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Ha - Beagle with the steady shot on by mistake the whole time.
This episode was a few minutes of skating padded with a ton of uneventful chilling. I respect pros but I'm not so much of a fan that I need to watch a couple of teenagers quietly playing video games for ten minutes. Hopefully the next episode is back to the strength of the previous few.
I don't know man - might be a generational thing but Baker 3 came out when I was 15 and I became enamored with their personalities and lack of capturing them, candidly. I get excited to watch the boring candid footage from ~1997-2010 of anyone I was into. I could be totally alone in feeling that way though.
You’re not alone. I could watch the candid shit of the old World/bLind/Plan B shit and enjoy the hell out of it.
I think it's more a difference in how we feel about pros in general. I don't know what it is, but even though I'm from a tiny town in Canada originally, I never felt any sort of star-struck type feelings when I saw a celebrity or pro skater in person. Never idolized anyone. That's just not in my personality. Not trying to dog on it, but I can't relate to that mindset myself.
I do love behind the scenes footage of classic shit, which these tapes all qualify as for sure, but Beagle has more than enough tapes to make that behind the scenes stuff a bit more interesting than two guys playing video games quietly for ten minutes, and still keep the series going for literally years.
I'm just being critical as a fellow filmer/editor/skater. I also used the same TRV-900 so I always loved Beagle for that as well. It's hilarious when you look back at all these tapes that he never really seemed to figure out proper exposure after years and years of filming pros. I wonder if he got criticized by Drew much?