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.

The Muppet Show "Johnny Cash" Review

The Muppet Show is the one show that The Muppets are perhaps most well known for so much so that just this year Disney+ did a Muppet Show special that gave rave reviews from both fans and critics alike. Therefore I thought that i'd take a look back at a classic episode of the show as let's be real here sometimes we all just need to watch an episode of this show for no good reason and so then join me as I review the episode that sees the guest star perform a song with someone other then his late wife with the episode in question being called simply just "Johnny Cash" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Kermit allows a country radio station to broadcast from The Muppet Theatre Kermit has to deal with the host of the show who is a bully. 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. The episodes plot was alot more tighter then what it usually is for an episode of this show as nine times out of ten an episodes plot is usually nothing more then an excuse for jokes to happen and whilst this is still very much the case in this episode here it does feel like that the episodes plot is trying to be alot more focused. This is not to say that the episodes plot doesn't have room for moments that are just meant for jokes as alot of the stuff with Fozzy is exactly that but it's rather that the plot this time around is alot more focused with the episode being alot more plot driven then it is joke driven which was both kind of refreshing and yet at the same time it's not what you come to an episode of this show to see as you come to see this show to see some really good good jokes that are set up in smart ways but at the same time it was quite refreshing to see this more plot driven episode as it does show you that these characters can still work in a more plot driven project something which we would later find out to be exactly the case with The Muppet Movie with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Jim Henson as Kermit The Frog , Rowlf , Waldorf and Wally Whoopie and Frank Oz as Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy. Also starring in this episode is Jerry Nelson as Pops , Big Tiny Tall Saddle , Lew Zealand , Slim Wilson and A Bearded Man , Richard Hunt as Scooter and Statler , Dave Goelz as Gonzo , A Singer , A Hillbilly and Beauregard , Steve Whitmire as Billy Boy and A Singer , Kathy Mullen as A Singer , Louise Gold as A Singer and Johnny Cash as Himself.

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 episodes acting was to be frank just as good as you'd expect it to be as alot of this episodes really do know there characters inside and out due to the fact that alot of them have been paying there respective characters since the sixties and in the case of Jim Henson had also created the characters with Johnny Cash doing a really good job of playing himself in this episode something which couldn't have been easy due to the fact that the he's not an actor he's a singer and yet here he is not only being asked to act but also doing a good job of it. With the best actor in this episode being Jim Henson as Kermit The Frog , Rowlf , Waldorf and Wally Whoopie due to the fact that he does get to play out alot of characters in this episode with even Kermit being a main character in the episode with Jim doing a good enough job of highlighting just how frustrated that Kermit is getting the further the episode goes along and heck even Rowlf gets angry in the episode and you do buy into due to how good Jim Henson was an actor. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes scr5ipt 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.

As was mentioned at the very start of this review the guest in this episode of The Muppet Show is Johnny Cash. With him to be frank not really making for the best guest as he doesn't join in with any of The Muppets chaos rather he just does his own thing which is something that does make it look like he was only doing the show just to either promote something or to make any little kids in his family happy and that's it whereas it would have been more fun to see him take part in the chaos that these characters do bring whereas if you compare it to the John Cleese episode he went all in even helping to write the episode and it is something that does come through in the final product as John Cleese does look like he was happy to be there. Where as with Johnny Cash his smile looks forced and rehearsed and while he is a good singer as that is afterall his job it felt like that the episode was relying on that a bit to much when it would have been nice if we got to see Johnny do something that we didn't know that he could do as that would have made his appearance in the episode alot more fun to watch, with the only thing that stands out about him in this episode is the fact that he gets to perform the song "Jackson" without his wife June Carter something which he never really did as he always performed that song with her and when she died he good as well retired from the performing the song all together which does make him performing the song here with Miss Piggy stand out all the more with Miss Piggy even sounding really good in the song altho you can tell that while Johnny is clearly performing life Miss Piggy clearly isn't as it does sound like her part of the song was recorded before hand and was played in during the filming of this episode.

The whole idea of a country and western radio show broadcasting this episode was actually a really good idea. With it being something that this episode really does lean into by having certain characters where country and western clothes and have one main set for all of the acts look like a barn on a farm but in saying this tho it is the only set that we get for all of the acts in the episode when it would have been more fun if we did get to see more country inspired sets even if they are generic like maybe we get a western set or maybe we get a farmyard set yes these are generic sets but it's better then just having the one main set as while yes that set does look really good it is a bit boring to just look at the same set for act after act. What really would have made this whole concept of having a radio host muscle Kermit out of hosting the show his way be alot more better was if they leaned into the country aspect with the Big Tiny Tall Saddle character as while we do get to find out that he has a horse that he has to pump up it would have been fun to see them lean in all the way with the fact that his character is meant to be a cowboy and yet we don't get to see any of that rather we just get to see him be this tough as old boots bully type of character which don't get me wrong is still fun to see but it adds nothing to the episodes idea and rather feels out of place in the episode whereas if the makers of this episode did something like have him challenge Kermit to a dual when Kermit stands up for Fozzy or have him perform this over the the top country song only to be cut off by Johnny Cash just something that played into the episodes idea of having this radio station be broadcasting the episode live rather then just having him show up a few times in the episode.

Look to be frank whilst this episode does have alot of things going against it does also have some things working for it. With the idea of Kermit being forced to not host his own show while someone else muscles his way being one of them as that is something that we haven't seen Kermit and while the episode doesn't fully explore that idea all that much it explores it enough to the point where we do know what's going on and where we do know how Kermit is going to react and seeing getting pushed to that point is something that does make the episode be all the more entertaining but it is something that oddly makes you feel sorry for Rowlf as while Fozzy was essentially getting heckled by someone that he is meant to be sharing the stage with it was no worse then what Statler and Waldorf do to him on a weekly basis whereas Rowlf had his act cut from the show and Kermit was nowhere to be found when that happened. One of the other things that the episode does gave going for it is the fact that we do get to hear some pretty decent songs all of which are sung by Johnny Cash and all of them are some really good songs with even one of them being a song about a dog that kills chickens which is made funnier by the fact that we have Rowlf not only performing the piano during that number but also getting offended by it which is a smart thing to have in the episode with it being a good way to showcase Johnny's talent as a singer as we do get to hear that famous voice of his and yet we also get to see that he was quiet the entertainer not only in that part of the episode where he was cracking jokes with pops all of which does on paper make him seem like a good fit for this show but due to the fact that he doesn't get to do much outside of alot of singing he does feel like a third wheel to everything else in the episode. 

The episodes main villain if you will Big Tiny Tall Saddle did make for a decent enough villain for this show to have. As he does bully Kermit throughout the entire episode changing the acts that Kermit has booked for the shows for the ones that he prefers but in saying this this isn't something that makes him an outright villain as the character is just trying to do what Kermit is trying to do and that's put on the best show possible and while yes how he and Kermit go about doing that with Big Tiny using fear and intimidation and Kermit using loving and kindness it doesn't change the fact that that they are one in the same as it where as they both want the same thing with the only difference being that Big Tiny is abusive towards Kermit's friends. Big Tiny is someone who could have made for a great minor villain in one of the muppet movies like maybe he's working with Doc Hopper in the first movie or with Tex Richman in the 2011 movie which is something that might have been well within his character to do so as Doc Hopper is doing everything that he can do to get rid of Kermit which is something that Big Tiny tries to do and Tex Richman is just a greedy oil baron which is something that might have worked with Big Tiny and if it did then it would have allowed for Tex to have more of a country villains song and not a rap number but in saying this tho there is only so much that you could have done with Big Tiny as a villain and as a character and therefor maybe it is for the best that the character only appeared in this episode despite the fact that he does have a really good look to him with him looking like the stereotypical cowboy complete with sideburns.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty six minuets and forty one seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show and to be fair this is something that does work for this episode as the episode does have alot of plot to cover when compared to the rest of the series which mainly has alot of acts to cover and very little plot and therefor this episode does work it's best within it's running time and to do this episode even just five minuets shorter would do a huge disservice to the episode as it would mean that something would end up falling threw the cracks be it a good joke that could have been great or a character or plot moment with the episode having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet in saying this tho this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as this episode really doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot with the episode not really being all that focused on giving us things that add to the episodes plot this is despite the fact that the episode does have things that could have been added like showing Kermit getting more and more angry before the big blow up or even showing other Muppet character reacting to there acts getting cut just something would have been nice with the makers of this episode putting more and thought into making sure then we now that Johnny Cash is a singer then they did into giving this episodes plot some much needed plot development. This is something that does also effects the episodes character development as none of the episodes characters get any kind of development which is something that is fine for the regular Muppet characters but it is something that both Big tiny and Billy Boy really could have used as we know as much about them coming out of this episode then we did coming coming into the episode with the makers of this episode putting more thought and effort into making sure that we don't like Bug Tiny then they dud into giving the characters some 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 a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. To be honest here the episodes comedy whilst it is still funny as it does still have that typical Muppet chaos to it but at the same time it does feel oddly more tame when compared to earlier episodes of the show like for example when Fozzy hurts his throat on the wire backstage earlier episodes would have gone the whole way by having Fozzy speaking with a different voice but here they just have him rubbing his throat which is still funny but it is something that could have bee alot more funnier. With the best joke in the whole entire episode being when after Fozzy has just been heckled on stage by Wally Whoopie Kermit finally snaps and comes out to defend his friend and while he's defending Fozzy on stage in front of Big Tiny and calling him all of these nice things Fozzy is just there in the background hoping that Kermit will call him funny which is just such a sweet joke with it feeling like something that Fozzy would do with even the fact that Kermit really does call him funny being something that does tell you that Kermit really is a good friend, even the fact that for alot of that scene Fozzy is just hiding behind the certain being a really good character moment as well as being a really funny visual as really everyone except for Big Tiny and Kermit can see and hear him with the rest of the episodes jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall whilst this episode did have alot of fun moments in it the fact that they didn't really do anything with the special guest star and just had him d what he's known for doing is something that does make this episode a hard but fun episode to watch as there is a good episode in here it just needed to make better use of the guest start t make it be as good as it possibly could have been 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 a 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 as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk , 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.

My SPOILER FILLED First Impressions Of Visionquest

Marvel right now have been doing fairly well it comes to there new movies with Spider-Man: Brand New Day being perhaps the best selling Spider-Man of all time. There it only makes sense that they try and do the same thing with there shows however in order for that to happen they have to actually promote there shows something which they haven't done with the show that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the show that sees one trilogy come to a close with the show in question being called simply just "Visionquest" enjoy.

The plot of these episodes is Vision finds his secluded live style under threat when someone tries to assassinate him. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. The plot in these first two episodes was to be frank a really good one as we not only get a really good idea of what Vision has been up to since we last saw him in Wandavision but we also get a good idea of that is at stake for this character with the plot doing a good job of feeling epic but on a Tv show scale. Plot wise where these episodes do somewhat start to fail is in the fact that not alot about what this new version of Vision has been up is explained all that well and the things that do get explained have to no relevance in the episodes plot with even the plot of the first episode taking a good while to rally get going but that is something that is understandable as the first episode does have alot of plot to set up in the first place something which of course isn't the case for episode two which does have it's own problems plot namely being the fact that not alot actually happens plot wise in that episode with the episode not really focusing that much on plot but rather on telling a characters backstory which this early into the show wasn't needed as we should still be getting plot for the show whereas a backstory episode for this show very easily could be around episode three maybe episode four with the plot of these episodes also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in these episodes is this shows executive producer Paul Bettany as White Vision and James Spader as Ultron. Also starring in these episodes is Ruaridh Mollica as Thomas Shepherd , Todd Stashwick as Paladin , Lauren Morais as Lisa Molinari , Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y. , Diane Morgan as Handler , Polly Frame as Fiona Guthrie , Henry Lewis as Dum-E , Jonathan Sayer as U , Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H. , Ben Crompton as Clancy  and James D'Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S..

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. The fact that these episodes have some really good acting in them was something that was both surprising and yet at the same time not entirely surprising it's surprising in that the episodes do have alot of what are to Americans alot of unknown names and faces in them but in saying this this is is why it's also not that surprising as those unknown names and faces are fairly well known names over here in the UK with of course the episodes more established actors also turning in some really good performances in there own right. With the best actor in these first two episodes without a shadow of a doubt being Paul Bettany as White Vision as he does have alot of scenes in both of these first two episodes alone that remind of us why he was such a good actor prior to joining the MCU as he does the impossible and that's make you feel something for a robot this is something that is very hard to do as robots be design are not meant to have emotion or show you emotion and that's something that he does really well in both of these episode and heck it wouldn't be all that surprising if at somepoint in the near future he was nominated for an award for his acting in these two episodes alone as he is just that good with his own natural charm and charisma really shining through in these episodes. With the acting that's in these first two episodes really being helped by the fact that the scripts for these episodes are so good that all these 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 these episodes.

Doing the CGI for these episodes is unknown as there are no effects companies listed anywhere on the shows IMDB page. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With both of the episodes having some really good CGI in them as while of course the effects in these episodes won't look anywhere near as good as the effects in the movies they do still look really good with the episodes only really using CGI when they have to and not because they can do. This is something that does make the episodes effects alot more better as now they have something there on the set to be better blended with and it is something that is actually becoming more and more common place in marvel shows where alot of them are having more practical effects and doing things for real then they are having CGI animated effects in them and it's something that will always look so much more better especially taking into account that alot of the characters in these first two episodes are robots which is somethin that will always require some amount of CGI work done to make them look good and even Ultron who does appear in his robot form in episode one does look really good again tho he's not going to look as good as he did in Age Of Ultron but that's just because of the fact that that film had the budget t make him look good whereas this show has to spread it's effects budget across eight episodes.

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

This show is meant to be the conclusion of a trilogy of a shows that started back with Wandavision altho it technically should be a quadrilogy as the storyline was also continued in Doctor Strange And The Multiverse of Madness. With these first two episodes even revealing that Thomas Shepherd is actually Tommy Maximoff with it being revealed that at some point after the events of Agatha All Along he pretty much started to believe that Wanda and Vision aren't his real parents with him even seeing Vision as more of a nightmarish character and whilst the reveal of him being Tommy was good hook to end episode one one as it does make you want to watch the next episode this is the kind of reveal that might have worked better more towards the middle and end of the series and not at the start of the series as unless the makers of this show are going to pull an amazing twist of with this character there's not really all that much that they can do with him now as a character other then have him bond with Vision in the real world. Which in all fairness was something that the show would have done anyways regardless of when the reveal happened but that big twist of him being Tommy would have worked all the more if it was more towards the end of the show as then we would have had the chance to see some hints as to who he might be and it would have given us the audience the chance to make theories on who he might be instead of just having it said out loud by Tommy himself, however tho in saying this it is understandable as to why this big reveal happened here in episode one as it does give you a good hook for episode two and it does make you want to watch that next episode which is something that a good first episode should do and to be far episode two does follow up on this really well even having Vision rescue Tommy from Paladin's hands at the end of the episode.

Whilst interms of action episode two is easily the better of the two episodes interms of plot and character episode one is the better of the two episodes. This is something that is kind of understandable as the first episode does have alot of things to set up and therefor it does have to spend alot of time on the plot and alot of the characters whereas with episode two the makers of this show can just leap into the good stuff knowing full well that we would have seen the first episode which is fair enough as episode two was released at the same time as episode one but it still would have been nice if we did get more plot given t us in the second episode as all we get is Tommy's backstory and how he and possible love interest Lisa Molinari first met and escaped a prison bus together which was nice to see as Lisa Molinari does seem like a fun character. However it was something that wasn't needed this early on in the series as those scenes don't give us anything new in regards to plot that just show us what Tommy has mostly been up to since the last time we saw him and that's it and heck they don't reveal anything interesting about his character in those scenes other then the fact that he has powers which was something that we already knew thanks to Wandavision but in all fairness they did need to have Lisa find out that he had powers and having it be when there trying to escape the prison bus and a borderline abusive guard is something that does make sense but we don't get to see those powers play a part of the main plot of episode two which makes you wonder why that scene was even included in the first place as if it's to set up that he does have these powers then why not set it up an episode or two before he uses them in the main plot as now odds are we are going to forget that he has them by the time that he gets around to using them in the shows main plot.

Much like with the release of Star Wars: Maul Shadow Lord this show will be doing two episode drops a week until episode six as then the final two episodes will release one a week. To be frank this does feel like Disney+ is very slowly getting ready to just drop entire seasons of a show in one sitting as they've just released Coven Academy's first twenty one episode season in one go but that kind of drop was done on Freeform when it came to there own streaming service and Hulu the episodes where then cut down and edited into a ten episode season which was still released all in one go heck they even released Vampirina: Teenage Vampire's second season all in one go and while this is fine for something like Netflix of Apple TV for Disney+ you do expect the drops to be weekly as your not going to get the whole family to sit down and watch an entire season of a show in one sitting. With this being a show that is better released one episode at a time as then it would give us the audience a chance to theorize about what's going to happen next and while this is something that can still happen due to the amount of episodes that are being dropped it's not something that can have the same amount of impact as it would have if it was just one episode a week with a good way to do this for this show and to give the show a good hook for episode two being if the episode ended right before it was revealed who Thomas really was as that way us the audience could spend the entire week guessing in who he might be with this having the added benefit of making the numbers for Disney+ be up higher for alot more longer something which might have happened with Daredevil: Born Again.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty three minuets and twenty one seconds with episode two having a grand total running time of exactly forty five minuets and six seconds. To be frank it is quite hard to fully judge the running time of either episode as both of them do have a decent amount of running time but you do feel that running time alot in the early parts of episode one just due to show much plot is being thrown at you whereas with episode it does feel like that that episode really could have been alot more shorter as outside of the death of J.A.R.V.I.S. there really isn't much of a reason to go back and watch that episode with both episodes having more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet despite both of these episodes having some really good running times to them neither of episodes uses there running time wisely as neither episode takes the time to fully develop thete plot this is something that does make some sense as these are only the first two episodes of the show but given the fact that this show is just eight episodes long there really does need to be plot development happening either in episode two or at the latest episode three as it would be far to late to start it after that as alot of people would have switched the show of if the show isn't leading anywhere good plot wise with the makes of this show putting more thought into redeeming Ultron then they did into giving either episode some plot development. The same thing is also true for the episodes character development altho to be fair they have started to lay the groundwork for Tommy fully trusting Vision as he does come to rescue a beaten up and ear dead Vision at the end of the second episode and while characters like Vision , Ultron and J.A.R.V.I.S. don't really need character development as they have the other films and shows to get there character development none of the shows new characters get any kind of character development with the makers of this show being more focused on fitting in as many UK comedy actors as they can then they in giving the characters character development but I really will admit that these episodes really do have some really good pacing to them tho.

So now then as this is an actin show that really does mean that I have to actually talk abut the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well ten in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that. The action in both of these episodes whilst it's not bad it's also not as good as the action was in Daredevil: Born Again season 2 due to the fact that outside of two action scenes in the second episode the maskers of this show do cut away from the action alot of the time which granted is a good way to save on budget but in saying this this is an action show therefor we want to see the action and just just the start and end of it. With the best action scene in both of these episodes being the scene in episode two where version has to rescue Tommy from a mental hospital that Paladin has him captured in as we get to see Vision just mow through all of Paladin's men like there paper and yet when he does get to Tommy that's when the real trap is sprung as it's revealed that the room Tommy is in basically a giant EMP room and is shutting down all of Visions systems with it only being then that Paladin shows up and starts shooting at Vision with adamantium rounds with it only being when J.A.R.V.I.S. sacrifices himself that Vision is able to escape Paladin that is such a good action scene as it does does show us what this version of Vison can do and how he differs from the Vision that we had in the movies as this one is more ruthless and is willing to kill people whereas the original Vision would at first try to talk you down and then failing that would then and only then hurt you with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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

Overall both of these first two episodes are alot more better then the entirety of Lanterns simply because of the fact that things actually happen in these episodes yet at the same time tho neither episode is perfect as they both lack the very thing that the other has with both of them still being perfectly enjoyable episodes in there own right in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these very episodes in this very post and with this jus being my first impressions of the show I won't be giving a rating however if i'm still watching the show when the final episode is released i'll do a review of the show as a whole.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodea 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 these very episodes 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.