Headscratchers / The Nostalgia Chick

• How in the heck is Enchanted a Cinderella retelling?
  • It's not a retelling but more on a comparison and analysis on a modern take of the traditional fairy tale archetype.
  • It also has a poor, downtrodden girl who is being targeted by a wicked stepmother who dreams of meeting her prince charming and living happily ever after.
    • That's also the premise of Snow White. Enchanted was a parody of Disney movies and fairy tales in general, not a retelling of Cinderella.
  • Probably a bit of personal appeal for Lindsay. She mentioned in a previous review how she liked Enchanted and thought it was underrated. She probably just figured it could fit in and wanted to talk about its interesting take on fairy tale relationships in the real world.
• Trivial but curious... The Chick notes that three months have passed between her The Transformers: The Movie and Armageddon (1998) reviews. Meanwhile, the Critic wakes up from her chloroforming him. Was he slumped on his desk for three months?
  • Yes.
• Is the reasoning behind the gospel theme in Hercules really that obtuse? I kind of thought it was kind of an obvious meta-joke about using the stylings of modern religion to tell a story about ancient religious figures. Yet she seems baffled by the decision like there was no reason for it whatsoever. If you think it's jarring and doesn't work, fine, but at least admit that it makes a sort of sense.
  • Opinion Myopia
• I hate to bring back the MacGuffin thing but isn't her definition of it more like Applied Phlebotinum now? I mean jar of mayonnaise that is teleporter because it's needed by a plot doesn't sound a bit like MacGuffin to me.
  • Didn't she say in one of her reviews (was it Fifth Element?) that she was actually using the term in not the strictest sense, at least for the sake of the review. Not that it makes it "better", but she owned up to it, anyway. Besides, MacGuffin is much easier to say.
• Really minor, but when Nella shows up at the end of the X-Men review, Lindsay says, "Nella, you're wearing lipstick." Why not, "Nella, you're alive?" Just an odd thing I noticed.
  • Rule of Funny?
  • That's the joke, dear.
• In her review of Roland Emmerich's Disaster movies while she is discussing the cliched characters that appear in the films she refers to Harry Connick, Jr. as Will Smith's "scrappy black friend", twice. ...Umm, What
  • I believe she means that he fulfills the roll of the standard "scrappy black friend" despite not actually being black.
• Not really complaining because it was hilarious, but why was the Chick bemoaning that she hadn't got laid in ages when she could, uh, void her robot's warranty all night long?
  • Unless she somehow got a real, working penis hooked up there, the thing's basically a glorified masturbation machine.
  • And also, even if those rumors about Chick/Critic being confirmed are true, then I really doubt her ego would let her ask him for a good lay.
• Okay, yes, this is nitpicking to the nth degree, but in 'Date With Doug', he says they can't go out to eat because he doesn't have a car. But Lindsay had to get there somehow, didn't she? Even if she didn't drive herself there, there must be cabs or buses around, or an urban area within walking distance, or...well, you get the point. Like I said, just nitpicking, but it's something that's always kind of bugged me.
  • Maybe Nella drove her? She's pretty much the Chick's slave anyway.
  • Also, the Critic does own a car. Watch his Neverending Story III review. (Although he may have learned to drive since the date.)
• Forgive me if I misheard, but didn't Lindsay say in one of her videos recently that she was putting her review of Dune back on the site, even though she herself doesn't like the review that much? Because it's still not there, and I was just curious.
  • No, show's replaced it with an iRiff w/Spoony.
• Did she actually list any specific song in "Top 10 songs about fucking" when discussing Rent? It seemed like she wasn't listing examples of any songs because she was getting a little distracted trying to explain why she didn't like the musical.
  • She listed the entirety of Spring Awakening.
    • Well, that's because pretty much the entirety of Spring Awakening's music is about sex. But there's only a few songs I can think of in Rent that I would describe as being about sex, with only Contact coming to mind, and maybe Out Tonight.

• Yet another baffling "Did we watch the same movie?" moment for me. In her review of The Worst Witch, she talks about how she doesn't like "Chosen One" movies (with the exception of Harry Potter) and cites Kung Fu Panda as an example. Again, did we watch the same movie? Kung Fu Panda's message was pretty much that being the "chosen one" didn't automatically make you "super special awesome". That you actually have to work hard and use your own unique skills to achieve your goals.
  • This Troper definitely agrees with the Chick. Yes, Po had to work to gain kung fu skills, but the fact is that "destiny" passed up on six or seven people who were already masters, who get beaten soundly by Tai Lung while Po, with only a few days' training, is somehow already better. And in the end Po beats Tai Lung with a move that Shifu already knew anyway, so what was the point of Po having to be the one to do it? "Chosen Ones" often have to work for it, but being "Chosen" still seems totally arbitrary.

• Has she ever actually reviewed a real nostalgic movie? I mean, a movie that she liked when she was a kid and still likes. Not "I liked it as a kid, but I was stupid back then and liked stupid movies." Even Doug does stuff he currently likes every now and then.
  • She gushed on The Lion King (1994) in that Disney retrospective and did a tribute to Daria. But remember it's not her character to be all fangirly; Critic's still a child with his heart on his sleeve, she complains about how human emotions suck.
  • If we're including teenage years with stuff you liked as a "child": She reviewed the X-Men cartoon, TLC (not a movie or show, but still nostalgic for her), Kate and Leopold, Titanic, 'Showgirls'' (she admits to having a strange fondness for the movie), Labyrinth, and Mulan (and Disney in general). That's all I can think of, and with the Lion King and Daria example above, there's plenty of stuff she's reviewed that she likes.
  • For the most part, both she and Doug share a similar opinion that they don't really like doing reviews on movies that they generally really like or think were well made. It's more entertaining and easier to give lengthy critiques on stuff that is really bad, or things they enjoy but in a self-aware ironic way.
  • And her reviews of Hercules and Mulan do make the point that she still likes them, despite their flaws. She also keeps saying that she still loves Lord of the Rings when reviewing them. In her "Loose Canon" series she usually will come across works she likes with the relevant characters. As noted above, Lindsay's style of reviewing doesn't really lend itself well to positive criticism. There's usually less to say when there's less to criticise.
• What happened to her TLC and the 90s video?
  • Lindsay has a tendency to quietly take episodes she doesn't like down from the site. Rapping About Rape, The Fifth Element and Dune are all gone too. It's disappointing, but you can still find them on youtube.
  • Why? This comes across as kind of hypocritical of her. In her Song of the South review she called Disney out for vainly trying to cover up a movie they were ashamed of, but then turns around and does something like this!
    • She has the right to take down her own videos. Especially when it is one with so much emotional personal stuff on it like this video did. If she didn't like the video or didn't feel comfortable showing so much of her emotional side to the internet, she has the right to do so without people trying to shame her.
  • Also, you can't find the Dune review. Like, anywhere.
• What about all the destruction caused by Dark Nella? She destroyed numerous major (and minor) cities worldwide, and left Linkara, Spoony, and the Critic dead—all of which was played fairly straight. Yet, this was never resolved during the Dark Nella Saga, and it hasn't been so much as mentioned in any of their respective videos. We even didn't get so much as a Hand Wave (which is surprising, given that Lindsay uses them so often).
  • From an in-universe perspective, yeah, they don't care. Because their characters are so comically self centered they only care that they can go back to normal videos.
  • I can't speak for the others, but Spoony has no reason to worry. He comes back from the dead often, and Phoenix has a tendency to rise from its ashes.
    • But Spoony lives in Mesa....
  • Well...it was mentioned in Spoony's review of Beastmaster 2 that hypertime had been screwy (again) for a while, so maybe the effects of that somehow "undid" the damage caused by Dark Nella.
  • What I'm more confused about is the Critic having evidently watched the Dark Nella saga (in his X-Men review) when he died at her hand in the actual storyline.
  • The big plot hole in space. That is the answer to everything that doesn't make sense on all of these shows, both before and after To Boldly Flee.
• I remember finding this Jem joke funny, but Fridge Logic: wouldn't "engage in a little desegregation" mean the exact opposite of a Token Minority Couple?
  • slip of the tongue word fumble.
• So, why hasn't there been a team Nchick video since september? Any explanation given by any of them? Just asking questions.
  • Elisa got married and Lindsay was working for Pokemon.
    • Ah, found out she said on twitter "To the many, many people asking about the status of Nchick, it'll get done when it gets done. ;) but it's not done."
• I know it was briefly mentioned in the Worst of 2013 video, but was there a reason why Lindsay never made that Worst of 2012 video? Was it just because Wreck-It Ralph was on it?
  • Yes.
• Now that she's rebranded some of her earlier videos as "Nostalgia Woman," can we address an elephant in the room? Given her philosophy, why did she ever allow herself to be called "chick"? I can totally buy Marzgurl or That Chick with the Goggles calling themselves "Nostalgia Chick", but why did Lindsay ever accept it? Was she ever told that all three finalists were getting onto the site, so she didn't have to call herself Nostalgia Chick?
• Did she ever apologise for her unconscionable "autistic temper tantrum" barb?

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