He wants to be loved by everyone. The TBF commentary proved that. But fuck him, this was Les Mis cruel, this was Sliders cruel, you can't fucking undo everything "character development/sticking to my guns/there's going to be so much more/the past needs to be let go off"-related you've ever said. I hope his guilt breaks him.
Okay, positive: Doug's acting was brilliant. There. That's it.
He wants to be loved by everyone. The TBF commentary proved that. If he couldn't take critiques and trolls and whiners after four years of seeing reactions and leraning that yeah, assholes complain and legit people complain but he had a loving and dedicated fanbase ... really dude? Really? I'm sorry but ... I'm mad at him about this. After four years he should have learned how to ignore comments, ferret out the ones that were worth listening to, or take some courses to build his self-confidence.
But fuck him, this was Les Mis cruel, this was Sliders cruel, you can't fucking undo everything "character development/sticking to my guns/there's going to be so much more/the past needs to be let go off"-related you've ever said. Yeah, I'm ... pissed. I was ranting a big when I went to go get my kettle, to anyone who'd listen. Then I hid in my room to cry some more. The words "cowardly spineless bastard" and "undoing this really tragic and emotional and wonderful ending" were uttered.
I hope his guilt breaks him.I ... am feeling like
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Rob and Holly refused to let him in on any business meetings. They had to force him to sleep after part eight of To Boldly Flee. They openly admitted to protecting him from bad comments. Everyone on the site ever has complained about his constant apologizing. And from the TBF commentary, I'm wondering if Critic's year-long depression was Doug's.
You know Lindsay said the RHPS crossover will happen now, but I can't even feel happy about that. Why at the expense of Donnie?
And oh God, Donnie, why do that to him? Why go to all that effort of making him so tragic only to have not mean a single thing?
They had to force him to sleep after part eight of To Boldly Flee. They openly admitted to protecting him from bad comments. *wibbles* Good god.
Everyone on the site ever has complained about his constant apologizing. Yeah, in his commentary for TBF I noticed he seemed to want to stop doing the anniversaries because of the "hell" he was putting people through with the film shoots. They ... chose to come, dude. Every year. Knowing it would be like that. Film shoots are like that. They're long and crazy and people get exhausted and sick but it's WORTH IT in the end. Plus, TGWTG anniversaries were like, one of the few times everyone could get together. They were always describing themselves as a family, how happy they were to get together, despite sunburns and injuries and sickness and sleepiness and bad weather.
And from the TBF commentary, I'm wondering if Critic's year-long depression was Doug's. That could make a lot of sense. Does that mean I'm still allowed to be angry or should I be sad now?
I cried at TBF and I don't understand the rage. It's not about the characters, it's about Doug. For what 4 and a half years he produced an episode every week, worked his ARSE off every December, knew during cons and on honeymoon that he'd have to come back to more work, and after almost 5 years he burned out and mistook that for needing to move on. Almost 5 years of constant work. 6 months on he realises he's made a mistake and wants to keep doing his work with the passion that kept him going for almost 5 years. He's given SO MUCH to us with such intensity and wants to go back to what he loves after he has his breath back. He mistook burnout for an ending and made sure it was the best damn ending we could have. Why does this warrant so much rage? Especially since there is plenty of room for more Demo Reel. They bought the studio, explicitly said there'll be more time between Critic episodes, and contracted the actors.
But like I kept telling you last night, after five episodes of getting to know the characters, getting invested in Donnie's backstory, we get damned with "Donnie was just Critic all along and has to say goodbye to his family". For something so touted to be new, that is a major fucking disservice. Critic got a great ending, let him go.
Critic got a great ending, let him go. Indeed. And if he couldn't be let go (let's face it, view counts and all) why not bring him back in a way that didn't read like a psychotic breakdown where a hallucination bullied Doug into letting him back, and said he never believed himself capable of that heroic sacrifice at all?
Exactly, I mean the blip picture is scary enough. But I guess it doesn't matter. 95% of facebook is cheering over Critic's return and patronizing him over Demo Reel's "failure", so we've got both a show and acting that's been thrown on the scrapheap.
Am I in a minority here? Am I taking this too personally? Am I reading too much into the actions of an internet reviewer?
Nope. You're acting like any fan who's been dicked over by a fuck-up with a show they like, and I honestly can't blame you. I never really watched either NC or DR, but I loved To Boldly Flee, and that's one of the shittiest ways to fuck the ending up I can imagine.
Honestly, I'm worried about Doug. He sounded so enthused about Demo Reel, and now with this coming up... I hope that nothing's gone horribly wrong.
Nope. You're acting like any fan who's been dicked over by a fuck-up with a show they like, and I honestly can't blame you. At least Heroes gradually fucked me over, it was something that took years and all the fans were commenting on it and on the same general page as we watched it slowly fail and left one by one. *sighs*
I never really watched either NC or DR, but I loved To Boldly Flee, and that's one of the shittiest ways to fuck the ending up I can imagine. It was pretty bitter and mean-spirited and ... just plain weird. Why mess with the ending that badly? WHY?! Why was that necessary to bringing the NC back, ruining his heroic sacrifice ... unless he's going to have Learned Nothing at all and go back to being a selfish ranting manchild yelling at movies, because Status Quo is God? Jesus I hope not.
Honestly, I'm worried about Doug. He sounded so enthused about Demo Reel, and now with this coming up... I hope that nothing's gone horribly wrong.I hope he just did want to get back to NC reviews, and this isn't just about the
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I know the feeling. I felt the same way with Glee. God, I hate seeing shows with so much promise turning into shit.
About the only reason I can think of is that Doug ended up being forced to go back to the NC, but he figured that if he was getting dicked over, he'd take everyone else with him. Which seems implausible because from what I've heard, he really isn't like that, but yeah.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm proud to be a member of my producer's team and to be part of a site that's gotten so much recognition over the years. I like and respect everyone I've met who works there -- they do SO much work as it is, and they're successful. But I don't think it's fair that people are posting about how tragic it is that the guy who gets the most views and the most feedback and the most fame and the most profit from every single thing he does is deciding to do something that the fans seem to want instead of being ~free to follow his dreams~ or something when so many of the rest of the producers and their teams work their asses off just as hard as he does and have to do even MORE work to promote themselves in order to get enough views to make bus money from what they do, and some of us literally get NOTHING out of it, we just do it for our own reasons
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NOW BEFORE YOU GET PISSED OFF AT ME FOR HAVING AN UNPOPULAR OPINION Considering the rest of the internet, you don't have the unpopular opinion at all. Everyone else is happy the NC is back and that Demo Reel got murdered.
Entertainment sometimes is -- and MUST be -- more about what the audience wants than what the creator wants. Sometimes, what you create is something you do to meet a demand, which you benefit from. I understand that. I just feel sad that his pet project that he was so excited for and had been wanting to do "for years" and bought a studio for and hired actors for ... didn't pan out. And he made a video where he killed off his new show and got dragged back to his old show. Maybe he is happy to get back to the NC but I just saw so much bitterness in The Review Must Go On. It was filmed like a haunting, or a psychotic breakdown, not a triumphant return.
Don't be sad that he tried something that didn't work. If you're going to be sad for anyone, be sad for those of us producers and artists who live from paycheck to
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Because I have a mildly desperate need to make someone understand or give a shit about what I'm dealing with right now. Sorry. You can make those replies private or delete them if you wish. I won't presume to do that for you given it's your journal.
Want to clarify up front that yes, I too am very sad that Demo Reel was gone. I think it was finally hitting its stride, finally felt like it was getting solid ground under its feet, so it hurts to see the plugged pulled on it
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I remember Doug saying very recently that even if CA bombed, he would never regret quitting Critic when he did. Which you could say is selfish in a different way, but he's got to be aware that in public eyes, this makes him look like a hypocrite.
That I did not hear. But even so, people can put a nice bow on something, proclaim it done, and walk away, only to suddenly want to do more and come rushing back. As it says in the video itself, maybe Doug and Rob were burned out from the crazy schedule, cons, and anniversaries that they thought they were done for good, took a break, and realized they still had more in them for the Critic. Didn't JK Rowling declare herself done with the Harry Potter universe after the last book but she came back to write that Tales of Beedle the Bard book
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Okay, positive: Doug's acting was brilliant. There. That's it.
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If he couldn't take critiques and trolls and whiners after four years of seeing reactions and leraning that yeah, assholes complain and legit people complain but he had a loving and dedicated fanbase ... really dude? Really? I'm sorry but ... I'm mad at him about this. After four years he should have learned how to ignore comments, ferret out the ones that were worth listening to, or take some courses to build his self-confidence.
But fuck him, this was Les Mis cruel, this was Sliders cruel, you can't fucking undo everything "character development/sticking to my guns/there's going to be so much more/the past needs to be let go off"-related you've ever said.
Yeah, I'm ... pissed. I was ranting a big when I went to go get my kettle, to anyone who'd listen. Then I hid in my room to cry some more. The words "cowardly spineless bastard" and "undoing this really tragic and emotional and wonderful ending" were uttered.
I hope his guilt breaks him.I ... am feeling like ( ... )
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You know Lindsay said the RHPS crossover will happen now, but I can't even feel happy about that. Why at the expense of Donnie?
And oh God, Donnie, why do that to him? Why go to all that effort of making him so tragic only to have not mean a single thing?
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*wibbles* Good god.
Everyone on the site ever has complained about his constant apologizing.
Yeah, in his commentary for TBF I noticed he seemed to want to stop doing the anniversaries because of the "hell" he was putting people through with the film shoots. They ... chose to come, dude. Every year. Knowing it would be like that. Film shoots are like that. They're long and crazy and people get exhausted and sick but it's WORTH IT in the end.
Plus, TGWTG anniversaries were like, one of the few times everyone could get together. They were always describing themselves as a family, how happy they were to get together, despite sunburns and injuries and sickness and sleepiness and bad weather.
And from the TBF commentary, I'm wondering if Critic's year-long depression was Doug's.
That could make a lot of sense. Does that mean I'm still allowed to be angry or should I be sad now?
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Indeed.
And if he couldn't be let go (let's face it, view counts and all) why not bring him back in a way that didn't read like a psychotic breakdown where a hallucination bullied Doug into letting him back, and said he never believed himself capable of that heroic sacrifice at all?
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Nope. You're acting like any fan who's been dicked over by a fuck-up with a show they like, and I honestly can't blame you. I never really watched either NC or DR, but I loved To Boldly Flee, and that's one of the shittiest ways to fuck the ending up I can imagine.
Honestly, I'm worried about Doug. He sounded so enthused about Demo Reel, and now with this coming up... I hope that nothing's gone horribly wrong.
*sends hugs and bunnies*
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At least Heroes gradually fucked me over, it was something that took years and all the fans were commenting on it and on the same general page as we watched it slowly fail and left one by one. *sighs*
I never really watched either NC or DR, but I loved To Boldly Flee, and that's one of the shittiest ways to fuck the ending up I can imagine.
It was pretty bitter and mean-spirited and ... just plain weird. Why mess with the ending that badly? WHY?! Why was that necessary to bringing the NC back, ruining his heroic sacrifice ... unless he's going to have Learned Nothing at all and go back to being a selfish ranting manchild yelling at movies, because Status Quo is God? Jesus I hope not.
Honestly, I'm worried about Doug. He sounded so enthused about Demo Reel, and now with this coming up... I hope that nothing's gone horribly wrong.I hope he just did want to get back to NC reviews, and this isn't just about the ( ... )
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About the only reason I can think of is that Doug ended up being forced to go back to the NC, but he figured that if he was getting dicked over, he'd take everyone else with him. Which seems implausible because from what I've heard, he really isn't like that, but yeah.
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Considering the rest of the internet, you don't have the unpopular opinion at all. Everyone else is happy the NC is back and that Demo Reel got murdered.
Entertainment sometimes is -- and MUST be -- more about what the audience wants than what the creator wants. Sometimes, what you create is something you do to meet a demand, which you benefit from.
I understand that. I just feel sad that his pet project that he was so excited for and had been wanting to do "for years" and bought a studio for and hired actors for ... didn't pan out. And he made a video where he killed off his new show and got dragged back to his old show. Maybe he is happy to get back to the NC but I just saw so much bitterness in The Review Must Go On. It was filmed like a haunting, or a psychotic breakdown, not a triumphant return.
Don't be sad that he tried something that didn't work. If you're going to be sad for anyone, be sad for those of us producers and artists who live from paycheck to ( ... )
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This just gets more awkward with every minute.
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