Farewell Nostalgia Critic

Very strong comeback episode. That bit where his wife was finishing his sentences had me in stitches.

Seriously, why do people find this dork funny?

Because he is?

His reviews / sketches are awful

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Because some people have different tastes in comedy than you.

Glad to see some people on the site like him. I’ve been watching NC for years now, and marathoning a few episodes has frequently taken me out of a sad place. His voice and comedy aren’t for everyone, but I love his facial expressions, and his sheer rage at some movies is cathartic. I was incredibly sad when it ended, but glad that he’s back. I think people expected Demo Reel to be hilarious (and I don’t think it was intended to be laugh out loud funny), and their resentment over NC ending to make room for this new show colored a lot of people’s opinions on it. It was just starting to get interesting (with Donnie’s backstory being slowly revealed), but “The Review Must Go On” was a great way to end it.

I really like some other people on the site, namely Oancitizen. If you like a movie snob who doesn’t mind laughing at himself and the movies that he watches, definitely check him out. I have a bit of a nerd crush on him (he’s just so beardy and huggable-looking!)

Todd in the Shadows and JesuOtaku are good too, although JO hasn’t put out a regular anime review in months, and has recently stated that she doesn’t really want to do them anymore. Ah, well.

So she’s not going to finish her Digimon retrospective? :frowning:

That was the only thing of hers I watched, admittedly, but I really liked that.

I haven’t watched all of his reviews, but I don’t think he’s that funny or insightful. I think his reviews are better when you haven’t actually seen the material he’s reviewing. He tends to spin really small aspects to look like there were a bigger part. I sometimes wonder if he really watches the videos he’s reviewing. It seems like most of the time he’s going on the memory of the film. I really lost a lot of respect for him when he got pissed at Thomas Wiseau. I’m not a Thomas Wiseau fan, but seriously way to go overboard. There’s an aspect to Doug Walker that seems “off” for lack of a better term. I wanna say he’s malice, but there’s also a lack of maturity for a guy in his 30s. It ever came out that he has a mental problem, it would not surprise me.

I’ve liked some of the cameos he’s made in Lindsey’s videos. A fifteen second rage joke and then he’s gone? Great. More than a minute? Moving on.

You know that’s a character he’s doing, right?