Bennett The Sage

Bennett the Sage is a featured video contributor and reviewer on TGWTG. He mainly does his reviews on video games, like "the kind you would see on GameTrailers or IGN or what have you," but he has written a few articles as well. Bennett also has said that he has other non-video game projects he's working on, but is sticking with video game reviews at the moment.

Beginning on TGWTG
Bennett started doing reviews in March 2008 and began releasing them on GameTrailers.com under the pseudonym Strayer. After visiting sites like the short-lived Reelgamers.com and also Gamepartisan.com, he stumbled upon TGWTG. He says how he actually got on the site is a convoluted story:

"After That Dude In the Suede released his first AMV Heaven, I made a comment under the video where I said that he shouldn't have posted that AMV at the end of his video since he's getting payed for views. Mike Michaud, the admin of the site, contacted me after that comment and said that he liked my Chrono Cross retrospective that I posted onto the ThatGuy's blog list some time ago, and that he would not have seen it had I not posted that same comment under Suede's video. From there, he asked me if I would like to participate in the Best of Blogs (B.O.B.) contest about a few months back. I said yes and I got the majority of the votes and landed this gig here on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com."

Sage has also made a few appearances in other videos. Most notably the farewell to Suede and the Christmas 2008 special.

Sage Reviews
In his first series, Sage takes a look at some of the biggest games of this century and creates lists of some of the greatest "greats" in video game history. For a list of episodes, go see Sage Reviews.

Masterpiece Fanfic Theatre
Sage debuted his next series in February 2009, during the donation drive where he reviews a user's fanfiction about The Nostalgia Critic and the Angry Video Game Nerd in a show he called "Masterpiece Fanfic Theatre". In this series, he reviews the best of the worst in the world of fanfiction. He stopped this series in early 2011, when asked if he would ever continue on his formspring ( http://www.formspring.me/BenTheSage )he stated,

I pretty much explained in the last MFT that I was through with the series. I just didn't feel like making them anymore.

Comic Conventions
Sage's latest series started in August 2009, and is all about the world of sequential art. In Comic Conventions he attempts to showcase a particular comic, or a series of moments in comics, while explaining how the subject at hand is related to the industry as a whole.

Donation Drive
On December 5th, 2009, Sage took part in the second donation drive for the Ronald McDonald House charity!

Specials
As part of the December 5th donation drive, Bennett released a special video. This video was a review of the movie, Dolemite.


 * Dolemite (December 5th, 2009 as part of the drive. December 7th on the site.)
 * Sage and Linkara - Roger Corman's Fantastic Four (May 17th, 2010 and was part of the Year Two event.)
 * Deadfall (December 7th, 2010, was first released as part of the third drive.)
 * Sage and The Cinema Snob - Human Tornado (December 15th as a crossover from the charity drive)
 * Sage and The Spoony One]- Garzey's Wings (December 18th, 2010 as a crossover from the charity drive)
 * Human Tornado and Garzey's Wings Bloopers (December 23rd, 2010 as part of the bloopers for both previous crossovers)
 * Mailbags #1 (May 9th, 2011)
 * You Wish You Were Me! (July 8th, 2011)
 * Top 5 Best & Worst Covers Of All Time (August 7th, 2011)
 * Dracula & Diatron-5 Outtakes (January 24th, 2012)
 * Dracula and Diatron-5 Commentaries (January 30th, 2012)
 * Top 10 Most WTF Music Videos (March 17th, 2012)
 * Rock Band: The Sage's First EVER Review (March 19th, 2012)
 * Sage & NC Starchaser Commentary (May 2nd, 2012)
 * FanimeCon 2012 Q&A (May 30th, 2012)
 * Top Ten Worst Songs (By Otherwise Good Artists) (July 17th, 2012)