The SMG4 Movie: PUZZLEVISION was a disappointing and underwhelming end to the year long Puzzlevision saga that began with the SMG4 Movie: IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT. Let's discuss why.
0:00 Intro
0:55 Lack of lore
10:03 Mr Puzzles' Character
11:44 No message/substance
12:58 Underwhelming climax
15:42 Conclusion
Video Transcript:
Hey all, No Null here. So in many of my theory videos since the release of the Puzzlevision movie, I've expressed disappointment at how the movie, and the puzzlevision saga as a whole, concluded. Today I think it's well overdue that I discuss my thoughts on the puzzlevision movie and saga as a whole.
Firstly, let me make it clear. On the whole, the puzzlevision saga is one of the best smg4 story lines in the series, easily being up there with the cosmology saga, and definitely being a huge step up from the previous storyline, that being the lawsuit arc. However, I personally feel that the puzzlevision saga falls behind the cosmology saga in quality due to a simple reason. The ending of the saga was underwhelming as it failed to deliver on the year-long build up and hype generated from the three movies in 2023.
Firstly, from a lore perspective, there was little revealed and what we did get was underwhelming. I’m sort of a lore guy, and so one of the things i loved about the cosmology saga was the wealth of interesting lore concepts it introduced, such as the meme guardians, the great beyond, the guardian pods, the avatars, the different universes based on different games, etc.
Comparatively, what was introduced in the puzzlevision movie? Mr puzzles is cool and entertaining, but we never get an explanation for any of his TV head powers. The lore behind his character is also rather weak, especially compared to zero. We only get his backstory in a very brief verse of the creative control song and it is nothing that special, he was just lonely as a child and became engrossed in television. As a result, He became obsessed with creating his own show, and due to his deep dedication to this goal he ended up cutting off his head and replacing it with a TV. This could be a good basis for an interesting backstory, but due to it not being developed any further it fails to be very gripping. That's why when creating puzzlevision after show, I didn’t just try to explain where he got his tv powers from, but also tried to give a more deep and emotional weighting to his motivations by expanding upon what drived him to create the best show ever. I know some people are fine with his backstory as is and with him being a more two dimensional car too ny villain, and as i said previously it isn’t a bad backstory, but i definitely expected it to be much more developed as mr puzzles was a hyped up over-arching antagonist for over a year.
This feeling of disappointment at how lacking mr puzzles’ backstory and lore were was not helped by what at the time seemed to be hints towards mr puzzles having a meta element to him, like how the cosmology lore was met a and linked to the real world. It seemed like mr puzzles was speaking directly towards us, the viewers, at the end of wotfi 2023, and when the puzzlevision arc began, it seemed as if mr puzzles had taken over the smg4 channel, as the episodes no longer had the smg4 title, the puzzlevision logo replaced the smg4 logo on the thumbnails, and every community post was seemingly written as if mr puzzles was making them. This led people to theorise that mr puzzles had some crazy meta explanation behind his powers, which could explain how he made something like the demon keyboard and how he was able to mind control the smg4 cast. But then it turned out that there was no deep meta explanation behind mr puzzles, the audience he was speaking to was an audience in the smg4 universe, not in real life, and he had not taken over the smg4 channel, he was just broadcasting his own tv show.
Moreover, let’s not forget how they were seemingly setting up clench to be important to this arc following his role in the no tv episode, yet this ended up amounting to absolutely nothing, and it is still unclear what the purpose of introducing clench’s character even was.
Lastly, we had the concept of the ratings which grant creative control over the universe once someone’s show achieves 5 stars. This is interesting, but again, it was not developed any deeper at all. Why does achieving the highest ratings in the universe grant someone creative control? This was never answered.
The lore introduced in the puzzlevision movie honestly feels very confused and poorly thought through to be honest. The most egregious example is how mr puzzles’ TV head can suck charactera into it. This is an incredibly interesting idea, and during the puzzlevision arc, it seemed that mr puzzles had pulled everyone within the smg4 universe, or at least in the main cast, into his head, due to characters that were not in the basement being present in the TV world.
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