📽️ The documentary "Attack of the Doc" is about the rise and fall of G4 TV, written and directed by Chris Gore.
📺 "Attack of the Show," starring Kevin Pereira and eventually Olivia Munn, was the primary focus of the documentary, and it was an incendiary combination that took the G4 TV cable show to new levels of insanity.
🕹️ G4 TV was the CNN of nerd culture, covering gaming, tech, and pop culture in a unique format that no other show had done before.
🎬 The documentary covers the beginnings of "Attack of the Show," its accidental incursion into Comic-Con, and the meteoric symbiotic relationship it developed with Comic-Con, Gamer's con, and E3, as well as its eventual demise in 2005.
🎮 G4 TV helped to elevate nerd culture and was important to the evolution of pop culture, coinciding with the arrival of the Marvel Universe and DC movies.
🤖 The rise of Triple A video games, a multi-billion-dollar business, and game devs became stars, voice-over actors became popular, and coverage of trade shows went from a few hours to a 24-hour feed.
🎉 The show helped to establish that nerd culture wasn't lame and was about real inclusion, not fake exclusionary inclusion.
🎭 Cosplay, cast impressions, and the explosion of pop culture conventions that is burned into our consciousness all came by way of G4 TV and "Attack of the Show."
🎥 The studios did their best to step in and exploit things often with first trailer reveals, but in the end, it was all about what the fans wanted.
📺 Key cast members left the show, Comic-Con and others became overtly corporatized,