"So, they saved Spoony from the feds..." That is a sentence.

It's crazy how this movie mind-broke you so much that you couldn't even operate a doorknob.

You know that if even the Oneyplays crowd are unable to stomach To Boldly Flee then you know it’s gonna be bad I hope you didn’t suffer too much with the making of this video and that the next thing you review is something you love.

The Nostalgia Critic Arc gave Shota some amazing character development, he went from a optimistic and hopeful man to a broken yet determined individual who strives to defy Doug’s influence.

You're the first creator I've seen that didn't just read the document and take every claim made at face value. Respect for being able to look at it with a reasonable eye

It's nice to know that Channel Awesome kept the tradition of the third film often being the worst part of the trilogy.

Remember when Lindsay tried to cancel James Rolfe during the Ghostbusters 2K16 shitstorm, except she was the one who got annihilated instead? Also Loli, if Lupa tries to come after you just surround yourself with a bunch of box fans, she'll be powerless.

Reaching the end of this saga feels like being the final survivor of a horror movie. Yeah, the military’s arrived, and you finally have a moment of safety, but you watched all of your friends die gruesome deaths right before your eyes and any will to go on has been completely snuffed out.

29:45 Doug is Griffith in golden age and everybody else is the Band of the Hawk. Attaching their dreams to his. But instead of it being heart warming and showing comradery. They were filled with spit and selfishness.

Lewis: "I'm an altruist who values all life! Superheroes taught me to help everyone because it's right and revenge is bad! 🥺🥺" Also Lewis: "Brad Jones got swatted? HA HA! Fuck that guy! Payback is a bitch! 😈😈"

The Ozymandias sound clip from that Breaking Bad trailer really set the tone for this review.

That image of Jewario thinking about George Takei has aged beautifully.

To boldly flee is quite a fitting title, as the first thing this movie triggers on play is a fight or flight response.

This was definitely symptomatic of a big issue of this era of KZfaq. Guys who got their start doing funny stuff all of a sudden thought cracking jokes was beneath them and went full dramatic with their once comedic series, bloating them with plot, lore, and I am 14 and this is deep style edgy philosophizing. Edit: sorry, I didn't know editing my comment for clarity would get rid of your heart, Loli. XD

The one thing I will always give Doug is that nothing, not even his worst stuff, ever feels cynical. Compare him to Linkara and you can tell that Doug genuinely enjoys what he does and puts passion into everything, even though it mostly ends up awful. On a site full of Jim Sterlings and MovieBobs, that is surprisingly rare to see.

It's kinda sad that a piece of media, even terrible ones, get overshadowed by controversy. Really detracts from the actual subject matter.

Good lord feels like the Change the Channel Document would a Video all on its own

After seeing Joon the King take the Not So Awesome document at face value during his Nostalgia Critic video, it’s great to see someone call the CTC crew out on their shit.

I think the only impact that the CTC document had was giving Quinton Reviews an identity crisis

Do you think he kept the wario hat on when he blew his brains out?

When that "Change the Channel" story happend, I knew from the start all the acusations should be taken with big grain of salt. Because, after all is said and done, Most if not all people making up CA were of the same type : introverts, man-children, with lack of social and communication skills, unable to handle issues in mature way. Avoding responsibility for their own mistakes and pushing blame on someone else to keep position of victim - not unexpected.

The Mayans didn’t predict 2012 as the end of the world, they predicted this famine being released to the universe.

I think what people saw when they watched the tape from the ring was the entirety of the nostalgia critic movie trilogy compressed into a few seconds.

That bat credit card creepypasta meme is a great way to conclude the trilogy.

The main thing to take from this is Linkara is a pro at picking the worst hills to die on.

What if the nostalgia critic reviewed this trilogy?

What I remember most about To Boldly Flee are these two things: 1) The Spoony Drama and his departure from the site happened right before it was completed, which made the entire thing even more awkward than it already was. 2) I watched part of it while having Monday Night Raw on the TV in the background, and it was the episode where Jerry Lawler had a heart attack and almost died on air. It was a weird night.

Brad Jones has made some imho good low budget films. I have a special place for the the heart that the first Cinema Snob movie was made with and still watch his videos to this day.

I had to laugh how I said "Bro thats just Perfect Blue" literally seconds before Loli said it

I see it now, That Guy With The Glasses was a site that was *going* to crash and burn, but Doug and anyone with a brain had already moved on to KZfaq. The Change The Channel document was a last hurrah to drag it's creator down with it. It failed only for it to be the final nail in its own coffin.

This was a ride, but the greatest thing is showing just how awful everyone was. It's good to know that Doug is surrounded by good people now. For as shit as these movies are, I can't hate Doug. He's got a good heart, he's just incompetent.

You know I always felt like the "Change the Channel" document was kinda suspect. Especially in hindsight since a lot of these people seem to be pretty toxic themselves and love to exaggerate shit. Kinda wish Mister Metokur had done a redo of the TGWTG series with this type of info. Lupa and Linkara are just trash lol

There's some rumors that Obscurus Lupa had romantic feeling for Brad and when he refused to join her on the CTC shit, she went nuts and tried to destroy him. With how utterly crazy she behaves, I'd believe it.

In 2030 James Franco will announce he's making his own 'Change the Channel' film. Jewario's character would be very appealing for Hollywood.

"Bring on the [redacted] I got my running shoes"

It's kinda wild to think how almost every single person who was a part of CA had such massive egos despite making awful content for years.

My understanding on why they stayed with Blip so long was they had more lax restrictions on what they can show, say, and still get a paycheck. Which worked in Brad's favor as he tended to make videos about old exploitation videos that would absolutely cause issues with KZfaq's monitization, as well as Benzaie when he had GameFap, where he reviewed Hentai. While everybody was having issues with DMCAs and restrictions on KZfaq, they didn't have those issues on Blip. What eventually happened with Blip, they got bought by Maker and they decided they had new restrictions on who and what could be posted on there so Channel Awesome contributors had to come to KZfaq. The thing with Maker buying it was weird because they just shut down the site 2 years later.

The linkara bit running while sonic frontiers music played was hilarious, thank you for that.

Now the question remains, which would you rather do next: review the Atop The Fourth Wall movie or cover the Change The Channel situation in full?

Also, using "No Values", the song from the final level of Spec Ops: The Line, while talking about the downfall of CA was just ... *chef's kiss*

There’s a big part your leaving out here about that document. The 2 biggest things in that were when Doug chewed Doritos over his brothers keyboard and when linkara smacked his belly in front of everyone until it turned red. That was when iron Liz left him. Seriously how could you leave out such important details?

Awesome Video, AlmightyLoli. If anything, I feel bad for Doug, the person, not the character of the Nostalgia Critic. He tried to branch out, and he was pushed back into the role to pay the bills, Now he’s trapped. And You know what, I honestly like him when he isn’t a character, his normal Doug reviews make me happy since they are honest. From what I can tell from the people that followed in Doug’s footsteps, they clearly wanted to do this for clout and money, to ride the coattails of a popular person. And to be honest, let them be forgotten by us, it would be the ultimate justice for us.

16:26 Indeed. Linkara would *boldly flee* from the crime in progress.

And in the end, Doug stands triumphant upon the skulls of those that wanted him dead

Would you say to boldly flee gave us a better live action interpretation of Edward than the Netflix cowboy bebop?

I'm so glad you called out the Google doc, from the moment it was published I thought it was shady, no proof just claims.

Guess I picked the right time to rewatch Metokur's TGWTG coverage from way back as the algorithm has brought me here. Watching the first part of this video reminds me a lot of the ProJared situation. After the initial pitchfork and torch mob it slowly came out that there were no heroes in the the story at all and everyone just kinda sucked.

Look upon my works, ye mighty... and Doogspair.

Ok, i do like the idea of a bunch of villains having a base with a potted plant. It's like trying to picture wyald having one, it's stupid and funny

"Change the Channel" seems like it was just a desperate attempt to detach from and disavow their shitty content, to wipe the slate clean, especially from the more politically incorrect stuff. Sort of like the "troll's remorse" phenomenon.

This video's debut will be marked as the gradual realization point for the mainstream to pick up all the inconsistencies with the CA Document. I do wish re-readers nothing but the best in these troubled times.

I've just gotta say that I really love this format. The juxtaposition between the overly self-serious hypocrites that made the movie against the complete nonsense they actually put onscreen is pure kino.

So glad that finally someone calls out that stupid rape joke complaint. I’ve literally never understood that criticism for the reasons you described. Despite what people like QuintonReviews say, it’s not even close to being a rape joke. It just feels like a weak excuse to try and make Doug look like a creep since realistically he hadn’t really done much wrong so they needed something, anything really, to justify their hatred of him to the Change the Channel supporters.

I will say that the length isn't too terrible when you consider these were originally released and meant to be viewed as episodes of a miniseries, not as a full-length movie.

James Rolfe is always the good part in these movies.

This is one of the few videos about this topic that doesn't take the accounts in the "Not so Awesome" document at face value, which is honestly refreshing. Like when you zoom out and see where in the early mid 2010's a bunch of marginally talented wannabes who believed they'd "hacked" the world, to work their dream jobs of trying to tear down decades old movies and tv shows until it came time for them to try to "outdo" the very things they were criticising, was a cautionary tale (literally none of them were competent enough to write) is the sort of poetic irony that makes "hating the haters" so addictive. While all the horror stories about what went on behind the scenes can't honestly be 100% true, for instance (aside from being somewhat unpleasant to look at) I refuse to believe Mike Michaud is the Machiavellian mastermind with one hand on the CA purse strings and the other up Doug's ass. Nor do I think the Channel Awesome anniversary films are movies, they're internet videos; and Doug thinking he could stage this grand exit, that it would be noticed by Hollywood and he'd be discovered as a diamond in the rough genius is the kind of hubris and stupidity that's doomed him to his fate but launched the careers of thousands of KZfaq commentary channels.

i take anything Linkara, Linsey and Lupa say with a bucket of salt.

Lupa showing up in two of Brad's movies after this whole drama is even funnier considering that _Doug Walker_ also shows up as an actor in at least _one_ of them.

I used to be insanely obsessed with Channel Awesome, looking back it wasn’t that great but it has some charm. I, partly thanks to OneyPlays, look back on it with ironic jokes. This series has been a wild ride through my past internet addictions and I loved every second of it.

The trilogy we didn’t deserve, but the one we needed.

That comment about how "they can't let it go" really rings true. Lupa and Phelous did a review on the Street Fighter movie and they still put #ChangeTheChannel all over.

As a man who only watched the early Nostalgia Critic videos before the crew got so.....bloated, I can't believe I was blissfully unaware of all this. I wasn't a huge fan, but I remember many of the reviews being memorable and helped me get through college boredom. Somehow I feel like watching this trilogy just for the lulz.

Being bad on purpose doesn't make you good.

I'm still laughing at how silly some of the former employees are being even to this day. Ellis just couldn't leave well enough alone and ended up pushing obviously fake claims that contradicted the document and some of her own statements previously. Lupa and Linkara running defense for her during this was also an eye opener. They just cannot keep the story straight.

Linkara did make a horror themed spiritual sequel in a form of an "audio drama" to channel awesome anniversary movies. No it isn't his own movie.

man, your voice and cadence is so nice. Its dry enough toe be serious, and steady enough to have that drip of sarcasm. I love it.

Almightyloli, I want to thank you for your videos. Especially as of now after I put my dog to rest. Your sense of criticism on pieces of entertainment as well as your style of comedy is such a detail

Lol I wonder how long these actors would last on a set with Kubrick

Just seems like a bunch of petty people that are super salty that they never reached the level of fame Doug had.

SadPanda didn't fall into obscurity. He's now a massive contributor to another patrician French KZfaqr; Joueur du Grenier. Who's like, the french AVGN and the only French KZfaqr who actually puts effort in his stuff and who's not a sellout.

Was playing some Far Cry 2 while listening to this. That outro music lined up perfectly with clearing out a Fort. Thanks!

These people show one a small scale what melodrama goes on behind the scenes at Hollywood. Imagine these people with thousands or even millions of dollars and larger production teams to take out their frustrations on and you can kinda see why everything is a mess over there.

In reference to the CTC drama I remember there was a fairly big youtuber who pointed out some of the flaws in the document early on, such as petty complaints like being upset Doug the most popular creator on the site was given special privileges something that happens in every business. And the video got mass disliked and they were accused of being an abuse apologist basically. Even by some other well known youtubers outside Channel Awesome

35:44 Spoony predicted Chainsawman

39:05 Rinsey Erris defends Dan Olson.

While the year between Suburban Knights and To Bold Flee was the year I fell out of the community (while still staying with RolloT as his artist), this movie right here is what made me just walk away. It was too much. I think by this time we'd dropped the TGWTG podcast and moved to doing Weekly Manga Recap over on LordKat's website instead but my memory is a bit hazy. Regardless of that this movie was unbearable and what made me just stop and not look back.

In your first ten minutes, you addressed everything I've noticed that didn't add up about that whole "Channel Awesome is Skeletor" fiasco. The document didn't make sense, the people whining the loudest were the most mediocre and unknown, and the stories read like parodies, not actual occurrences.

I feel like this behind the scenes drama is needed to point out and clear out how exaugurated it is, cause there was a recent documentary on Channel Awesome where it doesn't really do that.

Toward the end of my time watching Channel Awesome, Chad Rocco (aka CR) was my favorite of their contributors, and I was happy to see him in To Boldly Flee. I'm really glad you didn't have anything bad to say about him. He always struck me as a nice guy.

The deed is done! The Third Seal has been broken!

I don't watch Nostalgia Critic as much as I used to but that show will always have a special place in my heart. I deeply miss Spoony, i always enjoyed his content and I hope he is doing well nowadays. I am still a regular viewer of Angry Joe though and I'm very happy to see that he's still going strong after all these years.

16:30 - What Is That Song ? Undefeatable - Sonic Frontiers OST

Didn't know they fired the Indian guy, I legit though he was Doug's best friend or something considering how much he used to pop up in videos.

One thing to bring up about this movie’s length. To Boldy Flee didn’t actually start out as a movie. It was actually a multi part mini series that was just compiled into a movie.

To Boldy Flee more like To Boldy Suffer

Really good video just three things 1. Is there anything you learned about while working on the videos, and by that I mean for example you finding out something regarding the whole change the channel ordeal that you didn't know about before? 2. I also noticed undefeatable from sonic frontiers during the clip of linkara running, which first off nice, second "WHERE'S MY SONIC FRONTIERS STREAM LOLI!!" 3. Sorry for the last cringy line :).

Can't wait for Doogcember II: The Return, as well as Doogcember III: Revelations and Doogcember: the 15th Farewell Tour.

17:19 this faintest sound of Dance of a Cryptek in the background convinced me that you are a very good mate

I honestly didn’t expect to break out a smile and near laugh from the running Linkara with Undefeatable playing

Ngl, this was the film stream that I think got me joining your crew, and I'm pretty thankful. That said, maybe my brain is fried, but the heavy plot doesn't feel that convoluted to me considering a lot of the Channel Awesome films are callbacks to other references made in the past. Other than that, considering my knowledge of the old is not that well preserved or I didn't watch everyone but heard of them secondhand, maybe some of the references may fall flat on me. (Also, Linkara's ship in the movie is actually formerly the ship of his main villain at the time Lord Vice, which he took over after beating him and I think installing an AI he called Nimaway in order to keep it running as well as making sure there were no failsafes Vice put in in order to destroy the ship. Think it was called Comicron 1 or that was the second ship's name). In any case, I hope you have fun doing the Atop the 4th Wall Movie, because that one is the culmination of all the Lore at the time I assume. Haven't seen it, but I recall dude was promoting it a lot after certain events had transpired in his AT4W universe.

I truly feel bad for Todd In The Shadows. He never did stupid elongated skits in his reviews. He was smart and to the point and very passionate about his reviews.

This "movie" made me want to go through Chinese water torture because that at least has an actual point and meaning

The Spoony/Insano thing is even more confusing than you think. Originally, Insano and Spoony Were the same person, but really on in his reviews, he died in a gag. Linkara cloned him as a gag in Spoony's review of the Clones of Bruce Lee, with a clone Insano and Spoony Bum also being made. I think eventually the original Spoony was resurrected and killed the clone but this all hazy half memory of dumb sketches from a decade or more ago.

I was expecting a 90 min video for this one Thx for doing some actual journalism

Watching these videos has been the most I’ve enjoyed anything Channel Awesome related since 2011.

Ozymandias was a perfect choice to reflect the hubris...and the ultimate futility.

When the film entirely revolves around trying to explore the consequences of a plot hole of a bunch of poorly made fanfics, you should expect nothing but pain from this movie.

I still find it funny I only had one interaction with obscure lupa and once it was over she blocked me I’m blocked by half of the change the channel people

8:30 True. We've seen from current events that Doug Walker is doing rather well. His Nostalgia Critic show is still going full steam, and it still nets a decent following, as opposed to many of the Change the Channel people, whose followers continued to shrink until they basically became the equivalent of Z-list celebrities. The only one among them who had real talent outside of Doug was Spoony, and we know how his story ended.

Can't wait to see how you and shota survive a stream of linkaras movie P.S am I the only one surprised that there was no rant about Marz kusanagi