Update Blog - 7/31/21 (Patreon)

Now this was quite an eventful week. Has its ups and downs, but I sure do hope to never experience those horrifying downs again. Ever since I had the power outage in the middle of my livestreaming podcast with a special guest, I was plagued for days with technology problems and unexpected change-of-plans where it was hard to have anything go right for me. And all I wanted to do was just upload and edit some videos just to move on to the next project! But it should be over now, so let's just jump into the week.

- Released The History of the Nostalgia Critic: I had this idea for months in my head, but I was never sure if this was something that would be a high demand. I mean, some can still make great stuff with the same subject like Dan Olson's review of the Nostalgia Critic's The Wall review, but I wasn't sure if people wanted ANOTHER NC video that brings up stuff that's been said SO many times before. However, after making a poll on YouTube where over half the people voted for that NC video, I ultimately decided why not and set that as the new priority to get it done to give people what they wanted. If there was one thing that I took from all this, it's honestly acceptance, the fact that I wouldn't be here where I am today if it weren't for Doug Walker's influence. I'll admit that it was, ironically enough, a nostalgia trip to return to what I use to fully indulge a decade ago back when niche reviews were at their prime and TGWTG.com was like the reviewers' Hollywood. I still don't watch any new NCs and I can tell that the quality hasn't changed since 2013, but that still doesn't change the fact that Doug's videos influenced the internet for an entire generation. Flawed, yes, maybe even a little problematic for the meaning of film criticism and Fair Use, but his NC antics did inspire many of us to become our own internet personalities, and that I will be forever thankful for. It's too bad that life did not give to him as much as he gave to us.

- Released my review of Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure: With almost 70 episodes in total (if you include the bigger episodes split in parts), this is the biggest series that I reviewed yet. As someone who regularly reviews movies instead of shows, you can imagine how this was quite a daunting task and how I had to spread my time so thinly to make room for everything else in my life like other projects, reviews and making time for others. I've been considering to do something about this, since I still have more series to analyze on the way and It's been pretty exhausting so far to spend months watching episodes after episodes for a handful of reviews. But with that said, this is a very good series, maybe even one of the best follow-ups to a Disney animated film, period! I love the animation, the story is so engaging, the songs are epic, the characters are as memorable as ever and it all still stays true to the tone of the movie. I'm serious when I say that this might be the best series based on an animated movie because Disney really went out of their way to make this as grand as it already is. It was more hours spent than I'm accustomed to for just one video, but I'm glad I watched this.

- Worked on the next AniMat's Classic Reviews: I didn't have a whole lot of time to work on this project (I'll explain more in the next point), but I did manage to make the most out of the time I had to advance on this project. While I haven't finished it, I did do a good chunk of one review. As you're reading this, I'm up to the editing phase and putting it all together for it to be ready soon. Once I can get this done, along with another review I'm working on, I'll do the next and it'll be onto the next big project for me. But this is just to say that I am on it and it's getting there.

- Currently working on the review of Jungle Cruise: Admittedly, with all that I went through, setting this up beforehand took much longer than I planned. I did work on this (just the intro and not the actual "Review" part) before the movie even came out because I will be including a sponsorship for the YouTube version. However, with all the technical issues I had and making sure my softwares could work as they should, the process dragged more than expected just to get the first part of the review set up. However, I will say that part of this is also my fault because this review will be a little more elaborate than what I've been recently doing. I just had this wonderful idea to make the review Jungle Cruise themed as well and it's an opportunity that I just can't pass on. Regardless of how the movie will be, this will be a fun one!

So that's been my chaotic week. Thankfully, I got all my computer and softwares fixed up and running like normal, there's been no power outages messing me up again and life did decide to catch me a break and stopped trolling me. I'm still hoping that something good can happen to compensate for what I've been through, but what I want for next week is to at least have things go as planned with no nasty surprises. So, until next time...

See ya later, dudes!