User blog:WildKirbyAtrox/(Un)Happy 2nd Anniversary-Ish of No Such Luck

Okay okay, HERE'S the full/actual title:

(Un)Happy Second Anniversary of No Such Luck: Persecution of the Masses, Sacred Blessings Count for Nothing
 (Meme picture made/edited by DarthBane2007.) Also, this Journal Entry is inspired by this video: [link]

I have been in The Loud House Fandom since late 2016 and/or early 2017, and holy schla-moly... The day NSL first aired and caused what was quite possibly the BIGGEST forms of backlash to ANYTHING I have ever seen. That specific day is almost here, and it's been approximately two to three years, hasn't it? Yet people are still writing stories that connect to this one episode... Or they aren't but they continue to bash Lincoln's sisters and possibly anyone else who may have wronged him (whether he deserved it or not) in more ways than one. And the true first crazy backlash to a TLH episode wasn't even that long ago during the year 2017 either. I mean, anyone here remembers Brawl in the Family? Of course y'all do. In fact, NSL is one of those episodes that will... Never be forgotten... Just like another SOMETHING that I did, that won't be forgotten anytime soon..... (I'm referring to this: The Loud House: Fury of Lincoln Loud).

MOVING ON:

So what better way to start off this journal entry by DOING a review of the quote-unquote, "worst episode of the entire franchise?" If you don't know what No Such Luck is (where the heck have you been? LOL), then go ahead and click this [https://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/No_Such_Luck tiddly bit right here. Merp.] It really will take you to the wiki page going over the aforementioned episode. If you already know, then..... LET'S HOP RIGHT TO IT!

First and foremost... The Loud sisters (not so much Lily), and the parents, as well. This is another one of those "10 against 1 scenarios" that went too far over the edge. Everyone's already talked about (or rather, whined about) how nonsensical, despicable, inconsistent, and way too mean-spirited they were against our favorite little white-haired boy here: Lincoln Loud himself. However, I'm going to have to jump TLH episodes for a moment: Brawl in the Family caused a crap-ton of backlash first (as mentioned earlier), and the mean-spirited nature (in combination with the deplorable "Sister Fight Protocol," and how everyone kept inconveniencing Lincoln by taking away his bed sheets, kicking him out of his own room, preventing him from doing certain things he wanted to do, etc.) shows just how much this episode was doomed to stupidity from the start. Of course, that's just my opinion but the fact still remains: Brawl in the Family was just too over-the-top to a point where it's not even funny in lots of negative ways. No Such Luck, however, actually had potential to not only make a bit of a gag-ish moral, as well as making some jokes here and there but also the fact that the first half of the episode was fairly decent). Everything may have spiraled out of control at the start of the second half, but No Such Luck did not set itself up with the INTENTION of mean-spirited stuff...

''Yet, this is the episode everyone whines and complains about when it's not even that bad... Oh my God. Looking at these two episodes I mentioned back and forth... Something about those two speaks to me quite strongly- NO! NO NO NO! I cannot and I mean I CANNOT revert back to St. Lincoln... Never again.''

So yes, everything about the Loud Sisters yadda yadda yadda they're the friggin' devils, whatever who cares. The parents? Rita and Lynn Sr. also got a whole lot of flack, everyone knows this. Both the sisters and the parents were dumb enough to the point of alienating Lincoln and putting him through craziness (the bad kind) or some shit like that. Bleh. BUT what about Lincoln himself? Did he truly deserve some form of punishment for him lying about being bad luck in order to get out of his sister's activities? Does he truly deserve to feel like he's the true culprit here? The answer is... Extremely debatable. As I said earlier, Lincoln actually lied about being bad luck just to have time to himself, and the lie got carried out WAY TOO LONG to a point where everyone's "superstitions" clouded their minds, intellect, and judgment to where little Linky-Boi's lie eventually backfired on him WAY too much and he found himself in a really bad position.... He actually got locked out. Lincoln even went out and said it himself that he got what he deserved, and he went out of his way to confess he messed up big time, so that should mean everything should be hunky-dory and should be forgiven right? Ehh.......

''It's just like in Brawl in the Family... Everyone made Lincoln feel so stupid, like none of his opinions matter or the fact that he's practically (or rather, metaphorically) the glue that keeps his family together. And now in No Such Luck... Lincoln believes that he deserves to be kicked, out and put in a squirrel suit for some "good luck." It's like everything he does... No matter what he does, or how things go... Chris Savino... Why did you defend this atrocious episode that's not nearly as bad as Brawl in the Family? And even then, he believed that one other episode that's also mentioned is also good or whatever.''

"LINCOLN LOUD IS SUPPOSED TO BE AT FAULT EVERY SINGLE TIME, NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES OR HOW HARD HE TRIES TO MAKE UP FOR HIS ACTIONS, YOU WORTHLESS MAN-CHILD OF A DEADBEAT!"
Like I said way up above, MOVING ON:

Yes. We all refer to that stuff as "Lincoln's Culpability" ladies, gentlemen, monsters... and Kaiju. I actually do agree that Lincoln's dishonesty should earn him some form of punishment for cheating his way out of his sister's activities. I mean, come on... He actually went out of his way to break Lori's golf clubs all just to... Get time to himself (how many more times am I gonna have to repeat that part? XD LOL). I mean, I guess Lisa and Lori "knew what they were doing" and only went along with it just to "teach him a lesson" so that much should be understandable and/or believable. I actually don't believe for a second that Lisa would literally drop her IQ that much over some moronic superstitions that were never really funny, to begin with. Believe whatever you want to believe, but I think we can all agree that Lincoln isn't the only short-sighted one of the Loud family, am I right? 

I mean, if Lori and Lisa (and presumably Rita and Lynn Sr.) really did mean for all of this to be just punishment for Lincoln... Why go too far with it? Was it really necessary to kick him out of the house, tell him to not come back, and even after things got "cleared up" you guys go and force him into squirrel suit... At the beach too? Rita also said they sold Lincoln's furniture too.

==="STOP TRYING TO STICK UP FOR THIS UNINTERESTING WHITE-HEADED KID, YOU MORON. YOU JUST ADMITTED THAT HE DESERVES TO BE PUNISHED FOR LYING TO EVERYONE ABOUT BEING BAD LUCK SO JUST TAKE IT AND LEAVE IT ALREADY."===

And then after the episode aired and ended off with that, the backlash came in and got way too hectic and crazy for everyone's liking. When I first watched this episode, I hardly saw what the big-bad issues were supposed to be (aside from what was obviously presented) and I didn't flinch at all. Not once. My initial thoughts were, "Eh. It's just one of those episodes again. Nothing special, really." Then, that was when I started looking at what everyone else said about the episode... Too much anger... Too much hatred... Wow. Just holy cow, guys. I understand that you guys are angry and upset that Lincoln Loud got forced into an extremely bad position (even though he's one half of what caused this episode to collapse). And with how everyone started seeing Lynn Loud Jr.? I'm not gonna get into that, because she's had enough nonsense to deal with. I don't even hate Lynny-Girl, so just cool it. But regardless of who truly is at fault, and regardless of what the TLH staff were really trying to go for...

''The damages have already been done. Not once, but twice. Sure there have been some episodes where Lincoln and his sisters put themselves in bad situations (whether they're funny or upsetting), none of those ever come close to the nonsensical atrocities that are Brawl in the Family, and No Such Luck... Despite NSL being the lesser of the two evils, both are the true embodiments and representations of PAIN and SUFFERING...''

[At this point, the song, Persecution of the Masses starts playing.]

="JUST AS I THOUGHT!"=

''Wait wait... What's going on here?''

="YOU CALL THIS A REVIEW!? HA! LINCOLN LOUD IS A SELFISH, DISHONEST, CONCEITED, SHORT-SIGHTED, EGOTISTICAL, AND AN OVERREACTIVE BRAT! AND THAT'S WHY YOU LIKE HIM SO MUCH, WILDKIRBYATROX! HE'S YOU! YOU. TRULY. ARE. ST. LINCOLN!!!"=

What are you going on about...?

="STOP TRYING TO LIE AND CHEAT YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS, BECAUSE LOOK WHERE THAT GOT YOUR FAVORITE CARTOON CHARACTER! EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE YOUR FAULT!"=

''Yeah-no. That's not how any of this works, man.''

="YOU HAVE NO IDEA! THAT TIME YOU ROASTED AARTISTBOY AND IRONRAPHRA WITH YOUR NONSENSE!"= = = [If you guys have a hard time seeing them, you can always talk to me on my Message Walls and ask for them.] ="AND YOUR STUPID BIG-BOYS PROPAGANDA YOU DRAGGED ONTO THE WIKI!"= [Refer to theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/U…. Yes, you really need to put the period at the end of the link when putting it in the address bar, or it won't work.] ="AND HOW CAN ANYONE FORGET WHEN YOU WROTE FURY OF LINCOLN LOUD!?! THAT'S DEFINITELY BEING A LINCOLN WORSHIPER YOU IDIOT!"= [Link to the fanfic is already posted up above.]

="BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? BEING ST. LINCOLN ISN'T EVEN THE WORST OFFENSE YOU SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR!"=

''What? I thought this was about The Loud House or whatever, and now you're just going to-''

="BE SILENT! YOU COULD NOT HANDLE THE CRITICISMS OF YOUR TRUE FRIENDS FROM THE BIONICLE COMMUNITY! YOUR EFFORTS TO MAKE UP FOR YOUR ACTIONS WERE FUTILE AND MEANINGLESS, YET YOU REFUSED TO ACCEPT THOSE FACTS ABOUT YOURSELF! ALL YOU HAD TO DO IS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU WERE/ARE WRONG WHEN THINGS WENT AWRY! YOU. SHOULD. HAVE. ACCEPTED. YOUR. GUILT!"=

''That's all in the past. I'm not like that anymore-''

="WHY ELSE WOULD YOU TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WHEN THE LOUD HOUSE FIRST AIRED TO ESCAPE YOUR INNER DEMONS AND FROM THOSE WHO WANTED TO HELP YOU!? YOU RAN AWAY LIKE THE COWARD YOU ARE! IT'S NO WONDER YOU HATE HEARING ABOUT LINCOLN LOUD'S CULPABILITY IN ANY TLH RELATED MATERIAL! HIS SISTERS REMINDED YOU OF YOUR REAL FRIENDS FROM YOUR PAST!"=

''What is this!? What are you doing to me!?!? ''

="YOU FEEL BAD FOR WANTING TO GLORIFY LINCOLN LOUD JUST LIKE HOW YOU GLORIFIED YOURSELF BACK BEFORE LATE 2016! YOU MAY CHANGE YOUR HABITS, YOU MAY MAKE NEW FRIENDS, YOU MAY EVEN IMPROVE ON YOUR WRITING AND ARTWORK... BUT YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THEM! RETURN TO YOUR FORMER ROOTS OF A BIONICLE FAN!=

''AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ''

="RESISTANCE IS FUTILE! ACCEPT YOUR FATE, ST. LINCOLN SCUM!"= '''[After the song has ended... If the duration went along with this skit at all in some way, hehe...]'''

With the crazy amount of backlash this episode caused, and the amount if immaturity people brought upon themselves from this episode... An incessant amount of fanfictions began to spew out here and there. I even wrote a list of certain NSL fanfics that I liked. As much as I enjoyed some of those sequel stories, these days? Whenever I look back at any of them, they're either embarrassing, resolved too quickly, go too far, not far enough, or just... Embarrassing again. No Such Luck is a complete mess that almost cannot be resolved or justified no matter what you do or say. But hey, at least it's not the "complete" type of mess that generates mean-spirited stupidity. Lincoln is at fault for lying about being bad luck, and Lynn is at fault for threatening Lincoln and then calling him bad luck. I think those two got enough flack from either side already. Everyone else? Yeah, they've had enough nonsensical flack as well. Heck, the mean-spiritedness as a whole in this show has greatly been toned down as we got a bunch more Loud House episodes that ended up doing nearly every character in The Loud House a whole lot of justice. If Lynn, Lola, Lori, or whoever else can improve themselves in the eyes of many, then I'm sure anyone who made themselves look ridiculous within this fandom can improve as well. I mean, I learned from my mistakes too... Ish.

Overall, I give No Such Luck... 4/10. Yes, I recognize this episode being one of the most controversial episodes within the whole franchise, and I can understand why it's universally hated/panned. But honestly? This episode may have spiraled out of control in such an over-the-top manner, but this is actually by far one of the least over-the-top episodes... At least when you compare it to episodes such as The Sweet Spot, Chore and Peace, The Green House, and of course Brawl in the Family. Not to mention, there are some nice/humorous moments in No Such Luck (such as Lily saying Lincoln's name, that one white-shirt stunt Lincoln did that's apparently a reference, etc.), but that's just me, you dig? You guys can go ahead and rate it whatever you want.

Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to go sit in the corner, get into fetal position, and start sulking over how much of a half-witted moron I've been in more ways than one. Ciao.

'''[Moral of this BLOG Entry: You are free to dislike/like some things about TLH or anything at all, but please be respectful to others and please refrain from becoming passionate and emotional on the internet. Thank you.]'''