Mediocrity is HARD to Critique: One Piece Review
388Mediocrity is HARD to Critique: One Piece Live Action Review. This Netflix series is the greatest masterpiece ever made and a testament to the human spirit that will endure for decades... or it's a fun but flawed watch with a lot of issues that is currently basking in the glory of low expectations, you decide. A large trend I've noticed in the review space as of late, is that the mass audience leads the internet discussion much more than in the past. It used to be you would go to internet critics for interesting and risky thoughts, but now all film/tv critique has devolved into a game of parsing though trending media and finding ways to tie it back into popular political/social topics that you are either for or against.
Critics and broadcasters are free to do what they want, but I personally am bored of this approach, but it seems like an inexhaustible source of discussion for most people. I bring this up, because I've noticed this environment has created a very interesting phenomenon, where a typical mediocre show, like One Piece: Netflix Edition, suddenly takes on this massive significance because it's some kind of cultural bellwether or whatever. This is what media critique has become and lost in this endless food fight is the part of the review where people seriously analyze and compare the compositional elements of a show, which in time is much more important because social trends come and go, but the performance actually captured is what endures. On top of that, as a critic it is much easier and quicker to simply pick through media and then parrot back analysis that you know the audience will agree with. Tell the people what they want to hear.
So, annoyed by all this, I have decided to do my own review of One Piece Netflix to discuss the elements of the show that I think are important to talk about: the writing, the pacing, the production, the adaptation from source material, the Mugen-level costume design, the lifeless camerawork, the awkward blocking, the terrible child acting, and the stilted but potentially promising main cast. I also think it's important to remind viewers that just because I find something mediocre, doesn't mean I want it immediately cancelled and all of the people involved thrown in prison.
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00:00 Why It's Hard to do "Mid" Reviews
04:35 The Character Introductions are Needlessly Confusing
08:40 You Don't Need to ALWAYS Use Cold Opens
10:10 Don't Forget to Establish the Characters
12:00 The Production is MUGEN
13:30 Visual TONE MATTERS! It Ties Together the Story
15:20 Don't Just JUMP in Tone, Set it Up.
17:20 Actor Review: Luffy
18:20 Actor Review: Zoro
19:50 Actor Review: Sanji (Best Actor)
20:50 Actor Review: Nami (2nd Best)
21:46 Supporting Cast Review
23:45 Actor Blocking is a Problem, Grabby D. Luffy
25:20 The Camera Man is On Special-K
27:16 Anime RELIES on Visuals to Tell Story
28:45 Overall Thoughts
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