as a long time fan of the Channel awesome and big D&D fan aswell, I thought I would voice my opinions on the 3rd anniversary of the sight and here they are. now I don't what will happen when I review an affectionate parody of adventure movies and books and video games performed by a bunch of other far more famous reviewers may cause a black hole someone in the metaverse but I don't care *evil Laughter and Lightning crash here* seriously though here are my thoughts be warned there be Spoilers past this point.
Firstly it was pretty damn impressive , coming in at around 2 hours and 10 minutes in length it's no wonder they had to take so long to edit it together and divide into parts it was a fun set of videos for the fans who have supported the site. Secondly the plot if you remove the parody from the plot and you could have a decent adventure story like the ones they were parodying the pacing was good and there were several uses of foreshadowing which hindsight were amazingly well done and subtle. Thirdly fuck it, it was a massive crossover with many of the Channel Awesome guys there dressed up, looking ridiculous (though some it worked oddly) that alone was hilarious.
The plot as I said before could easily be used seriously (to be fair as a parody of such stories it would especially if done by fans of those stories) but this was apparent especially by James Rolfe's cameo as the Voice of the ancient world in part 6 six giving much of the back story to Malachite and Aion (With several Photohped images to represent Malachite which I recognised as an image of a male Drow and Sorcerer from earlier editions manuals) where it mentions mentions that Sorcerery basically cast from HP which was shown in the previous part when Malachite actually used magic. this is what i mean by use of foreshadowing also Aion's ring made of lodestone then turning out to be Mahti's that was incredibly well done and many films in Hollywood have pulled Deus ex Machinas many a time that made no sense in the context. as for the ending well Mahti being useful and sacrificing himself and defeating Malachite single handedly WITH THE POWER OF HEART!! of all things made it hilarious.
As for Malachite himself, just fucking wow as an antagonist he was terrifying and wonderfully out of place in this story as opposed to Jaffers and his friends though their threat was there they were more or the less Team Rocket by the end of the story (oh and dead) then we Realise despite his seriousness Malachite is a fucking hypocrite and uses an I-phone was brilliant especially with the timing. that's all I have to say other than Jaffers being a hilarious stereotype of the D&D nerd (me being one and knowing many others makes it even funnier).
As for the reviewers they were funny too each of them getting atleast 1 moment each at being being funny Filmbrains Rivalry with Luke was a noteworthy one and it had it's own story arc which got resolved. though there wasn't time for there to be stories for everyone (the sheer number of reviewers and the running time as it was would probably have doubled the running time making this longer than Ben Hur) but the return of That Dude in the Suede was well timed but he could have done with more time in the story but hey he had to keep quiet otherwise the surprise wouldn't have been a surprise. finally the reveal that Malachite's hand was now a Power glove was one of my favourite jokes of the lot. all in all the special was great and I can't wait for next year's (let the trolls begin their comments now) , This is Owler signing off for now.
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