Full Fat Videos

**Full Fat Videos**, real name **Matt**, is a YouTuber who makes video essays primarily about *Star Wars*, Marvel, and *Doctor Who*.

## Appearance

Matt looks a little like Obi-Wan Kenobi. He also looks like Cynical CJ, who looks kind of like Rian Johnson, though Matt does not look like Rian Johnson, and CJ does not look like Obi-Wan.

He can also take the form of a purple silhouetted cow.

## History

### Foreshadowing

Before he was ever covered on EFAP, Full Fat Videos came up on EFAP 76, when the gang was covering BlueDrakmaVA's video claiming to be a guide to *The Rise of Skywalker* for those who didn't get it. BlueDrakma's video was made as somewhat of a response to Full Fat's off-the-cuff video going over his initial reaction to the film. He took issue with Full Fat daring to give his thoughts on the film and declare it to be bad without giving it some time first. BlueDrakma would go on to show arguments he had with Full Fat in the comments of his video, with MauLer and co gladly agreeing with Full Fat despite Drakma's attempts to paint him as the unreasonable one.

### On *Loki*'s *Doctor Who*-ness

Full Fat Videos was first covered on EFAP 142, where MauLer, Rags, Fringy, Jay, and The Meme Repository covered his video "**Loki: The Antidote For Bad Doctor Who**", praising Disney+'s *Loki* as what *Doctor* *Who* should be. MauLer and co, with resident *Doctor Who* expert Jay, agreed with Full Fat Videos that the recent seasons of *Doctor Who* were bad, but disagreed with *Loki* succeeding where *Doctor Who* failed. Jay in particular took issue with him saying he didn't want to make any further videos negatively reviewing the newest seasons of Doctor Who because he wanted to leave room for people who did like it to enjoy it, countering that making a negative review of something doesn't take away from other people's ability to enjoy it, and saying otherwise suggests that there is something harmful about simply saying you don't like something.

Full Fat described the "personality refresh" that Loki was given to turn him from a megalomaniacal mass murderer into a time-traveling problem solver, which the gang agreed with but argued should be decried rather than praised on the grounds that it abruptly changed Loki into a drastically different character just to serve what the plot needed, something that should be viewed in similar regard to the drastic changes made to the Doctor in the newest seasons of *Doctor Who*. The gang also took issue with Full Fat pointing out surface-level similarities between the Doctor and *Loki*'s Loki, namely having mannerisms that could be summed up as "quirk" (Full Fat similarly compared the Doctor to *Sherlock*'s Sherlock Holmes on the same grounds, despite one of the Doctor's defining traits being compassion and Sherlock's being a lack of compassion), emphasizing those similarities by playing *Doctor* *Who* music over clips from *Loki*. They began joking that James Bond also shares these traits, thus making James Bond and the Doctor basically the same.

At one point, the roster was confused by Full Fat describing it as "academic" to compare Jodie Whitaker's Doctor and Sylvie simply because they were female versions of a character who has so far only been male, wondering why he would describe it as "academic" when his criticism was that it was substanceless. MauLer wondered if he misspoke and meant that it was *not* academic, while Jay put forth that he may have meant "purely academic," as in being done simply for the sake of doing it rather than because it has any practical application to it. Either way they agreed that he should have been clearer with his wording.

#### Making Contact

Full Fat Videos left a comment on EFAP 142, saying the following -

> "Listening to this was kinda weird because I wanted to chime in and talk about a lot of your questions throughout. If you want to pick apart my opinions live I'm more than happy to discuss. I don't expect to put my opinions out there and not have people tear them to shreds if thats how they feel. I'm a pretty thick skinned person so if you want to have me on and roast me properly you know where I am!"
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to which MauLer responded -

> "Sent a message on Twitter my good sir, welcome to jump on and chat with us anytime!"
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Several other commenters were enthusiastic about the idea of him coming onto the show, assuring him that it would be less of a roast and more of a friendly chat.

### A Pleasant Chat

Matt joined MauLer, Rags, Fringy, and Jay in EFAP 145 to talk about his video, as well as about *Loki*, *Doctor Who*, and media in general, even at one point discussing the declining quality of *Sherlock* and the bad-but-not-horrible-ness of *The Big Bang Theory*. While Matt often maintained that the issues MauLer and co brought up with *Loki* didn't bother him, he still had a good time discussing each of them with the gang and saw where they were coming from. MauLer (and about three superchats) also brought up the previous connection with the stream on BlueDrakma's video, which Full Fat had actually caught the coverage of, which led to them briefly discussing the wasted potential of *The Rise of Skywalker* and the *Star Wars* sequels in general.

On the aforementioned topic of "leaving people room to enjoy it," Matt clarified that he meant that he wanted to he had already said his piece on how bad he thought the newest seasons of Doctor Who were and was tired of being told he was doing something wrong simply for negatively reviewing something (even similarly describing the "just let people enjoy it" mindset as "toxic positivity" like EFAP had), something the gang was very much in agreement with, and Matt seemingly taking the opposite stance in his video was just a result of poor phrasing.

Matt and the EFAP crew got along very well, with Matt saying he would be down to come onto another EFAP, and MauLer mentioned that he had been nothing but friendly in the DMs.