Thunderbirds 1965 TV Series "City Of Fire" Review

If you grew up in either the sixties or the nineties in the UK then odds are you would have watched Thunderbirds growing up as a kid. As the show quite literally had everything a kid would want to see in a TV show and then some and well as it's been a long time since an episode of the show was covered I thought that i'd check out another episode of the show and so then join me as I review the episode that might might be a little bit more dated then usual with the episode in question being called simply just "City Of Fire" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a family of three find themselves trapped in the ground level of a tower block that's on fire it's up to International Rescue to find them before its to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This episode plot whilst it's not the best one that this series had it is easily one that is very movie like which is something that does work in this episodes favor as we have the drama and rising tension of if the family will make it out alive and we have the building tension of if Scott and Virgil will be OK as they have to use a gas that had previously knocked them to get the family out with this being something that in a lesser plot for a lesser show wouldn't have worked and yet due to the fact that this episode and this show does have alot of really good plots they are things that do work. With this films plot feeling more cinematic because of it heck one could argue that it's more cinematic then any of the Thunderbirds movies as this is a plot that very easily could have worked as the plot for a Thunderbirds and heck the idea of housing an entire city in one building is one that would be revisited in the Judge Dredd books and in the 2012 film Dredd and while this episode doesn't do alot with that idea as we don't get to see what any of the higher levels look like it is still a really cool idea in the first place with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Starring in this episode is this shows co-creator Sylvia Anderson as Blanche Carter and Tommy Carter and Ray Barrett as John Tracy and Joe Carter. Also starring in this episode is Peter Dyneley as Jeff Tracy and The Fire Chief , Christine Finn as Tin-Tin Kyrano and The Woman Driver , David Graham as Brains , The Tower Control Assistant and The Woman Driver's Husband , David Holliday as Virgil Tracy , Shane Rimmer as Scott Tracy and Matt Zimmerman as Alan Tracy , The Tower Controller and The WTV Reporter.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The fact that this episode does gave some really good acting in it is something that's not really all that surprising as by this point in the show they are fourteen episodes in with this one being the fifteenth therefor it does make sense that the acting in this episode would be really good as the acting in any show does get alot more better the further into a series that you get and while yes there some dodgy performances in this episode like for example Sylvia Anderson as good as she is in this episode doesn't make for a convincing sounding boy. With the best actor in this episode oddly enough also being Sylvia Anderson as while she is mainly known for playing Lady Penelope in this show it is therefor refreshing to see that she can do other characters with the same amount of grace and charm that she brings to Lady Penelope and while yes she can't play boy characters as it just sounds like the character is being played by a woman which is very distracting it doesn't change the fact that when she does do a good performance in this episode is something that does stand out and while other actors even in this episode have more roles then her in this episode she manages to prove that she is more then just a one trick pony with the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Whilst this episode doesn't really hit home the family aspect all that much it was still quite refreshing to see a family be the ones that need rescuing this time around. This is something that does add a new dynamic to rescue as now not only do the team have more people to rescue but also in the case of this episode the mother an father have to stop there son from freaking out with them constantly trying to calm him down and reassure themselves that everything will be OK this despite the fact that deep down they know that the odds of them being rescued at all let alone in time are pretty slim at best and yet it is something that hey have to do because if they don't it will mean that there song will freak out and thus take up more oxygen in the process. While it would have been nice if the episode did take the time to fully set up the family dynamic before the action takes place as the family in question does come across as being the stereotypical family who are just perfect in everyway possible when it would have worked out all the more better if the makers of this episode added things to the family like for example maybe the father and son don't get along that much or maybe the mother is a ditzy character or perhaps even the son is a known troublemaker and lier as that would have been something that makes them interesting characters and while there's nothing wrong with having them be the stereotypical happy family as that is something that was doubt enforced upon the makers of the episode it does also mean that the family unit as a whole just isn't that fun to see and heck it could be argued that there scenes are some of the more boring scenes in the episode as you know right away how there going to go which does make them pretty boring to watch.

There is kind of a running joke in this episode that does make the episode seem to be more dated then what the show already is as the running joke is that women make bad drivers and that's it. With even the accident that causes the skyscraper to get caught on fire being caused by a woman driver with this running joke being something that wasn't really needed due to the fact that whilst it might have been relevant back in the sixties which is fair enough as that's when the episode was made it is something that does make the episode come across as being even more dated then what the show already is but in all fairness the makers of this episode weren't to know how that joke would age therefor they are kind of forgiven. However they had alot of women working on the show some of which worked in a lot of important departments for the show and yet it just seems like they were taking a cheap shot at them with things being made worse when you take into account that the joke isn't even that funny in the first place and whilst yes fair enough it very well might have been funny back then but that doesn't stop the joke from aging poorly as these days there are alot more women drivers on the roads then there are male drivers and while it is hard to say who gets into more accidents men or women what can be said is that alot of women aren't bad drivers and while this episode does mainly play up this aspect for laughs with the woman even having a husband that just blindly agrees with her which is something that does make it more tolerable it is also a joke that if this episode was being made today would be cut out before the episode was even filmed not only due to how it makes women drivers look but also because of the fact that it's just not that funny of a joke in the first place.

Whilst there are some bad things in this episode this is an episode where there are alot more good things in it then there are bad. Like for example the whole idea of having one city inside of this giant skyscraper is a really cool idea and seeing how the city is controlled from somewhere near by does help to sell you on this idea with the only down side to this idea being the fact that as was mentioned we don't get to see any of the higher levels before the fire starts with alot of the action taking place in the same grey corridors of the lower levels which is something tat was more then likely done to keep the costs down but it would been more effective if we got to see what some of the higher levels of this building looked like instead of just being told about them. Another good thing is the fact that we get to see Scott and Virgil working together which is something that we don't technically get to see in this show as while yes they are always working with each other as Scott is always the first arrive and tells Virgil what the issue is very rarely do they actively partake in teaming up to do the rescue with it mostly being Virgil and maybe another member of the team like for example Brains that take a more active role in the rescue itself and yet here it's Scott and Virgil which is something that does work in the episodes favor as the two of them do bounce off of each other really well with the two of them willing to do whatever it takes to get the job even if it costs them there ow lifes and while the two of them don't for obvious reason have any banter with each other you do still get the feeling that with Scott being the older of the two brothers that Virgil might act like the littler brother and tell a joke even if it's just t ease the tension.

The episode does try to add in some tension as the brothers do have to use this new gas that Brains has invented that will allow them to cut through doors and other metallic objects at a much more quicker rate only for that same gas to knock them clean out cold. Yet the episode does nothing with this idea as while they do bring it u alot of the time with Scott even saying that it's the only way that they can get to the family in time we don't really see that many scenes with them after they get knocked out where they showcase there concerns to either there father or to Brains himself something which they would have had every right to do. This is something that is kind of understandable as this is a kids show afterall and kids even back then wouldn't find that kind of thing to be all that interesting but if your going to have be a key part of the episode and be a key plot point then it is something that should have been discussed a little bit more and fair enough there would have been no way to di that and have all of the scenes with the family and have the rescue as well as that would have made the episode be a confusing mess but given just how vital that the gas is it is something that should have been brought up more as to be honest the idea that they could get knocked out mid-rescue is a fantastic way of creating tension and to be fair to the episode they do make the most of it even by having alot of the same things that happened prior to them getting knocked out happen here and while they of course don't get knocked out it is still a good way of creating tension as they very well could have gotten knocked out. Yet the episode has to give us this over the top reason as t why they didn't get knocked out which is so confusing even an adult couldn't make sense of it.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty minuets and fifty six seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show with this kind of running time even helping to make the episode feel more like a movie due to the fact that it's close to having a feature length running time and yet at the same time you don't even notice that it's almost one hour long as we the audience are just so engrossed by everything that is going on in the episode with the episode itself even having the right amount of plot to cover that amount of running time. The episode is even helped by the fact that it does use it's running time as wisely as it could have done in both respects as given the fact that the episode does have so much to fit in in the first place its plot is about as well developed as it could have been as while yes this is a simple plot that isn't what you come to this show for you come to see the daring rescues with the plots being nothing more then an excuse for characters to get trapped and be rescued and to be fair to the episode it does make the most out of a thin plot by giving us lots of tension and while yes if they did cut out or even redid the terrible jokes about women not making for good drivers that would allow them to have more screen time be devoted to its plot but at the same time the episode would also loose about of its charm as well. Even the episodes characters much like its plot do come of as being as well developed as there were ever going to be as while the sows main characters would have course have the other episodes and films to get there bits of character development nobody is walking into this show expecting the guest characters to be that well developed with the just being there to service the plot and that's really it and to be fair they do do a solid job of doing exactly that but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This something that could be said for alot of this shows action as they all do take full advantage of the fact that all of the characters are puppets by having them do things like for example grabbing an object or in the case of this episode kicking down a door both of which re things that are a puppet wouldn't be able to do and yet because of the fact that they have them do it in this episode it does help to sell you on the action at hand when it would have been very easy for them to have alot of the action in not only this episode but the show as a whole take place off screen. With the best action scene being the start of the fire as we get to see a car drive recklessly into the skyscrapers parking are and then flip over a few cars before then smashing into a car and bursting into flames which might not seem like much but when you take into account that this show uses puppets that small stunt now seem alot more more bigger as now we have to work out just how they did it in the first place with that being something that does make that stunt be all the more impressive then what it really had any right to be and with it being a key plot point for the episode it is also an important scene to have as without that scene we literally have no episode to speak and with it being as good as it was it something that des make you wonder just what the makers of this show could really do if they had more of a budget to work with with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode whilst it is still a really good episode in its own right is also one that doesn't take as full advantage of its own idea due t the fact that it would have been more better if the family was somewhere o the higher grounds as that would have added more tension to the episode but this is still a really good episode albeit one that really could have been alot more better in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then  as for where I personally got all of te images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

The Legend Of Aang: The Last Airbender Film Review

Look to be frank leaks for movies happen all the time and they are never nice to see but this is twice now where we have seen two fully animated and completed movies get leaked. With this latest one happening just this past weekend and well as I have no connection to the animated Avatar franchise I thought that i'd check this out to see if the fans are in for a good time or not and so then join me as I review the film that is easily alot more better then Star Trek: Section 31 was with the film in question being called simply just "The Legend Of Aang The Last Airbender" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when he attacked by a group calling them selves The Denied Aang and his friends have to team up with a new air bender to help staff that could help return air benders to the world. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. This films plot is quite frankly alot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this films plot should have been really bad and yet it oddly captured the spirit of the original show and yet also at the same time was epic enough to be the plot of an Avatar movie when it really shouldn't have worked as well as it does. As there somethings in the plot that don't quite add up none of which I can go into here as given the fact that the film was leaked and isn't even due out until October anything could be considered a major spoiler. With the plot of this film not being the strongest plot as well which does make this films sometimes feel like an extended episode of the show albeit one with high production values but at the same time tho when this films plot gets good t gets really good with the plot being more then enough to hopefully please the fans of this franchise and get to them to still watch the film when it does come out in October as this is a plot that really does do a good job of representing what the original show was like in the first place and yet also being quite cinematic in its own right with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Eric Nam as Aang , Jessica Matten as Katara , Román Zaragoza as Sokka and Steven Yeun as Zuko. Also starring in this film is Dionne Quan as Toph Beifong , Dee Bradley Baker as Appa and Momo , Freida Pinto as Avatar Sonam , Ke Huy Quan as Avatar Xian , Taika Waititi as The Gorillavark , Peta Sergeant as Jie , Ken Jeong as The Cabbage Merchant and Dave Bautista as Tagah.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the fact that this films acting being as good as it is is something that does make sense as while I didn't watch alot of the other seasons of the show I did watch the first one and that season did have some good acting in it as did those other seasons therefor it does make sense that this film would have some really good acting in it as well even tho all barring one o0f the shows actors were some odd reason recast for this film. With the new actors doing a good enough job of trying to replicate what the original actors did with those same characters however the fans will be the biggest judge of if these actors are good replacements for these characters as they would have grown up with those original voices playing those characters and to them those original actors are those characters and not these actors as good as they are in this film. The best actor in this film whole entire film is quite easily Eric Nam as Aang as whole he's not going to top what Zach Tyler Eisen did with the role in the original show he does do a good enough job of portraying a grown up but still very much a kid at heart version of Aang with the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is Flying Bark Productions and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Studio Mir. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. To but it bluntly this films animation is the main reason why the film should have been given a theatrical released and not a direct to streaming release due to the fact that the films animation is simply drop dead gorgeous to look at and given that the shows animation was also really good the fact that this film not only managed to do what the show did with it's animation but also top it's quality is something that does speak volumes about how good that this films animation is. Yet for one reason or another Paramount thought that giving this film which has some drop dead gorgeous animation in it a streaming release whilst films with lesser quality animation like for example Goat got a theatrical this is just absurd as this is the film that should have been getting a theatrical release as this film has backgrounds that can best be described as being a work of art and characters have movements that feel true to how they are as characters but because of the  fact that 2D animation isn't the in thing right now and 3D CGI animation still is it means that this film gets shifted to Paramount+ while lesser films get the theatrical treatment which would be fine if this films animation quality matched something that you expect to see on a streaming service but it doesn't rather it matches something that you would want to see in a theatrically released film. With the films animation not only coming alive but also helping to sell you on the films action as that's when we get to see the camera do all of these cool moves that help to show of there backgrounds.

Much like with Scooby-Doo And Krypto Too! this film got leaked and not only that it got leaked in full and in high definition. While the Scooby-Doo film was never going to suffer because of this as that film was a direct to DVD movie that was also going to be released on digital services anyway this film will do as it will now mean that people won't watch it on Paramount+ as why should they when they can just watch it for free on there laptops and yet what's worse is is that people are using this film being leaked as an excuse to say that it should have been released in theaters when if those people truly cared about this franchise then they not only wouldn't be sharing images from the leaked film but they also wouldn't watch the leaked film as all that does is show Paramount that there's no reason to make more of these as it's not going to draw numbers for them now. To Paramount's credit they have been fast in not only delating copies of the film that do show up online but they have also launched an investigation to discover just how the film was leaked in the first place which is something that they didn't have to do or at least not do as quicky as they did and yet the fact that they did do it does say that they did have faith in the film just not enough to faith to let the film keep it's original theatrical release slot and heck if they did let the film go out into theaters there is a good chance that it might have made some small amount of money for them however that's all it would have been as the animated side of the Avatar franchise isn't as big as it was back in the mid 2000's as now we have the live action Netflix show which even then hasn't set the world on the fire therefor switching it to a streaming release whilst yes it does mean that this truly beautiful film won't be seen in the one place where it should get seen that big on the screen it does also mean that they won't lose that much money should the film have been a flop.

Unlike the show this film does have alot of dark moments in it sadly none of which are things that can discussed in this review as they are massive spoilers. However they are things that you wouldn't expect to see in an Avatar film and yet while the film does do the thing that you would expect a kids film like this one to with those moments they are also things that do oddly enough work for the film as they make the film feel alot more adult and mature whilst also retaining the same youthful energy of the show which given when this film is meant to be take place is something that does make alot of sense and yet in saying this tho those dark moments are things that you can understand why they do what they do with them due to the fact that this film is meant to take place decades before The Legend Of Korra. Yet it's the fact that the film allowed itself to go to those dark places in the first place that make this film feel more adult as there is no way in the first season of the show would they have done any of things that the makers of this film have them do and yet it's that way of thinking that makes this film feel like something that was made for the fans by the fans as much like how alot pf the fans that watched the show when it first coming out would have grown up since then this film is also alot more mature when it would have been super easy for the makers of this film to just have this film be as kid friendly as the earlier episodes of the show where as they are still trying to get that kid audience but they don't do that and instead they also go after the audience that grew up with the show and with the characters with this being something that does allow them to have those more darker moments in the film.

Much like with alot of the more modern Disney films this film does also have a twist villain and much like in alot of those modern Disney films this is a twist that you can see coming a mile away. As this character does straight up just acts evil from the end of the second act all the way to the end of the film therefor it's not really all that surprising when it's revealed that this person is actually the films big bad with them even teaming up with The Denied to help them take on our gang of heroes this is something that would have been done alot more better if they didn't have this person act like an evil person at all in the film as all it does is signpost that they are the bad guy and it makes all of our main heroes look dumb for even trusting them in the first place. This character is somewhat helped by the fact that they do have a really cool evil plan as much like with Aang they to want to bring the Air Nomads but unlike Aang this person wants to do it so that they can have an army of air airbenders to attack all of the other nations which is a cool idea with the film even going to great length to tell us the audience why this character is the way that they are and while it doesn't make them an interesting character or a scary villain by any stretch of the imagination it does show that the makers of this film were at the very least more then willing to try and give us a well thought out villain however by going the route of showing them acting evil before the big reveal it lessens them as a character as it would have been more effective to have the big twist be more hinted at and not be said out loud as then we the audience would actually be given a reason to find this character super scary and yet for the vast majority of the film they do nothing evil until the second act and the film still expects us to be shocked when they reveal that this person is the main bad guy of the film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty eight minuets and fifty one seconds. This is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you would expect a film like this one to have and to be fair to this film it really does need that amount of time to tell its story as there is no way that a story like this could have been in under that amount of time and if the film was to be longer then it would be stretching what is an admittedly thin premise even thinner with the film even having the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet with this in mind the film doesn't use it's running time wisely in one respect as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot which given that it has several key characters from the show to reintroduce is something that does make sense but at the same time tho it would have made sense for the film to devote alot more of it's screen time to fully developing it's plot as that is the thing that will always be most important in a film. This something that is thankfully not the case fir the films characters as all of the films characters do feel like fully thought out characters with all of the main characters having alot of character development thanks to being on the show with it being these characters that the makers of the film do seem to be more interested in which is something that does make alot of sense as those are the characters that the fans want to see more off but at the same time tho it wouldn't have hurt the film to give some of it's new characters some time in the sun either as the only new characters that we get to know more about are the villains of the film and that's really it but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this films action feeling like something that should be seen on the big screen as everything about the action in this film just screams big screen quality with the action in this film does a very good job of showing why Aang and his friends are together as a team as we get to see what it is that they all bring to the team when it comes to fighting. With the best action scene in the whole entire film no doubt being the films truly epic third act fight as while nothing can be said about what goes on in that sequence what can be said is that this is where the films action and animation work together hand in hand as they both help to elevate the other during this entire sequence as we do get alot of really moves being done by all of Team Avatar even if it's something that does end up being comedic it is something that is still pretty cool to see in the film with us getting a really good look at how well that all five of them work together during that fight with the films animation really helping to make the fight in that scene really come alive as we do feel each and every hit from the characters and seeing there facial expressions is something that does help to make the action in this film be all the more impactful as now we the audience are getting the chance to really feel just what it is that all of this films characters are feeling as well and while it could be argued that the third act fight does go on for way to long it does also give us a lot of really cool moments as well with the rest of the films action being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall thanks to this film being leaked there is a good chance that it might not pull in the numbers that Paramount expected it to but given the truly cinematic quality of the film this is a film that really should have been released on the big screen in the first place as it's just that good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as much that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very film with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Scrubs 2026 SPOILER FREE Review

It seems to be in the in thing these days to reboot and revive shows from the past and make them for both a new audience and the original shows audience. With without a doubt the best one do this thus far having just aired it's final episode and well as I covered the first two episodes when they first dropped and have been hooked on this show every since it only made sense that I talk about the revival as a whole and so then join me as I give my SPOILER FREE review of the revival that dares to actually be good with the revival in question being called simply just "Scrubs" enjoy.

The plot of this show is after over ten years away J.D. returns to the place where he learnt everything about being a doctor and now has to teach a new crop of interns whilst also being the hospitals new chief of medicine. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very  show was in all honesty really good. With the revivals plot doing something that alot of the bad revivals fails to do and that's push the characters in new directions that actually make sense for there characters whilst also very much keeping in the spirit of the original show with the shows plot being so well done that you'd be forgiven for thinking that it was a plot used when the shows was originally airing as the transition to series nine to this show is that seamless and while plot wise the show doesn't focus of J.D. struggling to adjust to being the chief of medicine as well as it did back in season eight as here we only really get the one episode that's dedicated to that and it's pretty much forgotten about after the fact it is still a plot that does feel like a natural progression for his character and the while the plot of the show isn't harmed by them not focusing on this aspect it is slightly harmed by the fact that we don't get to see J.D. going through rounds with the new interns all that much which is something that is a key aspect of both shows and yet it's barely gets focused on in the show as a whole with the plot of the show also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is one of this shows executive producers Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian and one of this shows executive producers Sarah Chalke as Dr. Elliot Reid. Also starring in this show is one of this shows executive producers Donald Faison as Dr. Chris Turk , Vanessa Bayer as Sibby Wilson , Joel Kim Booster as Dr. Kevin Park , Ava Bunn as Dr. Samantha "Sam" Tosh , Jacob Dudman as Dr. Asher Green , David Gridley as Dr. Blake Lewis , Layla Mohammadi as Dr. Amara Hadi , Amanda Morrow as Dr. Dashana Trainor , Michael James Scott as Nurse Francois Dubois , X Mayo as Nurse Pippa Raymond , Darcy Michael as The New Janitor ,  Rachel Bilson as Charlie , Andy Ridings as Wes , Phill Lewis as Dr. Hooch , Robert Maschio as Dr. "The" Todd Quinlan , Judy Reyes as Nurse Carla Espinosa and John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very  show was in all honesty really good. The fact that this shows acting was as good as it was is something that is both surprising and yet at the same time not all that surprising as we know that the original shows actors can act as we have eight to nine seasons that back that up and yet at the same time it was surprising due to the fact that alot of the newer characters are either unknown actors or are at best very little known actors and therefor to expect a good performance from them would have been totally foolish. Yet that's exactly what we got from this shows actors with them all really nailing characters pretty much from episode two onwards with the best actor in the whole entire show being Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian as he and along with the rest of the returning actors do slip back into character so easily that its like that they just finished working on the original show before starting work on this one with Zach brining that same lovable energy that made the character work so well in the original show and bringing it to this show as well with this shows and while he might noy make you cry in this show his performance in this show does feel like a natural progression of what he was doing with the same character in the original show acting really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to rise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show.

This show like the original shows either lives or died on its characters and thankfully the characters in this show are just as good as the characters that we got in the first eight seasons of the original show. As all of the new characters in this show are written with the same amount of care and love that the original shows characters got on both this show and the original show and while yes some of the new characters don't get alot of the spotlight as others do with the show mainly focusing on Dr. Samantha "Sam" Tosh , Dr. Asher Green , Dr. Amara Hadi and Dr. Dashana Trainor this is something that is kind of understandable as this show does have a big cast of characters and therefor some characters will get more focus then others. However alot of the characters that don't get alot of attention are more often then not the funniest characters of the show like the two new nurses they always have something funny to say and any scene that even just one of them is in has comedy gold in it and yet neither of them gets alot of focus with the same thing even being true for Dr. Kevin Park as he hates J.D. for getting the chief of medicine job and yet we barely see him in the show and yet whenever he does appear in the show we get some genuinely funny moments. This was something that was always going to be a balance as the show did have to balance returning characters and seeing fan favorite characters come back as well as setting up the new characters and while the balance is very well done with it seeming like an even split between the two sets of characters there are times where it does skew a little bit more towards the older characters which is fair enough as that's the characters that the die fans have back to see but if the show wants to have a future then it needs to invest more time in it's newer characters as well as its lder characters.

Like some of the good reboots / revivals like for example Wizards Beyond Waverly Place this show does maintain what it was that made the original show work so well in the first place and unlike Malcolm In The Middle: Life's Still Unfair this show doesn't change anything about what made the show work in the first place. As while this show doesn't make you burst out crying as much as the original show did it does still maintain that heart and that spirit when it would have been very easy for the makers of this show to change everything about what it was made the original show work in the first place and just slap the Scrubs name on it to get some recognition which is something that shows like for example the Punky Brewster revival and the Saved By The Bell revival did as both of those shows feel like totally different shows when compared to there original counterparts. This is something that makes it obvious that the makers of this show were fans of the original show with the show on the whole taking on the feel of it being made for the fans by the fans as it basically is the next episode of the original show something which can to a much more lesser extent be said to Wizards Beyond Waverly Place as well as while that show hasn't fully embraced the original shows fans and given them alot of what they want they did at least take the original shows characters in new and interesting directions which is something that this show did do as well and while the fans myself included won't agree with some of those directions they are still things that do work within the context of the show with even those change of directions feeling true to the spirit of the original show and it's characters with it being something that even before this final episode aired the fans where already begging them to renew this show for more episodes as that's how well done that this show is.

It's not all sunshine and roses for this show tho as the show does get alot of things wrong like for example they not only somehow make the world feel smaller by mainly setting these nine episodes in the hospital but they also set up characters and then do nothing with them. With a good example of this being the Wes character who was set up as a new boyfriend for Elliott and yet he straight up disappears after a few episodes of the show and is never seen or even mentioned again which would have been one thing if they say that Elliott dumped him or if he dumped her but they don't they just stop featuring his character all together which makes his scenes in earlier episodes now feel pointless as we now know that there not going to add up to anything meaningful in this show. Going back to them making the world of the show feel smaller by that I mean when you look at the original show we had a huge range of locations with alot of the episodes featuring those same locations this had the effect of making the world of the show feel more bigger then what it was and yet here all of the apartment scenes that we would have gotten in the original show we now no longer get and the bar that the characters would frequent at the end of an episode now only appears at the end of this last episode this makes the world of the show now feel more compact as we only have the one major location and while yes we do see other locations briefly in other episodes they are exactly that there brief and aren't main locations that we ever visit again in the rest of the show. This is something that very well could have been a budgetary issue which if so fair enough but there still should have been some kind of work around where we did get to see more locations like for example one of the interns apartments would have been nice to see as it could have given any of there characters some more depth to them.

There was one thing that did kind of bug me about the final episode that being the fact that they have a character straight up admit that they love another doctor with this being something that did come out of thin air. As while yes it was hinted at earlier on in the season that was quite a few weeks ago and the show never brought it up again until the very end of this episode when something like this could have made for a very sweet romance between the pair instead they have one of them fall in love with someone else and show them having a fling with there romance being sweet but then at the start of this episode one of the dumped into the dreaded friendzone. With this again coming out of nowhere when something that is this big and important to two characters should have been explored alot more in earlier episodes as you very well could have gotten alot of good comedy and drama out of that part of the show and that is something that the original show would have done and would have done wonderfully and yet for once reason or another they don't do it here. Speaking of relationships one of the things that I think alot of people again myself included was afraid that they were going to do with a certain couple thankfully didn't end up happening in this season of the show which is great as it's something that we saw play out several times in the original show and it got boring by the end of it so much so that even the original show had to call out just how tired and repetitive that that storyline had become and while the show did tease that they would once again go to the well and do this storyline they thankfully don't as that is something that would have been really tiresome to see played out for the countless time.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and six seconds. Which to be fair tho this show is pretty much the bogstandard running time of not only this episode but also the show as a whole with this episode having more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time as all this episode is mostly resolving THAT big cliffhanger ending from the previous episode and that's really it and it therefor didn't really need a long running time but even so this episode as a whole didn't really use it's running time all that wisely due to the fact that it didn't really fully develop it's plot with alot of the episodes running time being stuck to having two beloved characters from the original show show up and while only one of them adds something to the plot of this episode the other one doesn't this is despite the fact that it was fun seeing both characters again and seeing there interactions with the characters being just as a fun as they were in the original show yet those character do eat up alot of screen time which could have been better spent on making this episodes plot be all the fulfilling then what the ending of last weeks episode made it out to be. This is something that does kind of effect the shows characters as well as while it could be argued that none of the shows characters needed character development due to them being in the other episodes of the show alot of the interns still feel underdeveloped as the show really didn't give us the chance to get to know them as characters with this being something that show does need to address if it does get a second season as while it is great seeing the old faces again there's only so long that seeing them will get the fans invested and therefore the makers of this show do need to devote time to fully developing there newer characters inorder to make them just as good as the original shows characters were but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured /presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. This show when it was originally on the air had some very sharp comedy and that is something that it very easily could have lost in the decades since the final episode aired but thankfully that sharpness and that talent for creating funny characters that give you comedy gold is no only back but it's just as good as it was in the original eight seasons of the show as the shows nineth season is one that is just an unfunny mess of a season that the Scrubs fans don't like to talk about and for good reason. With the funniest joke in the entire show being something that happens in the final moments of this last episode and it's something that won't be revealed here in this review as it is something that is really funny and does stay true to who J.D. is as a character but what will be said is that it involves J.D. and a character from his past starting something up again from J.D.s past which is just such a funny idea as J.D. is known for putting his foot in his mouth alot of the time and to see him do it again is something that does make alot of sense as well as it being a really funny scene in it's own right. With that joke being one of many that doo make this show once again feel like the original show as while we don't get Cox calling J.D. a girls name or any funny Dr. Cox rants we do get alot of funny jokes with the newer characters which is something that does make then make for it 

Overall this is a show that should be used as the blueprint on how to do a revival as it captures alot of what made the original show work so well in the first place with it's writing , characters and comedy and yet isn't afraid to try and do new things with those same characters either and while yes there are few things that the show gets wrong heck it could even be argued that the show doesn't quite stick the landing but this is a case where the show gets just as much right as it does wrong in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then  i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that the episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 while the show on the whole earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very show with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

South Park "Death" Review

 

When we think of South Park we usually forget of how long the show has been on the air as not only are they still making episodes to this very day but the show is still just as relevant as it was back in the nineties. With the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today being a shockingly good example of that as it is something that is still very much the case today and so then join me as I review the episode that no joke helped to inspire the South Park movie with the episode in question being called simply just "Death" enjoy.

The plot of this episode when the boys mothers all catch them watching Terence & Phillip and see what the show is mostly made up off they decide to to try and get the show pulled of the air all the while the boys have to deal with Stans grandfather who wants him to kill him. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This episodes plot is one that is filled to the brim with all of the satire that the show is known and weaving in such a clever way that it makes the episodes plot come across all the more better as a result of it as by all rights this episode really shouldn't have worked and yet for whatever reason it not only works but due to it's satire it's still just as relevant today as it was in the nineties. The only thing that lets the plot down is the fact that the boys plot is presented as being the main plot of the episode and the plot with the parents is presented more as being the side plot when it really should have been the other way around as the stuff with the parents is where the plot of the episode gets good is interesting to see and while yes the plot with the boys is the more entertaining and funny of the two plots it's also the less interesting of the two therefor if the two plots were reversed then it would have made the episode be all the more stronger because of it with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is the shows co-creator and the episodes co-writer , co-producer and director Trey Parker as Stan Marsh , Eric Cartman , Randy Marsh , Grandpa Marsh , TV Announcer , Phillip , Mr. Garrison , Martin , Newsreader , Man In Crowd , Officer Barbrady , Tom The News Reporter , Death , Great Great Grandpa Marsh and a Convict and this shows co-creator and the episodes co-writer and co-producer Matt Stone as Kyle Broflovski , Kenny McCormick , Terrance , A Chat Show Host and John Warson. Also starring in this episode is Mary Kay Bergman as Sharon Marsh , Shelly Marsh , Sheila Broflovski , Liane Cartman and Suzanne Somers , Jennifer Howell as Bebe Stevens and Isaac Hayes as Chef.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This something that is kind of to be expected as they have the shows creators voicing alot of the characters in the show and if anyone is going to know how those characters should sound it is them and they do have alot of other good actors in this episode all of whom do turn in some really good performances in there own right and heck they even have ne actor play pretty much the vast majority of the episodes female characters alot of whom all appear in the same scene together. With the best actor in the whole entire episode being Trey Parker just because of the fact that it is kind of funny picturing him recording this episode trying to convince one of the characters that he voices to kill another character that he also voices with him being so good in the episode as while it is of course well known just which of the four boys that he plays its not really known just which of the the town's residents that he plays and to be fair you can't exactly hear anything that sounds all that similar to his normal speaking voice which is something that does make it easier to believe that he is playing all of these characters in the show. With this episodes acting really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at South Park Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This is something that will always be quite shocking when it comes to this first season of the show as they were still getting used to the computer soft where that they were using to actually animated the show and while they would get more used to it by the end of the season it is still interesting to see where this show started off at from an animation point of view when compared to where it is now as now they are able to do these more complex camera moves and have more things going on in both the foreground and in the background and yet as we see in this episode the camera is mostly static mainly in a mid-shot angle with there only being a few moving characters seen in the frame and while that is great for this show and for this episode as it does give the episode a homemade look to do it almost as if anyone with a punch of spare pieces of paper and a camera can go and remake this episode shot for shot. However there is just something to the more modern seasons animation where the more polished look whilst it does make the episode feel more better produced also causes the show to loose that homemade aspect that makes this episode stand out as while this episode and the show as a whole wasn't done in cutout animation it still does look like it with that being something that does add some level of charm to this episodes animation.

Believe it or not this episode did help to inspire the main plot of South Park: Bigger , Longer & Uncut due to the fact that both the plot of this episode and the plot of the show are very similar and deal with similar themes. This is mostly because of the fact that even from it's first episode South Park has been a huge target for parents groups and this episode was there answer to them much like how in the movie they were talking mainly to the MPAA and it is something that make the show as a whole feel like something that will stand up for what it believes in and will openly call out anyone that dares to mock them just by using sense and logic. With this episode doing a good job of not only presenting those that did needlessly criticise the show with cold hard truths and facts but doing so in a way that is true to the shows more satiric style as it pairs that with scenes of the kids genuinely needing there parents help and guidance and yet because of the fact that the parents aren't there to help them out as there more focused on getting a TV cancelled it means that the kids have to work this stuff out for themselves which is something that puts them in more danger when the character death comes into play with this being something that very easily could have been sorted if the boys parents had just taken the time the listen to them and actually be parents this is something that again is also doesn't in the movie only in the movie tho it's for obvious reasons done on a much more bigger scale where as here there is no sign of Satan or him trying to take over the world and while the movie version of this story works just as well it works well enough here in this episode as not only does it feel like that Matt and Trey have alot to say but there also holding up a mirror to those same adults that did criticise the show.

While the main focus of the episode should have been the plot with the mothers the plot with the boys and Stan's grandfather does have some good thing in it as well. Like for example the fact that hos grandfather keeps on calling Stan Billy is something is pretty funny as it could be chalked to him being forgetful which given that he's one hundred and two years old would be understandable but at the same time tho the fact that we find out his Grandfather also called him Billy with Stan then being called little Billy is something that does make that cute running joke be a little bit more funnier as now it looks like Stans grandfather is simply just doing it on purpose. With the other entertaining thing about that plot line being the fact that whatever the parents do in New York always effects the kids in a negative way like when they finally do get Terence & Phillip pulled of the air it then causes a distracted death who had stopped chasing the boys to watch the latest episode to now go and finally kill Kenny but those to aspects aside there's not a whole lot about this half of the episode that is actually interesting as the show doesn't go as far with it's satire and humor in this part of the episode that what it really should have done with that being something that does keep it from being as entertaining as the parents plot line as with the parents you get to see things get pushed beyond the extreme with that being something that makes there scenes all the more entertaing to watch and yet when it comes to the boys and there scenes it oddly feels like that there holding back like for example all throughout the episode Stans grandfather says that when he was Stans age he killed his grandfather when he asked him to and yet when death brings his grandfather to life he just says that he was wrong to do that when it would have been more funnier if he said that he never said those things in the first place. 

As you can all no doubt work out by now the big thing about this episode is the fact that parents shouldn't just leave there kids in front of the TV and let the TV look after there kids. This was something that parents even back in the nineties were doing but to a much more lesser extent then how it is now with alot of kids myself included watching not only this episode but this show when it was first being aired and while I could handle its more mature content and knew not to swear infront of the adults there would have been kids that perhaps didn't know that and because of the fact that the parents didn't bother to either watch the show with them or just straight up not allow them to watch it due to what time it was being broadcast at those same parents then tried to get the show cancelled. When it's infact the fault of the parents for leaving the kids infront of the TV and exposing them to this kind of stuff that did the harm in the first place this is something that is oddly enough still relevant to this very day as adults are still doing it only now as well as leaving there kids in front of the TV there now leaving them on Ipads and on phones where that are free to watch more mature content with zero adult supervision. With the boys having a pretty good and possibly funny speech about how it's up the adults to raise there own kids and it's not up to whatever electronical device they have infront of them to do that which is something that alot of parents today not only refuse to hear but need to here with the thing that makes it funny being the fact that the makers of this episode also give Kenny apart of the speech even tho he's fully clothed which and yet the boys still somehow manage to fully understand him with this proving the fact that South Park can give us life lessons but have it be done in a way that is still true to the show signature style of humor.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and twenty seven seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show with the show really making the most of that running tike as while the episode might be more light on plot that is due to the fact that the episode does have quite alot of jokes to fit into the episode with the episode having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place and while the episode does make the most of it's running time when it comes to the episodes jokes it still doesn't use it wisely as the episode doesn't really take the time to fully develop it's plot which fair enough is mostly due to the fact that the episode is cramming alot of jokes in alot of the episodes but at the same time tho this episode would be just as well remembered if the episode did cut down on the amount of jokes told and gave some of that screen time to fully developing it's plot as at the end of the day that is what will make or break the episode. The episode also doesn't really fully develop it's characters either altho this is a case where you could make the point that all of the episodes characters would get there character development in future episodes and therefor they wouldn't need it in this episode and with alot of the episodes characters being one off characters alot of whom do die at the end of the episode with the episodes characters being mostly the shows main characters it does make sense that the makers of this episode wouldn't really give these characters any character development in this episode altho it still would have been nice to have seen some of them stat to grow more as characters but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty i in all honesty personally tought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty so freaking good. To say that this episode is funny would be a huge understatement as this episode is laugh out loud funny with nearly all of the episodes jokes not only landing but landing hard and those that don't don't really matter as by the time the episode has told that dude of a joke it's told another one which is funny with this being a very good example of just how funny that this show was when it was at it's height as while the episode is still funny back in it's early years you couldn't stop from laughing at this show with this episode being a good example of just how funny that this show could be when its at its best. With the best joke in the whole entire episode being body joke as usually things like burp jokes aren't that funny but here tho the episode does something that makes a poop joke be really funny as it makes the whole episode one long poop joke which on paper is something that shouldn't be funny and yet because of the fact that it's commenting on what people thought that South Park was as alot of parents did think that the show was nothing really more then poop jokes to have this whole episode be nothing more then one long poop joke is something that is not only really smart but it is also something that's really funny on top of that with the rest of the episodes jokes being as painfully funny as this one was as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode is one that is must watch if you love shows that can make you laugh whilst also holding up a mirror to alot of people as it's satire is just as biting and just as relevant today as it was back in the nineties with this episode being a really good example of just how good that this show still is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good an as well as all of the bad things that re in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 9 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from South Park . Wiki . GG and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very post being the really great South Park . Wiki . GG really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very episodes with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on South Park . Wiki . GG really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.