#Doug walker

[spongebob-connoisseur]

The nostalgia critic reacting to bubblebass cosplaying him in spongebob

#Well actually the patrick star show but you get it #the spongebob connoisseur #spongebob squarepants #spongebob #sb #spongebon squarepants #spongebob meme #The patrick star show #The patrick show #Doug walker #The nostalgia critic #Channelawesome

[junk-hed]

#nostalgia critic #grindr #doug walker

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was hired by Doug Walker to work on Nostalgia Critic. I tried to suggest improvements, but he was resistant to change.

#dream #Nostalgia critic #doug walker #nostalgia critic

[unnaturalbabe]

this is the worst thing i've ever seen and it's not close

edit months later: go follow my new account @autismexploder i promise there will be more cursed shit there and also lots of sapphic deviance and discussion of squids

#homestuck #karkalicious #karkat vantas #nostalgia critic #doug walker #shitpost

[thisdastampdoesnotexist]

#da stamps #deviantart stamps #stamp #doug walker #nostalgia critic #gif

[let-us-cultivate-our-garden]

So I don’t know if you know of Doug Walker, but recently released his Disneycember review of The Owl House.

While he praised a majority of the show, he criticized the main villain, Belos, of how he was written.

Many of the comments tried to defend the writing of the villain.

Doug Walker..

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Yes, I am very familiar with Doug Walker; I loved his stuff along with Channel Awesome years ago and then the allegations came out and fortunately, the other contributors on that channel moved onto bigger and better things. Meanwhile, Doug just stayed the same, so I don't watch his stuff anymore.

Any way, I think it's funny people are scrambling to defend Belos' writing because, despite my own personal opinions on Doug as a critic, I actually agree with him.

For a show that is ostensibly about subverting tropes and not judging a book by its cover, by showing how people can choose to change or not, etc. Belos is a throwback to an earlier era where the Big Bad had basic motivations and characterizations. And for a show like toh, that actually ends up hurting the narrative.

I have categorized the comments I found defending the writing and here are my responses to them:

Belos does have a deeper layer, you just have to look for it.

While a show can certainly foreshadow and provide little hints about a major character, eventually all of that setup will have to pay off somehow. There has to be a reveal both to reward the viewers that have been paying attention and to inform more casual viewers who may not have. Fans analyzing every little frame to extrapolate a major character's backstory only for that backstory to really not matter in the end despite it being set up for a season is just bad writing. full stop. [A viewer should also not have to look on social media for crucial information on a major character.]

It's also not clever that the show left so much room for interpretation on Belos; it just means that they didn't make a commitment to what was being set up and reduced his character to glib one-liners whenever we learn something interesting about him (Masha's "little bro was jealous of big bro" line and Papa Titan's whole spiel).

2. Belos would have been written better if the show had more time.

The Toh crew knew about the cancellation during production of Eda's Requiem and wrote all of 2B with it in mind. So they knew they were working on a time crunch but still introduced elements like the Collector when they should have spent the time wrapping up their story. The cancellation is not an excuse for sloppy writing.

3. Belos as a villain works more on a meta level.

So the argument here is that Belos is the antithesis to the BI; it's accepting and diverse while he is hateful and only accepts things that conform to his worldview. The characters in the story change and grow, while Belos does not. The problem here is that a villain can't only work on a meta level, it has to work on a narrative one as well.

If the BI is place that accepts weirdos then how did someone like Belos come to power? Oh, he lied his way to the top and created problems that never existed? That just makes your populace look dumb and easily manipulated. The BI being so accepting also undermines the threat credibility of the Emperor's Coven because why should we worry about them if they have no real influence over how the BI residents think or behave aside from when the plot needs them to?

Also, I strongly disagree with anyone who says that toh has a "people are complicated and choose to do good and bad" theme when all of the good characters can blame their bad actions on being manipulated or on circumstances outside of their control OR the narrative ignores/downplays anything bad they did (cough cough Amity and Lilith). Meanwhile, the villains are just shallow with basic motives and this is supposed to be a deep message about how Some People Are Just Bad.

If you're going to contrast why your good characters are capable of growth then you need to show why your villain does not. What is stopping them? How do they react if given a legitimate reason to change (that isn't a cheap jab at Steven Universe)? What is their justification for their actions?

Whatever the answer is, the narrative has to support it and not undermine it with a stupid joke.

4. Belos is so refreshing when every villain character is redeemed.

Watch more shows. If you think that every cartoon villain post-Steven Universe is being redeemed then you're incorrect. Redemption of a show or movie's Big Bad is still in the minority while the redemption of the main villain's lackey is a dime-a-dozen.

Ultimately, I think the problem with toh is that so many of its fans take its thematic statements at face value without ever really stopping to think about the execution of those themes and if they really work or not.

Belos just happens to embody this little trick that toh does: it claims to have bold and timely statements and important themes, but the structure and execution of the plot, character development, and world-building undermines any attempt at a consistent or coherent message.

#asks #long post #the owl house #toh critical #toh criticism #emperor belos #philip wittebane #doug walker #nostalgia critic #disneycember

[dustyoo10]

When that resonance cascade hits ❗❗💯🤣🤣😂🚬

#my memes #meme #half life #half life memes #gordon freeman #nostalgia critic #doug walker

[vampiricvirtue]

NOSTALGIA CRITIC AND FRIENDS?!?!?

#art #my art #artwork #fanart #digital art #digital drawing #artists on tumblr #fanartist #thatguywiththeglasses #nostalgia #nostalgia critic #Doug Walker #angry video game nerd #avgn #sonic #sonic art #sonic the hedghog fanart #sonic the hedgehog

[ozzy-lot]

#The Nostalgia Mimic #art #artists on tumblr #artwork #illustration #gaming #fnaf #five nights #five nights at freddy's #the mimic #mimic #fnaf mimic #nostalgia critic #the nostalgia critic #doug walker

[malueion]

i'll have ten number nines and a number eighty with mayo and salt and extra onion and also i'll have the banaban meal with the new jumbo josh toy and can i also get a number one a number two and a number three but hold the cheese make it more like a number two point five

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc jax #jax #doug walker #bubble buddy #people don't even say “bless you” anymore they just stare at you like this #jumbo josh #the banban special #fast food

[jofiah]

Makima could/would rock the nostalgia critic fit, I think

#i'm just saying. #swap their outfits. #makima #chainsaw man #csm #nostalgia critic #doug walker

[beardedmrbean]

#batman #Nostalgia Critic #Doug Walker #sigh #disappointment

[wyat-ttt]

Drew like a dark, fucked up version of the Nostalgia Critic haha. Just a glimpse into my dark reality. A full stare into my twisted perspective would make most simply go insane Imao

#art #nostalgia critic #doug walker #fucked up and evil

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Stephen Colbert had an international tour where, at every single venue, he interviewed Doug Walker. 

#dream #January 10th 2024 #stephen colbert #tour #international tour #doug walker #interview #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue

[theartoffrozen]

Concept art by Doug Walker

#frozen #anna #concept art #doug walker #the snow queen

[thisdastampdoesnotexist]

#da stamps #deviantart stamps #stamp #nostalgia critic #doug walker