My SPOILER FILLED Impressions of Stuart Fails To Save The Universe

The Big Bang Theory is a show that never seems to stop producing spin off shows as first we had Young Sheldon which spawned it's own spin off show Georgie And Mandy's First Marriage. With there now being another show to add to that lust with the only difference being that this is both a sequel and also non canon show to the world of The Big Bang Theory and so then join me as I give you my SPOILLER FILLED first impressions of the show lets you know that the main character is going to fail with the show in question being called simply just "Stuart Fails To Save The Universe" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is comic book story owner Stuart and his friend Burt are tasked by an alternative version of Stuart to save the universe and fix a devise that Howard , Leonard and Sheldon made. 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 the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. The plot of this episode is all about kind of setting up the plot for the show and to this end the episodes plot does indeed work but the episodes plot does do something that was kind of unexpected and in some ways both does and doesn't work for the episode. This is something that does work for the episode as it gives us the audience a mystery to solve by just throwing us in at the deep end with the plot and it's characters which granted is something that could be fun but it doesn't work for the episode in that no context is given in how we ended up in this state in the first place which is something that could have worked for the plot is some small ways with the episodes plot being about as strong as you'd expect from a science fiction comedy but it is hard to deny the fact that the plot for this opening episode could have been alot more better and while going the more simplistic approach with the plot is something that does make sense given the quite literally universal nature of the shows plot it would have made just as much sense if they went with a more complex opening plot as well 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  Kevin Sussman as Stuart Bloom , Brian Posehn as Bert Kibbler and John Ross Bowie as Barry Kripke. Also starring in this episode is Another Happy Day star Lauren Lapkus as Denise , Penn Jillette as Penn , Teller as Teller , Ryan Cartwright as Kyle , Josh Brener as Trevor , Rich Ting as Soldier 1 , Tommy Walker as Gary , Anthony Alabi as Soldier 2 and Atticus Batacan as A Floss Vendor.

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 the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The fact that this episode does have some really good acting especially from the main lead actors is something that does make alot of sense as they are all reprising their roles from The Big Bang Theory and alot of them had been on that show from the very beginning and therefor they would know how best to perform there characters as they would have had years to perfect there performances as those characters. With the best actor in the episode being Kevin Sussman as Stuart Bloom which might be a cliche thing to say as he has been playing the character since season 1 of The Big Bang Theory but he is really good in this episode with making the character a little less annoying due to the fact that he is now the main character and not just a side character and yet at the same time he still does do little things that remind you that this is still the same loveable loser that we all fell in love with on The Big Bang Theory, heck he also manages to make Stuart seem more like his season 1 self where he is the kind of cool character only now its done with a hint of how the show would end up treating him yet it all still works for this show with Kevin making Stuart alot more likable in the process which is something hat really does shine though in this performance in this episode. 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 end up coming 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.

Sadly there is no listed company as to who did the CGI for this episode to be found really anywhere online. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGI that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The fact that this episode has CGI in it all is quite shocking in it's own right as sitcoms don't typically use CGI alot as they mostly just use to extend the episodes sets and thats really it and yet here due to that universe this particular episode takes place in there is alot of CGI to be found. While the episode doesn't rally use CGI all that much as it really only uses it to extend some of the sets , create some monsters and some rifts in the fabric of reality but that's really it with the making alot more use of practical effects with those effects blending in with the CGI effects really nicely and heck I watched this episode twice today and the one thing that stuck to me on the second viewing was the fact that you do see the lighting of the rift in the comic book store which isn't a big deal but it is something that does make that effect feel all more real as it would have been super easy for the makers of this show to not have the lighting of the rift show up on Burt's face as much as they do as we the audience would still know that it's there but the fact that they went that extra mile to have that lighting in there does show us that however did do the effects for this episode did have a good understanding of how to make effects blend in with the practical sets really well and it is something that does pay off in this episode.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The reason why this post is a spoiler filled one is the fact that we get very shocking cameo in this episode as we get to see Kunal Nayyar back as a disheveled Raj Koothrappali. With it being revealed in this episode that this universes version of him not only got married but also that his wife was killed off on there funny honeymoon by a giant moth which is something that is both befitting his character but also oddly tragic in it's own way as it does say that no matter what universe that we are in that Raj will always end up alone and yet here his fate is made all the more tragic when we see that the evil version of Barry kills him for helping to try and set the universe right in the first place and well to be frank Kunal steps right back into character almost as if he'd just finished playing the character a year or two ago. Yet with him being the first of the main character from the original show to show up in this way it does make you wonder who else might pop up as no other major characters have been announced to be guest starring in this show and yet given the fact that they kill of a possible version of Raj it does say that any of the main characters can now be killed of which means that the franchises favorite character Sheldon can die and yet it both wouldn't and would be canon to the show as this episode never really tells us if this is the main timeline from the original show or if the version that meets Stuart and Bert and tell them how to set things if he's the Stuart from the original show and this is something that does now mean that the show can have alt more fun with it's legacy characters, with it also meaning that technically characters from the other spin offs might be able to appear in this show and not have it effect the time line of the franchise as a whole.

The fact that it's never really revealed what or even who it is that broke the device that Leonard , Howard and Sheldon made in the first place does help to give this show some kind of mystery. Whilst it is kind of obvious as to who it might be as the alternative Stuart does tell himself that he was in the room with them when they first tested it is pretty obvious that he did it granted it might not have been on purpose but it is quite clearly him that did it which is something that could make sense as we do of course don't know how the rest of the show goes but it is something that would be interesting to see played out out in the rest of the show due to the fact that there is an unlimited amount of potential as to how good and funny that this mystery could be if it's handled right. As if it's not then it could be something that comes across as being predictable with the thing that's key to making it right being for the episodes to drop in little clues either by the characters are in actual scenes that hint at what destroyed the device as that is something that is a clear plot point it would make sense and while the synopsis for the show belatedly say that it's Stuart that broke the device n the first place this is something that does feel like a red herring as you wouldn't put something like that in the main plot for the show and then make a mystery over who did it in the first episode of the show, with an interesting thing about this episode in the fact that we do get to see more of the University where the guys worked in the main show granted we don't get to see any of the main sets from that show which does feel like a waste of that set the fact that we do get to see more of it does make it feel more real and lived as in the main show the only main set from the University was the cafeteria and yet here we get to see several rooms and corridors.   

Whilst this sow is meant to be more of a comedy then anything else we do get to see a good dose of action in this episode with Raj , Burt and Stuart all taking part in an action scene to help rescue a captured Denise. This was actually fun to see as we got to see Burt out the fact that he teaches geology to good use by showing the others how to essentially turn rocks into hand grenades which does lead t a really fun action scene where the take out several of Emperor Kripke's men in fun and at times funny ways all the while a really good rock song is playing n the background with us even getting a good dose of explosions as they slowly but surely make there way to her and yet it never feels out of lace with the episodes comedy. ,As while that is going on we do see that this version of Denise can handle herself as she tricks Barry into letting her go with her beating the heck out him and heck this episode and this show even have a few things that the other shows didn't have that being blood and swearing as due to the those shows airing on CBS and this show airing on HBO Max this show is able to get away with alot of more therefor we do have scenes where Stuart gets covered in blood from all of the guards and we get scenes with the characters sweating both of which do feel like small things but due to the fact that this episode takes place in a world that is overrun with zombies and giant moths it does oddly make sense for the characters to start swearing and t be fair to the episode they don't do it all that often rather they just do it at the start of the episode which makes sense as tat is where it would be all the more impactful for this episode rather then having them swear every few scenes like they do in most HBO shows, with even the blood being used in more impactful ways as they only show the blood when they have to and they never do it because they want to which is something that the makers of this episode very easily could have done if they really wanted to.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and six seconds. Which is something that does feel right for this episode to have as this episode even tho it doesn't have to set up the characters it still does gave to set up the plot and to a lesser extent the world that this episode takes place in with the fact that this show is going to have shorter and not longer running times does show us that the makers of this show do care more about having the plot fit the running time and not pad the episode with unneeded scenes something which it could be argued is done here with the Penn & Teller cameo but given that there scene is a throwaway scene that happens near the start of the episode it's not that bad with the episode having more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet even so this episode really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't fully take the time to fully develop it's plot which is something that is fair enough as you could argue that the the rest of the show will do that but just interms of the episodes plot it is a pretty weak plot that could have used some kind of plot development with the makers of the episode being more focused on telling us why Denise and Stuart are now no longer a thing then they are in giving us a well thought out and developed plot. The same thing could also be said for the episodes character development as due to all of these characters starting out lives on another show it could be argued that they don't need character development on this show as they would have gotten it on The Big Bang Theory but it still would have been nice to give some of characters some kind of development with the only one that really gets characters development being Burt as he find out that there prison was his old geology classroom and that's it with the makers of the episode being more focused on giving us cameos that it is in giving us some character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now the as this is a comedy that really does mean that I gave to actually talk about the actual comedy thats actually featured / presented to us in this vey episode well then in all honest 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 really good. With the episode doing a good enough job of mixing action with comedy so much so that you could call this show and action comedy and it wouldn't feel out of place with the episode knowing full well to firmly remain a comedy as it does intercut the action to have a comedic moment and yet none of those moment undercut the tension of the scene as the rest of the episode is so much fun in the first place that we do end up laughing with the character regardless of if there's been a joke told or not. With the best joke in the whole entire episode being the during the sequence where Raj , Burt and Stuart are trying to recue Denise as the episode cuts to her beating up Emperor Barry having tricked him into her letting her go with her banging his head on the table just yelling that's he 's a stupid man over and over again which is just pure gold with it being something that does work for her character as we do know thanks to The Big Bang Theory that she can get over the top at times with this feeling very much like the next step up from that with the joke itself being one that does catch you off guard as your not really expect there to be a joke there and yet when the episode tells it it does make you laugh with the rest of the episodes jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overall if you haven't done yet please do go and check out episode on of this show as it is so good and all right fair enough it's not as good as Young Sheldon is but it is still a really good start to this admittedly weird show that is quite frankly working due to how weird it is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of te good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very post and as this is only my first impressions of the show there is not going to be ranking however if i'm still watching the show when the final episode airs then I will do a review of the show as a whole.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in tis very post well then boys and girls and as well a ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his very post from IMP Awards . Com 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.

Batman: Caped Crusader :Savage Night Review

Right now alot of people are looking at the live action side of DC as they have Supergirl superbombing at the box office , they've just released the trailer for Clayface and there a few weeks away from dropping Lanterns. Yet there is one more TV show that's coming back for it's second season that alot of people aren't talking about be it in a negative or a positive way and well I thought that i'd remind you about this show by doing a tie in review with the shows first season finale and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Batman finally call Alfred by his first name with the episode in question being called simply just "Savage Night" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Harvey Dent finds himself facing jail time for murders committed by Two-Face and it's up to Batman , Barbera , Jim Gordon and Renee Montoya to get him to the court house safely and alive. 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 not that bad. This episodes plot to be frank isn't as good as it could have been as it does rely on you having past knowledge of the prior episodes which is a great if you were telling one whole story over the course of the season but alot of the time this show was telling separate stories and therefor it does make sense that this episode should follow suit in this regard. However even not taking that into account the episodes plot still isn't that strong as it doesn't feel like the plot of a the typical season finale rather it feels like the plot to an episode that could have been placed anywhere in the season order and it would have made just as much sense as this plot oddly enough isn't big enough for a season finale as it's just the characters trying to get this one person to the court house for his hearing on time and that's it and like episodes of Batman: The Animated Series also had episodes like this none of them were meant to be season finales therefor that show does get away somewhat with having episodes that are plotted like this one, the plot does have some upsides like the fact that it is this small scale story does make all the more interesting to watch as there's nothing big happening plot wise for alot of the episode 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 Hamish Linklater as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Michelle C. Bonilla as Renee Montoya. Also starring in this episode is Krystal Joy Brown as Barbara Gordon , John DiMaggio as Harvey Bullock ,  Manny and The Joker , Eric Morgan Stuart as James Gordon , Jason Watkins as Alfred Pennyworth , Gary Anthony Williams as Arnold Flass , Diedrich Bader as Harvey Dent / Two-Face , Noshir Dalal as Back-Up Mobster and A Guard , Bumper Robinson as Goon 2 and Mobster 1 , James Arnold Taylor as A Client and Cedric Yarbrough as Rupert Thorne.

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 not that bad. This episodes acting was quite frankly alot more better then what it really had any right to be due to the fact that the actors in this episode do have alot of big shoes to fill from other Batman animated projects and to be fair they do do some really good work in this episode and not taking the other episodes into account this episodes actin could have been alot more better as we do know that alot of this episodes actors are a bunch of a really good actors in there own right and yet alot of the time they very feel miscast as is the case with Hamish Linklater or aren't used right like with Jason Watkins. With the best actor in the whole episode being oddly enough John DiMaggio as while he does have this really recognizable voice alot of the time in this episode you don't really know that it's him playing these characters as he does hide his voice alot of the time with the sign if a great voice actor being if they really can surprise you when it's revealed that they've really played a certain character and that's what John DiMaggio did in this episode as alot of the time he really doesn't use his very recognizable he gives his characters more of a different voice and it is with those voice really fitting those characters and it is something that really does shine though in his performance. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors has to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of the 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 really greats that are currently over at Studio IAM. 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 not that bad. As while the episodes animation well never ever be able to top the animation seen in Batman: The Animated Series it is hard not ignore the two animation wise as they do share a very similar style and yet with this episode the animation whilst it isn't bad it's also not all that good either as alot of the episode does feel really flat both interms of where the camera is placed and what it is that they do in the episode from an animation standpoint. Whereas in Batman: The Animated Series the camera would be placed in this unique places that would be impossible to do in live action without the need a lot CGI where as here the camera is always placed in a mid shot type angel which is fine for one or two shots but alot of the shots are like this with the makers of this episode not really getting all that creative with it's use of animation as while there are only so many thing that you can do with these characters in an animated setting here it just felt like the makers of this episode where just for lack of a better word here being lazy almost as if they had ran out of ideas in the previous episodes and just weren't bothered to be creative with this episodes animation and while granted having the episode be set at night as a good way to hide all of the flaws in the animation having things like a CGI background and a few CGI vehicles doesn't really help matter all that much, however when the episode does to do some really solid animation like of the character of Harvey Dent for example or the episodes that is when we get to see just how good that the animation in this episode really could have been. 

This episode does of course end with them hinting that we'll be getting a much more darker version of The Joker in this forthcoming season. The teaser itself doesn't really give away what it is that he'll be up to in the season as we only see him testing Joker venom on various victims before he laughs at the camera which to be fair is all you need to do with a character as well as known The Joker as every one knows who he is anyways and given the fact that this show is meant to be set during Batman's early years as a hero it does make sense that he would come across  him when he's a slightly more established hero with it even appearing from the teaser that we well be getting this more dark and twisted version of the character. This is something that should work as The Joker whilst yes he is meant to be funny his dark jokes are only meant to be funny to him and no one else as he is someone who has lost his mind and will therefor do anything to anyone just because he can do and given the fact that one of the makers of this show is Bruce Timm who helped to make him well known in the nineties it is safe to say that this version could be in safe hands, however tho there are somethings that the makers of this episode would need to get right about the character to make this version of work that being the fact that he has to be scary and not not just little kid scary either i'm talking someone who can make both the adults and the kids watching the show scared of him just by giving them a look as you don't want to be routing for this character you wan to be routing for Batman to stop his crimes and the second thing being the fact that he does need to be unpredictable if I can work out what his plan is before it's even revealed then it's not a good take on the character the plan needs to be as unpredictable as the character is and if the makers of this sow get those things right then this new take on the character will be a good version of the character to have.

The episode on the whole isn't that bad as there are alot of good things in it like the friendship between Barbera and Harvey was really sweet something which does lead to Harvey dying a good guy as he gets shot in the back by Arnold Flass with his death being another high point in the episode as it is this long a drawn out death where we get to see the character shot not once but twice. This is something that does make his death all the more both satisfying and upsetting its upsetting in the fact that he didn't die as a villain he died trying to do the right thing by projecting someone who was just just trying to do right by him and yet at the same time it's satisfying due to the fact that it was this long a drawn out thing whereas if it was just over a in a few seconds it wouldn't have the same weight on the episode that it clearly does have due to to it being longer. The over truly good thing in the episode is the fact that we get to see Batman get pushed to the edge and still come back OK as we after Harvey is killed Batman takes Flass's gun and makes it look like he is going to shoot him which is something that would make sense as Harvey was Bruce's best friend after all and yet even so Batman fires the gun around Flass as a way to warn him and doesn't use the gun to kill him this was something that the makers if this episode really didn't need to do as the episode would still work without that scene but its the fact that they went the extra mile to add in a scene like that that does show you that even someone as dark as Batman can at times get pushed so far where he believes that that the only way to stop a criminal is not by the law but by killing them himself as that is how far that he could have gone in this episode and yet he manages to hold himself back thus being more human then the the criminals are.

The whole thing with Harvey refusing to go court for the crimes that he committed as Two-Face was a rather interesting thing to have in the episode. Yet the episode does drop this part of the episode just as quickly as it does start it which is a shame as it would have made the episode alot more interesting to see if it was mainly just Harvey struggling to cope with the fact that he committed all of these terrible crimes as Two-Face as while he knows that the two of them are vastly different people inside and out to the outside world both Harvey Dent and Two-Face are one in the same and seeing how the world would react to him doing these crimes is something that would have been an interesting angle to take in the episode given how high up in power Harvey Dent is. Yet the episode drops this aspect pretty soon after it starts it all for no good reason which just leaves us with a bland and generic episode of the show that has not that much going for it this is something that would have been OK if it was maybe the the first episode in the season as then you could argue that the season will only get better but this is the season finale this is where everything that's gone on in the season pays off and yet it's just left feeling like an average episode with the only thing that did make it interesting being stripped out of it for no reason as the makers of this episode really could have kept the fact that Harvey is struggling to cope with what he did as Two-Face and still have the episode go ahead as planned and then have it be that he decides to be fully Harvey again when he does save Barbera's life this is something that would have made his death all the more heartbreaking as while a few people will know that he died fully as Harvey Dent to the rest of the world he would have died as Two-Face.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and fifty four seconds. This is pretty much the bogstandard running time for the show and to be fair this is an episode that really does need to have that long of running time just due to the fact that it does tie up some characters arcs in this first season but yeah it is hard to deny the fact that this episode really doesn't need to be this long as the episode doesn't have a plot that requires it be that this long as you very easily could tell this episodes plot in twenty two minuets and not have to cut anything that's all that important to the plot of the episode itself with the episode itself having more then enough plot there to cover this amount of running time in the first place. Yet even with this in mind the episode still doesn't use its running time all that wisely due to the fact that this episode really does doesn't its running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully fully develop which in all fairness it really didn't need to do as one could make the argument that the sow itself did that all of its episodes and it therefor wasn't needed in this episode but it still would have been nice if this episode did get some plot development with the makers of this episode being more focused on giving us scene between Harvey and Barbara then in giving us plot development. The same thing cannot be said for the episodes character development as the episode does take the time to give Batman of all people some character development as if you'll remember he does go through the entire season calling Alfred Pennyworth and yet at the end of this episode because of what he's seen Harvey do and what Alfred has just said to him he does very briefly call him Alfred with the rest of the episodes characters not really getting any kind of character development whatso ever but i really will admit that this episode really does gave 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 / fell that the actual action thats actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty OK at best. This was something that was quite shocking as when you think of action scenes inn animated Batman films or TV show you do usually think of some pretty cool and yet there stuff and yet here it did feel like that the makers of this episode were holding themselves back when they should have been letting them selfs go as nuts as they wanted to do as they do have a character in Batman that does allow for that to happen. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the scene at the harbor as that's when we get to see Batman make good us of alot of his gadgets in fun fun ways like him using Batarang to knock someone out or he uses a hook that he fires from his gun to swig away to try and see where Barbara and Harvey are with us even getting a cool take down when Batman leaps of a container kicking a villain in the face which is a really cool thing to see in the episode and even tho the episode is largely set at the harbor the episode does make good use of it by giving an action scene that we haven't seen before with this being something that does make this episodes action scene feel different from all of the other action scenes in this show as by all rights this episodes action could have been really bad and yet it wasn't with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while we don; have to wait to long to see what season two of this show is going to bring what we can say from the trailer is that it does look like we are in for one heck of a ride with Batman and that this episode wasn't the strongest episode to end this season out out on 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 this 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 6 ,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 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.

Thomas & Friends TV Series "Percy Runs Away" Review

When people think of Thomas & Friends they very rarely if ever think of stories that don't feature Thomas. This is understandable as he is the title character afterall and is on all of the DVD covers therefor it is nice to see an episode of the first season where Thomas basically just has a cameo in the episode and it's that very episode that i'm going to be talking to you al about today and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Percy avoid being a crash with the episode in question being called simply just "Percy Runs Away" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is after Gordon , James and Henry are finally let out of the sheds for causing trouble they meet the engine that has been doing there jobs for them a green tank engine called Percy and him and Gordon have to do all they can to avoid having a major accident. 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. While it could be argued that the plot of this episode was reused for the plot of the episode "Percy And The Signal" as they are very similar interms of the plot this episode does get a bit of leeway as it did the plot first. However tho with being said this episode plot still isn't that good as it is a rather thin episode with the episodes plot being so thin at times that it was hard to work out just what the main plot of the episode was even meant to be in the first place as for a long time it does feel like that the episode doesn't have a plot with it only being in the final few moments where something close to a plot does start to show up this is something that would be fine if it was a two part episode as then you could argue that the story is telling a much more bigger plot but it's not if anything it serves as an epilogue to the previous two episodes therefor there still should have been some amount of plot left to tell even if it's something as basic as Gordon learning to become with friends with Percy which yes granted is a basic plot but given the fact that this is at the start of the sow it is something that would work for the plot of an episode 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 naturally Sir Ringo Starr with him being just as delightfully charming as he always is. With him being able to make what is on paper a really a dull story seem to be all the more exciting due to the fact that he does have alot of enthusiasm not only for the characters but the stories as a whole with this being something that will always make him a joy to listen to in this show as it's something that will always make the narrator come across all the more better and make there love for the stories they are telling feel more real. As kids will always be able to tell when something feels off even if they don't know it it will just be something that stands to them and with Ringo you never really get that feeling as he always does come across as someone who does have a genuine love for these characters which is something that is not to be forgotten about as while Thomas has already attracted people who have love for the stories some of the time that love doesn't always come through whereas here with Ringo it does with it being something that does help to make you buy into him as the narrator as the narrator of these stories should have this love and passion for the franchise and it's characters as they are the ones telling the story in the first place and if they don't believe in the stories to begin with then why should we as the audience end up buying into them at all, yes this is casting 101 but it is something that should be gotten right right from the get go and it is something that the makers of this episode did get right when they cast Sir Ringo Starr in the show so much so that he even reprised the role of the narrator in America something hasn't been since.

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 is something that really isn't all that surprising as this show has always had some good acting when it comes to it's episodes and this episode is of course no exception to this with Sir Ringo doing the best that he can do and while he doesn't elevate the material he was never going to given the fact that he was never a trained actor and there for his acting in any of these episodes was never going to be as good as the acting that we would get from the other narrators. With the best actor in this episode of course being Sir Ringo Starr with him being a really good narrator in this episode as he does have a sense of warmth and charm about him that des make him the right fit for this episode and while of course his acting would get slightly better the more that he's on the show given that the fact that was only the first first series of the show the acting in this episode was about as good as it was ever going to be and while yes it would have helped the episode out alot if they did get an actor to serve as narrator Ringo is really good in this episode with his natural warmth and charm coming through in his performance in this episode. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so god that al this episodes actors really has to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of him naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

When talking about these early model era episodes one of the things that very rarely gets talked about is the actual models themselves. With the models themselves looking really good in this episode as while they are just the basic models for this season the episode does get a lot of range out of them by having them do simple things like having a bunch of trains pass Percy as he makes fun of them which does make the Sodor feel more busy and packed or even things like having Percy drive backwards at the end of the episode which is something that would have been hard for them to do when this episode was being made and yet it is something that does look really good in the episode itself and while there isn't really a scene that shows of the models in any way what we do get to see them do does look really good in the episode itself Even going back to making Sodor look more busy this is a very small thing to have in the episode but given the fact that the show didn't have that many character at his point in time it is something that does help o make the railway feel more like an actual railways where there are things going on all the time so much so that it would be easy to believe that Henry is having his own adventure taking place during the events of this episode as realistically that is something that could happen and while the later model season would have better models the ones in this episode and this season as a whole do work really well and while there other models look better then these ones do the fact that the models in this episode look as good as they do is something that does prove that they have stood the test of time, the only downside being the fact that these are smaller scale models and therefor some of the time they do look like toys granted it's not as bad as the models in the Down The Mine pilot but you can still tell that the team are still trying to find there feet when it comes to the models.

This is one of the early episodes where Thomas basically doesn't do any thing in the episode as he is only in the episode for a short seconds before going off to work on his branchline with Edward. Heck he doesn't even get a line of dialog in the episode yet you don't really miss him either as Percy is still a fun character and while his essentially just a green version of Thomas that s something that does work for him as a character as of course he would be this cheeky little engine that is rude to all of the bigger engines as he is still new on the Island and is therefor still learning about how things work there therefor it does make sense that he would be cheeky still to the bigger engines as the only time he has really seen them was then they refused to leave the sheds. The issue with this is the fact that he is basically just a green version of Thomas and this is where the CGI version of Percy does trump the model era version of him as the CGI Percy does have more of his own personality to the point where you can easily distinguish between him and Thomas where as here in this episode whilst it is understandable that he and Percy are just the same characters there is really nothing to separate the two characters, therefor we the audience don't really miss Thomas when he's not in this episode due to the fact that we essentially have a different colored version of him in the episode but it would have helped the episode out a little bit if the makers of this episode did take the time to give Percy more of a fleshed out Personality as yes he is meant to be the youngest engine on the Island therefor having him act cheeky does make sense in this regard but if he was showen to be a little more wiser as don't forget he has been working with Edward who as we know from this episode does give advice then it would have made sense for Percy as a character to act a little bit more wise as well.

Whilst we don't really get to see Thomas and Percy forming there friendship in this episode which is something that they really could have done we do get to see Percy form a friendship with Gordon. Which was quite frankly refreshing to see as normally we never see Gordon forming a bond with someone this quickly even with Thomas it took them nearly the entire first season for them to become friends and yet here with Percy they are friends by the ed of the episode this is something that might have been helped by the fact that we never actually see Percy tease Gordon in this episode was us only seeing him tease Henry but when all is said an done the friendship between Percy and Gordon is one that did have potential to be a really good addition to the show. With both of the characters being good hard working engines who aren't afraid to sand up for what they believe in and they both are prone to getting upset easily and yet for one reason or another the makers of this show just straight up forget that they are meant to be friends with them putting more effort into pushing the Thomas and Percy friendship which is something that does work but given the fact that they are essentially the same character it makes his friendship with Gordon be all the more interesting as there you never really know what it is that your going to get with the fact that this episode did end with them being friends does say that the makers of this episode did at the very least show an interest in showing them as friends and that bond is something that could have worked and it could have led to some funny interaction later on in the series run and heck they even could have had Gordon act more as mentor to Percy whilst still very much being his friend whereas with Thomas whilst there friendship is good it feel like that its lacking that extra something to make it interesting.

Speaking of Gordon he was used really well in the episode as while he does kind of play a big part in the episodes plot he's not in it all that much. With him only appearing at the start and the end of the episode and yet all of the time that he appears in the episode it doesn't detract from Percy as rather it is something that does make sense as the opening scene is just him , Henry and James vowing to get back to work and that's it and at the end it's him that nearly crashes into Percy after Percy forgets to let the signalman know he's there and again it's him that help Percy out of the bank of earth at the end all of these scenes are scenes that you can't get rid as they all have something to do with the plot where as alot of the stuff with Percy and Edward and Percy making fun of Henry are pointless things. This is a great to use Gordon as he is this bigger then life character who thinks he's really important and therefor having him be the one to help Percy out not once but twice is something that does show you that he can be a big softy when he wants to be and while that ide of the character should never get played up as it is a more less entertaining aide of him it is still a key part of who he is as a character and having hm show that side of himself to Percy is something that does make sense, heck this episode could even have worked as a Percy an Gordon episode as the only thing that you'd need to do to make it work is have more scenes with Gordon in it doing his normal and this case favorite job pulling the express and have the rest of the episode play out the way that it does normally and while it does make sense for the episode to focus more o Percy as he is a new character at this point having be teamed up with a more established character would work just as well with both of the characters having some really fine chemistry together in this episode.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly five minuets and thirty two seconds. This is pretty much the perfect running time for an episode like this one to have as there's not really all that much to this episode outside of it's basic premise and therefor giving the episode even just five more minuets which is something that they would have done in later seasons of the show would ultimately do alot more harm to the story then it would good as this is a plot that does work best in the early season five minuet format as it does allow the plot to just get in and get out which is the kind of thing that this plot is really good at doing with the episode having not really enough plot there cover that amount of running time in the first place. With the episode not even using it's current running time all that wisely due to the fact that the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot with there not really being much of a plot in the first place as alot of the early scenes in the episode do feel like filler scenes ass none of them effect the episodes plot in a major with the makers of the episode being more bothered about forcing Thomas into the episode then they are about giving the plot some much needed development. The same thing is also true for the characters developed altho this is a bit more understandable as you could argue that Percy will get his development in other episodes and that Gordon has just got his character development which is something that does make sense as while granted not every episode of this show does need to give them character development it still would have made the episode all the more better if they did get some small amount of character with the makers of this episode being alot more focused of hinting at a friendship between Gordon and Percy then they are about giving either character some character development 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 thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the best word that could be used to describe this episodes comedy being cute as that's exactly what it is and for a show like this and for an episode like this that is not a bad thing to be and to be fair to this episode that's all it needed to be as it didn't need to have alot of laugh out loud moments in it it just needed Percy to act his more usually cheeky self and it would have worked just find. With the best joke in the episode being when Percy teases Henry as that is something that this character would do he would make fu of other engines not in a mean way but in a fun and cheeky kind of way and seeing Henry just drive off speechless and what's just happened is something hat does also feel true to his character he is the kind of character who is going to take alot of time to think of a comeback for Percy and odds are he would have spent all day doing exactly that and while having an engine being cheeky to another engine is nothing new for this show it does help that it's another engine and not just Thomas being cheeky with the fact that the episode does know to stop being funny and when to ramp up the action is something that does work as the episode doesn't undercut the tension with a joke something which the later model season would do with the episodes joke even working because of the fact that it does feel like a character driven wit the rest of the episodes jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions / at least. 

Overall whilst there other better episodes of this first season out there for an episode that is essentially a nothing episode this episode does turn out to be a pretty fun episode albeit one that does have it's fair share of faults that even die hard Thomas fans will find hard to ignore 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 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 6 out of 10 from me.

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Descendants: Wicked Wonderland Film Review

It appears as if the Descendants franchise has now become one of those franchises where Disney doesn't even bother to put in the effort to tell you that there's a new film out. As there is a new Descendants film out right now on Disney+ and yet Disney did nothing to tell you that the film was even happening in the first place and well as i've reviewed quite literally all of the Descendants films from the very beginning all the way up to The Quest For Red you all just knew that I had to review this film the first chance that I got and so then join me as I review the film that shows off it's version of Wonderland with the film in question being called simply just "Descendants: Wicked Wonderland" enjoy.

The plot of this film is some time after the events of the previous film Chloe and Red find there friendship tested when they are forced to team up with other villain kids to stop an evil version of The Mad Hatter from taking over Wonderland. 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 average at best. This films plot is at best a very paint by numbers plot as you know full well exactly where this films plot is going to go and what the big dramatic third act moment will be and sure enough it does go exactly where you think that it's going to go. However tho this is something that doe work well enough to the films advantage as the films plot is meant to be this things where you can work out what's going to happen next as alot of the fun and craziness of these films is seeing the off spring from other well known Disney characters with this being something that has always been the main draw of these films and whilst yes the original three films did have more of a focus on plot here with these last two films it does seem as if the focus is shifting to be more seeing the kids of Disney characters then in actually giving the films decent plot and while the previous film had the nostalgia factor working for it this film doesn't have that and therefor the issues with the plot do become a bigger issue as the films plot when it does get some focus is at best thin and not that very well thought out with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Kylie Cantrall as Red , Malia Baker as Chloe Charming and Liamani Segura as Pink. Also starring in this film is Leonardo Nam as Maddox Hatter , Brendon Tremblay as Max Hatter , Alexandro Byrd as Luis Madrigal , Kiara Romero as Hazel Hook , Joel Oulette as Robbie Hood , Zavien Garrett as Felix Facilier , Ryan McEwen as Squirmy Smee , Dayton Paradis as Squeaky Smee , Paolo Montalban as King Charming , Melanie Paxson as Fairy Godmother , Awkwafina as the voice of Chessy Cheshire , Rita Ora as Bridget and Brandy as Cinderella.

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 average at best. This is something that is to be expected at this point as this is still a Disney Channel Original Movie and those don't typically have great acting in hem and yet at the same time this film  acting was alot more better then what you would expect it to be with this being due to the fact that alot of this films actors are reprising their roles not only from the previous films but from other Disney films as well and therefor they would have a good idea on how best to act as there respective characters. With the best actor in this film being Leonardo Nam as Maddox Hatter as it does seem like that he is the only one there that is actually excited to be there as he is having such a blast acting in this film and infact alot of his scenes are the some of the more fun scenes in the film to watch as you never really know just how really over the top that he's going to go with the performance and whereas with every one else you really do get the feeling that they'd rather be anywhere else except making this movie right now you do really get the feeling that he really is genuinely excited to be there and that is something that really does shine through in his final performance. With the acting that's in this very film not really being helped by the fact that this films script isn't that good as this films script doesn't give any of this films actors absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the over all quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the CGIA for this film is Embassy Visual Effects , Image Engine Design , 1.618 VFX , Mr. Wolf , Distillery VFX , Ingenuity Studios , Curated , Hinesight Productions , The Sequence Group and Industrial Light & Magic. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty average at best. The fact that this films CGI is pretty average is something that is both surprising and at the same time not all that surprising it's not surprising in the sense that this is a Disney Channel Original Movie still and those don't have great looking CGI in them as they don't have the budgets for that but at the same time the fact that they managed to to get ILM to do effects work for this film does make it all the more surprising that the films effects are as OK as they are in the first place. While alot f this films CGI is pretty decent as there are some good looking effects when we get to Wonderland alot more of the films effects are just painful to look at as they are really bad alot of the time which is something that does make sense as this is still a made for TV movie but this is a nig franchise for Disney and yet there still churning out effects that look really bad with there being an almost laughably bad CGI cat in the film with the film being obsessed with showing us CGI filled establishing shots and all of them look bad as they make it look like that the film was made ten years ago. Whilst we do get some decent looking effects in Wonderland like alot of the trails that come off of Bridgit's cards look really good the Maddox's spies look really good when the film does have a bad effect in Wonderland it doesn't cut away from it rather it keeps it on screen for a long while when all this does is just make the effect look even more worse.

The key theme in this film is bonds and the lengths that people will go to to keep them as we see Chloe go to great lengths to keep her friendship strong with Red whilst new character Pink goes to lengths to keep her bond with Red going and Max tries to get a bond going with his father Maddox. This is a goo idea as it is a theme that these films really haven't hit upon before now only due to the fact that the film feels more like a trailer for it's soundtrack it does mean that we have to fit in an overproduced song alot of the time when that time could have been used to better explore those bonds and what it is that they mean to those people as we know full well what Chloe and Red mean to each other thanks to the previous but we don't know that with any of the other characters. With the big third act drama being about as predictable as you think it's going to be with it also not really working due to the fact that the films plot doesn't really leave room for this kind of moment to work and heck the previous film even had a very similar scene in it therefor it makes it pointless for them to have a scene in this film where the same thing happens, whereas if the film did take to the time to fully flesh out this theme and show us what these relationships mean to all of the people then it would have made alot more sense as to why this moment happens in the first place as this is something that would allow for this theme to be fully explored as it is something that none of these films have explored until now with alot them exploring the found family idea and what it means to be a family both of which are good ideas but to see this film tackle a different them is a breath of fresh air even tho it does hugely drop the ball with it, with the only thing that could have fixed this issue is doing a page one rewrite of the films script as the theme itself is so tied into the plot that you can't fix it with just one scene.

This film is a musical with songs written by Michelle Zarlenga ,  Chantry Johnson , Mitch Allan , Antonina Armato , Tim James Price , Thomas Armato Sturges  , Adam Schmalholz , Jordan Powers , Josh Cumbee and Jaheem King Toombs. Even tho this films soundtrack is listed as being a pop album it's not a Disney version of rap and hip hop album wit all of the films songs sounding the exact same with there being nothing in any of the films that makes them stand out from each other heck there's not even a different genre of music it's all just the same bland and safe stuff that Disney can push on to kids with nothing new added to them that makes them stand out with things being made worse when you take into account that the film uses alot of autotune which does make it hard to judge the singing from the films younger actors. With the films only decent and decently sung song being "The Girl I Used to Be" which is a decently written song about two characters looking back on there younger lives fondly remembering who they used to be and how much simpler things where back then when compared to how they are nowadays with the song itself also being the best sung song in the whole entire film which does make sense as the sing is sung by Brandi and Rita Ora both of whom are decent singers that can more then hold a tune with this song being the only song that has no autotune in it and it's not that hard to see why as the two singers are just that good with them more the holding your attention throughout the entire song with this song feeling more like a pop ballad type with all of the other songs feeling like over produced badly done hp hop songs as this song actually does do what it set it to do and that's make you feel something for characters that didn't get alot of screen time in there adult forms in the previous film.

Speaking of the moms they actually get to do alot more in the film this time around whereas in the previous film they were basically there in just the opening and the ending. Here tho they actually play a bigger role in the films plot which was something that was kind of refreshing to see as given the fact that both of them are played by big named stars it would have been understandable if Disney only had them appear at the start and at the end again and then just use them for marketing purposes but no they actually do something with them and while that something mainly has them contained to just the one room with alot of there scenes together being them just acting with other it was still fun to keep on seeing more of them in the film. Much like with the previous film tho there is one character that did get done dirty and if you've seen the previous film then you'll know what character it is as it's the same character and it still makes zero sense as this character would of course want to help out due to the fact that they have a stake in this fight to and yet the film barely features the character with them oddly enough only appearing at the start and the end of the film with this person having a few lines of dialog near the middle of the film of the film which makes there inclusion pointless as there role in the film could have been played by anything other character in the film and it would have made just as much sense, this is something that wouldn't be a bad things if it meant that we got to see more of the friendship between Cinderella and Bridgit as in the previous film we really only saw them as friends when they were young therefor seeing them act as friends as adults would have been interesting but the film doesn't give them a moment where they discuss what it's like being friends with the other when that would have been interesting to see in the film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty five minuets and twenty eight seconds. This is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for these films with this film struggling to each that as the films has a song play every couple of minuets it seems which to be honest was getting rather frustrating as alot of the songs aren't that good with alot of the song running time being somethin that could have been use to give the films plot alot more more focus with it feeling lie that the makers of this film knew full well that the films plot wasn't that good and therefor they just stuffed the film with songs and hoped that they we wouldn't notice with the film not really having enough plot to cover that amount of running time with the film only having enough plot for about forty minuets with the films songs lasting around thirty eight minuets in total. With the film not really using it's running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as the film doesn't take to the time to add things to its plot that make it feel well thought out and while OK fair enough this film is made for little kids ad with little kids in mind there still needs to be some amount of plot development happening with none of the films songs adding anything to the films plot either with it being clear as day that the makers of this film are alot more focused in playing a song every five minuets then they are giving us a well thought out plot. The same thing is also true for the films character development as none of the films characters have a scene where they get to well developed which s fair enough for characters like Red and Chloe where you could make the point that they got there development in the previous film but none of the films new characters get anything interms of character development either with the film being more focused on giving us a forced romance then it is in giving us character development but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to itt ho.

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 film well then in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. The film does have some cute funny moments in it and while none of the films jokes are laugh out loud funny there still and attempt in there to give the film some actually funny moments with alot of the films best moments comedy wise coming from new character Hazel Hook as she is a funny character that if they do another one of these films they have to keep her character as she was a breath of fresh air with her sarcastic sense of humor. With the films best joke oddly enough not featuring her character as it instead feature the Smee twins who like there father are bit short up top as when they are told by Hazel to go and climb to see where they are instead of climbing a tree as she had suggested they do they instead start climbing each other which is a pretty cute joke and it is something that there characters would do with alot of the films jokes revolving around how Hazel has to look after them with the only thing that made that funnier was if someone like Pink got in on the act as well as she is a new character in the film therefor it still would have worked for her character to give the Smees orders only for them to mess it up as that is something that would have made her character more entertaining to watch with the rest of the films jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if you liked the blandness and the nothingness of the previous film then your going to love this film but it is getting more and more clear that this franchise is in need of a shake up as this film does prove that it is running out of steam due to the fact that everything about this film is just so bland 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 a such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

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