History WebVideo / TheDomReviews

** SigningOffCatchPhrase: He tends to [[EveryEpisodeEnding wind up each video]] with: "[[ThirdPersonPerson The Dom's]] final thoughts..."

* CriticalBacklash: [[invoked]] Discussed. Dominic mentions that he desperately to avoid this when doing his ''Twilight'' reviews even saying he was hoping he could be the guy to say "''Twilight'' wasn't that bad" only to end up falling into it when he read the books for himself and felt they actually were that bad.

* CriticalBacklash: Tried desperately to avoid this when doing his Twilight reviews even saying he was hoping he could be the guy to say "Twilight wasn't that bad" only to end up falling into it when he read the books for himself and felt they were that bad.

** Then in the ''Fifty Shades Freed'' review, he states that both versions of Christian Grey are horrible and he wants to run them over with a combine harvester...he'd just be more inclined to do it quickly with the film version.
** As stated under CriticalBacklash, Dominic tried to give a charitable review of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'. However, the best he could give for the first book was along the lines of, "It's not for me, but it had some redeeming qualities." [[{{Sequelitis}} And then the sequels attacked]].

* NoAccountingForTaste: Discussed in his ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' review, as the LemonyNarrator comments that Westley and Buttercup getting together is probably an EsotericHappyEnding, speculating that once Buttercup's looks start to go Westley will lose what little enchantment he has with her (since they only ever snipe at each other when they're actually in the same room together), and start to realize [[TheMillstone what a useless, self-absorbed sycophant she is]].

** In fact, whenever Dominic reviews a work he's clearly not the intended audience for (especially teen romance and fantasy stories, being an adult male sci fi fan), Dominic is usually great about admitting he is ''NOT'' the work's target audience, examines whether his feelings toward a work are due to its own merits or his own preferences (only ''[[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades]]'' really falls short due to its abysmal writing and RomanticizedAbuse), and discourages viewers from invoking ReviewsAreTheGospel regarding fiction that was clearly never geared toward him to begin with.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Discussed. Doing his retrospective on the ''Literature/{{Twilight}} Saga'', Dominic accuses the series of suffering from this, as he found each sequel to be of worse quality than the last. By ''Literature/BreakingDawn'', Dominic admits that he considers the series just as bad as ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.

** ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'': Strangely enough, Dominic isn't that enraged by Scott stalking Ramona at a party, getting her private info from her friends, and later dropping by her place unannounced after she made it clear she wasn't interested. He does discuss the filmmakers having this attitude regarding Knives stalking Scott after he dumped her (since they [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally planned to use this]] to have them get back together at the end), even though the comic made it clear her stalking was a sign of her unhealthy fixation on him that she needed to grow out of.

** Dominic acknowledges that the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' show creators' decision to have Khal Drogo [[MaritalRapeLicense rape Danaerys on their wedding night]], rather than seek consent first like he did in the book ([[QuestionableConsent or as much consent as a girl in her situation can give]]) can put an "irredeemable douchebag" mark on Drogo, and [[RelationshipWritingFumble undermine the supposed sweetness]] [[AMatchMadeInStockholm of their later evolving romance]], to some viewers.

** Observes how ''Literature/ThePrincessAndTheGoblin'' often goes out of its way to explain how noble-born children like Princess Irene are just ''naturally'', inherently more graceful, polite, well-mannered, and moral than common-born children, which most modern viewers find absurd. (And which Creator/TerryPratchett mocked relentlessly in his ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series). Also how the goblins are somewhat {{designated villain}}s and the narrator thinks nothing of human characters driving them out of their homes deeper underground and effectively committing ''genocide'' at the end, when most post-Imperialist Western societies now question the ethics of displacing and wiping out native populations.

** Happens during the ''{{Franchise/Dune}}'' review. Dominic is absolutely disgusted by all the [[{{Squick}} squicky]] things that go on in Baron Harkonnen's [[BloodierAndGorier introductory scene]] (none of which are in the original [[{{Literature/Dune}} book]]), and begins to go off on director Creator/DavidLynch.

** While Book!Adrian from ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' later [[spoiler:commits VanHelsingHateCrimes against Vivian]], otherwise he's a pretty decent guy. The film changed him into an entitled creep who ''relentlessly'' sexually harasses and stalks Vivian till he ''finally'' wears her down (even after she straight-up ''flees'' from him several times), [[NeverMyFault then gets mad at HER for not staying away from HIM when he finds out she's a werewolf]]--[[SubvertedTrope yet the film acts like we're supposed to find him roguishly charming]].

** While Dominic finds Book!Gabriel from ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' to be a sexual harassing cradle-robber, he still laments that he went from an otherwise honorable leader who tried to protect his pack and minimize violence between humans and werewolves, to a ruthless crime lord who regularly kidnapped humans that he and his pack hunted down for blood sport.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: During his review of ''Who Framed Rodger Rabbit'', he notes how, due to book!Jessica being the toon equivalent of a porn star, all those Rule34 pics of movie!Jessica are technically ''canon''.

* AprilFoolsPlot: For April 1st 2022, Dominic did a Lost in Adaptation "review" of ''Film/TheRoom'', of all things. Creating a story where Creator/TommyWiseau "adapted" ''The Room'' from a Polish novel ''The Room I Died In'', then goes on to explain that some of the movie's oddities, such as "I did not hit her! It's not true! It's bullshit, I did not hit her! I did not naaaght! Oh, hai Mark." was an internal monologue in the book and "Oh, hi Mark" was just book!Johnny noticing Mark there. Or "Haha... What a story, Mark." was the result of Johnny zoning out during Mark's story and trying to cover it. And yes, Claudette's breast cancer subplot was a proper subplot in the book. Then goes on to explain how the book was actually ''more'' off-the-walls than the movie with the least minute reveal that Johnny was a [[MythologyGag vampire]] and testing Mark and Lisa to make them his immortal companions ([[CaptainObvious which they failed]]).

* AudienceSurrogate: Dominic speculates that ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'' never took off in popularity the way later supernatural teen romances like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' did because the lead is an EscapistCharacter readers presumably wish they could be, rather than a relatable blank slate for readers to insert themselves into (like Bella and Ana).

-->"Howl and Sophie's romance is in the book, but I was actually tempted to put that in the next section (What they changed) as they have much MUCH better chemistry in the film. In the book, I could've sworn the romance came out of nowhere at the end until I remembered the 'they really annoy each other so they must love each other' trope. Attention writers and screenwriters everywhere! I know you guys love that shit, but in the real world NO ONE OVER THE AGE OF THIRTEEN DOES THAT!"

** Dominic literally ''growls'' his frustration with the 2002 Walt Disney film version of ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' for making Winnie and Jesse's relationship not just a RomanticPlotTumor, but...

* BrainBleach: During the ''Half-Blood Prince'' review, when Terrance realizes that [[FridgeHorror love potions are basically magical roofies]], he finds the revelation so tramatic that he'd rather give himself LaserGuidedAmnesia via ''Obliviate''.

** In his review of ''Film/ManOfTaiChi'', Dominic calls on the assistance of [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Number Six]], [[Film/EndersGame Admiral Rothschild]], and the [[Literature/TheNeverendingStory Secretly Gay Guy]] from previous episodes. He wants to get their reactions to some of [[Creator/KeanuReeves Keanu Reeves's]] particularly [[{{Narm}} narmy]] [[ChewingTheScenery scenery chewing]]. Their verdict? [[spoiler: Hysterical laughter.]]

** ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}'': Notes that Book!Mrs. Danvers had been the late Rebecca's governess and loved her like a daughter. Creator/AlfredHitchcock removed this so she comes across as a PsychoLesbian ''and'' gave her a horrific on-screen suicide, so Dominic is uncomfortable with how Hitchcock effectively demonized and "punished" the one coded lesbian character.
** ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'': Dominic finds the book werewolves' [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything racially superior attitude toward humans]] and EntitledToHaveYou attitude toward Vivian, combined with the "stick to your own kind" message at the end, to be pro-segregationist white supremacy propaganda. He's also disgusted with the FemaleMisogynist director making Film!Vivian an AdaptationalWimp and DecoyProtagonist while making Film!Adrian (her human love interest) an AdaptationalBadass and SpotlightStealingSquad.

*** Dominic also discusses how ''Film/TheHungerGames'' filmmakers' decision to keep Katniss's introversion and stoicism for a visual medium makes it hard to feel invested in a DullSurprise lead character, but concedes that in another universe he's probably making this same episode ranting and raving about how the actress they got to visually and verbally express Book!Katniss's inner thoughts and feelings comes across as a hysterical, cartoonish, overacting clown.

** George and Harold in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'', presumably as a way to avoid the characters coming off as UnintentionallyUnsympathetic like in the [[Literature/CaptainUnderpants earlier books.]]

-->'''Calluna:''' ...This is a recreation of how much Azog the pale orc featured in the Hobbit originally:
-->'''Gandalf:''' Hey, remember how your grandfather was killed by that orc?\\

-->''I must confess, I never would have predicted Mister Poe would ever be the recipient of the Legolas effect.''

* BelligerentSexualTension: A PetPeeveTrope for Dominic, because he sees it as an unrealistic representation of actual relationships at best and actively encouraging toxic ideas about love and romance at worst. If a story uses jealousy or bickering as a sign of romantic spark, he can be relied upon to point it out and complain about it.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[invoked]]Milady Du Winter might be presented as the FemmeFatale BigBad of ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', but considering she doesn't do anything worse than the {{Designated Hero}}es, yet she's fiendishly intelligent and capable while they're self-aborbed and often incompetent. She's Dominic's favorite character in the book. He's also predisposed to be a bit sympathetic to her, given she's been mistreated by ''two'' of the main heroes for extremely flimsy and selfish reasons, one [[TilMurderDoUsPart trying to hang her to death after years of marriage just because he learned she was an ex-con]], one using a BedTrick to engage in rape-by-deception and then bragging to her about it.

!!This show provides examples of:

* ContinuityLockout: Talks about how the later ''Harry Potter'' films were made most likely for the readers of the books first and everyone else second, with how much was left out of them in the end at the end of the ''Harry Potter-athon.'' He states that the producers most likely chose this route because they didn't want to have to adapt the books for an audience comprised mostly of people who'd read the books already and wanted to get the important stuff in the films over extraneous details.
** However, one detail from the third ''Harry Potter'' film he notes is that they never took the time in any of the later films to point out who Mooney and Prongs were. Peter Pettigrew was called Wormtail in several of the films and Sirius was called Padfoot in the fifth film, but good luck guessing who the other 2 are without a glance at a Wiki page, or reading the book. %%InUniverse

* ProtectionFromEditors: Notes that ''Literature/BreakingDawn'' was the most divisive of Creator/StephenieMeyer's ''Literature/{{Twilight}} Saga'' because she evidently intentionally missed many deadlines and didn't submit her final draft for editing until just before the publish date. By then, ''Twilight'' had become such a runaway success that they had to meet the deadline and make minimal changes before pushing it out the door.%%InUniverse

* {{Sequelitis}}: Accuses the ''Literature/{{Twilight}} Saga'' of being this, as he found each sequel to be of worse quality than the last. By ''Literature/BreakingDawn'', Dominic now considers the series just as bad as ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.%%InUniverse

The channel has a few supporting characters ''also'' played by Dominic Smith, including Reginald, the clone butler, and [[Franchise/HarryPotter Terrence, the Douchebag from Ravenclaw]][[note]](though Terrence was later {{Retcon}}ned as actually being from [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Camp Half-Blood]] after Creator/JKRowling's recent transphobia.[[/note]].

* MorePopularSpinoff: He originally intended to primarily review video games and classic British television, and did the first ''Lost in Adaptation'' as a bit of a one-off, but it proved more popular than his other work ''and'' carved him out a niche in a crowded market. Nowadays, it's the flagship show of his channel.

* ProtectionFromEditors: Notes that ''Literature/BreakingDawn'' was the most divisive of Creator/StephenieMeyer's ''Literature/{{Twilight}} Saga'' because she evidently intentionally missed many deadlines and didn't submit her final draft for editing until just before the publish date. By then, ''Twilight'' had become such a runaway success that they had to meet the deadline and make minimal changes before pushing it out the door.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Accuses the ''Literature/{{Twilight}} Saga'' of being this, as he found each sequel to be of worse quality than the last. By ''Literature/BreakingDawn'', Dominic now considers the series just as bad as ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Many of the episodes have a specially-written song running over the end credits, with lyrics relating to the work the episode was about and a tunes that often resemble some well-known song while being just different enough to avoid copyright issues.

** However, one detail from the third ''Harry Potter'' film he notes is that they never took the time in any of the later films to point out who Mooney and Prongs were. Peter Pettigrew was called Wormtail in several of the films and Sirius was called Padfoot in the fifth film, but good luck guessing who the other 2 are without a glance at a Wiki page, or reading the book.

* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: Dom isn't very fond of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga, but he admits that Creator/StephenieMeyer does occasionally write some genuinely terrifying horror scenes.

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: (InUniverse) In the ''Lost in Adaptation: Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' video, we find out that fans of ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld 2}}'' did ''not'' appreciate Dominic's scathing review in an earlier episode.

* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: The ''Lost In Adaptation'' episode for ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' ends with Dom saying the movie would be vastly different in a parallel universe where they'd gone with the early concept where the [=FBI=] chase the Cullen's in jet skis. He then pulls out a ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' portal gun to visit this universe, he comes back saying the movie was interesting but in that world humanity is enslaved by koalas so it's not worth the trade off.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Not regarded as such in-universe, but when d'Artagnan rapes Milady Du Winter via deception by posing as her lover in a dark room (so she think she's consenting to sleep with her lover when she's not), Dominic loses what little respect he might have had for d'Artagnan and considers him pure scum from then on.

* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: In his ''Lost in Adaptation'' review of ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', Dominic bemoans the fact that Grandpa Joe's story about Prince Pondicherry and his chocolate palace did not make it into the movie. Since Dominic found it a particularly funny part of the [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory book]], he wishes it could've been left in. In an AlternateUniverse where Dominic reviews Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' instead, which ''does'' include this scene, Dominic finds the whole thing pointless and rather [[SimSimSalabim racist]], and wishes that it could've been left out.

The channel has a few supporting characters ''also'' played by Dominic Smith, including Reginald, the clone butler, and [[Franchise/HarryPotter Terrence, the Douchebag from Ravenclaw]][[note]](though Terrence was later {{Retcon}}ned as actually being from [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Camp Half-Blood]] after Creator/JKRowling made some comments that Dom perceived as transphobic.[[/note]].

Dominic Smith (b. 5 July 1987), professionally known as Dominic Noble, and formerly as "The Dom", is a [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses bespectacled]] [[note]]until he got laser eye surgery[[/note]] British reviewer of books, graphic novels, movies, TV shows, video games, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a wall]] [[note]](he didn't like it)[[/note]]. His most popular series is ''Lost in Adaptation'', where he compares [[TheFilmOfTheBook films to the books that inspired them]].

The channel has a few supporting characters ''also'' played by Dominic Smith, including Reginald, the clone butler, and [[Franchise/HarryPotter Terrence, the Douchebag from Ravenclaw]][[note]](though Terrence was later {{Retcon}}ned as actually being from [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Camp Half-Blood]] after J.K. Rowling made some comments that Dom perceived as transphobic. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement And that is all that we’ll say on the matter]][[/note]].

In 2014, he was picked up by ''[[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]]'', though he has since left as of April 2018. You can now find all his videos on his [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPtiXdv7RoU8IkrJeNY73qw YouTube channel]].

* PromotedFanboy[[invoked]]: Dominic spends the beginning of one of his videos [[{{Squee}} squeeing]] over the fact that he has been picked up by ''[[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]]'', as he is a big fan.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Dominic prefers the romance between [[Literature/HowlsMovingCastle Howl and Sophie]] in the film to their romance in the book because it ''doesn't'' use this trope.

** Dominic is also not a fan of tedious prose. He had difficulty reading ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' because every action in the story was written in such excessive detail as to kill any sense of pace ([[Administrivia/TropesAreTools However, compare this with]] ''Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo'', where he finds the extreme level of detail to actually serves a purpose in the story). Similarly, he found ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'' because of the way it mimicked the speaking style (and not the writing style) of a stereotypical teenage girl.

** George and Harold in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpants:TheFirstEpicMovie'', presumably as a way to avoid the characters coming off as UnintentionallyUnsympathetic like in the [[Literature/CaptainUnderpants earlier books.]]

** George and Harold in ''Film/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'', presumably as a way to avoid the characters coming off as UninitentionallyUnsympathetic like in the [[Literature/CaptainUnderpants earlier books.]]

Dominic Smith, professionally known as Dominic Noble, and formerly as "The Dom", is a [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses bespectacled]] [[note]]until he got laser eye surgery[[/note]] British reviewer of books, graphic novels, movies, TV shows, video games, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a wall]] [[note]](he didn't like it)[[/note]]. His most popular series is ''Lost in Adaptation'', where he compares [[TheFilmOfTheBook films to the books that inspired them]].

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: During an in-video promotion for the audiobook seller Audible, Dom suggests that his beautiful watchers can use the service to listen to many of the books he has discussed in his previous videos. The examples he gives are: ''[[Literature/Dune]]'' by Frank Herbert, ''[[Literature/JourneyToTheWest]]'' by Wu Cheng'en, ''[[Film/ForrestGump]]'' by Winston Groom, and ''[[Creator/ChuckTingle Pounded in the Butt by my Own Butt]]'' by Chuck Tingle.

* LessDisturbingInContext: Dominic describes the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' books as "the heartwarming tale of a middle-aged man who constantly undresses infront of two preteen boys".

** And then he manages to nail Creator/EoinColfer[[note]]It's pronounced 'Owen'[[/note]], who is infamously TheUnpronouncable to people unfamiliar with Irish names. The irony is immediately lampshaded.