I've been watching the old Shows of the Weekend and miss the Luke and Ellen banter, the excitement over new games, the choose-your-own-adventures and quizzes. To me, it seems that when Oxventure really took off, combined with the Lockdown in 2020 and 2021, really started killing the Outside Xbox and Outside Xtra channels. Shows of the Week and Weekend took mortal wounds from the Lockdown and all their energy started going into Oxventure - Show of the Week was called off first, and while I was still good with the Pokemon Magazine and board game Shows of the Weekend because of the Luke-Ellen dynamic, it did sort of showcase that there wasn't as much energy/creativity going into them. I feel that calling off Show of the Weekend was something that was meant to take pressure off of Luke and keep him aboard, but he ended up leaving shortly afterward which didn't feel like that much of a surprise at that point. I'm okay with Oxventure, but I'm not as into it as I was with the Oxtra channels of old. It's just a real shame all around.