"Channel Awesome" Talkback, Part 21 (Warning: Strong Language Throughout)

[John Pannozzi]

It actually appears to be an earlier archive of Blip, and not the one in the works during the shutdown. Still, at least it's something.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

The archive appears to be from 2013, so there's nothing past that. And as someone said a lot of things seem to be missing. I can only find thorough archives for Benzaie and Angry Joe so far.

So here's Joe's single most embarrassing moment, his series of "interviews" from the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards (remember those?) Archived forever.

https://archive.org/details/bliptv-...gryJoeInterviewsGeoffKeighleySpikeVGAs2010780
Joe confronts the guy who runs the awards, gets shot down, and has a fit afterward

https://archive.org/details/bliptv-...eShow-AngryJoeInterviewsFeliciaDayVGAs2010999
Joe runs into Felicia Day and is too starstruck to say anything; he was very green at this

 

[Peter Paltridge]

https://archive.org/details/bliptv-20131012-171548-AngryJoeShow-GameOfThronesWillItBeCanceled443
Joe is worried that Game of Thrones will be cancelled after Season One

 

[Gatomon41]

Aw yes, Chuck of SFDebris has posted a list of what's back on-line. Including all Anime!

Video Progress
by SF Debris » Sat Sep 26, 2015 3:15 am

The website itself should be at full functionality, save for the videos that are not uploaded yet. (The last item on the front of each review category is missing its description. This will gradually resolve itself.)

The videos below are back and ready for viewing:

Master List
Anime
Babylon 5
Blake's 7
Firefly

Rise and Fall of the Comic Empire
Foundation
Rolling Out The Transformers
Fringe
Dragon Age
Douglas Adams
World War Z

Atlantis: Letters From Pegasus

TNG: The Chase

Sept 25
Full Moon 1-11 (anime)

Sept 26
All remaining anime
Foundation
Transformers History

Sept 27
TNG: The Chase
Atlantis: Letters From Pegasus
Kirk Bio
Rise and Fall of the Comic Empire

Sept 28
Fringe
Dragon Age
Blake's 7
Babylon 5
Firefly

Sept 29
Douglas Adams
World War Z

https://sfdebris.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=244&sid=5c651ee7cb16efb430148bf72514045b

Speaking of anime, Chuck was doing reviews of Full Moon and Kannazuki No Miko before he joined Channel Awesome. Here's the 1st episode review of Full Moon: http://sfdebris.com/videos/anime/fullmoon01.php. Considering the reputation Kannazuki No Miko has, I don't think I can post a link to that one.

 

[Gatomon41]

With SFDebris back on track, Chuck decides to look at the Transformers cartoon!

http://www.sfdebris.com/videos/animation/transformerss1e01.php

 

[Spideyzilla]

Full disclosure: I haven't checked this thread in forever, so I don't know all the goings on. But I want to draw attention to something I noticed. Todd posted a new Cinemadonna for Evita on Youtube, and a review of The Hills on Vimeo. (Links at the bottom) I checked, and neither have been put up on CA. Cinemadonna has been up for a couple of weeks, and the The Hills review was put up a few days ago. Is there a story here I don't know about? The last thing he posted on CA is Cinemadonna: Dangerous Game, on August 16th. Has he left?

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Full disclosure: I haven't checked this thread in forever, so I don't know all the goings on. But I want to draw attention to something I noticed. Todd posted a new Cinemadonna for Evita on Youtube, and a review of The Hills on Vimeo. (Links at the bottom) I checked, and neither have been put up on CA. Cinemadonna has been up for a couple of weeks, and the The Hills review was put up a few days ago. Is there a story here I don't know about? The last thing he posted on CA is Cinemadonna: Dangerous Game, on August 16th. Has he left?

No. Here's what I posted on the previous page...

You can't access Todd in the Shadows from the CA website anymore, but Todd says that is temporary. In his words, "I have to wait until Maker gets its **** sorted out so that I have something I can give Channel Awesome. In the mean time... twiddling my thumbs." Not sure what he means...some kind of legal thing maybe?

I wasn't looking on Vimeo. Thanks for that.

 

[Spideyzilla]

No. Here's what I posted on the previous page...



I wasn't looking on Vimeo. Thanks for that.

My bad. Like I said I haven't looked here in a while, but that's not excuse for that. Thanks.

 

[Gatomon41]

SFDebris has finished reposting his non-Star Trek TV stuff, so I figure it's a good time to go check out some of Chuck's pre-Channel Awesome days.

This time, we look at the pilot of Space: Above and Beyond. It's World War II, in SPACE!

http://sfdebris.com/videos/tv/space01a.php
http://sfdebris.com/videos/tv/space01b.php

Actually, a little backstory - SAAB was on FOX back in the mid-90s, and produced by Glenn Morgan who had worked on The X-Files. So yes, FOX used to have this on primetime back before some of you were even out of kindergarten.

 

[Goldstar!]

Well, I suppose it's safe to assume at this point that the Chez Apocalypse website is gone for good. it's been weeks since the site had been "under construction" and there's no word from anyone involved with the site when (or if) it will be back online. Too bad. I guess the contributors will find somewhere else to go, most likely YouTube.

 

[Gatomon41]

Chuck of SFDebris reviews the classic SF hit that launched a thousand Arnold jokes: The Terminator.

http://www.sfdebris.com/videos/films/terminator.php

 

[Light Lucario]

Well, I suppose it's safe to assume at this point that the Chez Apocalypse website is gone for good. it's been weeks since the site had been "under construction" and there's no word from anyone involved with the site when (or if) it will be back online. Too bad. I guess the contributors will find somewhere else to go, most likely YouTube.

I think that some of the people there like Lindsay and Tood are still contracted to Maker, so they may have to wait until Maker actually does something before they can fix the website. They may have to be on YouTube temporarily like Todd is, but I don't know if the Chez Apocalypse website is gone for good. From what I've heard, Maker is just taking their sweet time with getting their site up and putting up videos for anyone who still has a contract with them.

 

[Gatomon41]

Whoa, the Critic takes a look at "Event Horizon", a 90's scifi horror flick starring Morpheus and Jurassic Park's Dr. Grant.

http://channelawesome.com/event-horizon-nostalgia-critic/

I remember hearing about this one in middle school. Alot of people said it was the frightening movie that came out, and involed some rather dark stuff. I remember seeing bits of it on Cable in 1998, and I only say the atmosphere is effective o_o

 

[Gatomon41]

Oh yes, SFDebris got done with re-uploading the animation section. So let's see how a grown guy with little to no experience with cartoons takes a look at My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic:

http://sfdebris.com/videos/animation/mlp01.php

It's interesting to see a review from someone who isn't as antiquated with western animation like most other reviewers. Chuck for the most part focuses on Science Fiction, Star Trek in particular. He treats MLP as seriously as his non-animated work.

 

[Zeether]

I didn't realize Todd in the Shadows uploaded the second part of his worst of 1991 countdown until I checked his Youtube (since the whole Blip shutdown happened)

Spoiler

Those Timmy T and Stevie B songs do sound very similar and are both excruciatingly awful. Also criminy, Bryan Adams almost sued AllMusic for having an entry on him?

 

[Gatomon41]

Looks like it's 80's month for SFDebris, because not only does he review the first Robocop and Terminator movies, he looks at ROBOTECH, Ep. 1:

http://www.sfdebris.com/videos/anime/robotech01.php

Robotech holds a dear place in my heart. Granted I was waaaay too young to watch it when in first came out. But when Toonami aired it again, it was amazing for me Controversial yet influential, Robotech got many into anime and gave the start of many dub voice actors today. A good many of Digimon's alumni are in this series.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

New Todd: Butterfly

 

[HellCat]

The Doug and Rob v-logs are really starting to annoy me. Back when they were doing Avatar it worked well because alone Doug would miss stuff and when Rob joined in they did some pretty solid commentating.

I've already written off the Adventure Time v-logs since Doug is doing them with an apologist fanboy, which leaves the Gravity Falls and Steven Universe v-logs...and these miss the mark so often. Very rarely do they actually discussing the episode or long running story, just use some throwaway element which somehow must always link back to Doug and Rob's childhood and insulting the audience these v-logs are made for. There are even literally parts of these where one of them will whine they don't want to do a v-log right now and so half ass the commentary because they just don't care. Here's an idea guys- your work is streamed on an edited format. Why not film a v-log when you CAN be bothered rather than crapping something out just to tick it off your list?

I used to be a big fan of Doug but the last few years have just shown up how badly run Channel Awesome is.

 

[Light Lucario]

That makes me glad that I don't even bother with his Steven Universe and Gravity Falls v-logs. Knowing how they've treated some of the other contributors on the site and the whole insulting their audience their v-logs are for from the Avatar and Korra v-logs, it would just make them uncomfortable to watch. Not to mention I miss seeing the other actors Doug uses for his sketch bits more than Doug or the NC himself at this point.

Anyway, Calluna has been doing reviews on the Halloweentown movies this month. I meant to post these earlier, but I kept forgetting:







I do enjoy watching the Halloweentown movies during Halloween. It's kind of a tradition for me to watch all four movies at some point for the fun of it. These reviews have been pretty good. Personally, I'd still take the first movie over the second one. While she did bring up some good points about how the sequel had a darker tone and was more intense than the first movie, it wasn't quite that good for me. I think a lot of that has to do with how Kal wasn't a particularly interesting villain, although he could have been, and especially with how he was never mentioned/brought up again despite how they claimed that he would be back. Plus, the kids being separated from each other for most of the movie brought it down a bit. It actually is a pretty good sequel, but I think that the original had more charm to it. I'm not sure if that was due to the nostalgia factor, that they were able to use an actual town instead of a sound stage or just being a bit more light-hearted by comparison. I did like how the sequel provided a bit more screentime for Luke. Rewatching the first two movies again, I was kind of sad that he was replaced when he did have good chemistry with Marnie.

Her review for Halloweentown High was hilarious and picked on all of the problems for the movie quite well. Despite piling up on its subplots right from the start, the movie is as dull as dirt. Most of the new characters barely stand out, the romances are pretty bland, the plot moves really slowly and it really lacks a lot of charm that the first two movies had. It certainly doesn't help that this is a Halloweentown movie in name only. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to make a Halloweentown movie without actually seeing/being in Halloweentown. The ending was also pretty anticlimactic and the mob really changed their minds way too easily.

Marnie's love interest was so bland. He was a fairly likable kind of bland, but really uninteresting and made me wish that they had included Luke. That could have been interesting instead of bland teen Disney Channel movie romance. She did have a good point on Dylan's romance subplot. It was something different than just having them end up together and a couple being happy with staying as friends is pretty rare, especially for something aimed at kids, but not being into each other because they were too grossed out by how they really look does send a pretty bad message to kids at the same time. This is easily the worst movie in the Halloweentown series for pretty much all of the reasons she brought up in the review. Oddly enough, it seems like this is the most entertaining review for this series yet. Even with her reaction to the fourth movie, I am curious how she'll respond to that movie. It was certainly leagues better than Halloweentown High and possibly the best out of the sequels, but it does have its fair share of issues, so I'm looking forward to that review.

 

[Spideyzilla]

That makes me glad that I don't even bother with his Steven Universe and Gravity Falls v-logs. Knowing how they've treated some of the other contributors on the site and the whole insulting their audience their v-logs are for from the Avatar and Korra v-logs, it would just make them uncomfortable to watch. Not to mention I miss seeing the other actors Doug uses for his sketch bits more than Doug or the NC himself at this point.

They insulted their audiences in those videos? I don't watch those videos, so I don't know. If so, that's unbelievable. The fans are what got you there.