Maximum Ride, Huh

[@intergalactic-loser]

the blank, dead stare is sending me

[@Crowcaller]

maximum ride, huh

[@intergalactic-loser]

@@Crowcaller maximum ride, huh

[@fish2380]

maximum ride, huh

[@nightshadetq2453]

I haven’t read any of the other books you’ve covered on this channel but this? this will be my moment. this series controlled my life and it got my interested in characters with wings forever. Thank you also does anyone remember the scene where the wolf experiment antagonist kid gets angry for a gameboy at macys. for some reason that’s the first thing that comes to mind when I think about the series

[@Crowcaller]

I didn't mention it in the video but yes. boy it happens. POOR ARI. that scene also was burned in my head.

[@_laurenolo_]

literally just finished rewatching most of your previous videos over these past few days because they're my favourite movies, so I'm all the more keen for this next instalment!👁👄👁

[@Crowcaller]

It'll be up today, I'm hoping in like an hour if youtube lets me!!

[@Sprigatitito]

STOP I’ve been so excited for a new video and I was obsessed with this series as a kid 😭😭 very much looking forward to your commentary! I was just explaining this series to my partner the other day after not thinking about it for like ten years so I’m happy we were riding similar wavelengths

[@Crowcaller]

very good timing! let me now also pass the torch and explain this series to YOU

[@kailunartic6647]

The cinematography of this is just ✨magical✨

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

I first got into Maximum Ride when I got one of the books at a Target Just dropped in at the end of a funeral, on the run from evil scientists, problematic dad, and vindictive clones. I was very excited by this style of avant-garde, en-media-res style of storytelling.... until I realized that I'd picked up the 3rd book in a trilogy 💀

[@moose1277]

very powerful teaser, thank you

[@Crowcaller]

it was meant to be the intro to the vid but accidentally was cut, so I posted it here because i think its funny

[@chansesturm7103]

I get the feeling Crow Caller had to use every ounce of willpower she had to not smile after saying that as she left the room

[@Crowcaller]

I did more than one take and I definitely did smile in the first one. I think it's funny more than anyone else ever will

[@tereziamarkova2822]

I've read the first book, but sadly couldn't get my hands on any of the subsequent ones, since they don't seem to have been translated into Slovak (I was like 12 back then, didn't really speak English and only used internet to play Stardoll). God, I was so sad that I never got to finish that story! Fast forward a decade later, James Tullos released his video on the series and... Hoo boy. It was like mourning a summer love cut short, then almost forgetting them, then reuniting by chance and realizing that they were already mediocre as a teen, but genuinely suck as an adult.

[@Crowcaller]

I haven't seen James' video (yet) but. hm. honestly, I think the first three aren't.... that bad. It just goes so downhill though after that you forget the good bits.

[@palinurus]

Oh my god I'm so excited!! I was really into Maximum Ride when I was younger- I mean, the premise of a "found family of winged kids" is an instant win in my book- but looking back now, the execution of the story was horrible. A lot of James Patterson's decisions with the plot were... questionable, to say the least. But hey, at least it helped me get over my fear of rollercoasters!

[@Crowcaller]

I have thanks to rereading the series gotten very into 'mutant found family' as a trope again. I also read them as a kid, so it was also extremely foundational for me

[@somberhoney]

I never read the Maximum Ride books, but my best friend and I were obsessed with the graphic novels in middle school, I swear we read through that series at least twenty times each

[@somberhoney]

update: just googled it and apparently it's a manga and not graphic novels? and they only adapted half the series? so I just have no idea what happens in the second half of the books lol

[@Crowcaller]

Yeah, the manga graphic novels are kinda good still. I think the books work better as them, straight up. They did stop making them halfway through adapting book 5 though

[@SpecialInterestShow]

Maximum Ride straight up gave me some weird complex about not being able to watch/read stuff out of order now. I read the 3rd book as a kid not knowing it was a series, then went back and read the 1st and 2nd. I couldn't put together the order of events well and to this day I don't know what happened and when in the series. Idk if it triggered my OCD a few years earlier than I thought or what but I got so confused that I didn't finish the series and now I can't stand watching/reading shit out of order at all. The funny thing is, from what I hear, the books are kinda a confusing mess even when read in order. So, it might not have been me misunderstanding due to order, but rather me not understanding due to the shit just being confusing in the first place

[@Crowcaller]

yeah. max ride doesn't make a lot of sense even in order, but man, it probably was hell that oout of order. it gets.... weird

[@nannaleifa]

Ooh, a Maximum Ride deep dive video, I sense? Can't wait to watch/listen the whole thing while doing chores!

[@Crowcaller]

I hope you have like 4 hours of chores buddy

[@encyclogeekia1865]

Story time! When my grade school closed the librarian let us all take a book. I picked out Maximum Ride without even having read it. I was a huge fan but after a while I forgot about it. This brings back so many memories!

[@Topdoggie7]

You got out of it lucky.

[@Crowcaller]

I'm going to bring back so many more and they may not be good memories

[@meldoesntwanttotellyouthei7012]

This was my favorite book series when I was younger I can’t wait for you to tear it apart for 3 hours

[@peachybun]

ngl i was so obsessed with this book series; i even bought the first volume of the manga ( i still have it 💀 ) and i wanted there to be a faithful movie adaptation SO bad 😭

[@Crowcaller]

did you. did you know about the fact there WAS a movie in 2016 though. because. hm.

[@peachybun]

@@Crowcaller there WAS?!?!? WHAT 😭😭😭

[@peachybun]

@@Crowcaller oh god, i just looked it up and… it looks like something. 💀 i’m glad i was out of my MR phase by the time it came out akskdkfkgk

[@newtsoftheroundtable]

oh my god i read the whole series when i was like 11 😭 the premise was interesting (found family + ppl with wings always does it lol) but looking back it was so unhinged lmao

[@Crowcaller]

It gets. Weirder and worse, sadly

[@Evan_L_Rodriguez]

Literally started binging your videos because I was missing them LETS GOOOOOOO

[@Crowcaller]

I had to take some time but I'm back babeyyyy

[@tobequitefranco]

Maybe the real Maximum Ride was the friends we lost along the way.

[@pastaman68]

omg im so excited for this! I never read the actual booms but I loved the first few graphic novels my school library had

[@coffeec8873]

oooh im so excited 😂 i hated maximum ride in school so this will be something. also i love that shawl

[@Crowcaller]

I actually enjoyed still the first three, but haters will feast on how the rest of the series goes (extremely extremely badly)

[@aeriszan]

This series. This. Series. Made me an ardent HATER of any and all James Patterson books. And I didn’t even make it past the first book! I googled the series afterwards to see if my gut was right, and man am I glad I stopped when I did.

[@viciousbagel]

Excited for the max ride video! I’ve been looking forward to it immensely

[@smittenkitten8811]

I LOVED those books back in middle school!!!!

[@Crowcaller]

ME TOO..... so rereading them has been. SOMETHIN

[@SharkieTheDork]

Oh noooooo Maximum Ride briefly had a chokehold on me when I was younger I fell off i think on the second or third to last book, hearing secondhand horror stories from my cousin who wasn't so lucky

[@Crowcaller]

That is the EXACT right place to stop it, you really were lucky. I think it peaks with book 2.

[@PurpleBadger14]

YESSSSSSSSSS OMG THIS SERIES WENT OFF THE RAILS SO BAD

[@xenrusxenomorph2268]

I was so worried this was about to be a two hour roast on Macimum ride cause

[@Crowcaller]

No, it's a four hour discussion (in the video I just uploaded, check it out)

[@oOSnuWolfOo]

Maximum Ride, Huh

[@Crowcaller]

Maximum Ride, Huh

[@Peytonthefeyton]

This video just autoplayed on my laptop in the middle of the night while the monitor was off. I don't think I've ever been more terrified.

[@Crowcaller]

MAXIMUM RIDE HUH

[@lrae9519]

The winged shawl ❤

[@thepotatoqueen4290]

maximum ride these knuts

[@inkchip7351]

Huh, maximum ride.

[@Crowcaller]

no no no. "maximum ride. huh."

[@notbaldfrost]

What's going on with that maximum ride?

[@kaylinevergreen1962]

This made me laugh so hard

[@9suicune8]

i read the first maximum ride book but i completely forgot everything that happened so this is gonna be fun

[@Crowcaller]

it is going to go places you will not be able to anticipate

[@cooperross9495]

Now say it in Solid Snake's voice.

[@snail-legs]

oh I'm so ready for this

[@Crowcaller]

are you truly? are you???

[@TheDimensionDweller]

huh indeed

[@Crowcaller]

maximum ride......................................... huh

[@alisaurus4224]

Is that scarf from Shovava?

[@paadoxal]

i have no idea what its gonna be about but im excited

[@Crowcaller]

well maximum ride. huh

[@sydneeokiec]

never change plz

[@nullbirdbones]

, this’ll be fun

[@smart507532nd]

Ooo is this a hint

[@Crowcaller]

it's a bit more explicit than a hint in that a 4 hour video is coming in like, an hour, on the subject

[@SpecialInterestShow]

More like "Maximum Ride... Huh???" because the books are kinda confusing

[@Crowcaller]

maximum ride. huh!

[@lagozzino]

Now this is Youtubing

[@Crowcaller]

I find myself on occasion amusing and I don't care if other people agree, really

[@potato.gh0sty517]

Truly aww inspiring, also new vid soon!!!

[@Crowcaller]

SOON

[@TheVegetablePrincess]

Hype

[@grandpajoe_1]

GOD. Please review those books lmao. My entire teenage years were gripped by those books (until they got stupid)

[@emma_collis1074]

Good news, the real review should be out late today! - Crow's flatmate

[@Crowcaller]

my flatmate replied already but yes. it'll be up in like. VERY SOON

[@grandpajoe_1]

@@Crowcaller SWEET

[@grandpajoe_1]

@@emma_collis1074 awesome!

[@n.s.6984]

You are so dear to me. (as a content creator on YT)

[@llllaarr2518]

More like minimum ride am I right ladies?

[@Astrotorical]

In my defence i thought this was you checking the audio levels or focus or something

[@Crowcaller]

No it was me thinking I was very funny N

[@mj5697]

😂😂😂

[@Crowcaller]

maximum ride huh

[@neffrey]

Huh

[@chayse1225]

Lmaooo

[@paper_bag_pancake]

so true bestie

[@Crowcaller]

Max ride huh?!!!!!!

[@dragonetafireball]

Tell me more

[@Crowcaller]

Good news

[@Topdoggie7]

I hated how it went from the original two and the prequel years earlier into global warming and dumbed down so much the manga is also inaccurate garbage. One of the biggest assassinations of characters in book history. All within a fourth book onward.

[@Crowcaller]

yep. the fourth book though I now think of somehow fondly compared to say. nevermore.

[@Topdoggie7]

I hope you also address that James Patterson makes other people do all the work and slaps his name on it plus plagiarizes and steals so the decline is also obviously someone he screwed over bouncing. He's also insulted fans of his old series and called them stupid or simpletons who will consume anything: Young Woman's Murder Club.

[@Crowcaller]

I didn't dive too deep into him, but I did mention the fact he 100% uses ghostwriters and constantly has coauthors who are never acknowledged as such anywhere in his books. Max Ride very famously had a co author like the entire time and not once is credited, not even on wikipedia

[@Topdoggie7]

@@Crowcaller I highly recommend you do a second video on it you can link in any other JP reviews as a sort of handbook to his bullshit. I loved Woman's Murder Club as a kid and when he said he made them knowing stupid people would like them it felt so shitty.