My SPOILER FILLED First Impressions Of Lanterns

It's safe to say that interms of cinematic output the DCU has been of to a rocky start and yet when it comes to it's TV output it's been a roaring success. With nearly all of the shows that are set in the new DCU being big hits well now there is another show out there and well I just had to check out this first episodes the very first chance that I got to see if the DCU can bounce back from Supergirl and so then join me as I gibe you my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the show that doesn't lack the color green with the show in question being called simply just "Lanterns" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is veteran Green Lantern Hal Jordan and his trainee John Stewart have to investigate a small town when a group of people are murdered. 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. To be frank this episodes plot could have been a lot more better as this is the first episode of a new show and therefor you do want to start out with your best foot forward and this is something that isn't really coming across in this episode as the plot does feel thin at best. With the episode itself not really giving it's plot alot of focus which is something that it really should have done as it does make the plot of the episode feel more like an afterthought when compared to anything else in the episode, heck the episode doesn't really devote that much time to it's main plot as it spends more time in setting up the rest of the show which is fine as you do have to set up alot of things in the first episode of a new show but here it comes at the expense of the episodes plot and it does get to the point where you are left wondering what the main plot of the episode even is as so little time is spent on it that you do have to remind yourself of what the plot of the episode is even meant to be in the first place and is something that does end up doing more harm to the episodes plot then it does good with the plot of this episode not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan / Green Lantern and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart / Green Lantern. Also starring in this episode is Kelly Macdonald as Sheriff Kerry Kane , Garret Dillahunt as Will Macon , Poorna Jagannathan as Zoe Macon , Jason Ritter as Billy Macon , Chris Coy as Waylon Sanders , Michael Ocampo as Deputy Lopez , Cristina Marie Frias as Janet Sloane , Shirl Boe as Nice Woman , Doug Long as Thick Neck , Ben Strickler as Sheriff Simpson and Tony Toboada as Sheriff Everett.

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. To fair here this episodes acting is the kind of acting that you would expect to see in the first episode of a new TV show as all oof the shows actors are still trying to find there characters and that does mean that the acing in this episode won't be as good as the acting in say the season finale for example and while there are a few bright spots in this episode acting wise with the likes of both Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre being good examples of this the rest of the episodes acting just felt rather flat and lifeless. With the best actor in this episode being Kyle Chandler with him making for a really good older version of Hal Jordan with him making what could have been seen as being a dull take on the character still seem charming with his performance reflecting that and heck he even has some really good chemistry with Aaron Pierre which is perfect for this show and this episode as there chemistry is going to carry the show moving forward, Kyle while he isn't as good as Ryan Reynolds was as Hal he does give you a good performance that while it does have room to grow his performance is of to a good start with his natural charisma really shining through in his performance. With the acting that's inn this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this episodes actors anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does help to harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the really legends and the greats that are currently over at Legacy Effects. 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 really good. There shocking isn't that much CGI in the episode was the episode barely even using any kind of effects at all which for a superhero show is oddly refreshing to see as alot of the time they are filled to the brim with withe CGI effects and yet here in this little show just by going off of this first episode alone there really isn't that many effects to be seen in the episode. With the only three effects that I saw in the episode being a scene with Hal taking off flying , the numerous shots of Hal using the ring and an explosion and that's really it and to be fair to this episode they all looked really good or as good as they could be given that this is still a TV show after all and those do come with certain limitations when it comes to things like the budget as while this episode doesn't really have alot of effects in it when it does have some effects they hit all the more harder as we are not being bombarded with tons of effects like we do in alot of modern superhero movies which does make it refreshing to see a superhero show actually hold itself back and not do everything inside off of a computer with the effects that we do get looking really good with the digital double for Hal looking fairly impressive and the effects used to the create the things that the ring makes looking as good as they could have done with the the one effect is a slight let down being the explosion near the end of the episode but that really it with the rest of the effects looking really good.

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Thankfully the one thing that should never an effect isn't an effect as we get to see what looks to be a fully practical Green Lantern suit. Which we do get to see Hal wear at the start of the episode and while he suit is only seen very briefly in the episode it does look really good and is easily better then the CGI mess of a suit that they used in the 2011 film of course there is always a chance that the suit was done in CGI as as of this writing there hasn't been any VFX breakdowns for the episode released but if it is a CGI suit then one does have to wonder why they bothered to do it as the 2011 film proved that something like that doesn't work and if it's a fully practical suit then it does look really good with the suit being a slightly more modified version of the suit used in the comics. This episode does have someone who does know his way around science fiction television directing as this is episode is directed by James Hawes whom has directed five episodes of modern Doctor Who it's 2005 and 2006 seasons respectively and to be fair having him be the one to make the first two episodes of the show is a smart choice as he would have had that expirence not only working in science fiction on as mentioned Doctor Who but also working on American science fiction as he made an episode of Raised By Wolves with him being able to make the script by show creators Chris Mundy , Damon Lindelof and Tom King somehow seem more filmable this doesn't make there script good but James does show a skill for being able to make sense of the script and knowing what to film with something like Hal's practical suit being something that did need to be filmed as it shows us just how the Hal of the past is different from the Hal of 2016.

There really is nothing all that interesting about the episode and this something that does make alot of sense as the makers of this show are more used to tell stories that last years and drip feeding us information. This is something that would be perfectly OK if this show was a bogstandard twenty two episode season yet it's not it's eight episodes and we don't even know not only what the season plot is but also who the main villain of the show is as this is something that really should have been set up in this episode and while there is some merit to drip feeding us information in a shorter season show the show still needs to have talented writers that know what there doing to make it work and judging by this first episode that is something that it the makers of this show are missing. Again this is not to say that having information given to us slowly couldn't work as somethin like Game Of Thrones has proven that it can but inorder for it to work all of the episodes have to knock it out off the park and find someway of advancing the plot where as with this episode it takes so long in starting of the episodes main plot that it forgets to start of the plot for the season this is something that very easily could have been fixed just by removing the pointless prolog scene with a young John Stewart and his family as that scene adds nothing to the episode out of John giving one throwaway character some advice and that's it and heck that prolog scene is even quite confusing as John's brothers act as if there father is going to abuse them if they he catches them watching TV and yet he doesn't do that he just takes John outside puts an apple on his head and shoots the apple off him and that's which makes you wonder why his brothers were acting like he was going to abuse them in the first place.

This episode does take place across three different time periods with the prolog taking place in 1986 with the rest of the episode taking place in 2016 and the final scene of the episode taking place in 2026. This something that does look like will be happening across the rest of the show as well as we know from how this episode ends that Hal and John are still in this small town heling out the local Sheriff which would place the main bulk of the action in 2016 with the mystery surrounding what's happened to the seemingly dead Hal and where his ring is taking place in 2026 which to be fair to the makers of this show is a really good mystery an it's one that should get alot more focus on as it is something that does open the door Guy Gardner to come back in at the end for a quick cameo as it wouldn't make sense for John to not know that Hal is dead as he'd have his ring but if the ring went to someone else then it would make alot of sense and having Guy have the ring would make sense as we know in Superman 2025 that he is using a Green Lantern ring therefor who's to say that the ring he's using isn't or wasn't Hal Jordan's ring of course there could be someone else who ends up with the ring and that would work as well there is of course a chance that Hal is somehow alive or that the ring was stolen and not given to someone, this is where this series could well and truly as if the makers of this show were smart then they'd get right on giving us clues as to what actually happend not only to Hal and his ring but also what happend to clearly cause him and John to become distant after the events of this first season as this is something that would make what is sadly appearing to be a dull and lifeless show appear to be alot more interesting.

Now the this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty six minuets and twenty eight seconds. Which is something that does make this episode a bit of chore to sit through as there was really no need for this episode to be this long as you could have told the entire plot of this episode in well under that amount of time and that's even taking into account all of the things that this episode has to set up and given the fact that it does have alot of things to set up it does mean that something does end up falling threw the cracks which in this case does end up being the episodes main plot as the makers of this episode just don't seem that interested in the plot of the episode with this episode having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time. With this episode not even using it's running time all that wisely as the episodes doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot as while this is understandable as the season does have seven other episodes to develop its plot there still needed to be some foundation being layed in this episode for that development to not only happen but also make sense as yet there was none of that in the episode with the episode feeling more like an episode of Lost and it's approach to storytelling then it it's own thing with the makers of this episode being more focused on giving us a pointless prolog scene then there were in developing the episodes plot. Sadly this is also something that does also effect the episodes characters as well with this also being understandable as you could make the case for the characters getting there development in the other episodes which is fair enough as this really is only the first episode but again much like with the plot there still really needs to be that foundation built for the development to happen and going off of this episode that does seem like something that we're really not getting with the makers of this episode putting more thought and effort into to one interrogation scene then they did into giving the characters character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty OK at best. As much like with the House Of The Dragon season 2 finale his episode does have more of a focus on drama and not on action however unlike the House Of The Dragon season 2 finale there is a couple of brief action scenes in the episode both of which happen to feature Hal and both of which happen mostly in the background altho the latter one play more of a role in the episode tho. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the interrogation fight scene as we see Hal and Waylon Sanders trying to first outwit each other with Hal being convinced that Waylon is an alien and when he gets proven right Waylon then proceeds to taunt him by reciting the Green Lantern oath amongst other things with Waylon using the bomb in his body to to try and blow up the police station with the whole thing being stopped by Hal using the last of his rings power to contain most of the blast with some of it getting threw with this action scene working because of the fact that it is a key plot point in the episode and is something that could prove to be a key scene in the rest of the first season moving forward  as while it is is more of a drama focused scene we do get some hints of action in it that help to make be as good as it id is 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 this episode is anything to go by that yikes does this show have a long way to go before its good but in all fairness to the show it very well could start t turn around next week but the show has left a bad first impression and that is something that will always be hard to shake off 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 thigs that are in this very episode in this very post and wit this being the first episode of the show I won't be giving this a rating however if i'm still watching the show by the time the final episode is released then i'll do a review of the show as a whole.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally sued 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 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.

An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact Of Thomas The Tank Engine Film Review

Thomas The Tank Engine the series has been going since the eighties with it only just wrapping up a few years ago and the book the series is based off of has been going the forties. With there naturally being a fandom developing over the years be it from people who loved the show the show or people who read the books with alot of those fans not only being little kids but also being adults and well one of those fans has released a documentary about the fandom as a whole and I thought i'd talk about and so then join me as I review the film that proves you don't have to be a little kid to like Thomas the Tank Engine with the film in question being called simply just "An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact Of Thomas The Tank Engine" enjoy.

With this film being a documentary there really isn't a plot to speak off outside of the fact that the films director is going around not only interviewing people involved with making both the show and also Shining Time Station but also the fans. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. This films plot is genuinely a good idea as it would have been super easy for the plot of the film to just be about the making of the franchise as a whole but to also include things from the fans and the various aspects of the Thomas fandom from the websites to the fan made episodes and fan made models that actually is a really good idea. As the Thomas fandom is perhaps the most creative fandom out there at the very least when it comes to kids media anyway as they don't just limit themselves to drawings and fanfictions some of them will spend months creating a fully animated episode or some will spend months making models to create a full episode in the style of the early seasons of the show with the thing that lets this idea down a bit being the fact that they don't rally delve all that much into the creative process be it from the fan perspective or the perspective of those that made the show whilst this is something that would have made the films plot feel more thought out and be more in like with how creative the Thomas fandom is on the whole with the plot of this film 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 film is Abi Grant , Brandon Stone , Britt Allcroft , Daniel Coffey , Isaiah Ferguson and Jordan Neidert. Also starring in this film is Ken Friedel , Louis Cantone , Luke Ryan , Marvin Jerry , Michael White , Mike O'Donnell , Nicholas Jones , Vinnie Smith , Ricky Imparato , Rick Siggelkow , Samuel Knappett , Thomas Carter , Tom Denham , Tom Jedski , Veronica Chambers , Doug Blaine , Bradley Bledsoe , this films director , producer , editor and cinematographer Brannon Carty , Jadan DiStefano , Eric Drouin , Brandon FitzPatrick , Lachlan Kyle , Christian La Rocca , Hunter Lohse , Robert Magee , Matt Michaud , Jamil Morris , Adam Phelan , William Poletski , Vincent Sekafetz , Stephen Sheredy , Jackie Stitt , Nolan Thunder and Matthew Twillman.

The fact that the makers of this film managed to get as many key people who were involved with the creation of the show as they did is nothing short of a miracle. As they managed to get the daughter of Rev. W. Awdry to appear in the film and share the tale of of how the first book in the series essentially came to be which was something that they never had to do and yet the fact that he makers of this film got her to appear in the film does show you that they have a deep level of love for this franchise which does make sense as Brannon Carty is himself a Thomas The Tank Engine fan with hm even being on good terms with alot of the people that appear in this film with none of the crew that he interviews coming across as being stuck up which they very easily could have done. Heck he was even one of if not the last person to interview show creator Britt Allcroft before she passed away with him even dedicating the film to her that is just something that he never had to do and yet because of the fact that he loved these characters so much he did it anyway and while he of course doesn't mange to interview every single creative person that helped to make the show and the books a success as sadly alot of them are no longer with us it still would have been nice if we got interviews from some of the narrators of the show just to get there perspective on things and heck it would have been nice if as well as well as showing footage from The Magic Railroad if we got interviews from some of the cast members from that film as like it or not they apart of the franchises history now albeit in a small way but not having them in the film does work as well with allowing for more interviews with the fans and giving the fand a chance to show us why thy love this franchise and these characters as much as they do in the first place.

Even tho the films does gave alot of interviews from some of the key people that helped to make the franchise and to keep it alive. This film does feature alot more interviews with the people that share this deep unbridled love for Thomas those being the fans of the franchise and this is where the beating heart of the film does lie as without these passionate fans going against the social grain if you will and not only liking but loving something that was made with little kids in mind then there wouldn't a be a franchise to speak of and yet its due to the fact that we do have these fans that not only own the books but also watch every episode including the bad ones but also own the toys and are willing to do these creative things to show there love for these characters that we have a franchise to speak off. With all of them giving us great insight into not only what there hobby is in the Thomas fandom but for alot of them also giving us great insight into the kind of bullying that they got from kids when they found out that they liked Thomas The Tank Engine with this being something that really hasn't been explored before and it really should be as the one thing that Thomas The Tank Engine always teaches us through it's more villainous characters is that bullying is always wrong and that the bully will always end getting punished because of it with that lesson being something that whom ever those bullies were seemed to have forgotten about as there is nothing wrong with openly liking a show that was made for kids just look at all of the adults today that like Bluey as that show much like Thomas was is a really well written show and yet despite that there will be people out there who see both Bluey and Thomas as being nothing more then shows for babies and will openly mock the adults that like it when there's nothing wrong with liking a show that i actually good.

In what was a surprising move is the fact that they actually got an interview with the writer of what is technically the final the episode of Tomas And Friends Michael White. With him revealing that prior to being a writer of the show he was a fan and had to keep it a secret for almost two years that he had been given the job as a writer for the show with his friends and family only finding out when his first episode "An Engine Of Colors" back in season 22 and heck he was brought back on to write episodes of THAT animated Thomas show with him giving us some good amount of information like the fact that he himself had no idea of how The Royal Engine was going to turn out let alone who they were going to get to open the episode. With him quite frankly being more nervous about writing the anniversary special then anything else which is understandable as it was a big anniversary to celebrate and had the show still be on the air when the eightieth anniversary rolled around there more then likely would have been a special made for that as well, Michael even saying how much of a headache it was for him to write as he struggled to even came with a plot with the special and yet he still put in the work and did the special because of the fact that he was a fan of the franchise with him even saying that he put in alot of throw backs to over scenes in his episodes so that the kids watching it might be tempted to go and watch the classic episodes to see where those references previously came from which in all fairness is a good way to get little kids to watch classic TV with the only things that would have made that segment of the film even better being if he talked about some of the creative choices behind alot of the special and how he feels about it being the last Thomas And Friends episode.

Whilst the Thomas brand isn't as well known today thanks to All Engines Go which never gets mentioned in the film at all. The brand is still loved by a great many people not just here in the UK or in America altho those are the two biggest fanbases for the brand but all around the world which makes it odd that only Australian fans get showcased in this special as there are fans in Asia and in other countries that still love the show and yet they never get mentioned grated since this documentary is essentially just a fan film that was made for the fans by the fans it would've been impossible for the makers of this film to fly to Asia to get interviews with those fans and it would have been a tough ask for them to get Asian fans to fly from Asia to either her in the UK or to America and attend a Thomas themed event. Would it have ben nice if we id get to see people from other countries other then American , the UK or Australia sure it's not really needed to make the film work as the film does still work regardless of if there was Asian people but it would have been interesting to see what creative things that they came up with to help express there love for the franchise as Asian people do have different ways to express there fandom and there love of something then alot of others do as heck one of them might have come up with a Thomas which would've been cool to see and while we do get told of people who created songs and music based ff of either the show or there favorite characters it would have been cool to hear ne of the songs and if it was an Asian person that did create a song then odds are it couldn't have had a fun anime vibe to it.

As the title of film would suggest its all about fandom and what it means to be a fan of something with this film giving us a good idea of what it means to be apart of a fandom that inspires creativity alot more then say the Doctor Who or the Marvel fandom does for example. As none of those fandoms inspires people to create full length and fully cast episodes using just the toys alone and yet with the Thomas fandom that's exactly what we get and it's why the Thomas fandom is this huge creative space as we do get people being creative and expressing there love for for this little blue engine in ways that other fandoms could only dream of doing and yet because of the fact that this is a kids show this fandom will always be looked down upon when in reality it needs to be looked up to. With the film even going to great lengths to show us all of the genuine loves and friendships that people in the fandom have made over the years with alot of them making life long friends that go on holiday together and aren't afraid to just be who they are with this being being something the Thomas series has told us time and time again is an OK thing to be, with the people in this fandom even putting together events on there own not for the show or the books but for the toys with there oddly being a big enough want out there there that alot of people do turn up to the events just to show off there Thomas toys and make new friends out of it this is something that you don't see happen in any other fandom but due to how welcoming and how forward thinking the Thomas fandom is it's something that they do alot of the time in America whereas here in the UK we do get people going to meets ups on railways that helped to inspire railway sights in either the books and the show as we get people going to Thomas events all of which is still a really crazy feet in it's own right.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty four minuets and thirty four seconds. This is pretty much the exact running time that would expect a Thomas documentary to be as alot of stuff in regards to the show was covered in a previous films called "Thomas The Tank Engine Man" with footage from that film being used in parts in this film and therefor the film really only needed to cover things from the fans perspective and what it means to them to be apart of this fandom either in a small way or in the case of Michael White in a fairly big way with the film doing a good enough job of getting across just how much this film meant to those that were making the shows and the books and what it still does mean to those that are fans of both the book and show. However tho this film doesn't really need to be this long as there several dull points in the film that don't really add anything to the film but this is something that could be chalked up to Brannon Carty being a first time film maker and therefor he is of course going to be making some mistakes when it comes to the pacing of this film as we didn't need alot of the stuff with the fans just repeating how Thomas has inspired them to be creative as that does feel like that they were included to either pad the film out or they were friends with the director with alot ot the more interesting stuff like alot of the early Thomas fan made videos not being given the time that they should have gotten. With alot of them only being given a few seconds each at best and alot of the time more shall we say darker videos just being covered in one montage when they could have been given a few more minuets as it would have been interesting to see and hear how and why the makers of those videos came up with those ideas and inspired them to make those darker videos and the first place but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a drama that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual drama that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual rama thats actually featured / presented to u in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of the people that were being interviewed really getting across well just what it was that this franchise means to them and while none of them have these big dramatic moments the fact that we do get to find out that alot of them were being bullied by kids just for liking something that is typically seen as being for little kids does show you that they did have to struggle with coming to terms with the fact that they love this show. With the best bit of drama in the whole film being where newly filmed footage of the now late Britt Allcroft plays near the end of the film and she just talks abut the lasting impact of the Thomas franchise and how it manages to only still be relevant to this day be it in this case through the Wonders Of Sodor video game but how it will in some respects always be relevant as both the stories and the characters are timeless as they are these well written stories and character and that is something that absolutely true as Thomas right now as a fandom is still going strong with a united fandom behind it whereas alot of the other fandoms have become splintered and yet a fandom about a blue Tank Engine is still strong and is still united and is more accepting then alot of the fandoms that are meant for adults with the rest of the films drama being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if you haven't seen this film go on to Youtube and look it up on the Stash - Free Documentaries Youtube Channel as the film really is worth watching as if your a Thomas fans you might see other fans that you know or recognise and if your weren't a fan then really might find some new respect for something you forgot abut 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 film in this very review and a such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

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

Doctor Who: The Well Review

Doctor Who right now is in limbo as it hasn't been cancelled at all but there's also no new episodes being made and it doesn't look like they'll be new episodes for a few more years at the very least. That doesn't mean that we still can't talk about episodes that are now apart of what is now officially the last era of New Doctor Who and that's exactly what is going to be happening as the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today was one of the few good episodes from this season and so then join me as I review the episode that is a sequel to to the episode Midnight with the episode in question being called simply just "The Well" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is whilst trying to get Belinda back home The Doctor and Belinda find themselves on a ship where the crew have a mission to find out what happening on a mining colony on a planet that The Doctor has visited once before. 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. With the episodes plot being a far cry away from the types of plot that were getting in not only this season but also in the previous season as well where the episodes did tend to be a little bit preachy in it's messages whereas here in this episode the plot was just allowed to be this really creepy plot. This is something that does work for the episode as Doctor Who has always done really creepy plots or plots that are meant to be scary and they nearly always worked and it's the same thing here as thee plot of the episode does work as it's just this one group of characters alone not only with a total stranger but also with a beast that only the stranger Aliss can see with this being something that does make the episodes plot be all the more thrilling and while the episode does focus alot on it's plot it doesn't do it enough to the point where you do buy into the plot a the episode does advance the series long plot which weas somethin that it really didn't need to do as focusing on the episodes main plot is where the episode shines bright with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor , Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra and Annabel Brook as Hanno Yeft. Also starring in this episode is Luke Rhodri as Callo Rence , Bethany Antonia as Mo Gilliben , Gaz Choudhry as Kai Sabba , Christopher Chung as Cassio Palin-Paleen , Caoilfhionn Dunne as Shaya Costallion , Gary Pillai as Albie Bethick , Rose Ayling-Ellis as Aliss Fenly , Frankie Lipman as Sal Van Hyten , Paul Kasey as It Has No Name , Jermaine Dominique as Ulric Dazen , Anita Dobson as Mrs Flood and Amy Tyger as Val Vivo.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The fact that we have good acting in this episode isn't really all that surprising as even tho alot of the season does have some pretty badly written stories in it nearly all of them have some really good acting in it with this episode of course being of no exception to this rule as all of the episodes actors do feel right at home in this episode with them all tuning in some really good performances that granted won't be winning them any awards but will still get them noticed for how good the performances are in the episode. With the episodes best actor by a long country mile being Rose Ayling-Ellis as Aliss Fenly as she is just so good in thus episode not just because of the fact that she is a deaf actor and therefor she can use that and draw upon it for inspiration but also because of the fact that she is just a good actor in her own right with her acting circles around not only Ncuti Gatwa but also the rest of the episodes actors with her getting more of the episodes more dramatic moments which is something that really does pull of with ease with bringing a certain vulnerability to her character that really does shine through in her performance. With the acting that's n 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. 

Doing the CGI for this episode is Freefolk and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Real SFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The episodes CGI was to be frank alot more better then what it really had any right to be as while the episodes doesn't create a fully CGI version of the episodes monster it does mainly use CGI to either film something that they couldn't do in real life such as showing The Doctor and Belinda falling to the planet from space from a example or by extending things in the episodes sets both or good ways to use CGI as there only using it to do something that they couldn't do in real life with the episode actually using alot more practical effects then they do CGI effects with even the creature being done for real when they really didn't need to as they very easily could have had the creature be a CGI effect and it still would have worked by the fact that they did it for real and that alot of the stunts in the episodes was done for well does say that the makers of this episode really do know how and when to use CGI as there not just using it because they have the budget to do so which is something that they very easily could have done as they would have had that big Disney money to play with but they don't and heck alot of you might not realise this but a small portion of the room that Belinda and Aliss stay in whilst it's was mostly done for real had some CGI done to it and yet you don't notice it because of the the fact that it blends in with the live action footage so well. 

Just to be frank out all of the new characters that this new era of Doctor Who gave us Aliss Fenly has to be one of the best characters. As this character is smart and sassy and isn't afraid to stand up for herself and fight for what she knows is right even when alot of the episodes other characters are telling her she's wrong these are things that are the hall marks of not only a good Doctor Who companion but just a good character in general with the fact that the character is also death being secondary to everything else about her as this is a character that has a life outside of that part of her with her doing anything that she could do just to see her daughter again as that's who she is as a character and the fact that Russel and Sharma Angel-Walfall who are the co-writers of this episode wrote her to be more like a real person and less like a character that's there to hit home whatever message they want does show you that Russell T. Davies could still write good new characters when he really wanted to. Heck it's not wonder that the Doctor Who fanbase welcomed Aliss with welcome arms when this episode first came out as she is just such a fun character and it would be interesting to see where any future Doctor Who writers took her character as there are so many ways that you can go with her character both re and post this episode and all of it would work and yet for odd reason the BBC seem to shoving Jo Martin down our throats when she's not that interesting as a character and yet Aliss is more interesting with there being more stories that you could tell with her character and heck even seeing what she got up to after this episode all of the trauma that she would have to deal with due to the events of this episode would be alot of fun and seeing the attack on the base again is something that would be interesting to see even tho we know how it all ends.

As was mentioned at the very start of this review this episode is actually a sequel episode to the episode Midnight. With the makers of this cleverly not announcing that it was going to be a sequel episode rather they let us all find out at the exact same time and that was a genius move as now it means that us the audience can go back and rewatch the episode looking for any clues as to what the big reveal is and yeah there are some major clues to be found once you know that twist reveal and yet they don't take anything from the big reveal or make it more obvious rather they do serve as a fun little thing for us to pick up on on repeat viewings and that is something that a good reveal like this one should do and while they are other better reveals in Doctor Who this surely has to be up there as one of the best plot reveals in the shows history due to the fact that no one saw it coming. With the only thing that lets this reveal down being the fact that it's not something that is brought up or even hinted it at prior to the reveal with making it look like that the reveal was thought up at the last second as while it does have a part in the episodes plot with it being something that inspires The Doctor to find a way to stop the villain of the episode prior to this reveal there is no sense with The Doctor getting a feeling that he's been here before as while he was only on what is basically a train in Midnight he was still on the planet and therefor would have been able to work out that that the planet he is on is the same one that The 10th Doctor went to back in series 4 of the show, whilst this doesn't harm the episode in any major way it does make the big reveal feel more like an after thought when t should have been something that the makers of this episode were building towards. 

The villain of this episode is called either Midnight Entity or It Has No Name as the creature as the second name would suggest has no name. Heck across both this episode and Midnight we only get to see it in it's true for for a handful of seconds in this episode and even then it's mostly covered in darkness this again is such a good idea as it does mean that us the audience have to use our imagination as to what the creature not only looks like but how they talk and what there backstory is and that is something that is far more scarier then anything that could be created on a TV show budget as there's no limit to your imagination with the little that we do see of the creature not really giving us much to work on as the character is inly very briefly on screen for a matter of seconds. With the fact it's only killing people for fun and not to archive any goal does make it feel like that the villain is meant to be seen being more childlike as children don't do things for rhyme or reason they just do them with this creature taking that exact same approach with it only killing people when they step behind it with this being something that does make it more creepy as a villain and while it would have been nice if we did get to see what the villain looks like alot more this is something that would ultimately harm the villain as not knowing what it looks like actually makes it all the more scarier as now it could look like anything and it would work however it would it have been nice if we did get to see the creature in action alot more as this is something that would have made it alot more of a threat to the characters prior to the big reveal nearer the end of the episode rather then only having the character be this major threat to the characters near the episodes end as by that point in time it is far to little to late to make the character be all that threatening.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty eight minuets and four seconds. This is pretty much the bogstanderd running tm for this era of Doctor Who and to be fair the episode does need that amount of running time in order to tell it's plot in a way that does do justice to it as the episode does have to build up tension to make that big reveal work and and t make the monster be all the more threatening in the first place with this being something what would have been impossible for the episode to to do if it had a more shorter running time as it would mean that something would have to get from the episode it self with the episode having more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time. However tho this episode still doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the episode really doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot with the episode giving a good portion of its running time into furthering the seasons plot which would have been find if this was say the fourth episode of the season but its not it's the third episode and therefor the main focus of the episode still should have been on the episodes main plot and it making sure that the plot was well developed with the makers of this episode caring more about making us scare of the episodes villain then they were in giving us plot development. The same thing is also true for the episode characters as while it could be argued that both The Doctor and Belinda don't really need any character development as there the main characters but we know so little about what it is that makes Belinda tick in the first place that she does come of as being a surrogate character for audience rather then a character in her own right and the rest of the episodes get nothing interms of character development with the makers of this episode putting more thought and effort into giving us another clothes changing scene then they did in giving us character development but I really will admit that this film 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 film was in all honesty really good. With there not really being much in the way of action in this episode as the episode is more of a horror focused episode with there being of a focus on horror , tension and suspense but then the episode does have an action scene no matter how quick it ends up being it is something that does still end up working due to the fact that the makers of this episode did put some amount of care into making sure that we cared for some of these characters. With the best action scene in the whole episode being when Shaya Costallion works out the best way for them to get rid of the creature is for the person who is being haunted to by to kill themselves with her pulling out her gun and using it on Belinda who is being haunted by the ghost shooting her thus getting the creature to attach itself to her and when she does she just runs back to the well having flashbacks of her own childhood and then jumping into the well killing herself and seemingly the creature as well this was such a good action as while there are no explosions and no cool moves being done its just simple storytelling with one character showing that she's willing to do anything to do anything to save the fay and that's it with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode is a kore then worthy sequel to Midnight as it gives us all of things that we'd want to see in a Midnight whilst also giving us a likable character in Aliss and also giving us some really creepy visuals and a creepy villain all of which are things that do make this episode really good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. ow then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review ell then boys and girls and and well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Tardis . Wiki. 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 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.

Camp Rock 3 Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review

Back in the mid to late 2000's Disney struck gold with High School Musical so much so that they would try to rip it off with the lesser known but still very successful Camp Rock and while High School Musical would be come this mega franchise that is still going strong. Camp Rock only managed to spawn one sequel that was until today as the much anticipated third film has just been released first on Disney Channel as a Disney Channel Original Movie and then on Disney+ and well I just had to check this film the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILERR FILLED review of the film that proves that Maria Canals-Barrera holds the secrets to the fountain of youth with the film in question being called simply just "Camp Rock 3" enjoy.

The plot of this film is hen there opening act cancels on them at the last minuet the members of Connect 3 decide to hold a three day contest at the camp to decide who there new opening act will be. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this film still very much being a Disney Channel Original Movie this films plot is about as good as it gets when it comes to those as alot of them do have very cut and dry obvious plots where you know right away what's going to happen next. With this film being of no exception and while this is by no means a bad thing as it does make the film feel more like a throwback to films like The Cheetah Girls 2 or even the first Camp Rock but at the same time we have gotten better films since then and have had more plots where we didn't know where it was going like for example the last two Decendents movies with this films plot feeling like it would been better served if the film was made in say 2010 rather then in 2026 and while the films plot does have some good things going for it like the idea of the band hosting a competition to find there new opening act which is a good idea it's also one that is left feeling more like an afterthought to all of the things that the film gives alot more of it's focus and attention to  as the film does oddly enough not give it's main plot alot of focus with it giving it's many side plots more focus when they really didn't need it with this films plot being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Liamani Segura as Sage Scott , Malachi Barton as Fletch Robinson and Lumi Pollack as Rosie Kleinman. Also starring in this film is Hudson Stone as Desi Scott , Casey Trotter as Cliff Carmichael , Brooklynn Pitts as Callie Banks , Ava Jean as Madison , Milo Manheim as Calvin Rhodes , Maria Canals-Barrera as Connie Torres , Sherry Cola as Lark , Ella Lucas as Danielle , Orlando Lucas as Daniel one of this films executive producers Kevin Jonas as Jason Gray , one of this films executive producers , Joe Jonas as Shane Gray and one of this films executive producers Nick Jonas as Nate Gray.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. Much like with alot of the things in this film you do have to take into account that this is a Disney Channel Original Movie when it comes to judging it's quality of acting as alot of them don't have good acting in them and yet this films acting was alot more better then what one would expect from a Disney Channel original Movie with all of the films new actors more then holding there own when it comes to acting opposite the films returning actors. With the best actor in the whole entire film being Liamani Segura as Sage Scott as she just has that IT factor about her where you can have her playing any type of character and she would find a way to make it work with this being something that she does here as on the paper Sage could come across as being this really unlikable person and yet she does find away ti make the character more like her and in the process be this more likable character that you want to know more about and while she is in the very early days of her acting career she could really make a good go of it if she really wanted to as this film does give her a good chance to show her her natural charm and charisma which is something that really does shine through in her performance in this film. With the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Character wise this film does fair about as well as you'd expect given the fact that the Camp Rock films aren't really known for there great characters. As this films characters are as bare bones as you can think of for a Disney Channel Original Movie which quite frankly is fine for one of those films as the Disney Channel Original Movies never really went to far int characters and when they found a character type that worked they just copied and pasted that same character type into several other movies and yeah the same thing is true here as well as none of the films character feel all that original as alot of them do feel like knock offs of oddly enough characters seen in the first two Camp Rock films which is something that be find inf the makers of this film did literally anything interesting with them but that don't. With Sage being someone who is all about rehearsing and practicing her music which some odd reason is seen as being a bad thing even tho she wants to be a singer whereas her brother Desi is more about living in the moment and that's great but Disney Channel literally had a TV show with that exact same character set up called Austin & Ally with the rest of the films characters not really being all that good either with the Connect 3 members being both the best and worst of the bunch they are the best in that they are written as they were in the original film but there the worst in that they do nothing interesting in the film even Connie who is no promoted to Camp Director doesn't get to show off why we liked her all that much in the first two films, all of the films characters do feel like first draft characters as there isn't all that much to them with the makers of the film relying more on nostalgia for the first two films to carry it's returning characters and not doing anything interesting with it's new characters to where we ant to see more of them in future Camp Rock films.

SPOILER START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Just to be clear here up until a few short days ago this revie was going to be a SPOILER FREE but then something got confirmed and well it is true as for the first time in almost twenty years we have one of this films executive producers Demi Lovato back as Mitchie Torres. This is a big thing for two reasons the first of which being the fact that she was the main character of the first two films and them doing a third film without her in it in someway shape or form just wouldn't feel right somehow and the second of which being the fact that this is the first time the Demi has worked with Disney on anything for almost twenty years as she has been very much still in the public eye for better or for worse since then and she does look really good in this film. The character does only appear in what is basically both a cameo role and a passing of the torch type of role at the end of the film where she does have a few scenes with all of the returning actors from the first two films and she does have a passing of torch moment with Sage where the two of the exchange glances with each other near the end of the film, but the character does get mentioned twice before then when Sage finds her songbook and does find inspiration in it before returning it to Connie which was pretty sweet as it does give all three characters this unspoken connection thus making the passing of the torch moment mean a little bit more but it still would have been nice if we did get to see more of Mitchie like maybe she could have taken part in the end song or even having her appearing in the end credits video would have been nice and nice tip of the hat to the fans of the first two films but in all fairness Demi might not have been ready to commit to doing a minor role in the film as she is still a busy woman in her own right and does still have her own demons to over come.

Much like with the first two films this film does also have a romance subplot however unlike with the first two films where the romance was actually cute and enduring. The same thing cannot be said for this films romance it's not badly written or anything but its due to the fact that the characters of Sage and Fletch feel like there being forced together as none of them bring out anything better in the other with them both bringing out the exact same things that all of the other campers bring out in each other and while the characters do indeed share alot of screen time together none of the scenes that they have together or romantic scenes with them nine times out of ten being with there friends or the friends are just off screen somewhere. Yet if I were t compare this to the romance in either the original film or Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam the romance plots in those films where done so much more better as they did feature couples that did bring out the best in each other with the couples even having scenes together away from there friend groups with them being able to get as romantic as they could have done in a Disney Channel Original Movie and yet here in this film it does feel like the makers of this film didn't really know how to make a romance work as while it does tie into the plot in a small way which was nice to see there's nothing in Fletch's and Sage's character that would make them seem like a good fit for each other as there's nothing to there characters to begin and if the makers of this film really wanted to make these character a believable romance then there should have been some of level of effort put into making good in the first place as while the actors do there best to make it work they can only do so much and the makers of this film really did need to give the romance more thought and effort to make it work in the film.

This film is of course a musical film with the sings written by Matthew Tishler , Shridhar Solanki , Mitch Allan and Kara DioGuardi. The film does feature several new songs with the film mixing the approaches taken t the by the first two films as have of the songs are sung by the characters performing them live and the other half or done in the traditional musical way where a character would just randomly breakout into song which in all fairness is a good way to do the songs as while it would have been better if they just went with the way that the first film did there songs where the songs where sung as actual songs the characters were singing taking a mixed approach does have it's advantages as well as it does allow for the makers of the film to really go crazy with the visuals and just have fun with it which is something that they do quite easily in this film. With the best song in the film being "One Beat Away" which might have been the obvious choice as that is the first song that Disney released to help to promote the film but it is a good song with the song having this punk pop rock vibe to it that does remind you of some of the songs in the first film with the song it self being really well sung but alot of the new actors in this film, with the film even having some covers of the first films songs with "We Rock" , "Play My Music" , "Start the Party" and "What It Takes" all getting covered in some small way in this film with the worst one oddly enough being "We Rock" as even tho the films soundtrack has it being listed as being well over two minuets and forty seconds in the film they only play about thirty seconds of it with us getting some bad singing from all involved in those thirty seconds whereas if they did play the full length version of it then it might have been alot more better but with "One More Beat" they nailed it right away as it does as a good and fun song to introduce some of the main characters whilst being really well sung on the whole.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets and twenty one seconds. Which is pretty much the exact running time that you'd expect one of these films to have and to be fair to this film the film does kind of need to have that long of a running time as the film essentially has three plots all going on at the same time with there of course being the main plot , the there's the romance subplot and then there's the plot of Connect 3 learning to reconnect again and while the third plot does et resolved OFF SCREEN which makes it pointless as it would have given the brothers something to do in the film the film does need this amount of running tm to do all of those plots some kind of justice with the film having more the  enough plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet despite the film being as long as it is this film really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the film has so many other plots to cram into it's short running time that it does start to feel over stuffed whereas if the film lost say the romance subplot as that adds nothing to the plot of the film in the first place then it would have freed up time to give any of the films other plots some much needed development but the makers of this film cared amount about giving us some pretty bad versions of classic Camp Rock songs then they did in giving the plot some actual development. This is also true for the film character development as none of the films characters get any kind of character development to begin with this is despite the fact that all of the five main characters all take part in this amazing bus scene where they all tell each other what being at camp really means to them and how its changed them with them all vowing to remain friends regardless of who wins this competition but none of it means anything as the films characters really are so poorly done in the first place with the makers of this film care more about giving us nostalgia for the first two films then in giving us character development but I really will admit that this film 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 film 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 film was in all honesty not that bad. With there being alot of the kinds of jokes that you would expect one of these Disney Channel Original Movies to have but then every once in a while you will get a joke that whilst it's not the smartest joke in the world is a pretty decent joke as it does ether play into where the older characters are now or where the newer characters are as well which is a pretty fun thing to do but the film also oddly enough doesn't give the actor who can do comedy and has done alot of comedy in Maria Canals-Barrera as she gets no jokes in the film yet she's the only one that we know from other comedies can be funny. With the best joke being early on in the film where Shane and Nate accuse a now parent Jason of never being ready to rock with him turning around with a baby strapped to his chest still being adamant that he is always ready to rock and that is a pretty good joke as it does play into the fact that Jason was always the dimwitted one of the group and therefor he would of course do something like this as that does feel true to who his character both was and still is with that joke proving that the makers of this film can do a decent joke if they can be bothered to do so and yet nine times out of ten in this film it does feel like they couldn't be bothered to do so with the rest of the films jokes being just as decent as well im my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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

Overall not only is camp back in session but so is the mid to late two thousands Disney Channel era as we've had or are getting continuations or specials of movies and shows that were from that same time period with this film proving that you do need more then nostalgia to make a really good film despite the fact that this film is still a pretty decent film in it's own right 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 film in this very review and such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

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