Doctor Who: Earthshock Review

It's always tricky to handle to handle an episode when a Doctor Who companion leaves the show as you have to make there departure truly mean something. While the classic era of the show would have just as many companions die in there episode as they walk out of the TARDIS the more modern era has them leaving on really good terms with The Doctor alot of the time the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today tho doesn't do that and so then join me as I review the episode that sees a really old foe return and a friend leave with the episode in question being called simply just "Earthshock" enjoy.

The plot of this episode when The Doctor , Nyssa , Teagan and Adric arrive in a cave on Earth thousands of years into the future the foursome are drawn into a battle for it's very survival when the Cybermen try and destroy it. 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 really good. This episodes plot was truly something to behold as while the plot does drop the bit about all of the dead scientists quite early on as we never get to find out why they were in these caves to begin with the plot on the whole was something that you'd expect to see as the plot of a film and not the plot of a Classic Doctor Who. That's not a knock on Classic Doctor Who by any means it's just that when you think of plots from this era you don't usually think of movie quality plots rather you think of something that could be done cheaply and effectively which makes it all the more shocking that this episodes plot was as good as it was as by all rights this is a plot that should have been really bad as it does have alot of things going against and yet it all somehow works as despite the fact that the premise doesn't sound that good the actual plot itself did make it be alot more fun to watch granted it's not going to be on the same level as any of the early Dalek but it was never going to be and going in with that frame of mind this episodes plot does turn out to be alot of fun watch with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is Peter Davison as The Doctor , Matthew Waterhouse as Adric and Sarah Sutton as Nyssa. Also starring in this episode is Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka , James Warwick as Scott , Clare Clifford as Kyle , Steve Morley as Walters , Suzi Arden as Snyder , Ann Holloway as Mitchell , David Banks as The Cyber Leader , Mark Hardy as The Cyber Lieutenant , Beryl Reid as Briggs , June Bland as Berger and Alec Sabin as Ringway.

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. Look to be honest here the fact that we have some really good acting in this episode isn't really all that surprising as this is show is known for having alot of good acting in it's episodes with even the bad episodes having some good acting in them well the same thing is true for this episode as while the episodes director Peter Grimwade didn't know how to direct his actors ore often then not doing the line reading for them and yelling at the episodes more established actors when there is a good performance in this episode it is something that is all the more noticeable. With the best actor in this episode being Matthew Waterhouse as Adric as while his character wasn't best used in this season his performance in this episode was really good with him brining alot of playful energy to the role and at times showings frustration that The Doctor prefers Nyssa and Teagan over him and yet he still manage to make him a likeable person with his own natural charm really shining through in this episode. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors gave to do is just say he lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

This episode featured the grand return of the Cybermen with the characters not having appeared since nineteen seventy five's Revenge Of The Cybermen. That's a good seven years without having a Cybermen story or having the characters appear in a meaningful way yet here they are as the main villains in this episode and this is where the shows producer John Nathan-Turner deserves alot of credit as he insisted on keeping there reveal at the end of episode one a big secret with no one from the press being allowed to know that they are in the episode heck the only people when they were making the episode that knew they were going to be in the episode was those making the episode itself and that's it and yet if this episode was being made today it would be all over news websites and social media when a surprise like this is best left as exactly that a surprise. John Nathan-Turner does get alot of hate from Doctor Who fans and this is perhaps a bit unfair alot of the time as while yes he does make some bad choices later on in his tenure as producer of the show ore often then not he had outside forces at the BBC working against him and therefor had to do the best that he had with what little he had to work with and one of the things that he got right was bringing back the Cybermen as they are characters that are perfect for this story as the only thing that they really wanted in tis classic era of the show was to destroy the earth and that's it and with them getting a huge visual upgrade from they last looked it's no wonder that when people outside of Doctor Who fans think of the Cybermen it's these designs that they think of with the only design choice that doesn't quite work being the fact that you can see the human actor's mouth moving which they explain away as being a reminder of the fact that there human but it just doesn't look all that good.

The companion leaving this episode is Adric who to those of you that don't know joined The Doctor during his fourth incarnation after his home planet was sent into another dimension. Yet it's in this episode in which the character does inface die trying to save earth with The Doctor , Nyssa and Tegan being helpless as they are forced to watch on as the ship that they are on collides with earth during the Jurassic period with his death being handled beautifully as it's not something that is thrown in at the last possible second it's something that is built up not only threw the episodes third act but all through out the episode as the character does mention several times about his desire to noy only leave the TARDIS but be treated more seriously as a companion who intelligence wise is The Doctor's equal and yet alot of the time he was treated as a joke. Heck his death is actually beautifully done with his getting one last scene with both The Doctor and Tegan before they leave the ship at the Cyberman's behest with Adric being left to figure how to move the ship so that it doesn't hit earth and while his last words to The Doctor aren't all that tragic his last words to Tegan are as he says to her that he'll see her soon which is a beautifully sad thing to have the character say as looking back on it that one line does tug at your heartstrings as we the audience know full well what's going to happen to the character and the fact that we know from Tales Of The TARDIS that his death does still haunt Tegan to this very day but his actual last words "I'll never no if I was right" does kind of ruin it as while they do feel true to Adric as a character they don't really capture the true sadness of that scene.

This episode and this season does demonstrate the issues with having more then three people in the TARDIS at a time. As much like she is for the rest of the episodes prior to this one Nyssa is left stuck in the TARDIS for alot of the episode only this time there's not reason for her to be there other then to watch over the controls and that's it which is a role that Adric could have filled and it would have just as much sense and yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode decided that it had to be Nyssa that got to stay behind this is something that does prove that having more then three people in the TARDIS never works as one character always ends up being left behind and heck it's something that even the Chris Chibnall era of the show had to deal with. Nyssa really does get the short end of the stick in this episode as she gets next to nothing to do in the whole episode as while Adric gets to help beat the Cybermen and Tegan gets to be an action hero of sorts by shooting down some Cybermen with her own gun Nyssa just gets to stay in the TARDIS and do nothing until the episodes third act when a Cyberman sneaks up behind The Doctor and she shoots it and that's it which does seem like a waste of her character as she is meant to be this really smart character therefor the makers of this episode could have done more with her even if it's just keeping to the earth side of the story and not the Cybermen part of the story it still would have been better then doing nothing with her as then she would still get the chance to play a part in the episodes plot even if it is just a small one whereas here it feels like you could remove her character from the episode and nothing of note would change as everything would still play out the same way.

There is just something creepy about seeing your main villain pretty much invade the TARDIS as this is meant to be the one place where all of our heroes are safe and free from harm and yet the second you have a villain take a step inside the TARDIS all of that is gone. This is something that is pure genius as you do always want your characters to be in constant danger and what better to do that then to have the one place where they are meant to be safe be the very thing that is under attack with it never not being creepy when we see a villain on board the TARDIS as that basic idea just works and to be fair to this episode it is something that does feel organic to the episode ad The Cyber Leader is planning on using it to watch the earth get destroyed and then take himself to another fleet of Cybermen and rejoin with his own squadron. Heck it even plays apart of the episodes third act as we see a Cyberman come out from somewhere in the TARDIS to try and attack The Doctor , Nyssa and Tegan with The Doctor even using the Cybermen's own gun to try and take it down as this is how desperate that The Doctor has become as he's lost a friend and is grieving even tho he doesn't show it and therefor of course he's not going to be thinking like himself with Nyssa and Tegan also being heart broken as they loved Adric as well therefor they can't stop The Doctor from killing someone and in the case of Nyssa she did kill a Cybermen not long before that as it tried to sneak up on The Doctor and this is why having villains board the TARDIS will always be something that just works but it's something that should always be used if the story demands it and not because the makers of the episode want to see it happen as then it looses its value and is there just for the sake of it whereas here in this episode its something that is done in service to the episode.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty seven minuets and forty seven seconds. Which is a pretty solid running time for this episode to have as the episode is only four episodes long and while this episode did need to have more episodes as you very easily could have gotten this story up to at the very least five or six episodes there really isn't all that much there that could have been added to the plot that would have justified that running time other then having more scenes set on earth which granted would put more of a focus on the earth storyline but it also would have taken away some of the focus from the main storyline f the episode this is despite the fact that this episode really does have more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet despite this episode having a long running time it still doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the episode really doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot with this being where having those extra two episodes really could work to the episodes advantage as you could fully flesh out the plot alot more but yeah it would be hard to fully justify having those extra episodes tho with the makers of this episode putting more thought and effort into keeping Nyssa in the TARDIS then they did in giving the plot some plot development. This is also true for the episodes character development as while it could be argued that The Doctor does get some character as due to him loosing Adric he does start to become alot more human which is fair enough but none of the episodes other characters get any kind of character development with alot of them just being there to serve as bodies for the Cybermen this is especially true for Adric as even tho this is the episode where he leaves the show he doesn't get any kind of character development whatsoever with the makers of this episode putting more thought on the Cyberman then they did into giving the characters some much needed character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.  

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean 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 really good. As while there really isn't alot of action in this episode as is the case for alot of classic Doctor Who episodes when we do get some action near the end of the episode it is something that does work as the episode did spend alot of time in setting up these characters and making us get to like and know them alot more which is a small thing but it's something that does make this episodes action matter all the more as now we want to see the characters make it out of the episode OK and alive. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being when we see the Cybermen come out of there tubes and start attacking the ship killing everything and everyone on sight with them not only trying to but eventually reaching the ships bridge with even The Doctor and Adric only just being able to hold them off for a few moments as we they manage to freeze one of the Cybermen in a door before then getting caught of guard when they blow up the door just to the side of side of them with this action scene proving just how smart that the Cybermen are as they plan out two separate attacks just incase the other one doesn't go according to plan with The Doctor and his friends even being forced to think on there feet and think of a solution before they first enter the bridge which is something that they only just manage to do with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall it is easy to see why this episode is well liked as the death of Adric is a shocking death and the fact that they had the closing credits to the episode be played with the ending the music over his now broken badge only hit that home but it would be hard to call this a great episode at the same time 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 ate in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and ad well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally use din this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Tardis . Wiki. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Tardis . Wiki 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 really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Tardis . Wiki really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Justice League Unlimited: Initiation Review

While live action DC films and shows are very hit and miss there animated shows were nearly always hits. With them much like Marvel did in the nineties spawning there own animated around the same time as Marvel set up the Marvel Animated Universe with DC's being called the DC Animated Universe with the show that i'm going to talking to you all about today being an episode from the final entry into that universe and so then join me as I review the episode which sees the Justice League add a new member with the episode in question being called simply just "Initiation" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Green Arrow rejects another big to join the Justice League who are expanding taking in heroes from all over the world he , Green Lantern , Supergirl and Captain Atom are sent Asia where they must stop a nuclear-powered robot rampaging through the countryside. 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 really good. This episodes plot to be fair was a fun plot as it showed us the Justice League from the point of view of a small time hero who just wants to look after the everyman with Green Arrow refusing to join them because while the other heroes are perfectly happy with fighting monsters in space he's more concerned with looking after the little people. However the episodes plot doesn't really follow up on that and instead drops that aspect of the episode when that is something that would have made the episode alot more interesting to watch but they instead drop that to focus on this robot ramping through Asia which in all fairness is a pretty epic way to start of this show but plot wise it's not that interesting as there's no conflict there but seeing Green Arrow having to struggle between doing what's right for the little guy for the time being and doing what's right for the little guy in the bigger picture would have made for a more interesting plot but to be fair this episodes plot was about as good as it was ever likely to be with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Phil LaMarr as John Stewart / Green Lantern. Also starring in this episode is Carl Lumbly as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter , George Newbern as Clark Kent / Superman , Kin Shriner as Ollie Queen / Green Arrow , Nicholle Tom as Kara Kent / Supergirl , George Eads as Nathaniel Adams / Captain Atom and Robber 2 , James Sie as General Kwan and The Scientist and Lex Lang as Robber 1 and A Soldier.

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. The fact that thus episode does have some really good acting in it is something that is not all that surprising as alot of this episodes actors are reprising their roles from various other DC animated shows and therefor would have a really good handle on how best to perform there character and those that aren't are still really good in there own right with them more then holding there own when it comes to acting with the more established stars. With the best actor in this episode being Kin Shriner as Ollie Queen / Green Arrow as while Kevin Conroy is still really good in this episode his role in the episode is basically just a cameo role and therefor he doesn't get a chance to show us what he can do as an actor whereas with Kin due to the fact that Ollie is the episodes main character he does get the chance to show us what he could do as an actor with him being able to pull of the more sarcastic and funny side of the character and the more dramatic and action side of the character and yet still make it feel like it's the same person with his own natural charisma really coming through in this episode. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the really greats that are currently over at DR Movie. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation 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 animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. To be frank this episode animation was alot more better then what I thought that it would be as while DC is known for hitting out of the park with there animated projects they are using what was at the time an untried animation studio and superhero shows at that point in time didn't typically have good animation in them. Yet you can tell right from frame one that this not only this episode but this show as a whole has had some serious money put into it as it looks stunning with there being alot of details in the backgrounds and on the characters faces that help to make this episode feel more real and less cheap looking with even the scenes in the Asian countryside where most of the episode does take place looking really good and having colors that pop this is the type of animation that you get when you have people that care truly about what it is that there turning in and aren't just working on it to earn some fast money and it is something that does show unlike with the 1996 The Incredible Hulk cartoon where you could tell right away that the people working on that show didn't care enough to go that extra mile here tho you do see them go that extra mile by even giving background characters these really fluid movements which was something that the makers of this episode really didn't have to do and yet they did it anyway and it's that level of care that does help to make this episodes animation be really good. 

If Green Arrow is the main character of the episode then surely Kara has to be the second lead as she is the one that not only ends the episode but much like with Green Arrow is going on her first mission. Which was quite fun to see as we get to see her act like a kid her age might very well act as she does get excited not only when she is first told that she is going on the mission in the first place but also when they are in the jet waiting to depart and it's something that does make her character alot of fun to watch as she is still after all a kid albeit one that not only has superpowers but is also Superman's cousin and while the episode does explore the fact that this version of the character is quite angry and hot headed it also takes the time to show her acting as a referee when Captain Atom and Green Arrow start arguing and it's she that tells Green Lantern when Ollie has left the ship these are things that do make her out to be a really caring person at heart. This is also true for Ollie as the only reason why he didn't want to join the league in the first place is due to the fact that to him they don't care abut the little guy anymore and instead care more about fighting battles in space and while of course we the audience know that that's not true it is nice seeing Ollie openly call that out as alot of the heroes in league do have there own cities to protect and yet all of them are here in space waiting to go on a mission which is something that does prove his point as those heroes be there Superman or Batman or whoever could very easily go back to earth and only come up when there needed and yet alot of them openly choose to stay there and yet Ollie is painted as the one being in the wrong which in all fairness he kind of is but he's also in the right.

What was odd is that they never explain why the Asian country is hiding the fact that they built this giant robot. Which is something that they very easily could have done as the country does also hate all foreigners so why not say that the robot was built to keep foreigners out of the country and if called upon could be used to attack those that it deems to be a threat to its home country like for example the American army this would go someway into explaining why General Kwan didn't want the help of the Justice League and was trying to keep the robot a secret from even them by saying that the situation was undercontrol when it clearly wasn't its the small things in this episode that make these bigger moments all the more impactful which is why it's weird that the makers of this episode would leave out that small bit of information as without the country just comes across as hating people really for the sake of hating them. Something that does work for Green Arrow as it does play into Ollie's nature of being a bit of a playboy is the fact that the only reason that he's joining the league in the first place is the fact that he sees an attractive female suiting up which is something that not only feels true to his character but it does also serve as a good way to end the episode as it is this lighthearted moment but what kind of spoils it tho is the fact that Batman is there fully supporting the idea of Ollie joining just because he sees a pretty female as this doesn't feel true to how Batman or Bruce Wayne are as characters as Bruce was only playboy to act as a cover up for him being Batman as deep down he's a one woman man and heck he would want Ollie to join the league for the right reasons and not just because he sees someone he likes there is however a chance that Batman told Black Canary to get dressed there as a way to get Ollie to join the league tho as that is something that Batman would do.

The giant robot in this episode is the episodes main villain as it does go about attacking all of these people for literally no reason whatsoever. While the villain not really having an end goal in mind would be seen as being a bad thing given the fac that the villain is a man made robot and has pretty much only just come to life seeing everything as a threat it does make sense that it wouldn't have a plan as it wasn't created to become alive it was created to do this one job and that's it and yet when the robot does come alive and does start attacking everyone it does become to much for them to handle with even the members that the Justice League send to help having a tough time with it as they all either get beaten really badly by it or its radioactive heat proves to be to much for them to handle. To be frank here this robot is the perfect villain for these members of the league to have as it is something that does require all three of them to even get close to let alone hurt and kill which is something that does force our heroes to be better heroes and while this villain wouldn't be a match for Superman as he'd know to get it off the planet and to stick it with the rods himself for Kara it is a challenge as she's still a new hero and therefor she wouldn't know how best to defeat it let alone the fact that she's be able to stick it with the rods herself but in all fairness her not knowing that is something that does create some good drama as for all she knows the only one that could defeat this creature is Captain Atom and he gets beaten easily and while it would have made more sense for the makers of this episode to have Kara beat the monster having it be Ollie to do it does also make sense as the rods are drawn to look like arrows.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and forty five seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for alot of animated shows like this one to have especially back in the mid to late two thousands and while this episode doesn't have to set up all that much due to it taking place in the same world as both Batman and Superman and the fact it is a direct sequel to Justice League it still does have to set up the main plot of the episode and who Ollie is as a character and why he didn't want to join the league in the first place and it wouldn't be able to do all of that and still tell a good plot with this episode having more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. With this episode not really using its running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't really take the time to fully develop its plot as the main plot of the episode that being the attack on the Asian country doesn't really get brought up until deep into the episodes first act and even then the episode doesn't really add much to the plot which does make the plot feel like an afterthought with the makers of this episode putting more thought and effort into telling us why Ollie didn't want to join the league in the first place then they did in giving this episodes plot some much needed plot development. This is something that is also true for the episodes character development as while you could make the case for all of the episodes either getting there development in future episodes or got it in past episodes there still did need to be some form of character development here in this episode and with this episode focusing on Ollie learning the league does care about the little guy it would have made sense as that after this mission he views the league differently and yet he doesn't as he didn't change as a character with the makers of this episode putting alot more thought and effort into making sure that we like Supergirl and then they did into giving the episodes characters some character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have same 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 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. Look no matter the show or movie it will always be cool as heck seeing one or more heroes using there powers to take down a common foe and it's the same thing here as we do get to see Green Arrow , Green Lantern , Supergirl and Captain Atom all use there powers and it just so cool to see with it even making this episodes alot more exciting as we are seeing the heroes do the things that that are known for. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the scene where Green Arrow , Supergirl and Captain Atom attack the robot head on as the characters have to get these rods into the robots centre chest but given that the robot is nuclear the only one that the team things could do it is Captain Atom with him giving it his all but the monster uses its gun and ribs a hole and his suit causing Captain Atom to be severely wounded which angers Kara who then proceeds to try and hit it only for the robot to wipe the floor with her Olly tho sees that the rods look like his arrows and decides to fire them at him which for a while doesn't work that is until Ollie get the high ground on the monster finally hitting it in it's centre plate switching it off with Kara then coming back in to to knock it's head off. That is such a good action scene as it shows what it is that these three heroes do best as well as showing how all three of them have different approaches to the same problem with Captain Atom doing things by the book , Kara preferring to beat it up until it doesn't move and Ollie looking to think of an alternative method which given the fact that the villain is driven by nuclear power was the right option to go with with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this was such a fun episode with it being easy to see why alot of people not only like this show was when it was first airing but still do like to it to this very day with the episode itself doing a good job of setting up Ollie as a character and just being a good episode to watch in general in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies ad gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

The Incredible Hulk 1996 "Raw Power" Review

Much like how DC sill does dominate with there animated shows and direct to DVD movies in the early to mid nineties Marvel was giving them a pretty good run for there money. With X-Men and Spider-Man being pretty good shows yet there are are a few shows that Marvel did around that time that alot of people seem to have forgotten about with one of those shows being the 1996 version of The Incredible Hulk and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Hulk gain , loose and then gain another friend again with the episode in question being called simply just "Raw Power" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when The Hulk is spotted in a nearby town General Ross has to team up with SHIELD to take hm down and Bruce Banner finds a friend who tries to help him get rid of The Hulk 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 good. Look to be honest here the main reason as to why this episodes plot isn't as good as it could have been is due t the fact that the episode does seem to light on plot with not alot actually happening for a good portion of the episode. The episode doesn't seem to be all that focused on plot as the episode does pick up and drop of its plot alot which for a film is pretty understandable but for a TV show episode is not something that you can afford to do with it getting so bad that at times it was hard to work out just what the plot of this episode was even meant to be in the first place however tho in saying this the general idea of someone befriending The Hulk first and not Bruce Banner was a good idea as does give the episode the chance to hit home the fact that The Hulk and Bruce Banner are two completely different people but the episode and it's plot doesn't fully explore that and like alot of things in this episode it does get dropped for literally no reason when that is the most interesting part of the episodes plot as a whole with the plot of this episode also not really being really rather entertaining and nor it is really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk , Neal McDonough as Dr. Bruce Banner and Genie Francis as Betty Ross. Also starring in this episode is Luke Perry as Rick Jones , John Vernon as General Ross , Thom Barry as Gabriel Jones , Shadoe Stevens as Doc Samson , Michael Bell as Mitch McCutcheon / Zzzax , Leeza Miller McGee as A Co-worker / Zzzax and Kevin Schon as Major Talbot / Zzzax.

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 pretty good. Unlike this episodes plot this episodes acting was actually pretty decent as all of the episodes actors are doing there best to turn in a good performance and while yes this is only the third episode of the show and therefore of course the acting won't be as good as it is in later episodes the fact that it is still pretty decent in the first place is still a good thing as given the episodes plot the acting could have been pretty bad very easily with his natural charm really shining through in this episode. With the best actor in this episode being quite hard to say as none of the episodes actors really stood out in this episode but at a push it would have be Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk as not only is he reprising the role that he helped to make famous in the seventies live action show but the Hulk oddly plays a bigger role then Bruce Banner does while this is something that very easily could have exposed Lou's lack of good acting the fact that the character only spoke very few lines in this episode helped to make Lou come across as being all the more better as an actor with the few lies that that he does say appealing to the characters childlike sense of wonder and nature. With the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes script really is really bad as it gives none of this episodes actors anything 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 harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Saerom Animation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation 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 animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty pretty good. This episodes animation whilst it is still really good it's more on the same level as the episodes plot as you don't get the sense of there being alot thought and effort being put into the episodes animation as all of the episode is set at night and is mainly set in a baron desert with very limited buildings. This might not seem like much but it does then mean that the episode can't be as highly detailed with its animation and whilst this is fair enough as the show would need to spread its animation budget across an entire thirteen episode first season there does however still need to be some amount of effort put into making the episodes animation look good with even the inside of the building looking baron and deserted so such so that you wouldn't be able to tell just what type of building they are in as the animation doesn't give you any clues but on the plus side tho all of the characters do have very distinctive designs about them that do help to make them truly stand out from one another and the characters do have some really good movements that are fluid as they could be given the fact that this is a TV show but there's no getting away from the fact that the animation does look and feel cheap when this is something that really shouldn't be the case or this obvious for that matter.

Just to be honest both Betty and Doc Samson do next to nothing in this episode with Betty's role in the episode being to convince The Hulk to go after Zzzax and that's it. Which given just how close she is to The Hulk does feel like a waste of her character and while you really couldn't have her d all that much given the plot of this episode she could have done something more even if it's just trying to convince both SHIELD and her father not attack Bruce which yes granted isn't that much but it's still better then her convincing he Hulk to do the thing that he was going to do in the first place as that's just stupid and it makes it feel like the that the makers of this episode really had no idea o what to do with her character and therefor they just gave her the bare minimum to do in the episode. Yet she gets the goldstar treatment as both Doc Samson and Gabriel Jones just straight up disappear after The Hulk attacks the armies helicopters with there not even being a reference to either character being made in the rest of the episode this is despite the fact that both characters were set up to be major characters in the episodes plot and yet they just get dropped this goes back to what was being said about the episodes plot as much like the plot of the episode these characters get dropped which is something that would be OK if the episode didn't set them up to major characters heck with Doc Samson they literally have him trying to talk to General Ross about a device he's working on and they never bring it up in the episode granted they could pay that off in a later episode but if that is the case then why drop his character in this episode and with Gabriel Jones they set up that SHIELD is now helping General Ross take down The Hulk and yet when The Hulk defeats SHIELD we never see Ross chew him out for it which his inclusion in the episode seem pointless.

If this episode is anything to go by then it's easy to see this show isn't talked about all that much as this episode doesn't really have alot of things going for it. With it feeling like that it was added to the episode just to fill out a season order and not because of the fact that the makers of this show had anything to say as the episode does feel like a cheaply made episode that was rushed into production as there's nothing really to this episode it's just there and while pretty much all kids nineties animated shows where very episodic in nature here it feels like that was being used as an excuse and not as an advantage as that is something that could have been used to tell a really dark story and yet it was instead used just to tell a bland story that doesn't really have alot of things that are truly going for it which does hold the episode back quite alot. Heck the nineties Iron Man show wasn't that good either but it was at the very least memorable you will remember somethings about that show after watching here less then thirty minuets after watching the episode I had forgotten the vast majority of it as that's how little of an impact it leaves you on and yet if the makers of this episode truly cared about making the episode be as fun as it could be then they would have gone the extra mile to but more effort and focus on the things that work like the relationship between Bruce and Mitch as seeing them as friends is a good idea and put less effort into just being bland and boring as on paper this episode could have worked as it had all of the ingredients there for for it to work but no one involved with the making of the episode from a writer or director standpoint cared enough to make it work in the first place.

Zzzax the episodes main villain is a pretty good idea for a main villain and yet for one reason or another this is the only episode in which the character appears. As while they do have Mitch get cured at the end of the episode it would have been great to see him come back as you very easily could have said that Zzzax was just laying in wait and just waiting for the perfect time to come back and then explain that like The Hulk there's no true way to get rid of him as he is someone that does challenge The Hulk as he can't hit him as he's pure electricity and therefor The Hulk does have to find a unique way to beat him or even do some damage to him which is something that he doesn't have to do for alot of his foes and yet with Zzzax he does and that is something that will challenge him and really make him grow as a hero. The characters plan whilst it is simple given the fact that he is only introduced in the final few minuets of the episode however this is something that is understandable as the characters plan is just to get some electricity for a local power station to keep his current form and that's really it which is a simple plan and if the character was introduced alot more earlier in the episode and not later then it is something that would have held the character back but given the fact that he was introduced just when the story was good as well wrapping up it does in its own way make sense that he would have this small scale plan that is simple but in saying this tho as this is only the third episode of the show his plan should have been alot more bigger and epic just to make it look like he's a big threat to this character as by having his plan be this small scale it doesn't make him out to be that much of a threat it just makes him out to be a badly done villain and that's it.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and fifty four seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the bogstanderd running time not only for this show but for alot of other animated shows from around that same time period but in saying this tho this is an episode that really didn't need to be as long as it is as you very easily could have told this episodes plot in about five minuets and have it be apart of a much more larger plot for a better and yet it wasn't and it really should have been as that is something that would have fixed alot of the issues with the episode right away as then it would be seen as being nothing more then a small part of a bigger episode with this episode not really having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. This episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode really doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as the episode just moves from plot beat to plot beat so fast that it doesn't take the time to ear those plot points rather it just expects us to be along for the ride and while a more established show like X-Men: The Animated Series for example could do that this show that at this point in time was only three episode into it's first season really couldn't do that with the makers of this episode putting more thought and effort into having Betty be apart of the episode for no good reason then they did into giving this episode some much needed plot development. This is also true for the episodes character development altho here you do have the excuse of the main characters could also get there development in future episodes which is understandable as this is a TV show afterall but it still would have been nice if we got to the see groundwork being layed for that development with the makers of this episode being more focused on rushing to plot points then they were in giving its characters some form of character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean 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 really good. The episodes action was to be frank here the best part of the episode as it will always be fun seeing Hulk smash things and just go nuts on things that are trying to do him and it does make sense that the episode would focus alot of it's action on exactly that as that is what we've come to this show to see with the episodes animation really shining through and making the action leap of the screen. With the best action scene in the whole episode being the fight between Hulk and Zzzax as we first see Banner struggle to maintain control and not let the stress of having to fight his friend Mitch but when that does get to be to much we see him Hulk out with the fight at fist taking place inside of a laboratory before ten making it's way to the outside with Zzzax starting to get some power with Hulk only just finding away to hold him down by throwing a fence at him and while of course General Ross does interrupt the fight and try and kill Hulk after a brief chat with Betty Hulk then fights Zzzax at a damn only just managing to beat him by throwing them both into the water below, that fight whilst it's not that good of a fight interms of hero battles it is still alot of fun to watch as we get to see Hulk try and and work out how to even hit Zzzax without hurting his friend with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall there really isn't all that much to this episode as it does feel like an episode that was just there with the episode getting alot of things wrong which do make the episode feel like a chore to watch however tho the things that it does get right do more then make for it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then ad 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 Amazon . Co . Uk , the official Marvel Animated Universe 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 post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Visionquest TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review

Marvel Studios very rarely if ever get a live action TV show right with Daredevil: Born Again one of the few examples of them doing a good live action TV series. Well now we have another one to add to that list with this one closing out a quadrilogy that started out with Wandavision and carried on through Doctor Strange And The Multiverse of Madness and Agatha All Along and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review the show that might set up something for Avengers: Doomsday with the show in question being called simply just "Visionquest" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when someone starts hunting down Vision he must team up with a London outcast and Ultron to find out who is doing it and why. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. To be honest here this shews plot is really good and is alot more better then what it really should have been as the show does take full advantage of the fact that it's a TV show and not a movie with this plot being one that really works best as the plot of a TV show. Whilst yes there could improvements made to the shows plot just in things like catching up with characters and not giving Vision and Ultron kind of dull character arcs where we know the outcome this is a plot that is still ten times better then the plot of Agatha All Along with it being clear as day that there is alot of thought and effort being put into this shows plot and it is something that you do see not only in the final episode but in all of the episodes as the show will set up something minor at the start of an episode and then will bring it back in to play in a major way later on in the show and it is something that does work for this show, with the shows plot being something that on paper shouldn't work as Vision himself is a character that you don't really picture leading a solo TV series and yet it is something that does work with the show full on embracing the fact that it's main characters are AI and having fun with that with this shows 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 show is this shows executive producer Paul Bettany as Vision and James Spader as Ultron. Also starring in this show is Ruaridh Mollica as Tommy Maximoff , Todd Stashwick as Paul Denning / Paladin , T'Nia Miller as Jocasta / Jo Carrington , Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y. , Henry Lewis as Dum-E , Jonathan Sayer as U , Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H. , Lauren Morais as Lisa Molinari and Michael Akinsulire as Ashford.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. The fact that we have some really good acting in not only this final episode of the show but in the show as a whole is something that was kind of shocking as while yes this show does have some some really good and at times funny actors it heck heck we have two of the creators of The Goes Wrong Show playing minor characters and yet everyone in this show gives some truly wonderful performances. With the best actor by far in this whole entire show and episode quite easily being Paul Bettany as Vision as to be honest here he really does kill it every single chance that he gets with a good example of this being in the previous episode where he gives this powerful speech to another AI and my god did he act his socks of during that scene as he made you feel every single emotion that you was meant to feel and it's something that does remind you that you can have good acting in comic book shows as alot of people to tend to think that you can just phone in your performance in these types of shows and films as there not high art and aren't going to be seen that many people and yet here we have an actor that gives you a great performance in every single episode of the show so much so that he should at very least be nominated for his acting in this show with his own natural charm really coming through in this show and episode. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

It's unknown who did the CGI effects for either this show or this episode as there no effects companies listen anywhere online. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. Again much like with the shows acting this shows CGI didn't have to be that good as both the show and the episode would have done just fine if the effects where sub-par and yet it's the fact that the makers of this show did go the extra mile to give us some really good looking effects that do help the show stand out a little bit more. Whilst yes this show and episodes effects aren't on the same level as something you'd see in the movies but that was always going to be the case as this show would have had to have had to spread it's effects budget across several episodes and therefor there will be episodes in this show where the effects aren't that good and yet the show still did manage to turn out some really decent effects with the only sort of bad looking effect is Ultron himself how does a little bit unfinished alot of alot of the time this might have been due to the fact that the effects team might not have had the time to finish working on him but given the fact that he's a main character then there should have been more time to getting his finished effect looking as good as as it did in Age Of Ultron but do be fair he doesn't appear in robot form all that often with the overall majority of the shows effects being really good almost to the point where you couldn't really tell what was done for real and what was done inside of a computer.

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

As with alot of the Marvel TV shows not only where there cameos in the final episode but also two credits scenes. As we have Joe Locke back as Billy Maximoff and in the second credits scene we have both Elizabeth Olsen back as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch and Robert Downey Jr. as Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom weather or not Robert was actually physically playing him or just doing the voice is hard to say but the fact that they are in the episode in this end credits scene is a big deal as we see Doom resurrect Wanda from the mountain top where she sacrificed herself at the end of the second Doctor Strange movie with this being something that might set up her appearing in either Avengers: Doomsday or quite possibly Avengers: Secret Wars with now seemingly willingly helping out Doctor Doom. With Billy tho he appears in a minor role in the episode as Tommy gets the idea to see him by drowning himself thus forcing a connection between the two of them with the two of them having a conversation before Tommy is pulled back to the real world by Lisa but it doesn't stop there for Billy as he does come back later on in the episode to help Tommy resurrect Vision with all three of them being reunited in a pretty sweet scene with it being nice to see alot of the family being back together with this meaning that you don't really have to have seen Agatha All Along as Billy does explain where he is in this episode and what he's been up to but it is nice to see that two of the three shows telling this story focused on one of the Maximoff kids it will be even nicer tho to see them all back together as a family as that is the only thing that will bring this whole saga for lack of a better word to a close and given then fact that both Paul and Elizabeth could be in the next Avengers movie it does make sense that Vision would mention to her that there kids are safe in this world.

What was kind of a bad thing for the show was the fact that they reveal that the client who first hired Paladin was someone that we've never seen or heard of called Virgil Horton whom is also played by James Spader. The reveal of this character is just so bad as he's someone that we never really find anything out about nor even know that he exists period until the episode where he's revealed with him being the base model for Ultron and yet a reveal that's this key to the show is something that could have been done alot more better like maybe they have him appear in silent flashbacks with Jo Carrington which would make sense as they are meant to be husband and wife rather then just having him appear in the ending moments of the second to last episode. This is made worse by the fact that his debut is treated as this big shocking thing by the show and it just doesn't work as the show prior to that never mentions or even shows us him with the character character only appearing in silhouetted form prior to that when it is something that should have been better handled but on the plus side while he does have a typical plan as he just wants to kill every single human by using these tiny nanobots to kill us from the inside out which yes is a stereotypical plan for a villain to have given the fact that he's not meant to be that good of a villain in the first place with even the show treating him as an afterthought you can kind of forgive him for having this kind of a dull plan and heck the constant switch between who the main villain is meant to be was more good as they all had good plans about from Virgil with Paladin just wanting to kill Vision because he was being paid to do it and Jocasta doing it because she wants to use the nanobots to control humans and make them like puppets on a string all of which are better plans that Virgil's main plan of killing us all for literally no reason whatsoever. 

The main theme of this show is oddly enough fatherhood and what it means to not only be a father but also be a parent. As all of the AI's in some weird way are all the children of Tony Stark , with Ultron is the father of Vision and Vision has to learn to be a dad for Tommy this was kind of an interesting theme for a Marvel show to tackle and to be fair it's not one that they've done before and yet here with the characters of Vision and Ultron it does make sense as as we see in Age Of Ultron that Ultron did make Vision thus technically being his father and while in the show Ultron is more then happy to step into that role in his dark way Vision isn't willing to accept him as his father as it's something that the old him might not have done. This is also something that fully stops him from forming a bond with Tommy with it only being at the end of episode seven when Vision does fully except Tommy as his son as he accepts the fact that this new version of him ad the old version are one in the same which granted is something that you do see coming but it is also something that does tie into the main theme of the show and heck it's not until the final episode when Vision finally excepts Ultron as his dad something which he has been hesitant to do up until them. This is a theme that does work perfectly for a show as there can be more time dedicated to it whereas with a movie it would need to be stopped every few minuets to fit in a long action scene with it also being something that does make sense as the Vision was saw in Wandavision never really spent much time with Billy and Tommy before Wanda removed The Hex and to be fair the scenes with him and Tommy bonding all throughout the show are perhaps some of the best scenes in the show itself as it's not just two people trying to connect it's a father trying to forge a relationship with his son.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and nine minuets and twenty one seconds. Which to be fair was a pretty long running time for this episode to have but also given how much plot it had to wrap up not just from Wandavision but also Agatha All Along and possibly set up something for the next Avengers movie it does kind of make sense that this episode would be the longest episode of the show but in saying this tho all of the episodes had running times ranging from thirty five minuets to fifty nine minuets with all of those episodes putting the plot first and the set up for other things and pay off from other shows second with this episode episode having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot which granted is something that you could argue is because alot of the plot development was done in the other episodes but given the fact that this is the episode where we get alot of scenes with Virgil and it's the last episode of the of the show that then that does speak wonder to the episodes plot development with the makers of this episode being more focused on giving us a pretty funny scene with Tommy using his super speed then they were in giving the episode some much needed plot development. The same thing is also true for the episodes character development which again could be argued is due to the fact that alot of them got there development in the previous episodes which is something that would be fair enough where it not for the fact that outside of a few of the AI's none of the other AI characters get any character development and heck the same thing is also true for Lisa and to a lesser extent Tommy with it rightfully being both Vision and Ultron getting alot of the character development with the makers of this episode being more focused on giving us some pretty good cameos then they were in giving its characters character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean 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 really good. With the action in the show as a whole being really good as you can tell right from the first episode that there is alot of care going into this shows action and it's something that is thankfully being the case for alot of the live action Marvel shows as while they can't top what the movies are doing effects wise they can still match what there doing with the action and this is something that does make the episode in not only this show but this episode alot of fun to watch as you do get to see just how strong this new Vision is. Wit the best action in this episode being when Visio and Jocasta and later Ultron fighting Virgil in his family home with Virgil getting the upper hand after he fatally shoots and kills Jocasta with this being something that sets Ultron off an reaffirms his belief that all humans are bad as he then sets about killing all the human race with it only being Vision who can stop him not by punching or kicking him but by talking to him and helping his father through his own grieve and who better to do that then someone like Vision who did loose Wanda with that whole sequence of them talking and having a battle of the minds being something that does help to set this episodes action apart from anything else seen in the show thus far with the rest of the shows action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overall this show is so good even if your not the biggest Marvel fan and just want to see what the fuss is all about this is a show that I could easily recommend as it does give you all of the things that you expect from the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the show itself being really good and fun to watch 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 episode really does earnt itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 and the show as a whole 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 IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.