A little bit of context here - when the Jimquisition started, I really hated it. But as feedback poured in, Sterling went about and made some changes to his shows as well as beefed up his argumentation and now, while still crude and raw, the show is actually quite fun to watch and smart. It basically did a 160 (not quite 180 
) in quality. That's my opinion anyway. The post here will be mainly addressed at Jim Sterling, even tho he probably doesn't read this forum ... you guys feel to comment on it.
I just don't understand why Jim is sticking to the 'douchebag/V for Vendetta rip off who think he's god's gift to the world' gimmick anymore.
Two things are pretty obvious with Jim...
1 - He's a troll. He enjoys getting a reaction. The whole concept of the show is usually him taking a popular opinion and destroying it, so obviously the people who share that opinion will get mad and flame him. He's kinda like an inflamatory version of Extra Credits.
2 - He cares about what people think. He's open to criticism and willing to act on it. This is obvious because most of the improvement the show went through were pretty much straight out of the comment section.
So while Jim now makes good points, I can't help but roll my eyes and go 'Ah, ok, show's over, he's done being interesting and going back to his gimmick to make his close' when he goes all orgasmic and says 'And thank god fer me!' By now, I would think that most of the haters have moved on. The Jimquisition no longers generate 300+ comments a week and his down to a much more realistic level and most of those comments are positive. In short, your job of 'shocking people' is now wasted, as most of the people watching you like you already.
The other thing that is odd, is that Jim has at least on 2 occasion (including this week) started off by going (not quite word for word of course) 'I'm not really this douchebag you see. This is a persona I made up. And you are stupid if you do not realize it'. What's the point of this?
If it bothers him that people think he's really an asshole... why not just drop the act? In fact, even if it doesn't... why doesn't he drop it anyway since it doesn't really add anything to the show? What more, the fact that he's openly contradicting his gimmick makes the whole thing hollow.
I'm remembered of Goldust, a wrestler from back in the day when the WWE was still the WWF. His gimmick was basically every negative gay stereotype - a predatory flamboyant queer. He really creeped out the public. But that made him popular, because people loved to hate him. As his popularity waned, they tried make a good guy out of him - by revealing that he was a married man and a father. Except the next week, he went on to fight doing all his homo-erotic things... but now, people were laughing at it instead of being creeped out. This was the beginning of the end for the gimmick.
So yeah basically Jim, you're kinda being like goldust here... not in the sense that you are fat and like man meat, but rather in the sense that by contradicting your gimmick, you're making it utterly pointless.
I understand that he kinda needs a gimmick to set himself apart from the crowd, but I still think it's just not a good gimmick. He already has a really inflammatory editorial style which is refreshing in its brutality and crudeness... not quite sure the whole preacher/douchebag thing is something he needs to keep around.
EDIT:
In an attempt to limit to those type of comments, I'm going to go out and add this here -
Yes, everybody has a gimmick. Yahtzee is a bitter curmudgeon. MovieBob is a snob.
The core difference between those 2 and Jim however, as that both Yahtzee and MovieBob own up to their gimmick - both of MovieBob's show make him come off as a snob and Yahtzee's Extra Punctuation column only heighten his dislike of everything. While Jim spend a good 15 seconds every other show telling people it's an act. Why bother with the pretense?
) in quality. That's my opinion anyway. The post here will be mainly addressed at Jim Sterling, even tho he probably doesn't read this forum ... you guys feel to comment on it. I just don't understand why Jim is sticking to the 'douchebag/V for Vendetta rip off who think he's god's gift to the world' gimmick anymore.
Two things are pretty obvious with Jim...
1 - He's a troll. He enjoys getting a reaction. The whole concept of the show is usually him taking a popular opinion and destroying it, so obviously the people who share that opinion will get mad and flame him. He's kinda like an inflamatory version of Extra Credits.
2 - He cares about what people think. He's open to criticism and willing to act on it. This is obvious because most of the improvement the show went through were pretty much straight out of the comment section.
So while Jim now makes good points, I can't help but roll my eyes and go 'Ah, ok, show's over, he's done being interesting and going back to his gimmick to make his close' when he goes all orgasmic and says 'And thank god fer me!' By now, I would think that most of the haters have moved on. The Jimquisition no longers generate 300+ comments a week and his down to a much more realistic level and most of those comments are positive. In short, your job of 'shocking people' is now wasted, as most of the people watching you like you already.
The other thing that is odd, is that Jim has at least on 2 occasion (including this week) started off by going (not quite word for word of course) 'I'm not really this douchebag you see. This is a persona I made up. And you are stupid if you do not realize it'. What's the point of this?
If it bothers him that people think he's really an asshole... why not just drop the act? In fact, even if it doesn't... why doesn't he drop it anyway since it doesn't really add anything to the show? What more, the fact that he's openly contradicting his gimmick makes the whole thing hollow.
I'm remembered of Goldust, a wrestler from back in the day when the WWE was still the WWF. His gimmick was basically every negative gay stereotype - a predatory flamboyant queer. He really creeped out the public. But that made him popular, because people loved to hate him. As his popularity waned, they tried make a good guy out of him - by revealing that he was a married man and a father. Except the next week, he went on to fight doing all his homo-erotic things... but now, people were laughing at it instead of being creeped out. This was the beginning of the end for the gimmick.
So yeah basically Jim, you're kinda being like goldust here... not in the sense that you are fat and like man meat, but rather in the sense that by contradicting your gimmick, you're making it utterly pointless.
I understand that he kinda needs a gimmick to set himself apart from the crowd, but I still think it's just not a good gimmick. He already has a really inflammatory editorial style which is refreshing in its brutality and crudeness... not quite sure the whole preacher/douchebag thing is something he needs to keep around.
EDIT:
In an attempt to limit to those type of comments, I'm going to go out and add this here -
Yes, everybody has a gimmick. Yahtzee is a bitter curmudgeon. MovieBob is a snob.
The core difference between those 2 and Jim however, as that both Yahtzee and MovieBob own up to their gimmick - both of MovieBob's show make him come off as a snob and Yahtzee's Extra Punctuation column only heighten his dislike of everything. While Jim spend a good 15 seconds every other show telling people it's an act. Why bother with the pretense?
