The Right Opinion

> "Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to The Right Opinion, the home of a twat with too much time."
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**The Right Opinion**, or **TRO** (pronounced either phonetically or letter by letter), is a YouTuber who appeared to be the final boss of Season One, before the true villain revealed himself and TRO quickly redeemed himself and became a friend of the show.

## History

### PreFAP

The Right Opinion started his channel in 2016, using it to make videos critiquing both right-wing and left-wing politics. Over time the focus of his channel changed from politics to commentary on YouTube personalities.

### The Proofreading of one I Hate Everything

The Right Opinion proofread I Hate Everything's script for his video on *The Last Jedi*, and was credited as a proofreader. TRO later specified that proofreading meant he did some spellchecking, but that he also read it through and didn’t see anything “inherently provocative” in the content. Rags made a response to I Hate Everything's video and poked fun at the video being proofread by someone named "The Right Opinion." This would inspire Mooper to have one of her scripts for GDELB proofread by someone named I Am Correct, as there was an error.

### Video on Rags

> "It's *Star* *Wars*, not a fucking missile crisis, who are you to decide what should and should not be talked about?"
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After Rags made his video responding to I Hate Everything's *The Last Jedi* video, The Right Opinion made his own video, "**Here Lies: Rags - Stop Hating What I Like**" responding to Rags'. MauLer ended up having a call with TRO afterwards where the two got along very well, with MauLer saying he'd even go so far as to call him a friend, but he saw it fit to cover TRO's video anyway simply to dispell various points that were made in the video publicly, and made TRO aware of this.

TRO began by giving his own thoughts on *The* *Last* *Jedi*, saying that while many loved it or hated it, he fell somewhere in the middle, finding it impressive that it took risks, but frustrating that it dropped the ball on some of its better ideas. He had some defenses for the movie, defending the maligned casino subplot because it's hard to fill up the timeslot for a movie so they had to waste that time with a C plot (in a movie that cut out the scene of Luke mourning his friend's death), defending Holdo's insertion because it impacted Poe's arc and that another more established character like Ackbar couldn't be used because his actor could die, countering criticisms about any of the dialogue being goofy because the originals had someone say "you can't win" during a fight, absolving *The* *Last* *Jedi* of having cut short any potential Snoke had as a character because *The* *Force* *Awakens* left him undeveloped, and said that it didn't copy enough from other movies to count as an attempt at a remake, though he did agree with the criticism that there should have had more buildup to it.

TRO's video defended a few of IHE's arguments against Rags' counters, saying he didn't think it was fair to bring up IHE's video tearing apart *Destiny* *2* (a game about fighting the darkness) in response to IHE saying *Star* *Wars* is about not letting the darkness win because *Star Wars* has more fans than *Destiny*, though he agreed that IHE's point was overly sentimental. He justified highlighting the most bottom-of-the-barrel criticisms like the movie having no Wilhelm scream because he found them mildly interesting and wanted to show the absurdity of them, saying the only real justification he needed for showing them was that they existed ("'Why did you eat that mold?' 'It existed.'"), when IHE's video was making a broader point about the discussion around it as a whole. He claimed the more petty arguments seemed overrepresented in the discourse, to which EFAP countered that IHE's video only served to represent them further. When Rags responded to IHE playing a clip from Mark Hamill to back up his point with his own clips from Mark Hamill that backed up his points, TRO sped through them to the point that what Hamill was saying couldn't be heard, and simply stated that Hamill was happy with the movie overall. TRO suggested that Rags could have done with checking out more of IHE's other content for context, and that he would have seen that IHE is the type of person who wears his heart on his sleeve and his videos are meant to casually show his feelings on the subject rather than hours of hard facts, even though IHE made many factual statements about the topic at hand.

TRO also felt more generally that Rags simply didn't like that IHE's video wasn't the one he wanted IHE to make. Some of TRO's other critiques of Rags were that he felt Rags was telling IHE how to feel, had mischaracterized him as a political regressive, and had made the video as a way to spite and turn people against him. He tended to hold Rags to a higher standard, holding Rags in contempt for things IHE did himself, saying it was okay for IHE to put on a mocking voice because he did it for a joke while Rags was doing it in earnest, and criticizing Rags for interjecting every other sentence when he did the same. He also called Rags a puritan who sees himself as entitled to several-hour long content and said he doesn't know what a character arc is, and thought he plays the whole video he responds to to appeal to everyone rather than simply to give the context for what he's talking about.

While he described Rags as behaving somewhat childishly, he joked that MauLer is above such childish things, ”the god, the man, the MauLer.” TRO believed that the idea that you can judge a piece of content objectively is a theory that MauLer originally hypothesized himself, rather than something anyone can do and many people have. To this, TRO argued that in order to be truly objective, you have to look at the media being analyzed from every possible angle - in order to be right about whether a movie is good or bad, you need to account for the millions of perspectives that different people could have on it.

Since Rags included clips from MauLer's *The Last Jedi* review in his video, TRO saw it fair to include a guest of his own - Quinton Reviews, who was more familiar with the *Star Wars* films and was a friend of TRO's. Quinton had previously taken several jabs at MauLer, but had refused to actually engage with him, and seemed to be using TRO's video as an excuse to sneak in a hitpiece on MauLer without having to make a video of his own. MauLer, Rags, and Wolf found multiple issues littered throughout the video, but by far the most egregious were on Quinton's part - while TRO's section seemed to stem from honest misunderstandings, Quinton's seemed to be more malicious in nature.

Throughout his video, there were several instances of images or video clips playing in the background that didn't match the topic at hand, as well as some odd balancing of audio, music, and narration that could make following along difficult at times, something that was apparently a result of TRO having multiple editors. TRO also had a bit of a habit of using needlessly academic terms that the average layman wouldn't know, most famously referring to Rags doing something three times as "narrative tripling" and describing something inoffensive as a "perceptively anodyne statement."

TRO stated that he held nothing against Rags as a person, assuming he could very well be a nice person, and hopes he takes his feedback in good spirit, a sentiment MauLer and Rags returned.

### Guest Appearance and Redemption

> "You said, 'they were clearly perceptively anodyne statements.'"
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> "'Anodyne'?... Wow, I must've been feeling jacked up on my own ego at that point [laughs]."
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TRO came onto EFAP 10 as a guest to talk with MauLer and Rags about his video, having to argue both on his behalf and on the behalf of Quinton, who declined to show up and whether intentionally or unintentionally abandoned, had a tougher case against him. The three talked very civilly and got along well, and capped off the stream by all responding to a Vox video together. MauLer and Rags thanked him for being big enough to come on, especially in a two-on-one conversation and especially when he had to talk for two people, and both parties parted ways with no bad blood between them. TRO ended up unlisting his video a little after talking to MauLer and Rags, feeling it was poorly argued and he no longer agreed with it.

TRO would later get briefly involved on MauLer's Discord, where he was asked the *Star Wars* Question, to which he answered that he will vote Finn as the runner-up most inconsistent character of the *Star Wars* sequels (Kylo Ren is obviously at the top).