Talk:Jackie Tohn/@comment-28494368-20190609150534/@comment-28494368-20190610010136

I'm thinking this is a royale because it wouldn't make much sense for them to do two third-party battles in a row.

I also kinda feel like that they use the royale formula whenever the matchup comes from a similarity too general for just two opponents being in them. Rasputin and Stalin don't have a lot of things in common other than being Russians. Pete said in that behind the scenes video that they just "decided to throw every important Russian character from history into it". It's the same case with the directors: they don't have a lot in common other than being directors. But apart from that it's not a stylistic or genre-based connection, so they decided to cover as much field inside the realm of movie directing as they possibly could.

In this case, Cosby and Carlin have something in common: not just stand-up comedians, but very controversial ones. Whether they want to continue this line of thought throughout the entire battle, or cover the theme of stand-up in general - I don't know. I, personally, would be very glad if they decided to stick with the controversial one, especially since this would be a perfect opportunity for them to prove their independence not just contract-vise, but via the liberty of saying whatever they want. Previously it seemed to me that there were forbidden fields for them made by Maker Studios, that they couldn't openly diss (Jenner, Disney, even with Douglass vs Jefferson they had sacrafice TJ's second verse in exchange of serving racial justice and rewriting history), and to be honest, Pete always seemed pretty annoyed by these cases in every comment he made about their partnership with Disney, which I totally understand.

So yeah, I'd be really happy if they kept maybe just this one battle on a very controversial level, and I think they've also wanted to do something like this for a very long time. I don't know however if they choose to use Gervais or C.K. for that. We'll see. :)