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I keep bringing this guy up in other topics and it seems there's other people who want to talk about him, so fuck it.
Dominic Noble (formerly The Dom) is a former Channel Awesome contributor (you can also find him lending his voice to gaming channels like Tats Top Videos at times) who currently runs a show called Lost in Adaptation, a show about comparing movies based on books to their source material, though occasionally he'll just review whatever without the need for it to be a comparison.
His analyses are not exactly great. Its rare that he comments on things like tone and theme and how changes in emphasis can fundamentally change a work or anything like that. Most of the time, his analysis comes down to just listing scenes that played out slightly differently or which characters lived and died... in other words, the same sort of information you could get from a Wikipedia article.
One particularly telling example of this is his review of the Hunt for Red October. Now, for those who aren't aware... basically, the book was an examination of how the machinery of the US Government would respond to such an unusual circumstance. The movie fundamentally changes the story by making it all about how only Jack Ryan sees what's really going on and nobody believes him, so its massively different (and a lot worse) despite hitting a lot of the same story beats.
Dominic Noble never mentions this at all.
Yes, the movie fundamentally changes what the story is ABOUT... and it flies right under his radar.
There also used to be a Youtube video which replied to his Goldfinger review, pointing out that some of his claims about the book were exaggerations or outright lies--most notably he claims there's a scene where Bond forces a woman off the road then demands she buy him a sandwich (this kinda sorta happens but not the way he describes) and he claims the phrase "yellow skinned bastard" is used on almost every page.... I read the book and even machine-searched through e-texts and I could not find even ONE instance of this swear.
This, incidentally, demonstrates another problem with Dominic, though one you probably expected if you know anything about ex-CA contributors... he, of course, leans left. And you get a real sense that his like or hate of a novel and/or its author is entirely dependent on said author's politics. Most notably he was one of the first to jump ship on J.K. Rowling despite having waxed about how foundational she was for him as a person, but he's also heaped praises on authors like Stephen King and George R.R. Martin while dissing the likes of Tom Clancy, Ian Fleming, and even repeatedly claiming that J.R.R. Tolkien "never allows women to have swords in his novels" (another claim of his which is just flat-out untrue).
In fact, Dominic tends to come off as just outright ignorant of authors in general. Some of his early errors--like not knowing how to pronounce Michael Crichton's last name--are forgivable, but what stands out to me most is what he doesn't say. For example, knowing Dom's politics, you'd think he would go into major screeds against Michael Crichton and Alexander Dumas when covering their books... but with the latter he appears to be completely unaware of Dumas' arch-misogyny (real misogyny not social justice misogyny) and when he revisits Crichton in The Andromeda Strain, all he's learned is "he really loves science" (followed by a cringy joke) and seemingly knows nothing else about the man. If he did, he would've gone on autistic screeds. (Crichton was basically a visionary who saw woke culture coming and knew what it would lead to).
This ignorance gives me the impression that Dominic Noble is sort of the Irate Gamer of Literature--he never really had an interest in the field, he just saw a certain reviewer niche he could fill, bought a bunch of books online, and went at it.
Oh, did I mention Dommy Boy has dyslexia? And by his own admission usually listens to audiobooks rather than reading the actual books?
I personally don't check Twitters, but apparently there he's known to have a hair-trigger temper and will block people for the slightest of reasons, as this poster on DeviantArt found out first-hand.
The one thing that's kept him from having a proper topic is that... he barely ever does anything to draw attention, and seems fine just existing in his little niche. Points for having some degree of self-control I guess.
So what do you think of Dominic Noble? Will he become a full-fledged lolcow in the future or will he eventually be forgotten?
Dominic Noble (formerly The Dom) is a former Channel Awesome contributor (you can also find him lending his voice to gaming channels like Tats Top Videos at times) who currently runs a show called Lost in Adaptation, a show about comparing movies based on books to their source material, though occasionally he'll just review whatever without the need for it to be a comparison.
His analyses are not exactly great. Its rare that he comments on things like tone and theme and how changes in emphasis can fundamentally change a work or anything like that. Most of the time, his analysis comes down to just listing scenes that played out slightly differently or which characters lived and died... in other words, the same sort of information you could get from a Wikipedia article.
One particularly telling example of this is his review of the Hunt for Red October. Now, for those who aren't aware... basically, the book was an examination of how the machinery of the US Government would respond to such an unusual circumstance. The movie fundamentally changes the story by making it all about how only Jack Ryan sees what's really going on and nobody believes him, so its massively different (and a lot worse) despite hitting a lot of the same story beats.
Dominic Noble never mentions this at all.
Yes, the movie fundamentally changes what the story is ABOUT... and it flies right under his radar.
There also used to be a Youtube video which replied to his Goldfinger review, pointing out that some of his claims about the book were exaggerations or outright lies--most notably he claims there's a scene where Bond forces a woman off the road then demands she buy him a sandwich (this kinda sorta happens but not the way he describes) and he claims the phrase "yellow skinned bastard" is used on almost every page.... I read the book and even machine-searched through e-texts and I could not find even ONE instance of this swear.
This, incidentally, demonstrates another problem with Dominic, though one you probably expected if you know anything about ex-CA contributors... he, of course, leans left. And you get a real sense that his like or hate of a novel and/or its author is entirely dependent on said author's politics. Most notably he was one of the first to jump ship on J.K. Rowling despite having waxed about how foundational she was for him as a person, but he's also heaped praises on authors like Stephen King and George R.R. Martin while dissing the likes of Tom Clancy, Ian Fleming, and even repeatedly claiming that J.R.R. Tolkien "never allows women to have swords in his novels" (another claim of his which is just flat-out untrue).
In fact, Dominic tends to come off as just outright ignorant of authors in general. Some of his early errors--like not knowing how to pronounce Michael Crichton's last name--are forgivable, but what stands out to me most is what he doesn't say. For example, knowing Dom's politics, you'd think he would go into major screeds against Michael Crichton and Alexander Dumas when covering their books... but with the latter he appears to be completely unaware of Dumas' arch-misogyny (real misogyny not social justice misogyny) and when he revisits Crichton in The Andromeda Strain, all he's learned is "he really loves science" (followed by a cringy joke) and seemingly knows nothing else about the man. If he did, he would've gone on autistic screeds. (Crichton was basically a visionary who saw woke culture coming and knew what it would lead to).
This ignorance gives me the impression that Dominic Noble is sort of the Irate Gamer of Literature--he never really had an interest in the field, he just saw a certain reviewer niche he could fill, bought a bunch of books online, and went at it.
Oh, did I mention Dommy Boy has dyslexia? And by his own admission usually listens to audiobooks rather than reading the actual books?
I personally don't check Twitters, but apparently there he's known to have a hair-trigger temper and will block people for the slightest of reasons, as this poster on DeviantArt found out first-hand.
The one thing that's kept him from having a proper topic is that... he barely ever does anything to draw attention, and seems fine just existing in his little niche. Points for having some degree of self-control I guess.
So what do you think of Dominic Noble? Will he become a full-fledged lolcow in the future or will he eventually be forgotten?
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