Re: S06E12: Spice Up Your Life
shotgunbadger wrote:Right that's my point, the only avatars of criticism they seem to put in are people that don't just say 'I don't like this' but also 'I don't like this and you're a stupid poor asshole if you think it's good' which...is not a thing. Like, the people who do that aren't seen as some respected bastion of knowledge on the subject like they're portrayed as here, the michelin people don't go around saying 'if you don't eat at a star resteraunt you might as well just eat hot trash you poor garbage person' and shit. It's just kinda this annoying trend in general stuff where the message of 'overly harsh critics are dicks, you can have an opinion without shaming other people' is evolving into 'critics are dicks who shame other people by having opinions'.
I'm thinking back on the episode now and I really can't say I got the feeling that shaming critics in general was the episode's message. I feel it was more that Zesty Gourmand was a famous asshole and that you really mustn't need to listen to assholes just because they're famous. Now, say, if the show had also gone out of its way to slam the critic who wrote the titular review in The Saddle Row Review then I might be inclined to agree with you, but as it is I'm just not seeing this here.
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