I have the weird feeling that if the Giant Bomb crew talked more about Ryan, someone would complaint that they "just can't move on" or that "they don't leave him rest in peace". Someone will always have a caveat with everything.
Have you had many people around you pass away? I'm fortunate enough to say I haven't, but I'd imagine you don't always bring it up. Vinny occasionally calls Rorie Ryan, and everyone chuckles lightly and moves on.
My dad pasted away a few years ago, and I've only talked more about him since. But i know it's different from person to person.
Personally, they may talk about him a lot, but when it comes to doing their job and trying to entertain, they do seem to be erring toward not bringing it up. And that's their prerogative.
Also, I continue to be a bit bothered by the thread's title "Ryan Davis the unspoken" as though them responding differently than you would like somehow means there may be something wrong with their response. Like we have to be overdramatic about giving him a monicker like "Ryan Davis the unspoken". Maybe they aren't saying much, and maybe that doesn't make you feel warm and fuzzy. But they're the ones really facing this. We should be more considerate of their feelings than just worried about how their way of coping might make us feel. They're handling it in the way they believe is best.
You can be as bothered as you like, i had to call it something :) I was in no way questioning how they cope with his death as a statement of them doing it wrong.
@hudlommen: I kinda get where you're coming from, and I guess I've noticed it too. I lost 3 friends a couple of years back (fishing accident), and we (my friends and I) talk about those dudes all the time. We don't make a point of it, they just always come up in random conversation because we were around them a lot. It doesn't "bring the room down" and people don't start bawling by the mere mention of them.. it feels good remembering.
But to each their own - maybe they'll get there in time, maybe not. And like many has already said, Ryan's gone but certainly not forgotten.
See i think i would take it the same way you did, talk even more about the person. But as i can read many others would not do it like that. I know they make the videos to be entertaining, but it would only put me (personally) in a better mood to hear stories about him every now and then. But if it offends 20% of the audience i can see why they maybe stay clear.
For the once arguing that it would bring the actual crew down to talk about it, i see your point.
They mention him enough to show he's not forgotten at all. Just off the top of me head, a recent Load our Last Souls, Rorie talks about the time Ryan and Vinny sang Bust a Move together. Alex mentioned Ryan on a recent Scoops and the Wolf.
Have you had many people around you pass away? I'm fortunate enough to say I haven't, but I'd imagine you don't always bring it up. Vinny occasionally calls Rorie Ryan, and everyone chuckles lightly and moves on.
My dad pasted away a few years ago, and I've only talked more about him since. But i know it's different from person to person.
Hey. I wonder, since Ryan died there has been no talk about him (after the first days). Last unprofessional one of his old chars came up in the wresling game but no one said anything about it, i dont get it..
Of cause he is gone and you cant live in the past, but i still think the silence around him is weird given how big part of the site he was.
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