My SPOILER FREE First Impressions Star Wars: Maul Shadow Lord

Whilst the whole world right now it rightfully talking about Daredevil: Born Again season 2 what they don't realise is that there is a new Star Wars animated show that's just been released. As while thia show hasn't had the best marketing out there this is a show that really will very easily become a favorite for alot of people as just by going off of these first two episodes alone it does really seem to be a really good show and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE first impressions of the show that will end on May 4th with the show in question being called simply just "Star Wars: Maul Shadow Lord" enjoy.

The plot of these first two episodes is when Maul starts planning to take over the underworld now that the jedi are thought to be and he discovers that it might not be as easy as he first thought. 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. It's really is safe to say that no one had any idea that the plot for the show let alone these first two episodes was going to be as good as they were as lets be honest here Star Wars plots very recently haven't been the best and yet here we have a couple of episodes that proves that the folks over at Lucasfilm do still know how to make good Star Wars plots as there is alot more thought and effort into the plot of these first two episodes alone then there in the entire sequel trilogy as here you do get to see moments with the characters just talking abut what it is that there going to do next and while yes episode one is the typical set up episode where it's all about setting up the plot of the show that is something that's to expected ad to be fair to this show it is something that does work really well. As foes the fact that the episodes plot really does take it time as even tho this is set not that long after The Clone Wars TV show you do still get to just sit in this world and see how the characters both good and a bad are effected by it with the episodes plot showing us both the goo and bad sides of being both good and evil and it is something that does work for the story that this show is trying to tell with the plot of these episode also being really entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in these episodes is Sam Witwer as Maul , Gideon Adlon as Devon Izara and Chris Diamantopoulos as Looti Vario. Also starring in these episodes is Dave Fennoy as Scorn , David W. Collins as Spybot and Pyke Pilot 1 , Dennis Haysbert as Master Eeko-Dio Daki , Richard Ayoade as Two-Boots , Sam Corlett as Officer Reb , Vanessa Marshall as Rook Kast , Wagner Moura as Brander Lawson , Andrew Kishino as Pyke Captain , Avery Kidd Waddell as Officer Wade , Charlie Bushnell as Rylee Lawson , Keiko Agena as Chief Klyce , Pamela Adlon as Rheena Sul , Sam Corlett as Officer Reb and Steve Blum as Icarus and Pyke Pilot 2.

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. To say that these episodes have some really good acting in them would be a huge understatement as both of these first episodes are filled to the brim with good acting with this being something that does make alot of sense as not only do we have actors that are reprising their roles from other animated Star Wars media but we also have actors that are just good actors in there rights with there skills showing through in both of these two episodes alone. With the best actor in both of these episodes being quite easily Sam Witwer as Maul as not only does he have a voice that is creepy in it's own right but it's also just oozing evil with Sam making what is already a really unlikable character now be quite smart and thinking several steps ahead which is something that makes him be more evil with the fact that you get scenes in both of these first two episodes where you get to see the character act and not just the actor as there are scenes where Maul does have to take a minuet and think with Sam's performance really selling you on those more quiet moments with the character. With the acting that's in these episodes really being helped that both of these scripts are just so good that all these episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and as 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 great that are currently over at Lucasfilm Animation. 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. With the animation in both of these episodes being feature film good as that's how breath takingly good that the animation is n both of these episodes and while the animation from The Clone Wars onwards has always been really good no one's going to ever deny them that but here it felt like they were taking what they did in both Rebels and The Clone Wars and took it that extra step as everything in both of these episodes from a character design point of view to background point of view looks like that it could very easily belong in a live action movie or even an animated movie as that's how good that they look. With the thing that helps to sell you on the animation being being the lighting as that is something that never gets talked about when people mention animation and yet here in both of these episodes it is something that is worth talking about as it does help to sell you on this world and it helps to make this world feel more real and lived in and while a large part of episode 1 is set at night and therefor we don't get to see much colors the colors that we get to see in episode 2 look all the more better because of the fact that the lighting for this show seems to be really good. Heck the same thing is also true for the characters movements as they all have movements that look good with it being made clear as day that the makers of these episodes put alot of thought and effort into these episodes animation and it is something that does pay off as this show looks visually stunning to look at. 

Without giving away to much of what happens in these first two episodes it does seem like that they are going to reveal something big about Brander Lawson. Due to the fact that it does feel like that he might know a bit more then what he's letting on about when it comes to Maul as he refuses to get the Empire involved with this which is something that does make him seem like a good guy but at the same time the Empire didn't really let the public know that they were evil therefor it makes no sense for him to be distrusting of them especially as this show is meant to be set not that long after the events of The Clones Wars. However tho there is a good chance that this character does really no nothing about Maul and is basically acting as the audience surrogate character in that he's the one that's going to be asking all of the questions about him which is something that would be fine as he is meant to be a police officer but given the fact that Maul is essentially a war criminal it also wouldn't make sense that no police officer wouldn't know a thing about him all of which does make you wonder if by episode ten of this first season are we going to find something about Lawson as they can't make him a Jedi as that would be to obvious but what they could do is make him someone who once worked with Maul in the past or maybe he met Maul during the events of The Clone Wars which us something that is plausible. However tho there's one thing that makes me think that there's more to him then meets the eye as in episode 2 we find out that he's divorced single father and yet when his son has the opportunity to go and see his mother who he clearly loves Brander says to wait until he can go with him this is despite the fact that the son is more then old enough to see her on his own this could be for nothing and he could just be genuinely caring father however the episode wouldn't have added a scene like that if it wasn't leading to something bigger down the line.

Disney have done this show so dirty with it's marketing as there hasn't been a big push for this show at all as there's only been one teaser and I think one trailer plus a small handful of posters for the entire show. Which is something that does say that they might not have had much faith in the show to begin with however given the fact that they have given the show a season 2 renewal does seem to hint that they have come round to it either way tho there won't be alot of people that know that this show is even out now let alone that's been made in the first place which is a shame as this might be one of the more better things to come out of Disney era Star Wars due to the fact that it does have people working on it behind the scenes that do care for the characters and that do care for this franchise as a whole and want to see it back in the good graces of the fans that got made it as well as it once was in the first place. However tho those fans won't be able to do that if they don't know about the show coming out in the first place and while yes good word of mouth could also get the numbers up on Disney+ for the show weather or not those numbers will stay high for episodes 3 and 4 is not certain and that's something that would have been more certain if this show was marketed alot more better as there's not been one single social media post about the show which is where alot of this shows target fanbase will be this is not to say that they won't watch the trailer on Youtube and want to check it out because they could do but only doing one teaser and one full trailer weeks ago with nothing inbetween does mean that people are going to forget about this show even being a thing in the first place. 

Let's talk about Devon Izara as there is something that is revealed about this character in the shows second episode which is something that if you payed close attention to what was said by Eeko-Dio Daki in episode one it's something that you'll be able to work out right away. As in episode one just as she's about to steal some fruit he says "you can always rely on the kindness of strangers" now this might not seem like nothing but that is something that a Jedi would say with that one little line of dialog also being something that makes Devon not steal the fruit which again shows that she's good at heart which again is something that a Jedi is. This is something that makes the thing that gets revealed about her in episode two not all that surprising when it is something that should been a big shocking moment and yet as it was already pretty much signposted in the previous episode as heck she doesn't give Brander her name when she gets taken to the local police station thus hinting even further that she's on the run this is something is a bit of a negative aspect for me personally as if the makers of these episodes wanted that moment to be this big earth shattering reveal then they really should have had scenes in the first episode that show that she can be a bit a bad character like maybe she takes a minuet before deciding not to steal the fruit or maybe she given Brander a fake name just small things like that would go along way to make her big reveal as a force user in episode two all the more shocking. Yet on the flip of this tho is the face that we don't get to see Devon use her Jedi skills for all of the first episode with her only outing herself in the second episode when she has to stop a freeway from falling on her and even then she needed help to do it which is something that does say that she took the fact that she was essentially on the run very seriously.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty eight minuets and eighteen second whilst episode two of this show has /had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and nine seconds. With episode one being the more better running time this is despite the fact that episode two might have the running time that's more similar to what the other running times will be like for the rest of this show with both of these episodes having the right amount of plot there to cover there respective running times yet tho episode one has the better running time as everything about the show is just so good and therefor with episode one being longer it does give us the audience more time to get to know these new characters and to spend more time in the world of this show. However tho tho both of the episodes really don't use there respective running times all that wisely as none of them take the time to fully develop there plots this is something that does somewhat make sense as these are the first episodes of a new show and therefor of course the episodes aren't going to have plots that are that well developed but they both still could have taken the time to add things to either plot that makes them more well developed then what they are in the first place. This is also the same case for the episodes lack of character character development as of course none of this shows characters are going to be that well developed but it still would have been nice if the ground work was done for the character development to feel more natural since as of right now it does feel like that any character development that the characters cold get will come out of nowhere and be against just who they are as characters but I really will admit that these episodes really do have some really pacing to them tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk abut the actual action that' actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I im all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes was in all honesty really good. With both of the shows first two episodes having some really good action scenes in them both of which do tell that Lucasfilm does still know how to give us some really cool looking action scenes as that's what all of the action scenes un both of these episodes are with it being helped by the fact that both the animation and the lighting really do help to make the actin in these episodes come alive as there action scenes that are just lit by Maul's lightsaber which is just such a cool idea. With the best action scene in both of these episodes being quite hard to choose as both episodes really do have some really good action in them however if push did indeed come to shove i'd say that the best action scene in both episodes is the escape scene in episode one as we get to see Maul take on several police officers all at once without even breaking a sweat and while yes that scene is very similar to the one in Rogue One here it's done in such that it does make it feel new again as we've never seen Maul in a situation where he has to take on this many people just to get to this one prisoner and that is something that does make that scene so much fun to watch with it being helped by the fact that we get to see Maul do a lot of really cool moves with his double ended lightsaber with these episodes action scenes being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if you didn't know about this show in the first place now you do and it is a show that does come very highly recommend as while it might not be the show that saves Star Wars it is the show that proves there really is still life to be found in this franchise yet as that's how good that these episodes are 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 both of these episodes in this very post and as this is only my first impressions of this show there won't be a rating given but if i'm still watching the show when the final episode airs then I will do a review of the revival as a whole.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post 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 post 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.

Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan Review

Missing episodes is classic Doctor Who is a cross that any Doctor Who fan just has to deal with as alot of classic Doctor Who is still missing to this very day. However about a month ago now we got confirmation that not one but two missing episodes have been found with the BBC then promising to have them up on BBC IPlayer over the easter holidays well at 6am this morning as of the time of this writing that's exactly what they did as they added episodes one and three of this still mostly missing serial and well I thought that i'd review the episodes that we still have with us so please do bare in mind that this review is being episodes one , two , three , five and ten of this serial and not the serial as whole and so then join me as i review the serial that sees not one but technically two characters die really gruesome deaths with the episode in episode in question being called simply just "The Daleks' Master Plan" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is The Daleks are launching an all out assault on just one planet but the entire universe and it's up to The Doctor , Steven and new companion Katarina to stop them before it's far to late. 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. Even tho there are still huge portions of this episodes plot still missing due to the fact that there are still a WHOPPING seven episodes still left to find you can still the potential in this episodes plot as it does have the potential to be one of the best plots in the William Hartnell era of the show due to the show that we not only get to see The Doctor being being pushed to his limits and beyond them but we also get to see just how deadly that the daleks really can be. Both of these are things that do make this episodes be all the more interesting as so often we get told that the daleks are this big universe shattering threat and yet we barely get to see them act like it especially in classic Doctor Who which fair enough could always be drawn up to budget issues but here it is something that does work as by the time the plot of the episode starts the daleks have already taken over a planet yet with The Doctor even in modern Doctor Who we never really get to see him pushed to his limits and yet here due to the events of this episode we get to see what that looks like and it is something that does make this episodes plot be all the more better because of it. Whilst it is of course still hard to fully judge this episodes plot as there still lots of episodes missing what we can gather is that this episode does have a really good plot to it 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 William Hartnell as The Doctor , Peter Purves as Steven Taylor and Adrienne Hill as Katarina. Also starring in this episode is Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom , Kevin Stoney as Mavic Chen , Nicholas Courtney as Bret Vyon , Brian Cant as Kert Gantry , Pamela Greer as Lizan , Philip Anthony as Roald , Michael Guest as The Interviewer , Peter Butterworth as The Meddling Monk , Roy Evans as Trantis , Douglas Sheldon as Kirksen , Dallas Cavell as Bors , Geoffrey Cheshire as Garge , Maurice Browning as Karlton , Roger Avon as Daxtar , James Hall as Borkar , Bill Meilen as Froyn , John Herrington as Rhynmal , Peter Hawkins as the voice of the Daleks and David Graham as the voice of the Daleks.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With all of this episodes actors turning in some really good performances with this being something that's not really new to this show as this show even in it's early years did have some really good acting in it something which you can tell was going to be the case by the fact that alot of this episodes actors are a bunch of really good actors in there own right as alot of them do bring something that's unique to them not only to there characters but to the episode on the whole. With the best actor in this episode being William Hartnell which yes is a bit of cliche thing to say but it is also something that's true as we get to see in this episode not only how much fun he was having playing the role of the Doctor but also how threatening and stern that he could be as in episode ten he demands that the daleks release his friends something which they have to agree with as he has the mineral that they need with that being just how good of an actor that he is as you do believe that he could take on the daleks without even breaking a sweat. 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 of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode. 

Character wise all of the episodes characters of course including the shows main characters are all done really well. With them all acting how you would expect them to act in the given situation with The Doctor going from gleeful to meaning at a drop of a heart and Steven being the team regular action man bottom line is if you liked those characters in there other episodes then odds are your going to like them in this episode as the makers of this episode do take really good care in giving us heroes that we not only like but that we also want to succeed with the only character who doesn't get alot of screen time in this episode being Katarina herself which given what does happen to her in this episode is something that does make sense. However tho it's because of what happens to her that the character should have had alot more screen time given to her as she does come across as being a really fun character however given that she only appeared in the final episode of the previous adventure it would have made sense if the makers of this episode did give her more of a time to shone in this episode. With the episodes guest characters like for example both Bret and Sara being really well handled and getting alot of screen time in there own right with Bret being a military man who is very by the books and Sara is pretty much a female version of Steven only she isn't as trusting of a person then he is which is something that does make the dynamic alot of fun to watch as we get to see that he is willing to trust anyone who appears to be friendly to him with this being The Doctor rubbing of on him and yet due to the fact that Sara has never travelled with The Doctor she is more battle hardened as it does take a while for her to trust anyone and in her surviving early episode she doesn't trust The Doctor and his friends at all which is something that make her character quite interesting.

As was mentioned earlier on in this review this review is purely being based on the surviving episodes of this serial as there are still seven episodes still missing. Given that it's taken us THIRTEEN years to just get these two episodes I truly do think that the best thing for this adventure right now would be to animate the rest of the episodes and release them all together with the surviving episodes on DVD with this being something that the BBC could very easily do as they did release The Evil Of The Daleks which is seven episodes long and like this one does have missing episodes so it is something that they could do in the near future. Heck they could even then take the time to fully up on the cliffhanger from Galaxy 4 and animate Mission To The Unknown which is a prequel to this episode and have that be included as a bonus feature on the DVD along with the surviving episodes from this episode and while of course it would be preferrable to see all of the episodes returned of course it would but we do have to think realistically here as odds are those episodes are no longer with us or are damaged beyond repair therefor animating the rest of the venture would be the best way to go about getting the whole adventure not not only out on BBC IPlayer but also out to the general public to watch and enjoy as well. With this being something that we know for a fact that the BBC could do ant anytime as they have the sound recordings for all of the episodes due to the fact that they released both an audio book of the story and a Vinyl Record of the episode both of which were done using those original sound recordings with there truly being nothing to stop the BBC in releasing the rest of the story animated and given how well just releasing these two episodes have gone down that might be the wisest move that they could possibly make.

To be frank this episode was always going to be a treat as it does mean that we get to see more of the classic era of the show that might well have been lost forever due to the fact that there's all that much surviving material out there or this episode. Heck the BBC even did something that they never ever do when classic episodes of the show are returned to them as usually they'll just put out a press release and that'll be the end of it but here tho not only did they put out a press release they've also put out a few videos across all of there Doctor Who social media accounts they even just today put up a picture saying that the episodes are now up on BBC IPlayer and there even holding a special screening of both of the episodes as well. This says that even they know they this episode was something truly special as you don't do all of this for no reason you have to know that this is going to get peoples attention which in all fairness is something that they did do with these two episodes. With the fact that they even released the episodes onto Iplayer the day before the screening being something that says that they do care about the fans of this show which again begs the question of why not animate the rest of the episodes as now we have about half of the surviving episodes so it is something that it is not only something that they can do but it's also something that could do quite cheaply as well and it would give us all the chance to see the rest of this truly amazing story as while the episodes that we do have for this episode are good and they do give us alot of potential you can see the slight quality dip from say episode five to episode ten which given that this episode does have two different writers is something that des make alot of sense. 

While two of the still missing episodes of this story are really dark as they feature the on screen  deaths of both Katarina and Sara both of which appear to be shockingly gruesome with Katarina being sucked out of an air lock and Sara quite literally aging to death. We also get to see just how ruthless that the Daleks can be as we get to see them kill someone in cold blood just because they believed that he was a traitor to them all the while Mavic Chen looks away not out of disgust but out of boredom as it was something that just didn't interest him and heck we not only get to see them kill someone in the jungle in either episode 2 or 3 but we also get to his body. This is something that Doctor Who would very rarely if ever do with them only really doing it when it made things more dramatic and the villains more scary both of which is done in this episode as while we have always known just how scary that the daleks could be as we've seen them kill in cold blood before we then don't get to see that same persons body after the fact and yet this is something that they take great pride in showing us. Infact one could argue that the daleks seen in this episode are perhaps the most scariest that they've even been due to the fact that director Douglas Camfield uses shadows alot of the time to hide the things that are meant to be scary and sometimes this works like for example there is a great shot where we see a Dalek creepy out of the shadows to kill someone other times it doesn't work like for example in this same story where a monster that is meant to be scary clearly misses his target and yet the person still falls over dead and heck even before the daleks kill someone in there own base of operations they slowly circle and trap him in before instead of yelling there signature exterminate they yell execution just something like that makes them more scary.

Now then whilst I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember what this episodes grand total running time was I do that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running of roughly two hours. With there only being five surviving episodes of the show yet this is something that doesn't hinder the episode altho it is something that does make it hard to work if this is a solid running time for the episode to have as the story is meant to be twelve episodes long and even then one of them might be considered a filler episode however as it is the episode does have the right amount of plot to cover this amount of running time. Yet this is where it does become hard to judge this episodes running time as while the episode as of right now doesn't use it's running time due to the fact that it doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot all of that plot development very well could com in the episodes that we don't have with us which is something that would be understandable due to the fact that the episode in it's current form does spend alot of time bouncing from planet to planet yet in those missing episodes we very well could get scenes that add to the plot of the episode and that make it more complex then how it appears to be in it's current form. The same thing is also true for the episodes lack of character development as while we know for for a fact that the character of Katarina will never get alot of character development due to the fact that she dies quite early on into this episode Sara for all we know could get some character development which would make her death ear the end of episode twelve all the more tragic 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 gave to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Classic Doctor Who was never and will never be known for having great action in it especially when it comes to the middle of it's stories as they do usually save the big action set action pieces for the ending of the story which is fair enough as that's where you'd want to see alot of big action set pieces take place in the first place and yet here in this episode they do have one or two very small scale type action scenes take place both near the start of the story and near the end of episode ten. With the best action scene in these episodes being where a group of daleks light what might be there metallic claws on fire through the use of a flamethrower just too try and get into The Doctors and while granted that's not an action scene compared to the other action scene in this episode which actually is an action it comes off all the more better as that second action scene just boils down to a group of men hitting the Daleks with sticks before they all get killed which just isn't fun but the first one on the other hand does go to show you just how far that they are willing to go to access the TARDIS as they are perfectly willing to burn down an entire jungle just to get what they want with that being something that does make them feel all more scary as now we know that they won't think twice about killing you if it helps them the achieve there goals with the rest of the episodes action being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it is so great to finally have episodes one and three of this episode back where it belongs and hopefully with the amount of goodwill that the BBC are earning from the Doctor Who fanbase for well done that they've handled the release of just these two episodes it might inspire other film collectors to check there attics or garage's and see if they have any missing Doctor Who episodes as this story just from these episodes is so good that it does need to be seen by all 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 an as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all f 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 . U , Tardis . Wiki and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Tardis . Wiki 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 Tardis . Wiki 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 Ice Warriors Review

This is actually turning out to be a pretty historic week not just for Doctor Who fans in general but for classic Doctor Who fans. As just prior to me writing this review it was announced when the episodes of The Dalek's Masterplan would be up on BBC IPlayer which is a historic ting in it's it's own right with the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today being historic for a different reason and so then join me as I review the episode that sees some somewhat classic Doctor Who monsters make there debut with the episode in question being called simply just "The Ice Warriors" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is The Doctor and his companies Jaimie and Victoria have to stop an alien that's hell bent on not only taking over the earth but also on storming a nearby base to get the weapons that might hold the key to there destruction. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. While the episodes plot isn't as good as say The Daleks or even The Tenth Planet for example both of which much like this one also saw the debut of iconic Doctor Who villains what this episodes plot does have going for it is the fact that it does take the time to build up suspense and it does take the time to really get going with the episode just letting you sit in this setting for a good portion of the first episode as it could be argued that the episodes overall plot doesn't really get going until the end of that first episode. This is something that does both work for and against the episode as it works for the episode in a way that it does allow you to get to know the other human characters in the story but it works against the episode in that for alot of that first episode nothing really happens plot wise which does make alot of that first episode feel more redundant as they very easily could have had this plot be the plot for a good five part episode of the show and nothing plot wise would be affected by it 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 Patrick Troughton as The Doctor , Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon and Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield. Also starring in this episode is Peter Barkworth as Clent , Peter Sallis as Penley , Wendy Gifford as Miss Garrett , Angus Lennie as Storr , Peter Diamond as Davis , George Waring as Arden , Malcolm Taylor as Walters , Roy Skelton  as the voice of the Computer , Roger Jones as Zondal , Sonny Caldinez as Turoc , Michael Attwell as Isbur , Tony Harwood as Rintan and Bernard Bresslaw as Varga.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This show in it's classic era did always have some really good acting in it with this being due to the fact that the show would always cast some really good actors in it and if you want proof of that all you need to do is look at the actors that in this episode as alot of the episodes actors do turn in some really good performances in this episode with there only being one or two side actors that aren't as good as the rest of the actors in this episode. With the best actor in this episode being Peter Sallis as even tho alot of us are more used to him being this really funny be it from shows like Last Of Summer The Wine or from the Wallace & Gromit films here he does show that he was also a really good dramatic actor with him getting alot of the episodes more dramatic lines all of which he does pull off really well with this no doubt being helped by the fact that this episode director Derek Martinus did director alot of the more well known Doctor Who stories and all of which have some really good acting in them which does show that he knows how to get some really good performances out of his actors. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by he fact that the episodes script is just so good that all this episodes 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.

Doing the animation for this episode and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Qurios Entertainment. 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. If we are being honest here these animated Doctor Who reconstructions have never really had any great animation to them especially alot of these ones that had episodes that were fully animated with this being due to two things the first thing being the fact that the BBC has always given these animated DVD releases very small budgets to work with and therefor they wouldn't have been able to do alot with it from an animation point of view which would be fine if they had alot of time to work on them which leads to the second issue as these animated episodes have neve had alot of time given to them. As alot of them are made and released within say six months to a year therefor the animators don't have the time to go back and do a second pass at a scene are at a character. Which is why alot of the mouth movements not just in this episode but in alot of these early releases look a little off and while yes this episode does have moments where they have some solid animation alot of the time the characters and backgrounds just look lifeless with both of these issues being things that could have been fixed if the BBC gave them more time and more money to fix these issues instead of rushing them out to meet a deadline heck there's even one shot in either episode two or three where it really looks like The Doctor's arm has come off of his body as that's how bad that the animation can be in this episode. 

For all three of you Doctor Who fans that don't know this episode does have four surviving episodes with only episodes two and three being fully animated. For a classic sixties era of Doctor Who where alot of the episodes are still missing the fact that they are this many episodes still surviving is a good thing as while we do have alot of the William Hartnell era and a good portion of the Patrick Troughton era there are still a good portion of episodes from both era's that are either missing or missing presumed destroyed and while that will always be bad thing as it does mean that while we are as close as we've even been to having Doctor Who fully back at the BBC as along as those episodes are still missing we do have to rely on these animated reconstructions to help to bring these classic stories back to life. Heck they have proven with the release of Shada that when these animated reconstructions are done well then they can be really good and while Shada will always be a different case when compared to something like Marco Polo or The Massacre for example where all of the episodes are missing we do have to hold out hope that one day we can get more classic Doctor Who back as these are stories that should be seen be fans old and new alike and yet due to the BBC's way of doing things back in the sixties that now might be a hard thing to achieve even through the use of animation as we never really know of anyone recorded the audio for the episode was it was fir being broadcast or if anyone took any telesnaps for these missing episodes as those are things that the animators use as a point of reference when there making these animated reconstructions.

As the title of this episode would suggest this episode does mark the debut of The Ice Warriors with them being creatures that were frozen in ice thousands if not millions of years ago. To be fair as a concept for a good villain the ice warriors do hold up really well as they are essentially villains out of time which is a cool concept and the episode does go as far as it possibly could have done with that idea however tho episode doesn't really make them seem like a threat due to the fact that the only somewhat threatening that they do is kidnap Victoria and possibly kill of a side character that's not all that important to the episodes plot in the first place. With there not really being anything that makes them standout from each other as all of the ice warriors in this episode not only look but also sound and act exactly the same as each ither with the only way your able to tell who Varga is being the fact that's literally credited as being the leader in this episodes ending credits when it would have been nice if they was something added to there designs either in animated form or in the surviving live action episodes that did help to make them stand out from a design a point of view as that would have made it a whole more easier for us to the audience to work out just which ice warrior is talking as well as which ice warrior is chasing Victoria through what might be valley. However tho the episode does get a few things right with the characters like the fact that they have an almost snake like voice to them where the characters heavily pronounce or make alot of words with S's or C's in them really longer which is something that does make them creepy and there plan while it is the stereotypical villain plan is something that does work for these characters.

There's one character that really annoyed me during this episode and that's Victoria Waterfield herself as all she does in this episode is either cry or scream with there being very little breaks inbetween either of them. Whilst this does make sense for her character given the fact that her character was from the victorian era and isn't quite as used to seeing monsters on a daily basis like what both Jaime and The Doctor are given the fact that she would have been with them for a good few episodes before this episode even started out. Yet she's still screaming and crying all of the time and while this was something that the makers of this show had alot of the classic era companions do here it seemed like something that was only done to remind us that this character was still in the story as while she can't add all that much to the plot as there really isn't alot to her character in the first place the episode could have taken the time to show us why she belongs in the TARDIS in the first place as while we know why The Doctor took her in as her feather died at the end of Evil Of The Daleks she doesn't really get a chance to prove why she belongs in the TARDIS with her pretty much just being there so that Jaime has someone that he can act more like a big brother towards and playfully tease and that's really when given the fact that her father was a scientist and the fact that she is good with people Victoria could have used her people skills in this episode to help the human scientists on a more emotional level. While that's not alot granted it is still something then what this episode has her doing which is basically just be a prisoner of the ice warriors and cry and scream and while her crying and screaming alot is fine for one or two scenes it does become an issue when alot of her screen time is just her either crying or screaming.

Now then I cannot for the absolute life of me remember whatever this episodes grand total running time even was but I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly two hours and thirty minuets. With this episode being six twenty five minuet episodes long and to be frank this episode didn't need to be six episodes as you very easily could have told this entire story and not lose anything that's important to the stories plot with this being due to the fact that alot of the first episode is just pointless filler that adds nothing to the plot of the episode as a whole this is despite the fact that this episode really does have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of time. Yet due to the fact that the episode has more episodes to it then it really needed as all that first episode is drag down the rest of the story when it would flowed much more better if alot of the key things from the first episode were included in the second episode. With the episode not even using it's running time all that wisely due to the fact that this episode doesn't really take the time to fully develop it's plot this is despite the fact that the episode has more then enough episodes to give it's plot some kind of development and yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode don't do that and heck they could have used episode one t add things to the plot of the episode that they could then pay off later on in the story as that would then justify this story being six episodes along. The episode doesn't use take the time to fully develop any of it's characters which is fine for the main characters as then you could argue that they have the rest of the other episodes to get there character development but for the characters that are exclusive to this episode they really should have gotten some character development and yet they all feel like underbaked characters 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 OK at best. While early Doctor Who isn't as known for its action like modern day Doctor Who is when we do get some action it was usually something that did make the episode stand out and while we do get some good action in this episode like for example the chase in what might be a valley being a really good example of that sadly tho this episodes action just isn't that good. With there not really being alot of action that really stood out as the suits that they used for the ice warriors are done in a way that it makes it look like the actors inside of them can't really move around all that much but at a push the best action in this whole entire episode in when Penley uses a weapon the human scientists have at full blast and it causes the ice warriors ship to explode and that's really it and even then that action scene doesn't really stand out all that much as we never get to see alot of what happens to the ice warriors themselves as all of what we do see in from the humans point of view which is fine and it does work for tension showing from there point of view but given the fact that the episode had been building up these characters as a big threat and therefor we should have seen them really be involved more in the scene and not really be treated more as an afterthought in their own episode with the rest of the episodes action being nothing more the OK at best in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst this episode isn't the best representation of both classic Doctor Who and these Doctor Who animated reconstructions there is still alot of good to be found in this episode it's just that you have to sit through alot of the bad stuff to get to it as that's how painfully average that this episode is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as al of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.

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Daredevil: Born Again "The Northern Star" SPOILER FILLED Review

 

It is a very rare thing for a show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be given a season 2 as all of them end after there first season. Which is something that does make this show kind of special as it was greenlit with a two season order with each season being really around nine or eight episodes each and will second season has just started and since I loved the first season it really only made sense that I check out this episode and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episode that sees Matt get a new suit with the episode in question being called simply just "The Northern Star" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is sometime after the events of the last season New York is still truly under Fisk's thumb and Matt has to try and find any kind of evidence that can be linked to Fisk in order to help to bring him down. 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 doing a good job of not only catching us up with where the characters are now but also in carrying on the plot for the first season with that plot still being as gripping as it was back in season one yet just based off of this episode it does look like that this season won't add anything to the shows overall plot which is something that does somewhat make sense as this shows plot was devised mostly with that two season order in mind and yet the plot of this episode still does feel like it's own unique thing as you don't really have to have watched the previous season to get the plot of this episode. Yet the thing that does let down this episodes plot is the fact that it's not the strongest plot to start the season out with and with any TV show you always want to start with your best foot forward with this episodes plot feeling very weak and like it was thought up very quickly as alot of what was said in this episode does appear to be nothing all that major with the plot of this episode 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 Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk. Also starring in this episode is Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page , Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn , Matthew Lillard as Mr. Charles , Tony Dalton as Jack Duquesne , Michael Gandolfini as Daniel Blake , Nikki M. James as Kirsten McDuffie , Arty Froushan as Buck Cashman , Genneya Walton as BB Urich , Zabryna Guevara as Sheila Rivera , Clark Johnson as Cherry , Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk , Hamish Allan-Headley as Connor Powell , Ty Jones as Steverud , John Benjamin Hickey as Benjamin Hochberg , Thomas Cokenias as Achilleo Kyriaco , Yorgos Karamihos as Christofi Savva , Annie Parisse as Ariana , Lenny Platt as Juan Gomez and Michael Anthony Cruz as Longshoreman.

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 this shows main actors giving us some really good performances which given just whom is starring in this episode is something that was quite frankly to be expected where te acting does somewhat start to faulter is with it's guest actors as alot of them either overact in every scene that there in or show next to no emotion in scenes that do require emotion with the best example of this being in the episodes opening where a ships captain and his possibly second in command are talking while Daredevil is attacking there ship and yet they both don't show any kind of urgency as they play it off as being just another day at the office for them when this is something that would require alot of emotion. With the best actor in this episode being Matthew Lillard as Mr. Charles as not only does Matthew Lillard prove once again why he's a good actor and why he's having some really good few years acting wise but he does come across as being a less cocky version of Fisk himself with him and Vincent D'Onofrio really having some really good chemistry together which is something that does make all of there scenes together all the mor fun to watch. With the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will 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.

 

Doing the CGI for this episode is Ingenuity Studios and the legends and the greats that are currently over at RISE Visual Effects Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode mainly using CGI in the way that it should be used as it's only used to extend sets and that's really it so no need to to fear there is no CGI smoke in this episode with the episode very much like the show on the whole preferring to us practical effects over CGI effects with the episodes practical effects working really well and blending it well with the episodes CGI. The episode does even manage to gave some fairly convincing looking water effects which is impressive on it's own as water is one of the most difficult things to get right on a feature film budget let alone on a streaming show budget and while they don't quite get it right here given that the scene that it appears in as at night it is forgivable even taking into account that this is a Disney show while there are some kind of bad looking green screen effects done on certain characters it's not really all that distracting it's just something that you will notice and that's really it but to be fair to this episode tho this show isn't an effects heavy show it never was in the first season and it looks like that's going to be true for this season as well and therefor for them to have good looking effects that blend in really well with what filmed for real is still something that's truly special to be hold.

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To be blunt Fisk in this episode doesn't really have that much on an impact on the episode as a whole as the only thing that he does is tell his task force officers to track down the two people on the ship and have a meeting with Mr. Charles. Which fair enough is still a solid enough way to use the character but when you bare in mind that season one of this show used the character so well by showing him being this manipulative person who is really willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals it makes what they do with him in this episode feel less impactful as they could have shown him and his wife filming fake videos to release to the public which is something that does get shown quite alot in this episode and they could have shown him getting mad when he finds out that one of his boats was attacked just something that would let us the audience know that Daredevil is starting to get to him and that he's starting to loose it. Yet at the same time tho the fact that they don't do any of that does make you wonder what he's really thinking as we all know from both the Netflix show and this shows first season that Wilson Fisk is a character who is always thinking two or three moves ahead of everyone else and therefor when he discovers that one of his boats was attacked he would already be thinking of ways to hurt or persons responsible for the attack in the first place and heck it could even be argued that this character is more scary when we don't see him react to it as we know just how evil that this character really is in the first place and while it is of course far two early to work out just what his grand scheme is for New York we know that it is something that is going to be scary just due to the fact that he is a creepy and scary character.

Much like how in the first episode of the previous season where they killed of Foggy Nelson here in this episode they hint at the fact that Cherry might be dead. Due to the fact that at the end of the episode when members of the task force come to interrogate him they give him a beating which his heart can't handle and starts to suffer a heart attack right there as Matt as Daredevil is trying to fight them off. With it being that very incident that made this review got from a SPOILER FREE review to a SPOILER FILLED review as while Cherry isn't as beloved of a character as Foggy was he was still a core member of Matt's inner circle of friends and having the episode eve hint at him dying was something that will be shocking thing to see but it is one that could have been handled more better due to the fact that they have it be the episodes cliff hanger which don't get wrong is a great cliff hanger to have as it makes you want to watch episode two of this show. On the flip side of that tho is the fact that it's pretty obvious that there not going to kill him off as then they would risk repeating everything that they did in the first season with Foggy's death and even then his death only worked due to the fact that the character appeared on the Netflix show and therefor the fans of that show already have that connection to his character where as here with Cherry he's a newly introduced character and therefor having him be killed of in a way that granted is still quite shocking to see just wouldn't have the same effect as when Foggy was killed of. However tho having Cherry be the one to possibly die would be a great way to rise the stakes a little bit as it would still tell us the audience that if this character can die then maybe Matt himself can die.

Also in that ending scene we do get a hint that Bullseye is going to be playing a big part in either the rest of the season or the next episode. As we see a knife come into Cherry's apartment and take out all of the task force agents which if so is going to make for an interesting next few episodes as it was him that killed of Foggy so having him and Matt sort of form a team even tho that both don't like each other is something that will make it interesting to see if they both can get along for the greater good and heck even the tease of him coming back in the next episode is a solid way to end the episode as now we the audience get to make theories on if he's going to be working with Matt or not or if he's saving Matt so that he can take him down himself. All of which are things that would work well for his character as while I never saw that much of the Netflix show based on his few appearances in the previous season of this show he does seem like the kind of character who would want to save the man that did try to kill him just so that he could be the one to deliver the killing blow himself but of course there could be another reason as to why he was teased at the end of this episode all of which do make this show fun to watch as there are so many theories that we all could come up with and the best part of all is that until any of them are confirmed by the show itself they could all be true and yet knowing the makers of this show there going to do the one thing that none of us would have thought of what it ends up being. While yes it would have worked just as well if they did show us the character even if it's just quickly very early on in the episode the fact that they didn't do that makes his possible return at the end of the episode all the more exciting.

Now then this film has / had an exact gran total running time of exactly fifty minuets and forty two seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this shows episodes to have in the first place with this episode having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot with the plot of the episode feeling like it's playing second fiddle to everything else that's going on in the episode and yet when you compare it to the plot of the first episode of the previous season that episodes plot was as well developed as it was going to be given the fact that it was the first episode of a new show and yet here in this episode it felt like the makers of this show forgot how to make a good first episode as everything just felt very by the numbers with very little of what the episodes plot does do feeling earned. With the same thing being true for the episodes characters as well altho here you could make the argument that all of them don't really need there character development as alot of the older characters would of course have had the Netflix show and the first season of this show to get there character development which is fair enough and for the new characters you could make the case that they are going to be getting there character development in future episodes of this season but either way it still would have been nice if we got to find something literally anything about this episodes new characters as we find out nothing about Mr. Charles outside of possibly where was born and we get to find out nothing about Ariana this is despite the fact that she's technically a major character in this episode 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 gave to actually talk about the action 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. With the episode having all of the really good action that you have come to expect from this show not only from the previous season but also from the Netflix show as well with the episodes action looking as impressive as you'd want it to be given the fact that it's Daredevil and to the episodes credit it doesn't shy away from showing the hero getting beaten up something which they very easily could have done but the fact that they didn't do that does oddly make Matt Murdock seem more human. With the best action scene un the whole entire episode being the episodes opening scene as we get to see Matt as daredevil take on several guys basically at once in the cargo area of a ship with him flipping them into boxes and knocking them all out in really creative ways all which does make that action really fun to watch as much like how the action in the opening of James Bond film gets you excited for the rest of the film it could be argued that that's what that opening action scene does. The episode does even somewhat contrast that by having a more smaller action scene at the end of the episode where daredevil now has to take about four task force agents in Cherry's home with Daredevil winning the fight until he hears Cherry's heart and realizes what's going on which does give those agents the moment that they need to go in for the kill with them only being stopped by Bullseye's knife attacking and killing all four of them with the rest of the action in this episode being really good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall for an episode that was barely promoted as there's only really been one trailer and three posters released for this new season this episode is still a really good as it does a good job of setting up the rest of the season whilst doing the one thing that all good first episodes should do and that's make you want to watch episode two as that's just how good that this episode really is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well a all of the bad thigs that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does ern itself a grand old score of exactly 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 an girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from 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.