27Apr#01
It's the time of the month again; Bobby must rant against Youtube critics of MCU.
I suspect most adults who grew up with MCU outgrew it by now?
So this is Bobby's latest cope: just because people are getting sick and tired of the MCU now, that doesn't mean it won't come back around again and everyone will love it and act like they never hated it!
The comparison with James Bond doesn't even hold up in the slightest. Check the
list of Bond films on Wikiped and you'll see that even when the series was at its "lower" points, it was still making money. If you follow the "double the budget to account for advertising" rule, every movie has made a profit over its 60+ year run so far. Most of the movies placed in the top 10 for the domestic box office in the year of their release as well. That's hardly "omnipresent but irrelevant." People knew the tropes of Bond movies because they were going to see them in droves, not solely because they saw a reference in some random show.
On a side note, this is why I've never held with the "James Bond is a dad series" takes that people like Bob try to push; clearly, Bond films resonate with a huge audience because it appeals to a wide demographic. Turns out that a
lot of people like cool spies thwarting evil villains' plans with high-tech gadgets and awesome cars, all to get a sexy babe at the end. It doesn't hurt that they've only released one movie on average every two to three years, giving audiences what they want without wearing them out.
Meanwhile, the MCU is stumbling and faltering not even twenty years into its existence for many reasons. Oversaturation is a big one, where it feels increasingly like homework to keep up with everything, even if most of it ends up irrelevant in the end. It has
multiple flops under its belt at this point, thanks to bloated budgets and stupid production decisions like making movies about characters nobody likes. It shot its wad six years ago by hitting a flawed but generally satisfying conclusion to a decade-long buildup, and it's spent the time since then spinning gears while trying to figure out how to get people interested again. If Bob is trying to argue that it too is "omnipresent but irrelevant," then why is he constantly carrying water for Marvel in trying to convince people it's still great?
I could go on more about this, but I'll leave that for others. As a final thought, no, Bob, nobody is
ever going to look fondly back on the maligned parts of the MCU and reevaluate it as "actually not that bad." It's corporate slop filled with cringe that showcases the absolute worst of the last decade of cinema. Ain't nobody gonna watch She-Hulk twerking in 2040 and say "I was wrong, this was great actually." Fuck off.
27Apr#08
I don't know what is "Community", but neither
Rick & Morty nor
Family Guy kindles enthusiasm.
For once, I want one of Bob's predictions to actually come true. I hope he keels over when The Simpsons finally goes off the air.
27Apr#11
The
raison d'etre of life is...consoom.
Try hanging out with friends and families.
Imagine being such a soyboy faggot that the only way to cope with your mental health issues (read: being an insufferable asshole) is to consoom media. What a sad, pathetic existence.
Then again, Ben is a game journo, so that tracks.
27Apr#18
Self-styled communist revels in chaos, while our tough guy Bobby wakes up every day fearing for his life.
I do find it funny that Bob is just barely smarter than the average Marxist in realizing that most people don't actually want to join up with a revolution no matter what, although I think his fractions are way off (leftists are a teeny fraction bolstered by a slightly larger number of well-meaning but stupid liberals, and the majority of the country would say no to their bullshit). I find it funnier still that he's claiming that he's "fearing for his life, freedom, and future" every day. If that were the case, he wouldn't be spending so much time playing internet tough guy for fear of those damn Trumpsuckers coming by and lynching him.
27Apr#27
Why must he refer every fucking thing to
The Simpsons?!
South Park did an episode way back in 2002 joking about the fact that The Simpsons had been on the air so long that they'd basically done every idea over the show's run thus far, and it was impossible to come up with any original idea because of that (but also not to worry about it because all culture recycles itself). Consider that The Simpsons had been on the air for a little over a decade at that point, and it's been airing for over two decades since, and you'd be hard pressed to find something that the show
hasn't touched on. Granted, that's a lot of bad Simpsons, but still.
As to why Bob does it? Because he's stupid and can only filter things through a pop culture lens. That, and his repeated insistence that The Simpsons is just as relevant now as it was thirty years ago, because he can't tolerate the idea that it's long past its prime. In his mind, because he's tied his self-worth to the success of his favorite pop culture phenomena, if The Simpsons is irrelevant, then so is he.
