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Monday 16 September 2024

Wandavision "Breaking The Fourth Wall" Review


We are now just a few short days from the release of the latest MCU Disney+ TV series Agatha All Along. As such it was only about right that I review something from the show from which the character of Agatha Harkness first makes her debut and well with a certain song that also bares the name of Agatha All Along also debuting in this very episode it only made sense that this be the episode that I do a review for and so then join me as I review that introduced the world to a surprisingly catchy song with the episode in question being called simply just "Breaking The Fourth Wall" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is with her grip on Westview slipping Wanda goes to extremes to make sure everything stays just the way that she wants it to all the while something truly evil emerges from Westview something which threatens to change everything forever. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty (I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with the plot of this episode doing a really good job of building up the overall plot of the show as a whole whilst also throwing in some twists and turns that make the plot of this episode feel new and different whilst also being the kind of plot that you'd expect to see in a show like this one as well with this being helped by the fact that the plot of this episode really does feel like the kind of plot that you'd expect to see in shows like Modern Family and the American version of The Office albeit with a Marvel twist that oddly makes sense for these characters which also makes the plot feel more refreshing , new and different then as well 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 Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff , Paul Bettany as Vision and Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau. Also starring in this episode is Evan Peters as Ralph Bohner , Randall Park as Jimmy Woo , Debra Jo Rupp as Sharon Davis , Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis , Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness /Agnes , Julian Hilliard as Billy Maximoff , Jett Klyne as Tommy Maximoff , Josh Stamberg as Director Tyler Hayward , Emma Caulfield Ford as Sarah Proctor , Jolene Purdy as Isabel Matsueda , David Payton as John Collins , David Lengel as Harold Proctor , Asif Ali as Abilash Tandon , Alan Heckner as Agent Monti , Rachael Thompson as Major Aly Goodner , Selena Anduze as Agent Rodriguez and Amos Glick as Dennis The Delivery Man.

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. Which really isn't all that new as the acting for this show is genuinely really good and heck the acting in this episode even got praise for being as good as it is with alot of that being down to the fact that some of this episodes actors are reprising their roles from other Marvel Cinematic Universe movies as well as the fact that alot of this episodes actors are a bunch of really good actors in there own right with it being clear as day that this episodes director Matt Shakman really does know how to get a good performances out of his actors which is something that does help to raise up the overall quality of this episodes acting and make it alot more better then what it really had any right to be with the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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 Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies and the legends and the greats that are currently over at capital T. 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 as they use CGI in the way that it was meant to be used that is to extend and enhance what was already there on the day in this case making the Circus look alot bigger then what it was and while yes they do use it in order to create The Hex that's keeping them in Westview that's a case of that they had to to use CGI there as there's no way that you could do an effect like that in live action and to be fair it is an effect that does look good for most part as this is a TV show and as such the effects budget does have to be spread out alot more then what it would have to be in a feature length film and as a result of that is the fact that we do get some effects that don't look that good with the scene where Wanda lifts Monica in the air using her powers looking a little bit to fake and while it is something that would be a passable effect ten years ago it's also an effect that doesn't look as good as it perhaps should have done.


As alot of you know this is the episode that introduced the world to the song "Agatha All Along with the song itself being written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. The song itself is still surprising catchy with the song echoing sitcoms of the past most notably The Munsters something that is featured in the songs guitar and theme tune as well as the text that appears on the segment where this song appears which does make sense as a character like Agatha does seem like somebody who would've watched The Munsters at some point in her live but at the same time the song isn't all that good either as it's a song that hasn't been built up at all and isn't written all that well either as it doesn't have that many lyrics to it and as a result of that s the fact that it comes across like a TV jingle that you'd hear over an advert and not like the TV show theme song that it's pretending to be and heck it doesn't really go all that far into the fact that it is basically a TV show intro theme song which is something that it really could have done both in the visuals and in the actual song like it would have been funny if the episode had listed who was starring in this version of Agatha All Along and they even could have listed Agatha Harkness as being the creator of the show and the song it self could have had a bit more of punch to it this is despite the fact that the song is as to be expected from these writers still a really well written song that's performed really well by Agatha Harkness actor Kathryn Hahn.

Something that was to be expected from this show is the fact that this episodes sends up certain era of sitcoms in this case it's shows like the American version of The Office and Modern Family. Which is something that does date this episode as even when this show was being aired those kinds of shows were on the out and the world of sitcom was returning to being filmed infront of a live studio audience but at the same time it is still fun to see this episode send up aspects of those shows like the fact that Wanda does have a chat with the fictional director something which both disturbs her and serves as a key plot point in the episode as it lets us the audience now that somethings going on right now even if it is being one is a rather subtle way but at the same time it is something that does take away from the episode as well as those kinds of shows really do find away to spotlight everybody and give all of the characters something funny to say or do something which this episode really doesn't do and heck it's only Wanda and Vision that talks to the camera when it would have been funnier if we got to see more of the cast take to the camera as well which is something that really would have played really well into the sitcom aspect of this show whilst also not really taking away from the drama aspect of this show either.


Out of all of the characters that are in this episode it's Monica that gets alot less screen time then what she really could have gotten. As her breaking back into Westview is a key part of the shows finale and yet it's not given alot of attention instead she just arrives at an of sight army base and suddenly knows how to get back in after basically crashing a car and that's really it none of which is built up really well and all of which is something that could have been built up if she was given alot more screen time to fully develop that plot line but in doing so that would have taken from the main plot line and Vision's subplot of getting back to Wanda as well both of which are key plot lines and as a result of that is the fact that it does make it hard to fully judge which plot lone should either have been removed all together or cut down in order to give the other plot lines the time that they needed to fully breathe and develop more with this not really being helped by the fact that what little of Monica we do get in this episode really doesn't tell us all that much about her as a character which does make sense given how late into the show this episode is but at the same time since there very clearly trying to set up as a main character for future movies going forward then alot more effort should have gone into showing us what her personality is like in all of her scenes including her scenes in this episode as that would have made her a more developed character and that's something that can't be done with the fact that this episode really doesn't show her all that much.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly thirty four minuets and forty one seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this shoe and while this episode really does have more then enough there in terms of plot to really cover that amount of running time that running time is also the episodes biggest problem as it does mean that plot lines really do have to be rushed at an almost unnatural pace as the episode has to rush along to the next plot point instead of just letting plot points come across organically which does leave you with questions like couldn't Vision just fly back to Wanda at the start of the episode of when he and Darcy where stuck at the traffic light since Vision himself even noted that he knew that this was Wanda's doing and yet those gaps in logic are things that could have been covered over with if the episode took the time that it so desperately needed in order to reach to those plot points more organically instead of just rushing to them without explaining anything at best all of which does make the episode come across as being rushed at times when this is the point in a shows run when they should be slowing down a little bit just so they can explain more about what's going and heck even the sitcoms that this show is sending up do more often then not take there time in telling there stories and thus reach there plot points more organically this is despite them having a twenty two minuet running time but I will admit that this episode really does have some really bad pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is still a comedy as this point in time that really does mean that I have to actually talk about thew 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 not that bad. As the episode does have some really funny moments in it which given that this episode does have Kat Dennings in it does make alot of sense as does the fact that she and and Vision that get alot of the episodes best jokes just because of the fact that it's so funny seeing these two characters that wouldn't normally spend time together now instead being forced to spend time together all the while Wanda is sending thing after thing to stop them from reaching her which is a funny idea and while Wanda herself doesn't get that many funny moments in the episode the few that she does get very early on in the episode do come across as being quite funny even if they are jokes that this version of the character really wouldn't make it's just a shame that the makers of this episode only give Kathryn Hahn only one joke in the whole entire which is still a funny joke but at the same time they could have given her a few more jokes like maybe her jokes get darker and darker the more the episode goes on just to sort of hint that things aren't quite what they seem with Agnes but the joke that she does get about being bitten by a kid was a really funny joke in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while this was still a really fun filled episode it's also one that's not as good as it really could have been either with the episode really falling under the weight of it's self enforced really short running time but at the same time this episode really does show that the makers of this show really do know how to set up things that become important later on in the shows run 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 really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a really grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all pf 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 the official Disney fandom wiki page and the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page 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 being better quality then what'd think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Thursday 29 August 2024

Terminator Zero SPOILER FREE Review



The Terminator franchise is one that has already conquered the world of live action through the use of both films and TV shows. Well it now sets it's sights on it's very animated projected with an anime TV show that has just dropped all eight of it's episodes and well you all just knew that I had to check this show the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE review that see The Terminator franchise head into a country for the first time ever with the show in question being called simply just "Terminator Zero" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when an scientist from the year 1997 comes close to unleashing an AI to compete with Skynet Skynet itself sends a Terminator back from the year 2022 to stop him once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot thats actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty the worst aspect of the show just because of the fact that the plot just wasn't all that knew or interesting as it's the same kind of Terminator plot that we've seen done better in the other movies heck even Terminator Genisys had a much more interesting plot as it at the very least tried to do something new and different with it's plot it failed to do so but it was at the very least trying to do something new and different here it felt like that the show was just going through the motions and while yes it had the Terminator IP attached to it and had all of the iconography it failed to understand what it was that made those things so iconic in the first place and the plot of this show does suffer because of it with the plot of this show also just feeling really weak as well with the plot of this show not even being really rather entertaining nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this show is André Holland as Malcolm Lee , Sonoya Mizuno as Eiko and Timothy Olyphant as The Terminator. Also starring in this show is Ann Dowd as The Prophet , Armani Jackson as Kenta , Carter Rockwood as Hiro , Gideon Adlon as Reika , Rosario Dawson as Kokoro , Sumalee Montano as Misaki and Ver. 2 , Fred Tatasciore as Captain Fujino , James Mathis III as Commander , Julie Nathanson as Annie , Nicolas Roye as Captain Shiraki , Tom Bromhead as 1nno and Ver. 1 and Vanessa Marshall as Natsuko.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual acting that;s actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good. Which is both not that surprising but also really surprising it's not all that surprising given that alot of this shows actors are a bunch of really good actors who have turned in really good performances in other projects both animated and live action but it's also really surprising as this show actors are also some really unknown actors and as a result of that is the fact that it would have been unwise to expect a good performance from all of this shows young actors and yet that's exactly what we got with all of this shows actors turning soe really solid performances with the acting that's in this hoe very not really being helped by the fact that the scripts for this show is just so bad as it doesn't really give this shows actors alot to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in this very first place which is something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show.


Doing the animation for this show is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Production I.G. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good which given who is animating this show really isn't anything thats all that new as Production I.G nearly always produce really high quality animation for all pf there projects with the same thing also being true for this as well as the animation that's in this show looks like that it really does belong in a feature length film and not in a TV series as that's just good the animation that's in this show really is with the show making good use of blending 3D CGI animation with the more traditional 2D hand drawn animation with the show using the 3D CGI animation to pull of the types of shots that you just couldn't do in 2D animation with the shows 3D animation looking just as good as the shows 2D's animation as well with all of the shows characters having some really nice fluid movements to all of them as well.


This show does introduce us to new bunch of resistance fighters with the main one being Eiko who is alot better then Grace. As Eiko at least is a somewhat likable character and you can at least understand where he hatred of all things machine is coming from where as with Grace while she did start of as a likable character by the end of Terminator: Dark Fate she was just an annoying character who had no reason to hate machines out side of the fact that she's from the future and that's really it where as here with Eiko her hatred is a little bit more justified as we see just how much the terminators put her through prior to her going back in time and while that is indeed a small thing it is also something that adds to her character as it then becomes something that she has to try and overcome over the course of the shows eight episodes with this being helped by the fact that she does come across as being a really likable character as she is forms a bond with those that she's there to protect and sort of becomes a motherly figure to some of the characters eventually forming sort of a found family with those characters something that Grace would never be able to do as she's not that good of a characters where as with Eiko while yes it does take her some time to do all of that when she does reach thar point it feels right for here character to do so.

In a rather strange and bizarre move it was confirmed by this show show runner Mattson Tomlin has said that all of the prior films are indeed canon. This is something that really doesn't make sense when you take Terminator Genisys into account as that film created a whole new timeline of events one in which Sarah Connor meets the terminator in the seventies before it agrees to protect and she meets up with that films version of Kyle Reece in the eighties and yet now this show is saying that that film is now canon to the main timeline when it really isn't as all you'd have to do is watch that film and see that it's not canon as all it would do is mess up the already pretty messed up Terminator timeline as it is if anything this show should have been treated as being in it's own timeline one that's separate from the main timeline but close enough to where it can pull in certain characters and themes as and when it needs to and yet because it's now saying that everything is now canon to the show that creates a whole mess of things that will need to be addressed as going off of that statement that Mattson Tomlin said John Connor is now both the franchises biggest hero and it's biggest villain both at the exact same time and that's something that just doesn't work at all.


The Terminator in this show is a solid character but at the same time for a show that's named after him he really doesn't play that nig of a role in the plot of the show. While yes the main purpose of Eiko going back in time is because of him once they both get to Japan he does very little to advance the actual plot of the show but to be fair given how this show ends that does make sense with the show even including another machine which is an interesting aspect and the show does take the time to fully develop that storyline and the character that's involved with it but at the same time tho it also takes away from the character that we've come to see that being The Terminator and while yes The Terminator in the first movie do all that much to advance the plot of that film either they did make up for that in the sequel where as or his first anime outing the character is just there alot of time to remind us that this is a Terminator show and that's really it with this not really being helped by the fact that the character himself really isn't all that interesting either with the character showing next to no personality which again does work with the fact that he's a robot but at the same time he's robot that's able to blend in with other people and yet the makers of this show don't really give this character much of an actual personality.

Now then this show has / has an exact grand total running time of really no longer then exactly thirty minuets. With all of this shows first eight episodes being roughly around twenty nine minuets in length which is a rally solid running time for all of these episodes to have as the show really doesn't have all that much there interms of plot and as a result of that is the fact that this show really doesn't require really long running times in order to tell it's story in good way with alot of this show being made up of filler scenes that add nothing to the overall plot of the episode with the worst example of this being most of episode seven which mostly takes place in the year 2040 and has nothing to do with the main storyline of the show and is the very definition of filler as it's something that could have been left on the cutting room floor or spread out over the course of the show with those far future scenes being used more as flashforwards as this would then allow the show to focus more on it's main story and the scenes set in 2040 could then be used to create a mystery as to who these characters and when the reveal happens it would then be even more shocking then what they ended up being but I really will admit this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that;s actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that;s actually featured / resented to us in his very show was in all honesty not that bad. With this show having alot of really gory action in it as you do get to see people cut in half thanks to being gunned down by The Terminator and people do get quite brutally stabbed with this show being an adult anime but outside of those gory moments a few swear words and some very brief nudity the show really doesn't feel all that mature as it doesn't have any of the very heavy mature themes that were present in both the first and second film and yet even tho anime can do very adult anime shows and movies with mature themes and still have some really good action in them this show doesn't do that which makes the shows action feel more kid friendly as there only mature in the most basic of senses and while this show does have some good action in it it's not as good as it really could have been either as there was nothing all that interesting happening in them in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 


Overall this show does have all of the potential to be a really good show as there is alot of potential there for it to be a good show as all of the shows faults can very easily be fixed by the time that the next batch of episodes do release but at the same time it also doesn't do all that much to help with the sorry state that The Terminator franchise has been in since the release of Terminator: Dark Fate 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 show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really does ern itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys 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 the official Terminator fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to really use to get the images from these very episodes that I really used in this very review being the really great the official Terminator fandom wiki page simply just because of the fact that really due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are in this review really are all really from this very show and are really of course up and really on the really great the official Terminator fandom wiki page are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Saturday 24 August 2024

Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror Review


With a show like Doctor Who you never really know what kind of show that your going to get from episode to episode. As one episode might be fairly scary episode and the next episode might be one that's more comedic and lighter in tone with the episode that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today being a really creepy episode of the show and so then join me as I review the episode that sees a truly iconic actress join the show with the episode in question being called simply just "The Crimson Horror" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when bodies start turning in Victorian Yorkshire Madame Vastra , Jenny Flint and Drax along with The Doctor and Clara set out to stop this evil scheme once and for all. 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 as it was a really unique plot but at the same time it's also not that very good either with it being the type of plot that you'd expect from the show at this point in time only it does nothing new or interesting and as a result of that is the fact that this plot just feels like that's going through the motions and while yes this episodes plot can be really good in parts with it having some really good ideas but the plot also doesn't really flesh out those ideas to the point where they feel like there really good ideas and as a result of that is the fact that the ideas that this episodes plot does try to introduce only feel good on paper and that's really it with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this episode is Matt Smith as The Doctor , Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald and Catrin Stewart as Jenny Flint. Also starring in this episode is Neve McIntosh as Madame Vastra , Dan Starkey as Strax , Rachael Stirling as Ada , Eve De Leon Allen as Angie , Kassius Carey Johnson as Artie , Brendan Patricks as Edmund & Mr Thursday , Graham Turner as Amos , Scott Stevenson as The Dipped Man , Olivia Vinall as Effie , Michelle Tate as Abigail , Jack Oliver Hudson as Thomas Thomas and Dame Diana Rigg as Mrs Gillyflower.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This is something that not really all that new for this show as pretty much all of this shows episodes from this time period pretty much all have some really good acting in them with the same thing also being true for this episode as well with the true standout performers in this episode being both Matt Smith and Dame Diana Rigg both of whom just give phenomenal performances in this episode and it's there acting in this episode that really does make the episode really worth watching as that's just how good there acting in this episode really is 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 cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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 the legends and the really greats that are currently over at The Mill and 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 not that bad with this episode having very shockingly minimal about of CGI with there only really being one big CGI effect in the whole episode and that's the reveal of the rocket ship that Mrs Gillyflower plans on using to spread her poison and kill everyone with that rocket ship looking really good given the fact that Doctor Who is produced on a very small budget and yet this episodes CGI still looks ten times better then the CGI that's in multi-million dollar movies that came out last year and while yes this episodes could have been better in some places given the fact that this show is produced on a really small budget it's remarkable that the effects that are in this episode turned out as good as they did as on paper this episode effects really shouldn't have looked all that good and yet we somehow managed to get some really good effects in this episode.


This episode does gave some surprisingly effective scares for a kids TV show with the fact that The Doctor is pretty much close to his death bed when he first appears in the episode. Which is just such a creepy idea even the location of Victorian Yorkshire looking really creepy and adding a somewhat Gothic atmosphere to the episode something that is added with the characters of Jenny , Drax and Madame Vastra all three of whom really do get a chance to shine in this episode and all three of them combined really do add to the overall dark tone in this episode the only real issue with the episodes scares is the fact that alot of the scares that are in this episode are just a bunch of jump scares which is fine for one two scares but when that's the overall majority of this episodes scares then it really does show that the makers of this episode aren't really willing t do all that much creepy and scary with them instead just relying on the atmosphere and jump scares and that's really it and while the atmosphere does indeed work and while some of the jump scares are indeed really creepy you do need a majority of different scares in this episode in order to make this episodes scares as effective as they really could have been and yet by the very fact that the makers of this episode chose not to do that it really does limit the amount of actual good scares that are to be found in this very episode.

In what was a really shocking move this episode really doesn't feature The Doctor all that much with him not even appearing until at the very least the fifteen minuet mark. With him not appearing in the episode not really effecting the episodes quality as the episode is just so good in it's own right that you almost forget that he's not even appeared in the episode yet with Jenny , Drax and Madame Vastra being the episodes main characters which does make sense as this episode was meant to basically be a backdoor pilot for a spin off show featuring those characters and as a result of that is the fact that not having The Doctor appear for a good chunk of the episodes running time as that does allow those character to really shine in there own right and it is something that really does make you wonder what a show featuring those characters would have looked like and given just how popular that those characters really were back when this episode was first airing it also makes you wonder why they didn't get there own show as the three of them really could have lead there show and yet even with The Doctor not appearing for a small chunk of this episodes running time it also makes you wonder where he is and when he will show up in the episode as well.


This episodes villain Mrs Gillyflower really isn't all that strong of a villain as she doesn't really get alot of screen time in this episode. Yet what little screen time that she does get she makes the best used of it by showing just how evil that she could be with it even being revealed that she basically abused her won daughter and made her go blind all of the sake of some question to find out at what dosage does the human body start to resist against her own poison and while she does have a clear end goal in mind the fact that the she doesn't have alot of screen time really does harm her as a villain as it means that she really get alot of time to show us the audience just how good and how interesting of a villain that she really could have been and yet when she does act creepy she does come across as being a really creepy villain and one that had all the potential to be one of the greatest Doctor Who human villains out there and yet because of the fact that she doesn't get alot of screen time it also means that she can't become as fully developed as a character which in turn would make her not only a really interesting character but it would also go a really long way into making her a really creepy villain as well both of which are things that really would have helped her character in the long run.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty four minuets and thirty nine seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show to have and to this episodes credit it really does make the most of that running time by spending the time to give us some somewhat good characters and to really shows us why Jenny , Drax and Madame Vastra really do deserve there own show and while yes the episode really does have enough there interms of plot to really cover that large amount of running time the episode also really didn't need to be as along as it was as alot of the episodes running time is spent with either filler scenes that add nothing to the plot of pointless comedic scenes which create tonal whiplash with the episodes more serious and creepy tone and yet if those scenes where removed from the episode then nothing that's actually important to the plot of the episode would need to be removed as all your removing is the pointless scenes that nobody would miss in the first place with the time that's then freed up could then be used to give the episodes cast some actual character development and make them feel like fully three dimensional characters but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us n 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 this episodes action really being alot better then what it really had any right to be as it really does show us that even a character like Jenny a character that we really haven't seen in a fight before now really can not only hold her own in a fight but can also get the best of several men all trying to fight her at the exact same time which yes might come across as being a bit campy but it's also something that really does work in the context of the episode with the best action in the whole episode being the episodes action packed third act which is just so exciting to see from it's start all the way to it's finish with even the more really lighter moment with Drax near the end oddly working really in it's favor as it's something that that character would do which really does show that the makers of this show really can make a really good action sequence when they really want to that is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall this episode was alot better then it what it really had any right to be as on paper this episode shouldn't have been that good and yet for one reason or another this episode turns out to be a really fun episode that is also a very criminally underrated episode in the shows history 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 this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used used in this very review from Wikipedia , the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great 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 being better quality then what'd think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Cow And Chicken "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" and "The Girl's Bathroom" Review


Back in the nineties there was no escaping Cartoon Network as it was the one channel that us kids just had to watch. With there being alot of really memorable shows that are still talked about to this very day and while yes we do get a few shows that aren't as well known today the overall majority of there shows were really well known shows this was the not the case with the episodes that i'm going to be talking about today and so then join me a I review the episodes that introduced the world to a talking Cow and Chicken with the episodes in question being called imply just "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" and "The Girl's Bathroom" enjoy.

The plots of these episodes are when on a field trip to a local prison Chicken gets mistaken for one of the prisoners and it's up to Cow to save him and in "The Girl's Bathroom" Chicken ventures where no boy has dared to venture before him the girls bathroom. 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 thee very episodes was in all honesty really good as both plots are indeed some really simple and really easy to follow along with plots with both of the plots also being wonderfully child like and silly whilst  also adding in some more mature elements as well and while yes the plots of thee two episodes might seem silly and dated by today's standard that doesn't stop them from being a bunch of fun filled plots that serve as a a great way to introduce this show with as they give you a good idea of the type of plots that his show really did do quite alot of the time with both of these plots also 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 voice acting legend Charlie Adler as Cow , Chicken and The Red Guy and Dee Bradley Baker as Dad and Prisoner 2. Also starring in these episodes is Candi Milo as The Teacher and Mom , The Simpsons star and voice acting legend Dan Castellaneta as Earl , Howard Morris as Flem , Dick Gautier as Rhode Island Red , Glenn Shadix as Prisoner 1 , The Gate Guard and Poopy The Clown.

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 I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With the actors that you expect a really good performance will delivering on the acting side of things but that's also the problem as they give you the kind of performance that you expect from each of these actors and really nothing new and as such there's really nothing all that surprising about these actors performances it's just the same old type of performance that we've seen done better in ither and better shows with the acting that's in these episodes really not being helped by the fact that the scripts for these two episodes aren't really all that good as none of the give the actors alot to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant meant to be in the first pace which s something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting that's really in these first two episodes.


Doing the animation for these episodes is Rough Draft Korea , SEK Animation Studio and Shanghai Morning Sun Animation.Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good with the animation in both of these episodes really being alot better then what it really had any right to be but at the same time this shows animation style is just weird and ugly to look at alot of the time with the characters eyes barely connecting to there heads in alot of shots which might have been a stylistic choice but it's also one that makes the characters very unappealing to look at as well and while yes granted the characters do have some really fluid movements and that zany animation does help with alot of the episodes more out there jokes it doesn't stop the whole thing from looking really ugly to look at with the show as whole looking like something that would actually scare kids and not something that they would actually want to sit down and hopefully even enjoy.


These two episodes alone and the show as a whole leave with alot of burning question none of which get answered. Like for example how does a female human give birth to both a Cow and a Chicken and why is the dad just OK with it with another being how does The Red Guy keep on getting jobs especially when it's painfully obvious to anyone with eyes and a brain cell who the character is modelled after these are just some of the questions that these to episodes alone leave with and to the episodes and the shows credit it doesn't explain any of them as to that would take away alot of the fun of the show as this is show is meant to be nothing more then junk food for the brain your not meant to question your just meant to sit down and enjoy it and that's really it and that is something that really does work well for this show as not alot of shows need to be smart shows as sometimes just being a dumb kids shows that meant for little kids is more then enough and while yes it would have been interesting to see either this show or these episodes address those questions head on to do so would go against the very nature of the show that being a show that's meant to be zany and goofy and not one that we the audience are meant to question at all.

While this episode does get alot of things it does some things right like the first segment "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" does do a good of setting up the shows formular and the relationship between the titular characters. With Chicken being more of cynical person who will do anything not to hang out with his sister despite he fact that deep down he really does care about and Cow being a very happy go lucky type of character who's just always happy to whatever anybody else wants to which does create an interesting dynamic between the two characters and while these first two segments don't really go into that much detail about there relationship and heck outside of two scenes in "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" the characters barely spend any time together when they do get together or a scene we really do get a good feel of what these characters and how the show is going to moving forward with them as the lead and while yes it would have been interesting to see hints of there relationship it's not really needed as they have the rest of the show to do that and as a result of that is the fact that it really doesn't need to do any of that in these first two segments.


Speaking of The Red Guy his inclusion in "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" really doesn't make any kind of sense. As his character wouldn't be the warden of this prison. If anything he'd be one of the prisoners as his original role in the show was to act as someone who would tempt either Cow or Chicken into these dangerous situations or into situations that they know is wrong hence why he looks the way that he looks where as here Chicken is already in prison not completely because of something that he did but due to how bad the guards are and as a result of that is the fat that it really does make no sense for his character to appear in the episode other then establish him as a character and that's really it and that's not really something that makes all that much sense once you not only take the rest of the show into account but also take in the shows pilot from What A Cartoon where alot of the time he is to serve as a cautionary tale and not somebody that you'll bump into on a school trip to prison even tho you personally have done absolutely nothing wrong infact technically the only crime Chicken does commit isn't committed by Chicken himself is committed by Cow who breaks her brother out of prison without him even knowing it.

Now then these segments has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly six minuets and thirty three seconds and six minuets and thirty four seconds respectively. With segment one having the better running time as it really doesn't have alot there interms of plot to cover anything longer then that and as a result of that is the fact that alot of the episode is all about advancing the plot forward where as with episode despite it having a strikingly similar running time to the first segment actually feels alot longer then that with "The Girl's Bathroom" having alot of scenes that could be seen ss being filler and as a result of that is the fact alot of the segment really does feel like padding as that one segment really doesn't have all that much there interms of plot to really warrant that amount of running time and as a result of that is the fact that "The Girl's Bathroom" really could have done with being a minuet or two shorter and while yes the first segment does also contain alot of filler like we don't really need to see Red just doing things in Chickens school as all that does is make the rest of the shows characters look really dumb those scenes do also serve a purpose of showing Cow come to realisation that Red isn't her brother thus also advancing the plot of the segment where as the same thing cannot be said for the second segment but I really will admit that both of these segments really do have some really good pacing to them tho.


So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very segments and well then in all honesty I im all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very segments was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the problem as alot of the comedy that's in these segments isn't all that good with alot of being random humor that adds nothing to the actual plot of the segment mixed in with the very occasional bit of slapstick and adult humor and while the adult jokes do work they also make you wonder how they managed to get that joke past all of the censors as in the "The Girl's Bathroom" segment when Chicken says that they can even buy cigar in here it's pretty obvious what he's actually talking about and while the kids watching the segment won't get it you just know that the adult who's watching it with them will get it and yet that's one of only two jokes that are actually funny in both of these segments with the other one being a nice slapstick joke near the start of "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" with that joke just being a really funny joke no matter what show tries to tell it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while this was a really solid pair of segments to start of this truly iconic show off on and it is also a really good example of just how weird and wacky that this show could be when it's at best as well and while this show will never be remembered as fondly as the other Cartoon Network shows at the time it will always be remembered by those who grew up watching it 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 segments in this very review and as such that really does mean that "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from and "The Girls Bathroom" really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me with both of these segments combined earning a grand total combined score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got ll pf the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Cow And Chicken fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very segments episodes that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very segments and are really of course on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and really as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Friday 23 August 2024

Suicide Squad Isekai TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review


Warner Bros Pictures. right now really loves anime with them just releasing the debut trailer for The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim and Rick And Morty: The Anime. As such it would be really understandable if people just straight up forgot about or even didn't know about this show even being a thing let alone the fact that it's just aired it's tenth and final episode and as such you all just knew that I had to review the show the very chance that I had as i'd been watching each and every single dubbed episode of the show when it was being released and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show that technically marks DC's third ever foray into the world of anime with the show in question being called simply just "Suicide Squad Isekai" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when Task Force X finds itself trapped in another world they have to find away back to there own world all whilst trying to stop a war between the various factions in this new and strange world. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho this shows plot wasn't all that good either as while yes it does just give us a stereotypical isekai type of plot only with DC characters it really doesn't do all that much that's actually interesting with the characters that they have instead alot of the time Task Force X spend alot of time just exploring the world that there i n and not really trying to find a way home it's only in a few select episodes where the plot of the show actually becomes the main vocal point of the episode and it's those episodes that are some of the best episodes in the show with the plot of this show also being really rather entertaining and as well as as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this show is Karlii Hoch as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn and Jovan Jackson as Floyd Lawton / Deadshot. Also starring in this show is Sean Patrick Judge as Christopher Smith / Peacemaker , Brandon Hearnsberger as Basil Karlo / Clayface , Andrew Love as Nanaue / King Shark , Jeremy Gee as Rick Flag Jr. , Jasmine Renee Thomas as Amanda Waller , Genevieve Simmons as Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana , Luci Christian as Princess Fione , Patricia Duran as Queen Aldora / The Undead Queen , John Gremillion as Cecil , Adam Noble as Otis Flannegan / Ratcatcher , Jade Kelly as Lich , Jay Hickman as The Thinker , Christina Kelly as Dr. June Moon / Enchantress , Cyrus Rodas as Hank , Chaney Moore as Arthur The Dragon and Scott Gibbs as The Joker.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty not that bad. Which was kind of unexpected as alot of this shows voice cast are a bunch of really unknown voice actors and as a result of that is the fact that it really would have been foolish to expect good or even great acting from this shows voice cast and while the performances in this show aren't that great as alot of the shows cast give the characters weird voices with the best example of this being Scott Gibbs as The Joker goes from a character that sounds creepy and scary in Batman: The Animated Series to a character that sounds a bit to campy for his good and it gets to the point where instead of being scared of the character your laughing at the character as his voice is just that bad with the acting that's in this very show not really being helped by the fact that the scripts for this show are really bad as none of them give the actors much to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities which is something that really does effect the overall quality pf the acting that's in this very show.


Doing the animation for this show is the legends and the really greats that are currently over at Wit Studio. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty not that bad as it's quite clear that there is alot of love and effort thrown into the animation in this show but at the same time this shows animation isn't all that good either with it being made painfully obvious in alot of episodes where they cut corners as they don't show the characters faces nor do they show characters lips moving which is something that does have the add on effect of making the show as a whole look cheap and while yes it's not unusual for a show to cut corners here and there to save money for the bigger and more expensive looking episodes but even in this show in those bigger and more expensive episodes there still cutting corners to save money on the animation instead of just going all out but when this show does have some good looking animation in it it really is some really good looking animation.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!



The end of episode 10 does set up the possibility of a second season for this show but what it does is so dumb as it makes no sense. Since for strange reason The Joker has gained the ability to shape shift when at some point in the show he found himself in this world and has been going around as Katana which makes no sense as any version of The Joker doesn't really care for Harley as there in an abusive relationship and the only reason that he would want to rescue her is because it's something that benefits him or because he's bored and that's really it and he would never go and try to take over a new world as his whole thing is fighting Batman something which The Joker himself has said is something that he enjoys and heck even in The Lego Batman Movie he nearly destroyed the whole world just because Batman didn't say that he hated The Joker and yet for some strange reason this show thought it was a good hook to have the character appear in a tease for a potential second season which OK does make sense as he is a popular character and having him in the shows second season would bring more eyes to the show buy at the same time it's also something that needs to make sense for the character and not just be there for the sake of being there.

To give this show some credit the Task Force X characters are really fun characters with alot of them acting exactly how you think that they would. Yet they would also change things up like for example Clayface is pretty much an anime fan who explains all the ins and outs of an isekai to the team which can be pretty funny at times and Harley later on in the show becomes a mother figure to the teams dragon which again does lead to some fun scenes but neither of them are things that play into the shows plot with Arthur The Dragon being there basically to fly Harley close enemies in action scenes and that's really it but that's the golden treatment compared to what the rest of the characters get as none of this shows characters are given anything interesting about them which would work for the comic book characters as then you could always chalk it up to the fact that they have literal decades worth of comics to get there personalities across but for the shows newer characters that's not an excuse and heck the shows newer characters even disappear from the show for episodes at time so much so that it would be understandable if you all forgot that those characters were even in this show in the first place and yet towards the shows end it's those characters that go on to play a much more bigger role in the show this is despite the fact that these characters disappear for huge chunks of the show.


The shows villain is The Undead Queen who is a character that can control armies of the dead which on paper does sound cool and it does lead to some really cool action sequences in episodes 6 and 10. However at the same time the show does nothing unique with that idea like for example since Clayface does technically die in a few episodes how cool would it have been if she was able to control and have him then have to struggle between killing this truly evil person or kill the people that he's grown to like over the course of the show and yet the show does none of that and infact they don't even have the events of episode six where a good few members of Task Force X appear dead infront of Harley in any meaningful way outside of one reference in episode 9 and that's really it and that's not really good enough as something like that should effect Harley as a character and make her want to do better but all it does is leave her the exact same character and heck even the shows main villain doesn't really appear until the end of episode 9 with her appearing in other episodes as a version of Queen Aldora which does technically mean that she's dead and that Princess Fione might now technically be the queen of this world and yet having her appear that late in the shows run really doesn't help the character as it means that the character really doesn't have the chance to get across what her end goal is nor does it give us the audience a reason to hate this character either as we've not had the time to get really get to know this character as a villain.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty four minuets and forty one seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have and to this episodes credit it really does have more then enough plot to really cover that amount of running time and yet at the exact same time tho this episode really could have been longer as it has so much to wrap as this is a show that really doesn't need a season two and yet this show doesn't end with the team going back to our world which makes no sense as the whole point of the show has been about the team trying to get back to our world and that is something that really could have been covered in this episode and yet they don't do it and instead they chose to end the show on a pointless cliffhanger with The Joker with his scene just being there for the sake of being there and not because of the fact that adds anything to his character and while yes this episode does have a really good running time to it at the same time there are portions of this episode that do feel like filler like we don't need to see Peacemaker and King Shark fighting Killer Croc as that adds nothing to the episode and really could have been left on the cutting room floor but I really will admit that this episode and this show as a whole really does have some really good pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in his very show was in all honesty really good. With the action in this show being where the show gets to be the most fun as we get to see the team use the powers that they got when they entered this new world at various stages alot of which do lead to some really fun scenes like for example Harley can now make things bigger and Deadshot can now hit things miles away and things like that which is great as it's true to there characters and heck even in episode ten they all get a Sailor Moon esk transformation sequence which then leads to  really fun battle against an army of the undead and it;s that very action scene that's the best looking action in the whole series as it's something that's been built up for a few a episodes and due to the fact that the battle started in episode nine it really does feel epic and like there are actual stakes involved which is something that does add to the overall excitement of the action scene itself in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this was a solid series but it's one that could have been alot better and actually did something interesting with it's legacy characters and give us new characters that we want to see more and that we want to like instead of having them just be there for the sake of being there and that's really it 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 his very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies an gentlemen I personally got al of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official DC Database fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to really use to get the images from these very episodes that I really used in this very review being the really great Google Images simply just because of the fact that really due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are in this review really are all really from this very show and are really of course up and really on the really great Google Images are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.