The Invincible Iron Man Film Review

While many people remember DC Comic's line of direct to DVD animated films not alot of people no off or even remember the fact that Marvel also had a line a direct to DVD animated films. With the line not being that long and being very short lived with it starting not with the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today but odd enough with a pair of Avengers movies with the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today being the third film that they released this is despite the fact that it features a characters that was in both of the Avengers movies and is played by the same actor and so then join me as I review the film that basically tells the exactly same as the 2008 Iron Man with the film in question being called simply just "The Invincible Iron Man" enjoy.

The plot of this film is after he is kidnapped and nearly killed by his own weapon Tony Stark goes on a mission to stop the evil villain The Mandarin from coming back to life. 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 films plot for the most part being a really well done plot that does try to tell a good a story but then you take into account that they squeeze in the origin story for Tony Stark as well as Tony having a subplot with his father all of which does make this film feel a bit over stuffed with the films main plot being left to fight for screen time and feeling like that it wasn't strong enough to support the film on it's own when the idea of Tony having to travel around the world to find these magical rings before these monsters representing the four elements find them is something that could have made for a more interesting plot line and yet due to he fact that the film does have two other subplots in it which OK fair enough you do kind of have to do the origin story and to the films credit they do tie the origin story into the main plot of the film but we didn't the plot with Tony and Howard having a more fractured relationship as all that does is take away focus from the films main plot which does leave the main of plot of the film feel really undercooked ad not all that well thought out with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Marc Worden as Tony Stark / Iron Man , Rodney Saulsberry as James Rhodes and  Hulk And The Agents Of S.M.A.S.H. and Avengers Assemble star Fred Tatasciore as The Mandarin. Also starring in this film is Gwendoline Yeo as Li Mei , Elisa Gabrielli as Virginia "Pepper" Potts , John McCook as Howard Stark , James Sie as Wong-Chu , Stephen Mendillo as Boyer and John DeMita as Agent Drake.

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. With this films acting being nothing more then OK at best which is kind of understandable as out of all of this films actors only one of them is reprising their role with that being Marc Worden who played the role of Tony Stark in the two Ultimate Avengers movies and therefor it does make sense that he would turn in a good performance in this film as he would have gotten the chance to know what his version of the character would say or do and could adjust his performance accordingly and while people do expect a good performance from Fred Tatasciore with him being just that good of an actor he and Marc are the only good performances in this film as the rest pf this films just feel oddly miscast with Elisa even giving Pepper what could be a British accent for some weird and unknown reason with the best actor in the whole film being Fred Tatasciore as even tho he doesn't say much in the film and doesn't have alot of screen time he really does make it count even single time that he has a line of dialog with him giving this The Mandarin this big and booming voice which is something is something that does suit this version of the character 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 nothing to work interms of what it is that there 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 it's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Starburst Animation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation 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 animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty average at best with the films characters having some really nice designs to them and the films backgrounds looking very nice to look but the thing that lets down the animation in really all of these direct to DVD Marvel films is the fact that they give the characters all of these shadows all over there body which just looks so off putting  with it feeling like the makers of this film cared more about the shadows on the characters then they did about anything else just due to how much shadow that there is n all of these characters and while yes the films action scenes do look pretty good with the film using a mixture of handdrawn 2D animation and early 3D CGI animation the shadows on the characters is something that does stick out like a sore thumb as it comes across as the makers of this film wanting to make this film look cinematic without having the budget to do and therefor alot of the animation especially when it comes to the characters movements does come across as looking stilted and yet when you look at what DC was doing around the same time with there line of direct to DVD films the difference is night as day as DC was putting in alot of thought and effort into there animated outputs where as here with Marvel it feels like that there doing the bare minimum with this films cheap looking animation being a good example of that. 

This film basically copies the exact same story that we would get in the 2008 Iron Man film even down to having The Mandarin play apart in both films. With his group the ten rings being who kidnaps Tony in the live action film where as here in this film he's the main villain and yet its the 2008 film that did this story alot more better as that film knew to set up the characters first and show them how they all were before the events of the film changed them either for the better or for the worse and therefor when Tony says " I am Iron Man" at the end of the film it means alot more in that film due to the fact that we've seen his character start t grow and change for the better where as here in this film we don't get to see anything like that as he just decides to be Iron Man for no reason and heck he apparently spent months if not years creating a bunch of suits for every possible situation thus hinting that he's already changed as a character and has become this perfect character who can do no wrong this is despite the fact that we see him lie to Rhodey at the start of the film and yet in the 2008 film we see how Tony's actions effect not only himself when he's kidnaped by The Ten Rings but also those around him as well and yet when the same thing happens in this film we don't get to see how Tony's actions effect those around him outside of the fact that it's due to Tony wanting to rise this ancient Chinese city that kick starts the events of the whole film with this going to show that if the makers of this film wanted to truly make a good Iron Man film then they shouldn't have done the bare minimum rather they should have gone the extra mile to understand why these characters work so well in the first place.

To be kind of fair to this film this film does feel like one of the many direct to DVD Lego Batman movies that DC used to put out. In that all of the characters are going to be very clear cut good guys and bad guys with them all basically being how you expect them to be in the comics with nothing new added to them and that's great as this is a film that it could be argued was there just to sell the toys given the amount of suits that we see Tony already has in the film but at the same time tho if that was the case then you have to wonder why there wasn't more effort put into the film in the first place as even cartoons from the eighties alot of which were quite literally made to sell the toys still had alot of thought and effort put into them and yet here in this film everything just felt very cookie cutter as the film has this awkward dialog where the characters have to explain their relationship to each other which is something that does make some form of sense due to the fact that Iron Man wasn't that big of a character at the time of this films release and while that kind of dialog does make sense in a way that this film is clearly meant for little kids badly done dialog will always be badly done dialog no matter who the target audience is and even then due to the fact that this film earned itself a PG-13 rating it's debatable on if this film was even made for kids as there is a scene where a female characters appears nude with the film censoring it with some steam with that being something that does make the film feel more adult and yet all that does is clash with the films overall more kid friendly nature as the rest of the film is like those Lego DC films only here it doesn't have the charm or the wit to pull it of with it coming across as being half baked as a result of that.

As was stated earlier on in this review this films main villain is The Mandarin with him actually being better in this film then he was in Iron Man 3. Due to the fact that in this film he is a former Chinese emperor who has these mystical powers which are tied to his rings and while he doesn't really appear until the very end of the film and therefor can't leave much on impact on the film itself this is something that does work in the films favor as it now means that the film can spend more time in building him up as this truly terrifying figure and one that we all should fear and while the film doesn't really do that as this after all a cheaply made direct to DVD movie the fact that he has this cult like group that are dedicated to stopping him from coming back is something that does help to sell you on just how feared that he was when he was alive with the only thing that lets the character down is the fact that he doesn't really have an end goal in mind with him just being evil and brought back to live purely for the sake of it which doesn't make him an interesting character especially when there is quite alot of that you could do with this character given his backstory for this film like maybe he wants to reclaim his place as the leader of China or maybe just wants to take over the world which yes is a generic villain plot but give that this film is one that's made with kids in mind it still works with another thing that works for the character is the fact that he has the four western earth elements all working to try and bring him back with it being only Iron Man who can stop them which is a really cool idea and to the films credit it does do the best that it could have done with that idea as we do get to see Iron Man take on all four of those elements in really creative looking environments.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty three minuets and three seconds. With that being a pretty solid running time for this film to have even taking into account that it does gave to tell the whole Iron Man origin story and still a decent plot at the same time with this film having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time with the thing that does let this film down from a running time point of view being the fact that the film does feel like that it's trying to tell to many stories as we have the main plot , the Iron Man origin story and the plot with Tony and his dad and the film can't do all three of those stories with the running time that it has as it would mean that that all three stories are left fighting with screen time with this meaning that the film can't use it's running time all that wisely as it can't develop any of its plots due to the fact that the film now has to rush along to the next plot point and while yes of course you do need to have the origin story in there you don't need the plot with Tony and his dad as all that does is eat up screen time that would have been better used giving plot development to the films main plot as the origin story doesn't eat up that much screen time in the place and therefor doesn't really need that much development where as the main plot is left feeling wafer thin with it feeling like that there are no stakes to the films plot as the film doesn't tell us what the stakes are with the film not even bothering to give the characters any kind of character development as they all come across as being very one dimensional due to the fact that the film doesn't take the time that it could have had to give us more well thought out and developed characters 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 film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action 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 action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films action being as good as it was every going to be taking into account this film was quite clearly made both cheaply and quickly with the film taking full advantage of the fact that Iron Man has to essentially go up against the four elements by having hm take them on in some really creative backgrounds that force him to think outside of the box something which does make sense given that these are meant to be his first foes as a hero and therefor it would make sense that he would struggle to beat them with the best action scene in the whole entire film being the third act fight as we see Tony back in his original Iron Man suit now being forced to take on not only The Mandarin but also a horde of creatures outside of The Mandarins temple all of whom want Tony dead with this action scene working because of the fact that we get to see Tony be forced to used his brains and not just rely on his more modern Iron Man suits to do all of the work for him and while it's sadly not Iron Man that delivers the final blow to The Mandarin as that honor goes to Li Mei for some odd reason the whole with The Mandarin the fight leading up to that moment is one that does work really well as we get to see just how strong that The Mandarin is as a villain with him quite easily beating up Tony in the original Iron Man suit with the rest of this films action scenes being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall the best way to describe this film is that it's an average film and if you go into this film with those kind of expectations then you might come out of it liking the film a whole lot but at the same time given the fact that the film copied the main story beats of the 2008 Iron Man film but did them worse you might as well as just stick to that film as you'd be getting a much more better expirence with the exact same story beats in it in my freaking opinions anyways / 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 film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 "The Wild Wild World Of Batwoman" Review

It's been well over a year since anything from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 TV show was reviewed and well I thought that with the guys from Rifftrax making four new episodes to be released later this year and the fact that we are close to the thirtieth anniversary of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie now would be the best time to talk about another episode. With this episode actually being the first classic era episode that i've talked about and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Mike and The Bots learn all about the horrid dangers of cheating with the episode in question being called simply just "The Wild Wild World Of Batwoman" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Mike and The Bots decide to write essay's about one of the shorts that they've just watched they discover Crow has cheated on his and have to find a way to punish him whilst also watching a terrible Batman 1966 knock off movie. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot thats actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I 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 as while this episodes plot does get alot more focus then what the typical plots for this show has as nine times out of ten this shows plots are barely there at best with the thin plots just being used as a way to loosely connect the shows host segments here tho there was alot more focus on plot with the plot of the episode technically starting when the characters are watching the short "Discussion Problems In Group Living: Cheating" as it's the questions that the narrator of that show poses to people that helps to inspire the plot of this episode which was a really good idea as it does mean that we get to see the characters live out there own comedic version of what was an oddly serious short and yet while it would have been nice if the episode did have more scenes in it that focused on it's plot that is something that might have stopped the episode from being as enjoyable as it is as there would have been no way to do that without cutting out key scenes from the movie that there meant to be watching in the first place with the episodes plot working just fine as it is 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 one of this episodes writers Michael J. Nelson as Mike Nelson and Trace Beaulieu as the voice of Crow T. Robot and Dr. Clayton Forrester. Also starring in this episode is one of episodes writers Kevin Murphy as the voice of Tom Servo , one of this episodes writers Frank Conniff as the voice of TV's Frank and this episodes producer , one of this episodes writers and director Jim Mallon as the voice of Gypsy.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting thats actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Which for this show is something that's to be expected as not alot of the actors that are in this episode are trained actors with alot of them just being writers and that's it and therefor it would have been foolish of anyone to expect good or great acting out of this episodes actors as there all they are their for is to tell jokes and make fun of a movie with that being something that doesn't require good acting in it and yet at the same time we do get some really passable acting in this episode with the episodes best actor being Trace Beaulieu as the voice of Crow T. Robot and Dr. Clayton Forrester as he's been playing both of his characters since quite literally the very episode of the show bac when the show was just being broadcast on a local network and played both roles up until season 7 of this thirteen season show and therefor he would of course know how best to perform both of these characters and what kind of performance would best suite both of these characters and while he doesn't get alot of screen time as Dr. Clayton Forrester with him only appearing near the start and at the end of the episode he's pretty much in every single scene as Crow and yet you can't tell that the series main villain is also playing one of the series main heroes with the acting that's in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode really doesn't give this episodes actors anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

This is a case where it would be pointless to talk about the episodes character as the show by it's very nature doesn't spend alot of time with it's characters as they have to fit in an entire film and in this case a short film for the episodes main characters to riff on. With the short itself being something that is ripe for being made for fun off as to put it bluntly it's a short that shows us the downside of cheating which isn't what makes it bad as what makes it bad s the fact that the main character is caught cheating on one math's exam with all of the characters treating it like it's the end of the world even down the point where the characters math's teachers visits him in his dreams to give him a nightmare look fair enough that short film was made in the fifties and was more then likely made to be shown in schools and therefor it does in that sense make sense that the characters would treat as this very big deal but at the same time tho no one in real life would treat cheating on a random math's exam as being that big of a deal as while yes cheating is wrong and is something that should always be discouraged but at the same time the film does go over board with how it effects the main characters personal life and that is something that is not only hilarious to see but it's also something that makes the short film stand out just for how bad it is with this episode mostly playing the entire short film with the only real thing being cut out being the fact they don't show a character taking a minuet to pick up the phone and that's really it and even then that could be argued was mor due to the fact that the short might have have been damaged over the years but otherwise this episode does what this episode always does and that's let the whole thing play out from start to finish with not cuts made to the short itself.

As you can tell by the name of this review this episode had the characters riffing on the 1966 film The Wild World Of Batwoman. With this film technically having THREE titles as according to the films poster it's called The Wild World Of Batwoman yet according to this episode which shows the films title card it's called The Wild Wild World Of Batwoman and then there's the re-release title of the film which is "She Was A Hippy Vampire" with it being pretty obvious not only from the title of the film but also the films poster that this film was only made due to how popular that the 1966 Batman TV show was with this film not even being made with co-operation of DC Comics who sued this films writer , producer and director Jerry Warren copyright infringement with it being made crystal clear that there was behind the scenes issues with the film something which the star of the film herself Katherine Victor confirmed to be true with her saying that if any actor rubbed Jerry Warren the wrong way then he would either cut their lines entirely or give them to other actors with her confirming that the girl who gets kidnapped at the start of the film was going to be the main character of the film something which is pretty obvious that the film was setting up to be true and yet because he thought that she getting to big for her britches he made the call to change it. This episode does deserve alot of credit as it did dhow the entire film in full as the film in only a little over an hour long and even that seemed to much for this film as even tho this episode was mocking the film you can tell that the film was struggling to reach even that running time with the film being one of those films that is best left forgotten as even tho this episode is really good the film itself is frequently called one of the worst films ever made and quite frankly for a good reason.

Whilst the episode is on the whole really good there are some things about it that don't work as well as they could have done. Like for example we only focus on the main heroes this episode which is fine as they do get to do some pretty entertaining stuff but at the same time the villains of this show are more often then not the more entertaining characters and yet they only appear in two of the episodes multiple host segments which does seem odd as given that the crew are meant to be making fun of a very poorly done superhero film it would have made sense for the makers of this episode to do a more worse version of that film rather then a version of the short film as then they could have used there evil characters in more entertaining ways as while showing Dr. Clayton Forrester get a haircut via a nuclear powered hairdryer is funny to see and it does give is a really funny visual it would have been more entertaining if the episode kept on cutting back to them and making that sort of like a subplot for the episode with him trying to get Frank to reveal just what his new hair cut looks like only for Frank to find new and creative ways to avoid showing him something which they then could tie up at the end of the episode yes it's not much but it doesn't need to be as it would only need to be subplot anyway and therefor it could be this more fun and goofy little plot that doesn't effect the main plot of the episode and while the main plot of the episode with Mike , Tom and Gypsy trying to essentially teach Crow about cheating is a sold plot it's also not as fun and as goofy as it could have been either as those characters are characters that work there best when there in these more fun and goofy plots and having them be in a plot that is alot of the time played straight just doesn't work and while that might be the point as it's meant to be a parody it still needs to be something that work for those characters.

The host segments in this episode worked fine for what they were as there always meant to be silly little sketches that sometimes continue on a plot or that are sometimes just there to make us laugh and nothing more then that. With the ones in this episode trying to do both and while they do succeed in advancing a plot that plot is one that didn't need to have multiple sketches dedicated to it as you could have had one or two sketches spread out throughout the episode and it would have worked just as well and yet for one reason or another the makers of hie episode thought that they needed to have all but the opening sketch for this episode be about this cheating plot line and while yes that plot line is meant to be a parody of the short film it's also one that does hold the episode back from being this fun and wacky show that alot of us know that it can be due to the fact that the characters are playing it all straight when this show is one that should have these more wacky plot lines as this is a show that doesn't take itself far to seriously and shouldn't take it self far to seriously as it's meant to be a comedy and that's really all there is to it and while yes the show on the whole does have scenes that they do take seriously they only happen when the plot of the show is being advanced like when a host leaves or joins the show for example and yet here the whole cheating plot line is given that same amount of grandeur and while that does help to make those segments be all the more funny as we the audience know exactly what it is there spoofing and can therefor get behind it a little bit more it does cause the episode to loose some of that extra special something that has made the show be as fondly remembered as it is.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty three minuets and fifteen seconds. With this being the bogstandard running time for the rest of the show as well which is something that dis make sense when you take into account that they have to fit in an entire film and in this case an entire short film plus the host segments into the episode as well with the episode itself having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place and while the fact that the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot this is something that does make sense in this episode as the episode can't of course devote alot of it's time to it's plot due to the fact that it is has to fit in a film and short film with both of those things being the things that people come to this show to watch be made fun of and therefor of course the film is going to devote as much as time as is humanly possible to getting as many jokes about those two in the episode with this also meaning that the characters can't get any kind of character development with this also being something that could be argued happens in both the later seasons of the show and the shows only movie and yet the episode doesn't feel like it's being short changed because of it as it's something that you notice is missing from the episode due to how to fun that the episode is and while yes it would have been nice if the plot and characters got some development that would take away screen time from one of the episodes jokes and would thus make the episode be alot less fun to watch but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the characters making some really good jokes about both the short and the film itself like for example when the teacher shows up in the kids bedroom in the short film the characters comment on how creepy it is that she would do that or there's the opening scenes with the episodes villains where every single time that Frank gets near Dr. Clayton Forrester het gets scared because of the fact that he gave him a bad haircut only for it to be revealed that he actually likes his new haircut which is a funny joke in it's own right and yet the best joke in the whole entire episode is when Tom is just yelling for the movie to end with him slowly loosing his mind each time that he says it as you can feel his frustration due to the fact that we the audience are also watching the film and possibly also begging for the film to end as well with the episode making lots of really funny jokes about the film like for example that make fun of the fact that this film was really only made because of how popular that the 1966 Batman TV show was just by saying to one of the movies stars that the film also stars Adam West and even if the episode does tell a bad joke it doesn't really matter as by the time you've heard it they've already told two of three really good jokes with the bad joke being long forgotten about in the process with the episode giving us alot more funny jokes then it does bad ones as that's just how funny that this episodes jokes really are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this episode might not be one of the best episodes that this show has done it is a good example of just how good that this show could be something which the movie itself would also do as this is show is one that should be remembered and this episode is one that should be watched due to how funny that it can be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that his very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

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Game Of Thrones: Blackwater Review

Game Of Thrones was one of the best fantasy shows on TV when it first debuted way back in the early 2010's. With the show mixing adult themes and situations with heart pounding action and heartbreaking deaths with the show being most famous for what would happen in it's nineth episode of each season as that would be where all the drama that the season had been leading up to would pay off with the same thing being true with the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the episode that is the first episode of the show to just focus on one set of characters with the episode in question being called simply just "Blackwater" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Stannis and his men reach King's Landing by sea it's up to Tyrion and the Lannister army to defend the city or die trying. Now then terms 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 as while yes this episodes plot is rather simple in nature that's all that it needed to be as the rest of the story was one that was being told all throughout the rest of this shows second season and therefor this episode isn't one that required that much of a deep plot as if your watching this episode then odds are you've watched the previous episodes as well and would therefor already know what the plot of this season is in the first place and to this episodes credit even tho it doesn't have much in the way of plot it does make up for it by giving us these really tense scenes with both Cersei and Sansa as they both contemplate the fact that they might now make it out of this war alive and while the episode does give alot of it's attention to it's main plot which is something that is rightfully so as the whole battle plot is what the whole second season had been building towards it was nice to see what could be considered the seasons B plot with Cersei and Sansa almost learning to trust each other get some spotlight as that was something that the makers of this episode didn't have to do and yet it's something that makes the main plot of this episode feel all the more real as now we get to see how the women feel about all of the fighting going on as well which was something that we barely got to see in this show 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 Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister and Lena Headey as Queen Cersei Lannister. Also starring in this episode is Charles Dance as Lord Tywin Lannister , Liam Cunningham as Ser Davos Seaworth , Jack Gleeson as King Joffrey Baratheon , Sophie Turner as Princess Sansa Stark , Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane , Stephen Dillane as Lord Stannis Baratheon , Jerome Flynn as Bronn , Conleth Hill as Lord Varys , Sibel Kekilli as Shae , Roy Dotrice as Wisdom Hallyne , Julian Glover as Grand Maester Pycelle , Eugene Simon as Ser Lancel Lannister , Kerr Logan as Matthos Seaworth , Finn Jones as Ser Loras Tyrell , Sahara Knite as Armeca , Tony Way as Dontos Hollard , Wilko Johnson as Ser Ilyn Payne , Callum Wharry as Prince Tommen Baratheon , Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne , Gordon Mahn as Ser Imry Florent and James Doran as Ser Mandon Moore.

Now then terms 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 this being something that wasn't really all that surprising as even in the bad episodes of this show there was always some really good acting in them with it being obvious that all of this episodes actors are a bunch of really good actors as they all act there hearts out in this episode something which couldn't have been easy due to the fact that this episode was filmed at night for several days or weeks straight with the best actor in the whole entire episode being a tie between Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey as they both do have scenes in this episode that show off just how wonderful of an actor that they both are be it Tyrion giving the troops a rousing speech after Joffrey leaves them to go and be with his mother or be it when Cersei tries to comfort her son near the end of the episode as she thinks that this is it for them and quietly prepares to spare her son getting brutally killed by essentially poisoning him all the while she has to put on this breathe face and act like everything is OK even when she knows that it might not be with the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out pf them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGIA for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Pixomondo , Baked FX and MFX. 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 with this episode perhaps more CGI heavy then what the rest of this season is as they do have to have to green screen in backgrounds for the characters that are on the boats to begin with as well of the wild fire that attacks the boats as well and while it might be obvious that they didn't really go out to sea to film the scenes on the boats the episodes overall quality of VFX is still quite high as alot of the episodes VFX do look really good with the makers of this episode going the extra mile by having the wildfire show up in the reflection of the sea which was something that they really didn't have to do and yet it's a small thin that helps to sell you on the effect as a whole and while of course they do use CGI for things like extended buildings and for making large armies of people in the episode that is a great way to use CGI ad then there only using it to create something that they wouldn't have been able to do on the day of filming and while it's obvious that the episodes effects budget was one of the things that got cut down in order to make this episode happen in the first place we still did manage to get some really good looking VFX that more then hold up all of these later and while yes granted this episodes VFX aren't as good s the effects that we see in TV shows today these are still some really good looking effects in their own right.

With this show of course being a drama that does mean that we do get a good dose of drama in this episode. Alot of which does work given the fact that all of the make characters are about to go off to war and thus every ones emotions are of course going to be heightened and yet at the same time tho there is some bits of drama that we really didn't need in this episode like for example we didn't need to see the scene between Bron and The Hound as that's not something that plays a part in the plot of this episode with it feeling like it was added in at the last might just to give both Jerome Flynn and Rory McCann a little bit more to do in the episode when it would have made more sense to have there scene play out the same way in either the previous or in the following episode and while it could be argued that the scene with Sansa and Joffrey wasn't needed for that exact same reason it could also be argued that there scene together was needed as they are meant to be betrothed to each other therefor it does make sense that she would want to go and see him off before he goes of to war even if he is fighting a war against her own brother and if anything the episode might have been made all the more better if we got to see more scenes with them together as then we'd get to see just how more sick and twisted that Joffrey is now that he's on the edge of a war as that is something that would make him a more dangerous person and heck it could even be argued that he is more dangerous then what Daenerys was as Joffrey is a character that only looks out for number 1 and is willing to do these sick and twisted things just because it's fun for him whereas with Daenerys she was pushed to the point of killing people and wasn't already at that point.

What is something that would have made this episode be that little bit better was if they didn't show Tywin coming in at the end of the episode. As then they could have had this big cliffhanger ending with all of us wondering if these characters are going to make it out alive or not which given the fact that this season of the show was made before streaming was really a thing was something that would have been a boost for next weeks ratings and yet for one reason or another they decided to show him coming in at the end of the episode as a literal knight in shining in armour to save his kids which is something that does rob the scene of any tension as they very easily could have had appear just in silhouette form and got those exact same results and while yes it is a small thing to say about this episode but it's the small things that do make all of the difference as given that this was the second to last episode of the season then the makers of this show could have used that to build up hype for the next episode as then us the audience and those who hadn't read the books would be left wondering if the characters survived or not and while it does make sense for them to show him saving his kids and grandkids in this episode as this episode is meant to be all about the Battle of Blackwater it still would have been if the makers of this episode took advantage of the fact that this is a TV show much like how in book form they could have ended that exact same scene without revealing that he saved them until the start of there next chapter and while yes we do get some deaths in this episode none of them are major characters deaths which is something that could be seen as being a bad thing but given that not alot of the main characters actively took part in the battle it is also something that does make sense.

There was one scene that really did stand out for me personally and it's not got anything to do with the main battle at least not directly . As the scene that stood out to me as the ending scene between Cersei and Tommen as in that scene it's just Cersei trying to calm down him down while the war is going on outside which might not seem like much but when you take into account that that scene isn't just one character trying to calm another down it's rather a mother trying to calm down her son while she knows that her world is crumbling all around her and yet she still has to put on this brave face and tell him this somewhat happy story that is what makes the scene standout as it would have been super easy and really in character for Cersei to just tell it like it is as she's pretty drunk at that time but because of the fact that she does care for all of her kids something that we've seen all throughout the show she instead just puts him on her knee , talks to him calmly and tells him a story to try and calm him down and ease his worries and yet at the same time she knows that if they loose that war both she and her son are good as well dead and so she takes measures to kill her son as a mercy killing something which we saw her get ready at the start of the episode with it being done because of the fact that if she didn't perform that act of mercy on her son then the invaders wouldn't do it and therefor she did make the hardest choice that any mother would have to make and thankfully she didn't have to kill Tommen but it's the fact that she was willing to kill him in regardless of if she had any poison left for herself that makes that scene stand out.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty four minuets and twenty seven seconds. With this pretty much being the bogstandard running time of this show and to be fair to this episode this is an episode that really did need that amount of running time in order to tell it's story in a way that does justice to it's plot as if this episode was more like forty five minuets then that would mean having alot of the really good stuff in the episode getting out thus leaving the episode and it's plot a bit of a mess with this episode having the ight amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time and while the episode doesn't rally take the time to fully develop it's plot in all fairness this time around it really doesn't need to as we have the previous eight episodes to do all of that and given the fact that this is a TV show it wouldn't make sense for them to have a well developed plot given the fact that this episode is meant to be paying of a plot line and not starting with the same thing even being true for the characters lack of character development as the show would have had a lot of other episodes to give there characters the character development that they really did need but in saying this tho the episode would have been all the more better if there was more plot development and if there was more character development in this episode as then it would make the episode feel all the more well thought and would make those pointless scenes with Bronn and The Hound now have some sort of meaning as they very easily could have had some character development take place in those scenes but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episode having some really good looking action in it which is something that does make alot of sense considering the fact that the episode is basically one long action scene with the fact that this episode is just focusing on this one big battle being something that does make the action all the more impactful as now the episode can't do what the show would normally do and cut away to another plot line with other characters as now it has to focus all of it's attention on this big battle with the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the battle itself as we get to see alot of what it is that makes the battle sand out in the first place as we get to see the characters on both sides of the conflict making plans to try and outwit each other and we get to see how in a battle it doesn't matter if you make plans or not because one wrong move really can send all of those plans flying out of the window which is what we get when Tyrion bring the Wildfire into the mix something which Stannis and his men never thought of which means that they now have to think on there feet and when Joffrey essentially runs away from the battle Tyrion the remaining Lannister men now have to do the exact same thing which is something that makes the whole battle be all the more intense and just flat out cool then what it really had any right to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall with House Of The Dragon season 3 gearing up for it's big battle it really was fun to go back and watch this episode as this episode is a good example of just how much fun that a battle in this world can look like as that's just how good that this episode really is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the  i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 9 out of 10 from me.

Now the as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally sued 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 Tenor , A Wiki Of Ice And Fire , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these 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 these 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.

My SPOILER FREE First Impressions of Scrubs

Finally after not only years of waiting after the dreadful ninth and final season of the show we can now officially say that Scrubs is back on the air. As the first two episodes of this show which really is being billed as both a revival of the original show and the next season of the original show as well and well you all just knew that I had to check out these two episodes the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE first impressions of the show that sees our favorite nurses and doctors return older but none the wiser with the show in question being called simply just "Scrubs" enjoy.

The plots of these first two episodes is in "My Return" J.D. finds himself back at his old hospital when a patient is admitted there and when he's there he gets offered a job that he can't possibly refuse and in "My 2nd First Day" J.D has to learn then in his job he won't be able to please everyone. 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 episode was in all honesty really good with both episodes having plots that get us used to the new status quo for the rest of the season whilst also introducing new fans to this wacky and crazy show and while the plot of the second episode is a little thin with it also being a carbon copy of the plot from an episode back in season eight it is still a really good plot as while episode one dd have alot of heavy lifting to do as it had to explain to new fans who these characters and then tell the older fans where they are now in there lives and in there careers episode two's plot was allowed to be alot more fun due to the fact that all of the heavy lifting was done in the first episode but in saying this tho "My Return" definitely had the more stronger of the two plots tho something which just wasn't the case with episode two and yet the same time the plot for episode didn't really suffer because of it as it did feel more like classic Scrubs something which is something that could be said for the first episode as well with the plots of both of these episode being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in these episodes is the first episodes director and one of this shows executive producers Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian and one of this shows executive producers Sarah Chalke as Dr. Elliot Reid. Also starring in this episodes is one of this shows executive producers Donald Faison as Dr. Chris Turk , John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox , Judy Reyes as Nurse Carla Espinosa , Robert Maschio as Dr. "The" Todd Quinlan , Phill Lewis as Dr. Hooch , Vanessa Bayer as Sibby Wilson , Joel Kim Booster as Dr. Kevin Park , Ava Bunn as Sam Tosh , Jacob Dudman as Asher Green , David Gridley as Blake Lewis , Layla Mohammadi as Amara Hadi and Amanda Morrow as Dashana Trainor.

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 episode was in all honesty really good. With al of these episodes actors turning in some really good performances with all of the returning actors even those that just appear in cameos throughout these two opening episodes slip right back into character almost as if they just got through playing them yesterday with it being painfully obvious that all of the original series actors still have this wonderful chemistry together which is something that was to be expected from both Zach Braff and Donald Faison as they did become best friends after the show started and even have a podcast together and while the acting does somewhat dip when it comes to the shows more newer characters this is to be expected as they are still trying to find there characters with the best actor in both of these episodes being Donald Faison as he gets this really deep and emotional speech in episode one that just pulls of so well with it working because of the fact that we the audience had had years to get to know his character with his performance in both of these episodes being a true masterclass of acting with the acting that's in these episodes really being helped by the fact that the scripts for both of these episodes was just so good that all these episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out f naturally as that's just how good that the acting is in these episodes.

Whilst it would be super easy to talk about the older characters this show is also going to live or die on if the shows newer characters are any good or not. As alot of people will know if they like the older characters due to having spent years with them in the previous seasons and yet we are only just now meeting these new characters ad to eb fair the new characters so far do seem to be pretty good characters and while it will yes of course be to early to tell on if there good characters that people will like it or not as these are only the first two episodes of the show right now things are looking good as they are a pretty entertaining bunch of characters with alot of them even getting the spotlight in the first episode and while of curse people are going to like the older characters alot more then the newer ones it is still nice to see that this show can still give us good and more importantly funny new characters as these new characters to tackle modern day issues in ways that aren't as subtle as they would have been in the original show but are still pretty fun to see get tackled in the first episode and while of course it would have worked out really well if these first two episodes did have more older returning characters in it that is something that would then cause new fans to be put of by the show and therefor these first two episodes do have to strike that balance between giving us comedy gold with the older characters and also giving more dramatic moments with both the old and the new characters as that is the only way that this show would be able to survive as relying on nostalgia and call backs will get you so far before it starts to feel cheap.

Pretty much as was to be expected in the first episode there is alot of nostalgia to be found just un the first episode alone. As we do get alot of call backs to moments from the first episode of the original show and we of course get alot of returning characters as well all of which was fun to see as it reminds us older fans of why we loved Scrubs so much to begin with as it had that old school Scrubs feel to it something which could even be said for the second episode as well and the fact that they filmed this show in Vancouver and yet they made it look like the actual hospital that they used for filming of the original show is something that does help with that as it does make it feel like that this is the next season of the show with everything looking just how you remember it looking back in the early 2000's and yet at the same time these episodes do now that you can't just relay on people's nostalgia as while yes it was great to see more modernized version of the shows iconic intro complete with the original theme song there are also alot of new elements that help to make the show feel new again as outside of all of the new characters alot of which are going to become fan favorites we also get to see different parts of the hospital that we never got to see in the original as the whole show was filmed inside one disused hospital which does mean that we never got to see alot more of the hospitals other rooms yet that's something that we got to see in episode two of this show with us even getting to see some small amount of gore something which would never have been seen in the original show yet because of the fact that this show is also airing on Hulu it means that we can now see it and it's these types of new things that will hopefully keep people coming back for more episodes.

Without giving away to much of what's happened to alot of the returning characters there are some things that just don't work in these first two episodes. With it being reveled in episode one that J.D. and Elliot got divorced which does mean that we're most likely getting there love story told all over again which was something that was played out by the end of the shows eighth season and it's something alot of the older fans might not want to see told to us again in this new season as we've already seen that story several times over in several of the past seasons of the show with it being something that doesn't make sense as we do find out that J.D now has a daughter who could be Elliots kid with another thing that doesn't work being the fact that it does seem like they toned down The Todd when if anything this character should have been kept the exact same way as the whole joke with his character is the fact that everyone in the hospital knows that he's a pig and yet he himself doesn't know that therefor it make no sense for him to become this toned down character but in saying that the only way that you could do this character in this day and age would be this more toned down version as the original version of the character just wouldn't fly with today's audience yet there still should have been some effort to make him still be himself and yet also be a character that the audience of today might not hate as they won't know the main joke with his character they'll just know him from the few appearances that he makes in these two episodes ad that's really it and while yes there is a chance that we get to see more of the old Todd in future episodes it is something that we should have seen in these first two episodes as he is well liked side character.

As with the original show both of the first two episodes of this new season do find a way to balance both comedy and drama really well. With both of the episodes having lots of moments that will make you laugh out loud but then especially in episode one there will be a moment where a character gets to see something that's really dramatic and it works really well as it feels perfectly true to who that character is with the best example of this being Turk as again without giving away to much he does get to say that he's feeling burnt out after spending many years at working at the hospital and not really having anyone there to just laugh with and have fun which was a really sweet moment as it does feel true to who he is as a character as while yes he does get alot of the shows more funny moments he does also have this softer side that very rarely if ever comes out which makes it all the more special and dramatic when it does come out and given the fact that he spent alot of season 9 without his best friend and just working at a teaching hospital it does make sense that he would start to feel burnt out something that it could be argued is made worse by the fact that he only has daughters and no sons which might seem odd to say but Turk is the kind of character who could old really open up when he's around J.D and given that he hasn't seen him for years at least not fully then it does make sense that he would feel burnt out with that being something that alot of people do start to feel at somepoint in their lives and it's not just Turk either as the one of the new interns without knowing it causes a patient to die something which he does blame himself for with it taking all of the new interns to come around and tell him that there was nothing that he could do to help make him feel all right again.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and twenty seven seconds whilst episode two of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty minuets and forty six seconds. With both of these episodes having some really solid running times to them as those are the running times that you'd expect to find in a classic episode of the show as well with both of these episodes having the right amount of plot there to cover there respective running times and yet in saying this episode episode one doesn't really use it's running time all the wisely as the episode spends alot of time in telling what the characters have been up to rather then giving us a well developed which granted was something that was always going to be an issue with episode two not really having that problem as that episode has more of a well developed plot with this being because of the fact that the first episode did alot of the heavy lifting and therefor episode two would have had more room to develop it's plot and yet both of the episodes don't take the time to fully develop any of the characters which is fair enough for the returning characters as they had all of the previous seasons to get there character development and yet none of the new characters get nothing in the way of character development which you could argue is fair enough as this is the only start of this new season and therefor there of course not going to be getting any character development in these two episodes it still would have been nice if they got something in the way of character development but I really will admit that these two episode really do have some really good pacing to tho them.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With both of these episodes having jokes that are laugh out loud funny as they all feel true to the episodes characters as well as the spirit of the original show with these new episodes retaining the original shows wit with both of the episodes retaining the original shows wit and style of humor by making great use of dream sequences all of which do really well in these episodes with the best joke in both of the episodes being when J.D and Carla first meet back up with her asking him if Turk knows that he's there something which J.D denies only for the episode to cut to Turk sniffing out that J.D is there which is a funny joke as it is something that either character would do as it's something that does highlight just how much that they love each other as friends with even the new interns getting some really funny moments as well which is something that does make them out to be really funny characters as well with all of the characters across both of the episodes having at least one joke that is laugh out loud which is something that was unexpected and yet it was something that did make both of these episodes be all the more funnier then what they really should have really been with all of the jokes in these episodes really making the show feel alot more classic Scrubs as that's how well that all of these episodes jokes really are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall no matter how bad these new episodes turn out to be they can't be any worse then the whole of season 9 as that season was just an awful season f this show with these new episodes doing a fantastic job of reminding us of just why Scrubs was so good in the first place in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these very episodes in this very post and as this is only my first impressions of this revival 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 Amazon . Co . Uk , 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.