Legion "Chapter 1" Review

 

Marvel fans i've reviewed alot of the shows and films that the company has released and well it's safe to say that i've found the strangest one yet. Honestly I have no words to describe this pilot episode because of how weird and strange it is honestly watching this debut episode is like going on a drug trip it's that weird and odd and as far as I can tell this is set in the world of the X-Men but which continuity tho I truly cannot say as the main film continuity for the X-Men franchise is screwed up already and every TV show based on the characters live action or animated is set within it's own continuity and so here is my review of the first episode of Legion called "Chapter 1" enjoy.

Now I honestly wish that I could tell you what the plot for this episode is however I really can't work out what the plot of the episode is. Since it's that weird and strange i'm sure that there's a plot present in this episode but the only way you'd be able to work out what it was was if you yourself was on some kind of drug and even tho I saw this episode when it first aired i'm still to this very day confused as hell to what I just saw.

Starring in the episode is Dan Stevens as David Haller , Rachel Keller as Sydney Barrett and Aubrey Plaza as Lenny Busker. Also starring in the episode is Jeremie Harris as Ptonomy Wallace , Amber Midthunder as Kerry Loudermilk , Katie Aselton as Amy Haller , Jean Smart as Melanie Bird , David Ferry as Dr. Dennis Kissinger , Ellie Araiza as Philly , Matt Hamilton as Ben , Brad Mann as Rudy , Hamish Linklater as Clark Debussy and David Selby as Brubaker.

The acting in the episode I thought to be rather freaking fantastic with all of the actors no matter how big their roles was in this episode giving a truly great performance. To me what helps the acting in this episode is the fact that the script by show creator and director of this episode Noah Hawley is so freaking good as such all the actors have to do is read the lines as they are written and they'd have a solid performance that's how good this script is in my opinion.

For those of you that don't know which i'm assuming is alot of you this show is based on the Marvel Comics character also called Legion. The character was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz I honestly have no idea who this character is but glancing at the characters Wikipedia page I can tell you that he is the son of Professor X and that as a character he really hasn't been around for that long having first started appearing in comics in New Mutants Issue 25 from March 1985 as such he is a fairly new character at least in terms of comic books and I think that it was brave of FX to take a chance on a little known and like I said fairly new comic book character.

I say they were brave because it would have been super easy for them to pick one of the older X-Men characters and base a show around them. However going the opposite route means that they could change whatever they wanted to fit the show and the world that the show is set in now I have no idea if they did that or not since i've honestly never read any of the comics that this character has appeared in but I honestly wouldn't blame them if they did since the characters backstory and lore isn't set in stone like most comic book characters backstory and lore is as such they are more free to change the characters backstory and lore.

I honestly really did like the character of Lenny who as mentioned before was played by the stunning as all hell Aubrey Plaza. I;m honestly shocked that they killed this character of in the first episode mostly because Aubrey Plaza was the only big name in the shows cast and so keeping her character alive would have made sense but at the same time I think people would have expected her character to be alive and well and so killing her off says that if she can die then maybe these others characters can die as well.

To me Lenny was one of the more likeable characters in this episode mostly because you actually understood what was going in her scenes but also because she got alot of the best lines of the episode. Which to me made her character more entertaining to watch just because you knew that whatever she was going to say was going to be pure comedy gold and you can tell that Noah Hawley had a good time writing her because she's in alot of the episode.

I've said this several times in this review and i'm going to say it again but this episode is weird as all hell. Which if that was the point like your meant to feel like David like your insane then well freaking done but if that wasn't the case then I have to wonder what the point even was in making the episode like it is as well as what made you think that this was the right way to go with the your debut episode since it's going to and i'm assuming it did leave alot of people confused as all freaking heck or at least I think so anyways.

This episode is one hour and seven minuets which I feel for an episode that is really hard to follow having that long a running time really doesn't help things at all. I say this because there are huge portions of the episode that are just boring to watch and as such I found my self going on the internet while the episode was playing which for anything regardless of if it's TV show or film is never a good thing whatsoever.

Like I said this is meant to be set in the same world as the X-Men and yet there's no actual X-Men present either in this show and I believe in the series. I honestly feel that this is a huge mistake since alot of people who would be interested in this show are fans of the X-Men and so having one of the X-Men character regardless of if they appeared in any of the films or not I feel would have helped attract more people to the show.

Overall this was a really good episode or at least the parts that I could actually make out were really good. However the episode is very freaking confusing and so it's freaking hard to work out what the plot actually was (hence what I just said in the above sentence) which even tho it very well might have been what the makers of the show were going for it still makes the episode hard to follow as such this episode gets a 7 out of 10 from me.

All and I do mean all of the of the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Legion TV series fandom wiki page. Since I only went to one website for the images that I used in this review I have no choice but to recommend that you use the Legion TV series fandom wiki page just because the images there I found to be really freaking high quality which for me and I assume others is a huge plus when putting together either a review or any post.

 

Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo Review

 

Scooby-Doo fans usually we only get one Scooby-Doo movie a year however this year we luckily got two Scooby-Doo movies. This is one that I was honestly expecting to be released digitally in at least a few weeks and so you can imagine my surprise when I saw that it was online well now and well since I have a tradition of reviewing each new Scooby-Doo movie the first chance that I get I now present to you my review of "Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo" enjoy.

The plot of the movie is after wrapping up another mystery The Mystery Inc gang along with Elvira Mistress Of The Dark find themselves being chased by giant Pumpkins and so they have to find out who did it before the pumpkins eat them. I'll full on admit the story was alot more fun then what I thought that it was going to be since I honestly thought that the story would be rather simple and dull but no this was actually really fun.

Of course we have our regular Scooby-Doo voice cast that being Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and Fred Jones , Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers , Grey Griffin as Daphne Blake and Kate Micucci and Velma Dinkley. Joining the cast for this film is Cassandra Peterson as Elvira , Bill Nye as Himself Dwight Schultz as Jonathon Crane / Scarecrow , David Herman as The Sheriff and Fred Tatasciore as The Head Jack O Lantern.

The voice acting from everyone I thought was really good and after having an animated Scooby-Doo film without the main cast it was good to hear there voices again. I honestly feel that the regular cast were great in this film just because the script for the film is one of the better Scooby-Doo direct to DVD film scripts and because of that the regular and the guest cast could turn in really fun performances and to me that's a great thing.

The animation for this film was handled by Digital Emation who have worked on alot of Scooby-Doo films and TV shows. Just like with the story I wasn't expecting the animation in this film to be that good but no I was actually pretty blown away by how good the animation was to me this film with this animation deserved a big screen release that's how good the animation was in my opinion but I will admit some of the characters thickly drawn lines were a tad bit distracting in my opinion.

Just going back to when the trailer for the film was first released I had no idea that freaking Elvira Mistress Of The Dark would be making another appearance in this franchise let alone be a main character. As a horror fan I loved that they included her just because having more Elvira is always a good thing in any film but I wish that they would have had her share a scene with Bill Nye just because those two are huge eighties and nineties icons and so it would have been pretty cool to see them share a scene together in this film.

I think that pretty much everyone who saw the trailer had some sort of idea that this film would be fun as hell and well fun is the best to describe this film. Since it is really fun I honestly cannot remember the last time that I had fun while watching a direct to DVD Scooby-Doo not like the others are bad but not all of them are fun which is a shame because that is what makes this film a joy to watch because there are alot of moments in this film that are just fun.

I'm not going to spoil anything since I do feel that this film is worth watching but there is a scene very early on that I didn't expect. To me this scene was quite shocking because of the characters that it involves because we've seen these characters before and not once have we seen one of them act like how they do in this one scene which to me was honestly rather refreshing and it totally makes sense in the context of the film.

Perhaps the best kept secret about the last three films is that they actually form a trilogy which I don't mind spoiling since it doesn't spoil anything regarding the plot. I'm honestly shocked that they chose to make a trilogy of films and not really tell people or give people clues but that's honestly a good thing since it now gives people a chance to go back and re-watch the other two films just incase they missed out on any clues in the other films.

Perhaps the weakest aspect of this film is it's mystery which for a Scooby-Doo piece of media should never be the case. To me the mystery in this film was so hastily put together that they didn't bother to give you any clues which is something that you should always do regardless of if you in the Scooby-Doo franchise or not and that to me lade the mystery less fun to work out because the reveal of who it is comes out of nowhere.

This film is an hour and sixteen minuets long and I have to say that the time just flew by before I even knew it there was twenty minuets of the film left and it felt like I had just pressed play on the film. I honestly feel that this running time was perfect for this film just because it allowed the film to be fun and to have those creative and really funny moments which is something that you wouldn't get in the film was longer then say an hour a half and yes I loved the comedy in this film as well since I found my self laughing alot during the film.

Overall yeah this is a really good and fun movie and it's one that I would highly recommend anyone to watch even if it's just to kill some time. Yes there are some bad things in this film as i've covered in this film but that doesn't stop the film from being enjoyable and being fun to watch and so this film gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me. All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page or from Google Images and I honestly have to say use whichever website you want to use for images from this film but I would say that Google Images does have more images from the film tho even tho they won't always be high quality images and I have to say that I don't recommend using the method that I use to watch the film your much better of waiting until October 6th to watch the film nor do I condone the way that I watched the film either.