"King" George was a completely inappropriate. Yelling at people telling them they have to read books, generally abusive behavior towards staff. Hiw chasing young women was stomach churning.
Thanks for the review! I was curious about the show but not enough to pay for HBO. It's funny, the Texas Renaissance Festival used to invite me to cover it, but now they've told me they don't want me filming there because I'm a "UA-camr". Seems like they prioritized HBO over smaller creators who might actually bring them more attendees. Any suggestions for other Renaissance festivals?
@@RjeromepCreate similar thing happens with the Comic-Con scene. The smaller cons are usually the best because they have more heart to them. Perhaps I should start seeking out smaller Renaissance festivals. I live in the Houston area so TRF was very close to me. But I suppose I'll take the daring route and start branching out more. Thank you so much!
Spent a couple of lifetimes working in the festival world. I've seen some truly great things undone when the focus shifted from putting on a great show to making a great profit. The shows suffered. The people noticed. Eventually they stopped coming. Nobody in charge could figure it out, so they just gave up. But they couldn't bear the thought that someone else with vision would succeed where they failed so miserably (they loved their "power" over people), so they took their ball and went home. It's happened countless times. Only people with the spirit of theater over profit can save us. Yes, the Fests and Faires need to show a profit, but not at the expense of the performers who the public comes to see.
I’m looking forward to seeing your following videos and believe you are making an excellent point. I have friends and family involved with the SCA and my impression is they are similar to the performers at these professional events in that they do this for the love of it and their perceived place in the constructed social hierarchy and society they live in. Many aren’t, to be blunt, achieving much outside this world so it really becomes their core reality. Now take someone like that, tie your hobby to your livelihood for decades, and you get people like Jeff to a large degree and Darla in the show. Jeff loves this world and has done NOTHING outside of it for his entire adult life. Darla seems similarly tied to it. Now mix that with a personality they owe everything to like George and you have the perfect abusive relationship. Jeff couldn’t move on with his life, he came back begging to George. George exists to manipulate people in the empire he built. Everything is about control and even abuse when he can do so. He abuses the direct employees he hs full ownership of brutally because he gets joy from it. For those he can’t control directly, like Louie and the Greeks who were potential buyers, he gets his thrills from stringing them along and playing with them when he clearly never intended to sell. I haven’t worked in a fair but I’ve worked in a corporate situations with borderline psychopath executives whose entire existence revolved around their position and the power it gave them over others. They would never willingly give that power up, they have to be dragged out. Based on that experience it was clear very early George was never going to sell. All he wants to do is play his manipulation games into his grave.
Havent seen the HBO doc yet, but so far this sounds eerily similar yo what happened to the fair i helped build over the last 2 years. Would love to share my experience to add to the pot of youre interested
"King" George was a completely inappropriate. Yelling at people telling them they have to read books, generally abusive behavior towards staff. Hiw chasing young women was stomach churning.
Couldn't agree more and unfortunately that is very common place in the faire world.
Thanks for the review! I was curious about the show but not enough to pay for HBO. It's funny, the Texas Renaissance Festival used to invite me to cover it, but now they've told me they don't want me filming there because I'm a "UA-camr". Seems like they prioritized HBO over smaller creators who might actually bring them more attendees. Any suggestions for other Renaissance festivals?
@Mombierella the Las Vegas Faire is amazing! There are some cool small faires in CA, but overall the big ones are getting big heads
@@RjeromepCreate similar thing happens with the Comic-Con scene. The smaller cons are usually the best because they have more heart to them. Perhaps I should start seeking out smaller Renaissance festivals. I live in the Houston area so TRF was very close to me. But I suppose I'll take the daring route and start branching out more. Thank you so much!
Man watching your video makes me glad that we don't have Ren Faire's here in Australia. This sounds like a freaking nightmare.
Spent a couple of lifetimes working in the festival world. I've seen some truly great things undone when the focus shifted from putting on a great show to making a great profit.
The shows suffered.
The people noticed.
Eventually they stopped coming.
Nobody in charge could figure it out, so they just gave up. But they couldn't bear the thought that someone else with vision would succeed where they failed so miserably (they loved their "power" over people), so they took their ball and went home.
It's happened countless times.
Only people with the spirit of theater over profit can save us.
Yes, the Fests and Faires need to show a profit, but not at the expense of the performers who the public comes to see.
I’m looking forward to seeing your following videos and believe you are making an excellent point. I have friends and family involved with the SCA and my impression is they are similar to the performers at these professional events in that they do this for the love of it and their perceived place in the constructed social hierarchy and society they live in. Many aren’t, to be blunt, achieving much outside this world so it really becomes their core reality.
Now take someone like that, tie your hobby to your livelihood for decades, and you get people like Jeff to a large degree and Darla in the show. Jeff loves this world and has done NOTHING outside of it for his entire adult life. Darla seems similarly tied to it. Now mix that with a personality they owe everything to like George and you have the perfect abusive relationship. Jeff couldn’t move on with his life, he came back begging to George. George exists to manipulate people in the empire he built. Everything is about control and even abuse when he can do so. He abuses the direct employees he hs full ownership of brutally because he gets joy from it. For those he can’t control directly, like Louie and the Greeks who were potential buyers, he gets his thrills from stringing them along and playing with them when he clearly never intended to sell. I haven’t worked in a fair but I’ve worked in a corporate situations with borderline psychopath executives whose entire existence revolved around their position and the power it gave them over others. They would never willingly give that power up, they have to be dragged out. Based on that experience it was clear very early George was never going to sell. All he wants to do is play his manipulation games into his grave.
Yes we will be touching on this in one of out next Faire Exposed Video's. Power, Manipulation and Social Control.
Havent seen the HBO doc yet, but so far this sounds eerily similar yo what happened to the fair i helped build over the last 2 years. Would love to share my experience to add to the pot of youre interested
The newest episode is out ua-cam.com/video/UCmMsVNDOCU/v-deo.html