I think that the problem is less the documentary and more the fact that you already know everything about Chris. The point of the documentary is to give the objective story of Chris Chan for people who don’t want to read the cwcki.
Sonichu Babies appeals to no one, is not entertaining from an outside perspective, and can be summed up in 30 seconds without showing all of it.
I definitely agree that a lot of the information could be summarized better. However I still feel like the objective style suits it better. It’s like you said a more digestible version of reading the cwcki
I don't remember which number, but Geno eventually does bring up Chris selling the totem pole.
I don't agree that it is though. It works early on when Chris's life was a linear story with clear narrative characters, but as time goes on and it fades into chris just being chris, the objective chronological style turns into a mess of inane and pointless shit that dosen't work towards any narrative. I've listened to pretty much every episode and everything from the lates 20s to now blurs together in my head as if I didn't even listen to it.
At first I agreed with this however after actually looking at the video on YouTube, it clearly states Geno views this as a documentary.
Considering this information, I agree with many complaints on here, especially about playing videos in their entirety when a short version would suffice. The newer episodes are much, much worse in this regard. On that, is there any hope this documentary series actually gets better over time? I understand Geno is limited by the content that Chris produces but it is getting hard to watch.
The reality is a lot of antics involving Chris just are not that entertaining. Listening to Casey calls in full is a chore and is the moment I can pinpoint where Chris just stopped being funny while being trolled.
Apart from the Father Call, which remains hilarious to this day. Although in fairness, Kasey's presence in that is minimal. It's Matthew who really makes it.
The secret rule with Kacey is to not listen to any of her calls (read the transcripts instead) and listen to the father call skipping over Kacey's interjections. The best line of the entire call is at the very end, immediately before Chris hangs up: "So... what are you going to do now?"
I agree. I think this entire "project" has been nothing but exploitative drivel that any jackass can read from the Wiki.
