{"id":35284,"date":"2016-11-03T17:29:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T21:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=35284"},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T21:31:09","slug":"until-dawn-ep2-haunted-exposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=35284","title":{"rendered":"Until Dawn EP2: Haunted Exposition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AV9D4gsUjsw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AV9D4gsUjsw'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t know anything more than you do about where this story is going, I can&#8217;t offer much additional commentary. BUT! I can embrace some of the digressions that wouldn&#8217;t fit in the show. So let&#8217;s do that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>CinemaSins<\/h3>\n<p>Near the start of the episode, Rutskarn says, &#8220;Roll credits, DING!&#8221; If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with it, this is a reference to the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CinemaSins\">CinemaSins<\/a>. Host Jeremy narrates over clips of a movie, pointing out flaws and awarding &#8220;sins&#8221; for every mistake. There&#8217;s a little game show DING when a sin is flagged and there&#8217;s a running counter in the corner of the screen. Whenever a character does a <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TitleDrop\">title drop<\/a>, Jeremy will say &#8220;Roll credits!&#8221; and flag a sin.<\/p>\n<p>The only time I hear people reference CinemaSins is when they&#8217;re complaining about how terrible it is: Many of the sins are trivial. Or they&#8217;re misrepresented. Or they&#8217;re just common movie tropes. <\/p>\n<p>A hypothetical example: If someone in the movie hangs up the telephone without properly ending the call with the person on the other side, Jeremy might give a sin, even though ending calls without saying goodbye is common practice in film.<\/p>\n<p>All of the complaints about CinemaSins are valid, but I kind of like the show anyway. I watch it for those moments where Jeremy notices something I didn&#8217;t. Maybe he sees a plot hole or continuity error. Or maybe he just points out some interesting bit of scenery. Or maybe a funny expression on the face of one of the background characters. Or a jab at an actor. Whatever. I enjoy it whenever he sees something I didn&#8217;t. Sure, a lot of the &#8220;nitpicks&#8221; aren&#8217;t really flaws or problems. I think this arises from the fact that not all movies are equally sinful. If a movie has 2 interesting mistakes and everything else is fine, then what do you do? Not make the video? Make a 10-second video with only 2 sins? You could argue &#8220;yes&#8221;, but the culture and economics of YouTube creates a strong incentive to make lots of 5-minute videos. <\/p>\n<p>So I think the trivial nitpicks are an artifact of the format. If you&#8217;re Jeremy then you want to cover popular and recognizable movies that people care about, you want the show to last at least a couple of minutes, and you want a roughly even distribution of sins so you don&#8217;t jump from the first act to the third without saying anything about the parts in between. This naturally results in a bunch of throwaway sins.<\/p>\n<p>I like CinemaSins, but I also like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_qxgkOIsHUs\">CinemaSins is Wrong About Everything<\/a> for all the same reasons. 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