She-Ra: Princess of Power "Duel At Devlan" Review

Animation fans there are alot of reboots out there and not all of them are any good but one of the ones that somehow managed to make the old fans angry and yet pull in new fans was She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power. Now sadly i'm not going to be taking a look at an episode from that show because that wouldn't be that fun for me so instead I chose an episode from the original show because i've never seen this show and so join me as I review what is technically the first episode of the show "Duel At Devlan" enjoy classic and current animation fans.

The plot of the episode is a small town is being threatened by helpers of the evil Hordak and so She-Ra has to help them out. To say that the episode is pretty might on story would be a huge understatement since it's pretty bare bones but from what I can gather alot of animated shows from the eighties were the same so I can't really knock this show for doing what other shows were also doing but it is still an issue and it's one that bugged me a little bit as well since there was no reason given as to why I should care about the characters or want to see them succeed. 

Starring in the episode are Melendy Britt as She-Ra/Princess Adora and Kristala's Mother and George DiCenzo as Bow , Dylamug and Darius. Also starring in the episode is Linda Gary as Glimmer and Madame Razz and producer Lou Scheimer being credited as Erik Gunden for some unknown reason is here staring as Swift Wind/Spirit , Dylamug , Sprag , Sprocker , Broom , Devlan Villagers and Horde Troopers.

Now this is something that I wasn't quite sure how to handle because alot of the guest characters don't get alot of screen and alot of the main characters barely get any dialog and so i'll do my best to judge the acting for this episode. I honestly feel that the acting in the episode decent it was honestly hard to judge the acting in this episode for the reason that I stated before but based of what I saw the acting was decent at best.

Now I cannot find who did the animation for this show or this episode but I do know that Filmation did animation and produced this show so i'm going to assume that they did the animation for the episode as well as the show. Speaking of the animation for an eighties animated TV show it was OK I can't say that it was good because it really wasn't but given that this show was made to sell toys there's alot more effort in the animation then what was needed.

The animation also looks really cheap which I get was what Filmation was known for doing but they didn't have to make it so obvious. How you know that the animation was done on the cheap is that there are times where you cannot see a characters move moving or the fact that they have She-Ra flying on her horse so that they don't have to animate backgrounds there's all of these little things that tell you that the animation was done cheaply and it's stuff that really isn't needed in my opinion.

Now I know that i'm going to get some flack for saying this but after just one episode of this show I can tell that it's more fun to watch then She-Ra And The Princesses of Power was. Simply because this show knows that it's campy as all hell and has fun with it where as the reboot is more concerned with trying to be a serious piece of art that it forgets to be fun and i'm someone who enjoyed the first season of the reboot but couldn't get into the other seasons.

I will admit there are somethings that the reboot does better then this episode did lack the fact the reboot put alot of focus on the story which this episode didn't do. That for me is a good thing because it means that I have a chance to care about the characters and to get invested in there adventures and while I was invested in this episode I wasn't concerned about the characters because I had to reason to be which is always a bad thing.

Now I personally refer to this episode as the first episode of the show because there was a pilot movie released called He-Man And She_Ra The Secret Of The Sword which was the first five episodes of She-Ra: Princess Of Power edited into a feature film. Even tho this film has the first five episodes of the show in it for many people this was just a film and nothing more with "Duel At Devlan" being the official first episode.

There was one character which really annoyed the hell out of me and he / she / it is only screen for around a minuet and it's the character of Loo-Kee. That character is only there to tell the audience what the moral of the episode was and nothing more but the character has this really annoying voice and it is so freaking obnoxious and is honestly just a pointless character since he adds nothing to the episode or the show as a whole.

Now even tho there is some action in this episode given that it's a kids show the action isn't a big part of the episode. Which yeah actually makes sense since like I said it's a kids show but with that being said there is some action and it's exactly as OK as you think it would be , I can't really be to hard on this show since it's a show made for kids and for a kids show the action I felt was pretty good and was entertaining to see.

Overall this was a really solid episode it was really fun to watch and it's an episode that I can see myself going back to and re-watching. This episode isn't perfect by any means but from what I can gather the issues that I had with this episode also extend to the show but there's a chance that I could be wrong with that , I can also say that this episode is more fun to watch then the reboot is as such the episode gets a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Guys and girls all the the images for this review were gathered from either the official Greyskull wiki fandom page which is home to all things He-man and She-Ra and Google Images. I hope that you did enjoy this review sorry I couldn't get that many high quality images but you guys have to bare in mind that this show was made in the mid-eighites that said tho if you don't use either of the websites that I mentioned then I will force you to watch the Masters Of The Universe live action movie for several freaking hours.

Superman: Unbound Review

DC Comics fans it's been little around a month since I last talked about anything animated from DC Comics and while I was content to leave it a little longer. What I didn't want to do was for you all to think that I forgot that the company makes animated straight to DVD movies and as luck would have it I happen to own a few of them on DVD and so it was just a case of me picking one out and I picked one that I not only haven't seen in a while but also never reviewed and so here is my review of 2013 film "Superman: Unbound" enjoy.

The plot of this film is an alien robot crash lands on Earth and after a brief battle with Superman the man of steel finds out it is in fact a scout robot and what follows it is something much more dangerous. Yeah I had no idea how to summarise the plot of this movie and so I did the best that I could , I did find the story to be rather well told and that is honestly the best thing that I can say about the story because it's also rather simple as well which isn't really something I personally want from an R rated DC animated movie.

Starring in the film is Matt Bomer as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman , Stana Katic as Lois Lane and John Noble as Brainiac. Also starring in the film is Molly Quinn as Kara Zor-El / Supergirl , Diedrich Bader as Steve Lombard , Alexander Gould as Jimmy Olsen , Frances Conroy as Martha Kent , Stephen Root as Zor-El , Jason Beghe as Terrorist Leader , Sirena Irwin as Alura , Wade Williams as Perry White and Melissa Disney as Thara Ak-Var.

As for what I about the acting in the film I honestly thought that it was that bad but that's also the issue since it's not that good either. Nobody really makes the character their own or makes an effort to do so these performances will just be one of thousands of versions of these characters with nothing done to help the actors make their performance standout but like all of these films all of the characters are indeed really well cast.

The animation for the film was provided by Moi Animation Studio who apart from working on Avatar: The Last Airbender have also worked on several DC animated properties for both TV and film. In my opinion the animation in this film was actually one of the better things about the film since it's that good you can tell that the people who worked on the animation have alot of passion for what they do since they are always trying to push themselves further and further and that kind of passion really does show in this film.

Now I do believe that this is the second straight to DVD animated DC movie to feature Supergirl not counting all of the DC Super Hero Girls movies of course. AS such I do want to talk about her character since I honestly liked how they did her in this movie they portray her as typical teenager in that she's angry at the world and wants to rebel against everything and everyone the only difference here is she has superpowers and she actually has a pretty traumatic past that not only ties into but has an effect on the main plot of the film.

Now what many of you might not know is that this film is based on the comic book storyline Superman: Brainiac which was published in Action Comics in 2008 lasting from issues 866 to 870. Now I know nothing about the storyline in question as such I have no idea if this is a good representation of the book or not but I can say that after watching this film I do want to check out the storyline just because it seems like a good storyline.

This film is just over an hour and fifteen minuets long which while that is the average length for one of these movies doesn't do this film any kind of justice. If this film had been at least an hour and a half long I feel that things would have moved at a more natural way instead things feel rushed which is sadly how things feel here and that shouldn't be the case the case the story should dictate how long the film is and not the other way around.

What I wasn't expecting from this film was for the character of Supergirl as played by Molly Quinn to have a traumatic past. Her past in this film, is that Kandor her home planet was trapped by Brainiac with Supergirl's parents on it as such she harbors a sense of survivors guilt and is fearful that Brainiac will come and attack her new home I honestly wasn't expecting her past to be this shocking and to have it effect her character in the present day actually makes alot of sense to me and i'm shocked that other adaptations of the character haven't taken the same approach with her.

It's not only Kara who has a plot arc either because Clark and Lois actually have a plot arc as well as Clark has to get over his fears of letting the world know that Clark Kent is dating Lois Lane. The Clark and Lois plot line I actually didn't like that much because Clark's fears are pretty genuine and the the fact that Lois just blows them of is if there not that important just makes her seem like a b**ch which should never be the case yes there should be some give and take between the two but here Clark is fearful of loosing her and so she should back off the subject a little bit.

Now let us take a second to talk about the villain of the film who as you can see is Brainiac and as stated before was played by John Noble. I really didn't like the character in this film because they striped away his smarts just so they could make him more evil but what these guys don't realise is you can be as smart as this character is and still be evil you don't have to be one or the other you can be both smart and evil and on top of that he doesn't have an end goal here he's just evil for the sake of being evil which is never a good thing.

Now then boys and girls since this is an action film that does mean that we have to talk about the action that's in the film itself. Which yeah I thought really entertaining that doesn't mean that it was good because yeah it's not but I was entertained by the action that I saw which for an action film is still a really good thing and it helps that during the opening action scene they do these really cool camera moves that you can only do in animation.

Overall this is a pretty decent film i'm not going to say that it's the best animated Superman film out there because it's not it. It is however very entertaining especially the scene where Lois straight up gives the bad guy the double middle finger which still makes me laugh to this very day , but at the same time the film is riddled with problems as such it doesn't even come close to earning it's 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes but it does however get 6.5 out of 10 from me this comic book fan.

All the images that I used in this review were gather from the DC movies fandom wiki page and like alot of the images I find they are very high quality images. So yeah if you like to use high quality images in your post I highly recommend you use that fandom page and if you don't well i'll come to your house and trap you in a tiny bottle just for the hell of it yeah that was the best joke that I could up with so yeah. 

 

Warrior Nun : Psalms 46:5 Review

Comic book fans there have been so many comic book shows and movies released in the past ten or so years so it was only a matter of time before Netflix got in on the action and they got in hard because they have two comic book adaptations coming out in the space of a week. I'll be the first to admit that I no nothing about the original source material that this show is based of and so i'm only judging this as an episode of a TV show and not as an adaptation and so here is my review of the Warrior Nun pilot episode "Psalms 46:5" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is a young girl called Ava wakes up in a morgue with a strange embedded in her back and that's really all the story I got out of the episode. Yeah for a pilot episode is very lacking in actual story instead just having random things happen for no reason which oddly makes the episode pretty boring to watch and the very thin story only serves to make that point even more in my humble opinion.

Starring in this episode and thus the rest of the series are Alba Baptista as Ava and Tristán Ulloa as Father Vincent. Also starring in both this episode and the show are Kristina Tonteri-Young as Sister Beatrice , Lorena Andrea as Sister Lilith , Toya Turner as Shotgun Mary , Thekla Reuten as Jillian Salvius , Sylvia De Fanti as Mother Superion , Emilio Sakraya as J.C. , Olivia Delcán as Sister Camila , Joaquim De Almeida as Cardinal Duretti , May Simón Lifschitz as Chanel , Dimitri Abold as Randall and Charlotte Vega as Zori.

Now i'll admit that not all of the actors listed appear in this episode but because I have a bad memory and because the official fandom page for the show as well as the Wikipedia page for the show are useless i'm listing every actor who's in the show. The acting for me rather understandably felt a little bland which I do understand why since this is the first episode of a TV show and so of course the acting isn't going to be that good and so here's hoping that it gets better as the show goes on.

This show is adapted from Warrior Nun Areala a 1994 comic book written by Ben Dunn and published by Antarctic Press. I have no idea what was adapted from the book and what wasn't since until a few weeks ago I hadn't heard of the book but I do find it interesting that a very unknown comic book is getting a TV adaptation from Netflix when it would have been much easier for them to go with something a little more well known.

Just based of this first episode I see nothing that makes this show perfect for Netflix you could have aired this on HBO and you would loose nothing. To me if your airing a show on Netflix then you better have something that pushes the boundaries otherwise what's the point and here there is none of that it looks just like a show you'd find on any network and the things that they show are the things that you'd find on any network.

Now there is something that I did like about the episode and that was it's use of what I assume to be practical effects. I say assume because they look really good and given how good TV CGI can be it could be CGI but if they do use practical effects in this episode then they look really good and it wasn't something that I was expecting to see as such I was pleasantly surprised when I good practical effect showed up very early in the episode.

This show does what alot of bad pilot episode do and that's not start up storylines for the rest of the show. Which I have to say is honestly putting me of watching the rest of the show because why should I watch something if there's no story to it I honestly have to reason to go and watch episode 2 because there's nothing plot wise that makes me want to watch the rest of the show which for a pilot episode is always a bad thing.

What I didn't like was the episode's pacing which yeah I really freaking bad honestly even tho this episode is fifty minuets long it feels so much longer then that and that's because scenes just drag on and on. As well as having scenes that go nowhere and add up to nothing I honestly don't see why this episode had to be fifty minuets long when there's only enough story for at least twenty two to thirty minuets.

Since this is an action show that does mean that we have to talk about the action that's in this very episode. I honestly didn't mind the action in this episode at all if anything it showed how much potential that the series had since the action is actually pretty fun and creative it's just a shame that the rest of the episode is a chore to get through since those fun action scenes are very few and far between with the rest of the episode being spent with the characters just doing random stuff.

Overall in terms of first episodes this is most likely one of the worst ones that i've seen in a long freaking time. For all of the reasons that i've listed and then some but with that being said there are times when this episode does show potential it's just a shame that you have to sit through long scenes where nothing happens as such this episode gets a 5 out of 10 from me and I was forced to use images from other episodes just because the fandom page for this show is pretty freaking bad.

Images used in this review were gathered from either the Warrior Nun TV series fandom wiki page or in the case of The Old Guard poster Google images. I really don't have a joke in mind here just because the episode was so bad but yeah if you don't use either of these sites or don't like high quality images then I will force you to watch this episode for hours on end with no break inbetween viewings so yeah that's the best joke I got.

 

Game Of Thrones "Battle Of The B*****ds" Review

Game Of Thrones fans it's been at least a month since I reviewed a Game Of Thrones episode and well the episode I have lined up is one that i've been wanting to do for a few weeks now. In terms of what i'm calling battle episodes which are episodes that are mostly filled up with a big battle this is one of the the better ones and yes i'm editing the title just because in some places where i'm posting this review they don't allow swearing and I figured if you know the name of the episode then good for you and so here is my review of "Battle Of The B*****ds" Game Of Thrones and none Game Of Thrones fans alike.

The plot of this episode is in the North John and Sansa head into a deadly confrontation with Ramsay while in Meereen  Daenerys finally acquires something that will help her get to Westeros. lot wise the episode for me is really strong since both stories are told really well and help progress plots for certain characters with Sansa's plot about getting revenge of Ramsay coming to a conclusion and the plot with  Daenerys trying to get Westeros getting a huge leap forward and the story as a whole was told really well in my opinion.

Starring in the episode is Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister , Kit Harington as Jon Snow and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen. Also starring in the episode are Liam Cunningham as Davos Seaworth , Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark , Aidan Gillen as Petyr Baelish , Carice Van Houten as Melisandre , Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei , Kristofer Hivju as Tormund , Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton , Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy , Michiel Huisman as Daario Naharis , Art Parkinson as Rickon Stark and Bella Ramsey as Lyanna Mormont

In terms of what i thought about the acting in the episode it was honestly really good which for Game of Thrones isn't anything new. Honestly all of the actors in this episode do a really good job in this episode and alot of what makes there performances so good is not only the fact that we know these characters inside out and so know how they would react but it's also the script and direction that help give the actors a good performance in my opinion.

Doing the CGI for this episode were Screen Scene , Iloura , Rodeo FX and the greats over at Rhythm & Hues Studios. The CGI effects in Game Of Thrones have always been top notch and this episode despite not having that much effects apart from the dragons , fire , making a giant and making both armies look bigger then what they are are actually really good and they more then hold up to the shows already high standard when it comes to CGI.

Now I full on admit to not remembering much about season 6 in fact I haven't seen any episode from this season in a long time. As such I don't recall what each characters arc is for this season but I assume that this episode apart from the two storylines that I mentioned did a good job of representing the storylines of the small amount of characters that are in this episode but there's a huge chance that I could be wrong tho.

Now If I had to choose between this episode and the Blackwater episode and say which one is my all time favourite battle episode i'd have to give it to Blackwater. Simply because that episode was the first full length battle that was done in the show and from what I recall about the episode it did a good job of showing what an army is like in this world when it's fighting at nearly which is something that this episode doesn't do in my opinion.

Another thing that I kind of didn't like about the episode is the fact that it's just under an hour long with the final running time being fifty seven minuets long. Which for an episode this important and this good isn't long enough if anything it should have been at least an hour and a half long and what makes me say that is the fact that there's more then enough story to make the episode an hour and a half plus by making it that long it means that we get a much longer battle sequence as well.

Now even tho i'm a big fan of Daenerys I don't actually think that she was needed in this episode whatsoever. I honestly feel that her scenes would have been better of being put in episode 10 just because we already have one big battle in this episode and so to have to big action scenes right after each other is only going to tire the audience out plus by putting them in episode 10 you not only have the cliffhanger of is she going to survive but then you can quickly pay that of by showing her with the ships and sailing to Dragonstone straight away plus if you remove her scenes then you can have a much longer battle sequence.

There was no way in hell I could review this episode and not talk about the death of Rickon Stark because honestly the character acted pretty freaking dumb. He knows that Ramsay is firing arrows at him and yet he still freaking runs in a straight line he should have thrown in some zig zags just to throw him of but nope he went on running in a straight line which freaking made him an easy target and i'm shocked that it took Ramsay as long as it did to kill him.

Now then since there was action in this episode that does mean that I have to talk about the action that we saw in the episode. Which honestly for a TV show was pretty freaking impressive with the main battle just being a freaking treat for the eyes and the fact that they managed to pack in as much story into this one battle as well as many creative things is really freaking impressive (I don't think i've seen an army nearly crushed to death before) and it's sequences like this that make me want the whole episode to to just be this one battle.

Overall this is a really freaking solid episode in my opinion and is a very good example of what Game Of Thrones is like when it's at it's best. That being said yes this episode does have some issues but they are in my opinion very minor issues and they don't prevent you from enjoying the episode as a whole which is always a good thing in my opinion as such this episode gets a 9.5 out of 10 from me Game Of Thrones fans.

All images for this review were gathered from either the Game Of Thrones Season 6 fandom wiki page or Google images. Both of which I do highly recommend since they have some pretty high quality images and if you choose not to use them well then  my dogs haven't been fed for seven days and yes guys that was a joke there's no need to get yourself all worked up I was only kidding they haven't been fed for six days again i;m joking.

My First Impressions Of My Little Pony: Pony Life

Well then here is something that I wasn't expecting to be doing for a little while but imagine my surprise when I was checking the internet a few hours ago and I found two full episodes of My Little Pony: Pony Life. I was honestly not expecting to see any episodes of this show until at least September but apparently the show has been airing on Treehouse TV and those two episodes found there way online and so here are my first impressions of "My Little Pony: Pony Life" enjoy guys and girls.

From what I can gather this show is taking the same approach as Teen Titans Go! and by that I mean it has no real plot and just follows the main characters in a slice of life type of show. This really isn't a bad direction for the franchise since we've just had nine seasons of a show that had alot of plot and so to see one that's seems to be light on plot is oddly refreshing to see and one that while it was shocking at first it was also something that I got used to pretty quickly.

All of the actors are reprising their roles from Friendship Is Magic which again made this show feel like Teen Titans Go to me since they did the exact same thing. From what I can tell just based of these first two episodes the acting does seem to be pretty good but i'd need to see more episodes to fully judge it and i'll get into why soon but yeah just based of these two episodes the acting in the series seems to be pretty good.

The reason why I can't fully judge the acting is because each eleven minuets episode is split into two five minuet segments which doesn't really leave alot of time to fully judge the acting since your focused on things like the plot and humour. This is something that I can see effecting the rest of the show as well but only time will tell if it does effect the rest of the show or not and because the show is cut down alot it does mean that the actors don't get the chance to leave an impression on you.

The animation for this series is being done by Boulder Media who did the animation for the first season of The Amazing World of Gumball and the reboot of Danger Mouse. If your a fan of Gumball then chances are your going to like the animation in this series since like I said it's by the same studio and while the animation does indeed look good I personally prefer the animation in Friendship Is Magic just because it looked more like a fantasy show then this one does.

One of the things that I don't really like about this series is the backgrounds more specifically the backgrounds in Ponyville. Simply because those backgrounds just look unfinished and uninspired and since this is meant to be set in the same continuity as Friendship is Magic which had good looking backgrounds for this show to use those locations and give them terrible backgrounds just doesn't work well at all.

Now I keep on mentioning Teen Titans Go and that's because Pony Life honestly reminds me so much of that show. Even down to redesigning the characters and giving them more chibi / cutesy designs which I honestly didn't mind yes the new designs will take some getting used to but once you get used to designs hopefully you guys will like them but if not then that's cool as well but for me these new designs look good.

I really cannot say if all of the characters are acting in character here since like I said there's only two episodes released. From what I have seen tho they do seem to be acting in character but only time will tell if that remains true or not I hope it is because if not then I can see this show getting alot of hate from both Pony and non Pony fans alike but if they do then I can see a little less hate coming this shows way.

There is some connective tissue between episodes one and two which is something that I really wasn't expecting from this show whatsoever but it's something that i'm glad was there. Just because I like it when shows continue a plot line started in another episode i'm not going to say what it is but if you've seen the episodes then you'll know what it is and I hope that they keep bringing this plot line back just because it has potential to be really funny.

This is a harmless show and isn't as bad as say Thundercats Roar can be but at the same time given the new direction of the show I can see people going into the show assuming the worst.Which I personally don't think you should do just because if you do that then your going to be looking for things to hate about the show so i'd suggest going into this show with an open mind and be willing to give this show a fair chance.

Like both Teen Titans Go and Thundercats Roar this show seems to have a focus on comedy and that does mean that I have to talk about the jokes in these two episodes. Which without giving anything away I didn't like that much just because they go for the really obvious joke alot of the time which just isn't funny but then again what I didn't find funny you guys might fund to be funny as hell so take that whatever way you want.

Overall so far this show is just OK which I guess works to it's advantage since alot of shows that take the same approach as this one turn out pretty bad. However at the same time this is coming of a show that alot of people myself included loved and so to see a huge decline in quality is going to come as a bit of a shock to people but I will say that if your interested then check out in but if not your not missing out on anything special and since this show has only just started i'm not going to give this show a rating since it could get better or worse as the show goes on and there might be a review coming I just don't know when that will be. 

All images used in this post where gathered from both the My Little Pony fandom wiki page and the Teen Titans Go fandom page if you you want really high quality images I recommend either one of these pages. I would try and make a joke about using these fandom pages to get the images but I honestly cannot think of any and so im sorry but your getting the slandered message saying where they come from instead of one that's fun and hopefully funny.

X-Men: The Animated Series "Night Of The Sentinels Parts 1 And 2" Review

X-Men fans as some of you may know i've just reviewed the very first X-Men movie and well I thought that i'd keep this X train rolling only with something that has a kicka*s theme song. I make it no secret that I think that in terms of animation the nineties was the best era for comic book TV shows just think of the shows that we had we had "Spider-Man: The Animated Series" , "Batman: The Animated Series" "Superman: The Animated Series" and the show whose first two episodes i'm taking a look at today"X-Men: The Animated Series" and so here is my review of the first two episodes "Night Of The Sentinels Parts 1 And 2" enjoy.

The plot of these two episodes is new mutant named Jubilee finds her world is turned upside down when she finds out she's a mutant and her foster parents turn her over for Mutant Registration scared and alone she runs head first into the world of the X-Men. I'm not going to lie plot wise this two parter pretty freaking solid and i'm glad that it was a two part story because there is no way in hell you could have told a story like this in one episode hell they could barely do it in a two and a half hour movie that's how epic this story is in my opinion.

Starring in these episodes are Cedric Smith as Professor Charles Xavier/Professor X and Norm Spencer as Scott Summers/Cyclops. Also starring in the episodes are Cal Dodd as Logan/Wolverine and Pool Thug , Iona Morris as Ororo Munroe/Storm , Catherine Disher as Jean Grey , George Buza as Hank McCoy/Beast , Lenore Zann as Rogue , Chris Potter as Remy LeBeau/Gambit , Alyson Court as Jubilation Lee/Jubilee , Ron Rubin as Morph , Len Carlson as Robert Kelly and Jubilee's Foster Father , David Fox as The Sentinels and Brett Halsey as Bolivar Trask.

In terms of what I thought about the acting in these two episodes if i'm being really honest it wasn't that good. That doesn't mean it was bad because it wasn't but at the same time it's not as good as it perhaps could have been which is slightly understandable since these episode were the first two produced I believe and so it makes sense that the acting isn't that good since the actors are still getting used to each other but if I recall the acting does get better in later episodes.

Doing the animation for not only this two parter but for the rest of the series is Akom who mainly did animation for Animaniacs and Arthur. Now I want it known that i'm not going to mention the fact that there are alot of animation errors or that Akom turned in alot of the animation very late because honestly that wouldn't effect the overall quality of the animation in my which I feel is really high yes there are a lot of animation errors in the first episode but there not as bad as the one's seen in the 2016 Powerpuff Girls reboot and there are alot of really fluid movements in these two episodes as well it's so in my opinion the animation is really solid.

Without this show being as good as it was and these two episodes being as good as they are I don't feel that we wouldn't have got the first X-Men movie. Simply because Marvel wasn't in a good place when this show first started out and so they wouldn't have been able to convince any studio small or large to make a movie based on these characters but because the show was a success and these two episodes are really good it would only have been a matter of time before we saw a live action film version of the characters.

I'm just going to come right out and say it Morph was the most pointless character in this two parter his only goal in these two episodes is to die and that's it. He's just there so the team can find out how dangerous there current mission is and that doesn't make the character good , interesting or funny it just makes him pointless hell you could cut this character out of the show and nothing would be lost whatsoever that's how pointless he is.

Things do get a little bit better with the character of Jubilee as played by Alyson Court since this character isn't annoying as hell. True she doesn't add anything to the plot other then being someone for the X-Men to rescue but she's at least pleasant to watch which trust me is more then what I can say Morph who made me want to turn the episodes of every single time he was on screen with his annoying as hell laugh.

Out of the main X-Men there are perhaps two women that I think every guy and some girls had a crush on growing up those being Rogue and Storm and yeah it's not hard to see why. Since both characters kick a*s in these two episodes and they both looking stunning as hell both in and out of there costumes I honestly wouldn't have minded if these two episode were just about these two characters because I loved seeing them fighting giant robots on screen.

Another thing that I didn't like about these two episodes and it's the same thing that i didn't like about the first movie. It's that not alot of the team is given a chance to shine whereas in the movie you can't really forgive them for that because they had a longer running time you can forgive them here since combined they would have had at least forty five minuets which just isn't enough to give all of the characters a chance to introduce themselves and a reason as to why we should care about them but that's what the other episodes are for.

Now then boys and girls since this is an action show that does mean that we have to talk about the action that's in the show itself. Which for a nineties kids animated TV show it was honestly really good you get to see alot of the team use there powers which in my opinion is always a good thing and you get to see some really cool looking action scenes because of the fact that you get to see alot of the team using there powers.

Overall these honestly were a really good pair of episodes and our a great way to start of this great show. That being said however these two episode do have alot of issues in them and these issues were for me at least hard to ignore it doesn't make the episodes any less enjoyable but they are very noticeable in my opinion as such combined these episodes get an 8.5 out of 10 from me and if you guys want to review more episodes from this show let me know.

All images gathered for this review were gathered from either the Marvel Animated Universe fandom page or Google Images so if you want good high quality images check out either of those if you don't have all the Infinity Stones here and I will snap you our of existence. 

  

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour Review

Doctor Who fans there have been alot of people who have payed The Doctor both in terms of canon and those that aren't considered canon. So since my last Doctor Who themed post dealt with a Doctor that wasn't canon I thought that i'd deal with an episode featuring a Doctor that is canon and well since i'm only reviewing things that I own right now that really did leave me with a very small amount of choices and so here is my review of the first episode of series 5 of the modern era "The Eleventh Hour" geronimo!!! Doctor Who fans. 

The plot of the episode is a newly regenerated Doctor has just twenty minuets to save the earth before it's melted. I have to admit that the story for this episode was rather enjoyable it did a good job of mixing the seriousness of the earth being under threat with some slapstick moments as well some cool moments near the end of the episode , the episode also did a good job of handling the idea that the Doctor is an alien with the character at a few points in the story acting rather quirky something which hasn't been seen in alot of modern Doctor Who.

Being introduced in this episode is Matt Smith as The Doctor , Karen Gillan as Amy Pong , Caitlin Blackwood as Amelia aka young Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams. Also starring in the episode are Nina Wadia as Dr Ramsden , Marcello Magni as Barney Collins , Annette Crosbie as Mrs Angelo , Tom Hopper as Jeff , Arthur Cox as Mr Henderson , Olivia Colman as Mother , David de Keyser as the voice of the Atraxi , William Wilde as the voice of Prisoner Zero and Patrick Moore as Himself.

In terms of what I thought about the acting in the episode it honesty wasn't that bad since like I said alot of the actors in this episode are playing these roles for the first time and so you would have forgiven them if they didn't give that good of a performance in this episode but no they knocked out of the park. As did alot of the guest actors with alot of them getting some really funny lines of dialog and like the main cast are really likeable as well.

Doing the CGI for the film is the ever trustworthy The Mill who have done all of the CGI for the show since 2005. So i'm glad to say that the CGI in this episode is actually really good with the episode making use of some nice looking green screen effects which given that this episode aired in 2010 i'm surprised that the green screen effects hold up as well as they do. Even the fully CGI aliens like Prisoner Zero and The Atraxi still look really good.

What really did shock me when doing some research for this review is that the company that did some of the effects for films such as Avengers: Infinity War , Avengers: Endgame and some of the Harry Potter films Framestore did the new title sequence. I honestly didn't know this but it's something that shocked me because i'm a fan of there work having love all of the effects for alot of the films that they work on and so to find out that they worked on a British institution like Doctor Who is to me a goof thing since they do produce good looking effects.

New production team means that we get a new TARDIS control room design and I have to say that I really like the look of this new TARDIS. I'm not going to say that it's the best looking one because honestly if you ask any Doctor Who fan that question you'll get a ton of different answers but I will say that this one suits the Doctors mad man in a box type of personality with the design looking very alien and strange.

Something which I think both works for and against the episode is the fact that it picks up metre moments after The End Of Time ends. It works to it's advantage because that episode had alot of people watching it and so of course there going to see the first episode with a new Doctor. However this is where it works to it's disadvantage because this episode could have been used as a way to draw in new fans since it's a new era of the show but by starting the episode right after the previous one means that newer fans are going to have homework to and no one wants to watch several previous episodes just to understand one scene.

Another thing that I personally don't like about the episode s the fact that it's an hour long and the reason why I don't like it is because there's not enough story to cover that running time. If anything the episode should have been forty five to fifty minuets adding in that extra time means things that would normally be explained in one scene now take several scenes because they need to fill up the run time which should never be the case the running time should always be decided by how much story there is and not the over way around.

What I wished that the episode spent a little bit more time on is the history that Amy and The Doctor shared since was honestly a really interesting thin to see play out and it even led to few really good jokes. However tho that aspect of the story seemed to get dropped pretty quickly which is a shame because I was honestly enjoying seeing it play out but I understand that this is basically a kids show and kids aren't going to like that story so while I liked it I fully get why they didn't go that much into the story.

Another thing that I wished that the episode spent a little bit more time on is the villain which they really could have done given it's just over an hour long. The fact that they didn't fully develop Prisoner Zero to me makes the character one of the more weaker villains that the modern ear of Doctor Who has ever produced since we don;t get to find out why he or she is a villain and while there was a line written and i;m guessing filmed saying Prisoner Zero had impersonated an army and invaded a planet it was cut for some reason.

Overall this was a rather fun episode to revisit and is honestly an episode that I would recommend to people wanting to get into Doctor Who since it is a new era for the show. Steven Moffat said in the commentary for this episode that he wanted the show to feel both new and old at the same time and in my opinion he did achieve that since there are elements that old Doctor Who fans will like and there are stuff to entice new fans but with all of that being said the episode does have some issues which i've covered in this review as such the episode gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me.