My First Impressions Of The Shōgun 2024 TV Series

History is something that has always made for fascinating television as alot of historical events are epic enough to be made into a TV show. However this show dares to ask the question of what if they adapted one book whilst really at the exact same time also ripping of Game Of Thrones and well what we got does add up to a really very mixed bag of affairs and so then join me as I give you my first impressions of the show that rips of Game Of Thrones with the show in question being called simply just "Shōgun" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a sailor is taken prisoner and one his crew are killed he must find away to survive and gain power all for himself. 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 al honesty not that bad but at the same time the plot of this episode wasn't all that good either with the plot of this episode being really weak at best as it was hard to work out what the actual plot of the episode was and while the episode does indeed do a good job of setting up the plot of the show it doesn't do a good job of telling a decent plot for the episode which is something that should have been just as a much a focus as setting up the plot for the show but the plot of this episode was really entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshii Toranaga and Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne. Also starring in this episode is Anna Sawai as Toda Mariko , Tadanobu Asano as Kashigi Yabushige , Hiroto Kanai as Kashigi Omi , Takehiro Hira as Ishido Kazunari , Moeka Hoshi as Usami Fuji , Shinnosuke Abe as Toda "Buntaro" Hirokatsu , Tokuma Nishioka as Toda Hiromatsu , Yasunari Takeshima as Muraji , Yuki Kura as Yoshii Nagakado , Fumi Nikaido as Ochiba No Kata , Tommy Bastow as Father Martin Alvito , Yuka Kouri as Kiku , Yoriko Dōguchi as Kiri No Kata , Ako as Lady Iyo / Daiyoin , Néstor Carbonell as Lord Vasco Rodrigues , Hiromoto Ida as Lord Kiyama Ukon Sadanaga , Toshi Toda as Lord Sugiyama , Sen Mars as Nakamura Yaechiyo , Paul Moniz De Sa as Father Sebastio , Takeshi Kurokawa as Ohno Harunobu and Good Omens star Ned Dennehy as Captain General.

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. With all of the episodes cast turning in some really good performances and heck the acting in this episode is so good that it's hard to say who turned in the best performance as everybody in this episode is just so good with there not being a standout performer because the whole cast is the standout performer which is something that on paper shouldn't be the case with this episode as this episodes cast is made up of mostly unknown or very little known actors and as such to expect a good performance out of them would be a mistake and yet that's exactly what we get in this episode with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the episodes script is just so good that all the episodes cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Important Looking Pirates and Lindala Schminken FX. 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 as it was used in a way that CGI should be used and that's to extend what's already there on set but at the same time tho the episodes CGI wasn't really all that good either as it did look really cheap looking with it being really painfully obvious when they were using CGI as opposed to whenever they were really doing something practically which is something that really does make the CGI in this episode look alot more worse then what it really should have been like.

For those of you who don't know this show is an adaptation of the 1975 novel of the same name and was written by author James Clavell. With this being only the second time that the book has been adapted into a TV show with the only previous adaptation being the 1980 nine hour TV show mini-series of the exact name and while it's hard to say if this show is more faithful of the books given that the previous TV show adaptation had the books original involved it does make the original TV show more faithful as the author would of course want his work to be translated as faithfully as possible but at the same time that's hard to say for sure as the original miniseries in nine hours long and I have no interest in either reading the original book nor watching the original show but just based of this one episode alone it does seem like this show will be just as faithful to the original source material as the original miniseries was.

This episode feels like a Game Of Thrones ripoff as there are alot of things that were in that show that also reappear in this show. With both shows having political intrigue , a pointless s*x scene and lots of blood and guts with both shows also having some really gruesome death scenes as well the only difference being is that Game Of Thrones had alot more likable characters all introduced and set up in there first episode where as in this episode it was hard to tell who the good guy was even meant to be as alot of the characters are made to be really unlikable in places but then they would go and do something that would make you question if they are likable people or not which yes does make them more complex but at the same time it also makes it harder to get a read on them as a character which does have the add on effect of making it harder for us the audience to form a connection with any of these characters as there both really likable and really unlikable as well. 

In a rather bold move FX and Hulu released the first two episodes of this show which judging by the reviews is going to pay off for them. However given that the first episode has alot of scenes that make it feel boring it is also something that could have backfired for them as this is something that not alot of people would have heard of and as a result of that they really wouldn't watch to episodes of something if there not all that familiar with it but on the flip of side of that is the fact that it does show that they had alot of faith in the show that they wanted to get more viewers watching your show if your airing more then one episode a week and while yes airing one episode a week does really have it's advantages as it does allow you to build up hype for the next episode it also has it's downsides as it means that people might just watch this first episode and really not watch episode two for whatever reason but in this case it is something that is quite clearly working really well enough for this show as well and really to this shows advantage as well.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and ten minuets and eighteen seconds. Which is alot longer then what this episode really needed to be as this episode really doesn't have alot of plot to cover that large amount of running time as the episodes plot is weak at best and as a result this episode really didn't need to be that long as alot of the episode is spent with the characters just going about there day to day lives with nothing all that interesting happening for the most part and there's only so long that you can see that happening before it gets which does happen in this episode but it doesn't happen quickly as the episode does have some exciting moments in it just not enough to really justify it's nearly feature length film running time but I will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a drama that means that I have to actually talk about the actual drama 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 drama that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of the drama does feel very character driven the issue with that is the fact this is only the first episode and as such it's hard to really get a handle on who these characters are personality wise which means that for all we the audience really know these characters could be acting out of character in those moments but when we do get a really good bit of drama it is worth watching as it does create a really good scene in the episode that is also nine times out of ten really one of the best bits in the episode as whole as it's just that good from both a writing , acting and directing point of view in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this wasn't a bad first episode but at the same time it also gives you no reason to watch episode two and while there might be some people who really like this show this isn't a show can really hold alot of people's interesting for there nearly hour long running time for each episode 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 post and as this is only my first impressions I won't give this show a rating as any show can have a good or bad first episode but if this review does well enough then I might be tempted into checking out episode two which would then be a review.

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

K.C. Undercover "Pilot" Review

Disney Channel back in the day was filled to the brim with top notch programming be it either animated or live action. However there were also alot of shows and movies that have sadly been forgotten about for whatever reason and it's one of those shows that i'm going to be talking about and so then join me as I review the episode of a show that alot of people have really forgotten about with the episode in question being called simply just "Pilot" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when she finds out that her parents are actually spies sixteen year old K.C. Cooper is recruited to help them on a mission that could have dire consequences for mobile phones everywhere. 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 a; 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 good enough plot for a Disney Channel TV show but at the exact same time this episodes plot wasn't all that good as it was a really rather thinly drawn out plot that really does take quite awhile for it to really get going but when it does get going it is a solid plot for the most part with this episodes plot being really rather entertaining and as well as being really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is this shows producer Zendaya as K.C. Cooper and Veronica Dunne as Marisa Miller. Also starring in this episode is Kamil McFadden as Ernie Cooper , Tammy Townsend as Kira Cooper , Kadeem Hardison as Craig Cooper , Tony Cavalero as Agent Wally , Ashley Fink as Reena , Chris Brewster as The Target , Ashlee Füss as Juli , Trevor Jackson as Lincoln , Jack DePew as Ryan and Larry Udy as The Janitor.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad for the most part. As it is the type of acting that you'd expect to see in a Disney Channel show but at the same time it's also quite clearly not that good especially when you compare it to what the cast have been in recently and there for you know that they really can act and yet that makes all the more sad when in this episode you see them not being able to make this episodes script work for them with the acting in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the episodes isn't really that good with this episodes script not really giving the cast a whole lot to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place.

To be frank it was hard to tell how they shot alot of this episode while the episode does use a mixture of in studio and on location filming the episode also does some really cool camera moves in what looks like a scene that shot in studio. With the example of this being the warehouse  scene where the camera moves up from the ground to the first floor which is something that wouldn't have been possible to do in studio as you'd have to fit in the set and the audience which would make a camera move like that next to impossible to do and yet at the same time tho the scene looks like that it was shot in a studio all of which make it hard to tell how this scene was filmed as it was just such a cool scene in the finished episode that also would have been a pain to film in a studio even without the audience being there on the day of filming it.

Just to be frank both Kira Cooper and Craig Cooper are not good parents as they very frequently forget about there son. With them also being willing to put there teenage daughter into a dangerous situation and then they make her feel bad when she says that she doesn't want that pressure all of which adds up to them being pretty bad parents and that's just the tip of the iceberg as there's more evidence just in this one episode alone with these two being bad parents and while they might improve over the course of these series you only have once chance to make a good first impression and when that first impression isn't a good one that's all they'll be remembered for being and that's not to mention that them forgetting about there son several times in this episode including his own birthday is played for laughs and while yes this is a sitcom and as result there's always going to be that small amount of fantasy in there given that this is a Disney it would have worked better if they were presented as actual good parents instead of bad parents.

It is easy to see why this show has largely been forgotten as there's nothing all that special about this episode. With the episode being a very forgettable episode as outside of the cool looking camera moves and the fight scenes this episode just feels like a lame attempt to do an actually good Disney Channel Original Series as it lacks alot of the things that all f there good shows had a heck even the central subplot between the two friends is a carbon copy of that of the central plotline from the first episode of Hannah Montana except instead of doing that plot line in the first episode this shows takes a few episodes to tell that exact same story with the exact same story and while yes other Disney Channel shows have done the liar revealed story before here it just felt like a lazy rip off of the first episode of Hannah Montana.

To give this episode some credit it does try to do something new by having alot of focus on the action scenes in this episode. With the episodes action scenes being really well done for the budget that they had to pull them and for the fact that this is a live action Disney Channel Original Series and those don't typically have good action scenes in them and yet the action scenes in this episode were really well done with us getting some really creative fight scenes and fight scene locations all while being done in the typical Disney Channel way but at the same time tho the episode makes it painfully obvious when there using a stunt double as they would cut to either a wide shot or to an over the should shot so you can't see the actors faces that clearly all of which make it painfully obvious that there using a stunt double and that it's not the actual actors themselves but the fight scenes in the episode were really creative tho.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty nine minuets and thirty eight seconds. Which is a really rather solid running time for this episode as the episode has alot of plot there to cover that amount of running time but the issue is tho is that alot of the episodes characters aren't that fully developed which is understandable as this is a TV series and as such it doesn't make sense to fully develop the characters in the first episode especially when you have the rest of the episodes to do that but at the same time it would have been nice to have some sort of development for alot of this episodes as alot of them just have nothing to do in this episode and are there just to tell one bad joke and then leave the scene which does make it harder for them to get across what there personality is even meant to be and for us the audience to form a connection with them but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As it was the type of comedy that does work well enough for the Disney Channel but on the flip side of that is the fact that this episodes comedy isn't all that good either as the jokes in this episode are jokes that you can see coming a mile away and as a result of that while they are still somewhat funny jokes they aren't as funny as they really could have or even should have been and while this episode does have some decent jokes in it they are very few and far between with the episode having alot more bad or even lame jokes in it then it does good jokes in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall it's not that hard to see why this show or this episode has been forgotten about by alot of people but at the same time it really is still Zendaya doing what she did best back when this show was first being released it's just that this episode isn't as good as it really should have been or even could have been for that matter in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn 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 K.C. Undercover 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 great and legendary Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course on Google Images are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: The Rings Of Akhaten Review

Doctor Who is home to many speeches alot of which are done by The Doctor him / herself and alot of which are really good. However there is one speech that alot of fans think of as being one of the best of the best with that very speech being in the very episode that i'm about to review for you all today with this one also being an episode that i've been trying to review for sometime now but for one reason or another I just couldn't do that at that exact point in time and so then join me as I review the episode that has a very well known Doctor Who speech in it with the episode in question being called simply just "The Rings Of Akhaten" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is when The Doctor takes Clara on her very first trip into outer space they visit planet were a religious festival to help to keep a huge creator that orbits the planet asleep and have to defeat it when it finally wakes up. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot 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 plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it was a very serviceable plot but at the same time tho the plot to this episode wasn't all that good either with the plot being at best very thin and at worst just not that interesting or not to the high standard of this episodes writer other show Luther but I will admit that this episodes plot is also really rather entertaining and as well as being also really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode House Of The Dragon star Matt Smith as The Doctor and Victoria and Captain America: The First Avenger star Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald. Also starring in this episode is Utopia and Locke & Key star Emilia Jones as Merry Gejelh , Michael Dixon as Dave Oswald , Nicola Sian as Ellie Oswald , Chris Anderson as The Chorister , Aidan Cook as The Mummy and Karl Greenwood as Dor'een.

Now then interms if 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 for this show is really nothing that's all that new as this show especially the Matt Smith era of the show has always had some really good acting in them with this episode not being an exception to this rule with Matt Smith being the true standout performer in this episode as he does deliver a truly wonderful performance as The Doctor with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the episodes script is just so good that all the episodes cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the 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 for the most part really good altho there was some painfully bad green screen which just looks awful as it stands out a mile when compared to all of this episodes really good looking CGI which even when this episode aired looked good and they still look good to this very day but the green screening looked good back when this first episode aired but it now looks bad and that is something that really does bring down the overall quality of the CGI in this episode.

It's in this episode that we get to see Clara's backstory with her origin being both beautiful and also tragic as well at the exact same time. As it doesn't appear to be that she was close to her father and yet she was incredibly close with her mother with her mother pretty much being her hero and yet we also see how she already met The Doctor prior to the events of The Bells Of St. John which does go to show you just how obsessed that The Doctor is becoming over trying to really figure out how she can die in both the future and the past and yet still be alive and well in the present even going as far as to lie to her when he says that he will treat her as her own person which is something that The Doctor has never done before with this even playing out in the episodes opening flashback which was a really nice touch as it also sets up something that really pays of later on in the episode as well as telling this really beautiful love story with these really likable characters that you really do want to see alot more off in the future episodes of this show.

As was stated at the start of this review this episode is home to quite possibly the greatest in modern Doctor Who history. Not only due to what's said but also because of the fact that it allows The Doctor to stop being the childlike kid that we see all throughout the episode but also all throughout Matt Smith's tenure of the show as well as it's this very speech that allows him to unearth generations worth of pain and agony that he's built up and it allows to him to in a way recover from all the loss that he's suffered be it from loosing Susan by forcing her to stay with the one that she loves or by loosing a companion due to death like Amy and Rory or even Adric for example all of which are things that he's never really let go of and yet it's during this speech where he willingly really gives us up alot of the memories that he's got that he then becomes really free of those burdens and can then start to heel from all of that pain and all of that loss with the speech itself also being really beautiful and is really epic in every single sense and meaning of the word.

There are a few downsides to this episode tho the first of which is the episodes main villain Akhaten himself who is just a bland villain who isn't really fully developed and isn't that scary or even that memorable to begin with. The second issue is the fact that the episode just feels like it's a Christmas special as apart from advancing the storyline involving Clara and that's really it as a result there's no reason as to hwy this episode aired as a regular episode when everything about this episode including it's wafer thin plotline just scream Doctor Who Christmas Special and while this episode does get credit for setting up the plotline of the TARDIS not really liking Clara it's something that doesn't make sense when you take into account that The Doctor and Clara had to use in the TARDIS to get to this planet in the first place as if it really didn't like Clara in the first place then it wouldn't have taken off from Earth at the start of the episode when Clara was inside the TARDIS with The Doctor.

Noe then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes grand total running time even was I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly forty three minuets. Which really does feel like a lot shorter of a running time then what this episode really does deserve as this episode whilst it doesn't have alot of plot there to cover that large amount of running time in this first place the episode still could have done with having a longer running time as then the episode could flesh out both the episodes main villain to make him a more memorable villain and the episode also could have done with fleshing out the character out Merry Gejelh as the character as she is in the current cut f the episode is just a cardboard cut out of a stereotypical kid character only she's lacking anything that makes her alot more three dimensional but I will admit 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 in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty fairly decent. However at the same time there really isn't alot of action of this episode when there really should have been just by having members of the people who are there to force Merry to sing her song and yet while we do get a decent action scene in the episode it's not as good as it really could have been as it's really just The Doctor pointing his Sonic Screwdriver which is fine for a few seconds but when that's the whole action scene then there's something wrong with the scene in question in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it's very easy to see why this episode got a mixed response from the die hard Doctor Who fanbase as the episode does have some good things but at the same time tho the episode doesn't really take alot of the episodes running time in order to really fully develop either it's characters or it's ideas either 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 means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 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 all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being the really great and really legendary the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this episode and are really of course on the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page are all really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

My SPOILER FILLED First Impressions Of The Avatar: The Last Airbender 2024 TV Series

Hot of the heels of there hugely successful One Piece live action adaptation Netflix has now just released another live action adaptation of a beloved animated show from the mid 2000's. However where as One Piece had the help of it's original creator to help to guide the makers of that show this one really doesn't have that as such it had the potential to be a hot mess and well you all just knew that I had to check out at the very least the first episode of this show the first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the show that has the chance to be better then it's own movie adaptation with the show in question being called simply just "Avatar: The Last Airbender" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is one hundred years after the Avatar disappeared two siblings find a boy who may or may not by the Avatar. 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 inn 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 the plot of this episode was really well done and while there are issues with the plot those issues aren't something that can be brought up here due to them being spoilers however the plot of this episode is also alot more faithful to the show then that of the live action movie The Last Airbender with this episodes plot 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 Gordon Cormier as Aang , Kiawentiio as Katara , Ian Ousley as Sokka and Dallas Liu as Prince Zuko. Also starring in this film is Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Uncle Iroh , Lim Kay Siu as Gyatso , Casey Camp-Horinek as Gran Gran , Hiro Kanagawa as Fire Lord Sozin , Yvonne Chapman as Kyoshi , Ruy Iskandar as Lieutenant Jee , Matthew Yang King as The Voice Of Appa , Leo Chiang as Monk Thet , Jeff Yung as Monk Tsutop , Jayden Zhang as Myat , Dorian Giordano as Aydo and Silver Kim as Pasang.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the issue as the acting in this episode isn't all that good either granted it's alot better then the acting in the The Last Airbender live action movie but that's not really saying all that much as the acting in this episode is still really bad with alot of the episodes cast just turning in some fairly wooden performances with the episode in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the episodes cast isn't really all that good either as it gives none of the episodes cast nothing to work with interms of what it is that there characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place and the episodes director Michael Goi really quite clearly doesn't really know how to direct his cast and get a good performance out of his cast.

Doing the CGI for not only this but also the rest of the show as a whole is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Double Negative. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual GI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally though / felt that the actual CGI that's actually feature d/ presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with the episode having better CGI then what was really needed or even expected and yet at the same time the CGI in this episode just looked like it had no weight to it with the CGI characters moving like there weightless and not like they would normally move like however on the flip side of that is the fact that this episodes is at times so good that it felt like that it belonged in a movie and not in a Netflix streaming series as the effects in this episode were just that good.

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

The plot of this first episode of the show was quite literally the plot of the first two episodes of the animated show. Only it now includes things from the third episode of the animated show which just don't work as the episode is trying to do so much instead of just focusing on being a good episode with the episode stripping Aang of the emotional growth that the animated show gave him in just it's first few episodes as instead f not showing us the attack on the air temple in the original show we find out about that attack when Aang does and that makes it all the more heartbreaking as he spends a good chunk of the episode believing that alot of the people that he loved and cared about are still alive which makes it all the more haunting and heartbreaking when he finds out that there no long alive and yet this episode robs us of a scene like that by outright showing us the attack on the southern air temple just because it wants to have to an extended action sequence.

To give this episode credit it is somewhat better then the live action movie adaptation in that it doesn't skip over plot points with lazy narration or try to fit several episodes into one storyline but at the same time tho it does commit one of the biggest sins that the movie version committed. That being the fact that the original shows creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are not involved having left the show due to "creative differences" with the duo being replaced by the showrunner of Sleepy Hollow and the producer of Nikita Albert Kim which is a huge red flag when you realise that both of those shows got low ratings for there respective networks and it just goes to show you that the only two two people who should work on this show on a creative level is Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko as nobody else would know that world and those characters better then those two as they created the original show and that world and those characters.

Unlike alot of other live action adaptations of animated shows there are is a sense that those involved do have a passion for the original show. With even the characters costumes looking as closely as they could get to the original animated show and alot of the characters do act alot like there animated series counterparts as well the issue is tho is that this franchise works best as an animated as the makers of the show can they go as over the top as they need to and aren't bound by the laws of physics which is something that does let this episode down quite alot as it can't be as cool or as fun as the original animated series first two episodes were and even taking the new approach of just focusing on the larger narrative instead of including smaller scale filler and really character driven episodes doesn't make the show that much fun to watch as alot of the really great character moments come from those smaller scale episodes that aren't adding to the main plot of the show but they are adding to the relationships between the three main leads which just does just go to show you that even if the makers of this new show really have a passion for the original show they still need to know how to make a good show in the first place and really judging by show creators Albert Kim's IMDB page that doesn't seem like something that he really knows how to do.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and three minuets and fifty one seconds. Which is a solid running time for this episode but at the same time given that it's just a retelling of the shows first two episodes with nothing really all that new added to it there's no reason as to why this episode should have been forty four to forty five minuets long with the only two things that might be new scenes that don't add anything to the plot of the episode being the episodes pre-titles scene which even then didn't need to be as long as it was and was really there just to have a couple of action scenes as even tho they set up the threat of the Fire Nation in the pre-titles scene the shows intro also does that which makes it's inclusion in the pre-title scene really even more pointless then what it already is but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now the as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual actin that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episodes action being alot better then the action that we got in the movie adaptation with the Earth Benders actually being treated as an actual threat to the Fire Nation and not being treated like a joke like they were in the movie and heck the episodes best action scene despite being in a pointless pre-titles scene is actually in the pre-titles scene as it shows you just how cool and how strong the Earth benders really are and why they are a threat to the Fire Nation which makes for a really cool looking action sequence in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall while this shows first episode is alot better the The Last Airbender live action movie it's still not that good of a show and while it could indeed get better as the show goes on if the foundations are bad then it doesn't matter how good the rest of the show will be because it was built on shaky foundations 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 post and as this is only my first impressions I won't give this show a rating as any show can have a good or bad first episode but if this post does well then I will look into covering more episodes of this show as a review tho.

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

Power Rangers Super Megaforce "The Legendary Battle: Extended Edition" Review

It's safe to say that out all of the many season of Power Rangers out there one of the worse ones is quite easily Powers Megaforce and Power Rangers Super Megaforce. As both seasons of the show just built up to something that was in it's original run rather underwhelming however Saban / Nickelodeon must have known as they released what is basically a directors cut of the show final two episodes and so then join me as I review the episode that was meant to celebrate really roughly twenty years of Powers Rangers with the episode in question being called simply just "The Legendary Battle: Extended Edition" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when the Rangers finally defeat another one of of The Armadas generals they discover that an invasion of earth is about to begin and so have to stop the invasion before earth is doomed 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 as it was plot that's epic enough to be the final episode of an action but at the same time it doesn't really wrap up anything that was set up in the previous episodes instead just glossing over them or not wrapping them up in a way that made sense but this episodes plot was really rather entertaining and as well being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Andrew Gray as Troy Burrows , John Mark Loudermilk as Noah Carver and Azim Rizk as Jake Holling. Also starring in this episode is Christina Masterson as Emma Goodall , Ciara Hanna as Gia Moran , Cameron Jebo as Orion , Jason David Frank as Tommy Oliver , Selwyn Ward as T.J. Johnson , Patricia Ja Lee as Cassie Chan , Danny Slavin as Leo Corbett , Reggie Rolle as Damon Henderson , Melody Perkins as Karone , Sean Cw Johnson as Carter Grayson , Alison MacInnis as Dana Mitchell , Jason Faunt as Wesley "Wes" Collins , Hector David, Jr. as Mike , Brittany Pirtle as Emily , Chris Auer as The Voice Of Robo Knight , Shailesh Prajapati as Ernie , Ian Harcourt as Mr. Burley , Geoff Dolan as The Voice Of Gosei , Estevez Gillespie as The Voice Of Tensou , Mike Drew as The Voice Of Emperor Mavro , Rebecca Parr as The Voice Of Levira and Adrian Smith as The Voice Of Redker.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad by Power Rangers standards. However at the same time tho the acting in this episode is quite clearly not that good either with alot of the acting from the then current team of rangers for the most part being really wooden and in the case of Andrew Gray also really robotic as well none of this is the fault of the cast as there only being told what to do and how to say those lines but the acting in this episode really isn't helped by the episodes which is just so bad as it gives none of the episodes cast much to work with interms of what there respective characters personalities are even meant to be and as a result of this really is the fact that the episodes cast reall just can't turn in that good of a performance as the episodes script really just won't allow for it.

In what was a rather shocking not all of the returning characters have speaking this is despite two of them being in the previous season of the show and where already in New Zealand. Which makes no sense to include as out of any of the ranger teams it's sadly those two that kids today are going to be the most familiar with and heck even Damon Henderson from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy gets no speaking lines even in this extended version where alot of the characters could have been given speaking lines as the episode has more then running time to give them at least one line of dialog and yet for some weird reason the episode doesn't do that which makes no sense in the slightest as this is an anniversary episode and yet there not having some Rangers speak in the episode which is just a weird thing to do.

For some reason this episode tries and fails to be as epic as the two episode Countdown To Destruction from Power Rangers In Space. Even just straight up copying the scene where all of the earth characters wonder where the Power Rangers even are however what made the scene work in Countdown To Destruction is the fact that prior to Power Rangers In Space we had spent several years with those characters and heck the episode even had characters that we knew of and had spent alot of time with where as in this episode outside of the cameos from past rangers alot of the characters that we see in that scene are all characters that we've never seen before and as a result of that is the fact that the scene now looses all of it's impact as for all we could know these new characters might not even like the Power Rangers to begin with but what would have made the scene work is if they had some characters that we actually knew trying to cheer people much like what they did in Countdown To Destruction as realistically alot of the earth characters would be trying to cheer people and try to keep the hope alive and well.

One of the plot lines from the show that this episode misses the mark with is the relationship subplot between Jake and Gia. Which ends with her kissing and them becoming a couple which isn't the problem the problem is that the episode doesn't set that up and yet the episode has a perfect point where they could have started to develop that relationship a bit more as when the rangers fall out of there megazord and they all land in separate locations instead of having Jake land pretty much next to Noah and Gia land near Emma you instead have Jake land next to Gia he then gets up first and goes to help her with the two of them exchanging a look and maybe having a moment together and that's all you'd need to set up the fact that maybe she's starting to fall for him just that one quick scene that wouldn't have taken that long to film and you wouldn't have to change a single line of dialog and yet as it is the ending to that subplot just comes out of nowhere and feels really rather rushed when it really should have been set up at some point earlier in the episode.

While the episode does give Tommy Oliver some slight focus he doesn't take over the entire episode with him only appearing unmorphed for two or three scenes. With the episode giving equal treatment to alot of the past Rangers all while showing us trying to help people when they really need it which is a great way to showcase alot of these returning as it brings them back into the story in a way that feels more natural then what the show had been doing where a past Ranger would just show up for no reason here they all have a reason to be in this one town which is to help to stop The Armada and they just so happen to get caught up in the attacks which leads them to helping to rescue alot of the townsfolk but it would have been nice if we got to see characters like Justin for example or Andros or even Bulk & Skull just because it would show the threat from both point of the view of the rangers and the point of view of those who really aren't rangers.

Now then this episode really has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty five minuets exactly. Which is a solid running time for this episode even though it's just two episodes edited together and to this episodes credit this episode does have more then enough plot there to cover that large amount of running time and the extra running time does allow for the plot to be as fully developed as it could have been without it feeling like an extra long episode of the show but at the same time the entire Legendary Battle episode itself really should have been it's own thing as that's the whole reason as to why people are watching this extended edition as the titular battle really did get the short end of the stick in the regular edition and the extra time given to it in this episode does help to make feel all the more important and 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 in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty the best part of the episode. As this was where the episode got to be the most fun even tho they do make painfully obvious that there using Sentai footage for the Legendary Battle just by having the Rangers say that they don't need a power up for no reason whatsoever but the titular Legendary Battle does come of really better thanks to the episodes extended running time as it allows the fight to be longer and be filled with more cool and exiting moments all of which well enough in this episodes favor and all of which make the action in this episode seem really cool to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this version of The Legendary Battle is better then the regular version both this episode and really both Power Rangers Megaforce and Power Rangers Super Megaforce are really flawed on a fundamental level 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 means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6/5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all f 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 f the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Power Rangers fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being the great and legendary the official Power Rangers fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this episode and are really of course on the official Power Rangers fandom wiki page are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Game Of Thrones: Winter Is Coming Review

Game Of Thrones was a TV show that took the world by the storm with it's fantastic first season episodes. As it's been roughly two months since I last did a review of anything from this franchise I thought that now was the absolutely right time to delve back into this really fantastical world with the very episode that started it all and so then join me as I review the episode that gave us the phrase Winter Is Coming with the episode in question being called simply just "Winter Is Coming" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when his good friend dies really suddenly in the night Lord Eddard Stark has to decide on if he's ready to become the hand of the king and really leave his home in the North for good. 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 this episodes plot doing a very good job of setting up the mystery of who killed Jon Arryn and giving us a really good look at who these characters really were before the Game Of Thrones started with the plot of 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 Sean Bean as Lord Eddard Stark , Mark Addy as King Robert Baratheon and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Ser Jaime Lannister. Also starring in this episode is Michelle Fairley as Lady Catelyn Stark , Lena Headey as Queen Cersei Lannister , Emilia Clarke as Princess Daenerys Targaryen , Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont , Harry Lloyd as Prince Viserys Targaryen , Kit Harington as Jon Snow , Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark , Maisie Williams as Arya Stark , Richard Madden as Robb Stark , Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy , Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark , Batman Begins star Jack Gleeson as Prince Joffrey Baratheon , Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane , Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister , Donald Sumpter as Maester Luwin , Jamie Sives as Jory Cassel , Ron Donachie as Rodrik Cassel , Joseph Mawle as Benjen Stark , Roger Allam as Illyrio Mopatis , Dar Salim as Qotho , Esmé Bianco as Ros , Susan Brown as Mordane , Bronson Webb as Will , Sir John Standing as Jon Arryn , Rob Ostlere as Waymar Royce , Dermot Keaney as Gared , Art Parkinson as Rickon Stark , Callum Wharry as Tommen Baratheon , Aimee Richardson as Myrcella Baratheon , Kristian Nairn as Hodor and Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo.

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. With all of this episodes cast turning some really good performances in this episode which really isn't all that surprising as alot of this episodes cast is made up of a bunch of really good actors who know how to turn in a good performance with alot of this episodes cast members really nailing there characters in this first episode alone which is a rare thing to do indeed however and what helps the acting in this episode is the fact that the episodes script is just so good that all the cast have to do is really just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturally.

Doing the CGI for this episode is BlueBolt , Screen Scene and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Pixomondo. 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 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 but at the same time it's wasn't all that good either not that it was bad far from it but the CGI in this episode really hasn't aged all that well with the episode really only using CGI to extend certain sets which is how CGI should be used as all your doing in enhancing what was already there on the day but on the flip side of that is the fact that because your really not spending alot whole lot of money on this episodes CGI it does tend age alot quicker then the more expensive looking episodes of the show.

What was truly shocking was seeing just how many storylines that this one episode either sets up or foreshadows. With the episode foreshadowing the fact that Bran will never be able to climb or even walk again and the fact that Daenerys has dragon blood running through her veins amongst several other storylines all of which are handled in a very subtle way something which the show would loose as we got near the end of the shows run and it was something that was truly shocking to see in this episode as it does go to show you that the makers of this show really did have a plan at the very least for this first season and it's good example of how good this show really was as alot of the foreshadowing done in this episode is something that us the audience really wouldn't notice on the first viewing of the episode and it just goes to show that when the writers of this want to be subtle and want to turn in a good script they really can do it when they well and truly really want to.

There are some issues that this episode does have and that's the fact that alot of who would become the main characters in this first season aren't really given enough time to display much of what there personalities are. Which is understandable as the show is not only one hour long per most of the episodes but is also ten episodes and as such it would be foolish to get across what there personality is like in the first episode as the shows several other episodes to get all of that across the other issue in this episode is the fact that the Starks are the main characters of the episode and to be frank at least in this episode there not the most interesting of characters while yes they do get more fully fleshed out as the season goes on and the books does start of with them as well there are other more interesting characters like for example the whole royal family that would have made for better main characters in your debut episode.

The version of Daenerys that we get n this episode is the version that we should have gotten in the shows final season. As this take on Daenerys is more then strong enough to last throughout the whole entire show as we see that while she is yes a little naive when it comes to how the world of the Dothraki works that is something we see her overcome over the course of this first season we see her learning and growing as a character something which is started in this episode and yet the version of the character we get in the final season just burns down anything and anyone that disagrees with her more often then not it's just because that she could and not because that she's improved as a character where as if the makers of this episode had stuck with her character progression then she would have taken meeting with the other rulers to get what she wants something which she does learn about during the shows early seasons and that is something that she starts to learn n this episode when she learns all about the Dothraki and there ways.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes grand total running time even was I do know that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly fifty nine minuets. Which is a bit of perfect running time for this episode to have as the episode really does have more then enough there interms of plot to cover that large amount of running time however at the flip side of things this episode really could have benefited from having just a slightly longer running time just so that the episode could start to fully flesh out some of it's other characters and give more of it's main characters a chance t show us the audience what there respective personalities are even meant to be but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However on the flip side the action that we get in this episode isn't all that good either as we don't get the chance to see alot of this episodes action due to the fact that the episode cuts away from it and what little action that we do get in this episode is mostly played for laughs and doesn't really add anything to the plot of the episode which does make sense given that this is the first episode in the series but at the same time in your first episode you really do expect to see some really good action in that episode something which this episode really does in someway fail to give us in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this one episode is a really good example of just how good this show was as it's an episode that more holds up well over ten years later as it really is such a good episode that really is well written and acted and in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all bad 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 an 8 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 mages that I personally used in this very review from the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being the great and legendary the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course on the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.