Star Wars Rebels "Twilight Of The Apprentice" Review

 

Star Wars fans we are but a little over a week away from the launch of the newest Star Wars animated series which is being called "Star Wars: The bad Batch" and as such I thought that it would be fun to take a look back review and episode from another Star Wars animated TV show. This was done simply because I felt like it and so join me as I review the awesome episode of the second season of Star Wars Rebels with the episode itself being called simply "Twilight Of The Apprentice" enjoy,

The plot of this particular episode is Kanen , Ahsoka and Ezra are searching for knowledge about how to destroy the sith once and for all and there quest takes them to hidden Sith temple where an old friend who is seeking there/ his own revenge is waiting for them. In terms of what I thought about the plot of this episode in all honesty the plot of this episode is so good and even if you haven't seen the previous episode this story is still very easy to follow and it's stories like this that help make Star Wars Rebels as good as it was in my opinion.

Starring in this episode is Taylor Gray as Ezra Bridger , Freddie Prinze, Jr. as Kanan Jarrus and the always talented and the always stunning Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano. Also starring in this particular episode is Dee Bradley Baker as Captain Rex , Robert Daymond Howard as Eighth Brother , Sam Witwer as Maul , The Legend That Simply Is James Earl Jones as Darth Vader , Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker , the stunning Sarah Michelle Gellar as Seventh Sister , Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as Fifth Brother and Nika Futterman as Presence.

In terms of what I thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very episode in all honesty the acting that's featured /presented to us in this very review is as good as you'd expect the acting to be in a Dave Filoni directed animated Star Wars TV episode. Since yeah the acting in this episode is so freaking good with all of the actors that are starring / appearing in this episode really doing a good job at portraying their respective character which given that some of these have been playing their respective characters for literally decades at this point really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone at all. 

Now try as I might but I cannot find out who in the heck did the animation for this episode which given what i'm about to say is truly freaking shocking indeed. Since I really did like the animation that's featured / presented to us in this episode since in my opinion at least the animation that's featured / presented to us in this episode is close to being movie quality because everything about the animation in this particular is so good and you can tell that the animators and everyone involved with the animation side of making show put alot of time and effort into making sure that the animation in this particular episode was as good and if not better then the animation that was seen in the later seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

This episode features the return of Darth Maul (yes I know that he goes by just simply Maul but he will always be Darth Maul to me damn it lol) and I have to admit after not really seeing this character in animation before now I really did like how well that this character was handled in animation. Since this character is to some degree a con man in that he'll tell you whatever it is that you want to hear in order to get what he wants and then and only then once he gets what he wants will he then reveal his true side which honestly makes the character very interesting since you never really know at least in this particular episode is he's telling you the truth or if he's lieing to you which makes his betrayal all the more shocking in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

I'm just going to be f*****g / freaking real with you guys I straight up loved this season two finale of Star Wars Rebels. Simply because this finale is so freaking good it hits all of the buttons that you want a season finale to hit and yet it also tells a good story and it does interesting things with it characters which even tho those interesting things have very little no impact on this episode they would go on to have a huge impact in season 3 of Star Wars Rebels. 

Now then boys and girls i've been very / pretty freaking positive about this episode so far but there are a few things that I didn't like about this particular episode with the first thing being the fact that the new and interesting things that this episode does with it's characters have no literally no / zero impact in this episode and so those new and interesting things could have been removed from this episode and nothing about this particular episode would be effected whatsoever and the other thing that I didn't like is that it got rid of this seasons big bads / villains pretty easily which makes the big bads / villains for this particular season just feel useless and not that threatening and from what I can remember the villains / big bads from this particular season aren't interesting or even good characters but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinions anyways.

Now then boys boys and girls this particular episode has a running time of just simply forty three minuets and fourteen seconds. Which I honestly feel is the right amount of time for this particular episode since this episode has to not only wrap up any stories from season two but also set up stories for season three and so this episode needed to be double the length of a normal twenty two minuet episode of Star Wars Rebels and this episode used it's extra running time to it's full advantage since there is so much going on both story wise and character wise that it needed the extra running time in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion.

Just before I talk about the actual action that's featured / presented to us in this episode I have to talk about the fight between Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader. Since even tho I didn't watch that much of Star Wars: The Clone Wars growing up I still knew enough to know who Ahsoka was and so knowing that she had no idea that Anakin had turned to the dark side of the force and seeing her squaring up to Darth Vader was still a shocking thing because no matter if you've seen Star Wars: the Clone Wars or not you have that connection with one or even both of those characters and so the fight means more because you know what those characters have gone through and that made there fight and there meting in this episode all the more impactful for me personally but that's just what I personally think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now then boys and girls in terms of what I personally thought about the action that's featured / presented to us in this episode. In all honestly I really did like the action that was featured / presented to us in this episode simply because I watched more of Star Wars Rebels that I did Star Wars The Clone Wars and so I have a much stronger connection to the cast of characters from Star Wars Rebels and that made the action in this episode all the more impactful because of the fact that i've followed those characters from Star Wars Rebels on this journey and so of course i'd want them to succeed and of course i'd also want them to beat every enemy that they enter into a really cool looking fight scene / action scene with.

Overall this was a really freaking good episode in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion and it's one that I personally recommend all Star Wars and non Star Wars fans alike check out because this episode is well and truly that freaking good. Now then boys and girls since i've talked about both of the good things that are featured / presented to us in this episode and as well as both of the bad things that are featured / resented to us in this very episode in this very review this episode gets a 9 out of 10 from me personally.

As for where I got the images that I used in this very review from well i got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official Star Wars Rebels fandom wiki page , the official Star Wars fandom wiki page and the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this particular episode from being the official Star Wars Rebels fandom wiki page just because all if not alot of the images that are featured on the official Star Wars Rebels fandom wiki page are all fairly high definition as well as being fairly high quality as well.

Game Of Thrones "The Long Night" Review

 

Ladies and gentlemen it's been at least two months since I last spoke about anything to do with Game Of Thrones and well as such I thought that now was the right time to make another Game Of Thrones review. This time tho I thought that i'd go with a rather underrated episode from the dreadful season eight and so join me boys and girls as I review the Game Of Thrones season 8 episode that really should have had alot more main character deaths with the episode itself being called simply "The Long Night" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Winterfell finds itself under attack from the army of the dead which is lead of course by the night king and so it's up to our heroes to survive the night and hopefully defeat the night king once and for all or else the night king and his army of the dead will take out the entire world of Westeros. Plot wise I felt that this episode was really good since it was very easy to understand what the plot of the episode was and it really helped the plot of this particular episode was in my opinion at least really well freaking told.

Starring in this particular episode is Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Ser Jaime Lannister. Also starring in this particular episode is Emilia Clarke as Queen Daenerys Targaryen , Kit Harington as Jon Snow , Sophie Turner as Lady Sansa Stark , Maisie Williams as Arya Stark, Liam Cunningham as Ser Davos Seaworth , Carice Van Houten as Melisandre , Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei , Alfie Allen as Prince Theon Greyjoy , Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark , John Bradley as Samwell Tarly , Hannah Murray as Gilly , Gwendoline Christie as Ser Brienne of Tart , Conleth Hill as Varys , Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane , Kristofer Hivju as Tormund , Joe Dempsie as Gendry , Jacob Anderson as Commander Grey Worm , Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont , Bella Ramsey as Lady Lyanna Mormont , Richard Dormer as Lord Beric Dondarrion and Vladimír Furdík as The Night King.

In terms of what I thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this episode in all honesty I thought that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this particular episode was really freaking good. Which given that this is Game Of Thrones and Game Of Thrones always has good acting the fact that this particular episode has good acting isn't new or even close to being shocking but what is new is the fact that there's alot of scenes where there's no dialog and yet you can tell what the characters are thinking just by looking at the actors on the screen and that is something that i've never said before in any of my reviews but it's something that I feel is very true for this particular episode.

Doing the CGI for not only this particular episode but also for the whole of the Game Of Thrones TV series is Karakter Design Studio , Weta Digital , El Ranchito , Image Engine Design , SSVFX , Important Looking Pirates , Atomic Arts , Lola Visual Effects , Clearcut FX , Cadence Effects and Yellowmoon. I don't think that this needs saying at this point since it's true for every single episode of Game Of Thrones but the CGI that's featured / resented to us in this episode is so freaking good and part of what makes the CGI in this particular episode so good is the fact that CGI blends in with the stuff that was filmed for real so well and so there's a hint of realism there like for example when you see a dragon breathe fire this episode will sometimes show how that fire is lighting other parts of Winterfell and that kind of detail / realism is something that you don't really see that much in TV shows and that helps the overall quality of the CGI in this episode but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

One of the things that really bugged me about this episode is that only a few major characters die which for Game Of Thrones a show which is known for killing major characters isn't a good thing at all in my opinion. Like how cool and shocking would it have been to see Jon Snow get killed or to see someone like Arya get killed either one of those deaths would have made the episode more impactful heck killing of any of the really well known characters would have made this episode seem all the more impactful but nope instead the writers of this particular episode who are David Benioff & D.B. Weiss instead chose to go the safe route and kept all of the really well known / really popular characters save and thus alive.

I had to admit that I really loved Arya in this episode since they pretty much made her like Liam Neesons character from Taken mixed with John Wick. Which is honestly something that really did work for where the character of Arya is at this point in the story since at this point in the story she's become a battle hardened warrior and so she's willing to do anything to keep something that she loves save and that's love and that determination that really keeps her going in this episode but there's a huge chance that i'm simply just looking for something that simply isn't there just like there's a huge chance that i'm looking at something that simply isn't there.

I'm just going to come right out and say it Jon Snow is freaking dumb as a rock in this episode because he knows that The Night King can raise the dead and so what does he do he puts alot of the really important people plus women and children and those who simply cannot fight in a place that's full of dead people. Granted wherever every none fighter and important person was going to put was always going to be unsafe but putting them in a room full of undead people when your fighting against someone who can raise the dead is a pretty freaking dumb move but that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now then boys and girls I cannot remember the exact running time for this episode but I do know that this episode is at least one hour and twenty minuets / an hour and twenty minuets long and I have to say that that is the right amount of time for this episode in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion. Since there's so much to cover story wise that you just couldn't do this episode in just under an hour but that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now then boys and girls this whole episode is basically one action sequence / action set piece which means that I have to talk about the action that's featured / presented to us in this episode / in the actual episode itself and if i'm being really freaking honest the action that's featured / presented to us in this episode is so freaking good. I honestly think that director Miguel Sapochnik really does know how to direct an action scene since he does a really good job with the action in this episode since the action that's featured / presented to us in this episode is just so cool to see which is something that you always want when your doing alot of action in either a TV show or in a film.

Overall out of the whole of season eight this is one of the better episodes which really isn't saying much because alot of Game Of Thrones fans myself included hate season eight of Game Of Thrones. Now then boys and girls i've talked about both / some of the good things that are in this episode and bot / some of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such this episode gets an 8 out of 10 from me.

As for where I got the images that I used in this review well i personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from either Google Images or the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page. With my referred website to use for images from this episode being the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page just simply due to not only how images there are from this particular episode but also just simply due to the fact that nearly all of the images from this particular episode are very high definition and as well as being vert high quality.

WWE / WWF Wrestlemania 23 Review

 

Wrestling fans it's been about three months since we last spoke and well since i'm writing this review on the day of Wrestlemania 37 Night One it only makes sense that I review a Wrestlemania PPV event. However with there being so so so so so so so so so so many Wrestlemanias to choose from which one do i go with well since I only own of them on DVD (which yes I will be talking about later on in this review) it makes sense that I review that particular Wrestlemania and so join me boys and girls as I review the 2007 WWE / WWF PPV event that is called simply "Wrestlemania 23" enjoy.

Now unlike the other classic WWE / WWF PPV's that i've reviewed I really do feel that you need to watch the Raws , Smackdowns and the case of Wrestlemania 23 the ECWs and PPVs leading up to this show. Simply because there aren't that many video packages in this particular event and so there's no way that you can catch up with all of the then current storylines leading up to and as well going beyond this show without spending literally dozens of hours watching WWE / WWF and ECW from the year 2007. Which is both a good and a bad thing it's a good thing because it means that you get to watch some now classic wrestling but it's bad thing because if your like me then you don't have access to all of those episodes but I get why they didn't have alot of if any video packages during Wrestlemania 23 since Wrestlemania is seen is usually seen as the big finale for all of the current storylines but at the same time I would have loved to see video packages just because it makes following the then current storylines alot easier in my opinion but that's just what I think and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

I have to say that I really didn't like the set to Wrestlemania 23 since to me at least the set looked to busy and complicated. Which for me at least takes away from the entire PPV since for me personally / at least part of the fun of Wrestlemania is seeing how grand the set is for that particular Wrestlemania and so to see a Wrestlemania set that looks really busy and complicated is bad thing since a Wrestlemania set should be grand yet simple and that's not the feeling that I personally got from this set but that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion.

Looking back on it now there's not one single thing that I liked about this Wrestlemania set which is a shame because I can usually find at least one thing that I liked about most Wrestlemania sets but I can't honestly think of a single thing that I personally liked / really liked about this particular Wrestlemania set. Each Wrestlemania set is meant to invoke something from the particular town that that years Wrestlemania is taking place in and yet I can't think of anything in the set for Wrestlemania 23 that invokes the town Wrestlemania 23 is taking place in but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now then boys and girls this particular Wrestlemania also features someone who is now extremely / very controversial and since I want this review to be focused strictly on the actual PPV event in question and not what I this person has done very recently I will not referring to this person by name nor will I be using any images of this person outside of the main poster for this particular Wrestlemania. I will say that the match that this person is involved in is a decent match but at the same time the ending of this match is so convoluted and the actual haircutting segment goes on for far two long in my opinion which is a shame apart from the ending the match itself is honestly pretty and as well the match in question is also very entertaining but there's so many run ins that it just takes you out of the match and brings the overall match quality down in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Out of all the matches that are on this card perhaps the worst for me at least is Kane vs The Great Khali. Simply because this match features two very big men one of whom can barely wrestle (The Great Khali) and the other one can't move as much as he used to (Kane) as such I have to wonder who in the hell thought that it was a good idea to book these two guys in a wrestling because even on paper this is bad match and it's exactly as bad as you think that it's going to be and then some but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my personal and very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Not only is this Wrestlemania now official for having a rather controversial person involved but it's also known for having a now known murderer on it's it's card and I don't think that I need to say this person's name since his case is very well known in the wrestling world and I will say that even tho what this person did outside of the ring is terrible and unforgivable. How they wrestled not only in this match but in alot of to possibly even all of there matches was really good and heck i'd even say that this match is one of the better matches on this card even if there are not only a few lines of commentary which are now really uncomfortable (JBL says that the murderer in question is definitely going into the WWE Hall Of Fame) but there is also a move which with the benefit of hindsight is a rather uncomfortable move to watch this person performing in the ring and in not only this match but in any match in which they bust out this move but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now this is something that I noticed when I was watching this particular Wrestlemania for this very review but near the end of the opening match which is the eight man Money In The Bank Ladder Match for those that don't know but quite a few of the superstars that are taking part in that match just straight up disappear from the match. Granted they do give an in match explanation for wrestlers like Edge and Jeff Hardy but everyone else that disappears from this match gets no explanation whatsoever which in my opinion at least is just bad booking since you have a bunch of guys all of whom can wrestle and you get rid of them all with explanation given and that brings down the quality of the match but the match itself is honestly pretty decent with lots of cool moments but the disappearing superstars really does let this match down in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now i'm sure that the women's championship Lumberjill Match had a botched finished just because none of the wrestlers seemed prepared for that bridging pinfall to be the finish. Plus even for a divas era match this match was super short with the late Ashley Massaro getting in next to no offensive in on Malina at all which leads me to believe that this match was meant to go on for a little bit more / a little bit longer but I could be wrong tho but for the only women's match on the card for this particular Wrestlemania to be three minuets and thirteens seconds including entrances is a damn shame because we know that Malina can wrestle and form what I can remember Ashley Massaro could wrestle so why these two women won't given more time for their match I do not but the short time for this match really did hurt the match in my opinion but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now boys and girls this particular Wrestlemania had a very short running time with the total running time for this particular Wrestlemania being three hours and fort one minuets and eleven seconds. Which for a Wrestlemania is super freaking short and even tho i was forced to watch this particular Wrestlemania on my mobile phone because the DVD I have of this particular Wrestlemania wasn't working when I put it in both my Xbox One and in an ordinary DVD player the time for this PPV event still flew by and it made me wish that alot of the more recent Wrestlemania alot shorter since this particular Wrestlemania didn't try to fit every single WWE superstar and every single female WWE superstar on the card instead this particular Wrestlemania just stuck the matches that were announced for the show and that had some storyline behind them and that works on this particular Wrestlemania favour in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

For me one of the if not the best match on the card for this particular Wrestlemania is Batista vs The Undertaker with Shawn Michaels vs John Cena coming in at a very close second. For me personally what makes the Batista vs The Undertaker match stand out is the fact that both Batista and The Undertaker really sell any injuries that they sustain during this match and as well as the fact that the Batista vs The Undertaker is just super exciting with lots of really cool moments which help make the Batista vs The Undertaker match as a good as it is but that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Overall this particular Wrestlemania is a particularly good Wrestlemania but I would fully understand it if this particular Wrestlemania had it's fans tho. I've talked about both of the good and both of the bad things that are to be found in this particular Wrestlemania in this very review as such Wrestlemania 23 gets a 7 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well i got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page and nowhere else and since I only went to the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page for the images that I did actually end up using in this very review I have no choice but to recommend that you guys the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page if you want to use images from any pro wrestling event or if you want to use any image of any particular pro wrestler and it helps that all of the images that are featured /used on the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page are fairly high quality and as well as being fairly high definition but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

X-Men: The Animated Series "Enter Magneto" AND "Deadly Reunions" Review

Marvel fans it's been about three months since i've last spoken about anything to do with the X-Men characters and it's been about ten months since i've last spoken about anything to do with the pure greatness that is the X-Men: The Animated Series. As such I thought that i'd rectify this by taking a look at a couple of episodes from the show and so join me as I review two episodes from the X-Men: The Animated Series with the episodes in question being called simply "Enter Magneto" and "Deadly Reunions" respectively and so enjoy the review everyone.

The plot of these two episodes is Magneto is getting ready to wage a war against the humans and it's up to members of the X-Men to stop him before he starts a full scale with the entire human race. In terms of what I thought the plot of these two episodes in all honesty the plot to these two episodes was rather weak which is a shame because the X-Men: The Animated Series is known for having strong episodes with strong plotlines and as such it's kind of disheartening to see a pair of episodes have a fairly weak plot but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my honest opinion anyways.

Starring in these two episodes are Cedric Smith as Professor Charles Xavier / Professor X and Norm Spencer as Scott Summers / Cyclops. Also starring in these two episodes are Cal Dodd as Logan / Wolverine , Iona Morris as Ororo Munroe / Storm , George Buza as Hank McCoy / Beast , Alyson Court as Jubilation Lee / Jubilee , Don Francks as Graydon Creed, Sr. / Sabretooth , David Hemblin as Eric Magnus / Magneto , Stephen Ouimette as Hodge , Len Carlson as Robert Kelly and Lenore Zann as Rogue.

In terms of what I thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in these two episodes in all honesty the acting that's featured / presented to us in these two episodes is in my opinion really good and I say that the acting that's featured / presented to us in these two episodes is in my opinion really good simply due to the fact that's it's something that I strongly believe to be the case. Simply because the acting in this show is for the most part at least very good and the same is true for these two episodes and what helps the acting in my opinion is the fact that the scripts for these two episodes are so freaking good that all the actors would have to do when  recording for these two episodes is just say the lines as they're written and boom a good performance would come out alot naturally in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Doing the animation for not only these two episodes but for this entire show as a whole is Akom Production Company and in terms of what I thought about the animation that's featured / presented to us in these two episodes. In all honesty I thought that the animation that's featured / presented to us in these two episodes wasn't that bad since there are a few shots in these two episodes that even by today's standards with the technology today would still be hard to pull as such you can only imagine how hard those shots would have been hard to pull of back in the very early nineties and yet the animation in those shots in the episode as a whole really does stand out due to how good the animation in those shots are and the animation in these two episodes as whole holds up really does hold up really freaking well but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very humble opinion anyways.

Now then boys and girls these two episodes are the first set of episodes to feature the X-Mens arch nemesis Magneto who here has the human name of Eric Magnus. I honestly had no idea that these two episodes was were the X-Men: The Animated Series chose to introduce Magneto just simply because he's always been the big bad for the X-Men and as such i've always assumed that he appeared in either episodes one that he appeared in episode two of this show and i will admit that I really did like how they used the character in these two episodes since they show him thinking about his next step and very carefully choosing where to attack next which makes the character seem like someone who is a strategist but that's just in my humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

I will admit that I don't really like the idea that they changed Magneto's real name to Eric Magnus since it really does hit the magnet theme really on the nose. If anything the makers of this show should have kept his name to simply Max Eisenhardt or even Erik Lehnsherr just simply because those two names sound alot better and those two names aren't as on the nose as Eric Magnus well and truly is but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my honest opinion anyways.

Now this is something that I honestly didn't know about the X-Men: The Animated Series version of Ororo Munroe / Storm and that's the fact that this version of Ororo Munroe / Storm is infact claustrophobic. Just this one little change makes this version of the character seem a lot more interesting because it means that you can now possibly beat her which means that every time that she goes into battle there's a very good chance that she might not walk out of that battle alive but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now then boys and girls these two episodes have a total combined running time of forty two minuets and twenty five seconds and if i'm being these episodes didn't need to be a two part episode. Since you very well could have told this story in one episode and you could have had the whole plot line with Sabretooth and Wolverine last this entire first season of the show which of then have made the fact that Sabretooth is actually working for Magneto have alot more impact but I will admit that these two episodes do have some really good pacing in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinions anyways.

Now then boys and girls this is an action show after all and there is some to possibly even alot of action in these two episodes. Which means that I have to talk about the action that's featured / presented to us in these two episodes and if i'm being honest the action that's presented to us in these two episodes is really cool and I say that the action that's presented to us in these two episodes is really cool since you get to see alot of the X-Men not only use there gifts but you also get to see them struggle against an enemy who could beat all of the X-Men without even lifting a finger and that makes the action sequences in these two episodes alot more thrilling and as well as alot more dramatic since the X-Men could very well loose against Magneto but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my honest opinions anyways.

Overall these two episodes were honestly really good but at the same time I don't think that these two episodes are amongst this shows / series best episodes in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways. Now then boys and girls i've talked about both of the good things in this episodes and well as both of the bad things that are in this particular episode in this very review and as such these two episodes get a combined score of a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

As for where I got all of the images that I used in this review well I got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official Marvel Animated Universe fandom wiki page. Since I only went to the official Marvel Animated Universe fandom wiki page and nowhere else for the images that I used in this very review I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use the official Marvel Animated Universe fandom wiki page just due to not only how many images there are of both of these episodes but also due to hw quality and how high definition the images that are on / featured on the official Marvel Animated Universe fandom wiki page but thats just what I think and that's just in my humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

 

Spider-Man: The Animated Series "The Spider Slayer" AND "Return Of The Spider Slayers" Review

 

Marvel fans it's been at least five or possibly even six months since I last spoke about an episode from any of the classic nineties Marvel animated TV shows and well I thought that i'd that right now by possibly spending the next few days talking about episodes from some of the classic nineties Marvel animated TV shows. and well better show to start if with the Spider-Man: The Animated Series. I will fully admit that I wasn't expecting either of the episodes that i'm basing this review on to be any good and yet I was honestly pleasantly surprised by how good these episodes truly where and so join me as I review episodes from the nineties Marvel animated series with the TV series itself being called either "Spider-Man" or is called just simply "Spider-Man: The Animated Series and the episodes in question are simply called "The Spider Slayer" and "Return Of The Spider Slayers" and so enjoy the review everyone.

The plot of these episodes is father and son duo Spencer and Alistair Smythe scheme to take down Spider-Man once and for all and it's up to Spider-man to stop them both before he ends up as a squished bug. In terms of what I thought about the plot of these episodes in all honesty the plot of these two episodes wasn't bad but at the same time this really didn't need to be a two part episode since you could have told the story of these two episodes in one episode but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Starring in both of these two episodes are Christopher Daniel Barnes as Peter Parker / Spider-Man and Edward Asner as J. Jonah Jameson. Also starring in these two episodes are Linda Gary as Aunt May Parker , Rodney Saulsberry as Joseph Robertson and as Soldier number 4 , Jennifer Hale as Felicia Hardy , Hank Azaria as Eddie Brock and as Soldier number 5 , Patrick Labyorteaux as Flash Thompson , Gary Imhoff as Harry Osborn and as Soldier number 2 , Edward Mulhare as Spencer Smythe , Maxwell Caulfield as Alistair Smythe and as Soldier number 1 , Neil Ross as Norman Osborn and as Soldier number 3 , Sara Ballantine as Mary Jane Watson and finally we have Roscoe Lee Brown as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin.

In terms of what I thought about the acting that's featured in these two episodes in all honesty the acting that's featured in these two episodes is in all honesty really good and in very humble and as well as in my very honest opinion anyway and I say that the acting that's featured in these two episodes is in all honesty really good simply because I feel that's true. Since all of the actors that are starring in these two episodes do a really good job with their respective characters and in the cases of actors like Hank Azaria , Jennifer Hale and Linda Gary who are all voice acting legends and as such it makes sense that those three actors would turn in great performances in these two episodes but that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Doing the animation for these episodes and as well as the whole series is TMS Entertainment , Seoul Movie , Anima Sam Won and Koko Enterprises Company. Now I have no idea which one of these studios did the animation for these particular episodes but I do know that they did the animation for this show as a whole. In terms of what I thought about the animation that's featured / presented to us in these two episodes in all honesty the animation that's featured in these two episodes is alot better then what thought it was going to because nineties TV animation doesn't always hold up that well at least in my experience but no the animation that's featured / presented to us in these two episodes holds up really well with there being alot of really fluid movements for alot of the characters and the backgrounds (for the time that this episode was made and broadcast) look really good but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.  

For those that don't know these are the two episodes that introduce both Wilson Fisk / Kingpin and Mary Jane Watson into the Spider-Man: The Animated Series canon / world. However what I found to be interesting is that this show seemed to be possibly teeing up a relationship between Peter Parker and Felicia Hardy which is honestly a coupling / couple that I would have loved to have seen in this show simply because we've seen Peter and Mary Jane Watson be a couple for countless Spider-Man adaptations and as such it would have been nice if this version of Spider-Man didn't date Mary Jane Watson but instead chose to go out with Felicia Hardy but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

I will admit that I never noticed that this version of Spider-Man maintained Spider-Man's sense of humour and this is something that I personally have very mixed feeling about. Since on the one hand having Spider-Man make jokes in certain situations oddly makes alot of sense and is something that that character has done in the past but at the same time these episodes have Spider-Man tell jokes were a joke isn't needed like for example having Spider-Man make a joke while he's just been told that he has exactly one hour left to live which is something that Spider-Man would never do but that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Lets talk for a second about these episodes villains who are Spencer and Alistair Smythe , Norman Osbourne and Wilson Fisk / Kingpin. In my opinion these two episodes didn't really need four main villains if anything these two episodes just needed three villains since Alistair Smythes motivation is to get revenge on Spider-Man for the death of his father Spencer Smythe and as such you don't really need Norman Osbourne in these episodes since he adds nothing to either episode since you could have had Wilson Fisk / Kingpin be the one that's giving Spencer and Alistair Smythe the money that they need to build The Spider Slayer robots and as for Spencer Smythe I honestly liked that he wasn't evil since he was just trying to do the right thing by his son Alistair Smythe and that honestly made the death of Spencer Smythe and the turn to the evil side of things for Alistair Smythe all the more tragic but that's just what I think and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now then the combined total running time for these two episodes is forty minuets and five seconds and like I said at the start if this review these episodes didn't need there story to be told over two episodes. Since you could tell the exact same story in one episode with the first half of the episode dealing with the death of Spencer Smythe and the second episode dealing with the fall from the side of good of Alistair Smythe but I will admit that both episodes have some really good pacing in my very humble and as well as in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now then boys and girls since this is an action show after all and there is some / alot of action to be found in these very episodes it only makes sense that I now take the tie to talk about the actions that's featured / presented to us in these episodes and if i'm being honest the action that's presented to us in these episodes is really freaking good. Simply because the action that's presented to us in these episodes is really freaking exciting and I have to admit the action that's in "Return Of The Spider Slayers" actually had me on the edge of my seat because that's how good the action was in my humble and very honest opinion anyways.

Overall while it was very pointless to make these two episodes basically a two part episode since they have totally different stories there is alot of good to be found in both of these episodes. Now then boys and girls since i've talked about both if the good things in this episodes in this actual review and both of the bad things that are in this episode in this actual review both of these episodes get a combined score of a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

As for where I got the images that I used in this very review well I got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official Marvel Animated Universe fandom wiki page and nowhere else. Since I only went to the official Marvel Animated Universe fandom wiki page and nowhere else I have to no choice but to recommend that you guys use the official Marvel Animated Universe fandom wiki page if you want to use images from alot of the nineties Marvel TV animated TV shows and alot of the images that are on the official Marvel Animated Universe fandom wiki page are fairly high definition as well as being fairly high quality but that's just what I think and as well as being in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

My Very First SPOILER FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Impressions Of The Edens Zero Anime

 

Ladies and gentlemen I honestly didn't plan on taking a look at another anime so soon after taking a look at the first two episodes of the Fairy Tail TV anime. However fate has decided that it will / would very much like me to take a look at another anime and just like with Godzilla: Singular Point I completely forgot that this anime was even coming let alone that it technically has had it's first two episodes released for a good few days at least ( at the time of this writing at least) and so join me as I give you my very first impressions of the anime series that is simply called "Edens Zero" enjoy.

Now I honestly have no idea what the plot of this show even is and i've read some of the early issues of the Edens Zero manga and I get that it's kind of usual for the story of anime to start showing around the fourth episode. However there still needs to be some hint of the what the plot of the show is in the first three of in this case the first two episodes which sadly isn't the case and while that may have also been true for the Fairy Tail anime TV series that doesn't mean that it's a legit problem with both shows since you need a story in order to convince people to come back and watch next weeks episode but that's just what I think anyways.

Now then boys and girls since there isn't a cast list out there for these first two episodes and as such i'm just going to list every actor and / or actress who is starring in the show as a whole and so starring in this show is Mikako Komatsu as Rebecca Bluegarden. Also starring in this show is Takuma Terashima as Shiki Granbell , Hiromichi Tezuka as Wise Steiner , Houchu Ohtsuka as Ziggy , Kikuko Inoue as Mother , Rie Kugimiya as Happy , Sayaka Ohara as Elsie Crimson , Shiki Aoki as Homura Kōgetsu and Shiori Izawa as E.M. Pino.

As for what I thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this episode in all honesty the acting that's featured / presented to us in this episode isn't that bad in my humble and very honest opinion and I say that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this episode isn't that bad simply because like with Fairy Tail the idea and concept behind this show is bit farfetched. As such no one would have blamed the actors that are appearing in these first two episodes if they chose to either over act or under act in either these first two episodes of the Edens Zero anime TV series or in the show show as a whole and as such it was honestly fairly shocking to see the actors that are appearing in this episode treat the material rather seriously and that honestly I think that that helped the performances of the actors that are appearing in this episode in my humble and very honest opinion it did anyways but that's just what I think anyways.

Doing the animation for not only these first two episodes but for the show as a whole is J.C. Staff and even tho the name J.C. Staff rings a bell I cannot for the life of me think of what it is that J.C. Staff have worked on that is very noteworthy. As for / in terms of what I thought about the animation that's presented to us in these first two episodes in all honesty the animation that's presented to us in these first two episodes of the Edens Zero anime TV series is at best OK which for an anime let alone an anime that's adapting the work of Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima having animation that's just OK and nothing more then that should never be the case in my humble and very honest opinion.

Now then boys and girls if you know Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima likes to include characters from his previous work in his new manga and in this case anime and well the same thing is true for this anime. Since not only does Happy appear in these first two episodes of the Edens Zero TV anime series but he's also a main character and not only that but if you look in the background in episode then you might find some more Fairy Tail characters appearing in cameo roles and even tho this post is spoiler free to me saying that characters from Fairy tail are appearing the second of the Edens Zero TV anime series isn't a spoiler since it doesn't spoil the overall plot of the second episode in humble and very freaking honest opinion anyways.

Now then boys and girls incase your all wondering how I manged to see both episode one and episode two of this show. I manged to watch episode one and as well as episode two of this show simply due to the fact that both of these episodes were streamed on March 29th 2021. Now I don't know where these first two episodes were streamed but it's taken at least two days for both episodes one and two of this show to be fully subbed and to be uploaded on to some *ahem* shall we say "other methods" type of websites and which I do not condone using any of those websites nor do I condone watching these first two episodes of the Edens Zero TV anime series the way that I watched the first two episode of the Edens Zero anime TV series.

Now then boys and girls there is at least one character so far who bares a striking resemblance to a main character from Fairy Tail (please note that i'm not including the space pirate princess who looks alot like Erza since i'm only including the characters that we spend alot of time win these first two episodes of the Edens Zero anime TV series) and that's Rebecca Bluegarden who looks so much like Lucy Heartfilia that it's actually unreal how much that they both look very similar to each other. Heck I wouldn't blame anyone who was either reading Edens Zero when it first came out of if there thinking about watch the anime adaption of Edens Zero if they got confused and thought that Rebecca Bluegarden was infact Lucy Heartfilia I mean heck the very least that Hiro Mashima could have done is change Rebecca's hair colour just something would have helped to make her stand out / look a little bit different from Lucy Heartfilia but that's just what I think anyways.

Combined this two episodes have a total running time of at least forty five to possibly even fifty minuets but I could be wrong there so don't hold me to that running time. Unlike the first two episode of the Fairy Tail anime TV series the first episode of the Edens Zero anime TV series aren't telling one story and as such I honestly don't mind the fact that these two episodes seemed a bit rushed because here they are not constrained by the fact that there rushing to tell one episode story in a total of at least forty five minuets to fifty but they are instead constrained by the standerd twenty two minuet running time as such I do feel that having at least first two episodes of the Edens Zero anime TV series at least be forty five minuets each would have helped the episodes since they are still rushing to hit certain plot points and as such any and all impact that those plot points could have are now lost due to how rushed these episodes can feel but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and very honest opinions anyways.

Now then boys and girls since this is an action anime and there is some action to be found in both of these first two episode of the Edens Zero anime TV series that  means that I do have to actually talk about the action that's presented to us in the first two episodes of the Edens Zero anime TV series and in all honesty the action that's featured in these first two episodes of the the Edens Zero anime TV series wasn't that bad in my opinion. Since the action is in all honesty very exciting and there are some cool moments in the actions scenes that are presented to us in these first two episodes of the Edens Zero anime TV series but at the same time there's nothing really new that's brought to the table with these action sequences either which is a shame because like I said the action in these first two episodes of the Edens Zero anime TV series is full of really cool moments but that's just what I think anyways and as well that's just in my humble and very honest opinion anyways.

Overall these first two episodes of the Edens Zero TV anime series / anime TV series were in my opinion at least really good. Yes there are some bad moments in these first two episodes of the Edens Zero anime TV series / Tv anime series but those moments could also be found in other anime and yes i've talked about about both of the good and both the bad things that I found in these first two episodes of the Edens Zero anime TV series / TV series anime / TV anime series in this very review and since this is only my very first impressions of the Edens Zero anime I won't be giving a rating / ranking for the Edens Zero anime since it wouldn't be fair of me to judge a new shows just based of the first two episodes alone since any show can have some good or some bad first two episodes and like I said it wouldn't be fair of me to judge the Edens Zero anime just based of these first two episodes of the Edens Zero anime TV series / TV series anime / TV anime series. As for where I got the images that I used in this review well i got all of the images that I used in this review from the official Edens Zero fandom wiki page , Google Images and the official Edens Zero fandom wiki page with my preferred website to use to get images from the Edens Zero anime being the official Edens Zero fandom wiki page just due to how high quality as well as how how definition the images on the official Edens Zero fandom wiki page truly are in my humble and very honest opinion that is.