Reactive is like the Hunger Games except stupid
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2024
- I can't explain in words how big of a pain in the ass this thing was to render. It took me almost 4 hours and even with that the sound sucks.
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It’s always annoying when they make the protagonist stupidly OP yet still a damsel in distress somehow. Like, at least have some consistency guys.
We're not allowed to have real damsels in distress, because it's sexist. So one of the valid workarounds is to make damsel into Mary Sue, and then distress her a little. Not too much, or else it would be BDSM fantasy, and who needs that. Adding a few swears to add tension. So your protagonist can say something like this:
"I am the goddess of this world! I have the power of life and death, and a power of baking the best chocolate chip cookies in the Universe! Oh no, my hair is distressed! Curses!".
It is better when the character starts the story as a damsel in distress, but lately she become more proactive and useful.
@@abcdef27669, a protagonist that grows and develops her skills over time? That's crazy. Who would want to put effort into writing that?!
She has to be physically capable because that's cool and edgy, but at the same time, we can't subvert conventional gender roles too much or it won't work for the heteronormative romantic pairing we're going to force her into 😉
@@Butterfly-ql4pg, in other words she must be strong, but not too strong, otherwise she would have to move the damn couch herself. On the other hand if this is proper Mary Sue story, there will be two love interests, one of them mysterious and brooding, while the other one will be self-sacrificing couch mover. In the end she could be as strong as the author likes - she will need her powers only when rule of cool applies...
as someone who used to fight with a staff for fun, i absolutely agree with you. staffs are great for reach and versatility
OMG, will James survive? Will he go into the light? Will he arrive in another world after all?
I am hooked!
TUNE IN NEXT WEEK!
with all the Hunger Games ripoff novels out there, if they wanna be bad stories so badly, they could atleast give the characters overly complex anime powers or something. like, if the story and characters suck, atleast make the fights sick, lol. like "I fight with a club, but on every 7th hit, my 'lucky seven' activates, causing a critical strike!' or something. (also please dear god as you said, make there be a threat of death if the stakes of the story are 'win' or 'lose' after a kidnapping)
reminded me of the "Her power is having a 99% crit chance on Tuesdays while holding an empty beer can"
@@smallcat848 Ah russian badger viewer hello there friend
That would be too much fun tho and these people are trying to be serious as crazy as that sounds.
@@x-xPhobia anime takes itself seriously while having fun, creative powers, so i'm sure novels can do it too. afterall, LOTR takes itself seriously with dragons and weird frog gremlins with a drug addiction for jewellery. what i'm trying to say is, imo, all fiction could stand to embrace the fact that it's fiction a bit more; it'll still be an enjoyable story.
@sahilrahman5066 what's you're weird superpower?
Mine is that I can move at supersonic speeds but only at every fifth step
The foliage tracking to the green on his kerchief is the funniest thing ever.
It’s just another special ability they have. Surviving with two massive holes in their chest.
just shout "I will bury these amazing new YA novels next to you!"
he will bump back to life straight away.
"I use Knives in order to take advantage of my superior speed and intellect, which I have by default" THE BEST joke I've heard
I love that we get to see all her sweet fighting moves that do absolutely nothing to help her in the most critical moments, lol. Love the format change for this one.
I like the transparent parts of the rainbow scarf.
It makes the main character more quirky and unique
I literally love this, please do all the book reviews like this! The self aware book protagonist was priceless
He's becoming a skit UA-camr! This is the winning timeline!
The f@*$ing weebo line got me hard lol
Lol you got me with the skit on this one - "i was isekaied again"
Man I wish they would translate this book to hungarian. In it the "idiotic idiot" would be written like "idióta idióta" peak literature right there
This line is so bad it breaks my language xd
Great video, horrified by the bathroom carpet, keep it coming
Don't worry, it's just a shower mat (or whatever those towel rug things you step out of the shower onto are called), you can see proper bathroom flooring around the toilet.
LOL I would love for you to review my son's book "Behind the Eyes of Zylo Moon." While you would probably be very tough, it would be a great experience.
I took a sip of my drink immediately before "I'm about to get bingo". Bro you almost killed me.
Great review!
James entered the Nostalgia Critic mode, I guess...
Damn skippy I did
He didn't abuse his employees, so clearly not.
not yet anyway ;)@@Hawkatana
Hopefully he doesn’t get too bitter and mean like Doug got
@@Hawkatana You can't abuse your employees when you don't have employees.🤫
Only a few things I have to say is 1. This new format was hilarious and I loved it because you're not actually dead. Now for a reply and a rewrite suggestion to help anyone trying to write this kind of story. I hope this is useful.
2. If Loom trained her whole life to fight monsters it would make sense to lose against other people or struggle more against them. If she's cripplingly afraid of the beasts that's kind of hilarious. I imagine she knows how to kill them from simulated combat, but hesitates against the real thing. Not completely frozen because then she would never kill any of them alone. This hesitation would also explain her needing someone else to give them their beast corpses to win. It's weird she wins in the end though and that she's fighting for her freedom like the right to leave the city and no one follows her, but that's fine if she ran away her dad would try to find her. If he's the absolute rule follower type of villain might not try to find her though if she leaves legally. He only tortures her when he thinks she's doing something illegal implying he believes in following the law and harsh punishments for even suspected law breakers. An extremely harsh authoritarian.
Re write suggestion if it's meant to be a 2 book thing
What if she entered the trials to face the beasts in a less risky situation? By letting go of her fear Loom can then run away into a world filled with them, now fearless and highly trained. If anyone comes after her they'll need to fight her way through the beasts. Maybe she enters the trials under the guise of I want to impress my Dad. Maybe the trial's reward is a trophy, status, bragging rights, and money. If the last trial is to kill the most beasts and she would have lost without help that also makes sense in the rewrite. Loom looses the trials, but overcomes her fears and can now run away. She disappoints/lets down the old man, but it doesn't matter she's overcome her mental block and can now escape from him. Maybe she meets a boy her age from a poorer family and gives him the beast corpses so he wins the trials instead.
She gets a character arc of I need to overcome my fear to escape my abusive father, I have met people who have it way worse, I helped someone, now I will run away.
Book 2 she is on the run from her father trying to hunt her down. Maybe he wastes so many soldiers going after her that his army rebels and he's replaced. Loom indirectly starts a revolution by making her Dad an obsessed paranoid dictator chasing a pointless objective and getting his soldiers killed. Or so many leave to chase her that an uprising is successful.
If it's a stand alone just throw in the option to leave the city anytime you want for as long as you want into the reward pile.
I get the rogue/assassin types using daggers, but hiding in the shadow is part of that.
“Aw, man! I got isekai’d again” is such an on-brand response 😂 the skits are hilarious, keep it up
This format, 10000%, goated, idk what you drank when making this, but keep it up.
And no im not trying to be a dick, i actually liked this lot
I love this new style!
James, are you actually determined to put more effort into intros these days
Only when it's more entertaining.
I fw this new video format
A generic dystopian YA novel without the generic love triangle? Or did I just not listen enough?
This skit was pretty fun! In hope you try to do something like this again.
I loved the Isekai/unconscious bit. Great video
I like how the only entertainment I will ever get from Reactive (which I won't read) is this video making fun of it
2:55 This is the future. A sword could be made out of aluminum.
I honestly love this format
Always fun to see more James sketches
"I'm about to get Bingo" is a killer line
Noooo, James wake up!😂
This was hilarious!! Great job! I would love to see more vids like this in the future
Laughed so much. Great job and a nice change of pace from your more standard format without really that much budget.
SPEARS Do IndeedNeed More Love!! 🙌 Also wonderfully unhinged ending
I love your channel dude. You’re just a passionate appreciator of stories who loves to sit down and offer thoughtful critiques with fun commentary. Perfect videos to listen to when I want to chill out. I’m really glad I discovered you, keep doing what you’re doing!
Cool that you tried something new. I like the format. Keep up the great work!
Amazing video as always!!
The editing, I see you james good job
Probably your best review yet. Short, on point, engaging.
Really digging the new style
Love the creative format haha
More like this, please!
That was fun!!! Thanks, James!
Dbz is a retelling of sun woo Kong however its its own thing and are completely different
Avatar is also based off of journey to the west yet is also its own thing
Please do more reviews like this.
R.I.P James Tullos
You have outdone yourself with this one. Great story and effects, you must have gone beyond your budget. I really like it. Its a fun thing to see from time to time, but i hope you will return to the original format and this style wont be permanent.
Wait, the video CLEARLY shows James getting into a car crash, but at the end of the video he's unconscious in the bathroom???
All I want is for James to read the sweep series by Cate Tiernan. They are super short books and insanse
Great video, Amazing wig
Please James put the cover of the book on the thumbnail
This format is really funny
i think this is up there with your best thumbnails
Video good thank you!
That was a fun bit!
LOVED
3:42 that hit too close to my home.
I'll miss him :/ RIP
Nobody:
Me roommate at 1 in the morning for some reason: 1:17
that sure was a nostalgia trip
Very funny way of reviewing a nonsensical book. Also, a lot of this books world building sounded like Attack on Titan: "walled city" "outside monster creatures" "elite military"
You should totally check out The Unwanteds. YA dystopia, magic, some pretty cool stuff, but oh my god do the romance scenes suck.
Cool skit!
Ok, this was very funny
No introduction song, bros entering his flop era
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Based off the cover I can already tell this looks like one of those teenage heart throb YA that we all used to read in like 4th grade....its giving divergent vibes(straight trash)
how many takes did you do? "oh i forgot that one line, gotta put the wig again"
what happened to the introduction song?
The main character was determined to introduce herself and her world so it got skipped. More seriously, not sure it'd work for gag formats like this. The song exists as a bridge between the opening words and the introduction.
It wasn't very good, nor was it to long
In conclusion, this is "And also - the book".
At least the bathroom floor looks comfy.
Yes
Katniss could kick that girl's ass. 🤣
How many YA novels could you describe with that title?
Te amo james 😂😂😂
Its my own original series the BLUNGER GAMES! Starring Flatness Neverbean! :u
Now how REACTIVE is this novel?
What do you mean you got isekai'd again? How often does this happen :0
Have you done a review of Arcane?
i want more scripted videos, you can make them longer too
Funny
The cover already looks like generic "badass girl" bullshit. ^ ^
Don't know the book, but being in trouble fighting against men in combat is 100% legit. The biological differences just make any direct fight unfair. A better way to write this would be to have to character be aware of this and find smarter ways to kill her opponents. Like using a gun or to a lesse extent a bow. I do agree that our OP main character needing to be saved every 5 pages is a bore.
The title implies Hunger Games isn’t stupid 😡
i wanted to like this, but i wont ruin a 666 like
oh bi
Please, more stuff like this! More entertaining entertainment!