is it different from the old one no it is the old one just with more stuff hence the plus hello the
members of our nation i was so excited i woke up early or rather i didn't sleep so i could watch
all the episodes of the icarly revival at about 2 a.m when they were released on paramount plus here
on the channel we have been discussing some icarly topics the past month in preparation for today
there have been a lot of questions going into this continuation of the show will it hold up will it
be for the people who grew up with the original show how many spaghetti tacos has spencer ate
since the show ended so i was up to about six spag tacos a day and of course how are they going to
explain the current lack of both jeanette mccurdy sam and noah monks gibby two of the biggest fan
favorite characters from the show's run we also truly don't know who will show up as the trailer
showed us classic characters from big and small roles making returns so maybe someone like tebow
could make a return at some point same in a way goes for gibby as the reasonings for him
not returning so far are pretty silent as far as jeannette due to her experiences growing up acting
in behind-the-scenes traumatic situations with a certain person who is no longer involved in
this version of icarly by the way aside from a title card mentioned because legally he created
the show and they have to put that but this frame sums up the feeling of seeing it still
as well as her passions now lie elsewhere with directing podcasting and more the show
has promised to explain where sam is within the icarly universe than at least the first
episode and it is nice to see the cast fully support her and always have open arms for her as
to always embrace her as part of the icarly family so now it's finally time to see if this revival
can live up to the excitement it has caused across the internet paramount plus released a total of
three episodes and hopefully we'll have a release schedule for the rest sooner rather than later
and before we start looking at it all i just want to remind you that if you end up not liking this
new revival of icarly that that is okay and in no way does that ruin the original if you are a fan
of it we always have the original and nothing can take that away if you end up enjoying and
liking the revival then that's great and it means we have two great iterations of the show i feel a
lot of people go after reboots as if it ruins the original show as well but the original show will
always remain there untouched and not affected by whatever said reboot does so just remember
at least for yourself that if you're not into all the reboots happening recently the originals will
always be there the way that you remember them i for one hand i'm personally offended now that that
is out of the way thank you so much for checking out this video let's talk all about this icarly
revival and drop a like if you enjoy the video it helps it out a lot and i truly do appreciate it
y'all doing like a furry thing yeah the first episode titled i start over sees the return of
carly sneaking into the old apartment and when she turns on the lights gets startled by spencer who
is only wearing a smock working on a sculpture in the dark wearing headphones who in turn
gets startled too followed suit by freddie who waltzes in like he usually does and from right
there within less than the first minute of the show starting the magic of what made the
original show swept over me like a broom from fantasia that warm feeling like returning to
your own bed after a long day of work seeing these characters interact the same as if nearly a decade
hasn't passed truly brought a smile to my face we learned that carly has her boyfriend coming
over as she thinks he's going to offer working on a channel together online for content with her we
also get to catch up with where carly has been since the break of icarly when she left to go to
italy in the finale of the original show she since has dabbled in various forms of entertainment and
media like hosting an italian version of qvc and doing some college radio she started feeling like
returning to the internet is a good thing for her and with her boyfriend beau presumed to ask her
to work together on some sort of channel her confidence to return spikes up as she doesn't
believe she's ready to do it on her own here we meet beau who while she starts going live
to capture the moment of the channel starting again beau actually breaks up with carly live
in front of tens of thousands of people a couple of notes i want to mention here
is one while we see the pair logo on all the electronics again i guess pear-shaped phones
are out and we're just going with the practical rectangle and two this guy looks and sounds a
little too similar to chase matthews from zoe 101 with slightly less bushy hair i know that
doesn't add anything to the video but i got hyper fixated on that and i couldn't unsee it
going forward in the next scene after the intro that keeps the same jingle as the original which
is literal music to my ears we meet harper carly's roommate they actually live down the hall from the
original apartment and from freddy but we'll get to freddie's situation here in a minute i think
there was a big worry here that harper was going to be used as a replacement for sam but she isn't
she fills in a new role with a new dynamic for carly in her life she has her own ambitions of
being a stylist and is a great support in carly's life in helping her navigate the dating world and
as we see in following episodes a huge help in marketing the new era of icarly sam though is
clearly missed and i wanted to wait until later to speak on this but it feels like a natural spot so
let's just discuss it now they do give a reason for sam not being there and it's one that not
only makes sense and respects the character of sam but leaves the door open if jeanette ever wants to
come back to acting but like i said with having more adult themes in the show her absence is
greatly felt in most situations that's not to say that the show doesn't work without her character
but having her around to collab on the web show with carly again and have her be somewhat of a big
sister type to millicent a character we'll discuss here shortly would have been nice to see also you
may have noticed that the original apartment spencer's apartment is similar but completely
redone with a more modern and bougie look it's because spencer is now rich like really rich like
gold in your drink rich he actually accidentally made a sculpture that was purchased for a large
sum of money there was a marshmallow sculpture of the white house with part of it being melted while
it was interpreted as something more meaningful it was accidentally done because of spencer's history
of things randomly combusting into fire and i thought that was a smart fun little detail that
makes this new world they built here still feel attached to the original even more freddy has
had quite the journey over the years he has gone through two divorces had a failed startup company
and is now back at home with his mom now with millicent his adopted daughter from his ex-wife's
previous relationship so he definitely has a lot going on in the original show we watched freddie
go from a dorky little kid to well still a dorky young adult and now seeing him with boy band hair
and some facial hair is it's still hard to get over from remembering when we first saw him on
the show millicent is an interesting character as well she grew up with the social media age she's
up on the latest trends and is highly ingrained in the cultural zeitgeist of what's trending
all the way to cancel culture i know that sounds like it could be cringy but it's handled a lot
better than i thought it would be it laughs at the absurdness of it all in a satirical manner
that doesn't materialize it but to teach lessons learned around it and doesn't make it the only
crutch for comedy in the series that's a very tough line to play with but i think they played it
perfectly millicent though plays a back and forth game with carly she actively enjoys poking fun at
icarly and just carly in general but as i think we will see as the show goes on that she secretly
admires carly she may not say she thinks carly is cool but in her mind i believe she does is she's
always trying to show off how savvy she is in front of carly i mean carly paved the way for all
of this right i also see a bit of sam's attitude in her so having sam in the show could have been a
good person to pair her with to deal with certain life lessons another absence of course is gibby i
feel that he can easily be integrated in the show down the road if he were to return one way is
having him be a kramer-esque neighbor in the same building who barges in whenever with ridiculous
conversations or similarly possibly with an arc where we see freddy move out of his mom's
apartment to a different apartment in the building and become roommates with freddie and possibly
build a new startup together something fun to think about and by the end of the first episode we
see carly having a serious talk with freddy about if it's possible for her to do icarly without sam
could she bring her show back on her own they all go to the old studio space in spencer's apartment
and reveal it's basically just how they left it so after setting it up we see the classic spencer
baby gag and all for the most part feels right also here's a fun fact that i caught the first
episode was directed by phil lewis yes mr mosby himself that's that's pretty neat would you like m
or finn episode 2 titled i hate carly is pretty fun it plays with a lot of the references of
the original show carly is dealing with a hater in her comment section and decides to kindly confront
them as they live in seattle as well here is where we have the return of nora yes i psychos nora yes
i still psychos nora yes super psychos nora has returned we know she was coming thanks
to a brief clip in the trailer for the show but we jump straight into her return in episode 2
of the new series and she plays this red herring type character as carly now suspects her as the
person hating on her as she keeps popping up in the same places that she's at and is still pretty
out there creepy wise and her decade of therapy as she puts it has gone right out the window
the episode tells you though which person between two people the hater truly is they made it really
obvious and clearly just tell you but carly has to spend the episode figuring that out and while
i like the reason why the character grew a hatred for carly i wished the episode played along with
the mystery more and built up a more surprising reveal so while still a fun episode it felt
like it wasn't executed as best as it could have been for storytelling purposes but the baseline
premise was still decent and i enjoyed it and it was also good to see nora working on herself
even if it didn't last for long can i take this no can i take this no episode three ifo apologize
finds carly at the center of a meme that is now helping promote icarly to a larger audience the
only downside is that it hurts spencer's artistic work and him in general causing him to take aim
at online content creation art influencers and the social media age in an exhibit to get back
at what feels is his art not being appreciated or taken seriously as well as carly not respecting
him this is the episode that also contains the recreation of the famous interesting meme with
carly on the computer drinking a can of soda as well as millicent following suit and doing so
anyway the show feels like friends and not just in the sense of feeling like a more adult sitcom
but in the fact that we know these characters we know this world and it feels like a natural return
more than most reboots revivals or continuations ever could confidently make i enjoy seeing these
people again and i enjoy the new characters brought onto the show of course missing sam and
gibby is something that hurts but at least the door is open more specifically open for sam as
gibby isn't brought up at least yet but it's open there are wonderful callbacks to the original show
and it respects the audience that grew up with that version and brings you back in as an equal
that aged with you this was a pleasant surprise in fact it was way better than i had hoped for now
that being said this was only the first three episodes we still have a whole season to be
released over time to truly get the bigger picture here but overall this was great so in this coming
back i guess some things are meant to be so i will leave the rest up to them to continue this story
so that was the revival of icarly so far i am curious to hear your thoughts on this take on
icarly does it have the same feel of the original show in your opinion you know just with some more
risque themes cursing and drinking let me know your thoughts down below in the comments i will
of course still cover icarly in the future whether that be the original show or when new episodes
come out for the new continuation of the show next friday i have a video about victorious coming out
as well as more cartoon goodness and a bunch more content that i'm having fun making so i hope that
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