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Sunday, 22 August 2021

Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Siege Of Mandalore" Arc Review

 


Star Wars believe it or not outside of the movie and a few episodes of the TV show I in all honesty haven't seen that much of Star Wars: The Clones and well I thought that i'd one arc to the list of Star Wars: The Clone Wars that I have actually seen. With the arc in question being the final ever arc of / for the entire show and so join me as I review the final ever arc of / for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated TV series / TV Show with the arc in question being called simply just "The Siege of Mandalore" enjoy.

Now then the plot of this arc is Ahsoka Tano and Bo-Katan lead a siege on Mandalore when they receive information that Darth Maul is somewhere in the city of Mandalore but Darth Maul has his one plans for the young jedi night one which might spell the end of / for the jedi order as a whole. Now then as for what I personally thought about the plot of this arc in all honesty I all honesty thought / felt that the plot of this arc was really good and even tho the plot of this arc does change by the arcs third episode you can still very much see the story threads from the previous two episodes being carried over into it's third and fourth episodes respectively 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 / at least. 


Starring in this arc is Tom Kane as Admiral Yularen , This Shows Narrator and as Yoda and Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano. Also starring in this arc is Julian Holloway as Almec , Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker , Matthew Wood as Battle Droids , Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan , Dee Bradley Baker as Clone Troopers and as Commander Rex , Ray Stevenson as Gar Saxon , Sam Witwer as Darth Maul and as A Mandalorian Guard, James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi , Gwendoline Yeo as Nala Se , Ian McDiarmid as Darth Sidious , this arcs writer Dave Filoni as CH-33P a.k.a. "Cheep" , Silas Carson as Ki-Adi-Mundi , TC Carson as Mace Windu , Vanessa Marshall as Rook Kast and as a Gauntlet Pilot , Donald Faison as The / A Tactical Droid and Sharmila Devar as Ursa Wren.

Now then as for what I personally thought / felt about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / actual arc in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / actual arc was in all honesty rather freaking good. This is something however that shouldn't / should not have come to a surprise from anybody from what i've seen at least the acting that's in anything that's to do with Star Wars: The Clone Wars has always been really freaking good and so to gave some really good acting from these actors and actresses in this final arc is in my opinion anyways / at least a very good thing indeed in my opinion anyways / at least.



Doing the animation for this arc as far as I can tell is Lucasfilm Animation since there the only animation company that's listed in each of the episodes IMDB pages. Now then as for what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual arc in all honesty I in all honesty thought that the animation that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual arc was really freaking good heck the animation that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual arc is movie quality good.


Now then it was while I was watching this arc for this review that I noticed that this arc takes place almost entirely at the same time as the second and third and final act of Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith. With this arc making quite alot of references to what is meant to be going on at that point in time during / in Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith and in all honesty that really does go to show how big of a Star Wars fan Dave Filoni is because he makes these fairly deep cut references that only die hard Star Wars fans would pick up on and it's those exact same deep cut Star Wars references that make this arc very rewatchable in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then if you all want to truly see what Star Wars is and more importantly what Star Wars could be when it's at it's best / firing on all cylinders. Then you really should check out this arc because this one arc gives you a much better representation of what Star Wars and more importantly what Star Wars could be then any of the Disney era Star Wars sequel trilogy because Star Wars is alot more then being about lightsaber fights / battles and it's also more then being about fights / battles in space it's about working together to over come impossible odds and it's about doing what's right even tho doing the right thing nine times out of ten isn't always the easiest thing in the world to do and this is something that Disney and alot of people who are currently working at Lucasfilm fail to understand in my opinion anyways / at least. 


Now I will say that how this arc ends is pretty much the perfect way for this arc to end and it's really the only way that this show could possibly end in my opinion anyways / at least. Since this arc ends with Ahsoka lying down her lightsaber to honor her fallen clone comrades and then they top that by having a now fully turned sith lord Lord Darth Vader arrive on the exact same planet that Ahsoka was just on and Darth Vader then picks up her / Ahsokas dropped / fallen lightsaber. This is in all honesty the perfect way for to end this arc and as well being the perfect way for this show to end because it goes to show you how strong the bond was that existed between Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano because it also goes on to show you that perhaps deep deep deep deep down inside of Lord Darth Vader that there is perhaps still some resemblance of Anakin Skywalker in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then there are exactly four episodes running in this arc with each episode being around twenty three minuets to twenty seven minuets in length which means that all in all this arc has a grand total running of roughly two hours to one hour and thirty minuets in grand total running time and well if i'm being well and truly very freaking honest here people. This arc didn't really need to be four episodes long since you very easily could have done this arcs storyline / plotline in about three episodes but at the same time if you were to do this arcs storyline / plotline in three episodes it would unfortunately mean that alot of good stuff that's from this arc would have to get cut out tho just to meet the three episode deadline for the arc tho but that's just what I think and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very freaking honest opinion anyways / at least



Now then since Star Wars is an action franchise and that this show is indeed an action show that means that there is action in this very / particular / actual arc and that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual arc and well if i'm being well and truly very freaking honest here people the action that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual arc is really freaking good in my opinion anyways / at least. This is because we get to see alot of really cool moves being preformed in those action scenes 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 / at least. 



Overall this arc was honestly a really perfect arc for the most part with any issues that I found with the arc in question to be very minor issues in the long run and so yeah this really was everything that alot of Star Wars ad built it up to be and perhaps even then some in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very / particular / actual arc in this very / particular / actual review and so that means that this arc gets a gets a grand old score of a perfect 10 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page , the official Star Wars resistance fandom wiki page and from the official Star Wars The Clone Wars fandom wiki page. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this arc being the official Star Wars The Clone Wars fandom wiki page this is simply because the official Star Wars The Clone Wars fandom wiki page actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on the official Star Wars The Clone Wars fandom wiki page are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being fairly high definition. 

























Friday, 20 August 2021

The Loud House Movie SPOILER FREE!!!!!!!!!! Film Review

 


Ladies and gentlemen it's not uncommon for a TV show / TV series to get a feature film adaptation however what is uncommon is that most of the time the shows that do indeed get featured film adaptations the shows in question have been around for years before the film adaptation is even announced. How the film that i'm going to review for you all right now was announced all the way back in 2017 when the show was in it's second season / second series and so join me as I review the film that has been a whopping four years in the making with the film in question being called simply just "The Loud House Movie" enjoy.

The plot of this film Lincoln Loud starts to feel left out due to his sisters getting alot of attention and so he suggests that the entire family go on vacation in Scotland in order to find out more about there ancestors and when Lincoln finds out that his ancestor was the duke a terrible secret that threatens to destroy the village that the Louds now call home will start to come to fruition. Now then in terms of what I thought about the plot of this film in all honesty i in all honesty thought that that the plot of this film was rather weak since for large portions of this films running time it rally does seem like / come across like that this film doesn't have a plot but when the plot of this film does indeed decide to show itself the plot of this film is in all honesty quite enjoyable in my opinion anyways / at least. 


Starring in this film is Asher Bishop as Lincoln , Catherine Taber as Lori , Liliana Mumy as Leni and Nika Futterman as Luna. Also starring in this film is Cristina Pucelli as Luan , Jessica DiCicco as Lynn and Lucy , Grey Griffin as Lana / Lola and Lily , Lara Jill Miller as Lisa , Jill Talley as Rita , Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr. , Andre Robinson as Clyde , Carlos PenaVega as Bobby , Izabella Alvarez as Ronnie Anne , David Tennant as Angus , Michelle Gomez as Morag , Katy Townsend as Lucille and Billy Boyd as Scot.

Now then in terms of what I personally thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very film in all honesty I in all honesty really thought that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very film was really in all honesty really freaking good. Which shouldn't come as a huge surprise since alot of the actors and actresses that are starring in this film are reprising their roles from the TV show and so it only makes sense that those exact same actors and actresses would indeed turn in some really good performances and the I guess you could say guest cast or movie only cast also turn in some really good performances as well which again shouldn't come as a surprise to absolutely anyone as pretty much all of the guest cast / movie only cast are a bunch of really good actors and actresses in my opinion anyways / at least.



Now then doing the animation for this film is Top Draw Animation whom I was very surprised to learn didn't actually do any kind of animation for The Loud House TV series / TV show. However I hope that that really does change because I in all honesty really did like the animation since you can quite clearly see that there was a huge visual upgrade from the animation that was seen in the show to the animation that we get in the movie and plus all of the good in this film have alot of really fluid animation and the film really does make some rather solid use of CGI animation in my opinion anyways / at least.


Now then what can I say about the The Loud House TV show that hasn't already been said because this show has very quickly become phenomenon. Since the show has spawned several graphic novels (which are still being published to this very day) , a still being published book series / series of books , a podcast , a spin off show , this film and an up and coming live action television film which is due to be called "The Loud House: A Very Loud Christmas!" and so yeah this franchise is going to around for a little while longer.

However that could also be a huge mega problem for this franchise as sooner or later they are going to run out of stories to tell and will thus end up just repeating the exact same stories with only very few minor tweaks made to make those exact same stories seem fresh and original. Now then however tho this is something that isn't a problem with the movie since the plot for the most part is new and fresh and thus original but i will very much admit that the idea of taking these established characters and taking them out of there established environment and placing them into a different environment isn't that original but it is rather fun to see how this film pulls that adaptation storytelling device / cliché / trope tho.


Now the rather sadly it's not all sunshine and roses / a bed of roses when it comes to this film since I did have a issues with this film the first of which is sadly a spoiler but it's something that really isn't given as much attention to in the film and is played of as nothing more then jokey kind of subplot. The other thing that I personally didn't like was / is the fact that none of the newer characters that are introduced into this film are given alot of screen time to fully develop their characters and so each of the new characters just comes across forgettable and a stereotype and nothing more then / than that in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then this film has / had a grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty seven minuets and thirty seven seconds and if i'm being well and truly and very freaking honest here people this film could and more importantly should have been alot longer. This is simply just because the premise of this film allows for much longer running time and with a much longer running time the makers of this film would be allowed to fully explore each of this films main cast of characters but as it is this film is alot shorter then it really very freaking should have been in my opinion anyways / at least.


Now then this film is a comedy film after all and that means that I have to talk the actual jokes / comedy that are featured / presented to us in this very film and in my honest opinion anyways / at least the actual jokes / comedy that's / that are featured / presented to us in this very film are very good. That's really all that I can say about this films comedy / jokes without getting spoilers and so your just going to have to trust me when I tell you that this film is fairly freaking funny and / but I will very freaking admit that this film is more of a straight forward musical then it is a comedy and as a musical the songs that are in this film are very freaking good with either "Ordinary Me" , "This Town Is Named for You" , "Loud Castle" or "Life is Better Loud" being the best songs in this entire freaking film / movie in my opinion anyways / at least.



Overall this was in all honesty a really good movie (even if it did take nearly all day to find an "other methods" website that had a copy of this movie that could "use" to watch n my laptop) but with that being said this film does have a lot of issues tho and sadly it's those exact same issues that kept / keep this film from being a perfect film in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all all of the bad things that are in this film in this very review and as such that means that this film very / exact film gets a grand score of an 8 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Loud House fandom wiki page ,the official The Witcher fandom wiki page , the official Castlevania fandom wiki page and from Google Images. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this film being Google Images this is simply because Google Images actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on Google Images are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being fairly high definition.  





















Thursday, 19 August 2021

WWE Raw August 16th 2021 Review

 


Wrestling fans I will very fully admit that I straight forgot that this weeks episode of WWE Raw was the go home show at least when it comes to Summerslam. As such instead of getting this review out when I normally would we had to wait until almost the day of Summerslam 2021 itself but anyways enough with that and so here is my review of the August 16th 2021 episode of the flagship of the WWE with the in question being called obviously simply just "Raw" enjoy.

The main plot line that's going into this episode of WWE Raw is the ongoing feud between Bobby Lashley and Goldberg and apart from this storyline being pointless because we already know that Bobby Lashley is going to be retaining his WWE Universal Championship at this Saturdays Summerslam. This storyline is also not needed since it does nothing for either superstar since neither superstar needs this win and neither superstar gains nothing from winning this match but that's that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and that's just in my very honest opinion anyways / at least.


Now then of course the vast majority / the most of this show was spent building up matches for this Saturdays Summerslam. The issue that I personally has with this tactic is that they have a bunch of matches that alot of people just aren't excited take for example the Alexa Bliss and Eva Marie match not alot of people are excited for that match and more importantly not alot of people actually want to see that match.

This is a problem with alot of the Raw side of the WWE Summerslam 2021 PPV card because alot of the Raw matches for WWE Summerslam 2021 are matches that lot of people just aren't even excited for. Nor do people even want to see alot of the Raw side of matches that are currently up and on the WWE Summerslam 2021 PPV card and that's a shame because on paper alot of the raw side of the Summerslam 2021 PPV match card do sound pretty interesting at least on paper in my opinion anyways / at least. 


Now then the art of selling an injury is one artform that is sadly dieing simply because of the fact that you don't simply see it anymore. However with all of that being said you do actually see this / the dieing artform of selling an injury in the opening match of this very show and I have to say that it was very welcome addition to match and as well also being a very freaking sore sight to see and it's something that I hope and prey to god that the WWE keeps up on showing us because it really does make the matches alot more real / realistic.


Now then I will very freaking admit to you all right here and more importantly right freaking now that The New day were very freaking entertaining on / in this show. If you've seen the segment that i'm talking about and then you'll fully understand / fully know why I thought that the The New Day were very freaking entertaining on / in this show and I have to say that the The New Days segment is in all honesty the best segment of this entire show simply just due how entertaining that The New Day are in this / the segment in question in my very freaking humble and in my very freaking honest opinion anyways / at least.

However that's not to say that the whole show is entertaining because it's in all honesty not even close to being the case but don't get me wrong this show is alot better then more recent episode of Raw but just because it's alot more better then the more recent episodes of Raw doesn't make it an entertaining show. take for example the Moist TV segment which did indeed start out very fairly entertaing but it started to go downhill when Damian Priest showed up for literally no reason whatsoever and even both The Miz and John Morrison tried there  best to save that segment even those two guys as funny and as entertaining just plain and simply couldn't save the back / tail end of this segment but thats just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very humble and as well as being in my very freaking honest opinion anyways '/ at least. 


Now then there was one freaking thing that really did bug me about this episode of Raw and that is the editing for this show was terrible. Since this show cuts of commentators , it just straight up kills any excitement that you might have for matches by cutting to video package for another match and then by cutting backstage usually for an interview with someone who has nothing to do with the match in question and various other things and so I have to wonder what in the heck the WWE editing team were on when they were editing this episode of Raw because they much have been on something to edit this show they way that they did.

Now then this very / particular / actual episode of WWE Raw has / had a grand total running time of exactly two hours and one minuet and twenty two seconds and well then if i'm being well and truly very freaking honest here people his show didn't feel as long as it was. Since alot of the matches and segments that are on this show don't really last long and while that is indeed an issue when it comes to the matches it's not really an issue when it comes to alot of this very / particular / actual shows segments since it helps with the general / overall pacing of the show in my freaking opinion anyways / at least.


Now then since this show is a wrestling show after all and there is some actual wrestling on this show that means that I have to talk about the actual wrestling that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual show itself and in my opinion anyways / at least the wrestling that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual show itself is for me at least a very mixed bag of affairs. Since we do get alot of generally bad matches with the worst match being the two on one handicap match between Veer & Shanky vs Drew McIntyre which just a glorified squash match which is fully designed to keep a feud that not lot of people are interested or even no about going and that's but but on the plus side the best match of the night is also first match on this very / particular / actual show / night with that match being the fantastic one n one between AJ Styles (w/ Omos) vs Riddle which is just something that you guys have to watch just simply to see how good that match well and truly is in my opinion anyways / at least.


Overall this was a really solid and as well as being a fairly entertaining episode of Raw but it doesn't do a good job of getting me excited for this Saturdays WWE Summerslam 2021 PPV event which is what a good go home show should well and truly do in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things about this very / particular / actual show in this very / particular / actual review and that means that this very / particular / actual show gets a grand score of a 7.5 out of 10 from this wrestling fan.

Now then as for where I got all of the image that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Google Images and the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this episode being Google Images this is simply because Google Images actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on Google Images are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being fairly high definition. 















Wednesday, 18 August 2021

The Addams Family "Morticia And The Psychiatrist" Review

 


Fans of The Addams Family I will very fully freaking admit to you all right here and right now that I in all honesty had no idea of what it was that I was going to review for you all right now but tho there was one property that no matter how hard that I tried I simply couldn't stop thinking about. The Addams Family and so here is my review of the second ever episode of The Addams Family 1964 TV series sitcom with the freaking episode in question being called simply just "Morticia And The Psychiatrist" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is both Morticia and Gomez Addams start to become very concerned when there son Pugsley starts liking adorable little puppies and playing baseball and their concerns grow when Pugsley joins the boy scouts and so both Morticia and Gomez Addams turn to child psychiatrist Dr. Harold Black in the hopes of getting there son Pugsley Addams back to their form of normality. Now then in terms of what I personally thought about the plot of this episode in all honesty I thought that the plot of this episode was rather weak epically when compared to the plot of the first but at the same time the plot of this episode was still a very good plot and it was also a very engaging plotline / story line as well in my freaking opinion anyways / at least.   


Starring in this episode is John Astin as Gomez Addams , Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams and Ken Weatherwax as Pugsley Addams. Also starring in this episode is Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams , Blossom Rock as Grandmama , Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester , Ted Cassidy as Lurch and George Petrie as Dr. Harold Black. In what I personally found to be a rather shocking move this episodes main cast list is perhaps the smallest freaking cast list that i've seen for this show so far.

Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual episode in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual episode was in all honesty rather freaking good. This is something that which really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone since the acting in the previous episode was also really good and so it was nice to see that that the acting that's in this very / particular / actual episode was also really freaking good as well in my opinion anyways / at least.


Now then one of the things that did well and truly freaking shock me about this episode in particular is that both Grandmama and Wednesday Addams only appear at the start of the episode with the characters not being mentioned or even seen for the rest of the episode. This was something that I found to be rather odd because of the fact that both Grandmama and Wednesday Addams are main characters and as such it would have been to nice to see what these characters were indeed up to during the events of this episode in my opinion anyways / at least.  


To me at least this episode is another good example of how good both Morticia and Gomez Addams well and truly are as parents. As as soon as they see that Pugsley isn't acting himself they both start to put things into place to make sure that he does start acting himself and heck even as the title of this episode would suggest they also both go and see a child psychiatrist to help get Pugsley back to his normal self / his normal ways.

Now then to further hit home the fact that both Morticia and Gomez Addams are indeed very good parents is the fact that they both actively try and spend more time with there son Pugsley Addams. Which is something you don't really see in alot of TV shows or movies these days and while it is indeed very freaking understandable when it comes to movies it's not really understandable when it comes to TV shows since with a TV show you have as much time as you need to tell a story and so you can very easily have an episode or two where the parents actively try to spend time with there kids but that's just what I think anyways and thats just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways / at least.


Now then as you can all no doubt very freaking work out by the plot summery that I provided for you all a the start of this very review this very / particular episode of The Addams Family is a Pugsley centric / centered episode. Which wouldn't be a bad thing if Pugsley was an interesting character however out of all of the members of the The Addams Family family Pugsley is the least defined character with his characteristics being whatever the plot needs them to be and as such while having an entire of a TV being devoted to him would indeed make sense since that way they could / can flesh out his character alot more sadly tho this episode take that opportunity and as Pugsley remains the leas interesting member of the The Addams Family family in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then this very / particular / actual episode is exactly twenty five minuets and forty two seconds long and in my honest opinion this episode had the perfect amount of running time in my opinion anyways / at least. Since this episode in particular didn't / doesn't have enough there in terms of plot or in terms of story and so having this episode be anywhere even close to thirty minuets long would be stretching an already pretty thinly drawn out story even thinner in my very humble and in my very honest opinion anyways / at least. 


Now then this episode is of course an episode of a comedy TV show after all and so that means that there are some actual jokes and funny moments to be found in this episode and so that means that I have to actually talk about the actual jokes / comedy / funny moments that are featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual episode and in all honest I  in all honesty feel the the jokes / comedy / funny moments that are featured / presented to us in this actual episode are fairly decent at best. This is because I honestly do feel the jokes and funny moments that are in this very / particular / actual episode are fairy hit and miss with there sadly being alot more misses then hits but that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways / at least.  


Overall this episode was indeed a fairly freaking weak episode and it's also a fairly freaking forgettable episode as well but with that being said when the episode does indeed want to be funny it can a really funny episode but there's sadly alot of unfunny jokes and alot of unfunny moments in this very / particular episode for to personally find this to be very enjoyable. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that in this very / particular / actual episode in this very / particular / actual review and as such all of that means that this very / particular / actual episode gets a grand score of a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images this film being the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page this is because all of the images that I got and that currently up and featured and on the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high in definition.  



















Sunday, 15 August 2021

My SPOILER FILLED!!!!!!!!!! First Impressions Of Heels

 


Wrestling fans we are now finally living in a world were the world and the sport of professional wrestling is being treated as seriously as we professional wrestling take it and well there's a new TV drama series out that's about professional wrestling and as such you just knew. That I have to at the very least check out the first episode and so here are my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the professional wrestling drama that is sure to please alot of die hard professional wrestling fans with the tv series in question being called simply just "Heels" enjoy.

The plot of this very episode is is small town wrestling promoter Jack Spade has to deal with his egotistical younger brother and star of Jack's small town wrestling promotion Ace Spade but things are made much worse when Jack's younger brother is offered the chance to possibly head to the big time in the world of professional wrestling. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the plot of this episode in all honesty I in all honesty thought thought that the plot of this first episode was OK since it des a very good job of setting up alot of if not all of this shows main cast of characters but at the same time I also thought / felt that the plot of this episode was also fairly weak at best with the main conflict ofthe episode not being introduced until fairly late into the episodes running time.


Starring in this episode is Stephen Amell as Jack Spade , Alexander Ludwig as Ace Spade and Alison Luff as Staci Spade. Also starring in this episode is Mary McCormack as Willie Day , Kelli Berglund as Crystal Tyler , Allen Maldonado as Rooster Robbins , James Harrison as Apocalypse , Chris Bauer as Wild Bill Hancock , Trey Tucker as Bobby Pin , Alice Barrett as Carol Spade , Roxton Garcia as Thomas Spade and Duke Davis Roberts as Big Jim Kitchen.

Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular episode in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular was really shockingly really good. I know that I sound surprised that this show had good acting that's only because that nine times out of ten whenever a TV show is made about professional wrestling the acting isn't that good and so it's good to see that this show or at the very least this very / particular episode has some good acting within it.




Now then as with both the professional wrestling film Fighting With My Family and the TV series comedy biopic Young Rock this TV series / TV show seems to have alot of love and respect for the world of professional wrestling and this is is something that as a professional wrestling fan makes me very happy. Since it would have been very freaking easy to have this show just a few references to professional wrestling and nothing more then that but nope this episode at least takes the time to describing what certain wrestling terminology means and this episode actually takes the time to fully explore what happens when the wrestling show has ended and when the next wrestling show is about to begin and that right there shows that the makers of this show have a tremendous amount of respect for the world of professional wrestling and for professional wrestling a s whole in my opinion anyways / at least.

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



Now then I was expecting there to be at the very least like two or but there are so many references to the world of professional wrestling in this one episode alone. Like for example during a brief thirty second video package we see what I think is TNA Impact Wrestling along with Abyss and heck even the style in which that video package in question is done is done very much in the style of the XWF hosting / host segments.

While I personally did enjoy alot of the references to the wider professional wrestling there's one certain company which gets alot of love in this episode and it's the WWE / WWF. Now then even tho they don't outright mention the WWE / WWF at all when they mention a company up north is looking to sign Ace and thus send Ace down to developmental it's pretty freaking clear which professional company that there are talking about and they straight up mention both Vince McMahon and WCW by name I personally don't really see alot of non wrestling fans understanding are even getting alot of the much more wider refences to the much more wider world of professional wrestling in my opinion anyways / at least.


I honestly wasn't expecting the ending of this episode to pretty much be the now very infamous Montreal screwjob since everything that lead up until that point didn't point to that ending. Heck since Jack was busy trying to think of an ending to his match with his brother Ace I came up with a pretty solid ending which is Ace's valet Crystal costs Ace the match and thus she can now turn heel and she can now possibly be allowed to compete in the ring full time it's a literal win win situation and surprised that no one else even suggested that ending as being a possibility.

Now then what I personally found to be rather interest is the role reversal between Jack and Ace's fictionalized versions of themselves and the real life version of both Jack and Ace. Since in the world of professional wrestling Jack is the heel and Ace is the face (heel=bad guy and face=good guy for those of you who aren't professional wrestling fans.) and yet in real life outside of the world of professional wrestling Ace is kind of a bad guy and Jack is kind of a good guy. This was something that I personally found to be rather interesting because it was something that I honestly didn't expect to be a thing that's in this / apart of this very / particular show 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 / at least.

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


Now then incase your wondering why this post is out early (i'm writing this post very early on the Sunday evening) well it's simply because Starz released this episode online a day early and once things get released online early it's only a matter of time before it ends up on some ahem "other methods" type of viewing websites if you catch my drift and well. It's using those exact same "other methods" types of websites I personally was able to view this very / particular episode but that doesn't mean that I condone using the methods that I used to view episode since i'm a very strong believer of if you can watch it legally then you should most defiantly watch this episode or any film or TV show / episode of any TV show legally 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 this very / particular episode has / had a grand total running time of exactly one hour and two minuets and thirty eight seconds and while this episode had more then enough there story wise / plot wise to cover that running time. I will also very freely freaking admit that this episode does get bogged down quite a bit in the shows second act this is simply because at that point in the episode there's still no hint of what the plot of the episode is and so all your left doing is watching these newly introduced characters just go about there day and just living their very mundane lives which isn't entertaining in the slightest bit in my opinion anyways / at least.


Now then since this show is a dram show after all that means that I have to actually talk about the actual drama that's featured / presented to us in his very very / actual / particular episode and well in my honest opinion I in all honesty think / feel that the drama that's featured / presented to us in this very / actual / particular episode was really good. Yes it's the best drama since the main drama of this episode only gets introduced very freaking late into this episode but what little drama we do get in this episode was handled very freaking well in my opinion anyways / at least.


Overall this was in all honesty a really freaking good debut episode and I in all honesty cannot wait to see what comes next from this show heck just the ending of this first episode got me excited to go and see episode two because that's how good of a first episode that this first episode well and truly was in my opinion anyways. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this episode in this post and since this only my first impressions I as will not be giving you a rating for this show or for this episode as one good doesn't mean that the rest of the show will be any good.

Now then as for where I got all of the images that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the image that I personally used in this very review from the Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page , the official Young Rock fandom wiki page , the official Heels fandom wiki page and the official Heels fandom wiki page. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this episode being Google Images this is simply because the official Heels fandom wiki page actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on the official Heels fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition.























Saturday, 14 August 2021

WWE / WWF Raw Is War April 2nd 2001 Review

 


Ladies and gentlemen and wrestling fans alike every single wrestling fan who is worth their salt will tell you that the first Monday Night Raw after Wrestlemania. Is always something that's not only truly special but the first episode of Monday Night Raw after Wrestlemania is also something that is to be watched to be believed and so join me as I review the April 2nd 2001 episode of the flagship show of the the WWE / WWF with the show in question being called simply just "Raw" enjoy.

Now then of course the main storyline for this episode of the show is the formation of The Two Man Powertrip and if i'm going to be honest here people I really did like how this episode of the show. Dealt with that storyline since they spend most of the episode building up the fact that Triple H could possibly be turning face since both he Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin are deadly rivals and yet they pull a last minuet plot twist which while it doesn't necessarily make sense for the character of Triple H it is still an interesting plot twist in my opinion anyways / at least.


Now then the se/ stage / stage set for this era of Raw is perhaps one of the most iconic sets that Raw has ever had in my opinion anyways / at least. This is also the stage /set that I personally grew up with / watching and it is in all honesty a set that holds up really well since it still looks really good twenty years later and in all honesty it's a set that I in all honesty cannot find any single fault with because it's that good of a set in my opinion anyways / at least.

There is in all honesty nothing more that I can say about this set that probably alot more people have already said. Since this set is that iconic altho I will admit that I don't really see any point in incorporating the TNN logo into the top of the set since you can barely see it anyways and so from a promotional standpoint it makes no sense in having it being featured so prominently at the top of this set in my opinion anyways / at least. 


Now then this episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw was the first episode of Monday Night Raw to be held post Wrestlemania Seventeen and as such a huge portion of this episodes running time was spent with the commentators wondering why Stone Cold Steve Austin shook hands with his arch rival Vince McMahon and well sadly we don't get an answer to that question in this episode. Which is a shame because it could have made for a really cool plot twist with / in Stone Cold Steve Austin's plot line Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.


Now then for some dumb and rather strange reason instead of having Trish Stratus vs Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley end in a no contest. Which really shouldn't be the case at all since this match is a nothing match it's a strap match so you could very easily have a winner and loser in this match and thus having this match end in a no contest projects nobody because neither woman is that well established at this point in their wrestling careers and so it was honestly pointless having this match end in a contest in my opinion anyways / at least.

Also being pointless is the very fact that we even had a strap match since both the strap match match and the Rhyno vs Crash Holly match are literal pee break matches. Altho the Rhyno vs Crash Holly match does help further the fact that Rhyno is just this unstoppable wrestling machine and so having that match be as short as it is oddly makes sense in that regard but at the same when you have to matches back to back which are / that are basically just pee break matches and noting more then that it makes your overall product seem fairly bad 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 / at least. 


Now then having your opening promo be at the very least fifteen to twenty minuets long isn't a bad thing if your episode / show has at the very least a two plus hour running time. Which sadly isn't the case for this episode and as such having the opening promo at the very least be fifteen to twenty minuets long doesn't work as it only takes up time that could and more importantly should have been given to other matches or to other segments 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 ' at least.

Now then this very / particular episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw has / had a grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty seven minuets and thirty six seconds and well given how long the opening promo for this show is I really do feel like / that this very / particular episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw should have been a little or even alot longer. This is simply because that there are alot of matches that are this particular / very episodes match card that could or even for that matter should have been alot longer then what they actually were / ended up being in my opinion anyways / at least. 



Now then since this is a wrestling show after all that does infact mean that there infact some actual wrestling matches that are to be found on this wrestling show and so that means that I have to actually talk about the actual wrestling matches that are featured /presented to us on this particular / very wrestling show and if i'm being honest apart from the strap match the wrestling matches that are / featured / presented to us on this particular / very wrestling show are indeed fairly decent at best. This is simply just because alot of the wrestling that are on this show just simply aren't given enough time which is a shame because one of those matches which isn't given more then enough time is the main event which is The Rock vs Stone Cold Steven Austin inside of a steel cage and is for the WWF Championship this match should have been at the vert least twenty to thirty minuets long since both. The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin can more then keep audiences attention for that long of period of time but instead the match is over and done with in ten minuets which means that things get rushed and thus match should have been great is at best ok in my opinion anyways / at least.


Overall this wasn't a bad post Wrestlemania Raw but at the same time it's also not a good post Raw Wrestlemania either since there are alot of things that bog this episode down and all of those things could have been and more importantly should have been better if this episode was at the very least two hours long in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are featured / presented to us in this particular / very episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw and as such this episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw erns a grand total score of an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I got all of the image that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Google Images , the official Heels fandom wiki page and the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this episode being Google Images this is simply because Google Images actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition.