'Polaris: Player Select' is a show on Disney XD in which they take videos from popular gaming content creators on Youtube and add their own edits. Not only is this uninspired, but they are lazy within their edits and at times can just feel like copyright infringement.
The show's main aim is to make entertaining content by featuring content creators that have already been established as forces of the YouTube gaming community. As much as I'd like to imagine the YouTubers have free reign over the content put on the show, I can't because the contract deals that are signed before the creators are put on the show most likely boil down to, "We put clips of your videos on the show, you get money." This means that the creators behind Player Select have to make their own edits. Unfortunately, the creators don't have the best sense of humor.
The humor on the show is mainly taking a person saying something, taking that sentence out of context, photo-shopping that persons face onto the face of an actor in a piece of stock footage, and having said stock footage play something that will also apply to what the person says.
For example, Lachlan, one of the YouTubers on the show, at one point says, "I don't think it's going to fit." The show then cuts to him saying it again, but instead it is of a person trying on a t-shirt saying the same thing. It is repetitive and hearing somebody say something twice in the exact same way gets irritating a couple times. And the show does this more than a couple times.
The narrator also gets irritating. Every so often, a narrator will say something like, "You win!". The unfortunate part is that they use the same clip of him saying, "You win!". Which gets not just irritating, but infuriatingly annoying because the narrator also has a reverb/echo effect EVERY SINGLE TIME he says something. ANYTHING. They DO NOT turn it off.
Overall, the show feels like an attempt to gain money through content creators that anyone under 14 would know. It is a blatant attempt to be #relatable with the fellow kids watching Disney XD. And although it has some good moments, it is, at all times, severely outweighed but the constant annoyances that show puts in it's pwn way.
Would not recommend.
The show's main aim is to make entertaining content by featuring content creators that have already been established as forces of the YouTube gaming community. As much as I'd like to imagine the YouTubers have free reign over the content put on the show, I can't because the contract deals that are signed before the creators are put on the show most likely boil down to, "We put clips of your videos on the show, you get money." This means that the creators behind Player Select have to make their own edits. Unfortunately, the creators don't have the best sense of humor.
The humor on the show is mainly taking a person saying something, taking that sentence out of context, photo-shopping that persons face onto the face of an actor in a piece of stock footage, and having said stock footage play something that will also apply to what the person says.
For example, Lachlan, one of the YouTubers on the show, at one point says, "I don't think it's going to fit." The show then cuts to him saying it again, but instead it is of a person trying on a t-shirt saying the same thing. It is repetitive and hearing somebody say something twice in the exact same way gets irritating a couple times. And the show does this more than a couple times.
The narrator also gets irritating. Every so often, a narrator will say something like, "You win!". The unfortunate part is that they use the same clip of him saying, "You win!". Which gets not just irritating, but infuriatingly annoying because the narrator also has a reverb/echo effect EVERY SINGLE TIME he says something. ANYTHING. They DO NOT turn it off.
Overall, the show feels like an attempt to gain money through content creators that anyone under 14 would know. It is a blatant attempt to be #relatable with the fellow kids watching Disney XD. And although it has some good moments, it is, at all times, severely outweighed but the constant annoyances that show puts in it's pwn way.
Would not recommend.