Olivia Munn
I watched Attack of the Doc last night, and was stunned at how many Attack of the Show clips were instantly familiar… I’m guessing I didn’t miss a single episode for the first four or five years. (I finally bailed when Kevin Pereira did.)
At its best, AOTS was taking geekdom in the right direction… they regularly reinforced the idea that being a nerd was about loving and sharing weird things with the like-minded, rather than trying to police or punish non-believers. It was anarchic, like internet fandom before the Twitter scolds and 4chan basement dwellers seized the mic.
The wheel will turn, and we’ll get back to such a place. I’m confident of that. (The ugliness of the failed 2021 relaunch of G4 is best forgotten.) But it’s sad how most of this stuff will never be seen again outside of documentaries and random clips on YouTube… we need occasional reminders about how much fun nerd shit can be when you do it right.