Robyn Hood Might be the Worst TV Show of 2023

[@SpiralDown2077]

I remember my grandmother telling me, I don’t care what they tell you in school, Robin Hood is a red fox.

[@fldsmdfr9107]

The best Robin Hood

[@RAIN_2001]

baced love to see it

[@cashkitty3472]

🤣

[@melkgn]

Hysterical 🎉

[@Lonovavir]

That version of Robin Hood only got better because of Robyn Hood.

[@Nicole_Auriel]

I just can’t get over the fact the best way to “combat racism” is to make a show about black people stealing. I’m dead😂

[@redacted2275]

Robyn from da Hood

[@tabaflip]

They want to portray evil behaviors as morally right. It's far more insidious. Nevermind the misrepresentation of Robin Hood's ideals. He stole from the government, not the rich.

[@Lonovavir]

And to show the villains being reasonable and good. Then again, it's a show for "Modern audiences".

[@coltonpatterson5409]

We're officially at the "it's happening and it's a good thing" part of the argument

[@jacobrogers2906]

Plus her dad is an absent deadbeat, and they throw trash at the cops when they come to arrest criminals, and the main girl is a total ho. Uhhh guys... I think you're doing this wrong.

[@seefoghall]

Prince John is the Hero in this series. He is using his money to legally acquire property to make the city a better place; and get rid of the, lazy, violent, criminal element.

[@justforever96]

Sounds like that's actually King Richard in this show, not clear who is supposed to be Prince John. You would have thought they would have made Prince John a conservative capitalist corrupt politician who used voter suppression to usurp power, and had a benevolent Justin Trudeauheart return to power to save them all.

[@SpectJumm]

How could you say such things?! Everyone in ProjectTopia is a law-abiding citizen because crime does not exist in ProjectTopia! You just want to victimize the poor, empowered, super legal residents of -the rat's nest- ProjectTopia! In all seriousness, if the show made it so Prince John would compensate the residents like what usually happens, the entire conflict would be flipped on its head.

[@betsymassie1040]

I agree

[@theenchiladakid1866]

But he was a white dude so every he did is bad

[@gs4011]

He also calls out the pseudo-morality of the Bishop of Current-Yearford. "You've underestimated me Mr. Prince." "Bull$hit, you're a politician, you're barely one step above a prostitute. How much?"

[@crispyandspicy6813]

"Let's fight the stereotypes!" *Has black people stealing* You can't make this shit up

[@MAGAMAN]

They don't view this as a problem. Only arresting them for this behavior is a problem in their eyes.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

The left are their own biggest enemies. They literally can't stop playing themselves.

[@starblossom05]

They sure love to keep the Stereotype alive but clearly love lying about it that they " do not do it"

[@thekaiser3815]

They don't want to fight the stereotype. They want to fight the negative stigma stereotypes. These people believe the stereotypes are how people actually are.

[@noylj1]

Not stealing--infinite reparations...

[@lmahu6627]

It's amazing that Disney's animated _Robin Hood,_ which portrays the characters as anthropomorphic animals, and my introduction to the English legend as an Asian, is more faithful to the source than... whatever this show is supposed to be.

[@problematicspaghettios]

Same! Back before "the dark times" when they made quality stuff!

[@bethanyh1637]

In Mr. H's interview with Director X... He (X) says the Disney cartoon version is one of the "quintessential" retellings of the legend.

[@Lonovavir]

That film just got a 15% boost to its reputation.

[@SuperfluousMoniker]

Heck, Robin Hood: Men in Tights is more faithful to the source.

[@CharlesUrban]

​@@bethanyh1637Well, at least Director X can acknowledge that things from the past are good. Some people have reached the point where they can't.

[@eddiebruv]

I think that it’s an utterly genius idea to make unique costumes to hide your identity in your rap videos and then wear those same costumes while committing crimes.

[@justinwillingale2086]

Well to be fair to the director, a lot of kids today are doing this.

[@AParticularlyConcernedCitizen]

​@@justinwillingale2086 They're doing it because the crimes They're committing are legalized but having their faces out there means somebody might retaliate.

[@zawarudo1041]

Director X himself established characters to not be bright in any way (no pun intended) despite even throwing "tech" (technology for "I fkin love science" but definitely not "I try to understand science" type of Twitter/tiktok "folks") at them

[@mewre2062]

if its popular, it actually is.

[@eddiebruv]

@@mewre2062 “Unique costumes”. ✌️

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

It really says alot when Director X seems to make the main cast almost every Black Stereotype out there. Reminds me of that one episode of the Fresh Prince where Carlton was treated poorly because he didn't act stereotypically black and he said "Being black isn't what I'm trying to be it's what I am." Effectively saying he's black as in that's his skin color and he can't change that, but that shouldn't dictate how he should act. Really feels like people have forgotten that just cause you have a certain skin color doesn't mean you have to act a certain way. Director X clearly forgot that.

[@MarvinPowell1]

It helps when you know that Julien Christian Lutz grew up rich in Toronto, was given instant access to the music video industry straight out of college, and essentially is "whiter" than any of the caricatures he paints as villains in this show. All of this straight on his Wikipedia page. He's such a poser, he copied his stage name from Malcolm X and probably legitimately DOES think "this is how you act black."

[@SamtheBravesFan]

Or worse: he knows it and ignores that.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

​@@MarvinPowell1Wow. That explains *a lot* about how bad this show is.

[@ab-gail]

Exactly.

[@ab-gail]

@@MarvinPowell1 Dude’s probably insecure about not being “””black””” enough first the people he wants to hang with too. People like that tend to go turbo Black Power just to feel black enough.

[@thethrashyone]

I can't think of a single woman in my family who would actively encourage their daughters to engage in shameless, promiscuous behavior by keeping a "condom jar" filled for them. I get that as a parent you'll have to accept that your post-pubescent kids are going to be having sex at some point, but still, outright enabling them to be as hoor-ish as possible by providing them endless free condoms is just creepy.

[@jeremybrimmer1990]

Right; tho the writers would make the character say something about how we're just jealous, and after a few dozens takes the film crew would edit the "acting" to make it look 👏 at us. It's like watching syrup of ipecac. It's like playing really bad dungeons and dragons.

[@cashkitty3472]

Clearly written by a man

[@jeremybrimmer1990]

@@cashkitty3472 "clearly"

[@Exnavyjay]

Yeah but it’s a black family and black girls fuck anything that moves!

[@gypsylee333]

Apparently it's a black people thing 😂

[@ianyoder2537]

One thing I think a lot of people miss interpret about Robin Hood is he's not an anarchist, he's a patriot. His crimes aren't just in protest of an unjust government. They're in protest of an unjust rule of prince John while the good king, the real king, Richard is away in the crusades. The when king Richard returns and deposes John robin hood stops being a criminal and pledges his loyalty to king Richard.

[@justforever96]

Exactly. He is very much in favor of royalty and his King, he has been unjustly driven to a life as an outlaw because of his support for the King and his opposition to the usurper. As much as there is even any solid legend to base it all on, what we think of as "the story of Robin Hood" was really created pretty recently by a person combining a selection of the many, many various tales and ballads about the character. Kind of the way that the books in the Bible were selected, except in that case they knew what doctrine they wanted to support before they chose the books to reinforce them.

[@marissashantez6051]

Robin Hood also steals taxes and hands them back to people

[@johnwiks2597]

He's a kingsman

[@alexanderharoldsen4178]

​@@marissashantez6051 taxes raised in the name of funding a foreign war

[@EscargoBay]

As a Canadian, I want to apologize on behalf of my people for subjecting the world to this atrocity.

[@noylj1]

At least it isn't nazi Trudeau as Prime Minister

[@logicplague]

It isn't like this show is the first troublesome thing to come out of Canada, let us not forget Brian Adams.

[@noylj1]

@@logicplague Brian who?

[@logicplague]

@@noylj1 It's a line from the South Park movie, look up the clip "can I finish?"

[@logicplague]

@@noylj1 I've honestly never heard of him lol.

[@nomennisceo6495]

Holy shit, Alan Rickman did more acting in those last 5 seconds than anyone did over the entire runtime of Robyn Hood

[@RobotsEverywhereVideos]

By Grabthar's Hammer, by the suns of Worwan, we shall always remember Alan Rickman.

[@adamwampler2135]

Alan Rickman did better things in his restroom than this whole cast and crew will EVER do! RIP Sir Alan Rickman!

[@paulvontarsus729]

At least we got a hot blonde with big personalities (she's Mercedes Blanche)

[@庫倫亞利克]

Alan Rickman did more acting in his life than the sum of all Woke trash combined.

[@sarahgould5435]

That's not really fair. It's Alan Rickman.

[@templargfx]

I like how the show immediately has our protagonist : Trespass on private property Refuse to obey lawful commands by a peace officer Violently resist arrest Assault a Police Officer Destroy public property and the reason for doing these things : selfish attention seeking online but she is the good guy, I swear

[@NoNeed2No]

Modern logic

[@bZman]

Every single person involved in the creation of this show deserves to be in a scientific study on how you can survive with literal no brain activity.

[@pepincuatro2865]

To be fair I wonder that about someone at least thrice a day these days.

[@IncineraSean]

No, its a deliberate agenda. I thought that would be obvious by now, but the veil of innocence these entities skulk behind seems to be masterfully fooling people despite it's pathetic shambolic and ostensible weak construction.

[@rasalasblack]

And, hopefully get them off the gene pool as fast as possible.

[@giacomolandi9277]

Jellyfish have been doing it for hundreds of millions of years so...maybe they are related

[@eatmywords]

don't be so hard. it's just a downward trend for all streaming services. very little money and critical demands on production time equals a steaming pile of shit.

[@SICK2210]

As a black man, I wanted to do a review and destroy this show and Director X's narrative, but I just don't have the time. Thank you for this video, everyone should see it. You have a new subscriber.

[@G4MER28]

Busy doing that black guy stuff right?

[@100organicfreshmemes5]

Might still be worth making your own review. Doesn't have to be nearly as in-depth as this video, but just having your own review would do a lot. The idiots who defend this show can't immediately discount your opinion on the basis of race like they can DoA's.

[@narc440]

@@100organicfreshmemes5 Exactly. The director is so blinded by his own racism that he can't actually take real criticism and just screams "racist white people hate black media".

[@Y0uKnowMyName]

"Ooh ooh pick me! Pick me!"

[@Y0uKnowMyName]

Tokens get spent.

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

The whole “see myself” and representation thing bothers me because I have to wonder: how self absorbed does someone need to be to need to see themselves in everything?

[@snowangelnc]

By that reasoning they would probably find it odd that I'm a redhead of Scottish descent, yet Mulan (the good one, not the remake) is my all-time favorite Disney heroine. Even more shocking, I didn't like Brave all that much.

[@Quandry1]

Many of them are extremely self absorbed. provably if you go and read most of their twitter histories and other things.

[@lmahu6627]

​@@snowangelnc I love a lot of the Disney Princess movies despite of the fact that not one of them is a Filipino. Heck, my favorite is Belle, who is French. I even prefer Ariel, who looks nothing like me, to the local mermaid show that aired when I was a child. That last part is more amusing to me now due to the fact that Halle Bailey said in an interview that her life would have changed if she saw a Black mermaid as a child. That was all I needed to read to know that the race swap in LAR18 was politically motivated and made me hate the remake more than I would in principle.

[@margaretcronin9834]

This idea has honestly wrecked my head for a long time. I love playing video games and I've never felt excluded because main characters are males. I've been playing video games since I was a kid and I never felt having a male lead was an issue. Now looking at advertising for video games, it leans so heavily into girls can play video games, it makes me cringe so much (the advertising of Tears of the Kingdom had exclusively girls playing the game with boys only watching on, just make it freaking balanced, have a mix of both playing). I don't think the vast majority of people need to be "told" you're allowed to enjoy x, y or z.

[@billjacobs521]

I honestly don't believe them. I think everyone who says that is lying. Not maliciously, but it's the kind of thing they are programmed to say, they say it because they think they should. They each think, well, maybe *I* am not going to watch this movie or play this game regardless, but surely it's good to add "diversity" because SOMEONE will now love it entirely due to that change. But that someone never materializes. Sort of like, where's the Jew that's offended by being told "Merry Christmas"? He doesn't exist, but a few yahoos, on his behalf, bitched about it (not to say the "war on Christmas" people aren't also ridiculous). No one actually cares, not even the woke people who chant for it, just like no feminists ever made a film a hit just because the movie got rid of attractive men and women and featured an unlikeable bint as a protagonist.

[@theflyingkaramazovbrothers6]

Note also that while the white characters are the main villains (with the son possibly being just a jackass), the East Asians are depicted as willing accomplices in white supremacy. Director X is as subtle as a middle schooler.

[@PahadiSher]

Asians are collaborators to justify the Black on Asian violence.😂

[@MarvinPowell1]

I hear another KZbin reviewer (Alteori) compare the police lieutenant to Pearl Davis, "Just Pearly Things," and now I can't unsee it.

[@theflyingkaramazovbrothers6]

@MarvinPowell1 lol yeah she is much prettier than Pearl but I see it.

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Well, we are flavor of the month. Most of the time we’re white adjacent unless a buck can be made off our suffering.

[@EskraxTheSleepless]

Pretty stupid that if (Idiot) Director X want to remove stereotypes, he instead shows his bias towards african americans over asians and white people by suggesting that white people are as evil as Sauron and that the asians are their accomplices and puppets. Wonderful writing.

[@CEAsfg]

Films updated for a modern audience checklist: - Main character has to check all the diversity boxes -Villain is always a straight white man or woman -Conflict revolves around defeating the patriarchy, or anything to do with homophobia, transphobia, racism, fatphobia, bigotry, etc. -Constant reminders that the show or movie actually hates their audience -Constant meta humor and commentary that doesn’t make it any funnier -“First ever character that is ______.” For the 466775421199754th time -No real story is present, instead the entire thing is just political propaganda -No one falls in love anymore, because in modern times true love doesn’t exist -Every female is a corporate ladder climbing girlboss who doesn’t want kids or a man

[@MarvinPowell1]

- Straight romance doesn't exist, unless they're the bad guys. - Marriage and families are villainized. - Religion is villainized, unless it's Islam. - The protagonists act like villains, commit crimes, talk down to or bully others, and behave selfishly, yet are portrayed heroically for it. - The female protagonist, or another female character, gets one or several scenes which serve as a therapy session for the showrunner or writers. - No character arc, because the protagonist is "already perfect as they are." - The "villains" unintentionally end up resonating the most with the audience, having a fully fleshed-out character arc, and being more heroic and brave than anyone else (The John Walker/Ken Effect.)

[@CEAsfg]

@@MarvinPowell1well spoken, my friend

[@LostSox]

@@MarvinPowell1 🍺

[@fleur-de-rocaille]

@@CEAsfgnailed it!

[@Colonel_RamRod]

This needs to be posted on every movie review of this kind of crap. So on point 😂😂😂

[@baggie_woodman]

Why do all these "black led" films and dramas always portay the "black community" as living in projects/Tower blocks and struggling?

[@_Tricky_]

Ah so this is what they call ‘cultural appropriation’ then? When this was raised, I believe the Director said that ‘nobody cares about Robin Hood’. Well, we do. It’s part of our heritage. Love from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@eeddieedwards3890]

"The Director said that nobody cares about Robin Hood" and yet they leech off the original story of "Robin Hood" instead of coming up with ORIGINAL IDEAS OF THEIR OWN. They are nothing but a bunch of "Woke" grifters and they suck at it.

[@kielbasamage]

That’s how it works, when you take from them it’s cultural appropriation but when they take from you it’s improvement.

[@eatmywords]

it's very likely robin hood is not a single character, but a composition of criminals of the 13-14th century; much like Jesus of Nazareth. there really is no tangible evidence, outside of a passing reference in a 14th century play, he, or his band of men existed. it is even possible the 'man' was a mercenary, no longer in paid service to a king or lord. and if that were the case, then it's quite possible the chap was of eastern european descent; the fall of constantinople and the subsequent collapse of the byzantine empire, created a lot of displacement, which in turn sent a lot of those natives west. curiously, friar tuck and maid marion were additions to the folk tale in the 16-17th century. if we consider those two additions were supposed to be the pinnacles of human piety (a wife and a priest), this could infer the Church was growing concerned with how the wind blew in Hood's direction. after all, the traditional and consistent script is of the man regularly ensconced inside his tight band of very willing men. hidden away in the darkest depths of some forest, and every night robin would peek out of his rugged tent, only to be greeted by a multitude of thick, lengthy wood.

[@maffe_distroyer]

As tolkien once said " evil cannot create , can only infect and destroy what the good made "

[@treybarnes4057]

​@eatmywords I thought he was based off of Hereward the Wake?

[@hatuletoh]

If you're old enough to remember when Kevin Costner's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" was released, you might recall that it was widely criticized as a soulless, Hollywood blockbuster version of a beloved English folk tale, which had been Americanized and turned into an action film so that the story was sufficiently "updated for modern audiences." It was financially successful but critically panned, or at least the reviews were very lukewarm. And especially considering that "Robin Hood" followed closely after Kevin Costner's financially successful and critically beloved "Dances With Wolves," the film was considered a rather poor vehicle for the world's most popular actor and director at the time. Oh, and the accents. Kevin Costner's choice to, apparently, try to speak with an English accent for some lines, and in his usual Midwestern twang for others was the source of much humor. But Costner sounded like a Richard Burton doing Hamlet at The Old Vic compared to Christian Slater's Will Scarlet. Anyway, the point is that there was a time when "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" was considered a not very good adaptation of the Robin Hood story. I know it's hard to believe a film that today looks like a minor masterpiece was seen as a slightly embarrassing American/Hollywood bastardization of a classic tale, but that's how good movies and TV shows used to be, and how audiences expected them to be. We didn't know how great we had it.

[@spm36]

His accent was actually fine imo..ive heard worse accents here in England...well London innit types prove my point

[@MSpotatoes]

I was only 12 when that came out, so I didn't know that. I thought it was an awesome movie.

[@surlyunicorn9461]

I saw it in the theater. As an American I did wince at Costner’s attempts at sounding English but Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham was worth the pain. lol Fortunately I grew up with Michael Praed as Robin Hood in Robin of Sherwood. I feel bad for any kid watching this Robyn Hood abomination and thinking it’s even remotely close to the myth.

[@georgeray1906]

Perhaps we were to harsh on it.

[@kaltaron1284]

@@spm36 It's more about the inconsistancy.

[@hohetannen4703]

I’m German-American of old Prussian stock but seeing an Irishman defend an English folk tale tells me everything I need to know about who the real enemies of humanity are.

[@andeluvianspeeddemon4528]

The Icelanders?

[@mr.mcnerdo]

​​@@andeluvianspeeddemon4528 The Canadians. I'm just kidding, it's just people who consciously disrespect other cultures, unprovoked. Like atheists that look down on anyone else's beliefs, or theists who attack people in the name of their own deities.

[@jerryrichards8172]

The poles ?

[@Colonel_RamRod]

Yeah when the Irish are coming to the defense of the English you know it’s down bad

[@hohetannen4703]

@@Colonel_RamRod no, idiot.

[@the_absurd_hero]

Remember, guys, the mom who got shot and paralyzed from the waist down was declared a “flight risk” 😂

[@AmstradExin]

Anyone with a catapult can fly.

[@eversor431]

And later in the show, Robyn unironically asks if she wants to go for a walk. Priceless.

[@tabaflip]

​@@eversor431 the mom should have answered "I can't walk! You tennis playing cockroaches for a brain dumb fuck!"

[@brockdavid]

“Let’s go for a walk” this is a line that actually happens in the show, near after her Mom comes home.

[@darthbaluuduh6598]

And, a little spoiler for Episode 3, Robyn asks her if she wants to go for a walk. This show is an (absolutely unintentional) amazingly hilarious comedy.

[@davidthomas3826]

Speaking as an English guy from Nottingham, can I complain about cultural appropriation? Robyn Hood is clearly stealing and corrupting an old English folk hero and legend

[@darkbum1510]

You're white though, right? So you're not *really* human, and can't complain about cultural appropriation. Don't forget that unblacks don't have any culture...

[@justforever96]

Well he specifically said that, but no, not really, I think that Robin Hood counts as a global property now. If you wanted to object you should have done it for one of the dozens of previous non-British remakes of the story.

[@aredjayc2858]

​@@justforever96I mean by this logic Thor isn't Norse

[@oldcrook510]

You're being replaced demographically so they feel it's appropriate to take your culture as well. When their numbers are high enough and you face discrimination like the whites in South Africa they'll change your history and declare all European inventions were African as well.

[@Redemptive_Neerdowell]

"Woke" people will not give a crap, as the tale came from the English, which is made of white people in their eyes, making this cultural appropriation okay to them. It's like when the "Woke" mob cancel a "person of color" for holding different opinions than them. They are only "caring and empathetic" when it comes to their own or when they think it will benefit them. I learned this the hard way after a shit attempt at a conversation on my end about the Israel War situation and how one of my used-to-be favorite creators was supporting palistine and only sending support to palistine civilians, and not the civilians of both sides. I was mildly harrased and insulted to fully cussed out by people in the replies, including said creator, who wrote a book about how evil I was for not understanding their superior collective thought process. They have millions of followers, both on KZbin and Twitch, and are in their mid to late twenties whilst I am not even out of high school, and I have a few mental ailments that make many things more difficult than I would like them to be.

[@TheREALSimagination]

If the audience is racist for not liking a bad show regardless of its diverse cast, Director X is all kinds of phobic for ignoring legit criticism from both men, women, any race, sexual orientation and gender.

[@Colonel_RamRod]

And being more wascist than he accuses others of being. He’s reinforced negative stereotypes about the black community. And thinks it’s literary genius.

[@chadthunderstroke]

The actress playing the evil top cop is at least committed to her role 100% Respect!

[@the_absurd_hero]

She’s also really pretty, but the make-up/costume department did everything in its power to dress her down. It’s a real crime what they did to her

[@GarrettLoganGriffin]

@@the_absurd_heroYeah she’s gorgeous. But they duded her up real bad and it’s hard to tell.

[@IncineraSean]

It makes me chuckle that they tactically cast a pale redhead, just to make sure you notice that she is White and absolutely White and no other race than White, becuase only White people are evil and you need to be of no doubt that evil is White. Also that not White brown token cop wasn't the one kicked by her and humiliated.

[@justwonder1404]

From the fragments I've seen, it looks like she knows exactly what she's in and is just trying to have her fun, bless her.

[@nolifegaming8685]

So committed that she is only able to shin kick one of her officers to send him flying across the room.

[@noirlavender6409]

I commented this before, but I'll say it again: I don't understand why this isn't being bashed by everyone for being racist. Because of course the black girl doesn't understand stealing is bad. Of course she's a college drop out, her father who's presumably also of color is absent, AND a bad influence to booth. She's so promiscuous so happy-go-open-legs that her sister(or some girl I don't remember) naming a bunch of guys and bashing her a bit with it, she empties the condom jar fast and forgets to refill it as evidenced by her mom having to refill it for her, so she's also completely uninterested in being responsible for her own pleasures, I'm surprised the mc's aren't being depicted as professional weed incinerators and substance addicts too.

[@AshCosgrove]

If you told me this show was written by Uncle Ruckus (a self-hating black man) from The Boondocks, I'd probably believe you.

[@MarvinPowell1]

@@AshCosgrove Julien Christian Lutz bein a sheltered, privileged, wanna-be "hood" light-skin Toronto rich kid who's so desperate to be oppressed, he renamed himself after Malcolm X, it basically was. When you're this out of touch with reality, all you can do is mimic clichés and stereotypes.

[@nocturne2029]

Probably because Director X over here thinks these are all great qualities

[@theabhorrentchef7226]

Professional weed incinerators 🤣🤣🤣

[@Quandry1]

Most of the diversity virtue signaling is racist. But they could never admit to that. Much of it tends to be worse and less thought out than what they are trying to claim it is standing against. Just go listen to their claims about Affirmative action sometime and the reasons that why things like lower test score limits are needed for them, which most tend to boil down to "they just aren't capable of being smart enough to reach the higher score!" or "Most of them aren't capable or smart enough to meet the requirements for that job normally!"

[@Erowid13]

i love that even in their wildest fantasies the father never sticks around lmao.

[@shironeko5183]

x)

[@Gus88859]

Makes you question, can you blame the dad???

[@TheBestEverEverEver]

“It’s because the white peoples intentionally created a culture that nurtures bad behavior! It’s all the whites fault NOT OURS!!! NEVER OURS!!!”

[@nklin6]

i like how the fake reviews arent even smart enough to give it a 7 or an 8 out of 10 they all have to give it 10/10 and say its the greatest show ever made

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

This guy is like a better-spoken, sober version of the Drinker.

[@lmahu6627]

Northern Irish, too, as opposed to Scottish.

[@lachlanfallon5949]

We need the critical drinker and despot to collaborate

[@nettietrees7238]

Celt clan

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

@@lachlanfallon5949 They've been on Open Bar together (in fact, that's how I discovered the Despot). I forgot which one, however.

[@jamesblakey7672]

They're both awesome!

[@animelytical8354]

"Permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere". The Thanos audio was perfect. What an insane thing for a company the size of Apple to record and publish

[@ProtestantSamurai53]

To me the most outrageous thing about is what they did with Friar Tuck. Yeah some renditions of his character was quirky, but he was a Man of God who kind and generous and assures that the Merry Men were in the right. This Tuck made me physically ill to watch .

[@IncineraSean]

No, the outrageous thing is he has been afronized.

[@CloudWalkBeta]

It annoys me more that they didn't make his choice of music SOUL but instead made it Jazz? XD

[@cozypilgrim8530]

You put more thought into the character than Director X did.

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

I didn’t even register him as Friar Tuck because the characterization and race swap is so bad.

[@janette2422]

same; they took out ALL the hardcore morality (especially holy abstinence of the real Robin and Marian) OUT COMPLETELY.

[@AshCosgrove]

Really breaking those stereotypes having the black characters committing crime from minute one.

[@gusfring6887]

Also promoting the black people are poor and live in the hood stereotype

[@IncineraSean]

At least it is true to form. The disgraceful thing is the racial bastardization of White characters.

[@paulvontarsus729]

To be fair that big titty blonde was criminal with those huge unlicensed funbags, she's called Mercedes Blanche by the way

[@noylj1]

I remember blacks complaining about the stupidity of so many black roles. So now, many meritless black or other people of color (which is just another way of calling yourself a colored person) have been hired and they are casting blacks in so many stupid roles (like from '30s and'40s) or as thief's, thugs, drug lords, prostitutes, etc. Do they ever think to just make them normal human beings?

[@Ezio999Auditore]

Stereotypes? You ever check the FBI stats lil guy?

[@PeterMasalski93]

I remember my black transgender grandpa telling me, I don't care what they tell you in school, crusaders were trans.

[@rapz85]

This show isn't the drama we want... It's the comedy we need.

[@MAGAMAN]

Nobody needs this show. Nobody.

[@rapz85]

​@@MAGAMAN How else am I going to better understand the injustices of the world if I don't give due credit to the pioneers working to shape a better tomorrow?

[@emilyadams3228]

​@@MAGAMANFilm students need it. Every minute is 100 college credits in How Not To Make A Movie.

[@majdo007]

He makes these reviews so long so we actually feel what he feels even though we will never see these shows. A true despot with so fierce paer.

[@PelemusMcSoy]

And yet somehow more benevolent and desirable than the actual show.

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

It's also because he has a point to make and wants to make it as clear as possible. That's part of the problem with other videos that tackle the same thing, they are too short with many people making very brief and often poorly explained points. Some times you need an hour to get the point across.

[@marbellaotaiza801]

*pyre. The PYRE of The Despot shall never diminish!

[@puddintaim261]

A noble service to suffer the poison so others can enjoy the hilarity.

[@JB-ti7bl]

These break downs are so much better than the source material. What will we do when the Despot and his content are bought out by some mega-corporation, like Norm McDonald. Suddenly one day, all Norm's content was gone...

[@daveyjones8969]

I should point out that the bail system doesn't even work like that in Canada, it's recognizance based one. Basically, you don't need to put up the money to be released, but someone bailing you out is responsible for your behavior and will have to pay if they don't report you violating conditions. You can even be released on your own recognizance, basically walking out on your own word.

[@wht-rabt-obj]

I laughed out loud at the flight risk thing. I literally spot my tea laughing. A middle aged woman, paralyzed, handcuffed to a hospital bed, with life long roots in the area and absolutely zero funds to go anywhere, is a flight risk. 😂

[@marbellaotaiza801]

Not only she has roots in the area, she's actively working to prevent folk from being uprooted, because reasons but yeah, she's actively trying to stay in the place. Man this writing's shit...

[@noylj1]

Then Robyn asks if she would like to go for a walk... Great writing

[@medicinemanboxing3222]

😂🤣 yeah but you just ain’t know bruhhhhhhh!! Dey know dat dis skrong black queen be havin magic in her blood from da melanin!! She coulda just broke dem cuffs and flew outta there wiff her melanin magic, and dese crackas be knowin dat, so dey put some evil cuffs on her dat been made out of logic and intelligence and morals…so she had become powerless against dem devils. Jealous ass crackas and their values and laws…Dey be lucky Bruh!!!

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

They suspected she’d crawl away to Africa.

[@marbellaotaiza801]

@@chazzitz-wh4ly *swim 🤭

[@revolutionaryhamburger]

Director X. You sure can feel his hate here. This had to be government funded because nothing this horribly racist could be put out by a commercial enterprise without somebody in a responsible position saying something.

[@APsychicMonkey]

Disney: Am I joke to you? 😢

[@HappyCamperRealOne]

corporate commercial enterprises: YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER

[@Wanda711]

If it's Canadian-made, it goes without saying that a LOT of government funding went into this.

[@IncineraSean]

The hate for Whitey is real, hence this garbage. Believe it.

[@sovietunion7643]

@@APsychicMonkey government beurcracy and private corporations competing on who can make the most dogshit piece of media this century 💀

[@suenzhong7891]

'Angry nerd community' yes I am sure legends/mythology and historical literature scholars and lovers appreciate being called angry nerds lmao

[@Colonel_RamRod]

He’s just butthurt everyone saw through his “wascism” excuse and saw the crappy movie for what it truly is.

[@wolfbane7497]

Also I want to throw out another historical fact of why Robin Hood's thievery was so brilliant. You see when you had to pay taxes to your Noble Lord they had to write you a receipt nowadays. A receipt is just a bill of sale so that you can exchange it for your money back after you pay for goods and services. Some Goods can be returned with the receipt but back in the old olden days. You see when the debt collectors came around to collect your taxes they had to write you a receipt. But these receipts were not only just a piece of paper but had written signature. By the debt collector and a wax seal of the king Lord or Baron of that area. In debt collectors would actually attend auctions for contract from these Noble Lords and even the king. To collect the taxes but you actually did pay your taxes on time. Even though they were outrageous and crazy it's proof that you did pay your taxes and due to the king. Or the Lord of that area but here's the thing you get some guy like Robin Hood who robs the tax collectors and the corrupt Nobles. And he gives that money back to the people you probably think it was stopping them from just you know taking that money back. Well the receipt you see if you had this receipt proof that you paid your taxes you didn't have to pay again until next year. or ever how long it takes for your debt collector to come and collect your taxes. So legally if these corrupt Nobles wanted to just take their money again they can actually take them to court and they had proof and the King's seal which means if they tried it that. Means that you're calling the question and calling the king a thief.

[@ARStudios2000]

That's absurdly funny and brilliant

[@wolfbane7497]

@@ARStudios2000 yeah that's why Robin Hood schemed worked out so well is because the Nobles couldn't take back the money by force. Because they did pay the taxes they have the receipt they have the proof that they paid the taxes. If a bunch of nobles just went around to The Peasants again to text them and collect the taxes again. You're basically calling Richard a thief and Richard the lionheart was away at the moment during Robin Hood shenanigans. On Crusade but if he heard about this at a bunch of peasants who did pay their taxes and had receipts for them. If he heard that his son was being as corrupt as he was he would have immediately dropped everything and come back to settle this out because you have a peasant revolt on your hands. The reason why the lynchpin of why there was so much corruption is because Richard was away his son was doing all of this

[@TheHimbeerjoghurt]

It's written a bit confusing but did I get it right that the people got a tax receipt with the king's sigil that proved that they already paid the taxes. So when Robin Hood steals from the tax collectors and gives it back the tax collectors can't collect again since they already paid and collecting again would mean to accuse the king of lying since it's his sigil?

[@IncineraSean]

Interesting, but your way of conveying information and writing paragraphs is strange and disjunctive. You might want to learn how to use commas, and not fulls stops where they are not required because it reads like some AI bot.

[@Thee-_-Outlier]

It's adorable how idealistic humans are regarding their systems. Everything is a master plan and/or idealic on paper. At the end of the day, I promise the king got his money, regardless of the system in place to protect the subjects. After all a king puts receipts in place as a mechanism and can therefore ignore or dissolve the edict. The more likely reason a king would issue a receipt is to prevent scammers from collecting taxes because that removes money from the kingdom at large. This way if you suspect a scam you have recourse and exposing that scam ben fits both king and subject because it's success would harm both king and subject

[@Smilephile]

The police shooting scene reminds me of the "Life is Strange 2" police shooting scene. If this is how these people really think these things happen it shows how insanely sheltered they are.

[@cowboyquebecanimations3068]

Or the very Guantanamo Bay-style cells and interrogation

[@alemswazzu]

I made it 10 minutes into that game. It's was already cringe garbage, no way I was going to subject myself to anymore trash.

[@BVking509]

His folktale knowledge is also bad, Richard the Lionheart was at war in the crusades, Prince John was the ruler in his absence

[@fredo1070]

The problem with this show is that it is set in Canada. They might as well set it in Staines starring Ali G.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

That would have been funnier.

[@DJGHOSH]

The difference is I'd actually watch that 🤣

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

I don’t understand. Is that a British reference? I think Director X was conflating Canadian and American laws and the respective criminal justice systems. Possibly he thinks they’re exactly the same.

[@craiglittle1437]

Aiiigh

[@kingleech16]

Stop. Giving. Them. Ideas.

[@jaredbezes7806]

36:12 this part is actually bananas. Not one judge in America will qualify a shot person in a wheelchair, days out of the hospital as a “flight risk”. That term actually qualifies when the defendant has skipped bail multiple times, or has simply not shown up to court, or is an immigrant.

[@AleenaTourtillott]

Yeah, every single sentence in that scene was ridiculous and not even a little bit how the courts work. If she was deemed a flight risk she would be DENIED bail, not given a higher one. Bail is not meant to keep people in jail, it’s to discourage any further criminal activity or missing court dates. If someone is unable to afford bail it will generally be lowered until they can. The proposed sentence is ridiculous, the review didn’t mention what her charges were (I don’t see how it could be anything more than trespassing) or if she had a record of any kind. I know the show is probably intending for the implication to be that the main villain is using his money and influence to politically pressure the DA/courts but that just makes it even more ridiculous and badly written. A more realistic reaction to the situation would be the main going to the press because a judge deeming a paralyzed poor woman who’s lived in town her whole life a flight risk and trying to send her to prison for a protesting is very obviously corrupt. You expect me to believe the villain thinks the best way for the whole story to blow over or get her out of the headlines is for the judge to make a bail ruling like that, and offer her a plea deal for more time than a street level heroin dealer would get, all for a charge that would normally just be a small fine?

[@camerongriffiths8875]

The “cleopatra was black” woman should of spent more time in school than listening to her grandmother

[@jimbobeire]

It's "should've" as in " should _have_ " not "should _of_ " . Other than that, your comment is correct.

[@danielpatterson9599]

As a Canadian, this makes me sick. Also, in Canada you don't pay to secure bail. Bail is always free. You only pay if you breach your bail.

[@JCDenton3]

That is how bail works in the US too, but you buy a bail bond for a fraction of the bail amount and you pay nothing if you don't flee.

[@unimpartialobserver]

@@JCDenton3 Yep, typically 10% of the amount. If you skip town, the bondsman will just send a bounty hunter after you, who will physically manhandle you into the courtroom.

[@VictimPoliticized]

Well done, Despot. Many of their superhero stories had been morphing into this for years now. Where the "hero" spends more time fighting the police than criminals, and every villain is just some caricature of the right.

[@RobotsEverywhereVideos]

I'm glad that the media isn't propagating the "police are there for your protection" memeplex anymore. Police certainly CAN be that, but it is not being that.

[@IchCharacter]

That could reasonably work... in China. If you look at most of the people killed that were followed by riots, they turned out to be pretty terrible, from Kyle Rittenhouse "victims" to George Floyd. You get ~500 fatal police encounters yearly in the US, but they almost exclusively pick out the worst examples. It's like they're trying to make a parody of their own supposed cause, picking out the abusive drug addicts and convicted sex offenders to present their "martyrs" to the public.

[@Ennergyiezs]

robbing in the hood: netflix edition

[@aliciaarden2019]

My sincerest condolences to Despot for tolerating all THESE garbage just so we don't have to. You are a legend, man 💪💪💪

[@canibezeroun1988]

What you say about the projects is spot on. Everyone when I was growing up hated them. The residents hated all the crime and how it was impossible to enforce laws there due to ambushes. My dad grew up in one and despite the fact he lived there before crack came to his city, he was happy they tore them down.

[@lobo2k]

I don't think anything else has ever made me more ashamed to be Canadian. Oh wait, Trudeau... Ok, after Trudeau.

[@KaizonArkin]

Poor iPhone Karen for having to say those "lyrics". Even she deserves better than that, Despot. For shame.

[@matthewtaylor8094]

The idea that someone in Canada would be bailed out like that is ridiculous anyway as virtually everybody is released almost immediately, even violent offenders. There are offenders in Vancouver with hundreds of pending charges and the police are still forced to release them. The idea that things would work this way is ridiculous here.

[@IncineraSean]

The race card is the ultimate card. Black privilege.

[@sovietunion7643]

these types of people don't live in the real world they only see the idealized uptopian view they have

[@zawarudo1041]

thats why many of the Canadians suburbs are becoming impossible to live in, because all of those drug addicted offenders (thank you trudea for making whole communities intoxicated because of your idiotic and dangerous "safe supply" policies) are freed immediately after committing offence

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Canada has a weird relationship with criminals. It’s like they want to destroy the country one crime at a time.

[@Lord_Oda_Nobunaga]

This follows a recent trend of remaking old media and replacing the protag with a female girl boss. They also did girl Kung Fu and girl Zorro. They follow the exact same formula. Girl hero who is chosen has a male simp friend that she ignores, as well as a chad that simps for her. Also she may or may not be bisexual. I've seen the other two shows they were also quite bad and used a lot of cliches, mostly woman and social justice tropes.

[@uninhibition31]

This channel never ceases to make me laugh at the absurdity of modern day politics/culture.

[@xthe_nojx5820]

Robyn Hood is more a parody of the source material than Mel Brooks Robin Hood: Men in Tights ever was. Which is, should you be unaware, an _actual_ parody film. Except it was done intentionally.

[@chaiam]

Not bad but still lacks the genius of Maid Marion and her Merry Men

[@Dommie222]

Mel Brooks movie is the parody; this one is just a joke.

[@snowangelnc]

9:30 "It's being rating bombed. Why would someone do that? It has to fake because why would somebody ever write a legitimate review for anything that they don't absolutely love? I was always taught, if you can't lavish praise then don't say anything at all. No wait, scratch that. If you can't lavish praise, do it anyway or else you're a racist."

[@lurkyb0i602]

One of my favourite moments from the show was when one of the characters was telling the top cop lady that she didn’t have the right to do what she was doing, so she says that she has a warrant. I bet the intended reaction was “she can’t do that” but the thing is, her actions are completely justified.

[@TikkyNoSurname]

Did you make that up is that a real thing in the show? I'm a bit stunned.

[@thiagomuaythaiboxe21]

The woke hivemind has literally become a parody of itself at this point

[@kurtwk]

I can’t get enough of your “ am I right boys? HAHAHA “ …juxtaposed with your articulate and mostly monotone type of narration. You don’t overuse the opportunity to say it , maybe once or twice per video , but when you DO , I can’t help but to laugh, no matter how many times I watch the same vid.

[@billymakale1338]

"Woman with large breasts: a woman with large breasts". That killed me man😂

[@stevesamuals2651]

Gotta love how people think you can modernize the story of robin hood when the story involves a cruel king taxing the poor for his own game. When in this, a guy who wants to improve the neighborhood he owns by remodeling the one poorly kept area, and uphold the law from the hooded glowsticks who steal commercial property

[@grumpysorc3744]

As an IMDB user said "I've seen "adult videos" with better scripts, production, plot and acting than this".

[@katsu1455]

Absolutely lost it at "Robyn Raceswapsley"

[@hamsterhamstermann1907]

Another story that originally people invented to strive for the best in Mankind (Like bravery even in the eyes of tyranny, doing things because they are right and not for the purpose to gain something from that, or true companienship and meaningful friends) gets butchered for political ideology

[@kareeminyourdream]

The fact that movie makers today need to take an already existing successful project and force their narrative on it is proof that nobody is interested in watching their nonsense and they know it... Hence the need to force it down everyone's throat through characters we all grew up loving

[@absolutelydegenerate1900]

I think you should have watched episode 3, Lionheart is there and he’s basically George Floyd with how they worship the guy. Big black guy with a ‘mane’ of braids or dreads I can’t remember. The evil white guy is the prince who is sending out the ‘tax collectors’

[@nolanotur-darling4087]

l had no idea about this show but I would like to extend my sincerest apologies on behalf of all Canadians for unleashing this seemingly mediocre swill onto the world. Excellent video and commentary.

[@GarrettLoganGriffin]

Just like a Canadian to apologize🤣❤️

[@IncineraSean]

The apology isn't yours, the name of the director should easily give that away.

[@Xbalanque84]

​@@IncineraSean You live under a banana republic headed by actual Nazi sympathizers and the unelected bastard child of Fidel Castro. *You have too little control of the situation to ever bear the blame for this crime against our species.*

[@logicplague]

@@GarrettLoganGriffin "You see, us Canadians really only have two modes: Incredibly apologetic, and walking genocide. Like a frigid little Jekyll and Hyde." - Habitual Line-Crosser

[@TheRealBillix]

Mediocre is pretty damn generous

[@davidallen3158]

I absolutely hate that they desecrate the Army uniform. You don’t button the top button during normal wear.

[@MSgt5J071]

I heard somewhere that they have to deviate from the military uniform in some way so they can legally use it. Pretty pathetic, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's true...

[@jpenir]

It's almost like this show was created in a woke lab using only the finest and most cutting edge woke ingredients

[@SymphoniaFly]

Almost?

[@alexmuenster2102]

>>show was created in a woke lab

[@user-unknown1705]

@@SymphoniaFly velma exist

[@irishbob26]

It's like a live action Velma. I'm so glad Despot watched this so I don't have to. You doing God's work there Despot.

[@k45207]

1:10 I love when they have to get super specific just to say “first African America female too.. “ so cringe

[@medicinemanboxing3222]

I’ll never get over the visual of Wakandans beating their chest while wearing grass skirts, while also flying space craft and building sky scrapers 😂🤣 my goodness, ignorance truly must be bliss.

[@Ramsey276one]

Afro Futurism is a hell of a drug! XD

[@medicinemanboxing3222]

@@Ramsey276one 😂 I just want us all to be logical, respectful to each other, and honest 🤣 then we might actually be able to fly some spacecraft around and wear whatever we want 😝

[@Ramsey276one]

@@medicinemanboxing3222 Right!

[@kinagrill]

It could make more sense if it was 'other planet, unique culture build up there from scarcity early on'. But nah we have super-hyper-tech country in africa that likes to go zulu-warrior look for... reasons.

[@Ramsey276one]

@@kinagrill if only it was a pretense... I have a WIP were a stranger is held up by I.C.E. because he was wandering around a remote ranch wearing ONLY A HAT, SHOES AND CUFFS. He later managed to identify himself as a "neonomad" from a world with magic, after... Acquiring the local language. He later managed to cast the spell that completes his look, AKA you see clothes but he's not wearing any. Surveillance cameras and scanners are not fooled, though. The fact that those movies only managed to give us Armored Rhinos and Literal Wall Of Men is sad...

[@LoneWolf-rc4go]

The most depressing thing is that the creative team had no understanding of what Robin Hood is.

[@MrAntiKnowledge]

A well established white male character reinvented as a queer black woman?! How original! I can't believe nobody thought about this before.

[@reddeaddude2187]

Finally, a strong, urban, bisexual and independent black woman has once again appropriated my culture. As a heterosexual, white man (what's typically associated with the role of Robin Hood) I can finally "see a reflection of myself." So brave.

[@romanz9022]

Stunning and brave

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

It wasn’t made for me.

[@deathdog1392]

I work security for a real Housing Project in an East Coast City. Let me tell you, it it the furthest thing from a collective, law abiding, Utopia. Show was clearly written by people who've never been to a project.

[@sovietunion7643]

there is a reason sin city had 'the projects' basically be a wild jungle of danger

[@garymcderp1146]

Someone gave this dude a lot of money to create this abomination. Imagine how many talented unknown filmmakers could’ve told their stories if the budget for this abysmal show was instead split amongst them? But the church of DEI says that pretentious “oppressed” talentless wannabe “victims” should have absurd amounts of money thrown at them to please the gods of DEI and Saint Equity. Otherwise it’s racisms… or something.

[@dimetime35c]

Fun fact most of the stories get the real story wrong. Robin hood was originally about hunting. It wasn't about stealing money, it was about hunting the kings animals and giving the meat to the poor.

[@ALE199-ita]

That actually makes more sense considering the period but the money angle still follows the spirit in theory of the story

[@heysomeone0310]

No way? Seriously? That is fascinating

[@dimetime35c]

@@heysomeone0310 yeah, in old England all animals are considered property of the king or queen. In olden times the penalty for hunting the kings animals was death. Robin Hood would kill the animals then give the meat to the poor. That's why he's always depicted as an expert archer and outdoorsman.

[@CeroAshura]

​@@dimetime35cnot just Olden times. Me and my buddy got reprimanded in Germany for hunting an animal that belonged to lord or some such title of the region. We didn't realize we had trekked outside the legal hunting grounds.

[@tahlia__nerds_out]

15:44 according to the roles of medieval society as expressed by the old tale Piers the Plowsman, there was supposed to be those who fight (i.e. defend country the average person and the religious), those who pray, and those who work. These social roles were strictly defined and everyone was expected to perform the duty that their place in the social hierarchy demanded. In the most iterations of Robin Hood, once King Richard disappears, only those who work are really performing their duties well. You’d have a parish priest or friar here or there who was still performing their societal duties, but most of the rest of “those who pray” and “those who fight” were instead seeking to enrich themselves off the backs of “those who work”, without performing their own societal duties. Robin, rather than being a subversive revolutionary, was seeking to reestablish the proper medieval social order, where everyone performed their expected roles… and, most notably, that “those who fight” would be forced to stop stealing from “those who work”. And by returning the money to the poor, he was returning that which was stolen from them by corrupt officials, not merely saying “this person is too rich; time to distribute the wealth, regardless as to how aforementioned wealth was obtained”. Robin desired to return to the proper social order where nobles like him would protect “those who work” as God intended, rather than oppressing them. Without understanding the values of the medieval society that created Robin, Director X has greatly misunderstood and misrepresented the character of Robin Hood.

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

Robin Hood is better represented through the 1973 Disney animated film than this instantly dated 2023 show is ever hoping to try

[@georgeray1906]

​@@ThomasmemoryscentralHeck Men in Tights is better than this abomination.

[@xFlareLeon]

@@Thomasmemoryscentral The best and most complete representation of Robin Hood and all he fights for is from the Errol Flynn classic "The Adventures of Robin Hood". It's the least truncated version that explains the most and doesn't simply dumb it down to "rich people/Prince John bad, Robin take munny to give to poor, sheriff big mad".

[@kongvinter33]

"we gonna do the fleshy fleshy" has to be the most vile lyrics Ive heard. thats shit even when it comes to rap music.

[@SuperFitzieZX]

The condom jar is the best actor in the show

[@eliseosterbrink8000]

I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about the importance of appropriate housing and the impact that the beauty of one's surroundings has on the way they behave. This is important to me because of my background in architecture and the direction I'm seeing the architecture world barrel its way down in real time. I want to stop us from reaching the nightmarish disaster that awaits us at the bottom of the dark, decrepit pit of narcissistic condescension that plagues both the academic and professional worlds of architecture. The first thing I'd like to bring up is that the tight packing of people in cities is bad, for a few reasons. The first is that people don't like being shoved directly on top of each other. The vast majority of people need their isolated alone time, which you absolutely cannot get in dense cities. You're either hearing, seeing, or both all of the people that live around you 24/7. You can't look out what I can almost guarantee is your single, small window and not see other people. The only alternative you have is to look at one of your three blank walls, which will drive you insane after enough time. We saw that happen during lockdowns. You can't prevent the people around you from making noise, and the vast majority of public housing is built with shitty materials that do very little to stop the transmission of sound from unit to unit. So you're stuck in this pathetically tiny unit, constantly surrounded by reminders that you currently are not and never will be alone, in the worst way possible. The second problem with the density of cities is that it's legitimately unsustainable. I don't often care about buzzwords like sustainability since it's all a stupid scam, but the problems posed by cities are actually unsustainable in a way that no amount of legislation or other government control will be able to mitigate. Sewage is a huge problem that a lot of people don't think about or realize- it's surprisingly easy to handle the waste from a single family if you give them a digester and enough area to spread the digested waste over. You don't end up with massive outbreaks of disease and the waste can be put to use, or, at least, not treated with thousands of chemicals that we don't know the true effects of yet. In cities, however, the sheer density of people makes it impossible for this kind of approach to be taken. The only way to manage that amount of waste without causing epidemics is to use extremely harsh chemicals that end up creating additional waste and make their way into our water anyway. Food is another obvious problem. I don't care how much greenwashing you want to do for a city, you will never be able to grow enough of anything to sustain that many people with that much space. Every single exterior surface could be turned into some kind of planter and it wouldn't be close to enough to make sure that everyone is fed enough to not starve. They'd all die of malnourishment anyway because the kinds of things you can easily grow in that environment don't have a wide enough variety of nutrients. The next thing I'd like to talk about is how important beauty is. One of my favorite examples of beautification having a profound impact on people's behavior is the case of Le Plessis-Robinson in France. It's a suburb of Paris that used to be dominated by the shittiest of the shitty commie blocks. It was a crime-ridden, poor as fuck shithole that everyone in their right mind avoided. However, the mayor, Philippe Pemezec, launched a massive project to remodel and reinvigorate the area fairly recently. His focus was on a couple things: beautifying the city, ensuring that people became homeowners instead of tenants, and bringing the crime rate down. So he partnered with Marc & Nada Breitman, the architects that led the project. It replaced the horrible commie blocks with traditionally styled apartments, shopping areas, offices, and a whole host of other accommodations. The riverfront was turned into a beautiful park that is well-maintained. The city looks like something designed during Paris' architectural height, even though it was all built within the last 30 or so years. The former tenants of the commie blocks were offered to purchase their new units extremely cheaply so that they would actually own something that they could care about, something that would anchor them in the city and make them care about what happened around them. The crime rate plummeted, homeownership shot way up, the population has markedly increased (it had decreased since a couple years after the construction of the commie blocks, I believe), and there is an actual tourism industry because the city made itself into an enjoyable, safe destination. I get that there was a lot going on all at the same time during Le Plessis-Robinson's revival, but you can't discount the effect that making a place beautiful has on the attitude of its residents. Making things pretty makes people care about them. Making things pretty generates industry directly in the form of tourism, and indirectly in the form of people preferring to live in places that look nice that they wouldn't have chosen otherwise. What's incredibly depressing is that so few practicing architects and professors agree with either of those things. I've been explicitly told that beauty is worthless and not something that makes a project better, it's all about the artist's vision or some other pretentious bullshit. My current studio (building designing class) professor said that "people need to get comfortable with having less and less space" because he thinks that everyone should live in a city in ze pods eating ze boogs, even though he doesn't do that himself. As architecture students, we are taught to think of ourselves as almighty creators of the most perfect buildings ever that are completely infallible and the opinions of the common peasants don't matter at all. The only opinions you should care about are the ones from your fellow entitled, narcissistic architects whose tastes are all carefully molded into being the same concrete, glass, and steel bullshit that has made people profoundly miserable since the early 1900s. It's a disgusting attitude that I will not be taking with me into my professional life and I will always discourage my peers and future generations of architects from adopting. We are servants of the public. We are not "artists", our duties are intimately tied to the well-being of others. The choices we make have an undeniable effect on the people who see and use our buildings. People are never constantly forced to go to art exhibitions, but they can very well get locked into their homes for months on end. These constraints don't make us less "important", they make us accountable. To those architects that view themselves as almighty artists: fuck you. You have deteriorated our craft to meaningless garbage that is constantly mocked due to its poor understanding of what makes buildings great. You are why we have Seagram Building Eyesore #1740396 instead of beautiful, yet functional buildings that people find worth taking care of. You are why architecture is becoming increasingly disposable, and why so many new projects seem to get abandoned and demolished within 10 years of their construction. You are a disgrace. You don't deserve to practice. Get rid of your shitty "I can do everything better than everyone before me" attitude, or try that in another field. I'm sure physicists would love to have you around to constantly bitch about how Newton's laws are wrong and how your new laws are so much better and actually understand the feeling of the new millennium.

[@DespotofAntrim]

This was a great, informative comment. Thanks for taking the time to write it.

[@SatanicPizza-fo2ei]

A gem of a comment. Thank you

[@sovietunion7643]

i swear it goes back to marxism with the terrible architecture. the USSR had some of the ugliest mind numbing buildings that make even big city buildings in the US look pretty by comparison. communists have this view that everyone is shaped purely by circumstance and that human nature can be built into whatever the state/ideology needs so forgo things like any sense of beauty or spare space and put people into these terrible cramped condtions. due to immense urbanization the USSR had a huge drop in birthrate as people had nothing to believe in with no religion, and were living in dark depressing urban centers that were even worse than the USA's. the USSR collapsed under its own weight as the people had nothing to believe in and no beauty in life. now russia still reels from this birthrate collaspe and is well on its way to literally not exist as a country in the next few generations due to the birthrate and alcoholism rates being so dire. modern left in america sort of holds this view in pushing for urbanization even though its literally causing a huge mental health crisis as people live in high crime, ugly, polluted places and on top of that they are paying so much more money for their property due to big city pricing. Yet its of the view that people are easily controlled and bended that makes them push for this urbanization and bureaucratize everything in life not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but the social justice view that everyone is exactly the same and that men and women have no differences is a totalitarian's dream. if people are exactly alike then they are easily controlled and coered. if human nature is scuptible then all it takes is one charismatic person to change all human nature, and yet no matter how many times it just does not work because human nature isn't something you can brute force your way to change.

[@mammarihsan2716]

wow, thanks for taking ur time writing this. didnt realize that architecture had such profound impact in society and life as a whole.

[@Acacius1992]

Kind of ironic acting out against arrogance but still acting like knowing it all better. *Shrug* But you do you.

[@toaster9777]

Robin hood and little john walking through the forest, laughing back and forth with what the other had to say!

[@TheAyeAye1]

Being the worst show of 2023 is oddly kind of an accomplishment.

[@BrokenCornholio1537]

Personally, I think Velma was the worst show in 2023. This shit is just ramblings from a sleazeball that's so up his own ass, you'd have to get a pry bar to get him loose.

[@Jaseadavis2255]

Its competing with Velma and seems to be winning But this show made people laugh cuz it was so bad Velma made people worse

[@chaiam]

😂😂😂😂

[@GregJamesMusic]

2:00 It’s a little outside the realm of pop culture, but I’m DYING to hear Despot’s analysis/takedown of Elizabeth Holmes. I strongly suspect one of the reasons Theranos got as big as it did without being laughed out of the room was because too many people who should have known better REALLY wanted to believe Holmes was a Strong Independent Woman (TM), instead of the complete fraud she actually is.

[@anneoneal3865]

Absolutely! As I understand it, there were plenty of people who thought she was shady, but who was gonna blow the whistle on the "first female billionaire" without being accused of being a misogynistic bigot?

[@MarvinPowell1]

@GregJamesMusic Same thing with Charlie Javice, who's basically Amber Heard's long-lost little sister.

[@jamaalsineke2405]

Jesus your description is so savage I haven't even watched this but after this review I have no desire to look at this. As a black person this is actually more offensive than woke for me.....please never change how you review series/movies

[@tiosen]

Im so thankful for your duty, there are way too few people speaking the truth.

[@hausy]

As a Canadian, I ask the Despot to just overthrow our government, most Canadians would welcome it.

[@ryanlueth1510]

In the U.S. they will not only ask for a longer sentence if you fight the charges, they will add more charges. It is how our system works. If people didn't plead out and every person had their case heard by a jury, the system would completely fall apart. They can barely keep up, even with all the plea deals they do.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

It’s hilarious that they now have that same excuse every single time now when their awful show flop. “It was review bombed by trolls”, it’s their get out of jail free card.

[@REELWORKS12923]

If only the people who called prince of thieves the “woke Robin Hood” knew how bad it would get

[@solan7978]

I didn't think "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" was woke at all, aside from the infamous lie about the Crusades told in the movie.

[@REELWORKS12923]

⁠@@solan7978oh no, it’s definitely not, but at the time things like azeem not just being there to serve Robin with no question, Marion feeling sexual attraction to Robin instead of being the object of it, apparently counted as woke back then

[@bubz3t136]

@@solan7978 What was the lie?

[@solan7978]

@@bubz3t136 Robin said that his father refused to take part in the Crusades, that it was "folly to force men to our religion". This is a complete lie, as the Crusades were a defensive war against the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem and the Holy Lands.

[@irishbob26]

​@SergeantDuck69420 woke is a purely 2010 onwards term. Nobody considered anything woke back then the term didn't exist in that capacity.

[@nathanlong4801]

Mop Head’s your best name creation to date, man. Cracks me up every single time.

[@hoisin75]

long may they produce terrible shows, films and adverts...we wouldn't have your hilarious takes without them

[@Napping-dragon]

When somebody says authentically black what they mean is ghetto, there’s a difference I’m African-American, and I don’t act like anything I’ve seen in here. It’s so disgusting to see people say that.

[@justforever96]

Yeah, that really annoys me too. Like there is an accepted way you have to act and talk if you have black skin. Like that's not at all racist. And of course it just highlights the fact that almost everything they complain about and call "racism" isn't at all, its cultural conflict. It just happens that most of the people with the objectionable behavior have dark skin. But no thinking person blames the persons _race_ for that, they dislike the _culture_ which is by definition not "racist", whatever they insist. Ironic that no one sees mocking "white trash" culture as hating all white people, the culture they call "black" is for the most part just the black counterpart, it's lower class urban culture of the sort mostly found in black communities. And I think a person has every right to object to a lot of it. It's not healthy, and that they try to spread it and teach kids to emulate it and use those values "to be authentic" is terrible. A lot of "white" lower class culture isn't much better, listen to country music for long and you find that being an alcoholic is a laudable goal in life. But they at least also generally praise hard honest work, and mostly law abiding and decent behavior. Although I find users I less true than it used to be. And I wonder why?

[@seventeenseventythirteen7465]

Dawg the people that watch these kinds of videos religiously consistently call you a thug and say "13/50"... Unless of course you go right along with them and agree that "Yes, these blacks these days are all just stealing their fancy Jordans and shooting hos, not I though, I am well spoken and agree with everything the Conservative party says." If I were you and read half the comments here like I have... Jesus Christ I wasted my life... well, then I wouldn't be agreeing on anything these people agree with. Shit, I'd praise the show just to spite them even tho it's pretty shit in general. I'd rather like pandering trash that thinks it speaks for me than out and about lil' KKK members constantly bitching about black people existing on their TV screens all day.

[@treywfsmith]

~43:00 Why not sell the expensive drone for the bail money?

[@rockoorbe2002]

In real life they would sell it at a pawn shop so they can score weed and ice cold Colt .45s.

[@tvbuu]

why they keep doing this to us. GIVE BLACK FOLKS THEIR OWN SHOW NOT A FILL IN OR WOKE CAST FOR YOUR AGENDA.

[@bagon_head]

I'm so ashamed of my country. I'm sorry for this atrocity, everybody.

[@comrade7324]

Don't feel ashamed you and probably the majority of Canadians didn't want this.

[@Lava91point0]

I'm sick of hearing this new term they've come up with "review bombing" all it translates to is - the writers can't get ahead of audience scrutiny. If something is bad, it's bad.

[@Peak_Aussieman]

Maybe medial European settings, don't need to be updated for the *Modern Audience* ? That's why I'm dreading the HP TV show when it finally does come out. The absolute state of things when the setting gets changed from rural England to inner-city San Francisco. God help us all...

[@crispyandspicy6813]

Harry Potter and the Possession of Fentanyl.

[@Lonovavir]

The 1973 Disney film is more faithful to the source material and has Red Fox playing Robin Hood.

[@sovietunion7643]

or how the new snow white movie is going to be bastardized despite the legends

[@Peak_Aussieman]

@@sovietunion7643 That thing just invokes within me, the song "Safety Dance" which is in and of itself a more accurate retelling then whatever the hell they're going for. "We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, because your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, they're no friends of mine." See? Can't help it.