Team Four Star - Creators of a bunch of stuff to make people laugh trying to figure out what to do after a decade of comedically retelling Dragon Ball Z.

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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I might be a minority, but even before the sequel trilogy I considered the prequels at the very least memorable with some absolutely iconic scenes and fights. Lucas didn't keep to his comfort zone and the result pushed people away with harsher criticism than if the films were made by someone else. In comparison, TFS started drifting into doing easy jokes (at least to their community) leading to the show not being funny.
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You're not, I personally like the Prequels more than the OG Trilogy.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I might be a minority, but even before the sequel trilogy I considered the prequels at the very least memorable with some absolutely iconic scenes and fights. Lucas didn't keep to his comfort zone and the result pushed people away with harsher criticism than if the films were made by someone else.
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What do you mean, Lucas didn't keep to his comfort zone?

He was the only one who had any say during the production of the prequels, he was about as comfortable as he could have been. These are the movies he wanted to make and he got to make them how he wanted to.
If anything he was OUT of his comfort zone during the original trilogy.

He didn't have anyone calling his ideas stupid, he didn't have anyone giving a second opinion, he didn't have any actors that added anything to the character they were playing (think Han Solo's "I know" to Lea professing her love to him before he "dies").

The prequels were and are rightfully panned by everyone, but no one is saying that there weren't a few cool moments, scenes and fights. After all a lot of talented people worked on those movies.

Hell, all anyone ever remembers from Phantom Menace is the fight against Darth Maul for example.

Personally, I believe Star Wars as a whole, as a franchise only ever had two good movies, those being the first and second one of the OG-Trilogy.
The rest are okay to bad, even the disney ones.
 
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
Exactly, it's actually a good thing Buu Saga Abridged never happened. You just know Kaiser would have made a poly love triangle with Gohan, Videl, & Dende. That's not even all the damage Kaiser would have done.
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Wasn't it also established here that we believe there's a nonzero chance that the Steven Universe route would be taken where fusion would be made as analogous to sex?
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I might be a minority, but even before the sequel trilogy I considered the prequels at the very least memorable with some absolutely iconic scenes and fights. Lucas didn't keep to his comfort zone and the result pushed people away with harsher criticism than if the films were made by someone else.
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Also, we got a bunch of memes from it to the point where there's even a subreddit/Twitter account. Also, George Lucas at least had a sense to keep control of the films so they didn't become an incoherent mess that the ST was. And I could argue that George knew how to keep the special magic alive, something Disney clearly doesn't know how to do.

If anything, I think the PT was clouded for years from the perception cast by Red Letter Media and the Mr. Plinkett reviews of at least The Phantom Menace, which gave it that "cool thing to hate on the Internet" vibe that was shared with the Michael Bay Transformers films.
 
Zinto Bruceloo said:
What do you mean, Lucas didn't keep to his comfort zone?

He was the only one who had any say during the production of the prequels, he was about as comfortable as he could have been. These are the movies he wanted to make and he got to make them how he wanted to.
If anything he was OUT of his comfort zone during the original trilogy.

He didn't have anyone calling his ideas stupid, he didn't have anyone giving a second opinion, he didn't have any actors that added anything to the character they were playing (think Han Solo's "I know" to Lea professing her love to him before he "dies").

The prequels were and are rightfully panned by everyone, but no one is saying that there weren't a few cool moments, scenes and fights. After all a lot of talented people worked on those movies.

Hell, all anyone ever remembers from Phantom Menace is the fight against Darth Maul for example.

Personally, I believe Star Wars as a whole, as a franchise only ever had two good movies, those being the first and second one of the OG-Trilogy.
The rest are okay to bad, even the disney ones.
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I meant it more as he could have just remade the first movie like basically every modern sequel but instead he attempted to expand the scope of the setting, which considering how much expanded material was on the prequel time span, could be considered a success.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I meant it more as he could have just remade the first movie like basically every modern sequel but instead he attempted to expand the scope of the setting, which considering how much expanded material was on the prequel time span, could be considered a success.
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Yeah, I understand that.
However George also had to be reeled in during the filming of the first movie, having ideas such as Luke actually being some sort of slugman bounty hunter or something.

I personally didn't mind The force awakens too much, it was okay for being what it is (a sort of reboot essentially) but the rest of the disney movies I definitely place below the prequels and Episode 6.

Random Internet Person said:
If anything, I think the PT was clouded for years from the perception cast by Red Letter Media and the Mr. Plinkett reviews of at least The Phantom Menace, which gave it that "cool thing to hate on the Internet" vibe that was shared with the Michael Bay Transformers films.
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That is the job of a critic, to put into words why people hate or love a piece of media.
Just because an opinion is regurgitated and echoed doesn't make it any less or more valid.

RLM did give people on the internet the words to explain why they hated them, a sentiment that was shared even while the movies were in theaters.

PM was not a well received movie.

That being said I certainly don't agree with everything the Plinkett reviews say but they are still an awesome piece of criticism and just entertaining too.
 
There's some serious bangers/random.txt material in LK's Google Doc. Choice excrepts:
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Is he mad that I noticed him being all alt-righteous?
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
Patrick McShittyRap.

Not his real last name, but let’s pretend for now because it makes me feel a little better.
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
But I still wake in the night thinking he just emailed me
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
And saddest of all, he does it in videos where he is rapping.
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It's also weird to see how many times he brings up he's been "preparing for this day for almost a decade". Imagine living in absolute fear for years over seemingly trivial drama bs. How fragile is this dude?

Lastly, how sad is it that these people put on their little façade of tight friendship among their clique of VA hopefuls when really they just know everyone's storing dirt about each other just in case the need to cancel someone (or to protect yourself from being cancelled) might arise:
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I do not respond to any of the emails. In fact, I am documenting them myself.
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Stuff like this makes LK and TFS's support for the Funimation VAs during WeebWars pretty ironic.
 
Zinto Bruceloo said:
That is the job of a critic, to put into words why people hate or love a piece of media.
Just because an opinion is regurgitated and echoed doesn't make it any less or more valid.

RLM did give people on the internet the words to explain why they hated them, a sentiment that was shared even while the movies were in theaters.

PM was not a well received movie.

That being said I certainly don't agree with everything the Plinkett reviews say but they are still an awesome piece of criticism and just entertaining too.
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You're not wrong. I just found it interesting how the PT was seen as "the worst thing ever" for several years, with sparse defenders that looked like they were about to walk into the lions' den....until the sequels were released and George Lucas basically went "Peace out, bitches!" .
 
People on twitter are saying ShadyVox is a horsefucker. His abridged series hasn't been relevant for 10 years how is he still producing drama
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I might be a minority, but even before the sequel trilogy I considered the prequels at the very least memorable with some absolutely iconic scenes and fights. Lucas didn't keep to his comfort zone and the result pushed people away with harsher criticism than if the films were made by someone else. In comparison, TFS started drifting into doing easy jokes (at least to their community) leading to the show not being funny.
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Oh no, the prequels had plenty of good moments. This scene, for example, was well choreographed and showed what Lucas can do when he doesn't have any shitty dialogue to insert.


Also, Lucas shot the last two on digital in a warehouse in Australia on blue screen. He absolutely was in his comfort zone.
RiceofSkywalker said:
Stuff like this makes LK and TFS's support for the Funimation VAs during WeebWars pretty ironic.
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Well, that was so they could keep their options open for pro jobs since the Abridged scene was dead at that point. Also, because going against the narrative might get them cancelled.
 
KaiserNeko is a pozzed faggot who ruined an otherwise good thing, if they had any other editor they'd probably be half way through GT at this point.
 
Random Internet Person said:
This has to be a testing of the waters to see if there's a market for DBZA to come back.
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They kind of have to come back at this point.

Hellsing and FF7 are over, TFS Gaming is dead, Unabridged was... a thing, X in 8 minutes was some of the most unfunny shit I've ever seen, and most of their staff have left for other things. After the creator commentaries, what's left? Milking HFIL for as long as they can?

Anytime I see anyone talk about TFS it's either asking if they'll do Buu, or what do you think would happen if they did Buu. And it's because DBZA is the best thing they will probably ever make. It was their claim to fame and without it, they are nothing. All their other attempts to branch out have flopped, and flopped hard. If they don't return it's going to be a slow slow burn of fading into obscurity while living off what remains of fan hope thanks to their Patreon.

But maybe I'm being too harsh. After all they still have.... Diesel Dust and Fist Masters.

Never mind. They're fucked.
 
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Looks like they couldn't keep away after all. Do people still care though? Like after the grand apology tour for making slightly risque jokes, and the last episodes including shit like a Steven universe song, who expects this to be good.
 
NoonmanR said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j2apG5PBBb8 2:13:35
Looks like they couldn't keep away after all. Do people still care though? Like after the grand apology tour for making slightly risque jokes, and the last episodes including shit like a Steven universe song, who expects this to be good.
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I've been enjoying TNM Z reviews, and was gonna recommend them to a friend who hadn't watched any DB, but the TFS shit in this made me reconsider that.
 
Fluoxetine Man said:
I've been enjoying TNM Z reviews, and was gonna recommend them to a friend who hadn't watched any DB, but the TFS shit in this made me reconsider that.
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I like him a lot too... but hasn't he reviewed dragon ball like 3 times already?. I also remember he did a video about TFS "Was DBZ Abridged better than the original series?" something like that.
 
James Rofl said:
I like him a lot too... but hasn't he reviewed dragon ball like 3 times already?. I also remember he did a video about TFS "Was DBZ Abridged better than the original series?" something like that.
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He reviewed the Super arcs, DB, and the Z movies, and talked about Z and various characters, but I think this is the first time he's done the Z sagas from beginning to end. I saw his Abridged video pop up on my feed, maybe I should watch it...
 
James Rofl said:
Totally not mark is reviewing dragon ball.... Again, and tfs are sorta doing some abridging stuff for the buu saga. Imo they could have done buu saga right, this buu bit was pretty good imo

https://twitter.com/teamfourstar/status/1692962822584442921?t=ksqnUoCM6pc-7V8yZJcaAg&s=19
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Honestly this is such a cheap ploy for them to not do the Buu saga. If they can do these clips there is no excuse for why they can't just make the entire Buu saga like everyone wants them to. I don't understand why they keep refusing on this even after all there other ventures have fallen off bar milking HFIL for all its worth. Is it all an ego thing at this point?
 
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