User blog:AustinDR/Thoughts on ARGGH You For Real!

Well, you all already know about how I feel about the episode. Mainly, I found it as a "meh" episode. I don't hate the episode, nor do I love it. It's just an okay episode. For one, the episode was predictable as heck. I have mentioned several times that the episodes of the show can lean towards being predictable and trope-tastic, but this episode took the cake. So, Arggh! is coming to Royal Woods, Michigan? What a surprise! Oh no, everything about the show was fake? How terrible!! Clyde starts to questions everything after he found out the terrible truth? Oh nos. Lincoln confronts the host, and they make a convincing haunting to get Clyde to believe in the supernatural again? Couldn't have seen that coming! The ghost actually turning out to be real? What a tweest!

Really, just everything about the episode was so predictable, it wasn't even funny. Speaking of which, not once in the episode did I ever laugh. I never even mustered up a slight chuckle. Just the episode felt bland and unfunny. That's not even getting into my issues with Clyde. I just really felt annoyed with him in this episode. Look, I do understand that he is hurt by the fact that Arggh! wasn't real, but didn't he kind of overreact? I mean throwing out all his stuff just because this one show was misleading? If I was in his shoes, would I be mad to find out that one of my favorite shows was a lie the entire time? Yes, but I wouldn't let that rule my life. If anything, even if I found out the truth, I probably would still watch the show regardless. It's like with the Loud House itself; while I love this show, I will point out that it isn't perfect, and it has several flaws to it. Even so, I'd still watch it. Or, for any other show, if it was such a problem for me, I'd stop watching it. Really, I would probably be like Lincoln and just delete all of the showings for the show.

As for the ending...while it was predictable, I can also see the problems many have for it. If anything, I would've liked it for Clyde to have learned that even if the show was fake, he could still watch it regardless, or even move to another show. So having Lincoln cook up this whole plot seemed a little inconsiderate. It was well-intentioned, yes, but I can't really get behind lying. It also seemed to suggest that if you were to find out something as big as finding out your favorite show was a lie, then you should completely question everything and throw all of your belongings to the curb. Overall, it was a really bland episode. It wasn't funny, the episode was more predictable than usual, Clyde completely overreacted to the whole reveal, and it seems to teach that lying is okay as long as it's for the greater good.