I want to first point out that i have watched many of Freddie's videos, and he is like my idol. I love learning how he makes his videos and my dream is to be on his team. That being said, and keeping in mind that he is not the sole director/writer of VGHS, I cannot call this a "great" show. It is just barely below the "good" hash mark because of some critical flaws:
1) I have a hard time accepting the idea of a culture where video games are so important. Remember how they cut from the news report about the President (of the USA) missing to how Brian D killed Law? I just don't feel like there was enough to establish the reality of such a society.
2) I can understand how Brian D gets a scholarship to VGHS for killing Law, and killing him by accident is a good plot element, but his scholarship is revoked abruptly and in the middle of the semester when Law gets into legal trouble for hacking which had nothing to do with the match that got Brian D his scholarship in the first place.
2a)The aforementioned Law situation leads to two more plot holes: to allow Brian D to stay enrolled, the dean essentially extorts janitorial work from Brian D to pay his way, meanwhile Law is still enrolled at the school, apparently as a deadbeat troll.
3) The Brian+Jenny relationship is completely botched and even parasitic from the very beginning, I won't bother explaining.
Aside from a few other, minor illogicalities (yes, it IS a word even though IMDb doesn't think so), because the show is a comedy and low-budget, the show is very decent. The visual effects are amazing (given the budget), I don't care what anyone says. I feel like this is a really good idea but it could have been executed better. The creators need to make the events more seamless, real, and logical. Their problem is cutting corners and taking leaps of faith.
Also, please keep in mind that if this was produced by a major commercial film company, I would hold it in worse regard than Arrow. Yeah. That bad.
1) I have a hard time accepting the idea of a culture where video games are so important. Remember how they cut from the news report about the President (of the USA) missing to how Brian D killed Law? I just don't feel like there was enough to establish the reality of such a society.
2) I can understand how Brian D gets a scholarship to VGHS for killing Law, and killing him by accident is a good plot element, but his scholarship is revoked abruptly and in the middle of the semester when Law gets into legal trouble for hacking which had nothing to do with the match that got Brian D his scholarship in the first place.
2a)The aforementioned Law situation leads to two more plot holes: to allow Brian D to stay enrolled, the dean essentially extorts janitorial work from Brian D to pay his way, meanwhile Law is still enrolled at the school, apparently as a deadbeat troll.
3) The Brian+Jenny relationship is completely botched and even parasitic from the very beginning, I won't bother explaining.
Aside from a few other, minor illogicalities (yes, it IS a word even though IMDb doesn't think so), because the show is a comedy and low-budget, the show is very decent. The visual effects are amazing (given the budget), I don't care what anyone says. I feel like this is a really good idea but it could have been executed better. The creators need to make the events more seamless, real, and logical. Their problem is cutting corners and taking leaps of faith.
Also, please keep in mind that if this was produced by a major commercial film company, I would hold it in worse regard than Arrow. Yeah. That bad.