Gorbus
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They're also both too dumb to actually understand the issues enough to make a compelling bad faith argument. The devil's advocate thing can be done entertainingly, but it requires the person to be like, smart and funny. There needs to be enough sense there to trap people into engaging with it, but if there's NO sense it's only about as annoying and entertaining as a dog barking at you.Another reason Vito and Dax don't work well together is because neither of them have any actual beliefs and always argue in bad faith. Old TBPITU worked so well because Maddox got genuinely angry when people didn't agree with him, and he got angry because he actually believed what he was saying. Similarly, Destiny is very good at arguing extremely stupid ideas in good faith and takes himself fairly seriously; you can see this in the really old debate he had with Metokur where Jim was constantly taking the piss while Destiny stonefacedly stuck to his points.
That's the kind of foil you need for a show like TBPITU to work. Instead you've got two dipshit manchildren with no morals or values trying to see who can out-retard the other, and it doesn't matter who wins at the end because they're both being 'ironic'. I don't know who the audience is for that.
Dax just comes out with a bunch of mutually contradictory troll points that he probably read off twitter anyway. It's never coherent and it's always obvious he is just trying to make people mad, which ironically makes people not mad and just dismissive.