Looney Tunes "The Ducksters" Review

It's shockingly been quite a while since one of the classic Looney Tunes shorts was last covered by me and well I thought that with not only The Day The Earth Blew Up A Looney Tunes Movie being released but also Coyote Vs Acme being saved as well. That now was the right time to take a look back at one of these classic cartoons and well this cartoon is oddly really relevant given the two characters that are starring in this cartoon and so then join me as I review the cartoon that given what film has just been released is oddly relevant with the cartoon in question being called simply just "The Ducksters" enjoy.

The plot of this cartoon is when Daffy Duck is hosting a radio game show it's up to an unwilling Porky Pig to survive his antics. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon 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 cartoon was in all honesty simple at best. Which while that would be seen as being a bad thing in other pieces of media here given the fact that all cartoons around the time that this one was produced ran for no longer then seven minuets having a simple plot does oddly work well enough in this cartoons favor as you don't need to have a deep and complicated plot to make the cartoon work as here all you need is the basic set up and that's really it and to this cartoons credit it's set up no matter how dated that it might seem to young people today does work really well as it allows for the characters to be there true selves and not be bogged by having to get things like the plot of the cartoon sorted out as lets be honest here nobody comes to a Looney Tunes short for the plot as they instead come for the jokes and characters and both of those things won't be as good if they had to stop every few seconds to explain something that's plot related and yet with the plot being as simple as it is it also allows for the jokes to come alot more quicker and faster something that just wouldn't be possible with a more deep and complex plot with the plot of this cartoon 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 cartoon is Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck , Porky Pig and An Audience Member and that's really it. As there's no other actors starring in this short which to be fair was kind of common place for the Looney Tunes to only have one maybe even two or three actors in any of there shorts and when you have a talent as great Mel Blanc was doing all of your voices you really don't need to hire anybody else and nobody else is going to top what he's doing with the characters in this cartoon and while it would have been nice to have another actor voice some of the characters just because of the fact that Mel was at his best when he had another actor in the room with him to bounce off of it's not always something that's needed with this cartoon being the perfect example of that as Mel was the primary voice for both Porky and Daffy at this point and so the only other role another actor could play was that of the lone audience member and that point you have to ask yourself is it worth it bring it another voice actor for a few lines of dialog when you already have a voice actor right there with you who could not only do the role perfectly fine but you also wouldn't have to pay him an extra money to do the role as he was already getting credited for playing all of the Looney Tunes characters anyway plus you could also argue that it's more funnier that in the world of the cartoon there's just this one audience member watching all of this go down and is just not doing anything at all to stop it but at the same time having just the one voice actor in this cartoon really does make the whole cartoon feel quite small in scale as it would have been very easy just to give the boss of the radio station some lines and have another voice actor play that roles instead.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon 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 cartoon was in all honesty really good. Which given who is starring in this cartoon is something that's not all that surprising as Mel Blanc was not only the best voice actors ever but is also a really good actor in his right and you need to be able to act when your doing voice acting and that is something that he not only understood perfectly but did really well as he gave all of his characters in this cartoon really distinctive voices and made them all sound very unique from each other and that is something that alot of modern voices actors just don't do alot of the time and yet here because he's playing all three roles himself he's having to very quickly switch between doing Porky's more stuttering voice and Daffy's more looney voice and the more stern voice of the audience member very quickly and at the drop of  a hat and that is something that he does with skill and ease so much so that you forget that it's all being done by one man as nowadays it would have been done by two or three people and yet here it's just one man playing all three roles and doing really well in all three parts as well with the acting that's in this cartoon really being helped by the fact that the script for this cartoon is just so good that all this cartoons have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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 cartoon.

Doing the animation for this cartoon is Lloyd Vaughan , Ken Harris , Phil Monroe , Ben Washam and Emery Hawkins. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon 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 cartoon was in all honesty really good and was more then up to the already high quality standerd of the the Looney Tunes shorts as even tho this cartoon only has the one the main set and the two characters the animators make the most of each and every frame by giving us some truly great expressions from both Porky and Daffy and by also giving us a background that is as highly detailed as it's ever going to be given the cartoons subject matter but at the same time tho this cartoon animation does oddly feel limited by the fact that it only has two main characters and the one main setting as there's only so many things that you can do with both of the characters in that one setting and they do go through all of them in this one cartoon with this cartoon animation not really being allowed to be as good as it really could have been given the fact that's only got not even a handful of main characters and the one setting when if the cartoon was to have the more characters then you could not only get more fun pair ups out of it but you can also get more fun and funny facial expressions out of as well both of which would make not only this cartoon but this cartoon animation alot more better then what it already is.

If your a fan of Porky and Daffy as a duo then your really going to love this cartoon as you do get to see them just be there typical looney selves. However tho at the same time it would have been nice to have Porky act more how he would normally act when he's paired up with Daffy Duck as when the two of them are usually paired together it's Porky who is more of the straight man of the duo and who is constantly getting annoyed by Daffy and his antics and yet in this cartoon Porky is more of the funny man with Daffy at times being the straight man and other times being the funny man and that's not something that works well enough for either character and while Daffy does retain the fact that he's the smartest of the two of them in this cartoon Porky who is the smartest of the two of them instead in this cartoon being presented as being Daffy's equal when that's not the way that things are when it comes to these two characters as Porky is the kind of character who usually does think things through more logically where as Daffy is the kind of character who would dive head first into any given situation and then ask questions later and yet while it's understandable why that side of Daffy's personality doesn't come through in this cartoon as it would have no reason to shine through it's odd that given the quiz show setting that the character who is willing to think things through and use logic doesn't get the chance to dis play that part of his personality and while it could be argued that that's because Daffy isn't giving him the chance to do so it is something that does effect who Porky Pig is as a character as he's usually the more even tempered one and is never quick to anger where as here he is very quick to anger which is just out of character for him.

This is perhaps the darkest that we've ever seen Daffy as not only does he almost saw Porky Pig in half at the start of the cartoon but he straight up kills a member of the audience for just heckling him. Which is something that the character really hasn't done in alot of the other Looney Tunes cartoons either before or after thins one which does make it weird that the makers of this cartoon thought that it was right to  put in this cartoon as while it does match his more sarcastic side that this shorts director Chuck Jones would frequently use in his other Daffy Duck cartoons but this is meant to be the looney Daffy which is the side of t the character that only pops up when he's with Porky and with that i mind it does seem out of place that he almost kill Porky and straight up kill an innocent man for no reason what so ever now if it was Yosemite Sam playing the role that Daffy plays in this cartoon then it would oddly make sense that he would do things like that as he's more of a quick anger character and while it really would be fun to see how the pairing of Porky and Yosemite Sam would go it would also mean redoing the cartoon from scratch which does sadly mean that we are stuck with a side of Daffy that really shouldn't have shown itself during this cartoon and really it's something makes you wonder how the makers of this cartoon got it past the producers and the big wigs at Warner Bros Pictures as Daffy was and to some degree still is a big name over at Warner Bros and yet here he is openly killing someone in public.

Even tho alot of the cartoon is just Daffy abusing Pork in various ways it was still pretty fun to see him get his own payback on Daffy. With it being all of the lead up to Porky's revenge on Daffy that makes the cartoon alot of fun to watch as we the audience really do get understand where Porky is coming from in this cartoon as all he wants to do is just leave the show and o home but for literally no reason whatsoever Daffy just won't let him go and keeps on convincing him t stay on the show which might have to be the most Daffy thing that he could have done as it's his own ego that does cause his own downfall as Daffy never thinks about what would happen if Porky did get the upper hand on this show and yet the very second that he does that's when Porky strikes by putting Daffy through alot of the things that Daffy put Porky even down to almost cutting him in half with the table saw which is something that this version of Daffy did deserve as he put Porky through hell for his own enjoyment which is something that didn't even work back in the black and white days of the Looney Tunes as Porky in someway shape of form always got his revenge on Daffy and that is something that does prove that the makers of this cartoon knew what they were doing as they not only stuck to what worked in the past with the duo but also updated it enough so that it seemed modern and fresh again and this is something that alot of the more recent Looney Tunes have forgotten to do as there more bothered with keeping with how the kids know the characters to act rather then instead sticking to how things usually work out with this dynamic duo.

Now then this cartoon has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly seven minuets and twenty four seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running for alot of the Looney Tunes with this short really being helped by the fact that this short really does have more then enough there interms of plot to cover that amount and while the fact that this short really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely which would be seen as being a bad thing here because of the fact that it does have such a short amount of running time it really doesn't need to it's running time all that wisely as both of the characters had been well established for about twenty years at this point in time and so alot of the audience that would have been going to see this cartoon back in the day would already be well aware of who these characters are ad what there personalities are like in the first place and given just how simple the set up of this cartoon is the first place it doesn't really need to be that fully developed as all that would do is take away time that could have been spent on telling a joke with the only thing that they could have done that would have helped with it's running time is that they could have spent some time in setting up the jokes that Daffy pulls all throughout this cartoon as instead they just appear as random jokes with there being no rhyme or reason between the jokes as they are now which is perfect for the more looney side of Daffy but it's also something that doesn't make sense in the context of the cartoon and is something that could have been fixed if instead of goin straight to the pay off of the jokes which is Porky getting hit we say the set up to the joke as well but I really will admit that this cartoon 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 cartoon 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 cartoon was in all honesty really good. With this cartoon using alot of slapstick violence so much so that it could in all honesty give Tom And Jerry a run for there money but where as those cartoons are meant to be slapsticky and have alot of cartoon violence in them with the Looney Tunes cartoon the comedy more came from the word play and how quick witted characters like Bugs Bunny and yes even Daffy Duck where which dies make it odd that this cartoon would have a excessive amount of cartoon violence in it which don't get me wrong is painfully funny to see and it is something that the Looney Tunes themselves would do quite a bit in there own cartoons but it's not something that suits there brand and while Porky Pig getting hit on the head with an oversized mallet will always be funny and while it does make sense for daffy to be the one doing it it is something that does feel out of place in a Looney Tunes cartoon with one of the cartoons best jokes coming from the fact that Daffy will always interrupt whatever is going on even if it's him being threatened by Porky Pig himself just to do a radio advertisement for the shows sponsor which is a funny joke and even Porky getting hit by giant rock and that getting splashed by water as two of his prizes is a good joke but the best joke in the whole cartoon is quite daffy always doing a radio advertisement as he just stop whatever he's doing just to do one which is such a funny and clever joke and is something that the Looney Tunes characters would indeed do in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall Warner Bros might be bent on destroying everything that the Looney Tunes have done that doesn't mean that these cartoons will go away because they will live on in the hearts of those that watched them and on alot of DVD and Blu-Ray sets with this short being a good example of just how funny both Porky Pig and Daffy Duck can be when there at there best and if you haven't one already go and see The Day The Earth Blew Up A Looney Tunes Movie as it's just that good of a film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now he i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very cartoon in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very cartoon 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 the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as a ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , the official Looney Tunes fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very cartoon that I used in this very review being the really great the official Looney Tunes fandom wiki page 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 being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Looney Tunes fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition and there's really only one way to end this review T-T-T-T-THAT'S ALL FOLKS. 

Devil May Cry TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review

Video game adaptations are dime a dozen it seems these days with pretty much every video game out there either just getting an adaptation or is in the process of getting an adaptation. What is rare tho is for the same video game to get two different adaptations in the same medium and yet that's just what happed with the show that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today as while yes there was an earlier anime series based on this franchise released that's not the one that i'm going to be talking about today and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show that is just as gory as you'd expect from something produced by Adi Shankar with the show in question being called simply just "Devil May Cry" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when when his necklace is stolen by someone who wants to use it's power to break down the portal protecting our world from the demon world demon hunter Dante and a group of soldiers will gave to do whatever it takes to stop that from happening. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual 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 feature / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho this shows plot was pretty weak which is something that does seem to be the case with alot of animated Netflix shows as there more focused on trying to be adult then trying to tell a good story and while the story that this show is telling is good it's also one that's not really that developed as Netflix have only released eight episodes for this first season when you very easily could have stretched this story out to say twelve episodes as that would then mean that the plot of the show as a a whole could be alot more developed then what it actually is with it feeling like that they were rushing certain plot points instead of doing them in a way that makes the feel earned and while the plot of the show is still a really strong plot it's one that's not as good as it really could have been with it being made clear as day that the makers of this show are more focused on putting in alot of songs from early 2000's punk rock and heavy metal bands then they are in telling a more focused plot with the plot of this 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 Power Rangers , Naruto and Bleach star Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante and Halloween 2007 and Halloween 2 star Scout Taylor-Compton as Mary. Also starring in this show is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 star Hoon Lee as The White Rabbit , Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul star Chris Coppola as Enzo Ferino , Robbie Daymond as Vergil and the late Batman: The Animated Series star Kevin Conroy as VP Baines.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual 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 not that bad. As the actors that you expect a good performance from really do give us exactly where the acting in this show does somewhat faulter tho is the fact that there are more bad to decent acting in it then there is good to great acting in it with the best examples of of that being alot of Mary's team all of which so bland forgettable and all of which do turn in performances that aren't that good and while it was nice to hear the late Kevin Conroy one last time even his great acting doesn't save the quality of the shows acting or even raise the level of it all that much with him being the best actor in the whole show as while others like Johnny Yong Bosch do disguise there voices to the point where you wouldn't know that it was them unless you went onto this shows Wikipedia page Kevin Conroy was just such a good actor anyways that he really just demands your attention every single time that he's on screen with the same thing also being true for his performance in this show as well with the acting that's in this show really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts is just so good that all this shows actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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 show.

Doing the animation for this show is the legends and the really 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 show 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 show was in all honesty really good with it matching up to the already high quality set by shows like Castlevania and Captain Laser Hawk and yet at the same time even tho it's meant to be in same multiverse as those shows it's different enough for it to be it's own unique thing with the shows animation looking really good good not only in all of the shows fight scenes of which there are at the vert least two per episode but also in the backgrounds with all of the outdoor scenes look breathtakingly good there not movie quality good as that would be impossible to do on a TV show budget but for a Netflix animated TV show this shows animation is as good as it gets and while the show does have an anime influence in the designs of the characters this is not an anime as there none of the tropes that you see in the animation of an anime be it a film or TV show with this show being very firmly a western animated show and isn't afraid to be exactly that as while yes the backgrounds are nicely detailed the designs of the characters while they do take inspiration from anime or simplistic and streamlined designs much like you'd see in a western animated TV show or film with all of the shows characters having some really nice fluid movements to them which come alive during this shows fight scenes.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

For some strange reason this shows creator Adi Shankar straight up uses a modified version of the plot from Dredd a film which he himself executive produced. As in episode four of this show Mary and her team of soldiers go to a building that The White Rabbit owns and operates and he then has the entire building locked down thus forcing the soldiers to have try and fight there way to get to the top of the building where he is which is straight up the plot of Dredd even down to one of the characters getting help from someone who lives there with the only difference being that instead of the two who enter the building making it all the way to top to face the big bad in a huge epic fight here Mary's whole team is wiped out by one of The White Rabbit's demons on the ground floor thus forcing Mary to go up and face him alone but that's pretty much it as beat for beat they play the exact same way and while alot of the people who didn't and haven't seen Dredd won't mind that as to them it would be a new concept those of us that did see Dredd and still do frequently watch it it feels weird seeing this plot line play out in episode four of this show and not see the characters from Dredd in it and that is something that makes you wonder why the makers of this show chose to have that plot line be in this show as it's something that doesn't really work for this show due to the fact that all of the shows main villains are demons and not real people with the only interesting thing that comes out of it is the fact that Mary is forced to face her own prejudice against demons and question everything that she believes when a demon family hides her from one of the demons that's hunting her down in the building and that's really it.

This show does have some fairly well done characters with Dante , Mary and even this shows main villain The White Rabbit getting alot of screen time and being well written. With Dante kind of being like Deadpool not in the way that the he knows that he's a fictional character but in the way that he always has a one liner geared up for every fight and is always willing to do whatever it takes just to get back something that's really important to him which in this case is his necklace and Mary is kind of a strong willed character but also one that does have some flaws like the fact that she does have this deep rooted hatred for all demons so much that she believes that all demons are evil and is even willing to kill innocent demons just because of the fact that they might one day do something evil and while she does learn to overcome this in the shows fourth episode it's character development that really does come to early for the character as it would have made more sense for the character to go through this development later on in the shows run which judging by this shows ending it's pretty clear that it's going to be getting a second batch of episodes as by then we would have had more of a chance to get to know her character where as here since this was only the first batch of episodes we don't really know the character all that well and with The White Rabbit we do get a really good character as well as he is Dante but if Dante was this truly evil character and yet as we find out over the course of the show we do see that he was radically different from how we've seen him thus far thus making his turn into The White Rabbit a slightly tragic one with the character himself making for a pretty decent debut villain for the most part.

In what could be seen as being a really weird move instead of keeping up the momentum all the way to the finale this show instead chooses to take a break from it's main story in the shows sixth episode and instead give us the backstories to both The White Rabbit and Mary. While going into there backstories isn't a bad thing as it does help to develop there characters a little bit more and make them feel more like well rounded characters it's the placement of the episode that feels off as instead of doing this episode as either the second or perhaps even third episode of the show it's done as the shows sixth episode which just causes the show to loose all momentum as they spend both the fourth and fifth episodes starting to build us up to this epic finale only for the very next episode to slow things down by quite alot by giving us an episode that not only has very minimal dialog in it but also tells us a story that would have been better served if it was placed earlier on in the shows run as by this point you want every single episode to be all about getting us to the final episode and not have an episode that gets in the way of that by telling a story that by this point in the shows run is to little to late as even tho we had had gotten huge chunks of Mary's backstory all throughout the season at this point we hadn't gotten anything from The White Rabbit which was fine as it could be argued that the less we knew about him the more scarier that he was but because it was placed this late in the show it also made his backstory feel more like an after thought and the episode as a whole feel like filler as apart from the song "Afterlife" by Evanescence there's really no reason to watch this episode at all.

Now then while I cannot for the life of remember the exact grand total running for this show I do know that for the fact that this has / had an exact grand total running of roughly two hours and thirty minuets. With each of the shows first eight episodes being around thirty minuets in length which to be fait is the perfect amount of running time for this show to have but at the same time as this show really does have more then enough plot to cover not only it's current running time but also longer it would have helped this show if this first batch of episodes was slightly higher because as was mentioned earlier on in the review that would allow for the plot to become alot more fully developed then what it already with this show not really using it's running time all that wisely either as the world that this shows takes place in does feel rather underdeveloped and not thought out that well which is something that whilst it does hurt the show it is understandable as well as they have the to tell the plot in the most effective way possible and sadly that does mean things like world building and fleshing out the plot of the show are going to fall by the way side somethin that does happen in this show and yet if this show did have more episodes to it it would allow for the world to be more develop and for the plot of the show to alot more fleshed out but because of the fact that the makers of the show chose to put alot more effort into putting in songs from Evanescence , Papa Roach , Limb Bizkit and Green Day it means that we end up with a show where the world isn't that fully developed and the plot of the show isn't all that fleshed out but I really will admit that this show 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 show 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 show was in all honesty really good. With this shows action being in a word cool which to be fair is all you want from an action orientated show and it's something that this show has in spades with the characters just doing lots of cool moves that end up with there opponents dieing in alot of cool and VERY gory ways as yes this show is not for the weak stomached but in saying that given that this is an adult show it does make sense that it would be gory and to the shows credit they really don't go over the top with the gore only using to show that a character has died in a really brutal way which given that the heroes are fighting demons does make sense however what doesn't work tho and what might be seen as being a bit over kill is the fact that the shows has at the very least two fully blown action scenes per episode which is something that could be seen as being exhausting as there's more often then not very little time for us the audience to catch our breaths before the next starts up with it being really hard to say just what the best action scene is as there's so many of them to choose from but what can be said is that the final fight between Dante and The White Rabbit is just as cool and over the top as you'd want it to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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

Overall while Netflix themselves might have not announced a second season just yet given just how this first batch of episodes ends it's pretty clear that the makers of this show are hoping for one with this show being worth watching just for the action scenes alone as there just that good in this show 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 this very show really does earn 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 hat I personally used in this very review from the official Devil May Cry fandom wiki page , 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 review being the really great the official Devil May Cry fandom wiki page 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 being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Devil May Cry fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: The War Machines Review

Companion departures in Doctor Who are more often that not a very tricky thing to get right as the you have to make the audience both feel sad for the old companion leaving the show and yet at the same time excited for the new companion or companions that are joining the show. With the episode that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today being one such an episode and so then join me as I review the episode that sees The Doctor loose one companion but gain two more with the episode in question being called simply just "The War Machines" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is The Doctor and Dodo arrive in sixties London where the pair uncover a scheme to take over the world via a bunch of machines. 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 but at the same time it's not a plot that's all that good either with this episodes plot being nothing more then OK at best as while the premise does lend itself a good and fun plot it's in the execution where the plot fails as what could have been a fun plot is now suddenly dull and boring with there not really being anything that makes this episodes plot stand out from alot of other Doctor Who plots at the same and heck even the hook of seeing a companion leave the show isn't really woven into the plot of the episode all that well thus making it feel more like an afterthought when it's something that should have been the emotional hook of the episode and while the idea for the episode is a fine and idea and one that could have worked really well in a better episode this is a plot that really did need to be more fully developed and have alot more time given to it in order to make it work and be the best that it could have been with the plot of this episode not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Starring in this episode is William Hartnell as The Doctor , Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet and Anneke Wills as Polly. Also starring in this episode is Michael Craze as Ben Jackson , John Harvey as Professor Brett , John Cater as Professor Krimpton , William Mervyn as Sir Charles Summer , Alan Curtis as Major Green , Sandra Bryant as Kitty , George Cross as The Minister , Kenneth Kendall as Himself and Gerald Taylor as A Machine Operator and The Voice Of WOTAN.

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 al 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. As it's clear as day that all of this episodes actors really do know how to turn in a really good performance in this episode as it's something that we see all over this episode with really the only bad acting coming from Gerald Taylor who really doesn't give WOTAN much of a voice outside of just saying characters names and that's really it and because of that the character's voice isn't that threatening as it oddly sounds a bit to robotic which would be fine if he was voicing a Cyberman but here there should have been more of an effort into giving WOTAN a more threatening and commanding voice with the best actor in this whole episode being William Hartnell which is something that does make sense he's been in the show for close to three years at this point in time and it's his acting that really does carry the episode not that alot of the other actors in this episode are bad because there really not it's just that he was truly phenomenal in this episode with the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none f this episodes actors absolutely nothing 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 effect the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode. 

As was mentioned at the start of this review this is the episode that sees The Doctor gain two new companions in this episode. With them being Ben and Polly with the two characters not really being the best characters in this episode as Polly spends the first half of the story being Dodo's friend and then the other half being under hypnosis which means that we don't really get to see why she belongs in the TARDIS outside of the fact that she's a deeply caring woman and that's really it with Ben being the action man type character which given the fact that William Hartnell isn't as spry as he once was does make some sort of sense to bring him on board from the point of view of the show but from a storyline point of view we don't really get to find out all that much about him other then the fact that he's a sailor and that's really it which is fine as it's typical of the show to do something like that at this point in time but given that William Hartnell was due to be leaving the show in just a few episodes time in the first place and that Ben and Polly leave not long in the second doctors era it would have been nice if we got to find out more about there characters and what there hobbies are as even tho those seem like things that would get in the way of the plot of any given episode of the show they are also things that would go along way into making us the audience care about there characters and want to see them make it out of each and every episode alive and well and yet because of the fact that we don't get to find out all that much about them in this episode it does make it hard for us the audience to find a reason to cheer for them when they do join the TARDIS full time.

There have been many companions leave the show with this episode perhaps being one pf the worst examples of how to handle a companion departure. As not only does it happen OFF SCREEN it's also something that's not even build up at all and actor Jackie Lane doesn't even appear in episodes three and four of this story with her final on screen appearance being near the end of this stories second episode and while there was a logistical reason for this as the production team were caught of guard by the fact that her contract for the show ran out during the production of this stories second episode there really should have been someone checking this sort of thing out as she was a co-lead in the show and that way they could gave given her a proper send off instead of just having Polly mention it at the end of the second episode but given the fact that Dodo was never really that well written as a character giving her this weak send off does oddly fit with how the show treated her as a character with her departure being something that very easily could have been fixed by having her say at the start of the episode she longs t leave The Doctor but won't do so until she knows that he's in good hands something that she can see is the case along the episode with Ben and Polly only for her to discover that she actually doesn't want to go because she does genuinely care for him with The Doctor rather begrudgingly telling her to go because he knows that staying with him isn't what's best her with this being something that is true to both characters.

With one of the many things that really does let this episode being the fact that from a technology point of view just isn't that good. As there is some really bad looking projection  shots in episode three which might have looked good back in the sixties but now just look laughable at best and while this episode does get alot of credit for actually being the final William Hartnell serial to fully exist in it's entirety there should be alot of effort into making this episode look as good as it could be for it's various home media releases and if that means getting rid of the bad looking projection shots then so be it as all they do is make the scene that there in look cheap and while yes granted the BBC wasn't really used to using projection in the sixties as it was still a fairly new thing in it's own right the fact that they went that route and chose to use it does say that they at least had some knowledge of how to do it on a budget and yet they just chose a way that makes it look cheap and really dated and it's something that should this whole series of the show ever see a Blu-Ray release should be improved upon as while yes Doctor Who was always on a wish and prayer alot of the times you couldn't really see just how cheap the show was to make alot of the time where as here despite the fact that there is some really impressive looking location shots alot of the stuff that was clearly done in the studio does look cheap and yes that does include alot of the projection shots as well but to be fair tho it was still a bold move for the makers of this dhow to try some ne technology on the shows very tiny budget it's just one that really didn't pay off all that well for them.

As you can all no doubt work out by the above image the main villain of this episode is the super computer WOTAN with WOTAN standing for Will Operating Thought ANalogue. While it is a good idea for the main villain of the episode to be a super computer as computers themselves were just starting to become more of a thing back in the sixties as a villain it's not all that interesting as we never really get to find out why it wants to take over the world and nor do we find out why it needs The Doctor's help to do so both of which would have gone a really long way into making the character a really good villain as then we could have had some really good scenes with WOTAN trying to convince The Doctor to join it and hep it out thus giving The Doctor a sort of moral crisis and you can have WOTAN threaten to have Dodo killed should The Doctor fail him thus forcing The Doctor to have t think on his feet but because of alot of the time we don't get to actually see WOTAN in action we also don't get to see why it's meant to be taken seriously as a villain and as the villain just isn't that interesting it also means that The Doctor himself isn't that interesting as he's not being forced to outwit WOTAN and while the idea of having a super computer be the main villain for this episode it's not one that's fully developed enough to the point where the character is believable as the villain with the episode not even taking that full advantage of the fact that it's main villain is a super computer which is something that does make sense as we didn't really know just wat it was that computers could do in the first place but at the same time it is something that really does make WOTAN seem like a really weak villain.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember what ever this episodes grand total running time even was I do know for a fact that this episode really does have an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour and thirty minuets. With this episode being four episodes which is something that really does effect the plot of this episode as this episode not only have more the  enough plot there to really cover it's current episode count and running time but it's also something that could have done with a being a few episodes longer as it's current form the episode really can't use it's running time all that wisely as none of the character get any form of character development whatsoever and both Ben and Polly who are characters that are meant to be replacing Dodo in the TARDIS and yet there not really being given all that much of a personality and Polly isn't given a reason as to why she should be allowed on the TARDIS in the first place where as Ben is and all of which are things that would be fixed if this story was say five or six episodes long as by giving this episode even just those extra two episodes it would mean that the characters and the plot as a whole could be come alot more fleshed out which is something that really would make the episode be whole lot better then what it currently is because as things stand those things really just aren't that well done in this episode because of the fact that this episode is as short as it is but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is ana action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presenetd 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 not that bad. With this episode having two action scenes in the story with the first one being a small fight scene between Ben and random person a club and the second one being a huge scale action scene between members of an army unit and a war machine with that episode not only being the best action scene in the whole episode it's also one that's wrongly placed as it happend near the end of episode three when an action scene that's this good and this well done should have been placed in the fourth and final episode and it's also an action that's really well done as we get to see a small group of army people plus Ben try to take on one of WOTAN's war machines in a warehouse only for alot of them to be very easily defeated and heck it even has The Doctor standing up to one of these war machines which really is just such a cool thing to include in an action scene but because it was placed in the third episode it means that anything that comes after it is really just going to fail in comparison where as if it was placed in the fourth episode it would have been a really cool way to end the threat of the war machines as it's just a really well done action scene and something that really does work well within the context of the episode as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this might not be all that good an episode and it's certainly not all of that good a departure episode there is some good things to be found in this episode but you do have to sit through alot of the bad things to find them tho but when you do find them they do make this episode really worth watching 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  6 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 ad gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page 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 being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Ewoks "Rampage Of The Phlogs" Review

For a while Star Wars was seen as something that would only ever produce things in live action as that's all we got and heck even the first time that Star Wars appeared on television it was in live action with THAT holiday special. Yet people seem to forget that when Star Wars was at it's height in the eighties we actually had some animated shows and since it's been a long while since I last reviewed anything from this show I thought that now was the right time to delve back into the world of this show and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Wicket trying to rescue a giant baby with the episode in question being called simply just ""Rampage Of The Phlogs" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a member of tribe of giant beings known as Phlogs is kidnapped and his kidnapping is blamed on the Ewoks it's to Wicket and friends to prove there innocence and return this lost baby to his own people. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew 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 as it was the kind of typical kids animated show plot that you would find in a typical eighties kids animated TV show but at the same time tho it's done with a unique Star Wars type twist that it makes what could have been seen as being a tired and worn plot with the villain kidnapping someone kind of important and then blaming it on the good guys seem new and fresh again but at the same time tho there's really nothing new added to this episodes plot either and as such you really do know where the plot of the episode is going the second that it starts which does make this episode feel rather pointless as who ants to watch an episode where you can predict what's going to happen in it's plot and while this isn't always a bad thing it is something that does make this episode stand out as this franchise normally doesn't do predictable plots at all 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 Jim Henshaw as Wicket Wystri Warrick , Melleny Brown as Urgah and Jackie Burroughs as Morag. Also starring in this episode is George Buza as Chirpa and Nahkee , Doug Chamberlain as Logray , Alyson Court as Malani , Don Francks as Umwak , Dan Hennessey as Gorneesh , Taborah Johnson as Latara , Joe Matheson as Zut , Eric Peterson as Teebo , Diane Polley as Dobah , John Stocker as Hoom and Cree Summer as Kneesaa A Jari Kintaka.

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. With the actors that you expects a good performance from like Cree Summer , George Buza and Alyson Court to name but a few giving us exactly that and that is something that really does go to show you not only how good these actors are in this show but also in general as they knock it out of the park every single time with it really being hard to say just who the true standout performer is for this episode as realistically anyone f this episodes actors could lay claim to that title and it would totally make sense and whole this episodes acting is on the overall really high there were some performers like Jim Henshaw as Wicket Wystri Warrick and Eric Peterson as Teebo for example who really just felt a bit off not that they were bad because they weren't it's just that they were better in other episodes of the show with the acting in this episode feeling like it was the first episode to be produced and so the actors were still trying to find there character with the acting that's i this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this episode actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is Nelvana , Cuckoo's Nest Studios and Wang Film Productions Company. Now then  inters if what I personally thought / felt that 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 it does does look a lot better then the animation that you'd typically find in a kids animated TV show for the eighties but at the same time tho it's lacking that extra something that alot of animated shows from the eighties seem to have and it's something that really is hard to pin point as while yes granted the episodes animation does look really good with there being no animation errors there's also no charm to it with the episodes animation coming across as being bland and boring instead of grand and spectacular and while it does make sense this episodes animation is really good as both Nelvana and Wang Film Productions Company are known for turning in either really good animation or animation that's so weird and out there thar you kind of have to respect for at the very least trying to be different and trying to be new where as here it felt like that they were playing it to safe and granted there's not much that you can do to make your animation in a weekly show seem good each and every week but there could some attempt to at the very least be different and unique instead of just playing it safe like they do in this episode.

For some strange reason even the Dulok race are meant to be the sworn enemies of the Ewoks here in this episode they have them just babysitting. Which given that this is a kids show does somewhat make sense but the same time tho in the context of the story you do want them to be acting more sinister as while there plan does make sense as having a Phlog believe that the Ewoks took one of there own is a good idea it doesn't really make them all that threatening as villains when you take into account that the spend the rest of the episode just looking after this baby when that's not in there character to do so and while you can't really show them being abusive to the kid there could have been a work around that allowed them to be threatening villains and still allow them to be fun and goofy characters as that's what alot if not all of the villains in kids eighties animated TV shows where they were characters that could be fun and goofy when they needed to be but also be really serious when they had to be as well and that is something that did make them believable as villains and yet here with these characters while there believable enough to be goofy characters with them even making a joke about who's going to change the baby there not believable as villains and that is something that does make them seem less of a threat which wouldn't be a bad thing if they where just villains for this episode but there the villains for the whole show and so they should have some menace to them just to make them seem alot more believable as villains.

What is something that both does and doesn't work for this episode is the fact that they gave Wicket kind of subplot. Which is something that doesn't work in the fact that given that he's the main character he should really only be involved with the main plot of the episode we don't need to see him taking on a subplot where he has to learn not to be so mean to one of the Ewoks as that's a spot that could have been used for one of the characters and it does work in the way that given that he is the main character of the show or is at the very least the mist well know character coming into the show it does make sense to have him be a huge part of both plots as he's the character that alot of the audience that are watching this show know the best thanks to his appearance in Return Of The Jedi and the two live action Ewok films that came out both before the during the run of this show and in that regards it does make sense for him to have a bit more screen time but at the same time tho that does mean that alot of the other Ewok characters can't be fully developed when Wicket doesn't really nee to be due to the fact that he's already appeared in three live action films and these characters are just making there debut in the world of Star Wars it would be like if either R2D2 or C3-PO took part in both the subplot and main plot of there own animated show "Droids" when they really wouldn't have needed the extra screen time either due to them being in all of the Star Wars films sometimes less is more and that would have very much have been the case with the Wicket character in this episode.

For those of you who have no idea what a Phlog even is in the first place to put it simply they are giant humanoid creatures who mostly wear no shirt and a loin cloth and that's really it. As we get to find out next to nothing about these creatures that the Ewoks are supposed to be afraid with the only reason that the Ewoks are afraid of them is the fact that there taller then the Ewoks and that's really it as none of them have nothing unique about them which is a shame as exploring what life is like on Endor for creatures that aren't the Ewoks and are actually taller then them is something that on paper could work really well but you'd have to develop the characters enough so that we the audience actually want to see more of them where as here even tho they do appear in a future episode of the show we the audience aren't left with that feeling of wanting to see more of them as there's nothing about these characters that makes them standout an that makes them unique out side of the fact that there basically giant size and that's really it and that's not enough and heck for alot of the episode there treated like the villains of the episode when in actuality it's the Dulok's who are the villains and it's the Phlogs that attack the Ewok village for no reason even tho the Ewoks are actively tryin to rescue a member of there tribe the characters aren't bad but they just needed to be written better and be put into a better story as on paper these characters could have worked alot more better then what the already do and if they were better done characters then who knows perhaps they could have been featured in a movie all there own instead of just being characters in this show.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and forty seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running tom for this show and to this episodes credit it really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this episode really doesn't use it's running tie all that wisely as the main conflict of the episode isn't set up all that well and Wicket's subplot of learning not to be mean to one of the Ewok's just feels tacked on as it adds nothing the overall plot of the episode and feels more like that it was there just to pad out the episode as a whole when if the makers of this episode really wanted to pad this episode out all they had to had to do was just develop the main plot of the episode and that's really it as while this episodes episodes isn't that strong of a plot by any stretch of the imagination it's more then strong enough to hold up a bogstandard twenty two minuets kids animated TV show for the eighties and that's really it and that's all the makers of this episode really had to but since thy really wanted to give Wicket a pointless subplot we are not stuck with a subplot that goes nowhere and adds nothing to the plot of the episode outside of the fact that it really gives the Ewoks a reason to go looking for one of their own after she runs off and that's really it and a plot that would have been so much more better then it already is if it was the main focus of the episode and not exactly fighting for screen time with the pointless subplot 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 n this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. AS this is a kids animated YV show after all and so with that in mind you can' really expect this episodes action to be on par with that seen in any of the live action Star Wars movies both theatrical and made for TV and to this episodes credit it does do the best that it could have done from an action point of view by showing lot of the Ewoks having to band together to survive an attack from one of the Phlogs while Morag watches on from the side and as this episode really only has the one action scene near the end of the episode it makes sense that it be that action scene that is the best one in the episode as seeing alot of the Ewoks band together is always going to a fun tie no matter who it is that there attacking and trying to survive as these characters are clever characters who are able to think on there feet and seeing them do that all the while trying to survive an attack from someone who could very easily crush them all with one his pinky toes does make for a really fun filled action scene that was a really fun to watch in this very episode and to be frank makes it alot more fun then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this episodes action shouldn't have been all that good and yet it turns to be alot more better then what it really had any right to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this was a really good but at the same time tho it's not the best episode out of the three episodes that i've seen and reviewed as this episode just feels like that it could gave been an episode of any eighties kids animated TV show and not something that's unique to the world of Star Wars 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 6 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 use in this very review from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official Star Wars fandom wiki page 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 being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.