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* AdaptationExpansion: Discussed as [[TropesAreTools a bad thing]] regarding ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy. While she believes making [[Literature/TheHobbit the original book]] into a single film would've made it feel too rushed, the last-minute decision to make it a trilogy instead of a duology caused a lot of problems, including a lot of needless {{Padding}}. This includes the decision to introduce characters and lore from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' in an effort to market ''The Hobbit'' as a prequel trilogy, despite it having very little consequence and involvement to the main narrative of Bilbo and the dwarves.
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* InnocenceLost: A focal point of Lindsay's ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy is of people losing their sense of innocence through [[UnderminedByReality disillusionment resulting from real-life consequences]], citing ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' and {{Music/Kesha}} as other examples. This is paralleled through Lindsay's trip to New Zealand: she leaves hoping to reclaim part of her childhood innocence, but after realizing [[TroubledProduction the sheer scope of damage]] ''Film/TheHobbit'' resulted from as well as resulted in, she returns even more jaded than before.
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* InnocenceLost: A focal point of Lindsay's ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy is of people losing their sense of innocence through [[UnderminedByReality disillusionment in media resulting from real-life consequences]], citing ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' and {{Music/Kesha}} as other examples. This is paralleled through Lindsay's trip to New Zealand: she leaves hoping to reclaim part of her childhood innocence, innocence formed by ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', but after realizing [[TroubledProduction the sheer scope of damage]] ''Film/TheHobbit'' resulted from as well as resulted in, she returns even more jaded than before.
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** In general, if a movie she's discussing has a particularly funny or stupid line, Lindsay will be sure to reuse it repeatedly. Examples include:
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* InnocenceLost: A focal point of Lindsay's ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy is of people losing their sense of innocence through [[UnderminedByReality disillusionment resulting from real-life consequences]], citing ''Literature/GoSetAWatchman'' and {{Music/Kesha}} as other examples. This is paralleled through Lindsay's trip to New Zealand: she leaves hoping to reclaim part of her childhood innocence, but after realizing [[TroubledProduction the sheer scope of damage]] ''Film/TheHobbit'' resulted from as well as resulted in, she returns even more jaded than before.
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* InnocenceLost: A focal point of Lindsay's ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy is of people losing their sense of innocence through [[UnderminedByReality disillusionment resulting from real-life consequences]], citing ''Literature/GoSetAWatchman'' ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' and {{Music/Kesha}} as other examples. This is paralleled through Lindsay's trip to New Zealand: she leaves hoping to reclaim part of her childhood innocence, but after realizing [[TroubledProduction the sheer scope of damage]] ''Film/TheHobbit'' resulted from as well as resulted in, she returns even more jaded than before.
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* SciFiGhetto: In the "Genre" episode of ''The Whole Plate'', she makes her annoyance of this trope brief, but clear, citing films ''Film/{{Arrival}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/WallE''.
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* SciFiGhetto: SciFiGhetto[[invoked]]: In the "Genre" episode of ''The Whole Plate'', she makes her annoyance of this trope brief, but clear, citing films ''Film/{{Arrival}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/WallE''.
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* UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory: Not a fan. In Part 2 of her video series on film theory as explained with the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' films, she describes it as a "celebration of egomania", seeing it largely as an attempt to create an entire field of academia to justify the self-importance of a clique of {{Prima Donna Director}}s. She does admit, however, that it has some good points, most notably with [[SignatureStyle directors having certain key themes that show up throughout their bodies of work]], the idea that it's more important for a film to be interesting than just conventionally good, and with how its proponents led the way in trying to get film recognized as TrueArt.
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* UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory: Not a fan. In Part 2 of her video series on film theory as explained with the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' films, ''The Whole Plate'', she describes it as a "celebration of egomania", seeing it largely as an attempt to create an entire field of academia to justify the self-importance of a clique of {{Prima Donna Director}}s. She does admit, however, that it has some good points, most notably with [[SignatureStyle directors having certain key themes that show up throughout their bodies of work]], the idea that it's more important for a film to be interesting than just conventionally good, and with how its proponents led the way in trying to get film recognized as TrueArt.
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* InnocenceLost: A focal point of Lindsay's ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy is of people losing their sense of innocence. The plot of ''Book/GoSetaWatchman'', the abuse of {{Music/Kesha}}, and fun can often be problematic upon further inspection. This is paralleled through Lindsay's trip to New Zealand. Though she leaves hoping to reclaim part of her childhood innocence, she returns even less innocent than before.
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* InnocenceLost: A focal point of Lindsay's ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy is of people losing their sense of innocence. The plot of ''Book/GoSetaWatchman'', the abuse of {{Music/Kesha}}, innocence through [[UnderminedByReality disillusionment resulting from real-life consequences]], citing ''Literature/GoSetAWatchman'' and fun can often be problematic upon further inspection. {{Music/Kesha}} as other examples. This is paralleled through Lindsay's trip to New Zealand. Though Zealand: she leaves hoping to reclaim part of her childhood innocence, but after realizing [[TroubledProduction the sheer scope of damage]] ''Film/TheHobbit'' resulted from as well as resulted in, she returns even less innocent more jaded than before.
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* MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial: Lindsay's pretty annoyed by this, and has discussed it a few times:
** In part 5 of ''The Whole Plate'', she discusses how female Transformers are almost completely ignored in the Film/TransformersFilmSeries, mainly due to the writers thinking female-coded Transformers "require an explanation," [[DoubleStandard whereas male-coded robots don't]].
** Also discussed in "The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios" regarding Tauriel. Lindsay argues that Hollywood often feels the need to justify women in films simply for ''being'' women, "[[SarcasmMode or they might as well be men, am I right?]]", hence Tauriel being put in an inconsequential LoveTriangle.
** In part 5 of ''The Whole Plate'', she discusses how female Transformers are almost completely ignored in the Film/TransformersFilmSeries, mainly due to the writers thinking female-coded Transformers "require an explanation," [[DoubleStandard whereas male-coded robots don't]].
** Also discussed in "The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios" regarding Tauriel. Lindsay argues that Hollywood often feels the need to justify women in films simply for ''being'' women, "[[SarcasmMode or they might as well be men, am I right?]]", hence Tauriel being put in an inconsequential LoveTriangle.
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* CapitalismIsBad: Holds this view, especially in the third part of her [[Film/TheHobbit Hobbit]] trilogy, where she all but states that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
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* InnocenceLost: A focal point of Lindsay's ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy is of people losing their sense of innocence. The plot of ''Book/GoSetaWatchman'', the abuse of ''Music/Kesha'', and the labor disputess behind the Hobbit trilogy are all cited as examples of ways in which anything thought to be pure and fun can often be problematic upon further inspection. This is paralleled through Lindsay's trip to New Zealand. Though she leaves hoping to reclaim part of her childhood innocence, she returns even less innocent than before.
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* InnocenceLost: A focal point of Lindsay's ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy is of people losing their sense of innocence. The plot of ''Book/GoSetaWatchman'', the abuse of ''Music/Kesha'', and the labor disputess behind the Hobbit trilogy are all cited as examples of ways in which anything thought to be pure {{Music/Kesha}}, and fun can often be problematic upon further inspection. This is paralleled through Lindsay's trip to New Zealand. Though she leaves hoping to reclaim part of her childhood innocence, she returns even less innocent than before.
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** ''{{Transformers}}'' and ''Creator/MichaelBay''. [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/483460989921136640 She's got a love/hate]] relationship with him that goes between this, actual affection and BileFascination.
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** ''{{Transformers}}'' and ''Creator/MichaelBay''. [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/483460989921136640 com/thelindsayellis/status/483460989921136640p She's got a love/hate]] relationship with him that goes between this, actual affection and BileFascination.
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*SpaceJews: The phenomenon is analyzed in her video on ''Film/{{Bright}}''.
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* SexyShirtSwitch: In Lindsay, Elisa, [[Creator/AllisonPregler Lupa]], and WebVideo/{{Todd|In The Shadows}}'s vlog review of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Todd comments on how it's too hot to wear his hoodie and that he doesn't need to be wearing it because people will still know who he is. One jump cut later Lindsay is wearing it. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Then Lupa...then Elisa...]]
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* AccentuateTheNegative: {{Averted|Trope}}; even with films she pans or outright thrashes, Lindsay tends to point out some positives within them, even if basically to say "[[DamnedByFaintPraise there are elements to this movie that aren't the worst thing ever]]."
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** This term is briefly mentioned in ''The Whole Plate'' while talking about MaleGaze. In the academic Mulveyan sense, "FemaleGaze" as a term isn't really a thing, as even if one's to invert the normal trend and fetishize male bodies, it's still using the same film language and techniques male filmmakers used to film female bodies. Indeed, within that definition, much of ''[[Film/MagicMike Magic Mike XXL]]'' still falls within "Male Gaze."
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** This term is briefly mentioned in ''The Whole Plate'' while talking about MaleGaze. In the academic Mulveyan sense, "FemaleGaze" as a term isn't really a thing, as even if one's to invert the normal trend and fetishize male bodies, bodies as with the case of ''[[Film/MagicMike Magic Mike XXL]]'', it's still using the same film language and techniques male filmmakers used to film female bodies. Indeed, within that definition, much of ''[[Film/MagicMike Magic Mike XXL]]'' bodies, just substituting female bodies for male bodies, meaning it technically still falls within "Male Gaze."counts as male gaze.
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* RuleAbidingRebel: Her video on ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' sees her discussing the phenomenon of "bourgeois theatre", specifically the youth-oriented "we have been left behind by the system" musicals that have proliferated on Broadway since TheSixties. In her argument, while they purport to be countercultural and revolutionary, their values in practice tend towards validating the middle-class status quo and the views of their mostly BourgeoisBohemian audiences rather than challenging them. She segues from there into Augusto Boal's Marxist concept of the "theater of the oppressed", which argues that, barring a genuine revolution to break the dominance of the ruling class over access to media, the Rule-Abiding Rebels are the only members of the counterculture who can possibly get their works disseminated to a mainstream audience. In addition to ''RENT'', she also cites ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' as examples, though she comes down substantially harder on ''RENT'' because while the other two were set in and critiqued different times and cultures, thus allowed to be more honest of what they were, ''RENT'' it explicitly positions itself in direct opposition to the values of the culture it was produced in but [[{{Hypocrite}} fails to walk the walk]].
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* RuleAbidingRebel: Her video on ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' sees her discussing the phenomenon of "bourgeois theatre", specifically the youth-oriented "we have been left behind by the system" musicals that have proliferated on Broadway since TheSixties. In her argument, while they purport to be countercultural and revolutionary, their values in practice tend towards validating the middle-class status quo and the views of their mostly BourgeoisBohemian audiences rather than challenging them. She segues from there into Augusto Boal's Marxist concept of the "theater of the oppressed", which argues that, barring a genuine revolution to break the dominance of the ruling class over access to media, the Rule-Abiding Rebels are the only members of the counterculture who can possibly get their works disseminated to a mainstream audience. In addition to ''RENT'', she also cites ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' as examples, though she comes down substantially harder on ''RENT'' because while the other two were set in and critiqued different times and cultures, thus allowed to be more honest of what they were, ''RENT'' it explicitly positions itself in direct opposition to the values of the culture it was produced in but [[{{Hypocrite}} fails to walk the walk]].
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* TropesAreTools: A recurring theme of her videos is that many tropes and conventions are not inherently positive or negative, even if they are perceived as such. For example, she refers to cultural appropriation as, strictly speaking, being a neutral tool, not inherently good or bad. It can be used harmfully, but it isn't necessarily the case.
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* A two (really three)-part miniseries revolving around ''Film/TheHobbit'' film trilogy. Currently ongoing.
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* A two (really three)-part miniseries three-part duology [[note]]Facetiously billed as a two-parter, but at the end of the second episode Lindsay revealed there was going to be a third episode, referred to as episode "3 out of 2"[[/note]] revolving around ''Film/TheHobbit'' film trilogy. Currently ongoing.
Completed in April, 2018.
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* GenreRelaunch: The topic of "''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Dead Genres Tell No Tales", which discusses the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl the first film]] in regards to resurrecting the pirate movie, considered to be a "dead" genre, as well as the context and production issues that created it.
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* GenreRelaunch: The topic of "''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Dead Genres Tell No Tales", which discusses the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl the first film]] in regards to resurrecting the pirate movie, considered to be a "dead" genre, as well as the context and production issues that created it.
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* {{Edutainment}}: Lindsay's video essays often presented with a perfect balance of information and levity, making them informative, as well as entertaining in their own right.
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--->"I don't know what your reaction is when the topic or image of 9/11 is mentioned. It could be grief, it could be indifference, it could be a... conviction that jet fuel can't melt steel beams, and if you're... anything like me, blinding, white-hot rage that that phrase is even still a thing that people... take seriously..."
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* FemaleGaze: She has no qualms praising the perfect casting of Creator/ChrisEvans as [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Captain America]].
-->'''Peggy Carter''': Well, nobody's perfect.\\
'''Lindsay''': [[MrFanservice I beg to differ]].
-->'''Peggy Carter''': Well, nobody's perfect.\\
'''Lindsay''': [[MrFanservice I beg to differ]].
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** She has no qualms praising the perfect casting of Creator/ChrisEvans as [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Captain America]].
-->'''Peggy Carter''': --->'''Peggy Carter:''' Well, nobody's perfect.\\
'''Lindsay''': '''Lindsay:''' [[MrFanservice I beg to differ]].
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--> "[[AcceptableTargets [As a] culture, we kinda hate teenage girls]]. We hate their music ''(shows a Music/OneDirection music video)'', we hate their insipid backstabbing, we hate their vanity, we hate their selfie sticks, we hate their make-up, we hate their stupid books and the stupid sexy actors they made famous and their stupid sparkly vampires, and then we wonder why so many girls are eager to distance themselves from being objects of societal contempt."
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-->''Disclaimer: Yes, this anime is my trash, even though [[UnfortunateImplications it has Issues™]], but again: Theatre/PhantomOfTheOpera hurt/comfort fanfic. Stones. Glass houses.''
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---> '''Lindsay''': Megatron accidentally etching coordinates to the {{MacGuffin}} inside ''another'' {{MacGuffin}} I'll buy, a magical glowcube that's the progenitor for all the alien robots that turn into chimeras I'll buy, [[ArbitrarySkepticism but that one of them displays]] [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics female secondary sex characteristics]] [[PinkMeansFeminine and is pink]]? [[SarcasmMode Hmmm... I dunnoooooo, man... I'm going to have to absorb more of]] [[DoubleStandard Optimus' robo-pecs and enjoy]] [[RatedMForManly his deep, manly voice]] [[SarcasmMode while I smoke on this for a little while]].
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--->'''Lindsay''': The first film brings up issues of gender inequity and how men don't take women seriously because they are objects to them, [[{{Irony}} but then at the same time objectifies Mikaela to the point where for most viewers, she's impossible to take seriously]] [[BestKnownForTheFanservice because she's so impossibly beautiful, so impossibly dressed, so objectifyingly framed]]. Her impossibility is not in the text, but in the frame.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: She often sneaks in several interesting Google Searches in other tabs whenever she displays a website in a video.
** For her ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' video, when she first scrolls through the Website/{{Cracked}} article to illustrate her point on how pretty much everyone has said that Belle has Stockholm Syndrome, to the tab's left is "lumiere x cogsworth".
** For her videos on ''The Hobbit'', the first one has "am i sexually aroused" and "cosplay armor" accompanying her search results for Sauron/Melkior and the second one has "how strong is Thorin Oakenshield" and "i want thorin to hold me" with her displaying the Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn page for Thorin/Bilbo.
** For her ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' video, when she first scrolls through the Website/{{Cracked}} article to illustrate her point on how pretty much everyone has said that Belle has Stockholm Syndrome, to the tab's left is "lumiere x cogsworth".
** For her videos on ''The Hobbit'', the first one has "am i sexually aroused" and "cosplay armor" accompanying her search results for Sauron/Melkior and the second one has "how strong is Thorin Oakenshield" and "i want thorin to hold me" with her displaying the Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn page for Thorin/Bilbo.
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Lindsay Ellis is a WebOriginal producer on [=YouTube=], who currently specializes in making video essays surrounding film theory and academia. Initially gaining popularity as ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' on ''[[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]]'' in 2008, she departed in 2015, discontinuing the title, but continuing to produce content on Website/YouTube under her own name. She initially started with a SpiritualSuccessor series titled ''Loose Canon'', though she has since moved onto producing miscellaneous video essays.
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Lindsay Ellis is a WebOriginal producer on [=YouTube=], who currently specializes in making video essays surrounding film theory and academia. Initially gaining popularity as ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' on ''[[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]]'' Awesome]] in 2008, she departed in 2015, discontinuing the title, but continuing continues to produce content on Website/YouTube under her own name. She initially started with a SpiritualSuccessor series titled ''Loose Canon'', though she has since moved onto producing miscellaneous video essays.
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* ChekhovsGun: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLLGN7zv-3k She has a video explaining the concept as "Planting and Payoff"]], pulling examples from ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.
* ParentsAsPeople: She considers this a major theme of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', as well as the sub-theme of {{abusive|Parents}} [[ToughLove parenthood]].
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* SpiritualAdaptation[[invoked]]: She considers ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' to be an extended "stealth remake" of ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'', albeit a superior one due to it addressing several issues its predecessor had. "Pocahontas Was a Mistake, and Here's Why!" begins with an extended synopsis of effectively both movies, with their footage put side-by-side.
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* SpiritualAdaptation[[invoked]]: She considers ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' to be an extended "stealth remake" of ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'', albeit a superior one due to it addressing several issues its predecessor had. "Pocahontas Was a Mistake, and Here's Why!" begins with an extended synopsis of effectively both movies, with their footage put side-by-side. side-by-side to show the similarities.
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* ThreeActStructure: First discussed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KznZcK7ksf4 in her video]] on ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' to lay out the film's rigid adherence to the structure. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0QO7YuKKdI She did an additional, more thorough dive into the subject]] later on, also discussing its place in film theory and as [[TropesAreTools a tool.]]
* TroubledProduction[[invoked]]: Repeatedly mentioned in her miniseries on ''Film/TheHobbit'', most prominently discussed in its second part: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElPJr_tKkO4 The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios]]". It even features an interview with John Callen (who played Óin in all three films) providing a firsthand account of the increasing troubles it all went through.
* TroubledProduction[[invoked]]: Repeatedly mentioned in her miniseries on ''Film/TheHobbit'', most prominently discussed in its second part: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElPJr_tKkO4 The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios]]". It even features an interview with John Callen (who played Óin in all three films) providing a firsthand account of the increasing troubles it all went through.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: In “Wicked Witch Of The West” ''Loose Canon'', when it comes to ''Series/TinMan'', she just leans back in her chair and groans. And then when it comes to ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'', she immediately facepalms.
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** In "''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' Was a Mistake, and Here's Why!", she prefaces her discussion on cultural appropriation with an awkward, faltering smile and "RIP comments section."
** In “Wicked Witch Of The West” ''Loose Canon'', when it comes to ''Series/TinMan'', she just leans back in her chair and groans. And then when it comes to ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'', she immediately
** In "''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' Was a Mistake, and Here's Why!", she prefaces her discussion on cultural appropriation with an awkward, faltering smile and "RIP comments section."
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* SpiritualAdaptation: She considers ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' to be an extended "stealth remake" of ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'', albeit a superior one due to it addressing several issues its predecessor had. "Pocahontas Was a Mistake, and Here's Why!" begins with an extended synopsis of effectively both movies, with their footage put side-by-side.
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* SpiritualAdaptation: SpiritualAdaptation[[invoked]]: She considers ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' to be an extended "stealth remake" of ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'', albeit a superior one due to it addressing several issues its predecessor had. "Pocahontas Was a Mistake, and Here's Why!" begins with an extended synopsis of effectively both movies, with their footage put side-by-side.
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* GenreRelaunch: The topic of "''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Dead Genres Tell No Tales", which discusses the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl the first film]] in regards to resurrecting the pirate movie, considered to be a "dead" genre, as well as the context and production issues that created it.
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* OscarBait: She has a Mini-Canon video detailing the history behind it, as well as the consequences it resulted in.
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* OscarBait: She has a Mini-Canon video detailing the history behind it, as well as the consequences it resulted in. Her breakdown of ''Film/{{Bright}}'' also has a great deal of discussion on Oscar-bait, largely to put the film's own race-discussion into context.
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Her blog is [[http://namebrandlindsay.com here]], her {{Website/Tumblr}} is [[http://lindsayetumbls.tumblr.com/ here]], and her {{Website/Twitter}} is [[http://twitter.com/thelindsayellis here]].
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Her blog is [[http://namebrandlindsay.com here]], her official {{Website/Facebook}} is [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Nostalgia-Chick/167999883240474 here]], her {{Website/Tumblr}} is [[http://lindsayetumbls.tumblr.com/ here]], and her {{Website/Twitter}} is [[http://twitter.com/thelindsayellis here]].
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Her blog is [[http://namebrandlindsay.com here]], her {{Website/Tumblr}} is [[http://lindsayetumbls.tumblr.com/ here]], and her {{Website/Twitter}} is [[http://twitter.com/thelindsayellis here]].
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** 9/11 {{conspiracy theorist}}s. She even preemptively [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/761352657076383744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw disabled the comments]] for her ''Loose Canon'' video on 9/11, stating that it was entirely because she didn't want "truthers" clogging the comments section, for the sake of her own sanity and to stop herself from descending into a ClusterFBomb. In the actual video, Lindsay takes several jabs at 9/11 conspiracy theorists, and looks like [[TranquilFury she's struggling to contain her anger]] when she first mentions the subject.
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** 9/11 {{conspiracy theorist}}s. She even preemptively [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/761352657076383744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw disabled the comments]] for In her ''Loose Canon'' video on 9/11, stating that it was entirely because she didn't want "truthers" clogging the comments section, for the sake of her own sanity and to stop herself from descending into a ClusterFBomb. In the actual video, Lindsay takes several jabs at 9/11 conspiracy theorists, and looks like [[TranquilFury she's struggling to contain her anger]] when she first mentions the subject.
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** This term is briefly mentioned in ''The Whole Plate'' while talking about MaleGaze. In the academic Mulveyan sense, "FemaleGaze" as a term isn't really a thing, as even if one's to invert the normal trend and fetishize male bodies, it's still using the same film language and techniques male filmmakers used to film female bodies. Indeed, within that definition, much of ''[[Film/MagicMike Magic Mike XXL]]'' still falls within "Male Gaze."
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* GirlShowGhetto: Brought up in "Dear Stephenie Meyer" video, a look at the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series with the benefit of hindsight, noting that a lot of the bashing directed at the books and movies is based in this line of thinking.
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* GirlShowGhetto: GirlShowGhetto[[invoked]]: Brought up in "Dear Stephenie Meyer" video, a look at the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series with the benefit of hindsight, noting that a lot of the bashing directed at the books and movies is based in this line of thinking.
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->''"Critical studies is not here to shame you for what you like -- much as it apparently feels that way to some people -- but rather to help give us the tools to question the media we consume and what it says about the culture that created it."''
-->-- Lindsay in "The Whole Plate: The Problem of Lady Bots"
Lindsay Ellis is a WebOriginal producer on [=YouTube=], who currently specializes in making video essays surrounding film theory and academia. Initially gaining popularity as ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' on ''[[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]]'' in 2008, she departed in 2015, discontinuing the title, but continuing to produce content on Website/YouTube under her own name. She initially started with a SpiritualSuccessor series titled ''Loose Canon'', though she has since moved onto producing miscellaneous video essays.
Lindsay's video essays are often very analytical, owing to her experience and Master's degree in film criticism. Her videos tackle various topics, from film technique, to feminist theory, to production history, and more, observing popular works including that of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Michael Bay's Transformers]].
In addition to her assorted essays, she has run a few series and mini-series:
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'', which ran from 2008 to 2015.
* ''Loose Canon'', in which she analyzes and compares various fictional characters' different adaptation incarnations throughout time and media, started as the last episode of ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' in late 2014. The series has been put on hold since 2017, [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/960925434237026305 though Lindsay reportedly isn't finished with it yet]].
* ''The Whole Plate'', a series exploring film studies and various fields of academia through the lens of the Creator/MichaelBay-directed ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries''. Started in spring 2017, currently ongoing.
* A two (really three)-part miniseries revolving around ''Film/TheHobbit'' film trilogy. Currently ongoing.
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!!Lindsay Ellis' videos provide and discuss examples of:
* UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory: Not a fan. In Part 2 of her video series on film theory as explained with the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' films, she describes it as a "celebration of egomania", seeing it largely as an attempt to create an entire field of academia to justify the self-importance of a clique of {{Prima Donna Director}}s. She does admit, however, that it has some good points, most notably with [[SignatureStyle directors having certain key themes that show up throughout their bodies of work]], the idea that it's more important for a film to be interesting than just conventionally good, and with how its proponents led the way in trying to get film recognized as TrueArt.
* BerserkButton:
** ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'', which she's discussed both as The Nostalgia Chick and herself, comparing it to ''Film/RealityBites'' and an unironic version of "[[Music/TheLonelyIsland Threw It on the Ground]]".
** 9/11 {{conspiracy theorist}}s. She even preemptively [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/761352657076383744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw disabled the comments]] for her ''Loose Canon'' video on 9/11, stating that it was entirely because she didn't want "truthers" clogging the comments section, for the sake of her own sanity and to stop herself from descending into a ClusterFBomb. In the actual video, Lindsay takes several jabs at 9/11 conspiracy theorists, and looks like [[TranquilFury she's struggling to contain her anger]] when she first mentions the subject.
--->"I don't know what your reaction is when the topic or image of 9/11 is mentioned. It could be grief, it could be indifference, it could be a... conviction that jet fuel can't melt steel beams, and if you're... anything like me, blinding, white-hot rage that that phrase is even still a thing that people... take seriously..."
* CallBack: In the ''Loose Canon'' episode on Death, she briefly mentions some of the translation issues discussed in a previous episode on Hades. She even lampshades it with "Continuity!"
* {{Edutainment}}: Lindsay's video essays often presented with a perfect balance of information and levity, making them informative, as well as entertaining in their own right.
* FemaleGaze: She has no qualms praising the perfect casting of Creator/ChrisEvans as [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Captain America]].
-->'''Peggy Carter''': Well, nobody's perfect.\\
'''Lindsay''': [[MrFanservice I beg to differ]].
* FemaleMisogynist: Discussed quite a bit in the "Dear Stephenie Meyer" video where she points out that a large portion of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' HateDumb was other young women and how society and culture (and the GirlShowGhetto) play into it, and moreover, a "strong female character" that's written to be as "un-girly" as possible can be just as sexist as a DistressedDamsel.
--> "[[AcceptableTargets [As a] culture, we kinda hate teenage girls]]. We hate their music ''(shows a Music/OneDirection music video)'', we hate their insipid backstabbing, we hate their vanity, we hate their selfie sticks, we hate their make-up, we hate their stupid books and the stupid sexy actors they made famous and their stupid sparkly vampires, and then we wonder why so many girls are eager to distance themselves from being objects of societal contempt."
* FeministFantasy: Discussed and deconstructed in "Dear Stephenie Meyer", where she makes it a point to illustrate that many so-called "strong female role models" can have many elements of [[InternalizedCategorism internalized misogyny]] in them as well.
* GirlShowGhetto: Brought up in "Dear Stephenie Meyer" video, a look at the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series with the benefit of hindsight, noting that a lot of the bashing directed at the books and movies is based in this line of thinking.
* GuiltyPleasures:
** In an AsHerself video during the Nostalgia Chick era, she listed ten of these: ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'', ''Film/IndependenceDay'', every Meg Ryan movie from 1988 to 2002 (except ''Film/YouveGotMail''), ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'', ''Om Shanti Om'', ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'', ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' and ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. She's constantly apologizing for the last two.
** ''{{Transformers}}'' and ''Creator/MichaelBay''. [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/483460989921136640 She's got a love/hate]] relationship with him that goes between this, actual affection and BileFascination.
** Lindsay's also repeatedly mentioned ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'' as a guilty pleasure. While comparing it to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' in "Dear Stephanie Meyer":
-->''Disclaimer: Yes, this anime is my trash, even though [[UnfortunateImplications it has Issues™]], but again: Theatre/PhantomOfTheOpera hurt/comfort fanfic. Stones. Glass houses.''
* LostInImitation: A good portion of "The Case for Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''" addresses [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the dominating criticism of the film changing significantly from]] [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Victor Hugo's original novel]], pointing out how [[OlderThanTheyThink it's not the first]] [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame successful adaptation that changed or straight-up invented story elements and themes not present in the novel]], with Disney's version owing more to the 1939 film than the original book. She also argues that [[TropesAreTools this isn't a bad thing]], as not only [[PragmaticAdaptation can it correct or expand on newer concepts]], it's pretty much necessary [[TechnologyMarchesOn if the story is to remain relevant over time]], and as well, Victor Hugo would probably be okay with it (having written [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Esmeralda_(opera) an opera based on his book]], significantly changing many things from his own text for a new audience, including having Esmeralda live at the end).
* MaleGaze: She discusses the academic definition (that media is made in mind with a prominently male audience, or at least a certain view of one) as they apply to the Film/TransformersFilmSeries, in three different varieties:
** Despite their increasing presence in other recent ''Transformers'' media, including comics and animated series, female Transformers rarely feature in the film series, and when they are, they're either [[DroppedABridgeOnHim expendable]] or [[TheVamp duplicitous and overtly villainous]]. This seems to be built off an assumption that MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial, with [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Arcee being vetoed out of the first film]] by co-writer Bob Orci because "the idea of a female Transformer warrants its own explanation," suggesting that according to the filmmakers, coded-female robots are less plausible and breaking of WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief than coded-male robots:
---> '''Lindsay''': Megatron accidentally etching coordinates to the {{MacGuffin}} inside ''another'' {{MacGuffin}} I'll buy, a magical glowcube that's the progenitor for all the alien robots that turn into chimeras I'll buy, [[ArbitrarySkepticism but that one of them displays]] [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics female secondary sex characteristics]] [[PinkMeansFeminine and is pink]]? [[SarcasmMode Hmmm... I dunnoooooo, man... I'm going to have to absorb more of]] [[DoubleStandard Optimus' robo-pecs and enjoy]] [[RatedMForManly his deep, manly voice]] [[SarcasmMode while I smoke on this for a little while]].
** Lindsay also discusses how this use of male gaze applies to men themselves. Characters like Sam Witwicky and Cade Yaeger are supposed to be framed as something of {{Audience Surrogate}}s the young, teenage boys that are the film's demographic are meant to relate to, yet are also portrayed as [[LoserProtagonist incompetent]] and/or HotBlooded {{Jerkass}}es that still save the day and [[StandardHeroReward get the girl]] [[EntitledToHaveYou in the end]]. Lindsay views this as Creator/MichaelBay [[ThisLoserIsYou being openly contemptuous]] [[ViewersAreMorons of his own audience]].
** As for female human characters, Lindsay points out that while later films reduce them to walking punchlines, dry authoritarian figures that need to be challenged, or {{Fanservice}}y [[FlatCharacter "sexy lamps"]] [[LivingProp that exist just for]] [[DamselInDistress other peoples' conflict]], [[Film/{{Transformers}} the first film]] is actually weirdly sympathetic to its female characters, bringing up issues of gender inequality in male-dominated tech fields... on paper. She argues that [[Creator/MeganFox Mikaela Banes]] is the most well-developed, well-rounded, and thematically whole character in the series, but is frequently remembered as a mindless MsFanservice [[DistractedByTheSexy due to the camera visually objectifying and framing her as one]].
--->'''Lindsay''': The first film brings up issues of gender inequity and how men don't take women seriously because they are objects to them, [[{{Irony}} but then at the same time objectifies Mikaela to the point where for most viewers, she's impossible to take seriously]] [[BestKnownForTheFanservice because she's so impossibly beautiful, so impossibly dressed, so objectifyingly framed]]. Her impossibility is not in the text, but in the frame.
* NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe: The subject of "The Upside-Down of Nostalgia", that looks at the popularity of ''Series/StrangerThings'' and ''Film/It2017'', both of which take place in TheEighties. Restorative Nostalgia and Reflective Nostalgia are examined, and she adds her own: Deconstructive Nostalgia, which is more this trope.
* OscarBait: She has a Mini-Canon video detailing the history behind it, as well as the consequences it resulted in.
* RuleAbidingRebel: Her video on ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' sees her discussing the phenomenon of "bourgeois theatre", specifically the youth-oriented "we have been left behind by the system" musicals that have proliferated on Broadway since TheSixties. In her argument, while they purport to be countercultural and revolutionary, their values in practice tend towards validating the middle-class status quo and the views of their mostly BourgeoisBohemian audiences rather than challenging them. She segues from there into Augusto Boal's Marxist concept of the "theater of the oppressed", which argues that, barring a genuine revolution to break the dominance of the ruling class over access to media, the Rule-Abiding Rebels are the only members of the counterculture who can possibly get their works disseminated to a mainstream audience. In addition to ''RENT'', she also cites ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' as examples, though she comes down substantially harder on ''RENT'' because while the other two were set in and critiqued different times and cultures, thus allowed to be more honest of what they were, ''RENT'' it explicitly positions itself in direct opposition to the values of the culture it was produced in but [[{{Hypocrite}} fails to walk the walk]].
* RunningGag:
** Within ''Loose Canon'', her ability to work Creator/TomHardy into anything.
** In general, if a movie she's discussing has a particularly funny or stupid line, Lindsay will be sure to reuse it repeatedly. Examples include:
*** "[[Disney/{{Pocahontas}} See how I glitter!]]"
*** "[[Film/{{Transformers}} I ate da whole plate.]]"
*** "[[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame I'm losing to a bird!]]"
*** "[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies Why does it hurt so much?]]"
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[invoked]] She feels this way about Mikaela in the Film/TransformersFilmSeries. She argues that Mikaela was the best-written character in [[Film/{{Transformers}} the first movie]] and would've made a far better protagonist than Sam Witwicky, given that not only is her character the one in the whole film who displays an interest in cars (in a film that's very much about cars, albeit ones that are actually robots in disguise), but her arc lines up with the film's themes of self-sacrifice. Unfortunately, her framing in the films used her mainly as MsFanservice, to the point where audiences [[DistractedByTheSexy largely forgot she even had a character]].
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: In “Wicked Witch Of The West” ''Loose Canon'', when it comes to ''Series/TinMan'', she just leans back in her chair and groans. And then when it comes to ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'', she immediately facepalms.
* WomanScorned: She has a lot of issues with ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'', but finding out that this is the reason why the Wicked Witch is wicked is what really drives her up the wall.
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-->-- Lindsay in "The Whole Plate: The Problem of Lady Bots"
Lindsay Ellis is a WebOriginal producer on [=YouTube=], who currently specializes in making video essays surrounding film theory and academia. Initially gaining popularity as ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' on ''[[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]]'' in 2008, she departed in 2015, discontinuing the title, but continuing to produce content on Website/YouTube under her own name. She initially started with a SpiritualSuccessor series titled ''Loose Canon'', though she has since moved onto producing miscellaneous video essays.
Lindsay's video essays are often very analytical, owing to her experience and Master's degree in film criticism. Her videos tackle various topics, from film technique, to feminist theory, to production history, and more, observing popular works including that of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Michael Bay's Transformers]].
In addition to her assorted essays, she has run a few series and mini-series:
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'', which ran from 2008 to 2015.
* ''Loose Canon'', in which she analyzes and compares various fictional characters' different adaptation incarnations throughout time and media, started as the last episode of ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' in late 2014. The series has been put on hold since 2017, [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/960925434237026305 though Lindsay reportedly isn't finished with it yet]].
* ''The Whole Plate'', a series exploring film studies and various fields of academia through the lens of the Creator/MichaelBay-directed ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries''. Started in spring 2017, currently ongoing.
* A two (really three)-part miniseries revolving around ''Film/TheHobbit'' film trilogy. Currently ongoing.
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!!Lindsay Ellis' videos provide and discuss examples of:
* UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory: Not a fan. In Part 2 of her video series on film theory as explained with the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' films, she describes it as a "celebration of egomania", seeing it largely as an attempt to create an entire field of academia to justify the self-importance of a clique of {{Prima Donna Director}}s. She does admit, however, that it has some good points, most notably with [[SignatureStyle directors having certain key themes that show up throughout their bodies of work]], the idea that it's more important for a film to be interesting than just conventionally good, and with how its proponents led the way in trying to get film recognized as TrueArt.
* BerserkButton:
** ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'', which she's discussed both as The Nostalgia Chick and herself, comparing it to ''Film/RealityBites'' and an unironic version of "[[Music/TheLonelyIsland Threw It on the Ground]]".
** 9/11 {{conspiracy theorist}}s. She even preemptively [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/761352657076383744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw disabled the comments]] for her ''Loose Canon'' video on 9/11, stating that it was entirely because she didn't want "truthers" clogging the comments section, for the sake of her own sanity and to stop herself from descending into a ClusterFBomb. In the actual video, Lindsay takes several jabs at 9/11 conspiracy theorists, and looks like [[TranquilFury she's struggling to contain her anger]] when she first mentions the subject.
--->"I don't know what your reaction is when the topic or image of 9/11 is mentioned. It could be grief, it could be indifference, it could be a... conviction that jet fuel can't melt steel beams, and if you're... anything like me, blinding, white-hot rage that that phrase is even still a thing that people... take seriously..."
* CallBack: In the ''Loose Canon'' episode on Death, she briefly mentions some of the translation issues discussed in a previous episode on Hades. She even lampshades it with "Continuity!"
* {{Edutainment}}: Lindsay's video essays often presented with a perfect balance of information and levity, making them informative, as well as entertaining in their own right.
* FemaleGaze: She has no qualms praising the perfect casting of Creator/ChrisEvans as [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Captain America]].
-->'''Peggy Carter''': Well, nobody's perfect.\\
'''Lindsay''': [[MrFanservice I beg to differ]].
* FemaleMisogynist: Discussed quite a bit in the "Dear Stephenie Meyer" video where she points out that a large portion of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' HateDumb was other young women and how society and culture (and the GirlShowGhetto) play into it, and moreover, a "strong female character" that's written to be as "un-girly" as possible can be just as sexist as a DistressedDamsel.
--> "[[AcceptableTargets [As a] culture, we kinda hate teenage girls]]. We hate their music ''(shows a Music/OneDirection music video)'', we hate their insipid backstabbing, we hate their vanity, we hate their selfie sticks, we hate their make-up, we hate their stupid books and the stupid sexy actors they made famous and their stupid sparkly vampires, and then we wonder why so many girls are eager to distance themselves from being objects of societal contempt."
* FeministFantasy: Discussed and deconstructed in "Dear Stephenie Meyer", where she makes it a point to illustrate that many so-called "strong female role models" can have many elements of [[InternalizedCategorism internalized misogyny]] in them as well.
* GirlShowGhetto: Brought up in "Dear Stephenie Meyer" video, a look at the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series with the benefit of hindsight, noting that a lot of the bashing directed at the books and movies is based in this line of thinking.
* GuiltyPleasures:
** In an AsHerself video during the Nostalgia Chick era, she listed ten of these: ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'', ''Film/IndependenceDay'', every Meg Ryan movie from 1988 to 2002 (except ''Film/YouveGotMail''), ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'', ''Om Shanti Om'', ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'', ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' and ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. She's constantly apologizing for the last two.
** ''{{Transformers}}'' and ''Creator/MichaelBay''. [[https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/483460989921136640 She's got a love/hate]] relationship with him that goes between this, actual affection and BileFascination.
** Lindsay's also repeatedly mentioned ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'' as a guilty pleasure. While comparing it to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' in "Dear Stephanie Meyer":
-->''Disclaimer: Yes, this anime is my trash, even though [[UnfortunateImplications it has Issues™]], but again: Theatre/PhantomOfTheOpera hurt/comfort fanfic. Stones. Glass houses.''
* LostInImitation: A good portion of "The Case for Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''" addresses [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the dominating criticism of the film changing significantly from]] [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Victor Hugo's original novel]], pointing out how [[OlderThanTheyThink it's not the first]] [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame successful adaptation that changed or straight-up invented story elements and themes not present in the novel]], with Disney's version owing more to the 1939 film than the original book. She also argues that [[TropesAreTools this isn't a bad thing]], as not only [[PragmaticAdaptation can it correct or expand on newer concepts]], it's pretty much necessary [[TechnologyMarchesOn if the story is to remain relevant over time]], and as well, Victor Hugo would probably be okay with it (having written [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Esmeralda_(opera) an opera based on his book]], significantly changing many things from his own text for a new audience, including having Esmeralda live at the end).
* MaleGaze: She discusses the academic definition (that media is made in mind with a prominently male audience, or at least a certain view of one) as they apply to the Film/TransformersFilmSeries, in three different varieties:
** Despite their increasing presence in other recent ''Transformers'' media, including comics and animated series, female Transformers rarely feature in the film series, and when they are, they're either [[DroppedABridgeOnHim expendable]] or [[TheVamp duplicitous and overtly villainous]]. This seems to be built off an assumption that MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial, with [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Arcee being vetoed out of the first film]] by co-writer Bob Orci because "the idea of a female Transformer warrants its own explanation," suggesting that according to the filmmakers, coded-female robots are less plausible and breaking of WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief than coded-male robots:
---> '''Lindsay''': Megatron accidentally etching coordinates to the {{MacGuffin}} inside ''another'' {{MacGuffin}} I'll buy, a magical glowcube that's the progenitor for all the alien robots that turn into chimeras I'll buy, [[ArbitrarySkepticism but that one of them displays]] [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics female secondary sex characteristics]] [[PinkMeansFeminine and is pink]]? [[SarcasmMode Hmmm... I dunnoooooo, man... I'm going to have to absorb more of]] [[DoubleStandard Optimus' robo-pecs and enjoy]] [[RatedMForManly his deep, manly voice]] [[SarcasmMode while I smoke on this for a little while]].
** Lindsay also discusses how this use of male gaze applies to men themselves. Characters like Sam Witwicky and Cade Yaeger are supposed to be framed as something of {{Audience Surrogate}}s the young, teenage boys that are the film's demographic are meant to relate to, yet are also portrayed as [[LoserProtagonist incompetent]] and/or HotBlooded {{Jerkass}}es that still save the day and [[StandardHeroReward get the girl]] [[EntitledToHaveYou in the end]]. Lindsay views this as Creator/MichaelBay [[ThisLoserIsYou being openly contemptuous]] [[ViewersAreMorons of his own audience]].
** As for female human characters, Lindsay points out that while later films reduce them to walking punchlines, dry authoritarian figures that need to be challenged, or {{Fanservice}}y [[FlatCharacter "sexy lamps"]] [[LivingProp that exist just for]] [[DamselInDistress other peoples' conflict]], [[Film/{{Transformers}} the first film]] is actually weirdly sympathetic to its female characters, bringing up issues of gender inequality in male-dominated tech fields... on paper. She argues that [[Creator/MeganFox Mikaela Banes]] is the most well-developed, well-rounded, and thematically whole character in the series, but is frequently remembered as a mindless MsFanservice [[DistractedByTheSexy due to the camera visually objectifying and framing her as one]].
--->'''Lindsay''': The first film brings up issues of gender inequity and how men don't take women seriously because they are objects to them, [[{{Irony}} but then at the same time objectifies Mikaela to the point where for most viewers, she's impossible to take seriously]] [[BestKnownForTheFanservice because she's so impossibly beautiful, so impossibly dressed, so objectifyingly framed]]. Her impossibility is not in the text, but in the frame.
* NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe: The subject of "The Upside-Down of Nostalgia", that looks at the popularity of ''Series/StrangerThings'' and ''Film/It2017'', both of which take place in TheEighties. Restorative Nostalgia and Reflective Nostalgia are examined, and she adds her own: Deconstructive Nostalgia, which is more this trope.
* OscarBait: She has a Mini-Canon video detailing the history behind it, as well as the consequences it resulted in.
* RuleAbidingRebel: Her video on ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' sees her discussing the phenomenon of "bourgeois theatre", specifically the youth-oriented "we have been left behind by the system" musicals that have proliferated on Broadway since TheSixties. In her argument, while they purport to be countercultural and revolutionary, their values in practice tend towards validating the middle-class status quo and the views of their mostly BourgeoisBohemian audiences rather than challenging them. She segues from there into Augusto Boal's Marxist concept of the "theater of the oppressed", which argues that, barring a genuine revolution to break the dominance of the ruling class over access to media, the Rule-Abiding Rebels are the only members of the counterculture who can possibly get their works disseminated to a mainstream audience. In addition to ''RENT'', she also cites ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' as examples, though she comes down substantially harder on ''RENT'' because while the other two were set in and critiqued different times and cultures, thus allowed to be more honest of what they were, ''RENT'' it explicitly positions itself in direct opposition to the values of the culture it was produced in but [[{{Hypocrite}} fails to walk the walk]].
* RunningGag:
** Within ''Loose Canon'', her ability to work Creator/TomHardy into anything.
** In general, if a movie she's discussing has a particularly funny or stupid line, Lindsay will be sure to reuse it repeatedly. Examples include:
*** "[[Disney/{{Pocahontas}} See how I glitter!]]"
*** "[[Film/{{Transformers}} I ate da whole plate.]]"
*** "[[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame I'm losing to a bird!]]"
*** "[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies Why does it hurt so much?]]"
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[invoked]] She feels this way about Mikaela in the Film/TransformersFilmSeries. She argues that Mikaela was the best-written character in [[Film/{{Transformers}} the first movie]] and would've made a far better protagonist than Sam Witwicky, given that not only is her character the one in the whole film who displays an interest in cars (in a film that's very much about cars, albeit ones that are actually robots in disguise), but her arc lines up with the film's themes of self-sacrifice. Unfortunately, her framing in the films used her mainly as MsFanservice, to the point where audiences [[DistractedByTheSexy largely forgot she even had a character]].
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: In “Wicked Witch Of The West” ''Loose Canon'', when it comes to ''Series/TinMan'', she just leans back in her chair and groans. And then when it comes to ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'', she immediately facepalms.
* WomanScorned: She has a lot of issues with ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'', but finding out that this is the reason why the Wicked Witch is wicked is what really drives her up the wall.
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