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** She spends a portion of her video on ''Film/{{Beastly}}'' discussing how the "beast's" flaw he's being punished for is [[ItsAllAboutMe vanity]] rather than [[RichJerk cruel snobbery]], which is irrelevant to his arc of becoming a kinder person[[note]]This is incidentally in sharp contrast to the original novel, where Kyle really ''is'' a cruel snob[[/note]]. She also points out a scene where the blind tutor gives him AnAesop about accepting himself through his looks, except Kyle never properly does, [[BrokenAesop effectively snapping the aesop in half]].

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** She spends a portion of her video on ''Film/{{Beastly}}'' discussing how the "beast's" flaw he's being punished for is [[ItsAllAboutMe vanity]] rather than [[RichJerk cruel snobbery]], which is irrelevant to his arc of becoming a kinder person[[note]]This is incidentally in sharp contrast to the original novel, where Kyle really ''is'' a cruel snob[[/note]]. She also points out a scene where the blind tutor gives him AnAesop a lesson about accepting himself through his looks, except Kyle never properly does, [[BrokenAesop effectively snapping the aesop in half]].
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*** She also has several sections on the show's poor handling of race, such as complete lack of critical engagement with Mystic Falls's slaveholding past (like how it might make Bonnie feel to have all these holidays celebrating people who owned her ancestors); the Travelers, who are shown as a MageSpecies packed with anti-Romani stereotypes; and how Bonnie was blatantly dis-favored by the writers.

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*** She also has several sections on the show's poor handling of race, such as complete lack of critical engagement with Mystic Falls's slaveholding past (like how it might make Bonnie feel to have all these holidays celebrating people who owned her ancestors); the Travelers, [[MagicalRomani Travelers]], who are shown as a MageSpecies packed with [[RoguishRomani anti-Romani stereotypes; stereotypes]]; and how Bonnie was blatantly dis-favored by the writers.
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* AffectionateParody: Many people took her video on ''Film/TheChristmasPrince'' as this towards Video Essay channels. It features her theories that ''The Christmas Prince'' is a dystopian world and the set-up for a cinematic universe.

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* AffectionateParody: Many people took her video on ''Film/TheChristmasPrince'' ''Film/AChristmasPrince'' as this towards Video Essay channels. It features her theories that ''The Christmas Prince'' the movie is set in a dystopian world and is the set-up for a cinematic universe.
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** In her video on "Black Moon Rising", Jenny genuinely compliments the climax of the novel for being much better-paced and exciting than everything preceding it, thinking the author had a lot of potential that was marred by her requiring to re-explain the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe in order to justify her [[ImplausibleDeniability not]]-[[SerialNumbersFiledOff fanfic]].

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** In her video on "Black ''Black Moon Rising", Rising'', Jenny genuinely compliments the climax of the novel for being much better-paced and exciting than everything preceding it, thinking the author had a lot of potential that was marred by her requiring to re-explain the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe in order to justify her [[ImplausibleDeniability not]]-[[SerialNumbersFiledOff fanfic]].



* AffectionateParody: Many people took her video on ''The Christmas Prince'' as this towards Video Essay channels. It features her theories that The Christmas Prince is a dystopian world and the set-up for a cinematic universe.
* AnalogyBackfire[[invoked]]: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgMr0JcYJ4 In her video on the book]] ''Trigger Warning'', Jenny breaks down the protagonist/AuthorAvatar's reverence of Creator/AudieMurphy for being an unmoving and unflinching war hero by simply pointing out how [[ShellShockedVeteran Murphy suffered from dangerously severe PTSD throughout most of his life]], and spent his later years advocating for PTSD research and mental health sensitivity, something ''Trigger Warning'' [[MisaimedFandom vehemently rejects]].

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* AffectionateParody: Many people took her video on ''The Christmas Prince'' ''Film/TheChristmasPrince'' as this towards Video Essay channels. It features her theories that The ''The Christmas Prince Prince'' is a dystopian world and the set-up for a cinematic universe.
* AnalogyBackfire[[invoked]]: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgMr0JcYJ4 In her video on the book]] ''Trigger Warning'', ''Literature/TriggerWarning'', Jenny breaks down the protagonist/AuthorAvatar's reverence of Creator/AudieMurphy for being an unmoving and unflinching war hero by simply pointing out how [[ShellShockedVeteran Murphy suffered from dangerously severe PTSD throughout most of his life]], and spent his later years advocating for PTSD research and mental health sensitivity, something ''Trigger Warning'' [[MisaimedFandom vehemently rejects]].
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* ObviousBeta: One of her criticisms of Ride/EvermorePark. While she praises the ideas behind it, she says that when she went, three years after the park opened, it was surprisingly unfinished--many buildings were standing empty and dark, or looked like attractions but upon closer exploration were locked and contained nothing, with some areas simply being obvious half-finished construction sites, one right next to the entrance to the park.

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* ObviousBeta: ObviousBeta: [[invoked]] One of her criticisms of Ride/EvermorePark. While she praises the ideas behind it, she says that when she went, three years after the park opened, it was surprisingly unfinished--many buildings were standing empty and dark, or looked like attractions but upon closer exploration were locked and contained nothing, with some areas simply being obvious half-finished construction sites, one right next to the entrance to the park.
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* TheComicallySerious: She generally keeps to a neutral, deadpan voice with little emoting regardless of what she's saying, which makes her [[DeadpanSnarker constant snarking]] even funnier.
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[[VerbalTic So...]] Jenny Nicholson a WebOriginal creator, once known for heading ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'', then running her own Website/YouTube channel. After posting infrequent miscellaneous videos from as early as 2011, she started gaining traction around 2016 after she began making videos talking about mainstream film and TV show franchises, such as ''Franchise/TheAvengers'', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', and ''Franchise/StarWars'', all with a unique sense of deadpan humor and often with her cosplaying as a character in whatever the video is about.

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[[VerbalTic So...]] Jenny Nicholson a WebOriginal WebVideo creator, once known for heading ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'', then running her own Website/YouTube channel. After posting infrequent miscellaneous videos from as early as 2011, she started gaining traction around 2016 after she began making videos talking about mainstream film and TV show franchises, such as ''Franchise/TheAvengers'', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', and ''Franchise/StarWars'', all with a unique sense of deadpan humor and often with her cosplaying as a character in whatever the video is about.
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** ''[[WebOriginal/JeffTheKiller Insanity]]'' (which --among other things-- ends with the self-insert [[UnholyMatrimony hooking up with Jeff the Killer and committing murders with him).]]
* SequelHook: At the end of her video on ''Insanity'', after being enamored with the ending {{cliffhanger}} featuring Jeff the Killer and Naomi [[spoiler:arriving at a mansion [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover inhabited by all sorts of characters of famous]] {{Creepypasta}}]], Jenny demands to know what happens after it... and then pulls out a copy of the fanfic's direct sequel, ''Welcome to the Mansion''.[[note]]Unfortunately, Jenny later announced that she would not be reviewing the book due to the harassment made towards its author after her video was made.[[/note]]

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** ''[[WebOriginal/JeffTheKiller Insanity]]'' ''Insanity'' (which --among other things-- ends with the self-insert [[UnholyMatrimony hooking up with Jeff the Killer and committing murders with him).]]
* SequelHook: At the end of her video on ''Insanity'', after being enamored with the ending {{cliffhanger}} featuring Jeff the Killer Literature/JeffTheKiller and Naomi [[spoiler:arriving at a mansion [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover inhabited by all sorts of characters of famous]] {{Creepypasta}}]], Jenny demands to know what happens after it... and then pulls out a copy of the fanfic's direct sequel, ''Welcome to the Mansion''.[[note]]Unfortunately, Jenny later announced that she would not be reviewing the book due to the harassment made towards its author after her video was made.[[/note]]
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* OneTrueLove: She discusses the topic briefly in the Vampire Diaries movie. She mentions how this is common in media aimed at teenagers because teenagers have a very limited and romanticized view of love, that you are only allowed to love one person your whole life, meet them in high school, and have never loved anyone before or after them even if they're dead. She mentions this is probably why Damien was not allowed to date anyone, especially not Bonnie, after Elena was written off the show, even if they'd serve the exact role as an EscapistCharacter for the audience to project on.
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[[VerbalTic So...]] Jenny Nicholson a WebOriginal creator, once known for heading ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'', currently running her own Website/YouTube channel of the same name. After posting infrequent miscellaneous videos from as early as 2011, she started gaining traction around 2016 after she began making videos talking about mainstream film and TV show franchises, such as ''Franchise/TheAvengers'', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', and ''Franchise/StarWars'', all with a unique sense of deadpan humor and often with her cosplaying as a character in whatever the video is about.

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[[VerbalTic So...]] Jenny Nicholson a WebOriginal creator, once known for heading ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'', currently then running her own Website/YouTube channel of the same name.channel. After posting infrequent miscellaneous videos from as early as 2011, she started gaining traction around 2016 after she began making videos talking about mainstream film and TV show franchises, such as ''Franchise/TheAvengers'', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', and ''Franchise/StarWars'', all with a unique sense of deadpan humor and often with her cosplaying as a character in whatever the video is about.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment[[invoked]]: Partway into her review of ''[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades Freed]]'', Jenny takes a moment to digress about Ana's distractingly unflattering lipstick, which she describes as being applied in a way that it makes her lips resemble a narrow football. Naturally, Jenny incorporates this as part of her {{cosplay}} during the video itself.

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* WTHCostumingDepartment[[invoked]]: Partway into her review of ''[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades Freed]]'', Jenny takes a moment to digress about Ana's distractingly unflattering lipstick, which she describes as being applied in a way that it makes her Ana's lips resemble a narrow football. Naturally, Jenny incorporates this as part of her {{cosplay}} during the video itself.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment[[invoked]]: Partway into her review of ''[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades Freed]]'', Jenny takes a moment to digress about Ana's distractingly unflattering lipstick, which she describes as being applied in a way that it makes her lips resemble a narrow football. Naturally, Jenny incorporates this as part of her {{cosplay}} during the video itself.

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* QuestionableCasting[[invoked]]:
** She goes hard into this during her ''Film/DearEvanHansen'' video regarding the infamous [[RoleReprise reprisal]] of Creator/BenPlatt. She notes that Platt is a talented singer and ''stage'' actor, but none of his strengths or performance idiosyncrasies translate well into a grounded, realistic medium like film, the most prominent failing being [[PassFail how he simply can't pass for a teenager]] and [[UnintentionalUncannyValley looks unnatural as a result]]. Jenny also points out how the film and Platt's casting was effectively a case of {{nepotism}} as it was produced by his father, with a claim that had Ben not been cast, the movie wouldn't have been made, which Jenny sees as less of an excuse and more of just the whole project setting itself up for failure.
** It's also discussed during "The Church Play Cinematic Universe"; she occasionally comments on the odd choice of characters picked to represent Jesus Christ in each play, often solely on the basis that they're the main character (with Captain Jack Sparrow and Tony Stark being stand-outs).



* WTHCastingAgency[[invoked]]:
** She goes hard into this during her ''Film/DearEvanHansen'' video regarding the infamous [[RoleReprise reprisal]] of Creator/BenPlatt. She notes that Platt is a talented singer and ''stage'' actor, but none of his strengths or performance idiosyncrasies translate well into a grounded, realistic medium like film, the most prominent failing being [[PassFail how he simply can't pass for a teenager]] and [[UnintentionalUncannyValley looks unnatural as a result]]. Jenny also points out how the film and Platt's casting was effectively a case of {{nepotism}} as it was produced by his father, with a claim that had Ben not been cast, the movie wouldn't have been made, which Jenny sees as less of an excuse and more of just the whole project setting itself up for failure.
** It's also discussed during "The Church Play Cinematic Universe"; she occasionally comments on the odd choice of characters picked to represent Jesus Christ in each play, often solely on the basis that they're the main character (with Captain Jack Sparrow and Tony Stark being stand-outs).
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* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: She's repeatedly amused by the fact that ''Film/{{Beastly}}'' clearly wanted to be a phenomenon on par with ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', then ended up with a mediocre performance at best. During TheStinger, she claims still finding tons of unsold ''Beastly'' merchandise at Toys "R" Us, theorizing they might still be around even after they shut down in the US.

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* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: She's repeatedly amused by the fact that ''Film/{{Beastly}}'' clearly wanted to be a phenomenon on par with ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', then ended up with a mediocre performance at best. During TheStinger, she claims still finding tons of unsold ''Beastly'' merchandise at Toys "R" Us, theorizing they might still be around even after they shut down in the US.

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-->'''Jenny, poking around on her StringTheory board:''' Weird, there's something hidden under The Bonnie Problem. [beat] Oh my god, I found my racism post-it!

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-->'''Jenny, --->'''Jenny, poking around on her StringTheory board:''' Weird, there's something hidden under The Bonnie Problem. [beat] Oh my god, I found my racism post-it!post-it!
*** She mentions the poor handling of Elena's transformation into a vampire, which should be the culmination of her survivor's guilt trait, feels like it ends up justifying it. Elena lost her parents in a car accident that resulted in her being the only one saved from a drowning car; when the situation repeats with Elena in a drowning car with someone else, she elects to save the other passenger, being brought back as a vampire. Jenny mentions she dislikes this because it feels like the story is justifying survivor's guilt, in that it was indeed a failure of Elena to not have saved her parents or died with them, and this chance of a do-over where she dies to save someone else is how it was supposed to go.

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