She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Review

I did it thirteen episodes in less then a day that's how dedicated I was to bringing you guys this review and I wasn't doing this on a weekend like I normally would have i'm doing this thing mid freaking week and so if you havn't seen the title already here is my review of the new Netflix series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

The premise of this reboot is the series follows Adora an orphan raised by Hordak the tyrant who rules the planet Etheria through his evil Horde. One day after getting lost in the woods Adora finds a magic sword that transforms her into the Princess of Power She-Ra. Realizing the suffering that the Horde has inflicted on the planet and its people Adora joins a resistance group of other magical girls the Princess Alliance in order to liberate Etheria from Hordak's grasp. This show doesn't really have a plot for alot of the episodes in that regard it's like any show that just has a something of the week or episode but there are elements that might seem small that happen in earlier episodes but go on to have a big impact later on in the series.

Starring in the show is Aimee Carrero as Princess Adora / She-Ra , Karen Fukuhara as Glimmer , AJ Michalka as Catra , Marcus Scribner as Bow , Reshma Shetty as Angella , Lorraine Toussaint as Shadow Weaver , Keston John as Hordak , Lauren Ash as Scorpia and Christine Woods as Entrapta. I'll be the first to admit that i wasn't expecting the acting in this show to be that good and at times I was right because sometimes the acting can be fairly bad with the actors delivering a line badly but those moments are few and far between and the acting is really good alot of the time.

This show boats about being diverse and yet it's entire writing room and for the most part it's episode directors are all women heck even alot of the cast is made up of women that to me is not diversity or equality if they wanted to be truly diverse and have equality then make the writers fifty percent men and fifty percent women and spread that out to the directors and the cast but by the fact that they didn't to me says there not diverse.

Now if you've followed everything released from this show you'll know that there was some controversy surrounding the redesign of She-Ra and when I say controversy it was just people complaining on Twitter. In my eyes this new design does work in context of the show which is how people should have thought of it instead of just complaining about a still image and given that this new version of the character is meant to be around fourteen years old it makes sense that they wouldn't make her as sexy as she was in the original.

The show was animated by Dreamworks Animation and I like the rest of you noticed the fact that the show uses what has come to be known as the "cal arts" style and while that style doesn't really suit the show it is a rather interesting look for the show as for the animation I thought that the show was really well animation for the most part it uses traditional 2D hand drawn animation apart from some certain things which are done in 3D CGI and the two do blend rather well together.

One of things that I noticed while watching the show is that Adora never changes clothes there'll be one or two times where she has to change her outfit but for the vast majority of the time what you see in the above picture is what she wears for the whole first season does she have any other outfit at all or does she just have rows and rows of the same outfit in her wardrobe and why didn't the other characters or even Adora herself mention this fact.

Let's briefly talk about the transformation sequence unlike other female heroes who transform Adora's transformation is short and sweet and the bad guys don't wait around for her to transform in fact alot of the time there running full speed towards her and that to me is really refreshing to see since it means that the villains could attack her mid transformation and get the upper hand they don't do that but still they could and I don't really think that's a spoiler since it's kind of a given.

Now that i've had some time to let this really sink in the show handles it's male characters pretty bad there really just there to be the comic relief apart from the main villain Hordak and that to me is pretty bad because we're meant to care for these characters and we can't do that if all your having them do is try and tell bad jokes or make funny faces if this show wants to promote equality then why not make some of the female characters comic relief characters mix it up a little bit.

Netflix did something that I don't think they have done because the show was originally meant to come out on Friday but about a month or so ago they put out another trailer revealing that the premier date had changed to three days earlier that to me says that they have alot of faith in this show because there willing to move the release date up with little to no notice and if you think about it they didn't do it for The Dragon Prince or Disenchantment both of which are better shows but they did it for this little show which at the time had a little bit going against it.

I admit when I heard that they were only for now rebooting She-ra I was nervous about how they would handle her origin since it's so tightly connected to He-Man but I honestly think they did the best job that they could have done they don't say she has a brother or anything but the way they explain it leaves it open incase they want to introduce He-Man in a possible second season or even his own show.

Now since this an action show I have to talk about the action sequences for me they can at times be pretty dull which is a shame because this is a fantasy show and alot of the characters have magical powers but when they are good my god do you know it there's a lot of action scenes in this show where I was going "That was so freaking cool" and that's the best things I can say about any action scene.

Overall this isn't a bad reboot it does a good job of updating all of the characters and the story but at the same time it's a show that does have it's fair share of the problems and I don't think this needs saying but it is a show made for little kids but that doesn't mean that adults won't be able to find some enjoyment out of it so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.

Doctor Who "Demons of the Punjab" SPOILERISH!!!!!! Review

Doctor Who fans for once i'm stuck on what to write for an intro and if you've seen my reviews you'll know that that very rarely happens but that goes to show you how good I thought this episode was so here it is my spoilerish review of Demons of the Punjab.

Like the intro it's hard for me to say what the plot of the episode but basically The doctor and friends travel back in time to India at a crucial point in history. That's honestly the best summery I could come up with because I truly believe that this episode is so good just on the basis of what the plot is that it's best not to know what the actual plot of the episode so you guys will just have to trust me when I say that it's a really good an interesting story.

Guest starring in this episode is Leena Dhingra as Nani Umbreen , Amita Suman as Young Umbreen , Shane Zaza as Prem , Hamza Jeetooa as Manish , Shaheen Khan as Hasna , Emma Fielding as Voice of Kisar and Isobel Middleton as Voice of Almak. In terms of the guest actors i'd say that they did a fairly good job i'm not going to say that any of them are flat out bad because given the subject matter that would be a lie but there are some performers that are better then others that's for sure.

In the regular cast we have Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor , Tosin Cole as Ryan and Mandip Gill as Yaz. Now I left of Bradley because I want to talk about him later on in the review so out of those three Jodie once again killed it in the episode and to me she is one of the few people who deliver great performances week in and week out and shockingly so was Mandip she was actually pretty good in this episode.

Ok boys and girls from this point onwards there will be some slight spoilers but i'm going to try and keep them as light as possible. The whole reason why I didn't mention Bradley when talking about the regular cast was because of one single scene you all know what scene I mean it's the wedding scene for me he was so freaking good in this episode he honestly almost had me in tears and i'd say that he's the other series regular that always delivers a great performance in each episode and like many of you I to was worried when he got cast but by now I truly do believe that he is one of the best companion actors in the shows history.

I know that alot of Doctor Who fans are very mixed on the Rosa Parks episode which I still say is the best episode of this current series and the reboot as a whole I mention that episode because if you didn't like that one then chances are your not going to like this one either since it is based around historical facts but you guys will have to accept that Doctor Who will do episodes based around events that actually happend and that was honestly one of the main goals of the show when it first came out to teach kids about history.

Now by looking just at the above images you'd be forgiven for thinking that they actually went to India to film the episode but the truth is they actually shot the episode in Spain and I have to give the production team alot of credit for making Spain look a lot like 19th century India that really couldn't have been an easy task but they pulled it of really well and like the rest of the series the episode looks fantastic.

Now a few days ago I just so happen to read the first issue of the new Thirteenth Doctor comics and they gave a bio for each of the main characters the bio for Yaz goes into more detail about her then the show has done granted this episode does go into a little bit about her but not as much as I thought they would so it really is telling when a comic book bio goes into more detail then the show it's based of does.

I'm not even going to go into that much detail about the villains of this weeks episode even tho this is still spoilerish because I think that they really do needs to be seen and since I didn't know going into the episode who the villain was and because the episode was so good i'm not going to mention anything about them but I will say that they are strong villains and you'll fully understand why I think that when you see the episode itself.

Overall this for me is the second best episode of this current series it's that good and there is one scene in the episode which will have even the manliest of men in tears but in my opinion Rosa is still the better episode so this episode scores a 9 out of 10 from me.

Game Of Thrones "Winter is Coming" Review

Game Of Thrones fans it's not often that we get to chat how are you i'm fine I thought that with the show coming to an end next year that I would take this opportunity to take a look back at several past episodes and give them all the review treatment because why the hell not and what I better place to start then right at the beginning with episode 1 "Winter is Coming".

The basic plot of this episode is that Jon Arryn has been killed and the King needs a new hand of the king and in the meanwhile in young a young Daenerys finds herself doing something she really doesn't want to do. I'm trying to keep this review as spoiler free as I possibly can just because you never know who's seeing this episode for the first time and I figure that the fans of the show will already know the plot of this episode as for my thoughts on the plot it's works for a pilot episode and I think alot of that is due to the fact that the pilot is over an hour long if this episode was say forty five minuets it wouldn't work at all.

When I was first planning this review I was planning just to list the actors that appear in this episode but then I checked the Wikipedia page for season one and every actors that's in this episode is apart of the main cast so starring in this episode was Sean Bean as Eddard "Ned" Stark , Reject Fred Flintstone as Robert Baratheon , Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister , Michelle Fairley as Catelyn Stark , Sarah Connor as Cersei Lannister , Reject Sarah Connor as Daenerys Targaryen , Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont , Harry Lloyd as Viserys Targaryen , Kit Harington as Jon Snow , Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark , Maisie Williams as Arya Stark , Richard Madden as Robb Stark , Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy , Isaac Hempstead Wright as Bran Stark , The kid saved by batman in Batman Begins as  Joffrey Baratheon , Rory McCann as Sandor "The Hound" Clegane ,the guy with the ultimate slap as Tyrion Lannister and Aquaman as Khal Drogo.

I wasn't kidding when I said that every actor who appears in this episode is a member of the main cast like holy hell that's alot of actors to credit and it's not like I could only pick a select few this time since all of them play big roles. In terms of the acting I have to say that for a pilot episode the acting is pretty good for the most part but what is really interesting looking back on it is the fact that the acting from the child actors isn't that good like at least in this first episode but even so you can tell that there's a lot of talent from them.

It's common knowledge that the pilot we got was not the one that was originally shot back in 2009 there was alot of cast changes between that pilot and this one with perhaps the biggest two being Jennifer Ehle as Cat and Tamzin Merchant as Daenerys and that at least 90% of the footage was re-shot and I have to say that you really cannot tell what was 2009 footage and what was 2010 footage because of how well hidden and how well it flows altho one of Jennifer's scene is in the final episode it's the scene with Cat and Sansa where Cat is brushing her hair they just added in Michelle in post production.

I'm sure that i'm not the only one who noticed this on a second viewing but Catelyn does a little bit of foreshadowing when talking to Bran it might not be but if you listen to what she says and if you watch the end of the episode either she could secretly see the future and was just being kind or she was foreshadowing what happens later in the episode it's one or the other.

I'm going to say it i'm a huge Dany fan I have been since day one and I think she will come out of the series on top and I really liked her introduction scene in this episode to me she looked like a doll she was that fragile that scene was also shot so well you can just see that she's lost in her own thoughts and it makes you wonder what she's thinking and by the end of it your left wondering how she got into this mess.

Speaking of her introduction scene her brother really was a creep even tho I know what happens to him later on in the series I still wanted to punch him in the face but tho that goes to show you not only how good the writing for this show is but also how good Harry Lloyd is in the role he makes you really want to hate him and that's what a good villain should do and he in my mind plays a key part in the growth of Daenerys since if he wasn't being a bully to her then she wouldn't learn to toughen up and to be an all-round badass.

Game Of Thrones wouldn't be the show it is today without the pure awesomeness that is Peter Dinklage and while he is more awesome in the second this episode gives us a hint of how awesome he can be in this show there really no words to describe how great of an actor this dude really is because any words that I could think of have been said by other people when they reviewed this episode but the man deserves any and all praise he gets because even when he's something bad he's still the best thing init.

What is interesting at least if your a fan of the show is looking back and seeing how not only the characters but also the story got started for me it was interesting seeing how these characters who go onto to become main players start out as naive people Sansa's only goal right now is to get married and that's it that is a long way from where she was in seasons six and seven the same thing can also be said for Arya who in a few short seasons would become pretty much one of the show's best fighters and in this episode she spends alot of time fighting with her sister.

It wouldn't be Game Of Thrones without blood and gore the two just go so well together and I have to say that I honestly thought that there was alot more gore in this episode like I could have sworn that there was alot more but no there's only a small amount of gory scenes in this episode and I thought that the gore effects looked really good even tho some of them are seen from quite far away it looked really decent and the same can also be said for the blood.

Overall this isn't a bad first episode to a great series and it is fun looking back seeing how the show began and to let all of you GOT fans know this will NOT be a weekly thing and I WON'T be looking at the episodes in release order it will be whenever i'm bored and i'll watch random episodes this pilot episode gets a 9.5 out of 10 from me.

Doctor Who "The Tsuranga Conundrum" SPOILERISH!!!!!!!!!!! Review

Doctor Who fans so far this series has been pretty freaking awesome and out of all the reviews i've done so far this is the one that almost never happend due to technical difficulties but if your seeing this review then I was clearly able to post it so here is my possibly spoilerish review of The Tsuranga Conundrum.

The plot of this weeks episode is after getting caught up in an explosion the doctor and friends find themselves on board a ship which also ends up being under attack from a monster. Yeah in terms of plot this episode is fairly lacking and it's pretty straight forward but it is still a fun premise and is something that is typical Doctor Who in my opinion.

The guest stars for this episode are Brett Goldstein as Astos , Lois Chimimba as Mabil ,Suzanne Packer as Eve Cicero , Ben Bailey-Smith as Durkas Cicero , David Shields as Ronan and Jack Shalloo as Yoss. For me the guest actors were just ok really nothing special in terms of overall performances altho I personally did like both Astos and Mabil it's just a shame that neither were given a lot to do in the episode.

Of course our main heroes for the episode are Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor , Bradley Walsh as Graham , Tosin Cole as Ryan and Mandip Gill as Yaz. Ok we've just come of a Yaz centric episode and after weeks of people saying that she's not really doing much in the episodes in this episode she still does pretty much nothing performance wise the people who you expect by now to deliver great performances do do that but at this point in the series we should know a bit more about Yaz.

Ok guys you have had a fair warning but everything from this point on will include some possibly slight spoilers for me another useless character in this episode was Ronan and Yoss just because neither one really added anything to the story they were mostly there just so there was more people to save and that was about it and lets be honest when we all found out that Ronan was a robot we all started to thing of David from the alien prequels and if you didn't then your lieing.

Something which I don't get why they needed to include in this episode was the death of Eve they could have had her get better at the end of the adventure but some reason they killed her off it was a pointless plot point since at that time she hadn't spent alot of time on screen with her brother so we don't really get that emotional feeling when she does eventually die her death could have meant something if we saw them sharing alot more screen time but nope they chose not to do that.

Guys please someone tell me that I wasn't the only one that was reminded of the Porgs from The Last Jedi when P'Ting showed up there just so cute and adorable how are they meant to be taken seriously as a threat I want to give them big hugs not run away from them altho I will admit the fact that they want to eat everything is a pretty cool idea.

The overall quality of the CGI for me was great this episode in fact it's been really good the whole series so far for me the quality of the CGI being shown in this series is movie quality and the best example of that in this episode is easily P'Ting he /she / whatever looks really and looks like they are really there and I can totally see them being sold as toys which is I think the only reason they look as cute as they do.

Overall this was a solid episode not a great one by any stretch of the imagination but also not a bad one it's one that you can have on in the background and have it as purely background noise and if that's what you want then this is the episode for you but those who don't want that will hate this episode for me tho this episode gets a 7.5 out of 10 and don't forget to join me next week as I review "Demons of the Punjab".

High School Of The Dead AKA Highschool Of The Dead Anime Review

Anime fans you might not know this but I also like horror and horror fans you might not know that I like anime I mention that because I very rarely talk about something that is both something to do with horror and something to do with anime but that is coming to an end right now as I review the anime version of High School Of The Dead sometimes called Highschool Of The Dead.

There is no real plot to this series there's just the basic set up which is a zombie outbreak has occured and some high school students try to survive it. It's not really an original plot since that's the plot for a lot of zombie shows and movies but I don't think it's involved high school students before so that is kind of a refreshing twist on things and seeing how they deal with certain situations does make for some interesting viewing to say the least but it still would have been nice if there was an actual plot to speak of.

Now i'm reviewing the dubbed version of the show just because that's the version of the show that I was introduced to so starring in this version of the show is Leraldo Anzaldua as Takashi , Jessica Boone as Rei , Taylor Hannah as Saeko , Maggie Flecknoe as Saya Takagi , Mark X. Laskowski as Kohta , Monica Rial as Shizuka and Brittney Karbowski as Alice AKA Arisu.  Since this is the version of the show that i grew up with i'm a little bias when it comes to the cast but even I can admit that at times the acting isn't that great but for me it didn't hinder my enjoyment of the show since the overall show isn't that good anyways.

There's no way i can do a review of this show and not mention the passing of the manga's original creator Daisuke Satō his passing was truly tragic as all deaths are but when you add in the fact that he never technically finished this story that to me makes it all the more tragic because now we will forever be left wondering what happens next and for those wondering I have read the manga but even that isn't a complete story I know this will never happen anytime soon but it would be nice if someone else took over writing the series to finish the story.

Madhouse is the company that supplied the animation for the show and for me the animation is a pretty mixed bag because it is good when it comes to the action scenes but when it comes to the dialog heavy scenes it looks weird like the animators didn't have enough time to take another crack at it so they were forced to leave it as it is.

I know that alot of people find this show to be dumb and stupid but the way I see it is this is the anime version of the fast & furious franchise in that while there are elements that are indeed dumb it's the kind of show that really won't require you to think or use your brain this is the type of show that's just meant to be fun and nothing else and for me that's fine we don't always need or want shows that require us to think sometimes we just want a dub show that we can have playing in the background and this is one of those shows for me.

Perhaps the most famous or infamous scene in anime history is in this series it's what is more commonly known as "The Matrix Boobs" scene and it pretty much speaks of it self in context of the show this scene does work since the tone of the show is that of something that's not meant to be taken seriously but at the same time for many people this was the scene that pushed it a little to far and I can see where those people are coming but at the same time it is in line with the overall tone of the show.

This is perhaps the most ecchi show i've seen there's several boob shots and pantie shots in every single episode now I love a good ecchi show as much as the next guy but even I was getting tired of seeing the same kind of pantie and boob shots in the episodes and it was during the watching for this review that i came to the conclusion that this show was made for fourteen to fifteen year old boys.

Don't you worry horror fans I havn't forgotten about you because like I said when explaining the set up for the show there are zombies featured in this show infact now that I think about it they could be seen as the main antagonist of the show because there always a threat to our main heroes like they could turn a corner and there could be a whole swarm of them but tho the zombies kind of take a backseat to the ecchi scenes which depending on how you see things could either be a good thing or a bad thing I personally view it as a bad thing since I want to see more zombies in this zombie show.

I'm not sure if people remember this or not but for a while there was a zombie craze going on in Hollywood with not only alot of movies being made featuring the undead but also TV shows this is mostly due to the success of *sigh* the Twilight saga and The Walking Dead but tho one of the things that has never been turned into a movie was this franchise and for that's a shame because at the time it would have been a hit think about it you have the fans of the anime / manga going to see it and you have people who like zombies going to see it that right there is alot of people going to see your movie.

In anime we anime fans always like to find what is known as "best girl" it's kind of hard to describe exactly what that means since it changes depending of who you ask but for me there are at least four candidates for the best girl of this anime and there all the four older girls you see in the above picture i've always been a Saeko (purple hair) and Rei (brown hair) fan so much so that when I got Lollipop Chainsaw I bought there costumes but when I was watching it this time round I found myself also liking both Takagi (pink hair) and Shizuka (blonde hair) and all for pretty much the same reason they are all badasses all of them at some point have a moment where they do something truly badass and cool.

Something that to me was extremely hit and miss was the shows comedy don't get me wrong there was some jokes that worked but for every joke that did work they would add in a line which to me came across as something that was obviously added in the dub and it just wouldn't work at all in fact it was rather jarring but the jokes that do work are cute there not laugh out loud funny but they will get a smile of out of you.

If your expecting this to me a straight up horror show you'd be wrong because there's alot of action thrown in there granted it's whenever the gang have to fight of a horde of zombies but it's still there and to me that's when the animation is at it's best because those scenes are so much fun to watch and that's when all of the cool stuff happens you get to see gun nut Kohta take out multiple zombies with a few bullets and Saeko pretty much be this show's version of michonne from The Walking Dead.

Unlike alot of anime this show had a different ending performed by the singer of my personal favorite being the one at the end of episode 7 Fuss Fuzz by Maon Kurosaki I just loved how that song not only worked well in the sequence before it but it was also a really good song and the opening is Highschool of the Dead" by Kisida Kyoudan & The Akebosi Rockets this is just such a catchy as heck song so much so that when I was watching it I would start singing along to it.

Overall this isn't a good show not by a mile but if your looking for a show that's just pure fun and knows it's meant to be pure fun then you can't really go wrong here but if your looking for something more then that then I suggest you look somewhere else for me tho the show gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me and if your on anime amino this is where I get my name from.

Viz: The Pieman's Wig Annual 2019 Review

Comics fans i'm British and more importantly i'm from the north of England I mention all of this because not only am I reviewing my first British comic strip and it's one that i'm sure alot of older fans will love so here is my review of Viz: The Pieman's Wig.

I really would like to comment on the plot of the stories except each strip has no real plot since it's a collection of stories from previous issues of the magazine so you can really read any of the stories and have a fair understanding of the characters as well as the world that they live in. I will say that like alot of things in this book the stories are very adult so please do NOT read anything from Viz unless you are over the age of 18.

Due to the adult nature of Viz comics the images I use won't be from the actual book itself and the names of certain strips will have to be edited but I will say that if you love character names with great puns or names that just make you laugh then this is the series for you because there are names like Billy the Fish someone who is half man half fish and is a footballer (soccer player) , Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large T*******s does it really need saying why this is a great name , The Fat S***s these are two women who love s** and food. 

There are honestly more great funny names in the book but these are just the best ones in my opinion and yes I did have to censor some of the names but tho that's just because I want to make sure that alot of people remain happy with the post and it's honestly because alot of the names are quite rude and yes there is a chance that you'll be hearing me say that it's a rude book many times in this review.

One of the things that the magazine became famous for is it's spoof news articles like for example the one seen in the above picture and I will say that like alot of things in this book I was laughing quite a bit of the time while reading some of the headlines unfortunately tho I cannot supply you with any of them mostly because i've forgotten alot of them so you'll just have to trust me on this but tho I will say that you will get the jokes not only in this book but also in the news articles if your British.

Speaking of being British all of the shows characters live in the north of England which is where yours truly is from and if you are from the north then you might pick up on where some of the characters are from because like any good comic strip does it doesn't tell you out right where they are from instead it lets you work out from certain words that the characters use.

As you might have seen by the two actual images from Viz magazine the art style for each strip is exactly the same i'm not even kidding outside of the characters there's nothing to tell each strip apart to me that is both a good and bad thing good because it means that these characters can live in the same universe but bad because there are times were you can't tell where one strip ends and the other begins so having something visually to tell us that were reading another strip would have been nice.

I don't really think I can stress enough how adult this book and the magazine is heck if you want prove of how adult this series is just try and work out some of the words that i've censored that alone should give you some idea of what to expect in this book because yes each of the characters that i've listed does appear in this book at least several times but the jokes in those strips are usually all different which is good.

Now this isn't the first time that Viz have put out an annual infact they do it at least once a year and they pretty much have done since either the late seventies or the early eighties I can't really tell since there's no way of finding out for sure but all of them collect the best bits from previous issues I like to think of them as a more funny version of the collected editions from either Marvel or DC.

Overall it is a really funny and adult book but at the same time I think that only us British would like it since alot of the jokes would fly over everyone else's head and since this is a collection of stories i'm not going to give a rating mostly because I am a fan of Viz but also because I can't think of one.

Doctor Who "Arachnids in the UK" SPOILERISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review

Doctor Who fans the show has a habit of making scary episodes and indeed some of the shows best episodes are the ones that have scared us but will this weeks episode be one that puts us behind the sofa or will it be one that has us rolling our eyes well find out in my review of Arachnids in the UK.

The plot of this weeks episode is the team find themselves back in Sheffield only this time there's a problem with the spiders and it's up to our gang of heroes to find out what's going on and put a stop to it. The plot for me was perhaps the weakest aspect of the story just because it's almost very predictable so you know where certain story beats are going before they even happen but tho the bits that you couldn't see coming I thought worked really well.

Guest starring in this episode is Chris Noth as Jack Robertson , Shobna Gulati as Najia Khan and Tanya Fear as Dr Jade McIntyre. Honestly for me some of the guest actors in this episode did a really good job I can't imagine that acting in this episode was easy since the spiders are all CGI so they did a good job in that regard but Tanya was just lacking any emotion for me personally.

Of course also in this episode is Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor , Bradley Walsh as Graham , Tosin Cole as Ryan and Mandip Gill as Yaz. Thank the heavens they gave Yaz something to do in this episode for three straight weeks she's just been in the background doing next to nothing but here she actually plays a part in the main plot of the episode I don't really think that this needs to be said but Bradley is just killing it this series every scene he's in he's great and I cannot wait to see more of him and from here on out there will be mild spoilers so you have been warned.

I saw this on twitter I think it was either the day of the episode or the day before but someone had posted a picture from the IMDB page for this weeks episode which had listed Sharon D. Clarke who of course died in the first episode of this series and I have to say the way she appears in this episode is very much like how Clara appeared in Heaven Sent except this time you actually get to see her face and hear her voice and it fed really well into the grief that Graham is going through.

I don't know if anyone else got these kind of vibes but while watching the episode I was reminded very much of the villains from the Planet Of The Spiders episode from the classic era I was honestly shocked that one of the spiders didn't start talking I really cannot be the only one that was reminded of that episode.

Speaking of story beats that you knew were coming the whole kind of sub plot with the companions choosing to stay with The Doctor we all knew right away that they were all going to stay because they've been featured on pretty much every piece of marketing for this series so there was no way in hell they were going to leave the show after just four episodes if this was say the third episode then I might have been more believable but they chose episode four and this was after all of the trailers have shown them in scenes that weren't in this episode.

This episode was for me at least very creepy and before you say anything I don't actually mind spiders but it's due to the fact that the spiders could come out of know where which to me is a really creepy idea and the fact that they were acting like the giant spider from Return Of The King who was freaking creepy only added to the creep factor to me.

I have to mention the new Time Vortex now i'll admit that I had this spoiled for me on Twitter so I knew it was coming I just didn't know when and when it showed up on screen I was blown away by how stunning it was and how once you go through one hole it then leads to several different holes you can go through and all of the colors just really popped for me that's one of the few things I can say is consistent throughout this series is that everything is visually stunning and it looks like it belongs in a movie.

Overall this episode was never going to be as good as last weeks episode but in terms of scary episodes this one does hold up pretty well it's not the scariest at least in my opinion but then again what might not scare me might scare some of you so this episode gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.#TeamTardis