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CareercowRobert Chipman / Bob / Moviebob / "Movieblob" - Middle-Aged Consoomer, CWC with a Thesaurus, Ardent Male Feminist and Superior Futurist, the Twice-Fired, the Mario-Worshipper, publicly dismantled by Hot Dog Girl, now a diabetic
Bob begins by claiming that The Simpsons is important culturally and we don't talk about the show as often as we should. He talks about the Apu controversy believing that this while nothing new, it's important because it's from The Simpsons. He then compares it how the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is important not due to it being an assassination, but of the assassination of a beloved president.
Next Bob rambles about how a dude wrote an article binge watching the whole show in a month and how the show is Anit-intellectiual. Bob's (eventual) point is that such a feat is a waste of time as the seasons vary wildly in quality and message that ultimately you can't create a cohesive theme for the whole show. Bob states that this show has almost 3 decades of continuity while the status-quo has been the same since season 1.
Bob then talks how the writers use Lisa as a mouthpiece to voice their frustrations of Being a smartass in a dumbass town like Springfield. He also compares this situation to Jim Henson's Dinosaurs as the dinosaur family and the ending represents modern America society and how we are over-consuming, overly-patriotic, and self-destructive we can be.
Bob has seen and reviewed the documentary, The Problem with Apu, says that overall the movie is critical of Apu's character yet plays it in a more humorous tone rather than outright condemnation. The documentary didn't receive much problem at the time last year, but now ever since the Simpsons' characters tried to addressed this issue it has blown up by the dudebros and the gamergaters.
10:20 gamergate jab
The Simpsons episode simply said that yes it might have been problematic but there will be a time and place for it, just not now. Bob does not like this answer since the world has changed so much but The Simpsons has remained the same.
In the end, Bob believes Apu is not just a bad stereotype but a bad stereotype that has been on TV for over 20 years on the Simpsons with no problem until now, so he believes it deserves special scrutiny. In part 2 & 3...
He then compares it how the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is important not due to it being an assassination, but of the assassination of a beloved president.
Next Bob rambles about how a dude wrote an article binge watching the whole show in a month and how the show is Anit-intellectiual. Bob's (eventual) point is that such a feat is a waste of time
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The documentary didn't receive much problem at the time last year, but now ever since the Simpsons' characters tried to addressed this issue it has blown up by the dudebros and the gamergaters.
The Simpsons episode simply said that yes it might have been problematic but there will be a time and place for it, just not now. Bob does not like this answer since the world has changed so much but The Simpsons has remained the same.
Bob begins by claiming that The Simpsons is important culturally and we don't talk about the show as often as we should. He talks about the Apu controversy believing that this while nothing new, it's important because it's from The Simpsons. He then compares it how the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is important not due to it being an assassination, but of the assassination of a beloved president.
Next Bob rambles about how a dude wrote an article binge watching the whole show in a month and how the show is Anit-intellectiual. Bob's (eventual) point is that such a feat is a waste of time as the seasons vary wildly in quality and message that ultimately you can't create a cohesive theme for the whole show. Bob states that this show has almost 3 decades of continuity while the status-quo has been the same since season 1.
Bob then talks how the writers use Lisa as a mouthpiece to voice their frustrations of Being a smartass in a dumbass town like Springfield. He also compares this situation to Jim Henson's Dinosaurs as the dinosaur family and the ending represents modern America society and how we are over-consuming, overly-patriotic, and self-destructive we can be.
Bob has seen and reviewed the documentary, The Problem with Apu, says that overall the movie is critical of Apu's character yet plays it in a more humorous tone rather than outright condemnation. The documentary didn't receive much problem at the time last year, but now ever since the Simpsons' characters tried to addressed this issue it has blown up by the dudebros and the gamergaters.
10:20 gamergate jab
The Simpsons episode simply said that yes it might have been problematic but there will be a time and place for it, just not now. Bob does not like this answer since the world has changed so much but The Simpsons has remained the same.
In the end, Bob believes Apu is not just a bad stereotype but a bad stereotype that has been on TV for over 20 years on the Simpsons with no problem until now, so he believes it deserves special scrutiny.
Simpsons gives no shit about continuity.One of the most blatant examples is how Homer and Marge went from meeting and dating in the 70's to meeting and dating the 90's(with Bart even asking what was the 90's,despite himself having codified the 90's kid stereotype in his prime...)
Also,really cute how they cry over what they did Lisa when most Simpsons fans actually hate her for how annoying,nagging and preaching she becomes over the years.
Simpsons gives no shit about continuity.One of the most blatant examples is how Homer and Marge went from meeting and dating in the 70's to meeting and dating the 90's(with Bart even asking what was the 90's,despite himself having codified the 90's kid stereotype in his prime...)
Also,really cute how they cry over what they did Lisa when most Simpsons fans actually hate her for how annoying,nagging and preaching she becomes over the years.
The Simpsons has always had a weird attitude to continuity. Sometimes it follows it rigorously (King Toot's Music Store has been next to Moe's Tavern since the first or second season), sometimes it throws it doesn't give a shit, sometimes it gleefully pisses on it (Armin Tanzarian, anybody?). I suspect whatever continuity it maintains these days is mostly intended to give the hardcore fans who still watch it an animal shiver in their hindbrains.
Bob begins by claiming that The Simpsons is important culturally and we don't talk about the show as often as we should. He talks about the Apu controversy believing that this while nothing new, it's important because it's from The Simpsons. He then compares it how the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is important not due to it being an assassination, but of the assassination of a beloved president.
Y'know, I'm hesitant to say this without having watched the video myself, but this really, really sounds like Bob is leaving himself wiggle room for those times when an assassination is a positive thing. More no bad tactics and further possible confirmation of Bob's sociopathy.
Of course Bob has no concept of actual historical context. Lincoln only became beloved after he was dead. The country never loved him when he was alive. He only won 44% of the full electorate. The rest went to war against him. He killed more Americans than anyone else in history, and turned the once thriving wealthy resource rich south into a third world nation for a century. At the time of his death he was quite unpopular politically. He’s beloved now because it is felt that he did what was needed to preserve the Union. But back then? Modern folks Aren’t The ones that lost sons, brothers and fathers by the score. In historical hindsight it was for a noble cause. But noble causes don’t win much popularity when your kids are dead and your farm looted and burned down.
I doubt if Movieblob even knows what the real immediate consequences of Lincoln’s death were? Or what the lasTing impact actually was? Lincoln’s death brought Johnson to power. Arguably the worst America President of all. The man truly responsible for modern racism. The one who institutionalized it into law for generations, while destroying the South’s econ9my.
I get the feeling the reason Bob is pouring so much energy into this Apu video is because he realizes there's a cottage industry for taking apart things that have been beloved for years but are "problematic" now. Bob is just ensuring the gravy train will keep running for him for some time to come. (If I were a cynical person, I would say that this is the entire reason for the SJW movement- the monetization of outrage. IF I were a cynical person...)
Simpsons gives no shit about continuity.One of the most blatant examples is how Homer and Marge went from meeting and dating in the 70's to meeting and dating the 90's(with Bart even asking what was the 90's,despite himself having codified the 90's kid stereotype in his prime...)
Also,really cute how they cry over what they did Lisa when most Simpsons fans actually hate her for how annoying,nagging and preaching she becomes over the years.
The Simpsons has always had a weird attitude to continuity. Sometimes it follows it rigorously (King Toot's Music Store has been next to Moe's Tavern since the first or second season), sometimes it throws it doesn't give a shit, sometimes it gleefully pisses on it (Armin Tanzarian, anybody?). I suspect whatever continuity it maintains these days is mostly intended to give the hardcore fans who still watch it an animal shiver in their hindbrains.
You can't really blame the Simpsons for it's continuity issues. It's been airing so long that continuity just has to fall apart, because the characters don't age in real time. It's a problem with a lot of long running series: sometimes when your series goes on for a long time and the characters don't age, you have to readjust what time frame they are living in and certain previously established facts get retconned. It happens all the time in superhero comics. Just look at Iron Man for example. Tony Stark's original origin story was centered around the Vietnam War, but they often have readjusted it to take place inside the nearest war to the modern time (such as the first Gulf War in the 90's or the Iraq and Afghanistan war as seen in the MCU).
That reminds me: remember people that his Batman v. Superman spergout was so badly designed and edited it spirals rapidly out of that film and proceeds to wander all around the DCCU... just to allow some manchild fuck-up dead-end to vent assache over a whole series of films because one movie from a fucking decade ago was liked by some Republicans. Bob sucks so bad at his job he can't even review the thing he is talking about right; he loses the point and reees about stuff his own 'favored' movies are guilty of for at least half of the run-time.
Who cares about human rights violations when we can finally get rid of those pesky borders and foreign governments. We need to be global no matter the cost!
Of course Bob has no concept of actual historical context. Lincoln only became beloved after he was dead. The country never loved him when he was alive. He only won 44% of the full electorate. The rest went to war against him. He killed more Americans than anyone else in history, and turned the once thriving wealthy resource rich south into a third world nation for a century. At the time of his death he was quite unpopular politically. He’s beloved now because it is felt that he did what was needed to preserve the Union. But back then? Modern folks Aren’t The ones that lost sons, brothers and fathers by the score. In historical hindsight it was for a noble cause. But noble causes don’t win much popularity when your kids are dead and your farm looted and burned down.
I doubt if Movieblob even knows what the real immediate consequences of Lincoln’s death were? Or what the lasTing impact actually was? Lincoln’s death brought Johnson to power. Arguably the worst America President of all. The man truly responsible for modern racism. The one who institutionalized it into law for generations, while destroying the South’s econ9my.
This reminds me of how often I'm bugged by people trying to paint the Civil War as a black and white issues that was totally about freeing the slaves exclusively. It raises continuity questions with how black people were treated afterwards and the narrative of America being ultra racists today before the Civil Rights movements of the 60s. I'm sure the north was full of saints who suffered amnesia afterwards and the south was full of dumb hicks who wanted to get shot because they hate black people so much.
