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It's bad enough that the third season of Transformers: Robots in Disguise is still getting such lousy treatment from Cartoon Network, but Combiner Force has so far failed to address all the problems that have been present since the show's first season. Namely, an overreliance on filler episodes despite this season having TWO major antagonists and a cool-looking gimmick that has only barely been touched upon since the season premiere.

Machinima.com's Prime Wars Trilogy also deserves a mention due to the backlash that its first installment, Combiner Wars, received, and due to me not being able to find the show on YouTube despite the fact that Machinima produced it. Turns out, Machinima made the series private, perhaps in response to the series poor reception. The only way to watch it is through go90, and all you need to know about go90 is that it's not available in Canada and Warren Zenna of Havas Media called it "YouTube, but not as good".

Back to Robots in Di…

I hope to have the conclusion to Super Smash Sisters' Great Mission finished by the end of the summer. I was lucky enough to get one-third of the finale filmed and recorded before I came to a creative road block. Now I have to rewrite the rest of the film and record new dialog to match.

Meanwhile, I have begun revamping the archival Dailymotion channel to make it more accessible to viewers. Dailymotion is already a pain in the ass to navigate as it is, so I want to make it easier for anyone who actually uses Dailymotion to find my videos. As I mentioned in my last update, I'm deleting all low-performing videos on my main channel (and back-up channels). So if you can't find a video on Speedy149U, check out my Dailymotion page. I've unlisted all Reycralibur-related videos, since nobody was watching. If you want to see the series for yourself, check out the playlists on YouTube and Dailymotion.

As I am sorting through all the videos I've made over the past decade or s…

My mental health is deteriorating; I don't think I have much time left. ...But, since I've said that out loud, that means I'm going to be doing this stupid YouTube video thing forever and ever until I become an internet meme.

Tell Ed Wood I'll be seeing him.

You've probably noticed that I've been deleting some of my newer videos from my main channel and banishing them to SpeedyCXLIX or keeping them exclusive to my Dailymotion channel. The truth is that the seven years I've been on YouTube has got me feeling inadequate and jealous of other creators on this site, because after all this time I still can't get more than twenty views in twenty-four hours for a single video.

I'm seriously considering retiring from YouTube. Surly, there must be some other website out there where I can get a following by doing machinima and making the videos I want, instead of pandering to the bottom-feeders like every other "popular" YouTuber.

In the meantime, I&…

Gwen Stacy is to be the latest in a long line of victims of an evil acapella group, consisting of Jimmy Fallon, the Fonz (or was it Danny?), Norman Bates, and the milkshake-stealing psychopath Chad Dillon Cooper. They lure in unsuspecting girls to the woods where they hunt them down and kill them. After Gwen charms the boys by breaking some mailboxes and sharing some drinks, an ice breaking game turns south and the guys show their true colors. Gwen is given a five minute head start before she is hunted down like wolves and a rabbit.

Unbeknownst to the boys, however, Gwen was counting on this.

If you let the trailers fool you, Final Girl looks like a thriller with a twist. The "final girl" isn't the one being hunted, she is the real killer! This would have been a great movie for those who enjoyed Hard Candy or the music video for First of the Year by Skrillex. But in reality, the film suffers from a flaw that is so annoyingly common in movies good and bad: the film tries …

I told myself I wasn’t going to do this again. But.. One last time.
Syfy’s 2009 rebrand was a lot more cleaver than most people give them credit for. They knew they couldn’t just change the name of their network; the Sci-Fi name has brand awareness. But at the time, they were beginning to air anything but actual science-fiction programming. What good is a network that’s named after something they don’t even do anymore?
No seriously, Machinima.com, what good are you?
To avoid the same mistake made by The History Channel and its ilk, Sci-Fi simply changed the spelling of its name. It sounds like "Sci-Fi", short for science-fiction, but it’s actually "Syfy", a typical NBCUniversal cable network.
As in "it’s typical for NBCUniversal to pull that network decay crap and not get away with it!"
The difference between WWE programming on Syfy and Cops and Cheater reruns on G4 was that people actually watch the WWE. Whatever Style Network was before, it was just a gene…

I find it far more rewarding to watch a bad movie or television series then watching anything critically decent. Of course, I will probably hate myself for wasting my time, but as a storyteller, I could learn so much more from watching the absolutely terrible Avalanche Sharks than any highly-praised movie. And indeed, I truly hate myself for watching that movie.

What makes a good movie or show for me as a viewer is the characters. It doesn't matter too much how cliche the plot is, as long as it's coherent and easy to follow, but it's important to know who I'm rooting for and against. Too many times I've been burned by weak leads, unlikable side characters, and villains who are far more cooler (and sexier) to root against. If the plot and setting are too predictable, that only adds to my misery; watching the action go down has now become a chore for me to do.

Had its characters been likable, I wouldn't have minded Avalanche Sharks weak plot and overpopulated cas…