This show sucks
January 15, 2021 12:40 PM Subscribe
Jenny Nicholson takes a deep dive into the Vampire Diaries.
The B plot of this for the last couple of weeks has been the ContentID hits that took down this video and her efforts to get it reinstated. I don't have any links to that that aren't just her twitter account and she didn't post about it as a thread or anything. But here's one.
After hearing about it for that long I did try to watch it, but the VD is just so awful I couldn't keep going.
posted by Horkus at 1:26 PM on January 15, 2021 [5 favorites]
After hearing about it for that long I did try to watch it, but the VD is just so awful I couldn't keep going.
posted by Horkus at 1:26 PM on January 15, 2021 [5 favorites]
I know what I said
posted by Horkus at 1:32 PM on January 15, 2021 [5 favorites]
posted by Horkus at 1:32 PM on January 15, 2021 [5 favorites]
VD is just so awful I couldn't keep going.If you've read the books it's much easier to start watching, but gets absolutely impossible to watch in later seasons.
I wish someone would make a TV show of The Hollows
posted by krisjohn at 1:59 PM on January 15, 2021
Idk about y'all but I kind of want to watch China Beach?
posted by phunniemee at 2:31 PM on January 15, 2021 [9 favorites]
posted by phunniemee at 2:31 PM on January 15, 2021 [9 favorites]
I can't imagine wanting to watch the series if I've read the books.
Well, in my case, a few of them. Frankly, I only started because I was on a J.L. Smith kick because I was frustrated with waiting and waiting for the final Night World book to come out.
(Spoiler: It still hasn't. They even republished Night World in omnibuses, in prep for finally releasing the final book, and it STILL hasn't been published. NOT THAT I'M CRANKY OR ANYTHING.)
posted by Quasirandom at 2:47 PM on January 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
Well, in my case, a few of them. Frankly, I only started because I was on a J.L. Smith kick because I was frustrated with waiting and waiting for the final Night World book to come out.
(Spoiler: It still hasn't. They even republished Night World in omnibuses, in prep for finally releasing the final book, and it STILL hasn't been published. NOT THAT I'M CRANKY OR ANYTHING.)
posted by Quasirandom at 2:47 PM on January 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
Through the mirror of my mind...
posted by phunniemee at 3:00 PM on January 15, 2021
posted by phunniemee at 3:00 PM on January 15, 2021
Man Jenny Nicholson, good on ya. That is commitment to a bit right there.
posted by TheAliceMunroSingers at 3:05 PM on January 15, 2021 [3 favorites]
posted by TheAliceMunroSingers at 3:05 PM on January 15, 2021 [3 favorites]
This video is two and a half hours long.
I tried watching anyway. At the start it's single person to camera with 100 jump cuts already in the first five minutes and I had to stop. I could probably watch two hours of an obsessive take down of terrible TV but the jump cuts are killing me. Does it start to flow better later?
posted by 3j0hn at 3:11 PM on January 15, 2021 [2 favorites]
I tried watching anyway. At the start it's single person to camera with 100 jump cuts already in the first five minutes and I had to stop. I could probably watch two hours of an obsessive take down of terrible TV but the jump cuts are killing me. Does it start to flow better later?
posted by 3j0hn at 3:11 PM on January 15, 2021 [2 favorites]
Jump cuts are an unavoidable feature of YouTube commentary videos. You stop noticing them after a while.
posted by octothorpe at 3:17 PM on January 15, 2021 [6 favorites]
posted by octothorpe at 3:17 PM on January 15, 2021 [6 favorites]
I am am used to the slightly too many jump cuts typical in this sort of video, but this one just felt extra jumpy to me. Maybe it's because I am not previously invested in this person or this show that they jump out at me so much.
posted by 3j0hn at 3:28 PM on January 15, 2021
posted by 3j0hn at 3:28 PM on January 15, 2021
I wish someone would make a TV show of The Hollows
I read so much paranormal garbage (with love) but I haven't read this series, and then I started reading this wikipedia summary and every single element is so incredibly on the paranormal nose that I started to wonder if this series is satirical especially with the tomato apocalypse (??!!?) and I was super-excited for that but it looks like it's serious despite including every single trope ever and their cousins so I am definitely a little disappointed but also will definitely read the first book in the series.
posted by See you tomorrow, saguaro at 3:55 PM on January 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
I read so much paranormal garbage (with love) but I haven't read this series, and then I started reading this wikipedia summary and every single element is so incredibly on the paranormal nose that I started to wonder if this series is satirical especially with the tomato apocalypse (??!!?) and I was super-excited for that but it looks like it's serious despite including every single trope ever and their cousins so I am definitely a little disappointed but also will definitely read the first book in the series.
posted by See you tomorrow, saguaro at 3:55 PM on January 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
My wife and I watched TVD until Elena's MEGANAP or so and while we watched/listened to this video today, we were surprised by the number of characters we did not remember existing. RIP, Chinny McWolf, Swole Jeremy, and Lamezo.
Before we started watching, I said "I hope she talks about the crow."
Man, I loved that guy.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 5:22 PM on January 15, 2021 [4 favorites]
Before we started watching, I said "I hope she talks about the crow."
Man, I loved that guy.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 5:22 PM on January 15, 2021 [4 favorites]
I'm only an hour through so far, but I quit watching the show originally because Klaus was so fucking awful and never would be killed off, and she hardly rags on him at all. Disappoint.
I did enjoy her commentary on how super easy it is to become a vampire and run around in daylight and all that shit, though. Also, feeling bad for the original author.
posted by jenfullmoon at 6:52 PM on January 15, 2021
I did enjoy her commentary on how super easy it is to become a vampire and run around in daylight and all that shit, though. Also, feeling bad for the original author.
posted by jenfullmoon at 6:52 PM on January 15, 2021
I had barely shouted out "just like Mr Feeney" when Jenny mentioned Mr. Feeny. Ditto the "somebody switched this to evil" reference. Jenny is awesome.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 7:29 PM on January 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by RonButNotStupid at 7:29 PM on January 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
I stumbled across her a few months ago (it feels like yesterday and a year ago at once) and her backlog of pop culture nonsense, dry smashcut sarcasm and unironic enthusiasm has had a big part in my tenuous grasp on sanity this winter. I am psyched about this video and super glad that she says in the beginning that it is intended for people who never watched the show. Watching her talk about things I have no real preexisting knowledge of is great.
posted by Mizu at 8:45 PM on January 15, 2021 [7 favorites]
posted by Mizu at 8:45 PM on January 15, 2021 [7 favorites]
Does she address the “Elena meganap because the consequences of RL breakups are messy” issue?
posted by corb at 9:24 PM on January 15, 2021
posted by corb at 9:24 PM on January 15, 2021
the jump cuts are killing me
You don't have to keep your eyes on the screen the whole time. You can more or less treat it like a podcast, usually it's just Jenny talking to the camera with some themed stuff in the background. I usually find myself curled up on the couch playing with a cat.
She's a good storyteller, and at least for me it's relaxing to space out while listening to someone dork out in depth on some fandom or subculture I don't know about.
posted by snuffleupagus at 10:18 PM on January 15, 2021 [5 favorites]
You don't have to keep your eyes on the screen the whole time. You can more or less treat it like a podcast, usually it's just Jenny talking to the camera with some themed stuff in the background. I usually find myself curled up on the couch playing with a cat.
She's a good storyteller, and at least for me it's relaxing to space out while listening to someone dork out in depth on some fandom or subculture I don't know about.
posted by snuffleupagus at 10:18 PM on January 15, 2021 [5 favorites]
Does she address the “Elena meganap because the consequences of RL breakups are messy” issue?
Yep, she starts talking about this about an hour and forty minutes in, but maybe doesn’t address it with the level of drama the fandom attributed to it at the time. (That is conjecture, I was only very lightly aware of the fandom at the time.)
posted by Mizu at 11:44 PM on January 15, 2021
Yep, she starts talking about this about an hour and forty minutes in, but maybe doesn’t address it with the level of drama the fandom attributed to it at the time. (That is conjecture, I was only very lightly aware of the fandom at the time.)
posted by Mizu at 11:44 PM on January 15, 2021
I liked it, despite being 200% not the target audience of the show and never having watched it (not because I don't like paranormal romance; because I don't like teen drama, even when the teens are played by actors who are pushing 40). I've watched her Land Before Time and MLP content before, so I know from past experience that she could review a phonebook and make it interesting. I did watch at 1.5x speed, though, because two hours!
I was particularly fascinated by the tangent about the books and the original writer's contractual misfortunes. A cautionary tale about contracts, and an interesting case to consider in moral rather than utilitarian arguments about copyright law surrounding derivative works.
posted by confluency at 2:01 AM on January 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
I was particularly fascinated by the tangent about the books and the original writer's contractual misfortunes. A cautionary tale about contracts, and an interesting case to consider in moral rather than utilitarian arguments about copyright law surrounding derivative works.
posted by confluency at 2:01 AM on January 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
China Beach, if you have xfinity (comcast) cable.
posted by snuffleupagus at 10:16 AM on January 16, 2021
posted by snuffleupagus at 10:16 AM on January 16, 2021
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