Lego Disney Princess: Villains Unite Special Review

It's pretty obvious that all of the Lego specials are there just to shift the toys and really nothing more then that. As both Lego and whom ever they are working with at the time do get to rise in profits because of it and given the horrendously bad luck that Disney have been having in the past few years they really do need a win and well they've just released another Lego Disney Princess special and I thought that i'd review it for you all as I reviewed there first special a few years ago and so then join me as I review the special that really doesn't hide the fact that it's mainly there just to shift the toys with the special in question being called simply just "Lego Disney Princess Villains Unite" enjoy.

The plot of this special is when Gaston teams up with several classic Disney villain in the hopes of not only recruiting Chernabog but also in taking the Princesses own castle it's up to several classic Disney Princesses to stop him for good. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special 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 not that bad however tho this specials plot wasn't all that good either as while it was yes very passable for the specials target audience of little kids there's nothing really in this special from a plot point of view that will please die hard fans of these truly iconic characters as this is a plot that does feel rather weak and to be frank isn't the strongest plot and while it is perfectly understandable why these Lego Disney Princess specials don't have the best plots as there only there to sell the toys and that's really it films like The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie proved that you can be there to sell the toys and still have a good plot if you have people that care enough to put in the extra effort in the first place and that's just not something that's coming through in this film as by all rights this is a special that should have worked but because of the fact that it's plot isn't focused on that much it makes what could have been a really cool idea seem like nothing more then that as the film does the exact thing that you think it would do with that cool idea and do absolutely nothing with it where as if they did something literally anything with this cool idea then we would have ended up with a plot that will please everyone both kids and adults alike with the plot of this film being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Jodi Benson as Ariel , Auli'i Cravalho as Moana , Mandy Moore as Rapunzel and Anika Noni Rose as Tiana. Also starring in this special is Katie Von Till as Snow White , Julie Nathanson as Belle , Jennifer Hale as Cinderella , Kate Higgins as Aurora , Richard White as Gaston , Jonathan Freeman as Jafar , Susanne Blakeslee as The Evil Queen , Debra Wilson as Ursula , Corey Burton as The Magic Mirror and Henri Lubatti as Sir Hiss.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us un this very special 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 special was in all honesty not that bad. As pretty much all of this special actors have played these characters in the past with some of them even being the official voice actor for these characters it does make sense that they would turn in a good performance in this special as they would have had alot of chance to really get to know there versions of the characters with a special shoutout going to Debra Wilson as Ursula as she sounded so much like Pat Carrol alot of the time during this special with her only taking over the role full time last year and yet she's already nailed the characters voice perfectly with her being the best actor in this special as while alot of the other actors are good in this special all of the ones that are taking over the role from someone else you can just tell that that's not the original actor doing it and you therefor loose something because of it where as here because of the fact that Debra Wilson has already got her Ursula voice nailed down perfectly it really does feel that your listening to the same character that we first saw back in 1989 as the voice is just that good with her being that good in the role as well with the acting that's in this very special not really being helped by the fact that the script for this special is just so bad as it gives none of this specials 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 hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very special.

Doing the animation for this special is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Atomic Cartoons. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special 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 special was in all honesty not that bad with the specials animation being of a really high quality granted it's not as good as any of the Disney animated films or even the theatrically released Lego films either but for a special whose sole purpose is to shift toys to young kids the specials animation is alot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this specials animation could have been just OK and nothing more then that and given that this is a Disney+ special people would have been OK with that but no it really does seem lie the people that were doing the animation for this special really did care about what they were doing and wanted to put there best effort in this special and while it is hard to say if this is the best animation that Atomic Cartoons have ever done what can be said is that for a kids special the animation quality is alot more better then hat it really had any right to be as you could very easily confuse the animation in this special for something that's in a direct to DVD movie for example as there's alot of thought and effort that's gone into this specials animation with all of the backgrounds having colors that really do pop and while the princesses looked a little bit better in the previous Lego special they do look pretty decent in this special as well with the same thing even being true for the specials roster of villains as well.

One of the things that was really annoying about this special was the fact that you could tell pretty much right away the main reason as to why this special was made. As they spend a good long while just showing us Snow White getting ready to go to the market and then at the end of the special they then have a long sequence of shots were we see several of the princesses doing things around the market place in several buildings all of which make it vey clear that the only reason that this special was even made in the first place was to sell the toys as it gets so obvious alot of the time that you might as well be able to see the price tags on all of the characters and while yes the theatrically released Lego movies where also made solely to sell the toys as well but they were at the very least a tittle bit more subtle with it by having what they were actually showing us in the film be about of the films main plot where as here it just makes it super obvious as to why this special was made in the first place and while yes the eighties also had alot of animated shows and movies that were made to sell toys as well however times have changed since then and that's no longer the thing to do and heck even before they start showing us the princesses helping out around the town they start of with a big wide shot of the town as a whole which you just know is going to be a playset and you can bet that there's already a playset for the princesses castle as well as it's just that obvious and that in your face about it when going the more subtle route would actually serve to help the special out in the long run as people would stop thinking that there seeing an advert for the toys and will start just enjoying the special in the first place.

Disney really does seem to have it in for Snow White recently as not only do we have that dreadful live action remake but here in this film they basically turn some one who was quite resilient and smart into someone who is basically the groups comic relief. With this being something that's not new as it's been going on since Ralph Breaks The Internet but here it does become annoying as she's meant to be one of the main characters of the special and yet the makers of this special rob her of everything that made her likable in the first place in favor of the version of the character that Disney has been pushing since 2018 and that's just not who the character as while yes she can be a ditzy at times but she was also smart and as she was also resilient and while she was more then willing to have a laugh with her friends when it came down to it and when push did indeed come to shove she was also willing to defend what was right and stick up to bullies and that's just not something that comes across in this special with the special instead taking the time to make fun of the fact that she's afraid of Apples and won't have them anywhere in the castle which given the fact that she was also killed after eating an apple is kind of understandable and while the special does show us how far she's willing to go to help her friends out and how kind she is as a character which is true to her character it also felt like something that was mandated and forced upon the makers of this special as that's how all of the other princesses act as well and isn't something that exclusive to her but credit where credit is due this special did treat the character of Snow White alot more better then THAT dreadful live action Snow White remake ever really did.

For a special that's subtitled Villains Unite and a poster that has alot of the villains seemingly ready to take on the princesses. The main villains of this special oddly enough don't play that large part in the films plot outside of the fact that it's seeing all of them together that makes Snow White and the other princesses realize that they will need help from more princesses to take them on as it's instead Chernabog that acts more as a main villain to the princesses then Gaston does which is something that does make alot of sense as Chernabog is this huge creature who can destroy anything that he wants but at the same time tho the special also doesn't show us the villains working together which is something that they really should have done as that would have made there defeat at the end of the special all the more satisfying and while they can't for obvious reasons have the villains openly kill or threaten the princesses what they can do is have the princesses take them on and loose in their first fight but not get captured by them as this would then make the villains all the more creepy then what they already are with that also being a way to justify the specials title as well and while it does make sense that the villains wouldn't get along with each other as there all meant o be greedy people who only look after number one in the first place it would have been great to show them working together much like how seeing the princesses working together in the first special was a nice little moment to see but to be fair including a very little known character like Chernabog in a major role was something that does work really well as nobody would have blamed the makers o this special for going for a more well known villain like for example Cruella De Vil or even Scar or Hades as there more well known characters and while Chernabog does feel alot more like a side villain in this special he does work really well in the context of this special.

Now then this special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and eight seconds. Which is a perfectly solid running time for this special as this special really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time however tho in sayin that this special really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as while the special does have the right amount of plot there for it's currant running time it's also one that could have been done with getting some plot development to explain things like why Jasmin wasn't one of the princesses chosen since she has experience in dealing with Jafar she would have made for a great inclusion into the plot of the special and how Gaston is back from defeated in the previous special something which they never mention in this special with the special also lacking in character development as the only character that gets some form of character development who overcomes her fear of Apples pretty quickly when she starts using them as weapons against The Evil Queen however that that's quite literally the only piece of character development that we get in the whole film as none of the other characters get anything that helps to set them apart from one another with it not even being reveled why Gaston wants the princesses castle in the first place with us not even finding that much about any of this specials characters in the first place which you could argue is due t the fact that we get to find out alot about them in their respective films but at the same time tho we still need to have the characters go through some form of character to make them memorable or well done however given that this special was made for little kids it does make sense that the characters in this special don't have that much character development as the specials target audience isn't going to care about things like that but I really will admit that this special 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 special 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 special was in all honesty not that bad. As the special does have some cute and funny jokes in it like for example Snow White always carrying an axe around with her even when she's just going to the market is a really cute idea and is something that does play into her character as she does seem like the kind of character who would do something like that especially after everything that both she and the other princesses went through in the previous special and the fact that the special even pays it off by having Cinderella reveal that she always carries a pair of giant scissors with her much like how Snow White carries a giant axe was a nice and sweet little pay off with the best joke in the whole entire film being the joke where Rapunzel is always trying out different weapons to replace he beloved frying pan with them starting out with things like a pillow which she quickly gets rid of when it's destroyed very early on in the special to the outright ridiculous like the castles own mailbox something which she does carry on with her for alot of the special which is a nice little joke with it being one that could very easily become a good running joke for her character should Disney decide to go down that route with her character with alot of the specials jokes being just as good and just as funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out of the two specials that Lego and Disney have dine it's the previous special Lego Disney Princess: The Castle Quest that's the better one as that one feels like it has more love for the Disney brand this is despite the fact that this special has more obscure characters in it however this special does have some really good jokes in it in tho and is the more fun special to watch 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 special in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very special really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 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 the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this special that I used in this very review being the really great the official Disney 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 special 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 Disney fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Wednesday Season 2 Part 2 SPOILER FILLED Review

To say that Wednesday has been a huge hit for Netflix would be like saying that The Lion King 1994 was a great movie. As this show has proven that there is still life to be found in the The Addams Family brand with this shoe being so successful that a third season of the show was announced not long before this second season started airing and well part two of season 2 has just dropped and you all knew that I had to check out these remaining four episodes out the first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the batch of the episodes that has something in it that was spoiled in the trailer for this batch of the episodes with the in question being called simply just "Wednesday" enjoy.

The plot of these episodes is with Enid's upcoming death coming closer and closer Wednesday must find a way to prevent it from happening once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad with the plot of these episodes being at best pretty decent but in saying that tho the plot to the first four episodes was more better as it while it did lean in heavily on the friendship between Enid and Wednesday it also had a genuinely compelling story to tell where as here with this batch of episodes it was missing having a really compelling story that makes it worth sitting through these four episodes with it feeling as if the makers of the show only had enough plot for about five episodes and somehow had to find a way to stretch that plot out to eight episodes as there are alot of things in this batch of episodes that could have been left out and nothing that's actually important to the plot of these episodes would have been missed as alot of what we get in these four episodes being nothing more then filler episodes as they add nothing to the overall plot of the season which was a really good plot it's just that it could have used a bit more focus in these final four episodes however tho in saying that the plot for these four episodes was one that was still really good as it does still work as a plot it's just that the plot to the previous four episodes was the more stronger of the two plots with the plot of these episodes also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in these episodes is one of this shows executive producers Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams and Steve Buscemi as Barry Dort. Also starring in these episodes is Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair , Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin , Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay , Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger , Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus , Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams , Owen Painter as Slurp , Billie Piper as Isadora Capri , Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Ritchie Santiago , Victor Dorobantu as Thing , Noah Taylor as Bruno Yuson , Evie Templeton as Agnes DeMille , Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams , Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams , Joonas Suotamo as Lurch , Christopher Lloyd as Professor Orloff , Heather Matarazzo as Judi Stonehearst , Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester , Anthony Michael Hall as Ron Kruger , Frances O'Connor as Francoise Galpin , Lady Gaga as Rosaline Rotwood , Gracy Goldman as Gabrielle Barclay and Dame Joanna Lumley as Grandmama.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally tought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. Which is something that's not really all that surprising as as every single episode of this show has had some really good acting in it and therefor it does make sense that all of the acting in these four episodes be just as good as alot of the actors that are in these four episodes are either A reprising their roles from other episodes of the show or B just some really good actors in there own right either way it does mean that we are always going to be getting some really good acting in this show from all involved with the best actor in these batch episodes both a tie between Jenna Ortega and Emma Myers for no other reason then what they do in episode six of this season as without giving anything away about that episode both of those actors do something that would have been really hard for even the best actors to pull off and yet they somehow manage to it and do it well with there acting together in these episodes being really good as you get to see the struggle that each of them goes through in these batch of episodes and it is something that really does shine through in the actors performances with the acting that's in these vert episodes really being helped by the fact that the scripts for these episodes are so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are a written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.

Doing the CGI for these episodes is Alter Ego , CoSA VFX , Folks VFX , Herne Hill Media , Incessant Rain Studios , Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies , PowerHouse VFX , Rocket Science VFX , Rodeo FX , Scanline VFX , Take 5 VFX , VFX Legion and WeFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes was in all honesty really good as while the effects of The Hyde creature still don't look that good as the creature does have a very cartoonish looking design to him here in these episodes he mostly kept in the dark which is something that does help out alot even more o when you take into account that creature's design is more laughable then it is scary and given the fact that this season put alot more focus on horror it does make sense that The Hyde would be featured alot more in shadows and darkness with alot of the other effects in these episodes being really good as all they are are simply background replacements and set extensions alot of which you won't really notice unless your actually looking for it with the show in general putting alot of focus on doing effects for real instead of in an computer which is something that's to be applauded as practical effects will always trump CGI effects any day of the week as CGI effects even when there done really well will always date really quickly where as when practical effects are done just as well can be timeless and the fact that the makers of this show are only using CGI when it's needed and not when they want to does say that they have a passion for doing things practically.

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

There was one thing that really should have been kept hidden in the trailer for these episodes and that's the fact that we get the return of Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems. With her now being Wednesday's new spirit guide which is something that would have been a really cool reveal were it not in quite literally the opening shot of the trailer for these episodes and even then it could have been argued that it was in there because they might be faking us out and maybe it's someone else that's her new spirit but nope they don't do any of that which now means that people who did see the trailer for Part 2 would have gotten a huge plot twist spoiled for them as yes people would have been watching the trailer just due to the fact that this show does have quite the fanbase they even could have hid who it was by filming new footage with another actor just to be in the trailer so why they chose to reveal what admittedly isn't that big of a spoiler in the trailer is so weird but thankfully they didn't spoil the fact that we get a pretty cool cameo from Casper Van Dien where he plays someone who helped to con Bianca's mom years earlier and is back working with Principal Barry to con Grandmama out of her money only for him to get turned into ash when Dort turns on him because he wanted a fair share of the money with these episodes having plenty of scenes in them that thankfully didn't get spoiled by the trailer for these episodes but it still weird that the makers of this show would openly choose to spoil something that's a small twist in the plot in the trailers for these episodes but then not do anything new or even interesting with that twist.

If you all saw the last Wednesday review I did you'd know that I had a theory about who a certain character was and well I was wrong. As the person that I thought that Wednesday saved at the end of episode four would turn out to be Ophelia Frump it turns out that the person that she rescued was Francoise Galpin who is Tyler's mom which is a bit of weak reveal even more so when the show does nothing with it as she openly says to Morticia that Wednesday is her angel for rescuing her when she gave up all hope on ever seeing her son again and yet she spends the vast majority of these remaining four episodes trying to kill her all because her recent discovered brother Isaac Night who prior to getting his own name back was Pugsley's pet zombie Slurp wants her dead which does make it seem like the makers of this show really had no idea what to do with her character as there is alot of flip flopping around when it comes to her character as one episode she openly wants to kill of the entire Addams Family even tho Wednesday saved her life just a few episodes prior and then the next she's not willing to hurt anyone with her being more then happy to help out her brother and son from the sidelines while they risk their lives to get her to this machine that will remove her own Hyde like powers from her and thus save her life in the process and while we do get a glimpse of Ophelia at the end of episode eight it's literally just a cameo to set up the fact that she might be appearing in the next season of the show when it would have made more sense for her to be the one that got rescued by Wednesday in this season given the fact that they kept on mentioning her all the time and while showing us Tyler's mom was a solid plot twist the writing for the character really did let her down even down to the fact that she and her brother act really creepy when there around each other as well which is something that does put you off of both characters.

Speaking of the villain in these four episodes Isaac Night is actually alot more better of a villain then what Judi was earlier on in the season. As Isaac does at the very least act like a threatening villain who really does believe that he's doing the right thing by trying to kill of first Gomez and then Pugsley and finally the entire family with his end goal even being one that is quite noble as the only thing that he wants to do is to make his sister better and prevent her from dying and that's really it which is a noble goal it's only how he goes about it that makes him evil with him even showing that he does somewhat care for Tyler as in the final episode at his sister request he does use his powers put Tyler on the table that he was going to put his sister on and starts to use the machine of him to strip Tyler of his yde like powers as his mom does now just how deadly that these powers could be when they don't have a master to control and while Wednesday does eventually rescue Pugsley it is something that does course Tyler's mom to use her Hyde powers and thus Wednesday has to free Tyler and so that he can now use his powers to engage his mother in a chase something which does end up with her dying with Isaac even holding his own secret as well as it's revealed that his body is the one that Thing once came from which was a really unique twist as it does give a character that gets very little backstory now getting some lore added to him with it even playing into the episodes third act as it's Thing not Wednesday that defeats Isaac which was something that does make alot of sense as Things whole thing this season has been all about trying to work out wear he belongs an therefor him working with the family that truly loves him instead of the person that was quite literally using him to strangle Wednesday is something that does work well for his character.

Now then these episodes has / had an exact grand total running time of no longer then one hour and nine minuets. Which to be fair to these episodes is pretty much the exact grand total running tome for alot of the episode of the show as all of this shows episodes re usually around about the the hour mark with all of these episodes really having the right amount of the plot there to cover there respective episodes the issue is tho that there really should have been at least one more episode this season as the show goes from a plot driven episode in episode five to a filler episode episode to then suddenly having to wrap up all of the seasons storylines in episodes seven and eight which just isn't enough time to do all of that and when you add in the fact that the season starts of another plot with Enid being revealed as a possible Alpha wolf which means that if she transforms just once more under a full moon then she could remain that way forever something which she is forced to do when Isaac puts Wednesday is his own grave and both Agnes and Enid have to dig her out before it's to late only for it to only be possible for them to have Wednesday if Enid does transform and use her claws to dig her with this plot line feeling like nothing more then set up for season three as it adds nothing to the overall plot of this season with even the shows characters not really getting much development this season with the closest character to get much development being Pugsley and that's really it as the makers of the show seemed to be more focused on letting us know that this is a more horror focused season then in actually giving it's characters some well earned character development but I really will admit that these very episodes really do have some really good pacing to them 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 these very episodes and well hen in all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. With there being alot of painfully moments in these batch of episodes alot of which do work really well as they feel true to the characters ad true to the world that this show takes place in with Wednesday having alot of funny one liners alot of which are really funny with Wednesday herself getting the episodes best joke as in episode six both she and Enid have a Freaky Friday moment where they both end up in each others body and when Wednesday as Enid does something that the actual Enid doesn't like as it effects her personal life Enid as Wednesday gets back at her by having her dress in all of these bight and colorful clothes and by going around acting happy and hugging everyone that she meets all the while getting remembered that Wednesday really is allergic to color as she starts itching all over herself all of which is being filmed by some of the students which is just such a funny joke and it makes what is basically a pointless filler episode seem all the more worthwhile as you get see both Emma Myers and Jenna Ortega switch bodies and try to act as the others characters whilst still being there own character with that scene being the funniest scene in all four of these episodes this is despite the fact that all four of these episodes have some really funny moments in them as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall out of the two halves part one was definitely the stronger of the two halves as there was a more interesting plot going on in those episodes where as here whilst there is a more weaker plot the pay off to the plots in part one and the set up for season three was really good in it's own 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 these very episodes in this very review and that does mean that these episodes really do earn themselves a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 and the season as whole earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now the as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys an girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being the really great the official The Addams Family 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 these very episodes 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 The Addams Family 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 Legend Of Ruby Sunday AND Empire Of Death Review

Whilst there are no plans currently for a third series of this new Doctor Who era this is despite the fact that Disney recently said that they want to get back the male demographic. We still have the past episodes of Ncuti Gatwa's run on the show to look back on and hopefully enjoy with the same thing also being true for the two parter that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today as yes I did watch Empire Of Death TWICE once without the invision commentary and once with it on and so then join me as I review the episode that sees a classic foe return and a companion temporarily leave the show for the episodes in question being called simply just "The Legend Of Ruby Sunday" and "Empire Of Death" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when The Doctor and Ruby fly into U.N.I.T HQ to ask them about a woman that they both keep on seeing an ancient evil from The Doctors past makes itself known and The Doctor and his friends must try and find away to defeat this evil once and for all. 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 however tho this episodes plot wasn't all that good either as it did feel kind of anticlimactic alot of the time with The Doctor working out things off screen or the characters discussing things off screen which is great for drama but it isn't great storytelling and while the plot of this episode does feel epic enough to be a series finale it doesn't really resolve all that much as we don't get to find out why it snows when ever Ruby is hurt or distressed and nor do we really get to find out why Mrs. Flood was being shown alot of the time in this series which fair enough is something that does get resolved in the next series but it was a big thing in this series as well and therefor there should have been some level of resolution to it but to be fair tho this episodes plot is a really exciting one and one that does show alot of promise to be one of the more better Doctor Who finale's in Doctor Who history it just needed a much more better writer and production team to pull of a story like this one 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 Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor , Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday and Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush. Also starring in this episode is Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart

Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble , Alexander Devrient as Colonel Christofer Ibrahim , Lenny Rush as Morris Gibbons , Genesis Lynea as Harriet Arbinger , Aidan Cook as The Vlinx , Nicholas Briggs as the voice of The Vlinx , Susan Twist as Susan Triad , Fela Lufadeju as Bailey Sinclair , Michelle Greenidge as Carla Sunday , Anita Dobson as Mrs Flood , Angela Wynter as Cherry Sunday , Tachia Newall as Colonel Winston Chidozie , Gabriel Woolf as the voice of Sutekh , Jasmine Bayes as Corporal Alice Sullivan , Sian Clifford as Kind Woman and Faye McKeever as Louise Miller.

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. Which is something that does make alot of sense as not only is both parts of this episode filled to the brim with some really good actors but also this era of the show as a whole is known for having some really good acting in all of it's episodes and therefor it does make sense that that is something that would continue onwards in this episode as well with all of the episodes actors really giving there best shot no matter the size of the role that there playing in both of these episodes with Gabriel Woolf really nailing it as Sutekh which is all the more surprising as he is actually returning to the role of Sutekh after originating it back in 1975's "Pyramids Of Mars" with sounding as creepy as he did back then with him even being the episodes best actor due to the fact that he hasn't really played the character for such a long time and yet he very easily slipped back into character as if he just got through playing him the first time a few years ago with him even out shining both Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson alot of the time something which really couldn't have been an easy task to do as there both a pair of really good actors in their own rights as well with the acting that's in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so bad as it gives none of this episodes 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 hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Automatik VFX and Real SFX. 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's actually feature / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good which given that this is where a huge chunk of Disney money went does quite clearly make alot of sense and it is something that did mostly pay off for the large part as while there are some really good looking CGI effects in this episode ranging from Sutekh himself to even replacing Cardiff in reflections to make it look like London where are a few effects that do look a little bit to much like a cartoon with for example when the TARDIS enters U.N.I.T HQ at the start of The Legend Of Ruby Sunday the sparks coming off of it look really fake which if this was in 2005 would make sense as the show didn't have a huge effects budget back then but now the makers of this show don't really have that as an excuse and while the effects with Sutekh basically flying through the time vortex are passable they don't look as good as they should have done as while simple things like the lighting matching up when it hits Ncuti does work there's just something off about it that makes the whole thing look a little bit on the cheap of side things now weather or not they just ran out of money or they just gave more money to other effects in the episode is hard to tell but given that that scene is meant to see this classic Doctor Who villain die there should have been some more money thrown at that scene to make it look the best that it possibly could have done.

As was mentioned at the start of this review this is the episode that does see Ruby temporarily leave the show with this two parter even wrapping up the whole story line about her mother is. Which to be fair was a decent thing to do in the episode it's the justification behind making Louise Miller a "nobody" that's the problem as in the invision commentary for the episode Russell T. Davies states that he made her a nobody as his response to The Rise Of Skywalker walking back on Rey's parentage with him saying that he liked that her parents where nobody's however what he failed to realise was that the Star Wars fans hated that reveal as it didn't make sense given what we had seen from that character up until The Last Jedi where as with Ruby given everything that we know about her it does make sense for her mother to be this nobody character and to the credit of the fans of Doctor Who they weren't up in arms about it like the fans of Star Wars were as they had alot of time to get to know Ruby as a character and whilst some of them might not like her character the one thing that can't be denied is the fact that we got to know her and therefor seeing her mum was basically just like her was something that did make sense as was the fact that we get to see Ruby leave the show for a little bit as of course she would want to get to know her birth mum as she had spend countless years trying to find her so he would of course choose to stay on earth for a little bit and not go flying off to distant planets in the TARDIS with the scene of her leaving the TARDIS being a truly heartbreaking as while the relationship between The Doctor and Ruby wasn't that well developed you still got the feeling that he was loosing someone close to him and therefor it did make sense in this episode for The Doctor to break down crying instead of saying I love you which was the original plan.

Whilst this two parter does have alot of good things going for it it does also have alot of bad things that are going against it as well. Like for example the design for Sutekh just looks wrong as the original idea for the character was to have him be based of Egyptian gods hence why he looked sort of like a man but here he looks more dog like then anything else when it would have made more sense for him to look more cat like given the fact that Egyptians worship cats and treat them like they are gods with this not really being helped by the fact that much like what they would do with Omega in the very next series they made this version of Sutekh really tall when what made him scary in the first place wasn't his height it was the idea behind the character the ides that this god like character could do anything to anyone from this other dimension and you'd have no choice but to go along with it but here tho because of the fact that they keep him out of that other dimension and made him a really tall character it oddly makes him less threatening as a character as we don't really get to see him do anything that's scary or threatening where as in "Pyramids Of Mars" we got to see him mind control people so that they can kill off other characters and we got to see him have his own set of mummy type guards all of which do go along way into making what could have been seen as being a rather bland character seem all the more threatening but here in this two parter tho they rob him of both of those with him only mind controlling three people with two of them just standing around doing nothing and the third somehow knowing how to operate the TARDIS which doesn't really make him all that threatening as a villain.

To give this episode a bit more credit it did hide the twist of Sutekh returning really well all throughout not only this episode but this season as a whole. With The Doctor guessing that the anagram for the the tech company that the U.N.I.T was looking into was TARDIS without really looking at the full thing and while this does make The Doctor look kind of dumb as even this version of the character would look at the bigger picture he's also one to leap before he looks as well which is something that does make the big reveal still quite shocking especially as Sutekh is quite an obscure character to be brining back as he's not on the same level as say The Master for example but at the same time tho the makers of this episode could have done alot more with the character just by giving him an end goal as in this episode the only thing that he wants to do is wipe out all life on earth after doing so to the rest of the planets that this version of The Doctor has visited OFF SCREEN when this is something that really should have been show in greater detail as it would have given the makers of this episode alot more of a chance to show off just how scary that Sutekh is and just how powerful that he could be and yet by not giving him an end goal and by minimizing all of the damage that we see him do it oddly makes him feel more like a pantomime villain and not like a villain that should be taken seriously with the episode even omitting key things from The Doctor and Ruby's perspective as well as they work out that Mel had "died" and work out a plan to stop Sutekh once and for all OFF SCREEN when this is something that should have been shown on screen.

Now then both of these episodes has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty five minuets with the first episode being forty five minuets and five seconds long and the second episode being fifty four minuets and twelve seconds long. Which to be fair to this episode is a perfectly solid running tome for this episode to have as the episode does have more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time but in saying that tho this episode also doesn't use it's running time all that wisely either as the plot of the episode isn't that well developed this is despite it's extra long running time the episode still doesn't take the time that it really needs to develop it's plot as alot of the time it does feel like things are happening just for the sake of it and not because of the fact that there important to the actual plot of the episode with this even effecting the episodes character development as none of the characters get much in the way of actual character development which is something that does make sense for characters like The Doctor and Ruby as they get there character development in other episodes of the show but for a character like Rose Noble who goes through both The Star Beast and this two parter getting absolutely no character development whatsoever just makes her feel like a waste of a good idea as on paper a character like her could have worked she just needed to be more thought out and developed as a character but for one reason or another she gets no character development in this two parter with the same thing also being true for Sutekh himself but I really will admit that this very episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As this episode really does have some really good action scenes in it but in saying that tho this episode does do something really bad with the character of The Doctor during the episodes final chase scene he willingly kills of Sutekh which is so against the character of The Doctor and as he prides himself on being better then his foes by not killing them in cool blood and yet here in the second part of this two parter he does just that so now basically The Doctor no matter the incarnation is now no better then the Daleks or the Cybermen for example with the episodes best action scene being the chase scene all throughout London as that's were get to see just how deadly that Sutekh's power really can be with hundreds if not thousands of people including recurring characters getting killed off all the while The Doctor and Mel only just get away with there lives which is something that does make that action scene all the more fun to watch as while it i just a simple chase scene it is one that's really effective and is quite exciting to watch and while the ending chase scene with Sutekh hanging on to a bungy rope that's attached to the TARDIS is an exciting scene to watch it's let down by the bad character choice of The Doctor willingly killing him off in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall while there are alot of faults to be found in this two parter there's also alot of good to be found in them as well all of which do make this episode be alot more better then what it really had any right to be the only thing is this episode episode isn't as good as it really could have been either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

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Thomas & Friends TV Series "Coal" Review

When you think of things that are British institutions you might very well think of Doctor Who or football or as the Americans call is soccer. However what you might not think of or what might come to mind at first is a TV show about a little tank engine and all of his friends and well it's one of those episodes that i'm going to be talking about today and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Henry the green engine get some new coal with the episode in question being called simply just "Coal" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when The Fat Controller finally has enough with Henry being ill all of the time he decides to take a ride on him and find out what's wrong with him once and or all. 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 episode was in all honesty really good with it being a really simply and very easy to follow plot and for a show that's made with very little kids in mind that is the kind of plot that you want but at the same time tho this episodes plot is alot more better then alot of the plots that you see in modern kids media today as it doesn't talk down to the audience rather it instead talks to them on a level with the episodes plot doing something that alot of early episodes of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends did and that's explain how trains work which was a nice little touch as it's something that does make it easier for us the audience to work out just why Henry was so ill alot of the time in these early episodes with the plot of this episode even being alot more fun then what it's initial premise would suggest as just by the premise alone you'd think that this was quite a scary episode but no it's one that knows when to be fun and is instead more focused on giving us a good and solid story and whilst it's debatable on if this one that alot of the die hard Thomas fans love or not it is an episode that has a really well done plot with it's plot getting alot of the focus 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.

The main storyteller for this episode is Sir Ringo Starr with his voice in this episode being oddly soothing and relaxing. While this isn't something new for the show as the whole first season of this show has this very calm quality to it it's not something that you'd expect from the former drummer for The Beatles and yet it's something that does oddly work for this episode with the only thing that does let his narration down being the fact that he doesn't use any voices for this entire first season which might have been because of the fact that the makers of the show wanted the adult audience to know that they've got a famous face in the show which is fair enough but at the same time it does it hard to tell just which of the characters are speaking at any given moment and while he would slowly introduce character voices in the shows second season it is something that could have been done in this episode just due to how many characters talk in the episode but at the same time tho given that they do start to have Ringo do different voices for the characters in the shows second season it does say that the makers of this show realized that it was getting harder and harder to tell just which characters were meant to be talking and so they had him give there characters some different accents in the second season of the show just to make it a little bit more easier for people to work out just who is talking at any given moment but his narration skills are still pretty top notch as you can tell just from he delivers his lines that he really was a fan of the franchise before it became a TV show and as such he wanted to give it his all so much so that when Shining Time started in America he flew over there to join that show as Mr. Conductor for it's first season and even redub the episodes as well for various reasons.

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. With Ringo Star really starting to come into hos own as the series narrator and while he might be not be good as alot of the other UK narrators he does have his own charm that makes the role his own and to many myself included he was the first narrator that they were introduced to be it as a like kid or a toddler however tho with that being said he still does need to improve his skills a little bit like showing alot more emotion during certain scenes and knowing when to hold back on the emotion as with this show the narrator has to do all of the leg work for the characters as the characters faces can only show some vague expressions and that's really it and therefor it's up to the narrator to get across just what that character is thinking and feeling and that's something that Ringo just doesn't do in this episode this is despite him being the episodes best actor by default of him being the shows only actor at this point in time as he still does add some charm to the episode be it for the nostalgia factor of seeing something that you grew up with again or for the more laid back and relaxing voice that he naturally has there's just something about his performance as the narrator that works really well within 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 only actors has to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out f him naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

This episode much like alot of the early episodes of the show that have Henry in them do a good job of making you feel sorry for the character. With alot of the early episodes frequently showing him not really working as well as not only he but his crew as ell know that he can do with it being in this episode that we get to find why he's always so unwell as it's due to the fact that he has a small firebox and therefor needs special coal which is a great idea as it does show then even some of the larger engines have troubles as well with some of them being more severe then others like when James originally had wooden brakes that caught fire playing a part in him crashing but here with Henry it worked more because of the fact that we the audience had seen more of the character prior to him taking on of his very few starring roles in this episode and therefor we had gotten to know him as a character and heck it could even be argued that finding out what it was that made him so unwell all the time does mark the end of a major storyline for the character even if it's one that was being told more in the background as alot of the other stories featuring the character in a major role all focused on different aspects of his character with next to none of them having to do with the fact that he has a small firebox and while the fact that he needed special coal and possibly having a small firebox lasted all of one episode it's the fact that the makers of this show included those aspects in the first place that does show that they cared more about the shows characters and doing them well then what the later showrunners of the show did in the first place.

For some odd reason the makers of this episode gave Thomas a really creepy face which wouldn't be a bad thing except that it's the face that ends the entire episode. With even Edwards eyes glitching out a little bit in one scene which makes you wonder why the makers of this episode didn't take steps to fix these issues as while you very easily could have cut to the credits alot sooner with Thomas's creepy face you also could have taken measures to fix the glitch in Edwards eyes as when he's reversing to collect Henry's train his eyes move from left to right awkwardly with that being something that you could have fixed and then reshot that portion of the scene and while this first season of the show was made on a shoestring budget and therefor they most likely didn't have it in the budget to do much in the way of reshoots and second takes given the fact that they don't even hide those mistakes by say for example cutting to a close up of Henry's face and then cutting back to Edward when he takes off with the train it oddly makes what was an expensive show to produce somehow seem cheap but at the same time tho the models used for both Thomas and Edward do look really good as do all of the models for that matter but it's the fact that the makers of this episode saw these issues with the faces and still thought that they were OK to include in the episode that just feels wrong somehow as fair enough they might not have had it in the budget to reshoot these scenes with less glitchy and less creepy faces but there's always a work around for these kinds of issues but in saying that tho series one is filled to the brim with these kinds of technical issues as the makers of the show were still trying to work out how they were going to actually make the show and therefor this isn't an issue that's just relevant to this episode as it's one that could also be relevant to several other episodes in this season as well.

What could have made this episode all the more better was if we got to see Henry really struggle to not only pull coaches but also pulling and possibly even shunting trucks as well. As this would then really hit home just how badly unwell Henry is and while it might be seen as being a bit of overkill it is something that also could have worked for this episode as well as while showing him struggle to pull one set of coaches is more then enough to hit home that he's really not that strong of an engine right now what would have helped to sell that even more would be if we got to see him struggle to do all of the other things that all of the engines can do very easily as this would home the fact that there's something not quite right with Henry even if his crew haven't quite worked it out yet but at the saying time tho apart from being told that he got new paint in The Sad Story Of Henry constantly showing how he's not as strong as the other engines right now might also seem out of place as it might make it seem like the fact that he's unwell all of the time is his only character trait when that's just simply not the case at all and therefor going the less is more route with this character and this episode as a whole for matter does work really well as it is as we don't need to constantly be told that he's not really feeling all that well and is unable to pull coaches alot of the time we just need to see it the once and the sad music and Henry's sad face and lack of steam would be more then enough to tell us the audience that he's not his best right now and that's really it with that being something that would work for the episode as it would also feel more in line with the book that this episode is based off of called "Henry The Green Engine" which to fair also took a very similar less is more approach to tings as well.

This is possibly the first episode to show us The Fat Controller actively riding one of his trains after he's already brought them. With it in this case being to help to work out just what it is that's wrong with Henry in the first place with this being a very good idea as it does show that he does care about all of his engines and not just Thomas and it's something that the series could have done with showing us alot more as at times it does feel like that he only cares about Thomas due to the fact that it's his name that's the name of the TV show when it would make more sense to show him actually caring for all of his engines as well as that would then give each of them there own special bond with him something which do get to see in the episode "Toby & the Stout Gentleman" and again in the following episode "Thomas in Trouble" when we see that he had rode on Toby with his grandkids whilst they were on holiday to Toby's old railways line and brought him when Thomas got in trouble with an angry policeman thus giving Toby his own special connection to The Fat Controller as he saved Toby and his coach Henrietta from being locked up for a long time and from being tuned into a chicken coup in the case of Henrietta and in this episode it could be argued that Henry gets his own special connection to him as he willingly pays for the more expensive Welsh coal in order to give Henry a fighting chance at showing all of the the engines just what it is that he can really do as a steam engine and it is something that does work for both the show and for the character as well as now Henry does have a reason to keep on working for him as he believed in him when none of the other engines would do.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grad total running time of exactly five minuets and thirty three seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time for alot of the very early episodes of 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 as this show doesn't really need longer running times to tell simple stories like this one and while the fact that it doesn't really develop it's plot would normally be seen as being a bad thing here it's really not as the plot is so simple in the first place that it doesn't really need developing all that much in the first place as all we need to know is what the basic premise of the episode is and that's really it and therefor we don't need the plot to be that well developed but in saying that tho it would have been nice of the plot was a bit more developed however tho the other way that this episode doesn't really use it's running time all that wisely is in it's characters as it doesn't really develop it's characters all that well but much like with the plot the episode doesn't really need to develop it's characters all that well due to the fact that alot of the characters in this episode appear in other episodes of the show and therefor it could be argued that they get there development in those episodes but with that being said tho it would have helped this episode out quite alot if we did get more developed characters as we don't get to find out why The Fat Controller is willing to take a ride on Henry in the first place especially when Henry's crew could and do tell him exactly what the problem is with Henry 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. As while there not that many laugh out loud moments in this episode the episode is filled to the brim with moments that are cute and funny as a result of it with this episode putting of an effort into it's more dramatic elements which in this episode is something that does make alot of sense as the episode is all about trying to work out why Henry is so unwell in the first place and that kind of premise doesn't really allow itself for laugh out loud funny moments but in saying that tho it would have been nice if near the start and the end of the episode we did get a few moments that were funny as those moments would have told us the audience that it's OK for us to laugh with the best and only funny moment in the episode being near the end of the episode where it's revealed that Henry's driver will now have to hold Henry back from going to fast instead of forcing him to go fast which is something that was a cute funny moment and it's something that works for that character due to the fact that he's spent the past several episodes being ill on and off and therefor it would make sense that his driver and The Fat Controller would have that little joke together as they would make that kind of a joke knowing full well that Henry now has a fair chance when it comes to working with all of the other engines in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while "The Sad Story Of Henry" and "Edward, Gordon & Henry" might be the best Henry centric episodes of this season due to how dark "The Sad Story Of Henry" could possibly be this is still a really good in it's own right as it does show us just how good of a character that Henry could be 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 6.5 out 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 the official Thomas The Tank Engine 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 Thomas The Tank Engine 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 Thomas The Tank Engine fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.