Superman: The Animated Series: A Little Piece Of Home Review

When people think of classic nineties DC shows they usually think of Batman: The Animated Series and rightfully so as that show both was and still is really good. Yet people seem to forget about the face that DC had another animated show on at the same time as Batman with the show in question also featuring ironically enough another classic DC Comics character and it's an episode of that show that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the episode that introduces Kryptonite into the DCAU canon with the episode in question being called simply just "A Little Piece Of Home" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Superman stops two low level thief's from robbing Lex's museum he finds that he gets weak around one object something which Lex also sees with Superman having to do anything he can to get the object away from Lex for good. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this 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 this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. The episodes plot was a decent enough plot for this show as this show was never as good as Batman: TAS was interms of its plots but at the same time tho the plot did feel weak almost as if it wasn't strong enough to support an entire episode of a show. Heck this is something that you very easily could see being the plot of one of the 1940's Superman cartoons as it would have worked alot more better in that format but as the plot for a full twenty two minuet episode it's not that good with th plot at times being forgettable almost as if you have to force yourself to remember what the plot of the episode is meant to be in the first place as while the episode does indeed focus alot on the plot and does make it feel as fleshed out as they could have done the plot itself is one that could have been alot more better even more when you take into account that they are introducing a key part of the Superman mythos 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 Tim Daly as Clark Kent / Superman , Dana Delany as Lois Lane and Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor. Also starring in this episode is John Rubinstein as Professor Peterson , John Garry as Hanes , Brad Garrett as Bibbo and 'Neato' Coralli , Tom Wilson as Joey , Scott Valentine as Sam Coralli , Lisa Edelstein as Mercy Graves , Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton , voice acting legend Tress MacNeille as The Tour Guide , The Old Woman and The Waitress and Yuji Okumoto as The Security Guard.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episodes 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. The fact that this episode does gave some really good acting in it is something that isn't all that shocking as alot of the DCAU shows are known for having some really good acting in them with his mainly due to the fact that this episode does have some really good actors in it with them all giving us some really good performances in the episode be it from Tal Daly being pitch perfect as Superman to Clancy Brown being really creepy as Lex Luthor bottom line being that this episodes acting is of a really high quality. With the best actor in this whole entire episode being Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor as he is just so creepy and so evil sounding as this truly despicable character that you do end up really loving his performance and heck he pretty much is THE voice of the character as he is just so good in this episode with him making every single line be as evil as it possibly could be even when he's out in public and trying to come across as being a good guy he still sounds evil. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out pf them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at TMS-Kyokuichi Corporation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episodes 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. It really is hard to judge this episodes animation as outside of a few shots with both a piece of paper and the Kryptonite there's not really all that much that stands in this episode from an animation perspective there's no unique looking camera shots and the episode doesn't do anything cool with it's characters are backgrounds. Whilst yes this granted this is something that could also be the case or any episode of Batman: TAS as well but there for the more weaker animated episodes they usually had a stronger plot to make up for it whereas here pairing a weaker plotted episode with weaker animation just makes the whole episode look very kid friendly and not in a fun way and while that is something that was always going to be the case as it afterall a show about Superman there still needed to be some level of thought and love put into making the episodes animation look better and while the animation in this episode isn't half bad heck it's also more better then the animation in alot of other kids shows from the time it does feel like that it' lacking that extra special something with the characters not having any fluid movements to them outside of one single shot in an action scene and there isn't alot of detail put into any of the episodes backgrounds when this is something that Batman: TAS almost went out of it's way to do.

As was stated at the very start of this review this is the episode that does introduce Kryptonite to the wider DCAU. With this being something that does kind of complete the whole set up for the show moving forward as obviously the first three episodes were all about telling the origin of Superman and his first fight with Lex Luthor with the episode four not really adding in any of the Superman lore to the show which is something that does make this episode feel ore like it should have been the fourth episode as then it would have carried on the theme of adding in something from the mythos of Superman and fully completing setting up things for the show rather than having a break in doing that in episode four. Altho with this being said it really doesn't matter where this episode falls in the series running order as outside of the set up of Kryptonite there's nothing in this episode that plays a major part in the show itself with this episode to be frank here feeling more like it was a filler episode that was just there to fill out the series order as the episode itself just isn't that good and isn't that fun as the more plot driven episodes of the show are, the idea of the Lex being obsessed with getting Kryptonite and using it to in his own way control Superman is a god idea and the episode does do a good enough job of explaining just what it is to the none Superman fan that you do end up kind of forgiving the fact that not alot of stuff actually happens in this episode yet at the same time tho one can't help but feel like that this episode is missing something or that if this episodes plot was instead apart of a much larger arc that it would have been alot more better.

While the episode does only stick to showing us the effects of Green Kryptonite on Superman which is understandable as that's the most common color. It still would have been nice if at the end when we see the diggers looking for more of te stuff that instead of seeing a blank colored piece of Kryptonite that we saw something like Red Kryptonite or Black Kryptonite as while the none fan will get what these colors mean and fully understand why there dangerous to Superman the fans of the character will understand both of those things and a show like this was always going to attract both the new fan and the hardcore fan and while yes it is always a fine line between balancing what the old fan would love and what the new fan needs Superman is such a popular character in the first place that you can get away with having more deep cut things from the Superman lore and out them into one episode of this show. Therefor you could have had more then one colored version of Kryptonite show up in an episode and both groups of fans will fully understand what it means if it's just the basic danger and it would have given the next episode that it appears in whatever episode that may be a good hook as now we know that Lex has people actively looking for more of the stuff and while there is nothing wrong with just having the one coloured Kryptonite as again the new fan won' always understand what the different colors will do to Superman and therefor sticking to the more well known green was a smart move on the part of the makers of this episode it still would have been fun to see what they would have done if they had more then the one color show up in this episode no matter how briefly it is and it would have given the new fan more of s reason to feel concerned for Superman the next time that they see it.

Lex in this episode was a really good villain as we do see him outsmart Superman alot of the time which is something that is true to his character. As Lex should always be the smartest person in the room and therefor showing him outwit and outsmart Superman does work really nicely as does the fact that while we don't get to see what he does to people who don't do as he says it's pretty obvious due to ruthless Marcy is that anyone who betrays him is in for some serious pain as that how far he thinks in advance that he thinks and while he doesn't really have a plan as he doesn't know that Kryptonite hurts Superman until a few minuets into the episode this is something that could be forgiven due to the fact that it hadn't been introduced until this episode. The thing that does let hm down tho is the fact that he gives up far to easily whereas Lex would have a plan in place just incase Superman and Lois where able to find away for Superman to fight to the giant robot dinosaur and heck Lex would have been able to work out that incasing it in led would prevent or at the very least slow down the effects that it has on Superman as he does have alot of the best scientists working for him and yet the fact that he doesn't just makes him look dumb as both Lois and Superman didn't even need to ask if that was the case they were just straight up told it and while this was of course done to get that piece of information to us the audience in context of the show it does nothing for Lex as a character, while alright fair enough there was no way for the makers of this show to get that piece of information across without making either Lois and Superman or Lex look really bad and in this regard making Lex look bad does make sense as he is the villain but in saying this his is the villain the person we are meant to be routing against and if e got to see Superman work it out during the final fight then it would have made Superman look all the more stronger as a character.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and thirty one seconds. This is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show and while the episode does feel like it needed to be that long this is an episode really could have been a five minuet short film as when you boil the episode down to what it really needs that running time then becomes more of a burden as we didn't need the scene in the diner near the start of the episode as the episodes opening fight with Superman already hit home that it was these rocks that were causing him to fall ill and therefor to hit that point home just felt pointless and we didn't need alot of the fight with the bad guys in the sky either as nothing all that interesting happens during that portion of the episode this is despite the fact that this episode really does have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. This episode also really doesn't use it's running time all that well as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot this is something that it very easily could have done just by giving us scenes with the scientists explaining the effects on Superman as while we do see Superman fall ill every single time he is around the rock it still would have made sense in universe to have it be explained why he does that and we could have had scenes that add to the plot with the makers of this episode being more focused on making Lex look and sound creepy then they were in giving us a well developed plot. This is something that does also effect the episodes character development as none of the episodes characters het any kind of character development in this episode and whilst this is something that does make alot of sense as not only is a kids TV show but it's also very early on in the shows run and therefor it doesn't make sense for the characters to get any kind of character development but it still would have been nice if the groundwork was layed for them to get character development somewhere down the line with the makers of this episode being more focused on hitting the same plot point then they were in giving the characters some character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. It's fair to say that the action in this episode is the best part of the episode as that's when the episode not only gets interesting but also fun to watch as we get to see Superman trying to outwit not only Lex but the people that he hires to help to him take down Superman in some fun and creative ways with it being during the fight scene in the sky where the animation gets fluid with Superman breaking out of the ropes which looked really good so good infact that its used in the shows opening intro. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the final fight as we get see Superman and Lois fight a giant robot dinosaur being controlled by Lex Luthor which is a really fun scene as they are trapped in the room with Kryptonite and therefor a more weakened Superman has to try and defeat this seemingly unbeatable foe which is something that does add tension to the scene and it makes the part where Lois uses her paper basketball skills to throw into one the lead lined pots with it only being then that Superman is able to defeat Lex with the whole scene being a really good action scene and while yes it is also a really tame action scene but given just how tame the episode is it's also something that does fit in really well with the episode with the rest of the episodes action also being really good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is an episode that is fully hard to judge as while it is a very tame episode given the fact that Superman is more light hearted then Batman is it does make sense that his animated series or an episode of that animated series also be more tame then anything that Batman: TAS did in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and a swell as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

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The Muppet Show "Johnny Cash" Review

The Muppet Show is the one show that The Muppets are perhaps most well known for so much so that just this year Disney+ did a Muppet Show special that gave rave reviews from both fans and critics alike. Therefore I thought that i'd take a look back at a classic episode of the show as let's be real here sometimes we all just need to watch an episode of this show for no good reason and so then join me as I review the episode that sees the guest star perform a song with someone other then his late wife with the episode in question being called simply just "Johnny Cash" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Kermit allows a country radio station to broadcast from The Muppet Theatre Kermit has to deal with the host of the show who is a bully. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The episodes plot was alot more tighter then what it usually is for an episode of this show as nine times out of ten an episodes plot is usually nothing more then an excuse for jokes to happen and whilst this is still very much the case in this episode here it does feel like that the episodes plot is trying to be alot more focused. This is not to say that the episodes plot doesn't have room for moments that are just meant for jokes as alot of the stuff with Fozzy is exactly that but it's rather that the plot this time around is alot more focused with the episode being alot more plot driven then it is joke driven which was both kind of refreshing and yet at the same time it's not what you come to an episode of this show to see as you come to see this show to see some really good good jokes that are set up in smart ways but at the same time it was quite refreshing to see this more plot driven episode as it does show you that these characters can still work in a more plot driven project something which we would later find out to be exactly the case with The Muppet Movie with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Jim Henson as Kermit The Frog , Rowlf , Waldorf and Wally Whoopie and Frank Oz as Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy. Also starring in this episode is Jerry Nelson as Pops , Big Tiny Tall Saddle , Lew Zealand , Slim Wilson and A Bearded Man , Richard Hunt as Scooter and Statler , Dave Goelz as Gonzo , A Singer , A Hillbilly and Beauregard , Steve Whitmire as Billy Boy and A Singer , Kathy Mullen as A Singer , Louise Gold as A Singer and Johnny Cash as Himself.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The episodes acting was to be frank just as good as you'd expect it to be as alot of this episodes really do know there characters inside and out due to the fact that alot of them have been paying there respective characters since the sixties and in the case of Jim Henson had also created the characters with Johnny Cash doing a really good job of playing himself in this episode something which couldn't have been easy due to the fact that the he's not an actor he's a singer and yet here he is not only being asked to act but also doing a good job of it. With the best actor in this episode being Jim Henson as Kermit The Frog , Rowlf , Waldorf and Wally Whoopie due to the fact that he does get to play out alot of characters in this episode with even Kermit being a main character in the episode with Jim doing a good enough job of highlighting just how frustrated that Kermit is getting the further the episode goes along and heck even Rowlf gets angry in the episode and you do buy into due to how good Jim Henson was an actor. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes scr5ipt is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

As was mentioned at the very start of this review the guest in this episode of The Muppet Show is Johnny Cash. With him to be frank not really making for the best guest as he doesn't join in with any of The Muppets chaos rather he just does his own thing which is something that does make it look like he was only doing the show just to either promote something or to make any little kids in his family happy and that's it whereas it would have been more fun to see him take part in the chaos that these characters do bring whereas if you compare it to the John Cleese episode he went all in even helping to write the episode and it is something that does come through in the final product as John Cleese does look like he was happy to be there. Where as with Johnny Cash his smile looks forced and rehearsed and while he is a good singer as that is afterall his job it felt like that the episode was relying on that a bit to much when it would have been nice if we got to see Johnny do something that we didn't know that he could do as that would have made his appearance in the episode alot more fun to watch, with the only thing that stands out about him in this episode is the fact that he gets to perform the song "Jackson" without his wife June Carter something which he never really did as he always performed that song with her and when she died he good as well retired from the performing the song all together which does make him performing the song here with Miss Piggy stand out all the more with Miss Piggy even sounding really good in the song altho you can tell that while Johnny is clearly performing life Miss Piggy clearly isn't as it does sound like her part of the song was recorded before hand and was played in during the filming of this episode.

The whole idea of a country and western radio show broadcasting this episode was actually a really good idea. With it being something that this episode really does lean into by having certain characters where country and western clothes and have one main set for all of the acts look like a barn on a farm but in saying this tho it is the only set that we get for all of the acts in the episode when it would have been more fun if we did get to see more country inspired sets even if they are generic like maybe we get a western set or maybe we get a farmyard set yes these are generic sets but it's better then just having the one main set as while yes that set does look really good it is a bit boring to just look at the same set for act after act. What really would have made this whole concept of having a radio host muscle Kermit out of hosting the show his way be alot more better was if they leaned into the country aspect with the Big Tiny Tall Saddle character as while we do get to find out that he has a horse that he has to pump up it would have been fun to see them lean in all the way with the fact that his character is meant to be a cowboy and yet we don't get to see any of that rather we just get to see him be this tough as old boots bully type of character which don't get me wrong is still fun to see but it adds nothing to the episodes idea and rather feels out of place in the episode whereas if the makers of this episode did something like have him challenge Kermit to a dual when Kermit stands up for Fozzy or have him perform this over the the top country song only to be cut off by Johnny Cash just something that played into the episodes idea of having this radio station be broadcasting the episode live rather then just having him show up a few times in the episode.

Look to be frank whilst this episode does have alot of things going against it does also have some things working for it. With the idea of Kermit being forced to not host his own show while someone else muscles his way being one of them as that is something that we haven't seen Kermit and while the episode doesn't fully explore that idea all that much it explores it enough to the point where we do know what's going on and where we do know how Kermit is going to react and seeing getting pushed to that point is something that does make the episode be all the more entertaining but it is something that oddly makes you feel sorry for Rowlf as while Fozzy was essentially getting heckled by someone that he is meant to be sharing the stage with it was no worse then what Statler and Waldorf do to him on a weekly basis whereas Rowlf had his act cut from the show and Kermit was nowhere to be found when that happened. One of the other things that the episode does gave going for it is the fact that we do get to hear some pretty decent songs all of which are sung by Johnny Cash and all of them are some really good songs with even one of them being a song about a dog that kills chickens which is made funnier by the fact that we have Rowlf not only performing the piano during that number but also getting offended by it which is a smart thing to have in the episode with it being a good way to showcase Johnny's talent as a singer as we do get to hear that famous voice of his and yet we also get to see that he was quiet the entertainer not only in that part of the episode where he was cracking jokes with pops all of which does on paper make him seem like a good fit for this show but due to the fact that he doesn't get to do much outside of alot of singing he does feel like a third wheel to everything else in the episode. 

The episodes main villain if you will Big Tiny Tall Saddle did make for a decent enough villain for this show to have. As he does bully Kermit throughout the entire episode changing the acts that Kermit has booked for the shows for the ones that he prefers but in saying this this isn't something that makes him an outright villain as the character is just trying to do what Kermit is trying to do and that's put on the best show possible and while yes how he and Kermit go about doing that with Big Tiny using fear and intimidation and Kermit using loving and kindness it doesn't change the fact that that they are one in the same as it where as they both want the same thing with the only difference being that Big Tiny is abusive towards Kermit's friends. Big Tiny is someone who could have made for a great minor villain in one of the muppet movies like maybe he's working with Doc Hopper in the first movie or with Tex Richman in the 2011 movie which is something that might have been well within his character to do so as Doc Hopper is doing everything that he can do to get rid of Kermit which is something that Big Tiny tries to do and Tex Richman is just a greedy oil baron which is something that might have worked with Big Tiny and if it did then it would have allowed for Tex to have more of a country villains song and not a rap number but in saying this tho there is only so much that you could have done with Big Tiny as a villain and as a character and therefor maybe it is for the best that the character only appeared in this episode despite the fact that he does have a really good look to him with him looking like the stereotypical cowboy complete with sideburns.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty six minuets and forty one seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show and to be fair this is something that does work for this episode as the episode does have alot of plot to cover when compared to the rest of the series which mainly has alot of acts to cover and very little plot and therefor this episode does work it's best within it's running time and to do this episode even just five minuets shorter would do a huge disservice to the episode as it would mean that something would end up falling threw the cracks be it a good joke that could have been great or a character or plot moment with the episode having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet in saying this tho this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as this episode really doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot with the episode not really being all that focused on giving us things that add to the episodes plot this is despite the fact that the episode does have things that could have been added like showing Kermit getting more and more angry before the big blow up or even showing other Muppet character reacting to there acts getting cut just something would have been nice with the makers of this episode putting more and thought into making sure then we now that Johnny Cash is a singer then they did into giving this episodes plot some much needed plot development. This is something that does also effects the episodes character development as none of the episodes characters get any kind of development which is something that is fine for the regular Muppet characters but it is something that both Big tiny and Billy Boy really could have used as we know as much about them coming out of this episode then we did coming coming into the episode with the makers of this episode putting more thought and effort into making sure that we don't like Bug Tiny then they dud into giving the characters some character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. To be honest here the episodes comedy whilst it is still funny as it does still have that typical Muppet chaos to it but at the same time it does feel oddly more tame when compared to earlier episodes of the show like for example when Fozzy hurts his throat on the wire backstage earlier episodes would have gone the whole way by having Fozzy speaking with a different voice but here they just have him rubbing his throat which is still funny but it is something that could have bee alot more funnier. With the best joke in the whole entire episode being when after Fozzy has just been heckled on stage by Wally Whoopie Kermit finally snaps and comes out to defend his friend and while he's defending Fozzy on stage in front of Big Tiny and calling him all of these nice things Fozzy is just there in the background hoping that Kermit will call him funny which is just such a sweet joke with it feeling like something that Fozzy would do with even the fact that Kermit really does call him funny being something that does tell you that Kermit really is a good friend, even the fact that for alot of that scene Fozzy is just hiding behind the certain being a really good character moment as well as being a really funny visual as really everyone except for Big Tiny and Kermit can see and hear him with the rest of the episodes jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall whilst this episode did have alot of fun moments in it the fact that they didn't really do anything with the special guest star and just had him d what he's known for doing is something that does make this episode a hard but fun episode to watch as there is a good episode in here it just needed to make better use of the guest start t make it be as good as it possibly could have been 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 a such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

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

Doctor Who: The Savages Review

Missing episodes and Doctor Who are things that go arm in arm with each other and while thankfully there are alot less missing episodes of the show then there was even ten years ago the fact does still remain that there are alot of episodes still missing. However thankfully the BBC have taken steps to rectify this by animating the episodes that are missing such is the case with the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the episode that sees a companion leave the show with the episode in question being called simply just "The Savages" enjoy.

The plot of this episode when The Doctor , Steven and Dodo arrive on a random planet in the far future they have to help some cavepeople who are having there lifeforce drained from them by people who live in the city. 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 OK at best. One of the things that the episode does get alot of hate for is it's plot and it is super easy to see why as this episodes plot is thin at best as while there is good idea for a plot there the final execution of that plot does leave alot to be desired. However to be fair tho you can see the potential in this episodes plot as the idea of having the typical heroes of the city people now be the bad guys of the story is one that does make for a good but the episode doesn't really do anything with that idea rather due to the fact that the episode doesn't focus on that idea all that much it instead does feel like an afterthought and sadly the same is true for alot of the plot elements that the episode either sets up at the start but drops for no reason or introduces in the final five minuets of the final episode, this episodes plot is one that could have been so much more better as it did have the right ingredients for a good story it just needed to be executed and pulled off alot more better 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 , Peter Purves as Steven Taylor and Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet. Also starring in this episode is Ewen Solon as Chal , Patrick Godfrey as Tor , Peter Thomas as Captain Edal , Geoffrey Frederick as Exorse , Frederick Jaeger as Jano , Robert Sidaway as Avon , Kay Patrick as Flower , Clare Jenkins as Nanina , Norman Henry as Senta and Edward Caddick as Wylda.

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. The episodes acting is alot more better then the plot of the episode due to the fact that it does feel like that the actors in this episode are trying there best to turn in a good performance something which is helped by the fact that this episode was directed by Christopher Barry with it being made clear as day that he does know how to get a good performance out of his actors a skill which does come in handy interms of this episode. With the best actor in the whole entire episode being Peter Purves as Steven Taylor due to the fact that he does get to show us just what it is that he can do as an actor in this episode we get to see him being dramatic and we get to see him being funny and we get to see him playing the action man role and he pulls it all off with you being able to believe that Steven could do all of these things and that en some and it's something that makes you wonder why even the last episode "The Gunfighters" didn't take advantage of this a s they had the right set up for him to be the action man type character. With the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped but the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this episodes actors anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Try as I might but there is no animation company listed for this episode either in the credits of the episode or anywhere online. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that good. To be frank here this episodes animation wasn't that good as everything just had this weird striped back look to it with there being no details in either the characters faces on in the backgrounds with this on whole making the animation look cheap even when compared to other Doctor Who animations. Heck alot of the time when the characters are walking they are shown only from the waist up as that way the animators don't have to animate the characters legs but when they do show them walking in a full body shot it does look really good with there being a clear amount of passion put into those shots but it's the overall cheap looking animation that really does bring this episode down as while these animations have always been made cheaply and quickly here it felt like they were pushing that one step to far as there was a severe lack of detail to make things stand out alot of the time and while the characters do have some fluid movements to them in full body shots when where moving from the waist up they look like poorly down South Park characters, to be fair the characters mouth movements do look really good which is something that was quite shocking as that has always been really hard to for these Doctor Who animations to get right and while they don't get it right all of the time in this episode when compared to how bad the overall animation is the mouth movements do come as looking really good by comparison.  

Sadly like alot of classic Doctor Who for it's first six years this episode is entirely missing from the BBC. With the only way that this episode was animated due to the fact that the sound for the episode does still exist and out of all of the episodes that should be found and hopefully quickly this one isn't really one that people need to go out of their way to find as yes it is a companion departure episode and those are always must watch episodes but outside of that there really isn't much of a need to this episode as it was originally intended this isn't to say that it wouldn't be nice to view the episode as it was meant to be seen as of course of it would but it's just that there are other more better and important stories out there that not only have no animated reconstruction but are also missing. Granted there is no way that the BBC is going to animated the whopping twelve part "The Daleks Master Plan" just due to how much time that they need to spend just on that serial but they could do something like "The Highlanders" or even "The Massacre Of St Bartholomew's Eve" as both of those episodes are only four episodes long and therefor could theoretically be done in the same time frame that it took for them to do this episode or even "Marco Polo" which does have the audio from the episode still there and yet time and time again the BBC are instead choosing to do the episodes that no one is really asking for which is still good as it does mean that we are still getting close to having all of Classic Doctor Who to watch in someway shape or form it's just that it would be nice if they did take the time to give the fans some of the episodes that they've been asking for to throw us a curve ball and give us an episode that we didn't think that they'd do for whatever reason.

Perhaps one of the only genuine good things that the episode does is flip the whole cavepeople vs city people trope on it's head. As usually its the cavepeople that are the bad guys and the city people the good guys but there they do somewhat flip that on it's head but by having he city people really be the villains of the episode and yet while they really are indeed meant to be the villains of the episode what they do isn't necessarily done out of malice rather really it's done due to the fact that they don't have the basic understanding of right and wrong due to the fact that they've really been sucking the lifeforce out of the cavepeople for generations now and therefor they really do believe themselves to be the good guys. Yet in saying this tho members of both groups have people who are good and who are at best questionable with this being something that makes neither side but also neither side is wrong as both groups do find it hard to trust the other due to what they've each put each other through this makes the scene where Nanina shows compassion to the guard Exorse all the more impactful as she is able to get to him to do the right thing not be giving him a long and boring speech but by showing basic compassion and showing him kindness when she stops Tor from killing him this one act of basic human kindness does go along way into showing that both sides can stop there fighting and can trust each other if they are willing to stop and listen to what the other is trying to tell them. the fact that this episode in it's own way doesn't have a central villain as there's no evil alien trying to take over a world in this episode it is something that does make this episode stand out from all of the other episodes of this show as nine times out of ten they do have an evil Alien and yet here there's none of that rather there's just two tribes learning to communicate and to trust each other.

As was mentioned earlier on in this review this is the episode where Steven does leave the show and to be frank his departure does come out of nowhere. As they only set up the idea of him leaving the show to be the bridge between the cave and city people within the last five minuets of the show and that's it when a companion leaving the show should always have there departure set up at best at the start of the episode as then when it does happen at the end of the episode it doesn't come out of nowhere this is not to say tat those kinds of departures can't work as if it's a character death it is something that does work but here it was just him leaving the TARDIS alive and well therefor his departure is something that could have been built into the episodes plot alot more better then what it was outside of having it be set up and payed of in the final five minuets of the episode. With the character only leaving due to the fact that the BBC chose not to renew Peter Purves's contract and with them having a new producer in Innes Lloyd and the fact that both William Hartnell and Jackie Lane where leaving the show any way it made no sense for them to keep him on the thing was the actor wasn't given much in the way of notice before hand and clearly neither way this episodes writer Ian Stuart Black as the characters departure is handled very quickly when it's something that should been worked up to like for example what they did with Victoria in "Fury From The Deep" where they spend alot of the episode telling us that she wants to leave the TARDIS and find somewhere to call home therefor when she does decide to leave at the end of that episode it doesn't come out of nowhere and feels more baked into the episodes plot where as here it felt like something that was made up five minuets before filming with the departure feeling more like an afterthought in the episode.

Now then whilst I cannot for the absolute life of me remember what this episodes grand total running time even was I do know that for a fact that this episode roughly has a grand total running time of roughly one hour and thirty minuets. With the episode itself being four episodes long which for this kind of story is the right amount of episodes for this story to last as there is no way that you could get this episode up to even just one more episode without stretching an already thin story even thinner as this is something that would result in there being alot of filler scenes and while yes granted we could also get some character scenes if this episode did have more episodes it would end up adding nothing to the episodes plot with this episode having the right amount of plot to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet even so this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely due to the fact that this episode doesn't fully develop its plot which is something that it would gave been able to do if there was just one more episode to story but again in saying this there would be no way to do that with out there being alot of filler and with the episode being light on story this might be a case where having fewer episodes might help the episode out with the makers of this episode putting more thought and effort into making Steven look like an action hero then they did in giving the plot some actual plot development. The same thing is also true for the episodes character development as while it could be argued that The Doctor , Dodo and Steven don't really need character development in this episode due the fact that they might have gotten it in previous episodes the episodes guest characters n the other hand most certainly did need that development as we know just as much abut them all coming out of the episode then we did coming into the episode with the makers of this episodes putting more thought and effort into getting rid of The Doctor in the shows third episode then they did into giving the episodes characters some much needed character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The episodes action was alt more better then what it really should have been as classic Doctor Who especially in the sixties wasn't really known for having good action in it as the show was made cheaply and quickly but even so you can tell that there was some amount of effort put into making this episodes action be as good as it possibly could have been and whilst yes it could have been better in some places for sixties Doctor Who this episodes action was about as good as it was ever going to get. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being when The Doctor , Steven , Dodo and a good bunch of the cave people and some of the city people destroy all of the machines that the city people used to drain the lifeforce out of the cavepeople as even tho all it is is people hitting machines it is something that does look really good and it is something that is as well animated as it was very going to be heck given that the episode did some filming at Ealing Film Studios it wouldn't be all surprising if this scene was filmed there as it does seem like the kind of scene that they would film at Ealing rather then at Riverside Studio 1 which would have been where alot of the episode would have been filmed as there's just to many things to take into account for it to filmed at anywhere other then Ealing with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall yeah this episode isn't that good but you can see the potential in thee for a decent story in there as all it needed was either more time spent on the script or a better writer to bring that decent story out of it and that's it as it sis all there for a good Doctor Who episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the 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.

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Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels: The Kooky Case Of The Cryptic Keys Review

Scooby-Doo was a very popular show back in the sixties and when Hanna-Barbera found something that worked they ripped it off alot. Hence why we suddenly got alot of mystery shows from them with one of them being Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels with this show even going as far as to be created by the creators of Scooby-Doo and well I thought that i'd check out the first episode of this show and so then join me as I review the episode that introduced us to the worlds first caveman superhero with the episode in question being called simply just "The Kooky Case Of The Cryptic Keys" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when they are on a road trip Captain Caveman and his friends have to solve a mystery when a woman gives them a mysterious key. 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. With the episodes plot right away letting you know that it's a Scooby-Doo clone even down to have the teens driving to someplace that teens in the seventies would do in this case it's going on a road trip and much like with Scooby-Doo they only get stopped from doing that when there's a mystery to solve. Look to be fair if something does work then why not try and repeat that formular to create another hit product the issue is tho is that this episodes plot is so on the nose with what it is that it's ripping off that it robs the show and the episode of it's own identity when this episodes plot would have been alot more better if it was allowed to just be it's own thing or at the very last be a bit more subtle about what show it is tat it's meant to be ripping of in the first place as then we the audience would be able to get a bit more engrossed in this episodes plot without being reminded of another and quite frankly better show and heck the episodes plot isn't even that strong of a plot as before the episode really has a chance to get going the plot is already starting with this episode being the first first episode of the show there really should have been more of a stronger plot to start this show out on just to get it going in the right direction 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 Mel Blanc as Captain Caveman , Laurel Page as Taffy Dare and Marilyn Schreffler as Brenda Chance. Also starring in this episode is Vernée Watson as Dee Dee Skyes , John Astin as Additional Voices , Julie Bennett as Additional Voices , Ted Cassidy as Additional Voices , Henry Corden as Additional Voices . Stefanianna Christopherson as Additional Voices , Micky Dolenz as Additional Voices , Joan Gerber as Additional Voices , Florence Halop as Additional Voices , Pat Harrington Jr. as Additional Voices , Hettie Lynne Hurtes as Additional Voices , Nicole Jaffe as Additional Voices , Ann Jillian as Additional Voices , Casey Kasem as Additional Voices , Jim MacGeorge as Additional Voices , Julie McWhirter as Additional Voices , Don Messick as Additional Voices , Heather North as Additional Voices , Gary Owens as The Narrator , Vic Perrin as Additional Voices , Alan Reed as Additional Voices , Mike Road as Additional Voices , Ronnie Schell as Additional Voices , Hal Smith as Additional Voices , John Stephenson as Additional Voices , Susan Steward as Additional Voices , Jean Vander Pyl as Additional Voices , Janet Waldo as Additional Voices , Frank Welker as Additional Voices and William Woodson as Additional Voices.

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 all of the actors that are playing named characters turning in a really good performance in this episode and really being alot more better then what a show like this really did deserve as by all rights no one in this episode should have turned in a good performance as the episode and show doesn't really demand a good performance and yet that's exactly what they all gave us and is something that does stand out in this episode. Wit the best actor in the whole entire episode being Mel Blanc as Captain Caveman this is something that really shouldn't come as surprise to anybody as it's Mel Blanc for crying out loud of course he's going to turn in a good performance as he is THE voice acting legend for a reason with him turning in a really good and fun performance in this episode that yes could have been a little bit more better but that's more due to the how the character of Captain Caveman talks more then his performance as there's only so much that you can do as an actor when your character doesn't speak whole sentences with his own natural charm and charisma really coming through in this episode. With the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped buy the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this episodes actors absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Hanna-Barbera Productions. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. This episodes animation was a bit shall we say rough at times as there are times when the characters have some weird faces especially more towards the start of the episode with it feeling like that the makers of this episode just didn't care enough to go back and fix some simple mistakes. As there are a few errors in this episode like for example there as a scene where Taffy goes from being a blonde to being a red head back to being a blonde again and while she is given red hair later on in the episode that is something that is apart of the plot of the episode but when it happens earlier on in the episode it is something that does come out of nowhere and is a huge animation error as the intro does show show you with her typical blonde here this is something that could very easily and quickly could have been fixed as it's on screen for less then a few seconds and yet no one who was involved with the making of the show bothered to fix it there is another error as well also featuring Taffy where she speaks with Dee Dee's voice but in all fairness when the animation wants to be good it is something that does look good with all of the grounds dripping with gothic atmosphere and looking really nice to look at.

It really does go without saying that this show is a straight up Scooby-Doo clone even down to the fact that the characters travel in a van. Heck this episode even premiered during the Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics block and was apart of that block until this show ended with the only thing that makes this show stand out all that much from all of the Scooby-Doo clones out is the fact that the creators of Scooby-Doo created this show and to be fair they did do there best to try and make it stand out on it's own as having a caveman be the main character of the show is something that Scooby-Doo never did and even going as far as to also make him the comic relief character is something that does make this episode feel fresh but yeah it is hard to deny the fact that this show is just a more dumbed down version of Scooby-Doo Where Are You. Even the episodes title mystery can't be that good due to the fact that this show has alot more shorter of a running time then what the average episode of Scooby-Doo has when a mystery show really dies need a more longer running time in order for the mystery to come across as being good and while it's not that bad of a mystery the episode can't really give us any clues as to whom wants these keys and why an therefor is forced to spell out it us when it's something that would have worked all the more better if we the audience was given the time that we need to work out for ourselfs just who this episodes main villain is meant to be instead of just being told who it is as half the fun of a mystery is working it out for yourself but in all fairness to this episode given the fact that the show itself would have had to fit in several other shows in the same block it would have been impossible to do this episode justice without first changing just how long the block itself is going to be one for.

To this episodes defense the mystery itself isn't that bad as the idea of the teens and Captain Caveman having to work out who wants these keys and why is a very good idea. However the issue is tho is that due to how short the episodes are the mystery itself can't be that well developed as the episode has to rush to the next plot point and when it does that it dies mean that that something is going to be getting left behind which in the case of this episode is the mystery and when this is a mystery show and this is the first episode that is the one that really shouldn't have been getting dropped as that's something that is going to get audiences coming back to watch the next episode and yet due to the episodes mystery being about as are bones as it can get there is no reason to watch more of episodes this is despite the fact that the show itself does have a really good hook to it. With the episode just rushing from one plot point to the next it does mean that things like giving us clues as to whom the villain is is something that does get dropped from the show as the makers of this episode don't bother to show us that part yet that is the most important part of a mystery we don't need t have a transition every few seconds but what we do need is more fleshed out mystery and yet the mystery itself is left feeling underbaked heck you could even make the case for the episodes central mystery is feeling like a side character to everything else in the episode something which it could also be argued is true for Captain Caveman altho to be fair in that regard the episode does have an in story reason for him not showing up to help the girls out until the end that being the fact that they've asked him to watch over the key that they were given at the start of the episode.

The one thing that was super annoying in this episode is the fact that in the space of about thirty seconds to a minuet the show had several transition scenes. With them not even cutting to another scene alot of the time as sometimes they are cutting to characters further down a ladder just taking and it was super annoying to see happening as all it does is make the episode look unfinished almost as if the makers of this episode ran out of time to animate alot of the episode and therefor just chose to add in a lazy transition to cover up the fact that there was nothing there which given that this is a Hanna-Barbera show very well could have been the case but here it was just so annoying to watch as it was taking up time that could have been spent on fleshing out the episodes mystery and in giving us things that would have made the mystery alot more fun to watch. Look in all fairness this is an episode that was always going to have an uphill battle due to the fact that it is nothing mor then a Scooby-Doo clone but when your making that uphill battle even steeper your just dooming the show to fail and become obscure which is exactly what happened to this show as while the show did indeed get three seasons which is no small feat on it's own it's also a show that no one talks about and heck alot of people think that Captain Caveman started out as a Flintstone Kids character due to the fact that he appeared on that show but if the makers of this show did help this episode out by easing up on the transitions then it would have freed up time for the makers of this episode to make the mystery more interesting and yet due to how many transitions there are in the episode and how annoying that they are it does mean that the episodes mystery does end up suffering because of it.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly eleven minuets and thirty four seconds. Which to be to this episode is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have as the show would air it's episodes pretty much in segments however even so tho this is an episode that really could have done with being the standard twenty minuets as this is the first episode of the show and therefor you dp want to start the show of on the strongest foot possible and what better to do that then by giving the episode an extended running time and yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode thought that having the show come it at just over eleven minuets was the right move however tho this episode does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet this episode still doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the episode really doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as the episode does have to rush alot of it's plot inorder to cram everything in whereas if the episode was a little bit longer then it would have allowed for the episodes plot to fully breathe and it would have allowed room for there to be things added to the episodes mystery that would have made that aspect of the episode even more better with the makers of this episode putting in more thought into the episodes pointless transitions then they did into giving the plot some much needed plot development. This is something that does also effect the characters character development altho in this case you could also make the point that none of other Hanna-Barbera character get any kind if character development and therefor it wouldn't have made sense for the characters in this episode to get any which is fair enough but it still would have been nice if the characters did get some small amount of character development tho 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 tat'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 / resented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Heck the episodes comedy is alot more better then the rest of the episode tho as there is alot of thought and effort put into making the comedy be as good as it could be this is despite the fact that we do get alot of the same gags from other classic Hanna-Barbera shows like for example when the teens are driving on a bumpy road Captain Caveman literally bounced out of his house on top of the van but he lands softly on the floor which is a good gag but it's also one that they've done quite a few times. With the best joke in the whole entire episode being at the start of the episode when Captain Caveman goes to chase down the lady that gave them the key he starts to fly only to quite literally run of steam and land head first into a long which is a good and simple gag that it does end up working and this is where the episodes comedy works really well when it's doing these simple character driven jokes and not repeating something that we've seen done before now as this is when we get to see the creativity behind the show and get a good idea of just how fun and wacky that a show like this could have been with it being helped by the fact that the joke itself was really well animated and does oddly enough feel like a tamer version of some classic Tom And Jerry jokes on top of that with the rest of the episodes comedy being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst this episode did have all of the potential in the world to be a really good first episode its lack of a stronger plot and the fact that it doesn't take the time to fully flesh out its titular mystery are tings that do end up holding the episode back and stop it from being as good as it really could have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and aw ell as all of the bad things that are in his very episode in this very review and a such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.

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