Stephen "Saberspark" Carver provides video essays and reviews about animation, entertainment, and the media.Stephen "Saberspark" Carver provides video essays and reviews about animation, entertainment, and the media.Stephen "Saberspark" Carver provides video essays and reviews about animation, entertainment, and the media.
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I've been watching Saberspark ever since I stumbled across his channel back in 2017, and I really enjoy his cartoon reviews. A lot of them are really entertaining, especially when he reviews some really bad animated films like Trolland or Joshua And The Promised Land. I also like how he analyses the stuff he reviews in 5 parts (Story, Voice Acting, Dialogue, Editing and Animation), and I also really like when he talks about how he could improve on the thing he's reviewing. Overall, he's a great cartoon reviewer and you should go give him a sub. ;)
He is incredibly hard to ignore, in regards to the most obnoxious thumbnails on YouTube he takes that trophy with both hands. But for every recommendation, a thought occurs to me.
What could he bring to the table?
He seems to have found a market in telling us over and over again why bad CGI is bad, even though better reviewers have told us why. You look up one bad CGI movie, you're bound to find Saberspark's name. Guy's basically a borderline leech.
Beyond that, it seems he's too eager to play it safe and covers topics that're bound to get him that sweet sweet ad revenue and trust. Sensible people would feel his videos are unintentionally condescending.
People go for obvious targets usually because they're too afraid to do hot takes or potentially encourage further discussion on popular topics. For perspective, this guy singled out Fish Police against a major disappointment encompassing the writers and producers of Animaniacs.
Overall, this guy doesn't fill me with confidence.
What could he bring to the table?
He seems to have found a market in telling us over and over again why bad CGI is bad, even though better reviewers have told us why. You look up one bad CGI movie, you're bound to find Saberspark's name. Guy's basically a borderline leech.
Beyond that, it seems he's too eager to play it safe and covers topics that're bound to get him that sweet sweet ad revenue and trust. Sensible people would feel his videos are unintentionally condescending.
People go for obvious targets usually because they're too afraid to do hot takes or potentially encourage further discussion on popular topics. For perspective, this guy singled out Fish Police against a major disappointment encompassing the writers and producers of Animaniacs.
Overall, this guy doesn't fill me with confidence.
So far I am spending the spring break with snacks and saber spark vids. They are witty and serious, with a funny and humerous touch to them.
An underrated channel in my opinion. Sometimes his channel can be targeted by people he talks about (I'm looking at you red ape family) and they always get a slice of that bitter karma pie. I never truly understood stuff like nfts and what makes a movie good or bad, but saber always has at least one small part of a video dedicated to this.
Great channel overall! I would definitely recommend anybody over a certain age to watch saber spark.
Great job saber. 😌
An underrated channel in my opinion. Sometimes his channel can be targeted by people he talks about (I'm looking at you red ape family) and they always get a slice of that bitter karma pie. I never truly understood stuff like nfts and what makes a movie good or bad, but saber always has at least one small part of a video dedicated to this.
Great channel overall! I would definitely recommend anybody over a certain age to watch saber spark.
Great job saber. 😌
With his wit and informative yet still entertaining format, SaberSpark introduces obscure cartoons and shows many of us never even heard of regardless if they were good or bad. Most of them are bad and as a consequence have become memes on YouTube and elsewhere such as Google.
Probably the best known episodes of his are his review of Joshua and the Promised Land, Gaithers Pond, What's Up? Balloon to the Rescue, and Stravinsky and the Mysterious House. All of these I consider some of his best reviews. SaberSpark's is funny in how he analyzes these movies and shows. He'll explain what the premise is about, review a few clips, then go over his five points about the movie/show. Recently he's suggested improvements to them which's good. Many critics don't do that. At least the ones I've seen and if they do it's often in a condescending way.
I also like how SaberSpark's reviews are mostly straight to the point. A barb here, history lesson there but no long skit to further the point(not that they're always bad either). The focus' primarily on the movie and its origins. If you like so bad it's good, than you'll like this as well as the good material he reviews. I often like his viewpoints and format and I highly recommend him to others.
Probably the best known episodes of his are his review of Joshua and the Promised Land, Gaithers Pond, What's Up? Balloon to the Rescue, and Stravinsky and the Mysterious House. All of these I consider some of his best reviews. SaberSpark's is funny in how he analyzes these movies and shows. He'll explain what the premise is about, review a few clips, then go over his five points about the movie/show. Recently he's suggested improvements to them which's good. Many critics don't do that. At least the ones I've seen and if they do it's often in a condescending way.
I also like how SaberSpark's reviews are mostly straight to the point. A barb here, history lesson there but no long skit to further the point(not that they're always bad either). The focus' primarily on the movie and its origins. If you like so bad it's good, than you'll like this as well as the good material he reviews. I often like his viewpoints and format and I highly recommend him to others.
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