Devil May Cry TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review

Video game adaptations are dime a dozen it seems these days with pretty much every video game out there either just getting an adaptation or is in the process of getting an adaptation. What is rare tho is for the same video game to get two different adaptations in the same medium and yet that's just what happed with the show that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today as while yes there was an earlier anime series based on this franchise released that's not the one that i'm going to be talking about today and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show that is just as gory as you'd expect from something produced by Adi Shankar with the show in question being called simply just "Devil May Cry" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when when his necklace is stolen by someone who wants to use it's power to break down the portal protecting our world from the demon world demon hunter Dante and a group of soldiers will gave to do whatever it takes to stop that from happening. 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 feature / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho this shows plot was pretty weak which is something that does seem to be the case with alot of animated Netflix shows as there more focused on trying to be adult then trying to tell a good story and while the story that this show is telling is good it's also one that's not really that developed as Netflix have only released eight episodes for this first season when you very easily could have stretched this story out to say twelve episodes as that would then mean that the plot of the show as a a whole could be alot more developed then what it actually is with it feeling like that they were rushing certain plot points instead of doing them in a way that makes the feel earned and while the plot of the show is still a really strong plot it's one that's not as good as it really could have been with it being made clear as day that the makers of this show are more focused on putting in alot of songs from early 2000's punk rock and heavy metal bands then they are in telling a more focused plot with the plot of this show 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 show is Power Rangers , Naruto and Bleach star Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante and Halloween 2007 and Halloween 2 star Scout Taylor-Compton as Mary. Also starring in this show is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 star Hoon Lee as The White Rabbit , Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul star Chris Coppola as Enzo Ferino , Robbie Daymond as Vergil and the late Batman: The Animated Series star Kevin Conroy as VP Baines.

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 not that bad. As the actors that you expect a good performance from really do give us exactly where the acting in this show does somewhat faulter tho is the fact that there are more bad to decent acting in it then there is good to great acting in it with the best examples of of that being alot of Mary's team all of which so bland forgettable and all of which do turn in performances that aren't that good and while it was nice to hear the late Kevin Conroy one last time even his great acting doesn't save the quality of the shows acting or even raise the level of it all that much with him being the best actor in the whole show as while others like Johnny Yong Bosch do disguise there voices to the point where you wouldn't know that it was them unless you went onto this shows Wikipedia page Kevin Conroy was just such a good actor anyways that he really just demands your attention every single time that he's on screen with the same thing also being true for his performance in this show as well with the acting that's in this show really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts is just so good that all this shows actors really 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 show.

Doing the animation for this show is the legends and the really greats that are currently over at Studio Mir. 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 with it matching up to the already high quality set by shows like Castlevania and Captain Laser Hawk and yet at the same time even tho it's meant to be in same multiverse as those shows it's different enough for it to be it's own unique thing with the shows animation looking really good good not only in all of the shows fight scenes of which there are at the vert least two per episode but also in the backgrounds with all of the outdoor scenes look breathtakingly good there not movie quality good as that would be impossible to do on a TV show budget but for a Netflix animated TV show this shows animation is as good as it gets and while the show does have an anime influence in the designs of the characters this is not an anime as there none of the tropes that you see in the animation of an anime be it a film or TV show with this show being very firmly a western animated show and isn't afraid to be exactly that as while yes the backgrounds are nicely detailed the designs of the characters while they do take inspiration from anime or simplistic and streamlined designs much like you'd see in a western animated TV show or film with all of the shows characters having some really nice fluid movements to them which come alive during this shows fight scenes.

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For some strange reason this shows creator Adi Shankar straight up uses a modified version of the plot from Dredd a film which he himself executive produced. As in episode four of this show Mary and her team of soldiers go to a building that The White Rabbit owns and operates and he then has the entire building locked down thus forcing the soldiers to have try and fight there way to get to the top of the building where he is which is straight up the plot of Dredd even down to one of the characters getting help from someone who lives there with the only difference being that instead of the two who enter the building making it all the way to top to face the big bad in a huge epic fight here Mary's whole team is wiped out by one of The White Rabbit's demons on the ground floor thus forcing Mary to go up and face him alone but that's pretty much it as beat for beat they play the exact same way and while alot of the people who didn't and haven't seen Dredd won't mind that as to them it would be a new concept those of us that did see Dredd and still do frequently watch it it feels weird seeing this plot line play out in episode four of this show and not see the characters from Dredd in it and that is something that makes you wonder why the makers of this show chose to have that plot line be in this show as it's something that doesn't really work for this show due to the fact that all of the shows main villains are demons and not real people with the only interesting thing that comes out of it is the fact that Mary is forced to face her own prejudice against demons and question everything that she believes when a demon family hides her from one of the demons that's hunting her down in the building and that's really it.

This show does have some fairly well done characters with Dante , Mary and even this shows main villain The White Rabbit getting alot of screen time and being well written. With Dante kind of being like Deadpool not in the way that the he knows that he's a fictional character but in the way that he always has a one liner geared up for every fight and is always willing to do whatever it takes just to get back something that's really important to him which in this case is his necklace and Mary is kind of a strong willed character but also one that does have some flaws like the fact that she does have this deep rooted hatred for all demons so much that she believes that all demons are evil and is even willing to kill innocent demons just because of the fact that they might one day do something evil and while she does learn to overcome this in the shows fourth episode it's character development that really does come to early for the character as it would have made more sense for the character to go through this development later on in the shows run which judging by this shows ending it's pretty clear that it's going to be getting a second batch of episodes as by then we would have had more of a chance to get to know her character where as here since this was only the first batch of episodes we don't really know the character all that well and with The White Rabbit we do get a really good character as well as he is Dante but if Dante was this truly evil character and yet as we find out over the course of the show we do see that he was radically different from how we've seen him thus far thus making his turn into The White Rabbit a slightly tragic one with the character himself making for a pretty decent debut villain for the most part.

In what could be seen as being a really weird move instead of keeping up the momentum all the way to the finale this show instead chooses to take a break from it's main story in the shows sixth episode and instead give us the backstories to both The White Rabbit and Mary. While going into there backstories isn't a bad thing as it does help to develop there characters a little bit more and make them feel more like well rounded characters it's the placement of the episode that feels off as instead of doing this episode as either the second or perhaps even third episode of the show it's done as the shows sixth episode which just causes the show to loose all momentum as they spend both the fourth and fifth episodes starting to build us up to this epic finale only for the very next episode to slow things down by quite alot by giving us an episode that not only has very minimal dialog in it but also tells us a story that would have been better served if it was placed earlier on in the shows run as by this point you want every single episode to be all about getting us to the final episode and not have an episode that gets in the way of that by telling a story that by this point in the shows run is to little to late as even tho we had had gotten huge chunks of Mary's backstory all throughout the season at this point we hadn't gotten anything from The White Rabbit which was fine as it could be argued that the less we knew about him the more scarier that he was but because it was placed this late in the show it also made his backstory feel more like an after thought and the episode as a whole feel like filler as apart from the song "Afterlife" by Evanescence there's really no reason to watch this episode at all.

Now then while I cannot for the life of remember the exact grand total running for this show I do know that for the fact that this has / had an exact grand total running of roughly two hours and thirty minuets. With each of the shows first eight episodes being around thirty minuets in length which to be fait is the perfect amount of running time for this show to have but at the same time as this show really does have more then enough plot to cover not only it's current running time but also longer it would have helped this show if this first batch of episodes was slightly higher because as was mentioned earlier on in the review that would allow for the plot to become alot more fully developed then what it already with this show not really using it's running time all that wisely either as the world that this shows takes place in does feel rather underdeveloped and not thought out that well which is something that whilst it does hurt the show it is understandable as well as they have the to tell the plot in the most effective way possible and sadly that does mean things like world building and fleshing out the plot of the show are going to fall by the way side somethin that does happen in this show and yet if this show did have more episodes to it it would allow for the world to be more develop and for the plot of the show to alot more fleshed out but because of the fact that the makers of the show chose to put alot more effort into putting in songs from Evanescence , Papa Roach , Limb Bizkit and Green Day it means that we end up with a show where the world isn't that fully developed and the plot of the show isn't all that fleshed out but I really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good. With this shows action being in a word cool which to be fair is all you want from an action orientated show and it's something that this show has in spades with the characters just doing lots of cool moves that end up with there opponents dieing in alot of cool and VERY gory ways as yes this show is not for the weak stomached but in saying that given that this is an adult show it does make sense that it would be gory and to the shows credit they really don't go over the top with the gore only using to show that a character has died in a really brutal way which given that the heroes are fighting demons does make sense however what doesn't work tho and what might be seen as being a bit over kill is the fact that the shows has at the very least two fully blown action scenes per episode which is something that could be seen as being exhausting as there's more often then not very little time for us the audience to catch our breaths before the next starts up with it being really hard to say just what the best action scene is as there's so many of them to choose from but what can be said is that the final fight between Dante and The White Rabbit is just as cool and over the top as you'd want it to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall while Netflix themselves might have not announced a second season just yet given just how this first batch of episodes ends it's pretty clear that the makers of this show are hoping for one with this show being worth watching just for the action scenes alone as there just that good in this show 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 earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 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 hat I personally used in this very review from the official Devil May Cry fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very review being the really great the official Devil May Cry 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 show with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Devil May Cry fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: The War Machines Review

Companion departures in Doctor Who are more often that not a very tricky thing to get right as the you have to make the audience both feel sad for the old companion leaving the show and yet at the same time excited for the new companion or companions that are joining the show. With the episode that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today being one such an episode and so then join me as I review the episode that sees The Doctor loose one companion but gain two more with the episode in question being called simply just "The War Machines" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is The Doctor and Dodo arrive in sixties London where the pair uncover a scheme to take over the world via a bunch of machines. 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 but at the same time it's not a plot that's all that good either with this episodes plot being nothing more then OK at best as while the premise does lend itself a good and fun plot it's in the execution where the plot fails as what could have been a fun plot is now suddenly dull and boring with there not really being anything that makes this episodes plot stand out from alot of other Doctor Who plots at the same and heck even the hook of seeing a companion leave the show isn't really woven into the plot of the episode all that well thus making it feel more like an afterthought when it's something that should have been the emotional hook of the episode and while the idea for the episode is a fine and idea and one that could have worked really well in a better episode this is a plot that really did need to be more fully developed and have alot more time given to it in order to make it work and be the best that it could have been with the plot of this episode not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Starring in this episode is William Hartnell as The Doctor , Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet and Anneke Wills as Polly. Also starring in this episode is Michael Craze as Ben Jackson , John Harvey as Professor Brett , John Cater as Professor Krimpton , William Mervyn as Sir Charles Summer , Alan Curtis as Major Green , Sandra Bryant as Kitty , George Cross as The Minister , Kenneth Kendall as Himself and Gerald Taylor as A Machine Operator and The Voice Of WOTAN.

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 al 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. As it's clear as day that all of this episodes actors really do know how to turn in a really good performance in this episode as it's something that we see all over this episode with really the only bad acting coming from Gerald Taylor who really doesn't give WOTAN much of a voice outside of just saying characters names and that's really it and because of that the character's voice isn't that threatening as it oddly sounds a bit to robotic which would be fine if he was voicing a Cyberman but here there should have been more of an effort into giving WOTAN a more threatening and commanding voice with the best actor in this whole episode being William Hartnell which is something that does make sense he's been in the show for close to three years at this point in time and it's his acting that really does carry the episode not that alot of the other actors in this episode are bad because there really not it's just that he was truly phenomenal in this episode with the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none f this episodes actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode. 

As was mentioned at the start of this review this is the episode that sees The Doctor gain two new companions in this episode. With them being Ben and Polly with the two characters not really being the best characters in this episode as Polly spends the first half of the story being Dodo's friend and then the other half being under hypnosis which means that we don't really get to see why she belongs in the TARDIS outside of the fact that she's a deeply caring woman and that's really it with Ben being the action man type character which given the fact that William Hartnell isn't as spry as he once was does make some sort of sense to bring him on board from the point of view of the show but from a storyline point of view we don't really get to find out all that much about him other then the fact that he's a sailor and that's really it which is fine as it's typical of the show to do something like that at this point in time but given that William Hartnell was due to be leaving the show in just a few episodes time in the first place and that Ben and Polly leave not long in the second doctors era it would have been nice if we got to find out more about there characters and what there hobbies are as even tho those seem like things that would get in the way of the plot of any given episode of the show they are also things that would go along way into making us the audience care about there characters and want to see them make it out of each and every episode alive and well and yet because of the fact that we don't get to find out all that much about them in this episode it does make it hard for us the audience to find a reason to cheer for them when they do join the TARDIS full time.

There have been many companions leave the show with this episode perhaps being one pf the worst examples of how to handle a companion departure. As not only does it happen OFF SCREEN it's also something that's not even build up at all and actor Jackie Lane doesn't even appear in episodes three and four of this story with her final on screen appearance being near the end of this stories second episode and while there was a logistical reason for this as the production team were caught of guard by the fact that her contract for the show ran out during the production of this stories second episode there really should have been someone checking this sort of thing out as she was a co-lead in the show and that way they could gave given her a proper send off instead of just having Polly mention it at the end of the second episode but given the fact that Dodo was never really that well written as a character giving her this weak send off does oddly fit with how the show treated her as a character with her departure being something that very easily could have been fixed by having her say at the start of the episode she longs t leave The Doctor but won't do so until she knows that he's in good hands something that she can see is the case along the episode with Ben and Polly only for her to discover that she actually doesn't want to go because she does genuinely care for him with The Doctor rather begrudgingly telling her to go because he knows that staying with him isn't what's best her with this being something that is true to both characters.

With one of the many things that really does let this episode being the fact that from a technology point of view just isn't that good. As there is some really bad looking projection  shots in episode three which might have looked good back in the sixties but now just look laughable at best and while this episode does get alot of credit for actually being the final William Hartnell serial to fully exist in it's entirety there should be alot of effort into making this episode look as good as it could be for it's various home media releases and if that means getting rid of the bad looking projection shots then so be it as all they do is make the scene that there in look cheap and while yes granted the BBC wasn't really used to using projection in the sixties as it was still a fairly new thing in it's own right the fact that they went that route and chose to use it does say that they at least had some knowledge of how to do it on a budget and yet they just chose a way that makes it look cheap and really dated and it's something that should this whole series of the show ever see a Blu-Ray release should be improved upon as while yes Doctor Who was always on a wish and prayer alot of the times you couldn't really see just how cheap the show was to make alot of the time where as here despite the fact that there is some really impressive looking location shots alot of the stuff that was clearly done in the studio does look cheap and yes that does include alot of the projection shots as well but to be fair tho it was still a bold move for the makers of this dhow to try some ne technology on the shows very tiny budget it's just one that really didn't pay off all that well for them.

As you can all no doubt work out by the above image the main villain of this episode is the super computer WOTAN with WOTAN standing for Will Operating Thought ANalogue. While it is a good idea for the main villain of the episode to be a super computer as computers themselves were just starting to become more of a thing back in the sixties as a villain it's not all that interesting as we never really get to find out why it wants to take over the world and nor do we find out why it needs The Doctor's help to do so both of which would have gone a really long way into making the character a really good villain as then we could have had some really good scenes with WOTAN trying to convince The Doctor to join it and hep it out thus giving The Doctor a sort of moral crisis and you can have WOTAN threaten to have Dodo killed should The Doctor fail him thus forcing The Doctor to have t think on his feet but because of alot of the time we don't get to actually see WOTAN in action we also don't get to see why it's meant to be taken seriously as a villain and as the villain just isn't that interesting it also means that The Doctor himself isn't that interesting as he's not being forced to outwit WOTAN and while the idea of having a super computer be the main villain for this episode it's not one that's fully developed enough to the point where the character is believable as the villain with the episode not even taking that full advantage of the fact that it's main villain is a super computer which is something that does make sense as we didn't really know just wat it was that computers could do in the first place but at the same time it is something that really does make WOTAN seem like a really weak villain.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember what ever this episodes grand total running time even was I do know for a fact that this episode really does have an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour and thirty minuets. With this episode being four episodes which is something that really does effect the plot of this episode as this episode not only have more the  enough plot there to really cover it's current episode count and running time but it's also something that could have done with a being a few episodes longer as it's current form the episode really can't use it's running time all that wisely as none of the character get any form of character development whatsoever and both Ben and Polly who are characters that are meant to be replacing Dodo in the TARDIS and yet there not really being given all that much of a personality and Polly isn't given a reason as to why she should be allowed on the TARDIS in the first place where as Ben is and all of which are things that would be fixed if this story was say five or six episodes long as by giving this episode even just those extra two episodes it would mean that the characters and the plot as a whole could be come alot more fleshed out which is something that really would make the episode be whole lot better then what it currently is because as things stand those things really just aren't that well done in this episode because of the fact that this episode is as short as it is but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is ana action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presenetd 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. With this episode having two action scenes in the story with the first one being a small fight scene between Ben and random person a club and the second one being a huge scale action scene between members of an army unit and a war machine with that episode not only being the best action scene in the whole episode it's also one that's wrongly placed as it happend near the end of episode three when an action scene that's this good and this well done should have been placed in the fourth and final episode and it's also an action that's really well done as we get to see a small group of army people plus Ben try to take on one of WOTAN's war machines in a warehouse only for alot of them to be very easily defeated and heck it even has The Doctor standing up to one of these war machines which really is just such a cool thing to include in an action scene but because it was placed in the third episode it means that anything that comes after it is really just going to fail in comparison where as if it was placed in the fourth episode it would have been a really cool way to end the threat of the war machines as it's just a really well done action scene and something that really does work well within the context of the episode as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this might not be all that good an episode and it's certainly not all of that good a departure episode there is some good things to be found in this episode but you do have to sit through alot of the bad things to find them tho but when you do find them they do make this episode really worth watching 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  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 ad gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from 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 the official Doctor Who 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 you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.