User blog comment:Hippie Rat/Review/Analysis of Epic Rap Battle Parodies's Jigsaw vs GLaDOS/@comment-17234720-20161028201905

Couple analysis notes.

First off I've been going as just Mancha for forever now and i guess no one has noticed

I chiseled, not wrote this battle. I've not seen Saw and had to do a lot of research before chiseling, but a lot of the lines especially in the beginning aren't mine, so this battle isn't 100% remenisicent of my writing. It was written by a few people, sent to me, and THEN sent to Mat4yo who made a few final changes.

For instance, "You will function like a puzzle when the tables get turned/Like a cube I will leave you with a 3rd degree burn" as well as the "carousel of shotguns you'll be singing" lines is Mat4yo's chiseling. I did the primary chiseling and he did some other stuff afterwards.

A few lines are hidden references while still being face value boasts. "I'm divine, real vile Venus Fly" is because GLaDOS is directly based off of the famous painting of Venus's Birth. The line is executed to make it reference the VF trap, but it's meaning is I'm divine, real vile Venus, fly (going into the slang term as fly). You can't tell me that's as complicated as the mustache thing you made up I've never done anything that ridiculous lmao.

You missed a bit of the TF2 line which makes it hit harder too. If you've played TF2, you'll probably know that Scrap Metal is the primary in-game currency for trading weapons and hats. A single piece of Scrap Metal is worth jack, though, only a couple cents, so it's a double jab at TF2. GLaDOS has zero value-no morals (values) and no importance (value).

My focus was GLaDOS and getting her tone right. As much as you don't like it a lot of GLaDOS's tone is really dry and dark jokes. When it comes down to it though you're vastly overestimating my hand in this battle. My chisel was mostly focused on getting the battle to flow well, something you've failed at in the rewrite. The lines are good but it's not easy to rap.

In writing-only battles tone and staying true to character traits doesn't show as much but for making audio battles, it's VITAL to making the battle sound good and like the characters. The "I'll kill you" jokes aren't something I typically always focus on but they're over-prevalent in this battle ESPECIALLY for GLaDOS because that's what her character is like. That's the tone of this battle. I do agree that they're overprevalent but I also /didn't write a lot of them and made them work on the flow because although I'm a huge Portal fan I've never seen a Saw film and don't really care to

A better glimpse of my writing is GLaDOS vs Neo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IzJoPQO3yY), which I was writing as I chiseled this. My efforts were focused on my battle and trying to not reuse a lot of the jokes I had written in mine, and overall, GLaDOS vs Neo is probably still some of my best writing because of its cohesiveness.

Also I've taken over the reigns of the seven sins battle so although it's not an ERBP I'll be finishing it up some day



