Atop the 4th Wall Looks At Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
 

Creator of "History of Power Rangers" takes a look at the other side of the pond.

http://atopthefourthwall.com/kaizoku...kaiger-ep-1-5/

Huh, cool.
I figured he'd like it, since Gokai's tributes don't require a vast amount of knowledge of the original.

Hilarious.

And they have more effort to getting the powers than a big ol' face just saying "Here are New Powers from an Old Team" with nary an amount of purpose. Why did they get a Dragon in SMF? Because they were the heroes. Why in KSG? Because the Red from Magiranger showed them how he and his siblings used Magic, through courage manifesting in magical energy. How about PatStriker? In SMF they just shot at a bunch of stuff, in KSG, they hang out with the leader of Special Police Dekaranger and he eventually clears them for use of official police tools.

Plus it didn't put so much effort into being lazy.


Anyway this was fun and if love to see him do this for both Carranger, Boukenger, Shinkenger and Goseiger (hell, even Go-Onger because of what a complete tone shift it was during adaptation).

I really enjoyed this episode it was great to see his reaction to the Dump Truck in the first episode.

I haven't watch a Linkara video in over two or three years. Overall a decent episode.

He should do Go-Busters and ToQger next.

I'm glad he enjoyed it. ^^

It would be cool if Linkara review a the first five episodes of a Kamen Rider and Ultraman show.

Um. So. I tried to watch this but... I detest this guy's affect. He's utterly repellent to watch.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks this :lol

No idea who this person is, but the video was kind of cringeworthy... Ehhh... Maybe it just wasn't for me. At the very least, his pronunciations are terrible.

Linkara and other people on the CA review in a similar style. I don't care fore Linkara that much neither. I will only watch a video of his if he is reviewing something that I will find interesting.

The only Channel Awesome producer I actually follow is Bennett the Sage.
Linkara has never really bothered me in terms of review style, since I enjoy seeing the stupidity in comics that hasn't been covered by Superdickery.
Really, I stopped bothering with him when his reviews starting pushing 40 minutes and it was 10 minutes of a stupid comic and 30 minutes of some kind of Star Trek-Power Rangers-Doctor Who live action fanfiction, except replace the Doctor, the Green Ranger, and Kirk with Linkara.

I tend to watch Snob and Sage these days. I stop caring about the NC over a year ago. I did like his recent review of Spawn, but his Episode 7 review was awful to sit through. I do agree that Linkara videos are way too long. That's why I don't care for his stuff that much.

I watch Linkara mostly out of inertia at this point and I never watch the storyline stuff. I also skip any episode with a Star Trek comic - I learned the hard way from sitting through his Wrath of Khan review, which was three episodes of him bitching when the comic wasn't a perfect line-by-line, shot-for-shot remake of the film.

At this point, the only CA contributor I never skip a video from is Todd.

Is Todd still doing videos? I haven't seen him post one in like 6 months.

Funnily enough, it's his videos in reviewing Star Trek material is what got me to watch a very good chunk of the shows and movies. I also enjoy a lot of the storyline stuff in his videos just as much as his review stuff. Hell, he is one of only internet reviewers that I watch of anymore.

Yeah. He's still been posting to YouTube and/or Vimeo, but his stuff wasn't going up on CA until a month or two ago. I read that the long absence had something to do with his contract with Maker Studios limiting where he could post the videos for awhile.

Oh god, the Wrath of Khan review was tortuous. It really felt like he was complaining about things like "Khan's teeth are too white in this panel!" and "McCoy's uniform had a wrinkle on the LEFT sleeve!"

Yes!

I follow Bennett among a few others, but as a non-english native speaker who watch almost everything in original version with english subs, his obsessive behaviour about the english dubs in anime sometimes annoy me, specially when half of a video is talking about how the dub sucks.
He made an example about different people (well, 2 of his friends) watching a short video of "Tokyo Godfathers" with subs, to explain why he almost never watch/review subbed stuff: reading stuff and following story is too complicated ! Honestly, that just a question of habit.

On Linkara subject, I'm glad he made the History of PR serie. I'm kind of curious about the PR shows, but I'm not really interested in watching them.

Wow, didn't know so many people felt so snippy about Linkara. I like his videos, but he does seem rather prickly.

A lot of people have mixed feelings on Linkara. I see a lot of people on /co/ that hate him. People like Asalieri2 and The Archfiend called him out for E-begging when he made a video about ad block.

I have no beef with him personally, I just don't like the fact that he spends more time in his review summarizing everything and his thoughts and opinions just boils down to small nit picks.

Super Sentai is all about fun, colour, cool suit work, people in giant robot costumes wailing on each other and, perhaps most importantly, the sense that, whatever the odds, good will eventually overcome evil.

I feel like this guy not only doesn't get that, but spends 25mins inadvertantly sucking all the magic out of something that should be sheer, multicoloured fun.

(I have to confess that I gave up with 10mins to go, so maybe he turns it all around!)

How would he not get that considering he has a side project that is literally just him watching every Power Rangers season?

I think he just focused too much on trying to be funny so those who aren't into Sentai or even know about it will still have something entertaining to watch?

Probably.

Also as a way to break up all the Japanese that most of his audience wouldn't understand despite subtitles because even with subtitles I get bored because marathoning toku or subbed anime just because I can't understand Japanese.

You clearly didn't pay attention to the review. Are you saying you can't enjoy something, do a review of it and make fun of it?

You can, but if you sap all the life out of it in the the retelling, other people may be put off watching it at all...

It wasn't a retelling, it was a satirical review with the main intent being on comedy, rather than anything informative.

I can understand not liking it, don't get me wrong. A lot of Linkara's reviews bore me to death. Here, it just feels like you didn't understand what you were getting into, is all.
If you want to see him in a more informative light, check out his History of Power Rangers series, where he gives an overview and (Sometimes long winded) review of every season/series of Power Rangers (Up to Super Megaforce). He tones down the humor some to talk about key plot points and noteworthy episodes.

It's a fuckin' review for fun, dude.

Except he didn't. And he says at the end that he plans to check the rest of the series out.

That's how are most Internet reviewers are in the last 9 or 8 years. The AVGN started that trend.

When it comes to this style of reviewing, I think the Nostalgia Critic put it best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNREaGib2vY

I really dislike when people take their words as if they're Roger Ebert.

Maybe I'm just not gelling with his supposed brand of comedy; it feels like an attempt to replicate the feel of MST3K, but, to me, lacks all of that show's charm (and laughs.)

I'm definitely not above changing my opinion on someone, so I'll give them a go. At the very least, having not watched PR since MMPR as a child, I stand to gain something from the experience!

Well what's the point of reviewing something if you can't make it fun?

Roger Ebert was not that great of a critic. The man down right hated horror movies and degraded them just because of their content. He was also a pompous jerk who gave anything he didn't agree with a bad score just because and some of his reviews didn't even sound like he actually watched the movie.

Not all reviewers are made to be funny. People like to review things seriously. That's why I like people like Emer Prevost aka Hellsing920 with his review "Reaction and Review".

It's almost as if a review is, and will almost always be, subjective.
Any reviewer could be seen as a pompous jerk if their reviews on movies you like were negative. It doesn't make them somehow wrong just because you disagree with their thoughts.

I think Edward Scissorhands was a piece of shit. I'm not calling people who praise it poor critics or that they have bad taste, for example.

You do, however, call fans of Decade deluded idiots. :lol