Three years ago, Irish madman Super Eyepatch Wolf made a video on the teen drama Riverdale which is loosely based on the Archie comic books series. While the show was already infamous for its very bizarre plot, I think that video amplified it to a lot of people.
Three years later he has made a follow up video with the plot developments that have occurred in the show since, and if he wasn’t also showing footage from the show alongside the events he discusses, I would think it was another elaborate joke like his Space Jam video.
I’ve always been just barely aware that there’s a whole world of people watching those shows. I categorize them all in my mind as the descendants of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Riverdale, Smallville, and Supernatural are the other ones that I actually know the names of, but I’m sure there are others.
Super long serial plots that don’t have a planned ending. Lowish budget production. US television. I think the only thing that keeps them from being soap operas is the that they air them at a different time slot. They also often add some fantasy or sci-fi elements when soap operas don’t do that so much.
They’re actually more honest adaptations of comic books to the screen than movies are. Floppy American comics are also neverending serials. If you think about it, the soap operas are the televised form of the early romance comics. These shows are the televised adaptations of more contemporary comics. The only difference is that the big comic publishers didn’t keep publishing the former. Thankfully we now have things like WEBTOON filling that need.
If this person made a video series on The Amazing Spider-Man, the comic book, it would also come across as even more insane than Riverdale.
Seems like a potentially interesting video. However, even with subtitles turned on I couldn’t follow the narration due to the horrible bass balance of the voice-over. All of the audio from the movie clips were crystal clear while the voice-over sounded like he was holding the microphone right to his lips while inside a giant tube or something.
Baseball season has started up again. I got into baseball mostly through movies and TV shows (including anime) as I live and grew up in a part of the world where nobody gives a crap about that sport. So here’s a video why the sport works so well in dramatic form.
A couple of years ago Super Eyepatch Wolf released a video on Roman Reigns and his storyline in WWE and how he failed to become popular as a hero character and instead became a hyper dominant and popular villain. I posted that video in this thread then and it was kind a popular.
However, that storyline was incomplete and intertwines with the storyline of Cody Rhodes as well. So SEW has re-released the video as an extended cut with some re-edits.
DrAmazing is a new (er… newish?) channel to check out. A few years ago, he sporadically just used his channel to upload short gameplay videos. As of a month ago, he completely changed his format, and now he’s looking into the history of video game mechanics and terminology every week.
