Doctor Who: The Ark Review

There are alot of episodes of Doctor Who currently up on BBC IPlayer with the service holding around eight hundred hours of classic Doctor Who. However sadly that does mean that we get alot of missing episodes and alot of the classic seasons being incomplete usually this doesn't really effect the show as the show could just animated them using what little material survived however that isn't the case for the episode that proceeded this one as it was the previous episode that introduced a new companion with this episode being the closest earliest episode to feature the character of Dodo and so then join me as I review the episode that sees The Doctor and his companions battle with the common cold with the episode in question being called simply just "The Ark" enjoy.

The plot of the episode when The Doctor's newest companion Dodo accidentally passes on her cold to a group of humans living on a space ship it's up to The Doctor to cure them and stop something sinister from happening all before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad altho at the same the episode does feel like it's got two separate plots as the first two episodes of the show have the plot described above and the final two episodes have a completely different plot that's only very barely tied to the plot of the first two episodes with the plot of the episode as a whole being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is William Hartnell as The Doctor , Peter Purves as Steven Taylor and Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet. Also starring in this episode is Eric Elliott as The Commander , Inigo Jackson as Zentos , Roy Spencer as Manyak , Michael Sheard as Rhos , Kate Newman as Mellium , Ian Frost as Baccu , Brian Wright as Dassuk , Eileen Helsby as Venussa , Terence Bayler as Yendom , Roy Skelton as The Voice Of The Monoids , John Halstead as The Voice Of The Monoids , Richard Beale as The Voice Of Refusian.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Which is really nothing new for this show at all but even with that said the acting in this episode quite clearly isn't the best kind of acting to come from the William Hartnell era none of this is the fault of the cast as they are only being told to act to certain way and while the likes of William Hartnell and Peter Purves do indeed turn in some solid performances in this episode which does make sense as they've been playing there characters for a while now the same thing cannot be said for Jackie Lane who is trying but she and the rest of the cast cannot make this episodes work well enough for them with the episodes script being so bad that it really gives none of the cast absolutely nothing to work with interms of what there characters personalities are in the first place.

As was mentioned at the start of this review this is the earliest surviving episode to feature the character of Dodo Chaplet. This character really doesn't have alot of things going for her as she was just there to be a transition companion as she leaves the show by the end of this third series of the show but what little of her personality that we get from her from his show does make her seem like a fun companion as she is a fun and spunky companion at times but at the same time we the audience aren't really given a reason to care for her character and it doesn't help that she doesn't have a whole lot to do in this episode with her feeling really more like a background character then a main character as she just does nothing for a large portion of the episodes running time and as a result of this the character really does come across as being a really underdeveloped character with even her friendship with Steven not really being developed all that well either.

For classic Doctor Who this episode really does have some fairly impressive sets to it which is even shocking when you take into account that the show especially during it's classic era didn't have that big of budget. Yet even with that working against it this episode really did pull of some massive sets which looked really good and rather rightfully they made sure to film alot of scenes in the huge spaceship set as alot of the four episodes take place in this one spaceship however while a massive set is something that works well enough for the James Bond films as those kinds of sets work well enough for those films it's not something that works well for this series as for Doctor Who bigger doesn't equal better as instead you'd want something that's a little bit smaller but still has alot of character to it and something that your able to make scary and while yes the TARDIS interior is a massive that is something that works for the show as they have to fit in large amount of people and it adds to the science fiction aspect of the show as well.

As was stated at the start of this review this episode feels like an episode of two halves of the first two episodes have one story and one set of characters whilst the remaining two episodes have a wholly different story and a different set of characters as well. With the two sets of episodes only being very loosely linked with this really being an issue for the episode as the plot for the first two episodes is fairly dumb yet enjoyably so with there characters being just bland where as with the other two episodes it's the opposite that's true and that makes it hard to fully judge this episode with the two story split feeling like they released that the plot for the first episodes wasn't strong enough to carry four episodes and as a result of this they quickly came up with a plot for the remaining four episodes as it's in those episodes where we get alot of plot and all of this make you wonder why they didn't just focus on creating a good story for those first two episodes as they had alot of potential for those characters and for that story to be really well done and yet because they chose to have different stories it makes both sets of episodes come across as being rather bad because of it.

Classic Doctor Who is known for having some production issues especially late into the William Hartnell era and yet this episode has a few issues that they kept in like the fact that William Hartnell flubs a line in episode one which they don't even hide and the fact that after being shrunken to death you can see the back of the person that got killed moments after he got killed in the same episode. While yes they couldn't really help those issues as they couldn't really do alot of editing they are still issues that standout a mile and all they do is take you out of the episode as they just remind you that your not only watching a TV show but they also remind you that your watching a late William Hartnell episode of the show and while yes the episode does have some really creepy looking villains having creepy looking villains doesn't get you sucked back into the story after seeing the back of an actor who's character just got shrunken to death in a strange looking object.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes running time even was I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour ad thirty minuets. Which is solid running time as the episode really doesn't have alot of plot to cover anything longer then the four episodes that it lasts for but with saying that the episode could have gotten away with picking one plot over the other and have it just be three episodes long as that would have made the episode alot more snappy but given that they basically added two stories into this one episode it means that both stories don't have the time that they need to breathe and to be fully developed as they really could have been as either story had the potential to be a fun Doctor Who story they both just needed the time needed to be fully developed but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As classic Doctor Who wasn't really known for having good action scenes in it due to it's small budget and the same thing is true here as we only get two action scenes in the whole episode and there both in the final two episodes of this story and both of which do look good for the incredibly small budget that this era of the show had and yet they still managed to the action both compelling and incredibly exciting to watch as due to that small budget they have to get creative and they have t make every single second count with the episodes action scenes which is something that they very easily pull off and manage to do quite easily in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this wasn't a bad episode but at the same time it wasn't a good one either as the episode does have quite of faults in it all of which combine to make it an episode that could have been good or even great and yet it just can't because of all of those faults and the fact that it's basically two different stories told in four episodes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 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 Doctor Who fandom wiki page , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great and really legendary Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this episode and are really of course on Google Images are all really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins Film Review

Even tho Scooby-Doo has a proven track record with animated properties Hollywood seems to think that live action is where the franchises future lies. As they really keep on trying to make a live action Scooby-Doo movie that's actually good and yet they all keep on getting worse and worse with each passing entry with the very film that i'm going to be talking about today being one such an example of why this franchise works best in animation and so then join me as I review the film that really didn't need to be made with the film in question being called simply just "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when they are unjustly suspended Shaggy , Fred , Daphne and Velma set out to prove that there school really is haunted and put a stop to the hauntings once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual, plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad with the plot of the film being really obvious with all of the films major plot points really being seen coming a mile away which makes the plot of the film including it's twist ending really predictable with this not really being helped by the fact that the plot of film had the potential to be really good it just needed some decent writers to write it and a decent director to help to bring it to life with the plot of the film being really rather entertaining and also really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Nick Palatas as Norville "Shaggy" Rogers , Robbie Amell as Fred Jones and Hayley Kiyoko as Velma Dinkley. Also starring in this film is Kate Melton as Daphne Blake , Shawn Macdonald as Principal Deedle , Daniel Riordan as Dark Specter , Gary Chalk as Vice Principal Grimes , Leah James as Prudence Prufrock , Brian Sutton as Ezekiel Gallows , C. Ernst Harth as Otis The Janitor , Lorena Gale as The Librarian and voice acting and Scooby-Doo legend Frank Welker as The Voice Of Scooby-Doo.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual film that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of this films cast are quite clearly trying to make this films terrible and cliche ridden script work for them but none of this films cast can turn in a good performance as the script just isn't that good even for a live action Scooby-Doo film which typically don't have good scripts in them the script for this film was just plain awful with the only good actors in this film being both Frank Welker and Nick Palatas with the acting in this film not really being helped by the fact that the script for this film is just so bad that it gives none of the cast absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personality is even meant to be in this film and that is something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting in this film and as a result of that is the fact that we get some really bad acting.

Doing the CGI for this film is Animation Picture Company , Stargate Studios , Digiart Productions and SFX Studio. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that;s actually featured ;/ presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad which in some ways does make sense as this film most likely didn't have that big of a budget when compared to the theatrically released live action Scooby-Doo films but this films CGI is still really bad with Scooby-Doo himself being really weird looking and bad looking as well as he's meant to be the cartoon design done in live action but the issue is tho is that that design doesn't work in live action and as result we get an ugly looking Scooby-Doo design with some painfully bad looking CGI on top of all of that.

This film is meant to be prequel film but it's hard to say what it's a prequel to as the second live action film established that the characters had met each other pretty much since they were kids and it's not a prequel to the original show as this film has lots of modern day technology. Which does make it hard to say which one this film is a prequel as it can't be a prequel to either of them without seriously retconning alot of things from both the original show and the second live action movie as a result it would be better of if this film was set in it's continuity as that would mean that they could then just go ahead and do there own thing and not have to worry about it messing up with established continuity and yet because it doesn't do any of that and heck it even ends with them teasing what would be the first episode of Scooby-Doo Where Are You which is a nice little easter egg but at the same time it also makes hard to work out which one this is a prequel to at the exact time.

For some reason this film chose to have alot of cartoon logic moments in it all of which just don't work at all. As it's something that asks us the audience to suspend our disbelief just a bit to far and yet if this film was an animated thew cartoon logic would work as that disbelief is already being suspended due the fact that it's animated and here we have an animated CGI character in a real world but he's acting and doing things that would and could only work in cartoons this was something that for better or for the worse the Raja Gosnell films understood as while yes they did have Scooby acting like a cartoon character it was done very sparingly and so you could give them credit for it but here it's done all of the time and while it's funny when they do it once it's not that funny when they do it several times in a row with no break inbetween and that just hits home that the while the writers of this film might have been fans of the show they don't understand that what worked in the show might not work when it comes to doing it in live action.

To give this film some sort of credit they do try to create a somewhat good mystery however with that being said when you think about this mystery for even a second the whole mystery just starts to fall apart. As there are alot of moments that the characters weren't there for that they now can suddenly hear all because of the fact that the plot demands that that character be a suspect and when you add in the fact that the films villain really isn't all that good or threatening as it's really easy to work out who the main villain as all you have to is see who the film isn't strongly hinting is the main villain but at the same time he's reason for being evil is unique as he's only evil because he wants to get a unique stamp which is something that hasn't been done in previous Scooby-Doo media but at the same time he's a villain that really did need to more threatening just to sell the fact that he could be a serious threat to the characters and yet they don't do that for some rather unknown reason and that does make him feel like he's an after thought or at best a really forgettable Scooby-Doo villain that was only there just because of the fact that they needed a villain and really nothing all the more then that.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty minuets and seven seconds. Which is a solid running time for this film to have as when you really get down to it this film really doesn't have alot of plot there to cover anything longer then that and while it would have been nice if this film did indeed have a much more longer running as that would allow them to flesh out the gangs personalities alot more and it would also allow them to make the villain an actually scary villain it would also be stretching the films plot even thinner then what it already is but it would have been nice if the film was shorter just because of the fact that it would mean that alot of the films faults would seem alot more smaller then what they already are as we the audience wouldn't be forced to really focus on them all that much as we are now and the plot of the film really would also be alot more focused then what it is now but I will admit that the film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / Presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. As apart from maybe one or two moments with Shaggy and Scooby early on in the film there's nothing that's all that funny in this film as this film has alot of painfully unfunny jokes in it that not even the films target audience of little kids would most likely find to be all that funny and while yes the original films didn't have that many funny jokes in them either those films at least tried to be funny where as with this film it came across as if the makers of the film really just couldn't be bothered to come up with anything funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while yes this film could be enjoyable in some aspects it also fails in alot more other aspects as well and heck this film is so bad that it makes the directors previous two Hanna-Barbera films The Flintstones and The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas look like masterpieces by comparison in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very review really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 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 Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Akame Ga Kill! "Kill The Darkness" Review

While there are alot of anime that get popular and stay popular so much so that they breakthrough to the mainstream audiences. There are sadly quite alot of anime that are only popular for the time that they are airing and then they sadly fade away never to be heard of ever again as is the case with the show that i'm going to be talking about as back in 2014 this show was quite popular but once it finished airing new episodes it stopped being talked about eventually fading away into obscurity and so then join me as I review the episode that makes you believe that the bad guys are the good guys with the episodes in question being called simply just "Kill The Darkness" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a young swordsman named Tatsumi travels to the capitol to help his impoverished village he finds that every thing is not as it seems and his whole gets turned upside down forever. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us n this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the problem as the plot for this episode wasn't all that good as it was a bit on thin side with the plot of the episode really only kicking in in the final ten or so minuets of the episode with the rest of the episode not really adding all that much to the actual plot of the episode with the plot of the episode being really entertaining and also being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is Corey Hartzog as Tatsumi , Allison Keith-Shipp as Leone and Brittney Karbowski as Aria. Also starring in this episode is Mike Vance as Gaurry , Carl Masterson as Aria's Father , Allison Sumrall as Aria's Mother , Patrick Poole as Ieyasu , Margaret McDonald as Sayo , Jessica Boone as Sheele , Tyler Galindo as Lubbock , David Wald as Bulat , Christina Kelly as Mine , Adam Noble as Merchant A , Gabriel Regojo as The Bartender and One Piece star Molly Searcy as Akame.

Now then  interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented t us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As this episodes cast do turn in some fairly decent performances the issue is tho is that the acting in this episode isn't all that good either as it just comes across as if the cast are just phoning in their performances alot of the time with the only one actually trying to turn in a decent performance is Allison Keith-Shipp as Leone who really is just a pure joy to listen to in this episode but the acting that's in this episode really isn't helped by the fact that the script for this episode just isn't all that good as it gives none of the episodes cast really absolutely nothing to wrong with interms of what there characters personalities are even meant to really be in the first place and that is something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting in this episode as this episodes script really just all of that bad.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at WHITE FOX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this episode was in all honesty not that bad as the animation in this episode was alot better then what it really could have been but at the same time tho the episodes animation isn't as good as it really should have been as the animation just felt flat with the backgrounds not being all that interesting or even detailed when other TV anime have very highly detailed backgrounds with the animation not being helped by the fact that the characters have some really stiff movements like all of which adds up to the animation in this episode feeling like it's unfinished. 

We do get would could be seen as a tragic backstory for Tatsumi , Ieyasu and Sayo as all three of them are friends and yet due to circumstances that happen prior to the episode the three end up separated. While the three do indeed meet up again it's not under the circumstances that you'd want it to be as both Ieyasu and Sayo end up dead which does make there backstory and them being split up even more tragic then what it already is as while they are indeed trying to save there village from essentially dieing out when they get separated it's not the last time that Tatsumi saw Sayo alive with all three of them meant to be each others best friend with Tatsumi even witnessing the death of his other best friend Ieyasu first hand and while this backstory doesn't really hit as much as it should as this is only the first episode it hits in the way that it tells us that this world isn't one where the good guys will always come out on top and that some times the bad guys will win the fight.

One of the things that really does let this episode down is the fact that the world isn't as fully established as it really could have been. Which odes make sense as this is only the first episode of the show and the show did have twenty four episodes and as a result to expect things to be fully established in the first episode wouldn't be the wisest thing but at the same time when you start of a rocky foundations like this shows world building is it really doesn't matter how good things get later on in the show as the foundations will always be badly done and as a result it would have been nice if in this episode we got some information about how this world works and how that world got to be as bad as it was and why the rich people in this world are as bad as they are instead of not even touching on any of them and as a result of that the episode would have been better as it would have made all of those ideas seem alot more thought out then what it already is.

One of the many things that actually worked for this episode is the fact that it plays with your expectation. As usually in an anime when you see someone take a character in off the streets then there usually the good guy and are to be trusted and when someone attacks the house that that character is staying at then there usually the bad guy and yet in this episode they flip that around by having the rich people be the bad guys and the attackers be the good guys which was something that worked out really well as it tells you that nobody in this world is trust worthy as any of them could be about to kill you at any moment and it forces you to wonder who Tatsumi can actually trust all due to the events of this episode and while Aria and her parents aren't really that threatening of villains they do make for some solid villains for this debut as they are basically the first boss that you'd fight in a video game and thus aren't really meant to be as threatening as the main villain.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and forty one seconds. Which is a solid running time for this debut to have as the episode does have more then enough plot there tom really cover that amount f running time but at the same time tho it would have been better if this episode did have a much more longer running time just so that the episode could flesh out it's characters a bit more and so that the episodes could also flesh out it's story a little bit more then what it already does and with the added running time the film could also flesh out the world that the show takes place in as well as this would have the add on effect of making the world feel alot more real but it would also have the add on effect of stretching what is already a fairly thin plot even thinner as it would mean adding in scenes that would add nothing to the overall plot of the episode but I will admit hat this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought // felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episodes action being the best part of the episode as that's where we get to see some really creative and just down right cool moments in this episode with the action in this episode being really exciting when it needs to be and also being really creepy and scary when it really has to be with alot of this episodes action scenes also being home to the episodes more over the top bloody and gory moments as well all of which make the action in this episode all the more fun to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this was a really fun filled episode to watch with this episode also proving why this show was as popular as it was when it first debuted as the episode does have alot of the over the top gore and action that the show would become known for but at the same time it also really shows us why the show didn't stay in the public eye that much as the episode really does offers us nothing interms of world building and lore in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly 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 Akame Ga Kill! fandom wiki page page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the great and legendary Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course on Google Images are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Blood-C "O Ye Winds Of Heaven" Review

There are alot of anime out there that alot of people talk about but sadly for all of those popular anime there are several more that despite being really good shows just aren't talked about as much as they really should be. With the episode that i'm going to be talking about today being one such a case as this anime is even talked about by even the most ardent of anime fans let alone the mainstream audience that shows like Attack On Titan on Pokemon have broken through to and so then join me as I review the review the first episode that is more fun then what it really had any right to be with the episode in question being called simply just ""O Ye Winds Of Heaven" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is young shrine maiden Saya Kisaragi is tasked with protecting her small village town from monsters but something bigger and more threatening lurks within the village. Now then interms of what Impersonally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it does a good job of setting up the threat of the episode but at the same time it's also not that good either as the plot of this episode is also on really rather weak as well with it being incredibly difficult to work what the actual plot of this episode is even meant to be at the best of times but this episode really does have some really good pacing it it as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Alexis Tipton as Saya Kisaragi , Lindsay Seidel as Nene and Nono Motoe and Robert McCollum as Fumito Nanahara. Also starring in this episode is Bill Jenkins as Tadayoshi Kisaragi Lydia Mackay as Kanako Tsutsutori , Todd Haberkorn as Dog Martha Harms as Yuka Amino , Chris Burnett as Itsuki Tomofusa , Scott Freeman as Shinichiro Tokizane and Fairy Tail star Tia Ballard as Hitomi.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Which really isn't all that surprising given that alot of this episodes cast is made up a bunch of really good voice actors all of whom know how to turn in a good performance and all of whom do turn in a really rather solid performance in this episode but at the same time tho the acting in this episode isn't as good as it really should have been which is understandable as the cast are still trying to find there characters with the script for this episode not really helping the acting out at all as the script for this episode is just so bad as it gives none of the episodes cast much to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personality is even meant to he in the first place which really does hurt the overall quality of the acting in this episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Production I.G. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad which is to be expected from an early 2010's TV series anime but at the same time given that this is Production I.G the animation in this episode should have been alot better as while the animation in this episode isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination but with this animation studio you expect great animation in every single project that they do just because of there name alone and yet to see one of their projects that doesn't have that good of an animation does feel like it's a bit of a let down.

This episode is a good example of how to a strong female character as Saya Kisaragi is a strong female character. As she's a character that has alot of flaws like the fact that she's bit of a goof ball and is very clumsy both of which are things that get her into trouble and while they don't get her into that much trouble they are still things that she has to overcome with her character not being presented as someone who is perfect at everything like alot of modern Hollywood versions of "strong female characters" are as Saya is an interesting character who has to learn and to grow from the mistakes that she not only makes in this episode but also in future episodes of this show as well as when things do get worse alot of our her faults like her overly trusting nature do come into play and knowing how the rest of the show goes that is also a massive flaw as she just believes everything that she's told and is willing to trust anyone just because they seem like a good person.

While there are alot of good things to be found in this episode there are some issues to be found in this episode. Like the fact that not alot of the episodes get alot of screen time and thus can't start to form much of a personality which does make sense given that this is a TV series but given that this is short TV series it is something that should have been fixed and the other major issue is the fact that the show and films main villain also isn't set up either with alot of the episode being dedicated to Saya Kisaragi just going about her day to day life which does make sense as she is the main hero of the show but at the same time given that the show is only twelve episodes long there really should have been some of the episodes running time really being dedicated to setting up the villain and setting up the mystery of who the villain is both of which would go along way into making the villain alot more memorable character.

To be fair to this show alot of this shows side characters are just memorable if not more memorable then the main characters. As just from this episode alone we get to see alot of really funny and sometimes even borderline cute moments all of which feature the shows side characters and it shows us that the show isn't afraid to be funny as that is something that would make us the audience truly care for the characters and make us want to see more of them as they do seem like a bunch of really likable characters with the best example of this being Nene and Nono as they really do get alot of the episodes best and most funniest lines and while we don't get much of a personality from either of them in this episode that does make sense given that there not the main character what screen time we do get from them is surfed in making us like them as characters.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes running time even was I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly twenty four minuets. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for alot of TV anime series to have to have and while this episode doesn't really take full advantage of this running time as there are alot of stuff that's not included that would have helped the episode like the fact that we don't get to see Saya training to ultimately kill the monster nor do we see her taking the time to catch her breath after the fight which would show us that this was a tough fight for her this episode does have more then enough plot to really cover that amount of running time and while the episode would have been better if the episode had a longer running time as it would have allowed more of the side characters some time to shine and fix some of the episodes issues it also would have stretched this episodes plot even thinner then what it already is but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As we do get to see some really good action in this episode with the episodes action doing a good job of showing us just how good of a fighter that Saya Kisaragi is instead of just telling us that she's a shockingly really good fighter and not telling us all of that which is a good form of storytelling and while we do really get only the one action scene in this episode it's a solid action given that the creature that she's fighting is really made of stone thus can't really do all that much in the first place it is still a really rather solid action scene in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this was a really solid episode to a really solid anime with this episode does a good job of not only being a fun watch but also giving us a really likable main character that we want to really see alot more of in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then 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 Blood-C fandom wiki page , Amazon . Co . UK and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the great and legendary Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course on Google Images are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Sonny With A Chance "Sketchy Beginnings" Review

Disney Channel used to produce alot of shows in the past and while the network is kind of gone now thanks to Disney+ alot of there shows are on there for us all to watch and hopefully enjoy. With this also hopefully bringing in newer viewers that those shows didn't get the first time out and given that alot of those shows now have big names starring in them it will also get alot of the older fans to remember about those stars as well with this one being the long list of forgotten shows that also happen to have a now big name star starring in it and so then join me as I review the episode that tries and fails to do sketch comedy but just can;t with the episode in question being called simply just "Sketchy Beginnings" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when new girl Sonny Munroe gets a job on her favorite sketch comedy she discovers that the show has a queen bee who she must content with on her first show. Now then  interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho the plot of this wasn't all that good either with the plot of the episode being a very predictable plot line where the solution is also something that can seen a mile away which does make the plot of this seem like a very formulaic plot and not something that's all that new , creative and different but I really will admit that the plot of this really very entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode Camp Rock franchise star Demi Lovato as Sonny Munroe and Tiffany Thornton as Tawni Hart. Also starring in this episode is Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles star Brandon Mychal Smith as Nico Harris , Doug Brochu as Grady Mitchell , Jake And The Never Land Pirates Allisyn Ashley Arm as Zora Lancaster , Nancy McKeon as Connie Munroe and Michael Kostroff as Marshall Pike.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However at the same time tho the acting in this episode is just the stereotypical Disney Channel type of acting and nothing all the more then that this is of course of no fault of the episodes cast as there really being told to act a certain but there should have been alot more effort to make the acting in this debut episode alot better as this is first chance that people are really getting to see this show and yet the acting in this episode really just isn't that good with the acting in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the episodes script is just so bad as it doesn't give alot of the episodes cast much to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities even are in the first place as this episode script is just that average at best.

To give this episode some credit it does get across what all of the characters are like just in this first episode alone. However the characters remain the exact same all throughout the show which granted isn't a fault with this episode but it is something that started with this episode as both Sonny and Tawni don't grow as characters by the end of this episode infact Sonny ends up winning this is despite her knowing that she hurt Tawni and made her feel insecure and it's the same thing all throughout the show as the characters never learn anything and never grow as characters but at the same time tho not all shows need to have deep character development as sometimes just being a dumb show is more then enough and that's exactly what this show is and that's something that works well for this show and it's something that this show excels in being as it knows fully what it is and isn't afraid to be a dumb kids show.

Not only did this episode gets alot of the characters down perfectly in this episode but it also got down alot of the characters dynamics down as well. With the all of the character dynamics that you see later on in the show being set up and started in this episode and while the character dynamics in Disney Channel shows don'y usually change just due to the stand alone format that Disney Channel shows had at the time it still would have been nice to see those dynamics grow and change over the course of the series as that would show that the characters are evolving and are going from workmates to friends instead of just keeping them in this one place where this one character has to act this way around this one person every single episode which is something that could have gotten old very quickly in this series.

This show really doesn't get the whole TV show format down at all let alone a sketch comedy TV show as according to this show each sketch comedy is broadcast live which if you know any show you'd know that that isn't the case. With this being an issue as one of this shows executive producers Brian Robbins created All That which is perhaps the most successful kids sketch comedy TV show of all time and yet this one episode gets it all wrong as the shows would have been filmed weeks or months in advance and not done the day of as was strongly implied in this episode with this show slightly getting right how they choose what sketches go into the final episode but at the same time these sketch comedy don't have the cast come up with idea during the week of rehearsals as they have a writers room coming up with ideas all of the time and while yes it is understandable that this episode cut that out to make it easier for the kid audience as it's Hollywood basically telling us how a show is made it's also not how a show is actually made at the same time. 

For some reason this episode ditches an actually funny sketch with the Bumbling Bee sketch with the awful One Bad Bee sketch.Which isn't even funny as all it is just the characters barring Tawni doing a bad rap song that isn't even funny where as the Bumbling Bee sketch was not only funny it also could have been used to resolve the plot line between Sonny and Tawni as Tawni cold have realized that while yes she was insecure for alot of the episode but Sonny's sketch was actually funny and Sonny could have realized how Tawni was feeling and the two could have worked together to create something that is not only funny which is the point of a sketch comedy show but it also could have made Tawni feel alot better about herself whereas the One Bad Bee which hints at Tawni several times in a negative light just does none of that and is there just so that the episode can have a really bad rap song in it's opening episode and really nothing all the more then that.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and fifty seven seconds. Which is the perfect running time for this episode to have and is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show to have as well as this opening first really doesn't have a whole lot there interms plot as the plot is paper thin at best but at the same time tho if this episode was longer it could have been used to fully develop all of it's main characters which would have only worked well enough in the episodes favor as it would have allowed for us the audience to form a connection with the characters but on the flip side of that is the fact that this episodes plot is wafer thin and that by making the episode longer it would be stretching an already thin plot even thinner but I will admit that this episode really does gave some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As the actors do get away with having some really facial expressions which do make alot of the episodes really lame jokes seem funny as what's funny isn't what's being said it's rather how the characters are reacting to it which is what makes the joke funny but on the flip side of that is the fact that alot of this episodes just aren't this funny and while yes this shows target audience might find this funny if your really not apart of this shows target audience then there's not really a whole lot that's really all that funny to be found in this very episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it's not hard to see why this show has largely been forgotten about as aside from the fact that Demi Lovato is starring in this show there's nothing that's all that memorable about this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 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 Sonny With A Chance fandom wiki page , the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the great and legendary Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course on Google Images are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

My First Impressions Of The Shōgun 2024 TV Series

History is something that has always made for fascinating television as alot of historical events are epic enough to be made into a TV show. However this show dares to ask the question of what if they adapted one book whilst really at the exact same time also ripping of Game Of Thrones and well what we got does add up to a really very mixed bag of affairs and so then join me as I give you my first impressions of the show that rips of Game Of Thrones with the show in question being called simply just "Shōgun" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a sailor is taken prisoner and one his crew are killed he must find away to survive and gain power all for himself. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in al honesty not that bad but at the same time the plot of this episode wasn't all that good either with the plot of this episode being really weak at best as it was hard to work out what the actual plot of the episode was and while the episode does indeed do a good job of setting up the plot of the show it doesn't do a good job of telling a decent plot for the episode which is something that should have been just as a much a focus as setting up the plot for the show but the plot of this episode was really entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshii Toranaga and Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne. Also starring in this episode is Anna Sawai as Toda Mariko , Tadanobu Asano as Kashigi Yabushige , Hiroto Kanai as Kashigi Omi , Takehiro Hira as Ishido Kazunari , Moeka Hoshi as Usami Fuji , Shinnosuke Abe as Toda "Buntaro" Hirokatsu , Tokuma Nishioka as Toda Hiromatsu , Yasunari Takeshima as Muraji , Yuki Kura as Yoshii Nagakado , Fumi Nikaido as Ochiba No Kata , Tommy Bastow as Father Martin Alvito , Yuka Kouri as Kiku , Yoriko Dōguchi as Kiri No Kata , Ako as Lady Iyo / Daiyoin , Néstor Carbonell as Lord Vasco Rodrigues , Hiromoto Ida as Lord Kiyama Ukon Sadanaga , Toshi Toda as Lord Sugiyama , Sen Mars as Nakamura Yaechiyo , Paul Moniz De Sa as Father Sebastio , Takeshi Kurokawa as Ohno Harunobu and Good Omens star Ned Dennehy as Captain General.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With all of the episodes cast turning in some really good performances and heck the acting in this episode is so good that it's hard to say who turned in the best performance as everybody in this episode is just so good with there not being a standout performer because the whole cast is the standout performer which is something that on paper shouldn't be the case with this episode as this episodes cast is made up of mostly unknown or very little known actors and as such to expect a good performance out of them would be a mistake and yet that's exactly what we get in this episode with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the episodes script is just so good that all the episodes cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Important Looking Pirates and Lindala Schminken FX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it was used in a way that CGI should be used and that's to extend what's already there on set but at the same time tho the episodes CGI wasn't really all that good either as it did look really cheap looking with it being really painfully obvious when they were using CGI as opposed to whenever they were really doing something practically which is something that really does make the CGI in this episode look alot more worse then what it really should have been like.

For those of you who don't know this show is an adaptation of the 1975 novel of the same name and was written by author James Clavell. With this being only the second time that the book has been adapted into a TV show with the only previous adaptation being the 1980 nine hour TV show mini-series of the exact name and while it's hard to say if this show is more faithful of the books given that the previous TV show adaptation had the books original involved it does make the original TV show more faithful as the author would of course want his work to be translated as faithfully as possible but at the same time that's hard to say for sure as the original miniseries in nine hours long and I have no interest in either reading the original book nor watching the original show but just based of this one episode alone it does seem like this show will be just as faithful to the original source material as the original miniseries was.

This episode feels like a Game Of Thrones ripoff as there are alot of things that were in that show that also reappear in this show. With both shows having political intrigue , a pointless s*x scene and lots of blood and guts with both shows also having some really gruesome death scenes as well the only difference being is that Game Of Thrones had alot more likable characters all introduced and set up in there first episode where as in this episode it was hard to tell who the good guy was even meant to be as alot of the characters are made to be really unlikable in places but then they would go and do something that would make you question if they are likable people or not which yes does make them more complex but at the same time it also makes it harder to get a read on them as a character which does have the add on effect of making it harder for us the audience to form a connection with any of these characters as there both really likable and really unlikable as well. 

In a rather bold move FX and Hulu released the first two episodes of this show which judging by the reviews is going to pay off for them. However given that the first episode has alot of scenes that make it feel boring it is also something that could have backfired for them as this is something that not alot of people would have heard of and as a result of that they really wouldn't watch to episodes of something if there not all that familiar with it but on the flip of side of that is the fact that it does show that they had alot of faith in the show that they wanted to get more viewers watching your show if your airing more then one episode a week and while yes airing one episode a week does really have it's advantages as it does allow you to build up hype for the next episode it also has it's downsides as it means that people might just watch this first episode and really not watch episode two for whatever reason but in this case it is something that is quite clearly working really well enough for this show as well and really to this shows advantage as well.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and ten minuets and eighteen seconds. Which is alot longer then what this episode really needed to be as this episode really doesn't have alot of plot to cover that large amount of running time as the episodes plot is weak at best and as a result this episode really didn't need to be that long as alot of the episode is spent with the characters just going about there day to day lives with nothing all that interesting happening for the most part and there's only so long that you can see that happening before it gets which does happen in this episode but it doesn't happen quickly as the episode does have some exciting moments in it just not enough to really justify it's nearly feature length film running time but I will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a drama that means that I have to actually talk about the actual drama that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual drama that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of the drama does feel very character driven the issue with that is the fact this is only the first episode and as such it's hard to really get a handle on who these characters are personality wise which means that for all we the audience really know these characters could be acting out of character in those moments but when we do get a really good bit of drama it is worth watching as it does create a really good scene in the episode that is also nine times out of ten really one of the best bits in the episode as whole as it's just that good from both a writing , acting and directing point of view in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this wasn't a bad first episode but at the same time it also gives you no reason to watch episode two and while there might be some people who really like this show this isn't a show can really hold alot of people's interesting for there nearly hour long running time for each episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this post and as this is only my first impressions I won't give this show a rating as any show can have a good or bad first episode but if this review does well enough then I might be tempted into checking out episode two which would then be a review.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post being the official Shōgun fandom wiki page , the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being the great and legendary the official Shōgun fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this episode and are really of course on the official Shōgun fandom wiki page are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.