I remember when I first discovered G4; I watched tons of Cinematech, X-Play, and Attack of the Show (though I feel like it used to be named something else). When I first started to watch the channel, they were showing things like the Man Show, which was brilliant to my pre-teen moving towards teens mind. As the years went on though, X-Play went from just reviewing games with the occasional (generally pretty funny, game related skit), to trying to be a mini-AotS and failing miserably. AotS went through hosts like they were going out of style, though, Kevin Pereira made the show relatively interesting for a number of years. In the end though, the show tried harder to feed off of the stereotypes of male gamers more than anything else, showing off the sexist model of the female gamer, and lost much of the appeal. An attractive host who doesn't know jack shit about video games and the tech world doesn't belong on a show like AotS. Then, to make matters worse, The Man Show disappeared from the network, and shows like Cheaters and Cops started showing up on rerun after rerun after rerun. About the only decent addition to the network of the past six or seven years was Ninja Warrior, which they proceeded to leech off of, effectively ruining much of what made it great.
In the end, what was good on G4 disappeared, whether they were people or shows. The network hasn't been the same for at least three or four years, and it needed to die. It no longer served an obvious purpose, which is saddening considering that it used to be a decent outlet for gaming and tech news. I guess it will probably just turn into another Spike, which we didn't need in the first place, so, uh, goodbye G4. Whatever you are to become, I'm sure not a human alive will appreciate it.
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