YMMV / The Dom Reviews

• Continuity Lockout: If you didn't see his Harry Potter videos before they were taken down, don't see them through his Patreon, or see archives of them elsewhere, you'll most likely be very confused as to who Terrence is and why he exists.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In his review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, there's a joke about Calluna being overly excited about their crossover, walking in on The Dom showering, and being forced to watch The Nostalgia Critic giving an instructional video on not making other reviewers uncomfortable in crossovers. In 2018, they both left Channel Awesome due to the blowback of the various scandals surrounding the site.
  • The gag where someone mocks Terrence for wearing sunglasses indoors becomes a little uncomfortable when it's revealed that Terrence's shades currently are covering up a nasty injury he suffered during the Battle of Hogwarts.
  • The entire Harry-Potterathon became this after Dominic realized he could no longer excuse J. K. Rowling's bigotry.
    Dominic I say this as someone who has made excuses for her and performed mental gymnastics to justify some of the more "worrisome" elements of her subtext for far longer than I should have: she has hella gone off the deep end.
• LGBT Fanbase: Dom's garnered a significant queer following over the years due to sheer amount of respect he shows to the community. He goes out of his way to give glowing reviews to LGBT-themed novels he finds, openly calls out and gets rid of any bigotry that shows up in his comments, once checked in with the bi community because he was worried his blue-purple-pink background was appropriative, and dropped J.K. Rowling very quickly after her transphobic attitude became more evident.
• More Popular Spin-Off: 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.
• Older Than They Think: Terrence is actually Terry Boot, a character The Dom took straight out of the Harry Potter books, even the fact that he's in Ravenclaw.
• Play-Along Meme: Dominic's April Fools video on the (non-existent) book that The Room (2003) was based on has a lot of comments from "fans" of the book and its author.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Many viewers felt Terrence was redeemed as of the seventh Harry Potter reviews, thanks to the Dom humanizing him by revealing his tragic backstory at the Battle of Hogwarts and his subsequent Pet the Dog moments in the review. A number of fans now like Terrence and ask to see him in more reviews.
• The Scrappy: Terrence the Douchebag from Ravenclaw (later retconned as being from Camp Half-Blood). While his being an unlikable jerk is intentional, a lot of viewers just don't find him very funny. He got Rescued from the Scrappy Heap thanks to his tragic backstory.
• Special Effects Failure: Can happen at points. Given he runs a low-budget web show, the effects were never expected to be excellent, but sometimes they can be poorly integrated.
  • One instance being the beginning of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 LIA, where Terrence is talking and The Dom comes in with a tank. Terrence is decently lined up right to be seeing the tank, but The Dom himself is turned weirdly in it where he's not lined up with Terrence whatsoever. Plus, he's not always moving at the same speed as the tank, as his body realigns with the top of the tank a second after the tank moves across the screen at points.
  • The LIA on Ella Enchanted has a short conversation between The Dom and Terrence at the start...and The Dom is layered slightly more into the background than Terrence. It's noticeable because he's both farther away from the camera than Terrence is and he's also shorter than Terrence because he's also layered on to the green screen at a lower height than Terrence.
  • Also, due to the green screen, the edges of Terrence's sunglasses get accidentally edited out of the videos due to being off the sides of his face.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: 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.
• Take That, Scrappy!: The Dom seems to be more aware of the fandom's growing impatience with Terrence the more time goes on, with him giving Terrence a good kick in one review and shooting him in another. In his Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince review, Terrence is treated to a scene in the Ravenclaw common room where he overhears his fellow Ravenclaws openly complain about him, and many of their complaints are lifted right out of the comment's section.
  Terrence: You dickheads know I'm right here, don't you? I can hear every word you're saying.
  Ravenclaw students: GOOD!
  • Apparently he won "The Most Annoying Asshole in Hogwarts" Award in 1996... over Cormac McLaggen.

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