Game Of Thrones "Dragonstone" Review

Game Of Thrones fans it would be easy for me to talk about one of the earlier seasons of the show and even easier for me to talk about the final season of the show. However I thought i'd talk about an episode from the seventh season of the show simply because I don't see people talking about this season at all which I don't really get since in my opinion this is a very underrated season and so here is my review of the season 7 premiere "Dragonstone" enjoy Game Of Thrones and TV show fans.

The plot of the episode is Jon and Sansa have a slight falling , Arya is proceeding south to kill the queen when she meets some soldiers who might change her mind and after seven long years Daenerys finally returns home. I know that this summery is pretty bad but in my defence reviewing a single episode of a show is always hard especially one where the story goes back several years , as for what I thought about this story it was really good and it did keep me invested all throughout the episode as any good story should do. 

Starring in this episode is Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister. Also starring in the episode is Lena Headey as Queen Cersei Lannister , Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen , Kit Harington as Jon Snow , Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark , Maisie Williams as Arya Stark , in his final appearance in the show the great David Bradley as Walder Frey , Bella Ramsey as Lady Lyanna Mormont , Jim Broadbent as Archmaester Ebrose and I wish I was making this up Ed Sheeran as Eddie.

In terms of what I thought about the acting in the episode I thought that it was honestly really good which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone at this point. Since the show is known for having great acting even in seasons that aren't that good and episodes that aren't that good the acting in them is always top notch which as i've said is the same thing here every actor including Ed Sheeran deliver a great performance in my opinion.

Now incase your wondering how I knew that the character that Ed Sheeran play's is called Eddie it's because I checked it on the official fandom page for this episode which does have him listed as being called Eddie. It's honestly a pretty weird cameo as well because unlike all of the other musician cameos that they've had on the show they put alot of focus into making sure that you know it's Ed Sheeran which to me at least takes you out of the show and out the story it's not a bad cameo but they didn't need to make sure that you knew who it was.

As mentioned this is the last episode to feature David Bradley as Walder Frey and what i liked about his death is that it actually ties back into Arya's story. Which was honestly something that the writers of this episode David Benioff & D.B. Weiss didn't have to do at all it was a nice little touch that reminds us that Arya is not only still out for revenge but also remembers everything that happened that night and will stop at nothing to make sure that those who committed the crime will pay for it with there very lives.

Speaking of Arya outside of a few scenes she's not in this episode that much which I don't really get why they did that. Since they could have spent alot of time letting us know what she was going to be up to this season or developing her character a little bit more but no they only have her in I think it was two scenes while one of them does add to her story the other one i'm not kidding is only there so that Maisie Williams could meet one of her favourite singers.

I kind of liked what they did with Cersei in this episode since they took the time to show a more strategic side to the character. This was honestly something that they didn't have to do but it's something that i'm glad was added into the episode since it makes her seem more in control of the situation my issue is that this kind of development has come a little to late in the game and so to throw it in here just seems like they had nothing for the character to do for the next two seasons.

This episode is just under an hour long I think the final running time for the episode is fifty eight minuets or something like that. Which to me feels about right since all this episode is is setting up things for the current season and the following season but at the same time there are characters like Jon and Arya who suffer because the episode is busy setting things up that it's not giving them anything to do in this episode.

I freaking loved the ending of this episode and i'm not just saying that because i'm a fan of Daenerys i;m saying it because it's such a great way to end the episode. All it is is a series of shots Daenerys and her crew walking through the now abandoned Dragonstone until they finally reach the throne room where Daenerys walks up the steps turns around and simply says "Shall We Begin?" that right there is such a good way to end the episode it's great visual story telling since there's no dialog at all until the very end of that sequence.

Overall this is honestly a really good and well written episode in my opinion and is in my opinion one of the better episodes of the show. that said tho this episode does have some issues alot of which i've discussed in this very review but to me those issues apart from alot of focus on Ed Sheeran during his appearance don't take away from the story infact some of them add to the story as such this episode get an 8.5 out of 10 from me. 

 

Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck And I Love To Singa Review

Looney Tunes fans I told you that i'd be back with another review and well i'm a man of my word and i've picked out two really good cartoons for this review. I'll be the first to admit that "Duck Amuck" is perhaps one of my all time favourite cartoons out there just due to how insane and funny it is and i've honestly never seen "I Love To Singa" all the way through since it just just doesn't do anything for me and so here is my review of both of those cartoons cartoon fans enjoy. 

The plot of Duck Amuck is Daffy is trying to make a cartoon only for him to be constantly outwitted by an unseen animator and in I Love To Singa the plot is a young Owl just wants to sing Jazz but his classical loving family won't let him. Plot wise I honestly enjoyed I love To Singa more just because the story was really strong and was really well done where as in Duck Amuck there wasn't much there in terms of story in my opinion.

Starring in I love To Singa is Tommy Bond as Owl Jolson , Billy Bletcher as Father , Martha Wentworth as Mother and Tedd Pierce as Jack Bunny. In terms of what I thought about the acting in this short it was pretty decent at best there's not much spoken dialog so it's hard for me to really get a grip on the quality of the acting but from little lines of dialog there are in the short the acting seems OK at best in my opinion.

Starring in Duck Amuck is the late and the always great Mel Blanc as both Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. This was honestly the easiest cast list i've had to write up because it's just him as for what I thought about the acting tho it's really freaking good this is a real tour de force for Mel as like I said it's just him and he really does deliver easily going from Daffy to Bugs in the blink of an eye which is something that only he could do.

Animating Duck Amuck was Ken Harris , Ben Washam and Lloyd Vaughan , I know that alot more people worked on this short but those are the only three credited and so to stop myself from going insane i'm only crediting those three. In my opinion the animation in this short is so freaking good everything from the ever changing backgrounds to Daffy's acting just sell me on the fact that's he's getting more and more annoyed at the animator.

Now I didn't know this going into this review but doing the animation for I Love To Singa is Looney Tunes legend Chuck Jones here credited as Charles Jones and Virgil Ross. While I love the animation in Duck Amuck to me the animation in this short looks like something that should have been in a feature length film because it's that good in my opinion , heck alot of the animation reminded me of the Disney version of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs that's how good it was in my opinion.

Like most Warner Bros cartoons made at the time this one was basically made to be a music video featuring songs from the classic Warner Bros music library. As a music video I would have rated this very highly hell I would even have recommended it to a few people but as a short film on it's own I can't really do that since there's nothing there in terms of a character and by that I mean you never get a sense of any kind of personality from these characters at all.

This isn't really an issue with Duck Amuck since we've had countless cartoons up until this point to get to know Daffy. As such we know how he would react in certain situations or how certain directors would handle the character but with I Love To Singa you don't have have that advantage and so you have to give us the personality of the characters as well as tell a good story and while it does indeed tell a good story it doesn't give the characters any kind of personality.

I honestly like that the kind of made Bugs the bad guy of Duck Amuck even tho he is basically just pulling a prank on Daffy seeing this evil side to him oddly makes me wonder if he's actually a villainous character. Think about it we always see his cartoons from his point of view where his antics are always seen as funny but if you flip that and make the cartoons about the people that Bugs is up against those cartoons could very easily show Bug's in his true nature as the bad guy I could very well be looking deep into something that's not there but it's worth thinking about tho in my own honest opinion.

Now then let's take a second to talk about the jokes in these shorts because these are comedies and so it makes sense. I honestly didn't mind the jokes in both shorts while I will always find Duck Amuck to be the funnier of the two shorts that doesn't mean that I Love To Singa isn't funny in fact there are some good jokes in there but there's a lot more bad ones as well in my personal opinion which is a shame because when you see a good one it can be quite funny.

Overall I still feel that Duck Amuck is one of the greatest cartoons out there since it is so freaking funny. That being said tho I Love To Singa does have alot going for it as well like the animation being fantastic but that's really all that it has going for it since there's nothing there that to me screams classic Looney Tunes and while I can indeed see this being some people's favourites i'm not one of them and so even tho both shorts have alot of faults which have been discussed in this review Duck Amuck gets a 9.5 out of 10 from me and I Love To Singa gets a 5 out of 10 from me there's only one way to end this review THAT'S ALL FOLKS!.