This guy has failed to do the very most important part of opinion writing, which is establish a reason why the audience should give a crap about what he thinks. proclaiming yourself as a genius is not a means to accomplishing this goal.
Lets take a look at a couple of examples of what this means. Starting with Anthony Bourdain, Host of the travel channel's "No reservations," author of "Kitchen Confidential," Columnist, Graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and an award winning chef. The last two credits make the rest of them possible, because Bourdain runs around talking about food and the Culinary world. It is nice to know that he has some background in the field. If anyone is so ambitious as to look up other popular Columnists you would find that damn near all of them have done other things in the field that they are expressing an opinion of. Yahtzee use to make independent games and he writes novels. Moviebob is an indie filmmaker. They know what it means to be on the other side of their criticisms. It also does not hurt that Bourdain Yahtzee and Moviebob have interesting personalities, you know so that people want to listen to them. Commenting on Jim's persona is a fool's errand, that is totally subjective. if you find that appealing cool go have fun.
The other thing that all of the Escapist Videos do is bring a level of quality that Jim simply neglects, either because he doesn't care or can't grasp the fundamentals of video production. (and I mean the very basic fundamentals)
Oh, to head off an obvious rebuttal. I am a TV, Radio, digital media journalism graduate, who is working on breaking into film, and I will gladly tell you a few of my early works were shit and I got roasted for them. The professional thing to do, is to salvage what you can and improve next time. NO ONE is as much of a genius as they like to think.
I once thought tinting scenes would be this revolutionary way of conveying personality dominance. well it isn't, it looks more like a Care Bear in a blender.
Until next time
