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It’s Subjective: “Is ‘It’s Subjective Getting Worse?”

I just went back and watched all my old “It’s Subjective” episodes, and I noticed I got REEEEAAALLLY out of line of what I wanted the show to be about to begin with. And normally, I’d make the defense that “well, it’s evolved now, the course it’s made for itself is the one it should follow now”, but I don’t feel that way about this.

The title, and the concept itself, was more fit for the earlier episodes, specifically the first two (“Are Movies Getting Worse?” and “Are Scary Movies Scary”). Whenever I started doing the ramblecuts (coined by Curtis Lyon) I kind of lost focus, and tried to work hard on making it funny. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I ended up being so concerned with that, that it’s almost become a comedy show instead of an intelligent Entertainment-Review show. Not only that, but my editing has gotten lazy. The first two episodes were done in shorter amounts of time and with equal amounts of stress, but they just look and feel nicer. There are still some spots that make me cringe, but they’re a lot better.

That’s why I’m going to kind of relaunch the show. Do a “Season 2”. Reformat it so that it feels more professional, but retains the intelligent discussion format it had in it’s early days. I’m still gonna do the ramblecuts, I’m still gonna do comedy, but I just want it to be a more focused and balanced show. The low quality of recent episodes is really bothering me. Even though I still enjoyed my writing in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (even though it wasn’t very analytical, I liked the jokes), the way I executed it was poor. The quality of the editing and everything makes me cringe so bad. My delivery is even off. I messed up on that one. But the first season of a show is always the most experimental and rough, and those 12 episodes were just that; experimental and rough. I think I’ll be eliminating the “Top 10” episode format as well. I used it in order to cut corners so that I could do every other week really fast, but it’s done nothing but cause a decline. I might do one or two if I feel I need to, but probably not.

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I hope you guys will still enjoy the 18 episodes of Season 2 of It’s Subjective, and I’m going to be pouring my heart and soul into them, even if they don’t truly warrant that need.

I think I covered everything, but I’m not sure. I’ll just assumed I hit all the points I wanted to. Okay see ya.

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    Doug PrishpreedJan 29, 2014 at 7:48 pm

    Very good video.

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      Jordan WysongFeb 3, 2014 at 7:53 am

      thanks i gave it my all, and i played the classics

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