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No. 39522
>>233629
Rule #1 on TGWTG: do not, under any circumstance, practice what you preach
how else could you explain Doug's affinity for making poorly-scripted comedy/improv, Linkara's complete eschewing of webcomic rules when making Lightmaker or whatever his thing's called, Spoony not doing anything to make himself known in the mainstream (a fucking heart defect can't stop you from acting), and the Chick making horribly sexist jokes despite being a feminazi? If they're well aware of the problems of movies, obscure comic books nobody cares about, the blockbuster culture, and the depiction of anybody but white men in the mass media, then how come they exploit these problems in the anniversary specials and whatnot?
>>233642
True, but even in their low-budget stuff, they practice (to a degree) what they preach. It's like the Snob and his friends and how they make movies. Yes, these aren't good movies in any sense of the word, but it shows that Arm and co. know the inner workings of whatever they're trying to replicate (exploitation, black comedy, View Askewniverse) and they're trying their best to give the best quality product with whatever they have to work with.
Doug has been profiled in a magazine devoted almost entirely to successful entrepreneurs (people who earn more than $50,000 a year) and it's heavily implied that he has a massive amount of film knowledge (especially the ultra-cheap indies like "Clerks," "El Mariachi," "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and EVERYTHING John Cassavetes has done), so he should have no excuse to stick to cheap set-ups and poor actors when he can simply go to a local film production company and rent one of their professional-grade cameras for a good price. The only reason why his anniversary specials look cheap as hell is because of instead of spending it on quality cameras and actors, Doug uses his money to fly EVERYBODY on the site, regardless of any on-screen charisma, over to some gimmicky location (like Chicago or that micro-country outside of Reno) so they can scream out their injokes for the fanboys to squeal.
I've heard people argue that these specials are meant to be cheap and dumb because it's Doug's way of giving back to his fans. I doubt that he's giving them back anything positive - it looks like he's flicking them off and they, being too autistic to realize that they've been gypped. And hell, I've seen dumb-as-hell comedies (i.e. Tommy Boy; Up in Smoke) that were well-written and entertaining and, in a sly sense, quite intelligent. Doug's specials are dumb, dumb, dumb, and too cheap to give a fuck.
Hope I've explained why TGWTG comes across as immensely hypocritical.
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