Damsel: Immoral, Tropey, Nonsensical Girl Boss Trash
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- - Damsel is one of the worst, most cliched pieces of trash to emerge from the femtasy genre.
- An analysis of the 1979 British movie Scum.
- A description of the femtasy genre and its tropes.
- Let's celebrate the humiliating failure of Maestro.
Timestamps
00:00 - Damsel is tropey garbage
07:28 - The Downtown LA we live in Today
17:30 - How Scum explores themes of the alienation of male youth, conformity & individuality
22:38 - The Femtasy genre
31:12 - Celebrating the humiliating failure of Maestro (lol)
37:58 - Archer and the Screw: Intergenerational dissonance
40:02 - Plotholes
55:38 - Damsel is disgustingly immoral
57:11 - Damsel isn't subversive, it's trite
1:01:40 - Attack on Lesbos Prime
1:06:52 - Hollywood deserve their failure - Zábava
Black woman here. There’s nothing that takes me out of a European fantasy story faster than showing random black people sprinkled in with no explanation. Instead of focusing on the story, I immediately begin thinking about how this world or population came to be…and the more I think about it, the more I’m PUNISHED for it.
Imagine if in Woman King a bunch of the warriors were redheads and chinese girls hahaha
@@nonamenamenamenoneSince I hated Woman King, I think that idea probably would’ve been more entertaining honestly. Nothing could save that movie production. But it’s like randomly placing black and white people into a fantasy ancient China movie with no explanation. Hollywood wouldn’t do that but they do it to midevil European settings non-stop. It’s insufferable. One of the only times this has worked for me in recent years is House of the Dragon. Because the Velaryon family who they race swapped weren’t from Westeros originally and the show runners actually had very good reason and explanation as to why they made the Velaryons black: to make the transition from book to screen more digestible. Because there would’ve been too many white silver-haired characters on screen and many with similar sounding names. That’s confusing adapting to the screen. Making The Velaryons black allows fans to distinguish between the two main families: the Velaryons and Targaryens. When it’s justified, I don’t mind as much but I hate when diversity is sprinkled in to check boxes.
Same here. I remember in 'Wonder Woman 1984" Pedro Pascal's character had a son who looks like he might be from the Philippines. Az from Heel vs Babyface got some grief on EFAP for complaining about this, but he was right. The other members were babbling about genetics and how the boy's mother could be Asian, etc. - but the point isn't that it's physically possible. It's that, while it isn't inexplicable, *it's unexplained.* And my mind immediately set about working out the explanation that the film wouldn't give me, so I was diverted from the story being told to the story I was creating in my mind. In a book, you have time to give a back story that would make sense, but in a movie every second counts. Screenwriters now deal with this problem by just refusing to explain anything, and then defiantly daring their audience to risk opprobrium by complaining.
I always wonder whatever happened to the Africa equivalent in that setting. Did the writers just erase an entire continent? Or did they just got colonized hence why none lf the black characters show a y sign of African culture? Either way is kinda racist lmao
I always wonder whatever happened to the Africa equivalent in that setting. Did the writers just erase an entire continent? Or did they just got colonized hence why none lf the black characters show a y sign of African culture? Either way is kinda racist lmao
"I should not have sold my DVD collection"
that hit hard
Piracy is the way my friends
Luckily, I've maintained my physical media library. But I've been hearing that sentiment from several friends and family members over the past few years.
Not as bad as when I think about my video game collection I sold...I could literally buy a new car now for what that stuff is selling for currently
@@thegloryofromeiseternal
happy parrot noices*
@@joshuahermanson341 I couldn't maintain it. I don't have enough living space to keep everything from back then and I had to sort out a lot of things. And most people have that issue.
I did love how she chose to save a murderous dragon, but let her father die who, despite his mistake, actually risked his life to try and save her. What a horrible character.
and all they really need to add to at least make it 'okay sure I will accept that' is if the dragon was cursed or somehow forced to kill 'those of the blood/smells of the blood', and upon release of the curse/other - we can have that change to the dragon that would actually make sense.
Or ya know, show that as having been what was done initially, then 100s of years later.... the dragon have changed, it's pondered the evils it did, it wishes to change, to no longer be a monster. ya know, SOMETHING.
@Kesyabastard
Of course they did. All men are bad to them, even the heroic ones.
It sorta makes sense, it mirrors the mentality of the intended audience.
Just look at how many murders by "undocumented persons" have happened, and the following interviews with family always justify and excuse the person.
Molly Tibbets is a perfect example. Find her fathers interview with the local news, it's ridiculous. He even does the stereotypical "but at least we still have tacos and Mexican food"
I was prejudiced against Elodie from the beginning of the movie.
This entitled brat feels she sacrifices herself by ineffectively chopping logs to help 'her people' (even though this won't help much at all compared to effective management) and goes home to a full meal, then turns around to an ACTUAL offer of self-sacrifice with all the attitude of, 'Giving up MY privilege to help people? I'm not doing that!' Five minutes in, and I hated her already.
Of course, she decides to go through with the marriage, but she tells the Prince, to his face, that she's been guilted into marrying him, all 'My happiness is a small price to pay.'
Well the father was a man and the dragon was a women so only one right choice was there. Pretty sure the writers tapped themselves on the shoulder for that one.
You know what's fucked up? Every time arranged marriages are explored in a narrative, they're almost universally portrayed as a sacrifice for the woman, but not for the man.
Like men don't also desire a relationship of mutual love, respect, and support.
I agree, heck Monty Python and the Holy Grail show a man's perspective of an arranged marriage with Prince Herbet as well as East is East shows a few men's opinions on their upcoming arranged marriages with one of the sons being disowned by the father after he ran out of the marriage.
I assume the logic was that men wouldn't get looked down on for sleeping around so they didn't suffer for the marriage. Not saying I agree with it but just what the underlying assumption is.
Because back then in reality women did have to sacrifice a lot. Women weren't marrying handomse princes. They were married off to men 3 times their age and forced to get pregnant and give birth when it was insanely life-risking. Also god forbid they didn't give birth to a male. Women had barely any power. At least men had some power.
@Las645
That's actually a good point.
However, it'd still be nice to acknowledge that men sometimes had to sacrifice in these situations too.
I don't think a little nuance is too much to ask for.
@@Las645 Apex Fallacy.
The lives of royal women were almost as privileged as the men, and they didn't even have to fight in war or suffer the same threat of assassination. Pairings were more likely to be closely related by age, as the whole purpose is to produce several heirs which isn't easy with a large age gap. Also, princes were generally more handsome than most, having no need to work for a living, they would instead train in martial pursuits and be educated into refinement.
These factors all vary with the exact time period being discussed, but there is no period at any point in human history where women took more risks, worked harder, or were less protected than men overall, and there likely never will be
Every time we think we have hit rock bottom, Hollywood drops a nuke down the mineshaft and reveals a new cavern of concentrated cringe and hate.
@Bigchikenisyummy they subverted your expectations
"The distortion of mankind runs endlessly deep" - persona 5
A cavern with sh*t stalactites and pink crystals
@@jon_5357 you forgot about the pansexual disabled woman of color that actually does all the work in the kingdom
They subvert nations as well 🕍
It's funny that Shrek did this whole trope subversion with Fiona better over 20 years ago. Fiona was also a great character in her own right.
And it didn't need to bring anyone down to raise her up.
And their Dragon was cooler.
@@randomcenturion7264 And the Dragon was weirdly cool enough to have a cook book in the castle.
czcams.com/video/Nf8Pz4lqFRU/video.htmlfeature=shared at 1:26
And hotter
Perhaps b/c she actually had love in her heart.
Shrek is historically accurate
"Oh you can accept magic, hobbits and an evil sentient ring, but not Honda Civic cavalry? racist."
God i hate when people throw out this argument, it is actually so hillariously bad. As if the magic present in a fantasy story, suddenly means that we shouldn't expect basic biology and physics to mirror our own world.
If you want to do a story where parents give birth to random races, fine, but at least explain how and why this is taking place.
I was the 100th like lol.
I can accept Honda Civic cavalry, but only if they are the SOCH ones. VTEC is too advanced for the setting of fantasy medieval europe.
For the uninitiated, our car enthusiast friend Isaac here meant to write _SOHC,_ which stands for _Single Overhead Camshaft._ It's a technology that allowed for the faster, more reliable opening and closing of the intake and exhaust valves within an engine, compared to its predecessor, the _"Pushrod" Overhead Valve (OHV)._
These days, _Dual Overhead Camshaft (DOHC)_ cylinder heads have all but replaced the _SOHC_ ones, as they move the valves in a more direct fashion; without the use of rocker arms. _DOHC_ also allow for the spark plug (or fuel injector, in the case of a diesel engine) to be positioned right in the middle of the cylinder, allowing for better ignition.
@@xxMyNaMeIsBeAsTxx
Or more importantly, *_internal logical consistency._*
>Modern Day
"Did God paint you?"
*riots for 5 months*
True, something cute and childish would be taken as awful and racist now.
i love that point. writers always trying to make movies "that reflect the modern world" but what they actually mean is make movies that reflect downtown L.A.
Most of these writers are Americans they have no idea what the rest of the world looks like
@@thegloryofromeiseternal- Correction: They have no idea what outside their city looks like.
Hell why would a movie set in a Medveival fantasy setting reflect the modern world. It's literally not Modern, that's the damn point.
@@thefanwithoutaface8105 Theyre incapable of putting themselves in any other shoes but their own, its all they know, so thats what they produce
So how come these racist white male patriarchs allow colored people in their court? Do they actually have redeeming qualities? Naw, of course not, just kidding.
The major plot hole: The dragon can identify the lineage of her enemy by the smell of their blood. She also knew that the king from another kingdom she killed was the father of the princess she was hunting. By that logic, she should have smelled the king's blood and realize there and then that she's been fooled by the actual king/queen of the land.
Shhh you'll hurt their brains with that basic critical thinking.
Yes! I just realized that myself and came looking if anyone else had spotted that.
But it is #girlboss world, so the dragon will likely assume that Elodie gets her bloodline from her mother and that her father married in.
Why are you putting more thought into this dreck than the screenwriters did?
@@Jonas-lj8ul Someone has to, and the fact that people have to write the script for the movie because it's NOT in the movie further shows how awful it is.
Writer 1: "I want a Mary Sue. But I don't want to get called out on it."
Writer 2: "Have her get hurt. A little burn is all it should take to shield us from that criticism."
W1: "Brilliant! But the thought that I, I mean she, might be diminished in some way while showing how awesome women are doesn't sit right with my entitlement."
W2: "Magic healing slugs. That way, we can claim she struggled and still have no lasting consequences."
W1: 😃
Yeah but I’d expect tentacles instead of slugs. Those writers are the type to watch hentai lol
@@Colonel_RamRodIn some alternate reality there is a version of this where the healing tentacles violate Millie Bobby Brown I'm sure
" Anything boys can do, I can do better "
@@thestrangeletwhy’d I have to be born in this reality instead of that- oh nevermind
Damsel is such a perfect summation of what streaming has become. It's empty, can be played in the background while you doomscroll and you still fully understand it, and exists mostly for the people involved to pat themselves on the back about their superior virtues.
42:45 Nook of No-Tagsies is gold
'Doomscroll' is my new favourite word.
This movie is what happens when you try to do "subversion" but end up doing all the tropes everyone's tired of
Yes, it’s just another… version
Femtasy* is the perfect word to describe this sh°°.
Spread the word, coomrades! 😁
I kept my DVD collection. I'm not paying for the message.
They're even subverting story structure and coherent storytelling now.
Same old Bess in a new dress.
The plot point of a dragon being upset that someone killed her babies isn’t even original - _Dragonslayer_ did it much better more than 40 years ago. Galen is justified in killing the baby dragons - they’ve just killed the princess and are currently eating her corpse, so they clearly pose a threat to him as well. But the movie takes a moment to show Vermithrax realizing her children are dead, and then becoming enraged in her grief. (And that’s really saying something, since Vermithrax was a stop-motion puppet and even a short scene like that would have taken days to film.)
I really loved that tidbit from the movie. At least though, Vermithrax never tried to pass as the moral guy: ok, getting angry over the butchered kids is understandable, but the dragon started it
@@dariovirga7711 And the story can only have a happy ending if she dies.
@@gelchert tbh, I thought Vermithrax was male. Non that it matters that much.
Star Trek did it better more than 50 years ago in "The Devil in the Dark".
40 years ago? Hmm... I would say the trope goes a lot further than that. Beowulf has the same premise, written over a thousand years ago. Beowulf comes to help a village in need and slays the monster Grendal who is terrorising a local village but guess what? Turns out Grendel had a mother and she's outright pissed. She slays some of Beowulf's men while they slept while Beowulf was away and when he returns and with some help he tracks the mother down. All leading to a big showdown with her where he nearly dies. Fun fact Beowulf struggles in all of his fights. For example, No sword can pierce Grendel's skin so he has to get creative and tears the monsters arm off instead. He dies in his next final fight against a dragon after getting mortally wounded.
Yeah that's right our ancestors are outright far better story tellers than any Hollywood writer claims to be.
"You are weak. I am powerful."
I swear, these writers either don't understand morality or don't value it. Every single thing they write is about might making right and how women are secretly the most mighty.
Where's the aspiration towards virtue? Where's the depiction of heroes being different from villains due to their values, not their power level? The very foundation of these stories are rotten because the hero is not heroic.
I wonder the same about people on the political left wanting to abolish police - and basically wanting anarchy... people incapable of violence and self-defense would be the very first to go in a society falling into anarchy. Its so strange...
@@peterpupe8352The left is a Death Cult so...
@@peterpupe8352The Left is an unalive cult, so..
You never seem to hear 'moral character' being spoken of anymore? Even the Church.
Dark times acoming..
@@Jeremy-ho3viWhat Churches do you attend?
I will admit. A survival horror movie about a girl trying to avoid being a sacrifice to a dragon sounds awesome on paper. Or the premise of a virgin sacrifice winning the dragon over to her side for some revenge. What doesn't work is fusing both concepts together with woke glue and creating an abomination I'd like to call wasted potential
She should’ve won the dragon over with her feminine wiles. That would’ve been hot at least.
Tress and the emerald sea had that as a plot point. The winning the dragon over thing. Good Book.
@@johns.1854yes…beastiality…so hot 🙄. Weirdo
I think maybe if the character was someone who lost a child themselves, it would make more sense. That way they could get the dragon to bond with them and empathize.
Hey, c'mon, now - I'm willing to suspend my disbelief enough to accept fire-breathing dragons, but I simply CAN'T believe in a 20 year-old virgin. Let's not be silly....
I do appreciate the time you take critiquing today's postmodern trash.
Is it postmodern if it's for modern audiences?
Guess he gets a ton
@@woldemunster9244Modernism happened in the early 20th century, whereas postmodernism was after WW2 with the advent of nuclear warfare. In my opinion, most of postmodernism is trike, and is just sob story depression and contradictions.
@@woldemunster9244 lol...
Critiquing the victors.
They own your society now.
Keep consooming.
So, I tried showing my Mom your “Women Talking” video, telling her how that the treatment of the boys in the movie was how I was raised and abused as a child. But she said to me that I “needed to watch the movie to understand the whole thing”. Basically defending my abuse
I hope you are doing OK. That sort of thing can last. I only have clichés to tell you. Keep your head up, you got this, you have value. You've probably heard them, but that doesn't make them less true.
@@bertimusprime7900 thank you, and sadly it made me cry after she left the room and I’m kinda pretty shook up about it. I’ve been seeing a counselor because my Grandma, who was the one who raised/abused me as a kid, had passed away and my ex did some shady things and made me afraid to go outside in my small town. So I’m hoping my upcoming counseling appointment will clear things up in my brain
@@misfit1422 I wish you every blessing and success. Good luck
Please do not continue the abuse, break the cycle, sit down with the bible and have a conversation with God
@@brianluisi7616
Why is it you lot talk about it like an advertisement? Believe in whatever you want but the last thing people want to hear at the verge of a mental break is "Does THIS ever happen to YOU? Boy oh boy do I have the PERFECT thing for you! Call now and get TWO blessings for the price of ONE!"
Yeah this shit doesn't help.
Despot,
Please release your full analysis of Scum as a standalone video.
The smash cuts back to the fem-fantasy were hilarious, and more jarringly effective because I was riveted to the analysis of the themes in Scum.
Every time we went back to fem-fantasy my mind started wandering because, as you have pointed out, we’ve see current-year trash many times.
Yeah the Scum analysis was very engrossing
Glad you got what I was going for. A standalone Scum analysis would be well worth doing. By the way you can watch Scum free on CZcams.
@@DespotofAntrim i never knew the film existed, thank you for introducing me to it, it's awesome! expecting a full review, also, while the segment is somewhat popular i'd like to see what a pitch for a movie you genuinely think is a good idea looks like.
Remember there are two versions of Scum , the original BBC version never shown , and the the later cinema version . Just putting it out there . Both available in a DVD box set.
@@DespotofAntrim despot, for your information there was a movie which did top Maesturbatro, making the stunning and brave 0 dollars at the box office all time low record! it is unbelivable woke trash and very much deserved it's revenue.
The explanation of the expense of horses in medival times cant be understated. It cracks me up when shows depicting that time frame just have random horses available whenever, at anytime, for free
Like, fr. Having a horse in those times was like buying a brand new car off the lot with cash. It's not impossible to do, but the vast majority of people don't have the resources to drop that kind of cash at the drop of a hat.
especially cuz one accident or one bad-event in battle and that horse is lamed or dead and no longer useful for anything else than to draw a carriage or pull a plow.
Tables full of food (meat) always threw me off in fantasy movies.
Never mind horses, consider the cost of a sword
As far as I know it was pretty much just royalty, soldiers and farmers who had horses. Even then paid for by royalty.
People think that just because cars are normalized now that other forms of transport must have been as well, I see a lot of that with other stuff like spices, televisions, even certain foods. Things that are commonplace now but were once luxuries only the spoon-fed highborns would buy way back when.
This is why knowing even just a teensy bit of history is important. They think they're so open-minded too it's so irritating.
The "Screw", being a public servant who doesn't like his job but feels his sense of duty, does more for society than Damsel.
Infinitely more...
The "Screw" is the normal bloke going about his daily grind (pardon the pun) of maintaining civilization...
Meanwhile, Damsel is the ungrateful wretch doing its best to burn it all down.
No apologies for the second pun... it wrote itself.
Shrek did the whole "princess saving herself" trope better over 20 years ago. Not to mention that was supposed to be a joke, not something to be taken seriously
P.S. : Millie Bobby Brown turned down a role in the Godzilla x Kong movie so she can act in this garbage XD
Turned down one bad movie to be in another bad movie, lol
@@shamrockdragon7634 True, but I’ll prefer being in a Kaiju movie over this drag of a movie any day.
@@TexasTreefrog that is a good point
That trope can't be done well because it's bullshit.
and G x K is better for it
"Damsel" is an "updated for modern audiences" version of 1981's "Dragonslayer." And nothing says, "it's going to be awful" more than the phrase "updated for modern audiences." "Dragonslayer" had good effects for its era, nice performances by Peter MacNicol and the legendary Sir Ralph Richardson, and "strong, independent female characters" such as Caitlin Clarke's "Valerian" and Chloe Salaman's "Princess Elspeth." No agenda. No "The Message." No identity politics. It's just a fairly entertaining film about honor, courage, sacrifice, magic, and a dragon. That modern Hollywood turned it into vapid, predictable, morally relativist, bean-counting, feminist pandering dreck by "updating" it is just part of a very depressing trend.
But in Dragonslayer, the damsel/princess know that she have to pay the price for her action, and do it anyway. When was the last time a modern heroin have to sacrifice.
Thanks. I'm going to watch the old movie.
The biggest fantasy of all is the "modern audience" that studios are going bankrupt for.
Plus at least they gave the dragon a name - Vermithrax Perjorative
Welp, I’ve got a new movie to look up.
Thanks for including Mr Reflection. His smooth, empty brain untroubled by facts and reality reminds us of the joy of childhood ignorance. Truly an inspiration
He’s a reflection of myself…
@@AmIReadingTooMuchIntoThis Are you also black and gay?
*_"I'm black - and I'm gay."_*
I love how someone got thrown into the cave, survived the fall and then while running from a fire breathing dragon, found what she believed to be an exit, decided to then go back into the cave to draw a map and sign it. truly stunning and brave.
Frieren: Gotta make sure you didn't miss any good loot.
@@serpentinious7745 At least there was no mimic.
@@serpentinious7745 Oh, don't compare Frieren to this crap. You're only making me want to rewatch it.
@@imjustbeinghonest2994 You should. We all should. What are we still doing here?
crying because the season is over and we'll eed to wait for the next one@@serpentinious7745
We want Mansel: Hero of Men
De-age Arnold Schwarzenegger and let's get it done
isn't that just Deathstalker?
"Mansel" 😂😂😂
Never get rid of your DVDs. Streaming sites ARE "fixing" old movies' "problematic" parts. If you want to keep unadulterated movies, keep the DVDs.
All the streaming services are awful even if they weren't tampering with them. I don't even use any but I've witnessed the horrors, it's truly hard to believe that they've been replacing regular TV.
I wouldn't use that crap if it was free. In fact I did have it for free once and still barely used it. A friend of mine uses a few of them and spends half the time staring at the buffering icon.
He's been so brainwashed by this stuff that he will WATCH THE BUFFERING ICON. He'll complain about it everytime it happens but will still not take his eyes off the screen, like that's all he has going on in life. Yet people always act like it's a problem because I play a videogame for a couple hours during my free time. Yet THIS behavior is normalized?
I have recently watched Annihilation on netflix and there were so many new needless scenes that I thought I was experiencing a stroke midway through the once brilliant horror movie.
From here on out, I will refer to the modern genre as "Femntasy" until conditions improve.
Like your inclusion of n here
@@crakhaedme too
Despot of Antrim is so underrated, you honestly deserve much more
He’s doing pretty well for a fairly new channel
Yes and no. I find it changes youtubers when they get big. I used to love critical drinker when he was smaller, but it did something to his ego. So as much as I'd like him to get big, I'm always hesitant.
Waiting for TCD's fanbois to come to rescue their man from a random comment he'll never see.
Despot would be more viral if he cut his video lengths in half and posted twice as often. But, that's his artistic decision to make.
@n0odles86 maybe exposure to channels like despot made you realize that tcd was never good in the first place
Will you consider running for president this year?
ChatGPT told me that the Schrodinger's Feminist concept is imposed to women by the society and "Ultimately, the idea of "Schrodinger's Feminist" underscores the need for ongoing dialogue and action to address systemic inequalities and empower women to define their identities on their own terms". Imagine my shock.
So called 'AI' was exciting for about 5 minutes. I'm now convinced that anything other than open source AI is corporate junk.
@@DespotofAntrim Just look at Google's Gemini and how it tried to be all 'black greek philosophers' but just allowed us to make fun of it with 'medieval king eating fried chicken and watermelon'.
AI v Kamala , please.
I use ChatGPT to generate me custom tailored smut and only that, and I am still sometimes dissapointed by the forceful wokeness it tries to push into it. No jokes, I get excerpts against independant, strong and empowered women and the complete opposite about men without even asking for either.
The Damsel in Distress is a great trope; it provides an excellent opportunity for both tension and character development.
It's sad to see the hatred the DID trope gets when you realize it comes from a place of romance, not of chauvinism. The knight is willing to attack a 50-foot fire breathing lizard because he loves the Damsel. Nobody wants to fight something like that, but the knight does it because she is worth it.
It's one of my favourite tropes tbh. I notice the ones usually hating on it are the stereotypical weirdos that never really got over some things in their life.
What character development? I think people don't like the trope because the damsel characters are always useless and they lack personality. At least if they made the damsel feel like an actual person instead of a plot device, people wouldn't have that much of a problem with it.
@@Las645 The trope being executed poorly does not make it less great, it only fails to utilise that greatness.
Note: Whether character development or agency is required or not depends on the long-term importance of the character.
A one-shot character is quite different from a recurring character, and both are different from a main character.
I AGREE.
I have a suggestion for the next SAW movie, ironic given how many of them there have been but Jigsaw kidnaps a bunch of Hollywood studio executives and forces them to make original content... or die trying. "LET THE GAMES BEGIN!" So happy to see NON-PLAYABLE SHEEP AGAIN... Come on gang, let's make him the Despot's best team member for next year. He's a legend.
John Kramer is the most recent addition to the team. He kidnaps Hollywood 'creatives' and tries to torture and murder them.
You know what, Jon Kramer should consider updating his businessmodel to suit the wokies
@@DespotofAntrimI don't know if anything could be more torturous than what they did to our boy Indy, Luke, Han or all our other film heroes. But I'd love to see him give it a shot.
Ideally the games must be possible to win. What you describe is impossible. Wouldn't work.
I'm with you, Non-playable Sheep is the GOAT. He slaps so hard every time. And that's really saying a lot; They are all excellent, entertaining, and just plain old funny! Something about that sheep though...
I legit wonder who even thought this was a good idea? a Fantasy movie where the Princess Saves Herself, wow, that's really groundbreaking....in 1990. Now it's so cliche having the princess be saved by a prince would've been subversive.
Honestly? Probably ChatGPT.
It’s helping to write medical journals so I wouldn’t doubt it.
We all know the real a real subversion would a dragon saving a knight from a princess smh.
Seriously they have been far better way to subvert this trope. Sadly since most dragons are a pain to animate/draw or seen as a cliche it often is left to glorified fan fics.
a princess who shares the highest kill:death ratio in the movie
agreed. i want my fairy tale back.
4:21 The phrase “Let the past die, kill it, if you have to” is cool, but completely meaningless, considering that for so many years, Disney hasn’t come up with anything new for Star Wars. All “new” ideas are maximal changes or adaptations of old ones, as well as abstract concepts, such as “Force Dyad” or “Holdo Maneuver”, that can be retconned in the very next movie or scene. Disney and other companies also very heavely rely on the nostaliga and old titles, despite the image of “a new generation for a new audience”, most of the authors, screenwriters and others are old people or simply older than their audience.
Honestly the quote sounds more destructive in context to Hollywood, Disney and Marvel having wiped out franchises for the message and becoming awful shadows of their former selves.
@@yassinefarah2423, And yet, if you look at it objectively, they did not create anything new. Miles Morales is just black Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel is just Pakistani Mister Fantastic. Therefore, they practically do not create new titles - because they cannot create entirely new characters and ideas. In this sense, I support the idea of killing old ideas. A new entertainment would be better than the zombified corpse that modern entertainment has become. The problem is that the new entertainment has not yet been born, and those who attribute their creations to the “new era” are in fact simply arrogant and have zero self-awarenes. Nothing new can appear if there is no place for it. For new creators and creations to appear, the old ones must be overthrown. Otherwise it is impossible to move forward.
Unfortunately, many people believe that culture can be saved by simply changing the scenery in the wouk temple. It doesn't work that way. Sometimes in order to create you have to destroy. Instead of trying to rebuild the wouk temple, it is better to burn it to the ground and write your name on its ruins. But do not create anything new in its place, but in a new one.
P.S. If this sounds theoretical to you, remember how many videos there are on the topic of “We must save what is left of Star Wars” and “We can fix it”. At the same time, there are very few videos that say “We can’t fix it” and “We have to create something new from the scratch.”
@@yassinefarah2423, About creativity - I once read a short but simple story “Space Mowgli”, where there were several interesting ideas and concepts that, unfortunately, were not developed. After all, this book was written in a hurry and in conflict with the publisher, which I learned after reading the book. Despite this, it's still better than what modern teams of screenwriters write in the comfort and surroundings of yes-men. Because they are not creative, and it takes incredible effort for them to imitate a fraction of what truly creative people do in a shorter time and without straining themselves.
P.S. We live in a society where people believe that everyone is creative and any thought to the contrary is denied. People want to believe that you can become creative if you really want to. But that's not how it works. A simple example is that G.R.R. Martin is not creative, simply because he has no imagination. He has a lot of characters on his hands, but it takes him years to come up with what they would do or say in a given situation. This is absurd. If you've thought through the characters and the story well, you won't have to think, you'll already be able to imagine how they would interact... If you have imagination and if you're creative.
@@yassinefarah2423, About creativity - I once read a short but simple story “Space Mowgli”, where there were several interesting ideas and concepts that, unfortunately, were not developed. After all, this book was written in a hurry and in conflict with the publisher, which I learned after reading the book. Despite this, it's still better than what modern teams of screenwriters write in the comfort and surroundings of yes-men. Because they are not creative, and it takes incredible effort for them to imitate a fraction of what truly creative people do in a shorter time and without straining themselves.
@@yassinefarah2423, We live in a society where people believe that everyone is creative and any thought to the contrary is denied. People want to believe that you can become creative if you really want to. But that's not how it works. A simple example is that G.R.R. Martin is not creative, simply because he has no imagination. He has a lot of characters on his hands, but it takes him years to come up with what they would do or say in a given situation. This is absurd. If you've thought through the characters and the story well, you won't have to think, you'll already be able to imagine how they would interact... If you have imagination and if you're creative.
(((56:22~56:34)))??? Yes, and to expand, this is what happens when you have tyrants as writers in your creative department.......
shut it down
T H I S .
My most hated trope is the “look for the reason someone is evil”. I don’t want to know how Nottingham in prince of thieves came to be the way he is. He has one line that hints at it. The rest of the time he’s just deliciously cruel, and he’s the best thing about that movie. Stop trying to make me feel bad for the awful person, Hollywood.
I'm kinda sick of the villain being evil for a reason and frankly wished there were more villains who are just evil.
It’s ok when used sparingly, in longer-form stories where you follow a lot of characters over time. But you’re right, it stops working when you turn every villain into a misunderstood hero.
Eh I think it can also get annoying when characters are evil just to be evil without any reason. I do like it when villains have a human quality to them, but you still get that they're evil.
@@Las645 I mean, one of the basic definitions of a villain is someone who always puts themselves first. So you could have a villain who does nice things for people when it doesn’t cost them anything or when they think they’ll gain something from it, but when faced with the choice of sacrificing something or losing something to help someone else, the villain will always take the selfish road.
It's because they relate to the villains, well all the ones THEY write anyway. Which is always done so poorly because they're just as shallow and nonsensical as the villains they write. It's a vicious cycle of neverending shitheadery.
Despot, I watched many reviews but I’m always looking for yours. I clean my house, take care of my baby while listening you roasting entertainment 😂😂😂, it’s refreshing. God bless.
Thanks man. God bless you and the baby. 👶
@@DespotofAntrim🎶”I’m womaaaaaaan”🎶🎤 haha xD
just for you know I’m a mom and I really enjoy your critique. Keep going, Despot 👍
If your baby learns to speak with an Irish accent and a multi-syllabic vocabulary, I guess we’ll know why. 😜
Wait... The Acolyte writers straight-up lifted lines from Harry Potter while completely misunderstanding the morality behind the sentence?
I had to look at the pics of the Acolyte writers and I think I found the one responsible: Claire Kiechel. Nothing says, "The only book I've ever read is Harry Potter" than that face. It also says "REEEEEE! Bigot!"
Dear lord, she looks like Pat from the 90’s SNL skit “it’s Pat”.
Just looked it up. You're right
Is that for real? Good lord...
@@Punkpsychobilly lmao
Are they the same writers who wrote Madame Web and messed up the Spider-man quote?
Hollywood lately seems to not know how to write villains anymore. When they write a sympathetic villain, they turn out to be the most evil and despicable people imaginable. When they write an irredeemable villain, they turn to be reasonable and possessing of strong morals (to varying degrees)
There's something to be said about people who think evil is good and good is evil...
@@hariman7727 Stop noticing
@@juliantheapostate8295 impossible.
One you start noticing, you can't stop noticing.
@@juliantheapostate8295human brain works the best in noticing patterns. To stop noticing is to deny what makes us human
@@TheDisquietingNight Indeed
I love that the girl who prior to Elodie managed to escape and climb up the top entrance to the caves conveniently had time to carve "It's not the way out!" on the wall before the Dragon fried her. It was about as comical seeing her charred skeleton there than the Castle of Aaarghhhh.... carving in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
An excellent call back. I shall have to go away and rewatch Holy Grail now.
I'm genuinely surprised he didn't end the pitch for _Attack on Lesbos Prime_ with the lesbians being so awestruck by the manliness displayed by their defenders that they abandon their ways to seek relationships with the unmarried men.
That's left for a rule34 spinoff...
Half of the Lesbosian leadership is happily married to a man in a traditional relationship... but in secret.
They let you post this???
I don’t think you understand what a lesbian is. NO, YOU CAN’T FUCK THEM STRAIGHT. YOUR GIANT, AMAZING, THROBBING MONSTER COCK IS NOT CAPABLE OF “CURING” FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY.
@@lukewalken1316 if you don't post comments for a long time then the algorithm stops blocking everything you post
Strange that girl bosses always make horrible decisions once they obtain power.
What does that say about women in general?
That power corrupts? :)
Women have a strange mental image of being in power. They legitimately believe they would sit around all day making smug faces at each other, drinking champagne, and randomly ordering their male wait staff executed for imagined offenses.
Well great power comes great responsibility right? Even I've heard of that phrase, how do all these writers not know this classic line. It's almost like they've had no experience with movies or any sort of power. It's no wonder they hate managers unconditionally, yet they wouldn't even be trusted with holding the keys.
The dragon in Damsel is almost exactly the same as Grendel's mother in Beowulf. Both had their son's killed and both went on killing sprees. The only difference is the time in which they were written - in Beowulf the killer doesn't get a pass.
Hmm, Mrs. Voorhees in Friday the 13th was also a grieving mass murdering mommy. Should we excuse her? 😄
Grendel's Mother got a pass in the Zemeckis adaptation, which really bothered me. Seriously, does Jolie have a clause in her contract where her character can never be killed off?
There's a difference though. The dragon was going after the people who killed her kids. Pamela was going after people who had nothing to do with Jason death.
In the movie of Beowulf, it gets twisted into Beowulf sewing the seeds of his own downfall by thinking with his dick, so instead of the hero who becomes a king being slain by a random dragon while killing said dragon, the dragon becomes his own son and Beowulf's successor is going to have the same thing happen because "it's all about the frailty of man and how men are corrupt!"... instead of being a heroic hero who goes out like a boss protecting his kingdom.
I know very little about classical literature, but isn't the archetypal dragon analogous to evil incarnate? Like a Supreme natural evil that must be overcome at the zenith of the character's trial.
This movie tells of a man who made a deal with the devil, and says we should have empathy for the dragon. Our heroine identifies with the dragon and wields it to destroy civilization and hierarchy. I dont want to sound like I'm clutching my pearls over here, but this trope is low-key demonic.
I concur, would add that dragon's are symbols of chaos...going back to mythical literature, Enuma Elish. The book of Revelation in part taps into that symbology in describing mystery Babylon the great, mother of harlots...who rides a scarlet beast(oft times depicted as a multiheaded dragon).
Well, she wars against the holy ones and prevails...their blood fills her with drunkeness. She herself carries a cup(filled with perversions) that drives the nations mad(crazy).
It's funny to me that the more perverse and crazy the 'nations' become, the more this imagery shows up in media...must be a coincedence. But, the fact that in trying to subvert normality(order) these media men produce what in ancient times was representative of evil.
It tends to depend which culture the dragon spawns from. Western dragons are admittedly traditionally evil creatures though.
@@Jamie_Pritchard So true and yet they're seen as mighty creatures either worshipped or feared.
@@georgeray1906 Well, that's understandable when they're effectively a fire-breathing, flying T-rex 😂
Satan is known as 'The Dragon'
I’d waited all my life to hear Mr. Reflection in HQ, to hear a reflection of myself in audio quality.
Now time for the lo-fi beat mixes
Babe wake up, Despot just posted a video
Reddit
I heard reddit is gay as hell and like 99.98% leftist scum.
The few times I used a search engine and accidentally ended up at reddit I was dumbfounded at the way it was set up and the words I read.
"Yes, honey."
Do you ever get tired of commenting the same thing that shows up on every video?
Despite his pleas, her coma persists.
What gets me is how the entire show looks not much better than a hastily cobbled together Ren Fair. You can't unsee the cheap rugs they threw down on the grass, the weak tin armor, the ugly leather doublets, the plastic rocks, the rubber weapons... it's all just so cheap and heartless and shitty. Even the extras don't seem to care.
Perfect call on the background looking exactly like Fantasy Land... with artificial "perfect ethnic and cultural balance" to reflect "the world (uhm...Los Angeles) we live in today"and to ensure Mr Reflection sees himself
at the end she order the dragon to kill every single people in that castle , oh your parent or child is working at the castle ? woops too bad they died for girl boss 😎 the trope of modern girl boss, only they matter .
Dammit Despot, I want you to know that I live in constant anticipation of your next video. I am perpetually excited for the next time I will get to hear you completely deconstruct something in that awesome Irish voice, for the next time I will get to see Non-playable Sheep, Karen iPhone, and those hilarious little back-and-forths between you and Mr. Reflection. You're my favorite CZcamsr of all time. Just wanted you to know that.
Thanks man. Such high praise is very encouraging.
He is pretty damn good. I almost could wish he spent less time on quality and made more videos. But then again it's nice to have a real treat you looked forward to and which is worth savoring.
And I usually just tolerate CZcams content.
I thought the princess was gonna turn clever savage to kill the dragon but instead…
Girlboss befriends the evil dragon that killed her father and hundreds of innocents over centuries. Then they go traveling the world together 🤡🎉
My mom is very black, and my dad is very white. My wife is white and my very white-looking son has blonde hair and blue eyes after 2 generations.. got that Hollywood?
What does that matter?? Your son is white with blonde hair and Blue eyes. Ok? There are some mixed kids who look mostly black some who look white, what's your point?
@@Las645 My point is that if you take any race of person. Procreate in an isolated community, the resulting generations will NOT look like downtown LA. Most differences will disappear in 3 generations.
Unless these tiny medieval villages are next to an international airport, there's wouldn't be salt and pepper faces everywhere, and even if there were, they'd be gone in 2-3 generations.
When I see this in a movie, I know why the diversity is there, and it's because of MY world, not the world on screen, which immediately takes me out of the movie and back into MY world.
Imagine if you had a movie that took place in old West Africa, and there were inexplicably white European people amongst tribes people, and they were just part of the tribe like they'd always been there. I wouldn't have to explain how ridiculous that is or how it would destroy the suspension of disbelief.
But for some reason when it's the other way around, I have to explain why having an extremely diverse LA population in a 200-person European village is silly.
If they want to write the story about black people, set it in Africa, not Europe. Tell one of the many African folktales in the world and make a movie about that.
I still wouldn't expect a diverse amount of white, Asian, or Hispanic people in a backwoods African village.
Almost every country has ethnic groups, but not every country's ethnic groups reflect American demographics! It's like the writers have never left Southern California.
@@Las645 You realize the person you replied to is mixed himself, right?
@@billjacobs521 Las646 just wants to ensure I stay informed about myself. I'm no expert in being me, so I need expert advice.
At 9:34 that simple question from a child, 'did God paint you?' made me smile just as the character did. It's so earnest and believable, and it feels so refreshing compared to the dreck we are expected to endure nowadays. I might have to check that old movie out.
I, I'm told, upon meeting my first black person at a young age, thought the man was dirty and tried to clean the back of his hand. He thought it was funny. That story would probably offend someone today.
I giggled like a loon when I saw the notification come up: I have been *_waiting_* for this!
I dropped everything, raced home to thd big screen, and enjoyed my fave CZcamsr
@@tagir9123
Dis, Drinker, Johnny Law, & now Despot have all made howingly good takedowns of this dreck - more entertaining than the work itself!
Me too, I have never been waiting and checking to see if a CZcamsr has uploaded before in my life. I was sad because I finished watching all his existing stuff (only the last year or so really got good) and I was hoping he would make some more.
The kingdom of LA must employ the guards from Swamp Castle who also failed to protect the wedding party in Monty Python's Holy Grail.
HIC!
It's sad that currently produced media has the worst messages possible. You can't show any of this to children or easily impressionable adults, because they're going to turn into horribly selfish sociopaths that empathize with evil and abhor goodness. The tropes they attempt to "subvert" haven't been seriously present for decades now. The morals they support cause horrible rifts in society and give people no reason to love one another. What even is the point of seeing these productions anymore? They don't have good production quality, they don't tell good stories, they don't have good morals. Nothing makes sense. Nothing is subtle.
I long for a return to the excellent storytelling of the past, of independent productions that aimed to tell captivating stories in highly engaging ways. I could probably even stomach some of the shit messages if the writers weren't so pushy about them. But no, we're not allowed to have nice things. We get slop because that's what we, apparently, deserve.
Not to be snarky, but have you considered that possibly this is by design?
I think we all remember when tv and movies were used to instill certain values in society, specifically aimed at children with a lot of it.
It's all backwards now.
@@matthiasthulman4058 It's most definitely by design. It's depressing to acknowledge it, but that's the reality we're facing.
You forgot another plothole, how does Millie Bobby Brown know that the previous girls who were sacrificed were all diverse when she never met them?
must be the diverse-colored dragonturd piles.
Sweet.
Despot you dropped this right on time.
I've 1 hr left in work.
You didn't watch it at work, did you?
@n0odles86 no I listen to it podcast style.
But yeah I did.😊
You get off work at 9am? You should get a real job
@@MajorJakas I'm not even sure how to address this kind of stupidity.
Genuinely stumped.
Should I mock you?
Point out the obvious?
Explain timezones?
Explain nightshifts?
36:19 by far the funniest despot moment... Tom's thundering laughs as the lady loses her marbles is amazing
What a perfect clip just the way he builds it up as the video progresses until this point and it works incredibly well, I want to believe that it's all a part of the same original audio and some lady is having a complete breakdown and cruise doesn't give a fuck 😂
I think I speaks to how bad and boring this movie must be if Despot who talked about the marvels for over an hour, could barely bring himself to talk about damsel
The whole maestro bit was so entertaining that I forgot this was a video about damsel…
I thought it was a video about Despot's work-in-progress book 'Lesbos Prime'.
The ten min mark is pure gold. Great video so far and great channel overall. Non playable sheep is fantastic.
I thankfully have all my DVDs still. You never know when streaming services are going to collapse.
I got my DVDs too and even get more from Amazon.
Our house is slowly but surely turning into a mini video store with all the DVDs we've been collecting.
I figured your _Damsel_ review would be a contender for Best of Year, and I wasn't disappointed. 👏
Also, the _Attack on Lesbos Prime_ has to be one of your best. I'm just recovering from all the howling laughter I engaged in.
5:25
These few seconds were more interesting than the entire movie.
Thank you for this artistic masterpiece Despot
30:41
The parallels you've drawn are beautiful.
What these morally depraved activists do not understand is that evil men don't necessarily love cruelty and depravity.
Sometimes they just don't care about morality what so ever.
If being kind and compassionate achieves their goals then they will do it, and if being cruel and sadistic achieves their goals they will do it.
Such men have no hesitation to cross any lines or any limits of morality.
No lengths they will no go and no lows they will not stoop down to
Tom Cruise laughing through Carrie Mulligans outburst is one of the funniest things ive seen this year
Despot was trying so hard to not have to suffer through Damsel he reviewed both Scum and Bradley Coopers sniveling Oscar bait instead. I can’t blame him honestly
You've become one of the content creators whose videos I look forward the most.
IKR, especially that voice
Could listen to him say "without doubt" all day long
Thanks Despot. Long week of work, I was happy to see you drop a new original work.
And you're absolutely right, as soon as we see the title - Damsel - we all know exactly what to expect. Young girls being fed this content nowadays are going to grow up with some warped ideas!
I'd definitely watch Attack on Lesboss Prime. The fact journalists and wokists would ID with the pig-men, Vimar Prime, and centaurs would further expose them for what they are.
New drinking game: take a shot whenever Despot says "20 story fall"
I'm a 20 year old woman, and I'd love to see more stories where women are yes, their own people who are strong in their own ways, but are being saved by men. Because it's nice to see, it's a lovely thing.
Almost ten years your senior; sorry you have to endure all this bullshit at this age
As we can see there's plenty of stories of stwong women, unfortunately most of them suck. There are some good ones though, hrmst I'm starting to think that maybe popular stories throughout history weren't famous for having stwong men, that mmmaybe people like stories that are just well written. Hard to say really.
@@Vaguer_Weevil I believe most people enjoy seeing stories of strong men, and see a story of a strong woman to me wouldn't look anything like Ailens or whatnot, where the strong woman is more or less just a man, but where she actually acts like a woman. Women can be strong but they shouldn't do it in a manly way, they should do it in a womanly way.
@@RallyTheTally Well said. I was just thinking about that.
Do you guys know the difference between Damsel and the Despot's video on it?
The Despot's videos didn't put me to sleep.
also I've seen Despot's video, I haven't watched Damsel.
@@kinagrillAs someone who did so out of curiosity and deeply regrets it, believe me when I tell you that it's not worth your time.
In the wheel of time, I propose the following locations from the book/show would be acceptably multi-ethnic in order of acceptability:
Definitely multi-ethnic
Tar Valon - Explicitly takes in Aes Sedai, Warders, and retinue from every corner of the world. Major river trade city, with connections to most major mainland areas
Likely somewhat varied
Tarabon and Bandar Eban - Port cities between the seafolk and the mainlanders, main population is Taraboner/Domani (Indian) with some of mixed seafolk (black) heritage, as well as less of other races of coastal traders
Lugard - A centralized river trading city with faction issues, likely has at least some residents of each race along it's river pathways
Illian, Tear, and Ebou Dar - Major port cities
Barely Justifiable
Caemlyn - Large city with access to a river, not hugely reliant on trade and river pretty much only goes between Illian and Saldea on map, some possible intermixing with river and road traders
Maradon (Saldea) - Same as above but less so, mentioned as a important trading stop on the Caemlyn route but is at the end of it rather than the middle.
Taren Ferry - Tiny little river port town, gets high amount of trade compared to it's size. Trade is with Tear and Illian.
I bring this up because of all the lamenting about it. They could have made all these cities and the characters from them multiethnic (though less than the show made Emond's Field) and it would have been fine but the show made the tiny little insulated farming village into "downtown LA." They could have made each of the areas a different race and it would have been fine. They made the Shienarans Japanese and I was fine with that. They could have made the Seafolk black, the Domani Native American, the Taraboners Indian, and the Tairens Arab and that would have been perfectly acceptable. The only group where their race is story relevant is the Aiel who are the pale Irish in the desert because they were banished there.
A key component of the "femtasy" genre that I think bears further repeating: *it's pushing total moral inversion.* This transcends mere double standards, but actually presents the idea that objectively evil actions are not only acceptable, but *_automatically praise-worthy_* whenever a [birthing person] does it. The only exceptions to this are in scenarios like this, when two or more "empowered" female characters are placed at odds, and even then, the brunt of narrative karma is almost invariably redirected to one/all male characters even/especially when it has been a conniving villainess who has been driving most of the plot.
For a few years now, I've argued that feminism actively cultivates Cluster-B personality disorders. And I suspect these narrative decisions are related to that, specifically as attempts to recalibrate public sentiment/consciousness/ standards to accommodate/ _venerate_ such moral reprobates; "if you can't win, rewrite the rules to allow _you alone_ to cheat." Nothing else makes sense.
This is propaganda designed to raise [birthing persons] to the status of unimpeachible moral paragons, then use that status to justify anything they do. *This is god-tier double-standards.*
I have a feeling that the reason this is done is to reduce birth rates
@@juliantheapostate8295
I would not doubt it.
Nice to see you on Open Bar the other day 👍
Was a great line up, I’m subbed to all you guys!
I hope you cover Kung Fu Panda 4 someday as that even unfortunately had the whole girlboss trash in it as well and somehow disrespecting po still garnered theme millions lmao,felt so disappointed when i watched the whole thing on a torrent website lol
Also there’s no furious five which defeats the whole point of a kung fu panda movie and bringing back the old villains just for them to do nothing is pure nostalgia bait trash and a sonic forces move
I just CANNOT believe Dreamworks got sucked into that as well
“Get up you lazy bastard”. Man, that actually gave me chills. If I had it, I’d fund that in a heartbeat.
it got the same vibes as a main character, after surviving massive battle and his comrades arrive to aid him, but well, it's all over and they go 'we thought you had died!' and MC goes 'I wasn't given permission to do so'.
“the american counterparts of these men would later bestow upon themselves the modest title ‘the greatest generation’”
The Best line in any youtube video ever.
Actually, it was the American newscaster Tom Brokaw (b. 1940) who coined that expression (well, the writers of the documentary he was narrating did).
I would really like to watch this video but I’m busy preordering Star Wars - Outlaws.
Order the deluxe edition.
It comes with a free chin implant 😂
Henry Cavill sure has a lot of time to watch garbage.
He barely gets roles now so it makes sense
@@DoomBowser64 Undeserved but true.
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Man I loved that Robin Hood growing up. Morgan Freeman was my favorite character. When he knocked down the door and threw his scimitar was my favorite moment.
“Now I fulfilled my debt”
Loved it
I haven't been inside a movie theatre in a loooong time, but I would go to see "Attack on Lesbos Prime".
Go see Dune. Only movie worth seeing in a cinema in the last 10 years. Blessings.
*O LOL* the sheer hypocritical moral reminds me of another work of fiction I once read. One that belongs to the ever more popular growing D&D universe! 😀
The plot was that a *'Blue Dragon'* - which means a Dragon of *EVIL* allignment, cause all chromatic Dragons portray evil nature - has terrorized a Kingdom by itself and its two siblings.
And later in the game, the also popular meta of the "Playerparty" defeats the blue Dragon after a hardfought fight.
But then _" OH NO "_ plottwist (!!) the Mage of the group _"betrays"_ them since he finds a way to enslave the Dragon with a magical artefact and he just stands there and laughs... menacingly!!
And before the Mage could even describe what his plans for the Dragon are, the entire party naturally turns against him, because he... he...-
He did not tell them he could do that and sneakily followed his own agenda. That is literally it.
Now they all feel _"betrayed"_ and the writing becomes very cringe, in an attempt to justify this as a "plo~t twi~st". 😏
But what is worse and the worst thing of all is... that they manage to *FREE* this blue Dragon afterwards from the Mages mindcontrol. A BLUE DRAGON, which is an evil creature by nature, let him grab the now spellslots depleted Mage and *let him fly off with the Mage, a member of their own or a fellow humanoid race (a Human), a being who terrorized their kind FOR FUN* and act like they safed the day.
The Blue Dragon was still heavily wounded and they could have taken it down.
Racial betrayal, betrayal as a species, wierd sympathy for a villanous monster, who killed hundreds of people, destroyed villages, enjoyed the desperation of the "rodents" it tortured and then the Humanoid fantasy group just lets this piece of blue sh°° fly off. 😆
Damn was I disgusted!
This was so disgusting and just INSANE!
They handed the Mage over to whatever humiliation and torture the blue Dragon still planned for him!
Just crazy! Super hypocritical and ultra cringe in an attempt to subvert expectations I guess.
Of course there's also the subversion of the norm here, with a Chromatic Dragon that is NOT evil... I've had DM that had done an ancient wyrm white dragon that... pretty much was having old-person issues with memory and such, along with too much time fiddling with attempts at polymorphing and whatnot... so the adventure party was treated like 'ahh grandchildren!' but a kindly, if odd and insanely scary-powerful white dragon that had only really gotten beyond 'above feral' mentality cuz of that age of living and some rare chance-events throughout it's lifespan.
Leftists identify with evil orcs, demons, and malevolent animals.
I remember this comic, was absolute garbage, and the fact that only this comment reminds me of it is a witness of its irrelevance on D&D cosmology.
@@kinagrill And even for that I read a comic of the sorts too. The one where Minsc returned once more even. 😉
A comic that could even be seen as a prelude to the Baldur's Gate 3 game, since it also featured the absolute.
A white Dragon was forced to do some Frostgiants bidding due ot them threatening her unhatched children.
Yeah they abducted her eggs.
And even though white Dragons have a tendency to be evil, they are simple and predictable in their "adorable low IQ evilness".
That white Dragon was so _"chill"_ ( cause they breath ice, haha) that it didn't even felt evil during the end.
But the story with the blue Dragon was just mega-cringe and bad and had no redeeming factors.
They rewarded a blue Dragon by letting it live after it went on a kingdomwide killingspree. °sigh°
But hey at least that one Mage was not enslaving that poor beast of highly intellectual and sadistical evil, rivaled only by Demons. =)
I would absolutely watch "Attack on Lez-Bos Prime!"
The sheep’s argument is so tired and boring to me. “You’re ok with X, but Y bothers you?” Ya, if the rules set up X, then inexplicably Y happens for “no” reason, that bothers me.
Every single video you make is a wonderfully fun and often educational watch. I love all the garbage from Hollywood and Friends(tm) because it leads to your videos being made and actually bringing joy to the world. Keep it up, Despot.
about the complete ignorance of families of the previous wives of the "prince", when Henrik VIII of England, the "Wife Head Chopper" was trying to find another eligible wife , somewhere in Protestant German States, his envoy got several letters of refusal from the potential matches due to the fate of the previous wives, their parents wanted to get them married to the king , but totally isolated highborn women were able to obtain the information and were able to refuse a marriage that could risk a detachment of their heads...
Feminist tropes like this are very weird given the immense power female nobles have had in European history. There are also not now nor have their ever been a female led movement with a martial spirit. There used to be left wing movements with such a martial spirit, the French court before rhe revolution was dominated by women and lacking in such a spirit, but today leftist movements have been completely sapped of it
Also all these female action heroes are getting real women killed. Remember that female marine who challenged another to a fight and was accidentally killed while he was still holding back?
_Damsel_ is also inconsistent with this because in the Kingdom of Downtown LA, it's the Queen who called the shots. The King barely has any lines, and the Prince is very much under her thumb.
Another great video. Genuinely appreciate all that you do, Mr. Despot. I don't normally enjoy long-form videos but your content is full of ideas so great I make it a point to take notes in order to reference them later. Yours is the type of content I'd make were I not so intellectually deficient. You put into words arguments others cannot fathom. Last but certainly not least, the cast of meme characters and expanding lexicon of original terms is chef's kiss. Thank you again and keep up the great work.
Thanks King. I'll be making Jonathon Frakes an official character in a future video. And thank you for supporting the channel!
Oh my Goodness, Mr. Reflection has been updated for a modern audience! 😂
At this point, I am convinced Hollywood is just competing with each other to see who can make the biggest piece of shit movie possible.
I love your channel dude.
I would un-ironically watch Attack on Lesbos Prime and most assuredly enjoy it more than any of the slop released recently. Get the Despot in more writers rooms.
a world where chad destroys the ultra dystopian mega corporation future while protecting family values and standing up for lesbians is unironically supremely based
Your channel is criminally underrated.
I'll be your damsel anytime, Despot!
I live for the "Am I right, boys?" moments.
Never change, bro.
You are a gem, sir. Your rhetoric is so biting and hilarious. And the editing cuts, the mashups, the recurring characters. So funny my friend. A top tier gentleman.