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Yeah.

He has the same problem as the Angry Video Game Nerd. Being the whiny critic who uses a bunch of profanity isn't as funny coming from someone in their 40s as it is in their 20s. So, the character has to change. And both hoped to move onto other projects while getting trapped doing what it is that they're best known for. In the case of Nostalgia Critic, there's a problem in that his video have just gotten too damn long. I like a good 15 to 20 minute YouTube video before work. I don't want to devote half an hour or more to them.

That said, Nostalgia Critic sometimes still lands. (As does the Nerd.) I loved his video on The Black Cauldron. They perfectly summed that film up. "Just because nobody likes The Black Cauldron, it doesn't mean that you *don't like* The Black Cauldron." And his video on Stephen King's Sleepwalkers was about as funny as he's ever had. In both cases, modern NC and modern AVGN do better when they're trying to be insightful and reflective rather than recapture their "shit the fuck!" / "no good sack of bitch" days from when they were playing angsty manchildren.