if it's really the only job he has, no, that's probably not healthy.

[truxillogical]

Eh, I think it wasn't just pressure. I think, as he said in the first new episode, he still sees things he'd like to do/say as the Critic. He just didn't want to be doing only that.

[(Anonymous)]

do you have a source for the 200k thing?

[(Anonymous)]

That's how much he paid to buy the studio.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't say he's a bad writer. Isn't he the one who writes the anniversary episodes?

s!a

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly I'd say it was just a matter of trying something new that just didn't appeal to anyone and wasn't on par with his old stuff. A writer is bound to write some complete shit that fails miserably.

[(Anonymous)]

He...isn't a good writer, though. The Nostalgia Critic was popular because he reviewed stuff people had nostalgia goggles for. It was pretty popular a few years ago, and then the bubble burst on internet reviewing, basically. Demo Reel had no real solid premise. He kept changing things, and it felt like it was trying to be a ton of different shows at once. He's trying to get 50k now to make a new show, and I honestly don't see that happening. :P

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think he's a bad writer either. I think his familiarity with TGWTG universe and characters, and having established a long-term fanbase, resulted in successful, more-or-less decent anniversary specials, though there was that one special where nothing behind the scenes went right at first and Doug almost canceled the whole thing.

But with Demo Reel, he was starting from scratch and was under a lot of pressure because everyone was (understandably) upset about him (understandably) hanging up NC's hat. So he ended up throwing ideas a the wall, getting lots of negative feedback, or none, which was quite rare coming from that fandom, and I think he was partly burned out but because he's a natural workaholic, he tried to push past it and it didn't work. With NC he could skate by with meh videos here and there, but with DR it started shaky and never had the chance to pick up.

I can understand criticism toward his type of humor and even agree with it sometimes, but I do think he's got the basics of writing down. With DR it's just that the timing and environment was off for him to create something completely new, which negatively affected his headspace because he wasn't getting/feeling encouraged to push through like he did during the third (?) anniversary special.

[ex_mek82]

Eh-yep, I agree.

Not to mention he had to bring back the Nostalgia Critic because his non-NC stuff, plus the other reviewers, were not making enough revenue off of their videos, since p. much NC was the only big draw that brought overall revenue to the site.

Kind of sad, really, but not surprising.

[(Anonymous)]

At first I was going to mention how the reduced publication rate (once a week to every couple of weeks) can skew perception...
BUT HOLY SHIT 200K???
I'll toss a couple bucks into his fundraiser out of pity.