Poll: TGWTG.....what shows did you watch?
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I generally like JO's reviews, but she seems to review the anime when it fully releases in North America. This makes all her reviews about 2-4 years old from my perspective. As such I only watch her in the rare case I haven't seen what she's reviewing.
I do have some gripes with her style of review though. From the videos I've seen, an individual review tends to be about half actually reviewing the show, and the other half a long winded dissertation into storytelling/film making/whatever else. For example, see her Madoka review. She spends half the review talking about what makes a good tragedy.
This in itself isn't a bad thing and can be appreciated in short, condensed segments in your review to enhance the viewer's understanding of where you're coming from. However, when over 50% of the "review" becomes exposition into the academics behind storytelling it ceases to be a review of a show, and becomes something I'm not always interested in watching.
I do have some gripes with her style of review though. From the videos I've seen, an individual review tends to be about half actually reviewing the show, and the other half a long winded dissertation into storytelling/film making/whatever else. For example, see her Madoka review. She spends half the review talking about what makes a good tragedy.
This in itself isn't a bad thing and can be appreciated in short, condensed segments in your review to enhance the viewer's understanding of where you're coming from. However, when over 50% of the "review" becomes exposition into the academics behind storytelling it ceases to be a review of a show, and becomes something I'm not always interested in watching.
I watch a few. Spoony (still watch his stuff even though he's not on TGWTG), Nostalgia Chic, Angry Joe, JesuOtaku, sometimes Diamanda, and any of the others if they cover something that interests me. Does the end of NC mean the end of TGWTG? No, that's a stuoid thought. A shame, I still like the NC. But if it's what he wants to do then I'm fine with that.
I like NC so regret to hear character is retired, even the bad NC episodes were watcheable, guess its the whole catharsis effect of watching stuff seen as a kid get brutally torn apart.
Without him TGWTG looks a less attractive place, especially with spoony gone.
Still, there are a few people's shows from there i follow so have a reason to check back every once in a while: mike (the british person), nostalgia chick, nash when he does doctor who stuff (i dont watch doctor who so is great way to see what fuss is about), angry joe, film brain and rap critic.
Oh and also that guy who does mmos review though i usually watch that on his own site.
Without him TGWTG looks a less attractive place, especially with spoony gone.
Still, there are a few people's shows from there i follow so have a reason to check back every once in a while: mike (the british person), nostalgia chick, nash when he does doctor who stuff (i dont watch doctor who so is great way to see what fuss is about), angry joe, film brain and rap critic.
Oh and also that guy who does mmos review though i usually watch that on his own site.
I watch a lot of the stuff on there. NChick, Todd, Paw, Lupa, Phelous, and Sage. I particularly love Sage's Anime Abandon because none of the other reviewers go through quite the level of weird shit he goes through on that show. I mean just...Mad Bull 34! Don't know what that is? Watch this, and prepare your body.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/the-sage/anime-abandon/32049-mad-bull-34-part-i
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/the-sage/anime-abandon/32049-mad-bull-34-part-i
Nostalgia Chick, Paw, Film Brain, Linkara, Cinema Snob, Todd in the Shadows, Rap Critic and Oancitizen would be the contributors I mainly watch, if I see something interesting in the new videos tab or a good cross over I'll occasionally check out someone elses stuff too.
I heard about that too and it's too bad NC is retiring. Hopefully there will still be bum reviews and, top 11's, etc. Anyway, I mainly watch TGWTG for Linkara. I also really like Cinema Snob, Filmbrain, Blockbuster Buster and I'm getting into Jesotaku. Rap Critic is also pretty entertaining.
I watched Todd in The Shadows, Nostalgia Chick, Diamanda Hagan, Brows Held High, The JesuOtaku Anime Review, Forget About It, Obscurus Lupa Presents, Atop the 4th Wall, Anime Abandon, The Cinema Snob, The Spoony Experiment, Rap Critic, Y Ruler of Time, and Welshy fairly regularly. Used to watch Phelous regularly, but he has not been as good as of late, so my viewership has declined. I watch a lot of others like You Can Play This and Bad Movie Beatdown from time to time, but not always. 
CR is my personal favourite on the site with Todd coming closely second, I also like The Blockbuster Buster although his voice grates after a while, I used to watch Linkara's series History of Power Rangers series but stopped after his Time Force episode and Brad Jones is awesome as well but I have not seen that much of his stuff.
Film Brain has some good stuff but it depends on the movie he is reviewing really, he is a really bad actor though. Oancitizen is pretty cool but I don't watch alot of his stuff.
Right now I am waiting for RebelTaxi99 to join the site, he just needs to get stuff sorted and a confirmation from Rob but he is probably my favourite reviewer at the moment apart from CR.
Oh, and fuck Phelous, possibly the most unfunny person on the site.
Film Brain has some good stuff but it depends on the movie he is reviewing really, he is a really bad actor though. Oancitizen is pretty cool but I don't watch alot of his stuff.
Right now I am waiting for RebelTaxi99 to join the site, he just needs to get stuff sorted and a confirmation from Rob but he is probably my favourite reviewer at the moment apart from CR.
Oh, and fuck Phelous, possibly the most unfunny person on the site.
Weekly:
Nostalgia Chick
Linkara
Todd in the Shadows
Chick and Todd are both intelligent and funny and Linkara has continuity, thats what elevates them for me.
Often:
Cinama Snob
Obsucus Lupa
Doug Walkers non-critic stuff
All funny with some particularly strong videos, but I don't make it a point to watch every video.
Occasionally
Marz Girl
Paw
Benzaie
I liked Marz Girls Land Before Time, Paw doing disney movies, and Benzie's Heavy Rain lets play and because of that I watch them every now and then.
People who annoy me:
Phelous
Film Brian
I hate their voices, I don't like seeing them in cross overs.
Nostalgia Chick
Linkara
Todd in the Shadows
Chick and Todd are both intelligent and funny and Linkara has continuity, thats what elevates them for me.
Often:
Cinama Snob
Obsucus Lupa
Doug Walkers non-critic stuff
All funny with some particularly strong videos, but I don't make it a point to watch every video.
Occasionally
Marz Girl
Paw
Benzaie
I liked Marz Girls Land Before Time, Paw doing disney movies, and Benzie's Heavy Rain lets play and because of that I watch them every now and then.
People who annoy me:
Phelous
Film Brian
I hate their voices, I don't like seeing them in cross overs.
Ehh, Angry Joe is the only one I watch, and even then it's just the shit he posts on YouTube. I find him one of those rare few video game reviewers who is actually entertaining to watch, though I sometimes don't agree with him (Risen was a fantastic game, man!).
3 pages in and I still have no idea what TGWTG stands for. If I had to infer, I'd say that I say a few vids of Spoony as Doctor Insano. It was a rant on FF8's antimagic field generator. Other than that I sadly have no idea what any of you are talking about ._.
Sounds entertaining though d(^_^<)
Sounds entertaining though d(^_^<)
I just wanna say, try out "Maven's Vampire reviews". It's under Team Nchick. At first it totally seems like pandering, which is what put me off for so long, "yeah, put some attractive blonde in a corset and have her talk about vampire flicks", but actually, her reviews are legitmately good, funnier than Nchicks, even, I'd say. She really has a passion for the subgenre, and thus, a feel for where it goes horribly wrong.
Of those, I occasionally watch the Angry Joe show. I've seen some of Linkara's stuff, but I'm not a big comic guy.
Mostly I watch Sage and Spoony... I just have to do so on two different sites now.
Mostly I watch Sage and Spoony... I just have to do so on two different sites now.
That Guy With The Glasses.com [http://ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com/]... where all of the aforementioned shows are(or were, in one case) hosted.KoudelkaMorgan said: