The most pathetic argument I read over and over again is people asking why someone would want to see exactly the same thing as the comic and then saying is better to get new things!

Imagine if this bs was the norm in the anime world, no good manga adaptations and only anime with pure made up filler, I doubt people would use the argument that they prefer new things that have nothing to do with the original story, plus making use of time travel and multiverses which are the laziest tropes to solve stories...

The same applies to book adaptations, people usually value when an adaptation is faithful, not when everything is changed and on top of that with misleading advertising.

Curiously enough, the adaptation of Pluto, which was 100% faithful to the manga, was highly valued, how strange that I didn't see anyone complaining about seeing the same thing as the manga... that's where that silly argument falls apart.

I like your review of the series. Indeed, most of the new stuff is filler and feels very ordinary in the realm of anime, while the movie and comic were more unique to their medium.  

The episodes I like the most were the 3 ones with Scott, and even so, I was afraid they could fuck up the ending with Ramona choosing to be single or some shit. They almost do it for a second... They didn't even explain the exact problems they had in the future, so it makes Scott looks bad in favor of Ramona.

At the end of the day, the secondary characters were nothing special, character development is overrated when it doesn't bring anything meaningful to the plot, thus episodes 2 to 6 are very skippable, also I'm sick of time travel and multiverses in shows and movies.

I think the biggest sin this show committed was the way they tried to tie it in to the comic. Having it be a sequel to the comic with future Scott taking in past Scott is a very cool concept but the execution is absolutely atrocious. Scott ends up getting a divorce with the love of his life all because he was too stupid to understand the difference between “needing a bit of space” and “divorce”. This is borderline character assassination. It defeats his entire arc in the comic. The whole point of his character arc was that he finally understood how terrible he’s been to everyone even the woman he loves. He has hurt people and he understands that now. He then does his best to grow and become a better person and a better partner for Ramona. Ramona also does her best to be a better partner for Scott. The last panel of the comic is of them holding hands into the sub space highway which kind of parallels the first time the two enter the sub space highway in which Ramona sort of just dragged Scott into it. Now instead they both jump in there holding hands and now both being mentally mature enough to be in a true relationship. It was touching and frikin beautiful. An excellent way to end an excellent story. Then the anime comes along and butchers it by taking away the lesson Scott learned and makes the character a shell of his former self. They don’t even try to have any nuance with it either. It’s used as a joke and the fact that he’s the true main villain of the series pisses me off. They don’t have him grow from that state of mind and just leave him in the dump he was originally in by the end of the series. What makes me even more mad is if they just did a one to one adaptation of the comic then not only would us Scott Pilgrim fans get to revisit the story we love in an absolutely beautifully animated way but also this would’ve made the story more accessible to the world.

i need to let this out.
first of all i didn't read the comics. the movie has some real issues, but i still like it overall. i like that the series trys to focus on ramona. it's weird to think about scott fighting ramonas battles in the movie. she needs to confront her exes and therefore her past. scott should not have to fight for her.
the movies combination of live action and the videogame/comic style slaps hard. i can really feel the creativity and fun the people who made it must have had. the movies fightscenes make so much fun to watch unlike the ones of the series somehow. it's not like im not into animation. i love animation fightscenes, but these fightscenes just bore me. i miss the exciting and creative vibe the movie had.
another point is, i don't get why there are so many little weird sequences in the show. the weirdest of them all is when ramona is just getting sexually harassed by straight wallace. thank god ramona leaves disgusted by the actor but then the camera is clearly focusing on her ass, wtf?! then the creepy, disgusting look of straight wallace, huh? what is happening?!? this whole sequence comes out of nowhere and doesn't contribute anything to the story. so why is it even a thing? why is envy literally turning scotts funeral into a concert a thing?? why is todd falling for wallace a thing?? WHAT IS HAPPENING?! there are many other sequences which weird me out like that, but i'll move on.
my third point is the music. music is such an important element of the movie. and i love this kind of distorted teen music. i think many can agree with me, that the opening song with the band practicing, is one of the best opening songs of movies in general. so why is the intro of the show in japanese? why is ring of fire by johnny cash playing at the end of ep 4? this doesn't fit at all. this is such a missed opportunity in my opinion.
maybe i dont get it, maybe it's not my taste. idk. i am not into the whole league of exes stuff anyways. the whole conflict between gideon and mathew bored me. i guess i am mostly interested in everybody else like the band, ramona, scott, julie, stacey, etc. and  they really screwed up my man wallace. he's my favourite character of the movie and he just sucks in the show.
ramonas fight with roxy and her conversation with lucas were great, the first episode which retells the story of the movie is quite nice too, but everything else is either weird or boring. especially when neil is involved.

my god this show is a mess.

09:19 - "Community" TV series by Dan Harmon was AWESOME! I remember years ago back in 2015, a friend of mine who loved the Scott Pilgrim comic books recommended me that TV series and I'm glad to have watched all of its six seasons. And currently the only Bryan Lee O'Malley graphic novel that I bought and read back in 2014 was "Seconds", and It was a good read.

Effin great vid VEX!! Made me laugh legit out loud!

I am so glad i dont pay attention to much new media. Hearing this breaks my heart. They called scott toxic... yeah, read the GN. Thats the point. Thats his story arch. He starts a creapy man dating a hs girl. Into an ok guy.

I guess the time travel is a bit out of no where

But at the same time the joke is that Scott is immature and would get so worked up and fixated that he would do something that insane. It's a very Scott Pilgrim thing to do.

You’re a legend. You gained a sub. It’s refreshing to hear someone with a brain and use it. Thank you :) gonna binge all your videos now

I mean I knew when it said “Scott pilgrim takes off” I already knew lol

my dear, you opened my eyes, before I was unsure how to feel about this series and now I realize that I hate it a lot, here are some problems that irritated me during the 8 episodes, it doesn't make sense that Ramona is determined to look for a guy she only had 1 date with and they almost had sex with, but didn't, only Roxy has the right to receive an apology (I don't have a problem with her, she was one of the few characters I found funny during the show ), but what about the other ex-boyfriends?, Lucas was hurt and betrayed by Ramona and he's still wrong just because he's a man?, they didn't know what to do with Todd and reduced him to being gay for the rest of the show and shit on Envy, the twins just don't do much of anything here and what about Gideon (I don't know why the hell they renamed him), the guy who was obviously the ex-boyfriend more powerful than the rest and defeated by the ex-boyfriend weaker due to the script?, (such a generic thing about the weaker being able to defeat the stronger due to the writers' favoritism) and then becoming irritating and lazy?, I only talked about ex-boyfriends, sorry, I'll talk briefly Of the other characters, Kim Stephen and Neil only serve to fulfill FILLER, the Knives plot with Ramona and Scott is a bit confusing, Julie is almost at the same level of annoying as she is in the film and Wallace in my opinion was the most massacred character of all the rest and as the icing on the cake, Scott is now the main villain just because they wanted to reference the name "Scott Pilgrim vs world"?, and another, you're telling me that the same guy who faced your part negative, compared himself to a Psychopath (in this case, Gideon in volume 6), realized the number of people he hurt without realizing it and even gained a damn sword of self-knowledge for not knowing how to differentiate between "I need time" and "Divorce" ?, it's very sad the low level of script that was executed in this show, it would have been better to have adapted the comic book, which is a thousand times better than the series, rather than a reinterpretation that I wanted to be good, but it wasn't how I imagined

Great vid Vex

he thing that pisses me off the most is that everyone whose FIRST INTRODUCTION to this franchise, was the show, will never know all of the growth and character development both Scott AND Ramona ACTUALLY go through, lol. Not to mention all the other characters who also go through growth spurts, including Kim who was probably the most important supporting character in the graphic novels. Even Lisa (who was completely absent in this iteration) had a small part, but her moment with Scott was integral to the story's sudden realization that Scott has changed. But you know what, I actually don't mind this story, if it was fleshed out more. It felt way too rushed, especially Ramona's side of it, because she's doing this all for a guy she just met! They never got to the part in the novels where they attempt to have sex at her apartment but hold off on it because they actually want to establish an emotional bond instead of just a one-night stand built on physical attraction. So in actuality, it makes it soooooo much worse since the "first date" never even happened.

I genuinely would love a remona flowers spinoff, and they could introduce so much new stuff as long as they respect the story theyre basing their new plot off, im just tired of having franchises ive loved being re written and then oresented as a continuation or a re make when the plot completely deviates from the source material

Great review. Summed up my thoughts perfectly. Technical achievements like the animation, sound, and editing aside, this was a dumpster fire of a show.

This show was all style and jokes, no substance.

Some fans claim Ramona and others get “progression, resolutions, and developments”. But where?!

Ramona is doing all this to find a guy she dated once, almost slept with, and learned two timed her with a high schooler. How is this any better? Oh wait, cause “sparks”.

Ramona was not confronted with her flaws and forced to have some introspection till the last episode, which was too brief that it might as well never happened.

Scott might as well not have been there and is painted to be the real villain of the relationship. They try to make it seem that future Ramona is also at fault by not communicating with future Scott for a long time but they never delve deeper to that.

That’s because they had no time because they spent it all on gay jokes and filler episodes making meta commentary on the previous works.

If you want to see cool animation and hear a nice soundtrack with the style of Scott Pilgrim and only that then this show is great for you.

Otherwise if you expected Bryan Lee O’Malley or Edgar Wright to grow as writers then this show will disappoint you. It’s like watching Rooster-teeth or grungy YA authors get talented Japanese animators and professional musicians to make their shitty Tumblr rewrite into a tv show.

The only improvement with characters were Knives and Matthew Patel. They “won” in this show by getting more confidence and not being tied down by their exes (Ramona and Scott). Gideon and Julie seemed interesting but they’re just teasers for a new season.

I hope Netflix experiences a similar financial bomb like Disney has right now with the Marvels. Because that is the only way to get these corpos to listen to fans.

Don’t give these folks your money if you don’t want more of their trash.

Heard you shit on this series on the latest BSUP and immediately checked to see if you had a video on it. Thank you. I really, really needed this. The movie/books are very near and dear to me so when I'm watching this show, hearing the original creator shit on his own masterpiece (You know, the piece that actually got him fame & success and allowed him to do this retelling in the first place) and tell me that it was bad and that this reimagining is so much smarter, more evolved and also I'm stupid for liking the original, weirdly enough, that rubbed me the wrong way.

I kinda saw it and I’m just confused of all the choices that were made. What annoys me the most is Knives battle outfit being in the last chapter was a bad decision. Knives shouldn’t wear that outfit because it was made to mock Ramona and she wanted to get Scott’s attention. It was the results of Scott leading her on just to dump her leading her down a sad and broken. Oh and she also fights with Ramona as well in the movie and the manga. When Scott died she got over his death fast, she was mad at Ramona but she didn’t had beef with her, so I’m sorry to say this but that just bad writing. Gideon character was the best version of himself in the movie and manga but now he just reduced to a sad, anime villain who all talk and no bark. This guy was supposed to be evil? The bait and switch didn’t really made me mad but some of the decisions needed to be rewritten. At the end of the day it’s just another universe.

Thank you for your hard work.

Man, i knew not to keep my hopes up. A short search on what Brayn O'Malley is and does nowadays is all you need to understand why we got what we got imo. My bet is he is bitter that nobody cares about "Snotgirl" and wants Scott Pilgrim. But i still had hope. Oh, well, guess i'll rewatch the movie or something.

On a sidenote: I have no idea about Mary Elizabeth Winstead's personal life and tbh the last thing i remember her from might be 10 Cloverfield Lane (imo great movie btw), so take this with a grain of salt, but i think she pulls of "cute" really well in the Alyson Hannigan kind of way. Definitely see the appeal.