Teaching Lily Orchard About Nuance in Writing

Video Description

My first reaction video. I had to take my frustration out on Lily Orchard for her really bad takes on how writing works. Maybe I just don't "get" Lily's complaint but I know for absolute sure she doesn't get how writing works nor how characters and arcs work, either. Not sure if I'll use this particular style in the future. I'm experimenting. Edit: Some people in the comments have pointed out a few things. Like my list for Magneto’s atrocities was purely in Ultimate. Lily didn’t specify what continuity she was talking about, so I didn’t feel the need to be hyper specific either. But I recognize I probably should have in order to make my point clearer. Still, I tried to add things 616 Magneto has done as visual examples. Plus people have talked about the difficulty of talking about Magneto as a whole because he can be whatever the writer wants him to be. So I think as a whole Lily using “the comics” to justify why making First Class Magneto the way he is is bad actually is disingenuous. First Class is its own thing. ———————————— 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:25 Sympathetic Villains Video Summary 0:02:36 Start of Reaction - Tropes 0:05:18 Fandom Believes In Only One Story 0:05:45 Criticizing Execution vs Concept 0:06:08 Fandom Likes Trope 0:06:51 You Don't Like What You Like Actually 0:08:16 Straight To Jail Lily 0:08:47 Kingdom Hearts 0:10:18 Dark Road/Xehanort Spoilers 0:11:33 Spoiler End 0:12:19 Double Edged Sword 0:12:47 Sobstories Make You Not Evil 0:13:03 Magneto Mention 0:14:46 Abused Cannot Abuse 0:16:24 Abused Cannot Abuse 2 0:17:07 Shame On You For Being Against Terrorism 0:20:12 If You Disagree You're An Idiot 0:21:05 Movies Should Be Comic Sequels 0:21:39 Never Again 0:22:20 Death Noting Germans 0:23:55 Dishonest Quote Mining 0:25:55 "Problem" With Sympathetic Villains 0:26:48 RWBY's White Fang 0:29:31 Attacks Writers For Their Skin Colour 0:34:00 Equating Fictional Extremists with Real Protestors 0:35:15 Lily Loves Kuvira 0:35:45 Fictional Terrorists Are In The Right Because Real Activists 0:42:55 Victims of Abuse Should Murder Their Abusers 0:43:07 Priorities as a Writer 0:44:56 Death Robot Fallacy 0:45:09 What Are Clues? 0:46:13 White Guys Again 0:46:50 Moral Framework 0:47:05 Nuance With Protestors 0:49:22 Tropes Are Not Tropes Apparently 0:49:57 It's Good If I Like It 0:50:26 Workshop 0:51:49 The Real Villain 0:53:05 Third Act Twist 0:54:37 Don't Watch The Flintstones 0:54:48 The Only Way 0:55:15 Any Sensible Writer 0:57:23 Cannot Write Unless Believe Bad Thing 0:58:06 If You're Bad You're Basically German Man 0:58:25 Evil People Are Just Cartoon Villains 1:00:02 Boss Hate Tangent 1:00:53 Lily Doesn't Understand It's Not Broken 1:01:26 More Self Hate 1:01:59 Ignoring Other Countries Exist 1:02:54 Ending