Comments by "Retrosicotte" (@Retrosicotte) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. The laugh was likely just that "smile and chuckle at everything" instinct famous people develop when people throw stuff at you.
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  2.  @slome815  In fairness, the book is rather more accurate regarding the Dutch at Waterloo. It's just the show had only a limited budget and could only include the "main things" of each of them. The main thing for the Dutch unfortunately being the Prince of Orange, who was hardly a proud moment for them. Also, I don't know what you mean about the demonisation of the French. They're generally portrayed as pretty much the same as the British ones. Some are good and honourable. Some are pompous and vindictive. Very few people treat this show as "face value".
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  3. In fairness, it's a bit of an instinctual reaction for famous folk to have to smile and lightly chuckle any anything on instinct. What he showed and what he really thought may be entirely separate.
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  4. And on the edges of canon change insanity, are the Sonic fans.
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  5. The moment it wasn't Nathan Fillion, I knew they didn't really care.
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  6. I'd rather say it's not that it makes fun of them or panders. More that it recognises that you can have diversity of cast, you can involve such themes, but they dont' have to utterly overwhelm the narrative. Cobra-Kai shows how to do it right. It's totally respect and supportive of it (notice how even in its jokes it's never insulting the idea) but recognises that you can have it without having to bend everything around it too. Excellent example.
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  7. The amusing thing to me is, I agree with many of their 'stances', I probably would already vote the people they want if I lived in the US, I do like seeing stories welcome to challenge modern politics or issues... But I don't want to watch that ALL THE DAMN TIME or have every single thing judged by that metric as though it has to be some paragon of it all. Nor do I want to hear it all brought up again and again even if I bloody AGREE with them. Even for those of us who would nod and go "Sure, yeah" it's suffocating.
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  8. I did not expect to see my local kebab turn up in this video... not even joking.
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  9. I got the chance to first see this in Glasgow's Theatre Club, with all the old timey architecture, seat design, a staff member even introducing the film as they used to do. Fantastic surrounding to first see it.
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  10. I've often thought that the Hobbit was nowhere near as good as it should have been, but was a lot better than it COULD have been had it been thrown out exactly as the studios had wanted it prior to the effort that WAS put in. There could be books written about the creation of this movie and why it is how it is. The upcoming TV series might make this one age better in the way the Star Wars sequels did for the prequels in that "Okay it wasn't great but by god at least it wasn't THIS" way.
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