X-Men '97 "Days Of Past Future" . "A Force To Be Reckoned With" AND "Rise Of Apocalypse Part 1" SPOILER FILLED Review

Finally after waiting since 2024 for new episode the new season of X-Men '97 has finally begun with the first three episodes having dropped at the same time. This is an odd way to release these first three episodes as the third one is quite literally part one of a two part story and well as I was a huge fan of this show when the first season was being released you all just knew that I had to check out these episodes the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episodes that see the X-Men scattered across time itself with the episodes in question being called simply just "Days Of Past Future" . "A Force To Be Reckoned With" and "Rise Of Apocalypse Part 1" enjoy.

The plot of these episodes in Days Of Past Future Scott , Jean , Storm and whole host of X-Men find themselves trapped in the future where they have to defeat Apocalypse in order to try and get home to there own time whilst in A Force To Be Reckoned With Cable , Sunspot , Jubilee Psylocke and more discover innocent mutants are bein taken prisoner and in Rise Of Apocalypse Part 1 in Egypt the rest of the X-Men and Magneto form an alliance with En Sabah Nur. 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 really good. With A Force To Be Reckoned With perhaps having the best plot of these episodes just due to the fact that it does have a rather interesting idea that being what does the world look like with the X-Men in it and seeing how people to do react to that is something that does make that episode alot more interesting to watch. However on the flip side of that tho is the fact that the other two episodes do have some really good plots of there own and while Rise Of Apocalypse does get slightly easier as it is the first part of a two part episode there it isn't fair to fully judge that episode it does still tell a really good story and the approach to the storytelling across all three episodes is a rather fun way to link all three episodes together and heck it could even be argued that these first three maybe four episodes are telling one big story 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 Ross Malinger as En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse and Charles Xavier / Professor X , Isaac Robinson-Smith as Lucas Bishop / Bishop and Chris Potter as Nathan Summers / Cable. Also starring in these episodes is Michael Johnston as y=Young Nathan Summers , Ray Chase as Scott Summers / Cyclops , Gil Birmingham as Daniel Lone Eagle / Forge , Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey , J.P. Karliak as Kevin Sydney / Morph , Alison Sealy-Smith as Ororo Munroe / Storm , Cal Dodd as James Howlett / Wolverine , Christopher Barger as Archangel and Wing , Gates McFadden as Rachel Summers / Askani , Tony Amendola as Ozymandias , Naoko Mori as Psylocke , Rachel Kimsey as The Ship and The Computer Cube , Donna Jay Fulks as Trish Tilby , Holly Chou as Jubilation Lee / Jubilee , Gui Agustini as Roberto Da Costa / Sunspot , Adrian Hough as Strong Guy , Catherine Disher as Val Cooper , Zehra Fazal as Emma Frost / White Queen , Teddy Sears as Havok , Miatta Ade Lebile as Monent , Carolina Ravassa as Lorna Dane / Polaris , Lawrence Baye as War , George Buza as Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy / Beast , Matthew Waterson as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto and Eson , Adrian Hough as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler , Lenore Zann as Anna-Marie Raven / Rogue , Michael Dorn as Baal , Debra Wilson as Candra , Adetokumboh M'Cormack as En Sabah Nur , Chris Britton as General Logos and John De Lancie as Rama-Tut.

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 thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. Much like with the first season the acting in these three episodes is so good with this something that does make alot of sense as alot of this episodes actors are reprising their roles from the original show and even those that aren't are still coming back from the first season with all of the episodes returning actors having a good grip on there characters where the acting does somewhat faulter is with the acting coming from the actors that are just joining this show as alot of them do feel like that there trying to hard to hold there own with the series established actors with that being something that does oddly enough hold them back. With the best actor in these episodes being Holly Chou as Jubilation Lee / Jubilee as even tho she only appears in episode two she does leave a lasting impact with it being clear as day that she really has grown into the character and while no one will ever be able to top what Alyson Court did with the character in the original show Holly is doing a good enough job of being the voice of this character for this new generation with her putting enough of a spin on the character that it doesn't feel like that she's ripping of what Alyson Court did back in the nineties with her giving the character an infectious but almost real energy to the character with this being some thing that really does shine through in her performance. With the acting that's in these episodes really being helped by the fact that the scripts for these episodes are just so good that all these 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 these very episodes.

Doing the animation for these episodes is Red Dog Culture House , Jam Filled Entertainment , Tiger Animation and Studio Mir. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation 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 animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. This again much like with the episodes acting isn't all that new as the first season did have some really good and high quality animation in it that at times was feature film worthy and going off of these three episodes that is a trend that does seem to have continued. As while yes the animation in Rise Of Apocalypse Part 1 isn't as good the animation in the other two episodes compared to something on say for example Netflix or Nickelodeon it is still really good animation with the only thing that does let the animation down in that episode being the fact that the backgrounds aren't as good as they are in the other episodes as in episodes 1 and 2 you do get these really stunning backgrounds that help to make the world of the show feel all the more real where as in Rise Of Apocalypse due to the fact that that episode takes place in Egypt there's only so much that the makers of this episode can do to give to us stunning backgrounds and while they do do the best that they can do it just wasn't good enough. However tho all three episodes have animation that really does come alive during the episodes respective action scenes with the animation helping to make the action in all three episodes all the more exciting and fun to watch with this being especially true for the action in A Force To Be Reckoned With and heck it does feel like that the makers of this show had alot of fun with the action and the animation in that episode as it looks nothing like the animation in the rest of the episode.

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There is a reason why Days Of Past Future hasn't really been talked about all that much in this review and that's due to the fact that not alot really happens in that episode that is worth talking about in the first place. Just to be clear its not a bad episode by any means as it does do a serviceable enough job in setting up Forge and Bishops quest to get the X-Men back to the nineties as well as showing us what life if like for a large group of the X-Men in the future but outside of that and maybe one scene with Young Nathan and his parents there's not really alot to that episode it is still a fun action packed episode that does feel in line with this show it's just one that could have been done alot more better and been alot more better. With the true standout episode for me being episode 2 A Force To Be Reckoned With as we do see Cable form X-Force and take the government approved group X Factor with this version of X-Force being better then the one in Deadpool 2 due to the fact that they actually made it to the end of there mission in this episode and heck that episode even went the extra mile by having an X-Force exclusive show intro which was a lot of fun to see and is somethin that does feel like we are going to be getting in alot of the other episodes as well as both episode 1 and 3 had intros that just showed off who was going to be in the episode, this version of X-Force does seem to be a really violent group which is kind of the point as they have all lost someone important to them as Cable does believe his parents to have died at the end of season one and Sunspot and Jubilee have of course lost there found family with the X-Men there of course this group would be more violent and the fact that they have characters like Psylocke and Archangel along with a former slave of Apocalypse, it does make sense that they would be more violent and heck that does create a nice contrast with X Factor who are doing things the government approved way with Jubilee pointing out that she knows what Cable is fighting for despite his more violent nature but she can't tell what X Factor is fighting for as they are the ones rounding up innocent mutants.

It's weird that Disney chose to have the first part of a two part episode be released with the first three episodes of this new season. As while the episode does in a way that does make you want to see more as the episode ends with Bishop finding the other X-Men and and knowing who En Sabah Nur does become in the future takes him out as well which does go against the pact that the X-Men in that time had made with him in exchange for him helping them get back to there own time there was still no reason for them to release this episode along with the other two episodes as while its not a bad way to release the episode it also makes no sense as the other two are telling complete stories where as here it is literally a set up for next weeks episode. Surely then it would have made sense to either have released the first four episodes and and have Part 2 be released along with Part 1 rather then just releasing that opening part which isn't a bad episode but it not does make it fully hard to judge that episode as none of us have seen how the story ends for this two part episode, however tho this is something that could also be seen as being a genius move as now alot of us are going to be talking the episode all week with alot of counting the days until the episode does get released which in turn would drive up numbers for Disney+ something which wouldn't be possible if the episode was released with the other three episodes and to this end you do have to give Marvel credit for sticking to releasing one episode a week after this weeks drop ss that is a good way to get more and more people coming back to Disney+ to see how the rest of the season plays out and while you can make an argument that releasing one episode a week is old fashioned its also something that does work. The only real downside being the fact that it does mean Disney releasing this episode when they have no intention of releasing part 2 until next week when they could have just dropped episodes 1 and 2 and it would have worked just fine.  

Whilst Days Of Past Future is pretty much a nothing episode there is still some good to be found in the episode itself. Like for example we get to see Forge and Storm reunite as well as Nathan pretty much discover that he himself has powers much like his mother does and we do get to see some pretty good scenes with Wolverine but again for alot of this episode nothing really happens with it only being when the episode nears it's end that they decide to go into the city to destroy the future version of Apocalypse with it being there where the episode does start to get good with Nathan and his parents having a pretty sweet heart t heart as both Scott and Jean know that once they are done in the future they have to go back to there present and thus never see there son again until he grows up and goes back in time to see them which is a pretty heartbreaking scene to see. Due to the fact that no parent wants to spend along time without getting to see their child and yet that's the very thing that these people are being forced to do and yet they do it not because of the fact that its the easy thing to do rather they do it because of the fact that it is the right thing to do as they know that leaving Nathan in the future is the right thing for him due to the fact that that is where he is most safe and while Nathan won't understand that when he is just a boy it is something that he will come to understand later on in life as Cable, this scene is really the only reason to watch this episode as while its not a bad episode as it does serve as a good way to reintroduce the characters it kind of feels like a James Bind pre-titles scene in that it's only there to get you excited for what's to come and nothing more then that and in this regard that episode does succeed in doing just that but at the same time tho given the fact that this season is only nine episodes long this episode could have been just as good if not better then what the other two episodes are as the others are the more interesting episodes and this one whilst it is still a good episode is just kind of there and that's really it.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly thirty minuets and forty two second whilst episode two is twenty six minuets and fifty eight seconds and episode three is twenty six minuets and forty two seconds. These are all pretty much the bogstandard running times for this show as this show very rarely goes o for that long and to be fair given the fact that episode three is the first part of a two part episode it really does need to that amount of time in order to tell it's story in a way that doesn't do harm to it but is rather in service of it and heck this is something that is also true for the other three episodes as well with them all having the right amount of plot there to cover there respective running times. With all three episodes using there running times as wisely as they could have done as they all do take the time to add things to there plots that do make there plots feel alot more developed and while we will of curs have to wait until next week to see if Rise Of Apocalypse was a story that was worth telling in two parts just based off of this episode that does seem to be a yes as they do cram in alot of plot in this first part and yet none of it feels wasted and none of it feels like its there just for filler as alot of it does feel like it's inservice of the two part plot of getting the X-Men back home and alot of it does feel like it's service of the season long plot whatever that ends up being with being clear as day that the makers of this show did put alot of thought and effort into all three episodes plots. This also something that's true for the episodes characters development as while of course the characters don't really need to get any kind of character development in these episodes we do see Magneto act more like a hero using the things that he learnt at the end of the previous season and putting it to good use and that is something that he just would have not have dine even in the previous season and yet it is something that he does here with him being more of a confidant to En Sabah Nur with it being made clear as day that the makers of this show did put alot of thought into giving the characters that needed character development character development but I really will admit that all of these episodes have some really good pacing to them 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 these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With all three episodes having at the very least one action scene in them with the action feeling right at home with classic Saturday mornings kids cartoons as they do have that very campy and over the top feel to them and it's something that does oddly work for all of the action scenes across all three episodes. With the best action scene in all three episodes being the scene where Jubilee escapes the you could say prison that X Factor are holding her in as she does go about from cell to cell using her powers to break out all of the other mutants not only on rollerblades but also while beating up several guards this is something that does prove that when her done right her character can be a bada*s as we get to see her using her powers to blind the guards before then coming in with either a kick . flip or a punch to knock them out with her just causing havoc all other the place and its something that does look so good in the episode with the action in that episode really being helped by the fact that the animation makes it come alive as up until that point whilst the animation had still been really good you could tell that they were cutting corners a bit with the budget and when this action scene comes up you see why as this is where action gets to truly shine with all of the kicks and punches looking like that they hurt with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall if you haven't done already go and check out these episodes as while Days Of Future Past isn't the best episode of this show it is still a really good episode in it's own right with all three episodes being episodes that people who loved the first season of this show are going to love in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these episodes in this very review  and as such that really does mean that episode 1 earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.0 out 10 , episode 2 earns itself a 8 out of 10 and episode 3 earns itself a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very post being the really great 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 these very episodes with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

X-Men '97 "Tolerance Is Extinction" Review

In a few short days time the second season of the second greatest X-Men animated series behind of course X-Men: The Animated Series returns for more new episodes. It is safe to say that X-Men '97 was everything that a good revival should be as it respected what came before it but then it pushed things in directions that we never expected it to and as I was not only a huge fans of the original animated series growing up as a kid but I also watched every single episode of this revival when it was first airing you all just knew that I had to produce a tie in review for this second season and well what better tie in the first season finale and so then join me as I review the episodes that see the X-Men get pushed beyond there breaking points with the episodes in question being called simply just "Tolerance Is Extinction" enjoy.

The plot of these episodes is Bastion launches his plan to take over the world by turning humans into living breathing Sentinels forcing the X-Men to fight like they have never thought before but something far more sinister lurks beneath the surface which will change the team as we know them. 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 really good. To put it frankly the plot of these episodes isn't just TV good it's movie quality good as you can very easily see the plot for these episodes being the plot of an X-Men movie. As the plot does give you all of the drama and it raises all of the stakes to not only get you hooked into what's going on but it also keeps you wondering just what is going to happen next and while yes the plot could have been alot more stronger in some places as some characters arcs don't really get resolved but at the same time tho this is a plot that does give you everything that you want to see with it feeling more in line with the classic X-Men show then what they were doing in the movies at the time, yet at the same time tho there are things in the third part of this part finale that do feel undercooked like the stuff with Magneto and Charles which does go nowhere in the grand scheme of things and yet even that is still some really interesting stuff, plot wise this is pretty much the perfect X-Men finale plot as it does give you all of the cool stuff with the characters whilst also giving you a plot that you could see working really well in an X-Men movie 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 Ross Marquand as Charles Xavier / Professor X , Doctor Doom and  Apocalypse and Matthew Waterson as  Erik "Magnus" Lehnsherr Magneto , Overeager Journalist , World Leader 1. Also starring in these episodes is Theo James as Bastion , Ray Chase as Scott Summers / Cyclops , Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey , Female Prime , World Leader 3 , Lenore Zann as Anna-Marie Raven / Rogue , George Buza as Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy / Beast , Gil Birmingham as Forge , Alison Sealy-Smith as Ororo Munroe / Storm , Isaac Robinson-Smith as Lucas Bishop / Bishop and T'Chaka , Chris Potter as Nathan Summers / Cable , Adrian Hough as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler , Holly Chou as Jubilation Lee / Jubilee and A Chinese OZT Member , Gui Agustini as Roberto Da Costa / Sunspot , Chris Britton as Nathaniel Essex / Mister Sinister , Gates McFadden as Rachel Summers / Mother Askani , J.P. Karliak as Kevin Sydney / Morph , Reverened Stryker , Radio Jockey and World Leader 2 , Adetokumboh M'Cormack as En Sabah Nur , Josh Keaton as Steve Rogers / Captain America , Catherine Disher as Val Cooper , Cal Dodd as James Howlett / Wolverine , Theo Chou as Sebastion Gilberti / Bastion and The Sentinels , Ron Rubin as President Robert Kelly , Kari Wahlgren as Rose , Donna Jay Fulks as Trish Tilby , The Bespectacled Teacher and A Female Teacher , Christine Uhebe as Nina Da Costa , Anjali Bhimani as Daria and A News Anchor , Rama Vallury as Baron Zemo , Jeff Bennett as Ford , Eric Bauza as Master Mold and The Prime Sentinels , Morla Gorrondonna as Lilandra Neramani and Rachel Kimsey as A News Anchor , The News Pundits and A Computer.

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 thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. The fact that we have alot of really good acting in all three of these episodes is something that's not really all that surprising as alot of the actors that re in these episodes are either A a bunch of really good actors in there own right or B are reprising their roles from the original show either way it does make sense that the acting in all three of these episodes would be top notch and heck the same could even be said for the acting in the whole first season of the show as a whole. With the best actor in all of these episodes being Lenore Zann as Anna-Marie Raven / Rogue as she does give us a Rogue that is very much filled with rage and hate and yet the same time you can tell that there is a sadness in her eyes with her knowing full well that what she's doing isn't who she is as a person and is only acting this way as she has lost the love of her life with this being somethin Lenore does just by using her voice and it something that does get across just what this character s thinking and feeling at any given moment in these episodes and it is something that really does shine through in her final performance. With the acting that's in these episode really being helped by the fact that the scripts for these episodes 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 these very episodes.

Doing the animation for these episodes is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Studio Mir. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these 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 these very episodes was in all honesty really good. These episodes animation was alot more better then what it really had any right to be as while yes the animation in the rest of the show was drop gorgeous at times there was no guarantee that that would be the case in these final three episodes as the makers of these episodes could have dropped the ball animation wise. Thankfully they did not as these episodes do maintain the series already high bar when it comes to its animation by giving us lots of really nice looking background and creative scenes that could only work in the realm of animation, this is something that the original series did as well and it was fun to see that trend continue in these three episodes and heck the characters do get some really fluid movements to them which is something that does make them feel alot more alive but the issue when it comes to the animation being the fact that there are some shots that do look a little weird when the characters are standing still and the episodes action doesn't get as fluid animation as the rest of the episodes get and while these are indeed small things that don't really harm the episodes on the whole they are also things that could have been fixed before the episodes got released as they are things that the people watching these episodes will notice.  

The one common theme threw all three of these episodes is the idea of dreams and how they can be used to either do some good or turn into something that we are not. Like for example with Rogue as she has just lost Gambit the love of her life and therefor her faith in Xaviers dream of a world where Mutants and humans can liv side by side is shaken because of the fact that she doesn't want to loose another friend or loved one with this temporarily turning her into a villain with the same thing being true for Sunspot as after his mother turned him in just for being a mutant he doesn't know who or what to believe anymore so again he sides with Magneto much like Rogue herself does this is something that does make the two characters the very thing that they both not as they not bad people and yet because of the fact that they've both had there faith shaken in different they are forced to become these new people even if its for a little while. The same thing is true for the villains as well as we see Bastion get his dream tested when the X-Men tell him that his beloved mother lied to him and that Charles had come to visit him but that she turned him away whilst this doesn't force him to change his dream it does cause him to somewhat faulter in his dream and the same thing is true for Magneto as he has spent so long being evil that he forgot that he and Charles shared the sake goal only Magneto somewhere along the way did have his ream more warped into what it was during the original series run with it only being when Charles confronts him inside his own mind that he does remember what his original dream was and while it will of course be hard to say if the character is changed for good just based off of what we see in the final moments of the third part of this episode it does seem like Magneto has become more of an anti-hero, these episodes do a good job of showing us just what the power of having a dream can have on us as it can make us into great people or it can drown us and become warped because f the things that we go through in life.

Shockingly this episodes does also include alot of silent cameos from other nineties Marvel animated heroes. As we get both Spider-Man and Peter Parker not only taking part in helping New York City but also finally being reunited with Mary Jane but we also get Doctor Strange , Daredevil and Iron Man all of which were really fun to see as these characters do all live in the same city and therefor they would of course all be willing to help out should a threat come that's two big for any of them to handle and with alot of them having already crossed over with each other before now it does make sense that they would reappear in this episode. With the only downside to this being the fact that alot of them are just relegated to being silent cameos with the only two that get speaking lines being Captain America and T'Chaka who may or may not be Black Panther in this universe as it would have been really cool to hear Spider-Man having a chat with Mary Jane or it would have been awsome to see Daredevil and Spider-Man helping each other out bottom line being here is that there was alot of really cool things that the makers of these episodes could have dine with these characters and while fair enough it might have been seen as being over kill to have all of these heroes play even a small role in these episodes given the fact that the fanbase for this show does skew alot more older then the typical Marvel animated show does it would have been fun to see these characters that we knew as kids talk once again and while it was still great that we got to see them at all does feel like a let down and fair enough this is an X-Men show and therefor you want the focus to be on them but if your going to go out of your way to include several scenes with them then at least have them do or say something that does feel true to there character as there s no way that Tony Stark would just be standing in a room whilst all of this is going down.

Bastion is such a cool idea for a villain with him being someone who like DCs Cyborg can hear machines only he takes it in a more villainous route by using them to build Sentinels that are merged with human beings. Thus making it hard to tell who is a robot and who isn't with this being something that all three of these episodes handle really well as we see that characters that we thought were allies to the X-Men were actually robots this whole time with the only thing that could have made this all the more better being if some of those allies had helped them out in previous episodes and had gotten close to various members of the team as this is something that would make that big reveal at the end of part one be all the more shocking. To be fair to these episodes they do take it about as far as they possibly could have done with humans being robots as they are mainly used as a distraction for our heroes and to give Bastion his own robot army with this being something that does show us the audience that he really does think about two or three steps ahead of everyone else with it only being when the X-Men start to do the same thing that they actually start to gain an advantage over him and this is something that a good villain should do as a good villain should always force the hero to be better and to think outside of the box, heck we even get to find out why Bastion is evil as we find out that he's been hearing machines since he was a kid with being something that does slowly drive him crazy to the point where he thinks that the only way to get rid of the talking in his head is to destroy the X-Men and is to turn humans into robots that could kills them with him even having seen a future where he did succeed and was actually happy and heck he even turned his own mother into a Sentinel as that's how far of the deep end he had gone.

Now then these episodes has / had an exact grand total running time of really no longer then forty minuets. With episode one being thirty one minuets and twenty six seconds , episode two being twenty minuets ad twenty one seconds and episodes three being forty minuets and three seconds, with all three episodes really earning there running time as they are all telling this one epic story and the fact that the final episode of the first season is the longest episode of all of the episodes does tell you just how epic that this three parter is as that one episode does have alot of plot to cover and to do son in shorter amount of time would do a huge disservice to the plot of the episodes as a whole with these episodes really having enough plot there to really cover that large amount of running time in the first place. With the episodes really using there running times wisely as they do take alot of time to fully develop the episodes plot with them adding in things that do effect in a major way be it from Magneto being let go from where he was hidden by Bastion to the leaders of the human race deciding to bomb the asteroid that the X-Men are on in the hopes that it won't fall down and wipe out the earth these are all things that the makers of this episode really didn't have to include but the fact that they did does show us that they knew that they had to give us a satisfactory ending and that does mean giving us a well thought out and developed plot. The same thing is also kind of true for the episodes character development as while we do see what it is that might turn Magneto into more of an anti hero in this next season as it is him that not only saves Charles but also the world and the other X-Men we don't really see what it is that causes Rogue to go back to being a good guy which whilst this is a small thing given the fact that we saw the thought process of her deciding to essentially become a bad guy even if it was for a few minuets it still would have been nice if we got to understand why she flipped back to being a good guy but I really will admit that these episodes really does have some really good pacing to them 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 / resented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With all three episodes having some really fun action in them all of which d take as full advantage of the fact that there are being animated as they possibly could have done and while we don't get to see alot of the team fighting together in alot of this three parter whenever we do that's when we get some of the more really cool stuff happening as it will always be cool seeing all of the X-Men fighting together and using there powers together. With the best action scene being in part three as we get to see alot of the X-Men that are still alive on the Asteroid not only trying to hold of Bastion but also trying to stop the Asteroid from falling to earth with them only just being able to defeat Bastion when they put on a collar that cancels out his powers but then the mutants have another problem as the humans bomb the Asteroid which does start to make it fall to earth all the while inside his a mind an unconscious Charles has to get Magneto to remember who he is so that they can escape his mind and which is something that they only just barely manage to do, this one episode is basically one long action scene with there being very few breaks inbetween the action think of it as the Mad Max: Fury Road but of TV animation and you'll get the idea and yet it does oddly work because of it with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if this three parter is anything go by then the next season does have an awful lot to live up to as my god were all three episodes of this show just so good that is really saying something when you take into account that the rest of the show really is just so good as well 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 episodes in this very review and as such that really does mean that these episodes really do earn themselves a grand total combine score of exactly a 10 out of 10 from me.

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Camberwick Green: Peter Hazell The Postman Review

Classic animated English TV shows are a tressure trove of hidden gems as alot of them are very basic in there approach and storytelling. With the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today being a very good example of this as there's not much to this episode nor this show as a whole and yet it's not only a really charming show but it's also the first episode of  show that started an entire trilogy of shows all based around the area of where this show is set and so then join me as I review the episode that might have been ripped off by Postman Pat with the episode in question being called simply just "Peter Hazell The Postman" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Peter goes on his rounds delivering some letters to the people of Camberwick Green. 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 is one that is yes simple and predictable but given that this episode does focus around the villages postman it does make sense that the plot of this episode be almost exactly like the plot of Postman Pat with the only differences being that Peter doesn't drive a car and doesn't have a cat but apart from that it is shocking just seeing how similar the plot of this episode is to the plot of Postman Pat. However tho granted there are only so many plot that you can tell with a Postman as the main character and in all fairness to this episode having this episode be the one to start of the show does make the most sense as it does introduce alot of the shows main characters in a way that does make sense to the episodes plot and while having the plot of this episode be this simple plot is something that does work for the episode it would have worked even more better if Peter had some sort of obstacle to overcome as that would add a bit of excitement to the episodes plot but this is meant to be a slice of live show and that sort of thing doesn't really require something like that to happen rather all it needs is the character to just there usual charming selves and that is exactly what this episodes plot does allow the characters to do 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 Brian Cant with the thing that makes the acting in not only this episode but the show as a whole standout being the fact that Cant isn't doing voices for the characters rather he is just commenting on the things that they are doing with him occasionally giving them voices. This is a unique way to do things as given the fact that he was an actor for the BBC it would have been very easy for the makers of this show to have him just give all of the characters voices and whilst that would have been a good thing to see it also would have made the show as a whole blend in with the rest of the other kids TV programmes coming out at the time whereas having him serve quite literally as just the narrator for the show does help to make the show stand out a bit. Whilst other shows like this like for example The Wombles and later on Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends would mostly struggle with having the one actor voicing all of the characters as they more often then not just used the one voice for all of the characters which is something that would make it harder to tell just whom is talking alot of the time here in this episode we don't really have that issue as Brian isn't really voicing any of the characters and the one time that he does in this episode its one very quick and very brief scene therefor you don't really need to know who he is voicing in that one as there's only the one character in the scene in the first place this is an approach that i'm shocked more TV shows like this one didn't really take as it does allow for this show to stand out and it does mean that the makers of a show wouldn't have to worry about the little kids watching it if they can work out who is talking as technically none of them are with this also having the added benefit of giving us the audience the chance to use our imagination therefore Peter to some people could sound like an American and to others like myself he might very well sound like that he comes from Greater Manchester and all of those and all of those would be perfectly valid.

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. As even tho there is only the one actor in the whole entire show you really only need the one actor as there isn't so much acting in this episode as there is a narrator just telling us what the characters are doing but in saying this tho it does still take a lot of skill to give some convincing narration and make it sound like it's something that could actually be happening with this being something that Brian Cant does do really well. With the best actor in this episode of course by default being Brian Cant with him having a background in working with kids as he mainly did kids TV shows when he was working with the BBC with him putting alot of the stuff that he learnt from those other shows to good use in this episode as while it would have been very easy for him to just either talk up to or talk down to the audience given the fact that the episodes main target audience is mostly little kids he doesn't do any pf that in this episode rather he talks to them on a level and that is something that alot of great kids programming should do with this being something that does allow him to turn in a performance that is yes still very child like but is also alot more mature with this being something that really does shine through in his performance in this very episode. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actor really has to do is just read the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of him naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that were currently over at Gordon Murray 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 really good. The episode does use mainly stop motion puppets and clay to animate everything that we see in the episode this does help to give the episode a unique look to it as the episode doesn't quite look like the village that it's meant to be based off of but at the same time it doesn't look fake enough either. With the thing that stands out about this episodes characters designs is the fact that none of the episodes characters have mouths whilst this was no doubt done to make it easier to animate the characters it is also something that does make the characters un this show stand out from all of the other characters out there and while this is something that could be seen as making the characters look creepy which is something that would be a fair point to make as yeah they do look kind of off putting it is also something that does add some charm to the episode with the makers of this episodes giving the characters these really fluid movements alot of the time which is something that does work as alot of the episodes backgrounds really do look quite dull and boring with this no doubt being because of the fact that two men were mainly animating the whole show and therefor they really didn't give alot of thought and effort to the episodes backgrounds but at the same time tho if really you visit the countryside you do see how detailed the local surroundings are and it really would have been nice if the makers of this episode did make there backgrounds be as highly detailed as they could have done. 

Its been said before in this review and it will be said again but this episode does feel like it was knocked off by Postman Pat with Peter himself being someone like Pat was. As he is someone that everyone in the village does know by heart and while the characters aren't looking or him like the characters in Postman Pat are they do still get excited whenever they see them with even the local platoon leaving there posts to go and see the letters that he's brought them which does feel very much like somethin that you would see in Postman Pat and heck if Peter was given a van to drive and didn't just walk everywhere you really could excuse this for being an episode of that show as they are very similar in nature. Peter tho does have one thing going for him that wasn't copied by Pat that being the fact that he really doesn't care what people think of him with Peter being this somewhat absent minded person as we do see him kind of day dream in this episode which does result in a comical moment and we do see him actually empty the post box's in the village thus showing us the audience that he really is committed to his job where as with Pat we only really saw him pull up to the Post Office to begin his round he never took he time to empty any of the villages post boxes even tho he would have had more then enough time to do son this is a small thing but it's a small thing that does make a big difference as both this episode and Postman Pat are meant to show us what its like being a Postman but Postman Pat does in it's own way glamorize it by showing us that people will like you instantly and you will be loved by everyone because of it where as here in this episode they kind of tell us that whilst yes it is a decent job to have you won't be going anywhere by car and you will be walking alot and that people might not like you for doing your job as you very well might be getting in the way of them doing there job.

To be frank like shows like The Wombles and Paddington for example this episode is very relaxing in nature. As all the episode is just following this one person going about there day to day routine and seeing them encountering all of these people all of which pose no threat to the character and are there just to get letters from him this is something that is a common thing in a lot of British TV shows from around this same time period as alot of them where very relaxing in nature due to the fact that alot of them would go on just before tea time at around 5 to even 6pm in the evening as that's when the shows target kid audience would also be going of to bed and therefor they would need calming down after having a long day. This is something that does work really well in this episode as it does allow for us the audience to just soak in the atmosphere of the show and to just listen to the episodes music all of which are things that do help this episode to be a very relaxing episode this is not to say that the episode will put you to sleep as it won't but it is something that you could watch after a long hard day either by yourself or with little ones and you would still feel nice and calm after it, with it being a shame that they don't make shows like this anymore as with all that's going on in the world right now it would be nice to have a show that the whole family could watch and feel calm after watching it but for one reason or another people today just aren't that interested in shows like this and are instead more inclined to watch shows like Spongebob Squarepants which isn't as relaxing and as calming as show like this one is as this episode does give you the time that you need to just live in this world where nothing bad every happens and where the biggest threat that you might face is your letter not arriving on time and given all that is going on in the world right now it's shows like this that we need more and more off.

This episode was perhaps the best episode that the makers of this show could have gone with to start this show out on. With it not only setting up the world for the show but also giving us a good idea as to how the rest of the rest of the shows characters are as well with this being helped by the fact that Brian Cant does also add in his own bit of narration that do help to make the rest of the characters feel about as fleshed out as they are ever going to be with a good example of this being him describing Mrs Honeyman as someone who does talk to much and who spreads alot of gossip with those thing being then enough to let us know that she is a character that the rest of the shows characters are going to find annoying. This is an episode that really doesn't need to delve into any of the characters are alot of the charm of not this episode but the show as a whole is seeing how they interact with each other and whilst yes it would be fun if we got to see the characters be more thought out bit given the fact that this is a slice of life show and the fact that we are only dropping in on these characters during a certain activity it's not really somethin that is needed as the characters are more then charming enough that you do end up forgetting about the fact that none of them are that well thought out with this being something that could also be true for alot of the characters that we meet in our real life as well as let's be honest here no one knows that much about there postman or about the local town or village gossip therefor in this regard this episode and show is very true to life as it's presenting these characters as real people which is something that the makers of this episode really didn't have to do.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifteen minuets and twenty one seconds. This is the bogstandard running time for this show and to be fair to this episode with this episode being as long as it is it does help to make it further stand out as alot of kids shows around this time were around five minuets and length and yet here we have an episode that is three times longer then that and yet you don't even notice that this episode is this long due to the fact that we do end up being so engrossed in the world of this show and even tho there isn't really a plot to this episode that does justify it being as long as it is this episode really does have enough plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. However tho in saying this episode really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot which is something that in all fairness it doesn't really need to do as all this episodes plot is is just following this one postman as he makes his rounds and that's really it and that's not really something that does require a deep plot to it but at the same time tho it would have helped if the plot was a bit more developed just to fully justify it being as long as it is as by all rights you could cut this episode down to five minuets and it would still be as good as it with however tho the makers of this episode did care more about having Brian Cant describing the rest of the shows characters then they did in fully developing the plot for this episode. This is something that does in its own way effect the episodes character development as well as even tho none of the episodes characters are meant to get any kind of character development it would have helped the episode out just a little bit if we did see Peter get some form of character development even if it's something as simple as him as watching what's in front of him so he doesn't make any mistakes which yes is a basic thing to have in your debut episode but it is also something that would be perfect for this episode however tho the makers of this episode do seem alot more focused on introducing the rest of the shows characters that they do end up forgetting to give the episodes main character some actual 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 not that bad. The best word to describe the jokes in this episode is cute as that's exactly what they are as while there really only two jokes in the episode they both are cute jokes that will get a laugh at the episodes target audience with there not being any adult jokes in there for the mums and dads watching the episode and yet even they will find the episodes jokes to be funny as they are classic jokes that will always work. With the best joke in the whole episode being when Peter uses his special knock on the door of the bakery to get the owner to open as after he doesn't reply a few times Peter notices smoke coming out of the chimney and tries again to get the baker to come out only this time when the baker does answer the door Peter still does his special knock only this time its on to the baker himself which is just a simple gag to have in the episode and yet it works because of the fact that it is such a simple joke where as if the makers of this episode did carry on the joke and make it more complicated it would stop being funny but due to the fact that they knew to keep the joke simple it would not not only work but would also be a timeless joke then we do end up with something that whilst yes granted its not laugh loud funny like alot of the jokes in the Paddington animated TV series are it is still a joke that will get a smile out of anyone watching it with the rest of the episodes jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall weather or not there will be more reviews of this show is hard to say but this episode was a fun introductory episode to the show with the episode and its cast of whimsical characters being alot of fun to watch with even the animation more then holding up all of these later as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

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Looney Tunes "Deduce, You Say!" Review

When you think of Looney Tunes you usually think of zany and wacky comedy yet they did also dip there toes into parodying other things. With Bugs Bunny starring in spoofs of Red Riding Hood among other things therefor it wasn't out of the blue to discover that they also really did a parody of Sherlock Holmes and well with the new Enola Holmes films out next week I thought that now was the right time to take a look at this classic cartoon and so then join me as I review the cartoon that sees Daffy Duck take on the role of Dorlock Holmes with the cartoon in question being called simply just "Deduce, You Say!" enjoy.

The plot of this cartoon is the great duck detective and his pig companion take on there most dangerous mission yet when they get from the infamous The Shropshire Slasher. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon was in all honesty really good. With the cartoons plot being a really fun plot and one that you can very easily picture being filled to the brim with classic Looney Tunes characters should there have been sequel to to it however tho the plot of this cartoon is about as basic as it gets. Which is fair enough given the fact that the Looney Tunes cartoons never really ran longer then eight minuets and therefor they did have to go the more basic route with there plots alot of the time but at the same time when your spoofing something like Sherlock Holmes then basic isn't going to be good as you do need to go the extra mile in making the plot of the cartoon feel alot more different then the plots of the average Daffy Duck or even Porky Pig cartoon for example however tho going the more simple route is something that does work for te Looney Tunes brand as it does allow them to pack in more jokes and just to have fun with the story which is something that they wouldn't be able to do if the plot of this cartoon was even a little bit more complex, the plot of this cartoon whilst it doesn't stay true to the world that Arthur Conan Doyle created it is a world that does very much belong to the Looney Tunes with the cartoon plot fitting in rather nicely in this regard with the plot of this cartoon also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this cartoon is Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck / Dorlock Homes , Porky Pig / Dr. Watkins , The Shropshire Slasher , The Telegram Deliveryman , Alfie and The Bartender and June Foray as The Shropshire Slasher's Mother and Lady Ashtabula. This cartoon dies have two of the three best Looney Tunes actors in it and my god can you tell that they had fun making this cartoon as while alot of the cartoon is just Mel Blanc talking to himself which is the case for alot of the Looney Tunes it's when we get to see hm June Foray that we get to hear just how much both of them are having in this cartoon. As they do have some really good chemistry together with June of course playing all of the female characters in the cartoon and Mel playing all of the male characters in the cartoon but even so you do get the feeling that Mel was just happy to have someone to bounce off of in the studio as usually it was just him with him accusationally being joined by Arthur Q Bryan which again does hit home the point that he must have been really happy to have someone literally anyone in the recording booth with him as it must have been hard for him to record alot of these cartoons just on his own but even so you don't really get the feeling that he was missing just talking to another person in this cartoon as you can't tell that it was just him playing all of these characters as he makes all of the cartoon characters sound so unique and different from each other and while we do of course know the voices for both Daffy and Porky the fact that he does go the extra mile and give even these one shot characters there own unique voices is something that does make it easier to tell just whom is talking to who and when and while June doesn't play as many characters she again gives both of her characters unique sounding voices that your not going to confuse for say Granny for example.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon was in all honesty really good. The fact that this cartoons acting was as good as it is isn't something that's all new as all you have to is look at whom is starring in this cartoon to know full well that we are going to be getting some really good acting and this is something that we get in this cartoon and it is something that will never be a bad thing as you never just what kind of performance that both Mel Blanc and June Foray will bring in given cartoon. With the best actor in this cartoon being of course Mel Blanc just die to the fact that does voice the overall majority of the characters in this cartoon and with each and every one of them he does give us a unique performance with this being something that would be hard for even voice actors today to do and yet him it almost feels natural almost as if he'd been voicing these characters for decades as he is just so natural playing them and while that is of course true for both Daffy Duk and Porky Pig it's also true for all f the one off characters as well with this being something that des make him stand out as a voice actor as he never just does a silly voice and call it a day he puts on a performance and this is something that does shine through in his performance in this cartoon. With the acting that's in very cartoon really being helped by the fact that this cartoons script is just so good that all this cartoons 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 cartoon.

Doing the animation for this cartoon is Abe Levitow , Richard Thompson , Ken Harris and Ben Washam. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon was in all honesty really good. Look granted all of the Chuck Jones directed Looney Tunes cartoon do have some really good animation in them and whilst this cartoon is of no exception to this rule one can't help but notice that the animation in this cartoon is not up to the high standards set by cartoons like Robin Hood Daffy or Duck Amuck for example. As while the characters do have some really nice fluid movements to them and while the cartoon does get a lot f mileage out of Porky's expressions the backgrounds in the cartoon do look very flat and uninteresting and the designs of all of the background characters do look really weird and almost off putting this is something is never an issue with other Looney Tunes cartoons and very here it is something that does seem to be all over the cartoon, with Chuck Jones you do have the expectation that the animation quality will be really high and to this is extent it is still very high quality animation and heck you could even argue that the animation in this cartoon is alot more better then the animation in cartoon released today as here you do get to see all of the blood , sweat and tears that the animators have poored into it but even so when the backgrounds just look this dull and lifeless it does make you wonder the makers of this cartoon back when they first made this cartoon as there is more life in the background of Roan Runner cartoon then there is here just to be clear this isn't to say that the backgrounds are really bad as there not it's just that there not up to the high standards that we see in other Looney Tunes cartoons.  

This cartoon does of course spoof the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and while having the idea of having Daffy Duck playing Holmes is a good way to send the character up the cartoon doesn't really spoof Sherlock and Watson all that much. This is something that the cartoon really should have done even if it's just by having knock off s of characters from those book it still would have been something and heck the cartoon even could have spoofed the common tropes seen in not only those books but also in detective fiction as well as that is something that would have made the cartoon be alot more interesting and yet the makers of this cartoon don't really do any of that with them instead just choosing to have knocks of Holmes and Watson. Which don't get me wrong is a good idea as the team had used Porky and Daffy as a team together in other Looney Tunes shorts but the thing is tho in those shorts when they were spoofing something they went as far as they could have done with it thus making the parody alot more better where as here it feels like that they are holding themselves back when really they should have been going as far as they could have done with it like for example why not have a knock off version of Moriarty only now he's as dumb as Daffy is and why not have Mycroft in it only now he looks exactly like Daffy there are so many things that the makers of this cartoon could have done to really send up Holmes and Watson and yet they don't do it weather or not the makers of this cartoon were fans of the original books and films is hard to say as what we do know is that hen Chuck Jones is a fan of something he does go all out on spoofing it like he did in What's Opera Doc where he did an entire opera in seven minuets of course it very well could have been a budget reason which is something that does make sense as the cartoon does take mainly take place in this one bar but either way the makers of this cartoon could have done more with spoofing Sherlock Holmes.

The idea of having Porky and Daffy team up in a cartoon is a really good idea as it does allow for a combination that we never new we wanted until we got it. Whilst yes they did team in the Duck Dodgers short and Drip Along Daffy it is a team up that works as Daffy gets to be usual crazy self and Porky gets a chance to show his more sarcastic side and it is something that does make him more thought out as a character as Daffy is the only character in which Porky could get away with being sarcastic to as he can't do it with Bugs as Bugs to smart for that and he can't do it with alot of the other Looney Tunes as like Porky they are the straight man in there comedy double act. Yet for one reason or another alot of people very rarely have the two of them team up in this way with the closest that we got to that being The Day The Earth Blew Up and even then you could make the point that Daffy was being his crazy self and Porky just wasn't taking any of it where and yet this and other cartoons like this do show you that having these two team up in this way is something that does work as it does allow for Daffy to be the funny man and it allows for Porky to be the straight man where as anyone who teams up with Bugs has to be the straight man and therefor there aren't that many combinations that you could do with Bugs Bunny, with this cartoon even sticking very much to the funny man and straight man routine and it is something that dos work as you know right away just what Dorlock Holmes is going to say and do but what we never know is what Watkins is going to say or do and yet nine times out of ten they do feel right for those characters and while if course it would have been nice to see daffy team up with another character just to see how well that they bounce off of each other having him team up with Porky Pig is something that we know works and it is something that works just as well in this cartoon. 

Whilst te cartoon doesn't really take full advantage of the fact that it's spoofing Sherlock Holmes The Shropshire Slasher oddly enough does feel the most like a villain from one of those books and movies. As while we don't get to find out his crime or why he's called that in this cartoon just the very fact that Holmes does choose to seek him out does help to make him feel like a credible threat with it being helped by the fact that The Shropshire Slasher towers over both Holmes and Watkins which is somethin that does make him feel more intimidating as a villain as we the audience can see that Holmes is quite literally in for the fight of his life and while we do of course know that it will only be Holmes that gets beaten up in this cartoon it doesn't hinder the fact that The Shropshire Slasher does have to use his brains of sorts to hurt him. The only thing that does let this character is the fact that as was mentioned we don't get to find out why he's evil in the first place which is fair enough for this cartoon as this is meant to see him essentially giving up his evil ways it still would have been quite fun to see why he's meant to be this big bad villain in the first place and heck on could argue that seeing Daffy not only take him on but also win would make the cartoon alot more funnier as it would be something that we'd never expect to see and yet for one reason or another the makers of this cartoon don't do that and while it is understandable as they don't have that long to get across the plot of the cartoon and tell lots of jokes it still would have helped the cartoon out if they did take the time to tell us more about him as a character even if it's done through either Porky or Daffy as then when we do meet him we the audience would feel something as opposed to feeling nothing like we do in this cartoon.

Now then this cartoon has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly seven minuets ad seven seconds. Which to be fair to this cartoon is pretty much the bogstandard running time for these Looney Tunes cartoons but in saying that tho this cartoon really could have been about six minuets as this is a cartoon that doesn't require a long running time due to the fact that it's plot is so simple with even a small portion of the cartoon being pointless filler as we do get to see Daffy and Porky walking to the bar where they are to meet The Shropshire Slasher which isn't needed and neither is alot of the stuff at there house either as all that does is make those scenes feel like padding when this cartoon really didn't need padding out at all as the cartoon really does have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet even so this cartoon still doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as this cartoon really does take the time to fully develop it's plot which granted was something that was always going to be hard given it's short running time but if instead of having those pointless scenes both add and do nothing for the plot of the cartoon the makers of this cartoon very easily could have taken the time to add some small amount of plot development as that is something that would make those scenes feel more worthwhile but the makers of this cartoon do seem to more focused on giving us pointless filler scene then they are some actual plot development. The same thing is also true for the cartoons character develop as while cartoons from this era didn't typically give any of there characters character development it still would have been nice if the makers of this cartoon gave characters like for example Watkins or even Dorlock himself some form of character development even if it's done as a joke as that would then make there characters worth while but given the fact that these older cartoons don't typically give there characters character development it doesn't make sense for this cartoon to do it either with the cartoon being more focused on not giving us much of a Sherlock Holmes parody instead of giving us some actual character development but ai really will admit that this cartoon really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy thats actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon well then in all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon was in all honesty really good. Much like this cartoons animation while the comedy is indeed good it's clearly not up to the high standards of comedy set not only by the Looney Tunes themselves but also by this cartoons director Chuck Jones as while there are some funny physical comedy in the cartoon there's nothing in this cartoon that is laugh out loud when all of the best Chuck Jones cartoon have at the very least one laugh out loud funny moment in them. With the best joke in the whole cartoon being when The Shropshire Slasher is beating up Daffy the cartoon cuts to Porky who give us this rather sarcastic type of smile which is something that is perfect for his character as with Watkins being the smarter f the two he would of course know full well that Holmes is doing something that's really dumb and stupid and to be fair to this cartoon its this joke that does prove that Porky can have more of a sarcastic side to him with it being something that does really well in this cartoon as its something that will always be funny no matter what with that one joke even proving that the makers of this cartoon still do know how to tell a good Looney Tunes cartoon and while it is a quick joke its one that does also work because of how quick that is as Chuck Jones himself once said that the difference between getting a laugh and not getting a laugh is single frame and this joke does last the right amount of time as it allows for us the audience to work out just what s going on and the  react to it whereas if it was to fast we wouldn't have the time to work out what is going on and if it was to slow then it would just feel awkward with the cartoons jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this cartoon is clearly not the best Chuck Jones Looney Tunes cartoon out there as the cartoon does have alot of things wrong with to but at the same time tho you can still the love and effort that went into making this cartoon with the issues with the cartoon being things that could have been fixed if they had more time to fully work on it 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 cartoon in this very review and a such that really does mean that this very cartoon really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review will then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got al, of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , LooneyTunesWiki . Com , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very cartoon 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 cartoon 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 and there's really only one way to end this review T-T-T-T-THAT'S ALL FOLKS.