The Inbetweeners: Caravan Club Review

Believe it or not it's actually been around three years since an episode of The Inbetweeners was last covered by me and well since I didn't want to do either of the movies. I thought that now was the absolutely right time to get back into this show as this show really is one of the funniest shows out there and does deserve alot more love and attention from people and so then join me as I review the episode that sees the boys go caravanning with the episode in question being called simply just "Caravan Club" enjoy.

The plot of this is when they become fed up of his lies Will , Neil and Simon decide to take up Jay on his offer and go to a camp site that he says is full of girls. 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 just as simple and as fun as a plot like this one really should be as this is a show that really doesn't demand deep and thought provoking plots as all it needs is a simple setup and that let the characters just be their awkward selfs and that is something that does work really well for this episode as we get to see the characters just be there typical awkward selfs whilst still trying to get girls to like them with the only issue about this episodes plot being the fact that it doesn't really tie up the loose end of them catching Jay out in one of his lies as the episode does instead kind of leave it open ended which is true to the show as the show would do something like this and given that this episode was apart of the shows first series it's not that big of an issue but at the same time tho if your going to set up the possibility of the boys catching him out in an obvious lie then you should at least have a pay off for it even if it's a small one but that's a very minor issue with the episodes plot as the plot of this episode was on the whole really good and was more then up to the already high standerd of plots from the rest of this show with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Simon Bird as Will McKenzie , James Buckley as Jay Cartwright and Blake Harrison as Neil Sutherland. Also starring in this episode is Joe Thomas as Simon Cooper , Henry Lloyd-Hughes as Mark Donovan , Greg Davies as Phil Gilbert , Racheal Joseph as The Petrol Station Attendant , Clemency Hallinan as Becky , Victoria Willing as Mrs. Cartwright , David Schaal as Terry Cartwright and Suzi Battersby as The Punk Girl.

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 pretty typical for this how as all of this episodes main actors do indeed turn in some really good an funny performances in this episode which is something that does make sense as this episode would have most likely have been one of the last series 1 episodes to be filmed and therefor of course the acting from all of the main series actors would have been good as they would have had several other weeks to get to know there characters and turn in good performances from all of the previous episodes as well with even the episodes guest actors also turning in some really good performances with even both Victoria Willing and David Schaal going on to become series regulars as there characters from this episode with the pair of them even appearing in the The Inbetweeners Movies as well with being really hard to say just who the best actors in this episode as while David Schaal does a good job of making his character utterly unlikable James Buckley also gets the chance to shine as well as now his lies are catching up to him and he has to just try and make it look like that was telling the truth about Caravan Club all along with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes scripts is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them more naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

As was just mentioned this episode does see the debut of Jay's dad Terry played brilliantly by David Schaal. With his character constantly talking to and making fun of not only his son but also his wife as well which does make him a really unlikable character as he's the kind of person will just say whatever's on his mind regardless of how other people feel about it which does make his scenes with the boys some of the most utterly entertaining scenes to watch in the episode as you never really know just what it is that he's going to say or do next but whatever it is you can sure that's entertaining to watch as his character is just that unpredictable and while this character would not fly today just due to the fact that he does throw alot of possibly abusive comments Jay's way even comparing him to a woman at several points in the episode these comments whilst they do hurt Jay they are his way of having a joke with someone and just trying to have a laugh with them yes there not that funny things to say to anyone but they do also feel oddly right for this character as you just couldn't picture this character being politically correct as that would just sap out all of the humor from the character and make feel like a one dimensional character where as here he does somewhat feel alot more three dimensional as a character as while yes he does say alot of hurtful things to Jay he also says that he doesn't mean any harm by them and that there just his way of having a joke with people and that's really it and that's something that would be lost if a character like Terry was to be created today as he would have to be politically correct just to make people on either Bluesky or X happy. 

Heck it could even be argued that Jay is the way that he is because of how his dad treats him and with Terry being one of the many people to actively call him put on his lies does make that fact even funnier. What doesn't really work tho is the fact that Jay yells at him in this episode which is something that doesn't work as it would have made more sense if that moment was saved for either a later episode of show or either of the movies as then you could have a proper build up to it and make that moment all the more impactful where as here it's just comes across as something that could be easily brushed off when given that the more realistic approach that the makers of this show had for there stories it would have been something that was brought back up and not something that was just forgotten about where as if you did it in either of the movies then firstly it could have been super funny to see Jay try to stand up to him only to get embarrassed by him again and secondly it would have been a great way to conclude that character as while the second film does indeed have Jay fight back against his uncle that moment wasn't earned as we the audience hadn't had the time to get to know his Uncle where as we have had the time to get to know his dad and while the idea of all of the male members of his family being just like his dad is funny Jay trying to punch his uncle only for it to turn into slap doesn't have the same impact as him trying to hit his Dad as we the audience know that whatever Jay had done to his dad it would have been completely justified due to the events of this series and the things that the character has said to Jay as well.

One of the best things that this episode was actually have the boys actually call out Jay for all of his lies and go the place where he says that he frequently scores with multiple women. As the character of Jay up until this point in time had been someone who would tell these kind of lies and yet would still get away with it think Stifler from the American Pie movies but British and yet here due to the fact that this show is based more on things that did happen to the creators and only writers of this show it is more believable that these characters would call him out on as they just like Jay want to become popular with girls and therefor going to the place where they've been told by none other then Jay himself is crawling with women would make them want to go there with Will even describing the situation as a win win as ether they do get with girls or they prove that Jay is a lier so either way they would win in that situation but what doesn't work is the fact that the episode for the most part does drop that aspect of it's story with none of the characters mentioning the fact that he does tell these kinds of lies alot of the time until the very end where Will and Jay get into an argument about it at the side of the road and that's really when something that was key to getting the main plot of the episode should have been given more prominence in the actual episode as you very easily could have had one of the boys mention a few times to Jay that they know that he's lieing to them only to have him think up something that he knows that they would like as that could have been a funny idea and true to his character and with Jay being the main character of the episode it is something that would have made sense given the context of the episode.

The best thing about this episode is seeing how Will , Simon and later Neil all act when they are around girls. With that being where the characters get to be there awkward themselves as Will is unsure of what to do when someone who wants to be alone with him is just straight up about it and Simon is a little bit to sure of himself and Neil is just Neil who is happy just going with the flow with it being that kind of attitude that does technically prove Jay right as there was a girl there who wanted to get with one of the boys with it being true to who they are as characters seeing how two of them just crash and burn with Will deciding to go skidding across the floor of the main common room for the caravan park and Simon being a bit to keen for his own good which does result in not only the girl in question telling her parents about what's just happened but also Simon telling the girl what Jay had said to him earlier on in the episode and just straight up telling Jay off about it near the episodes end with Neil being the only one to pull a girl which is also the same girl that tried to pull Will but at the same time Jay was also lieing threw his teeth as there was only two girls interested in two of the lads and not the whole park with the whole idea of two of the boys trying to pull a girl being more then highlight of the episode as we the audience know that at somepoint there going to mess it up as it's only a matter of time given just who these characters and yet it's still fun to see them have these interactions with the girls in question as they do seem like the type of girls that the boys would like and eventually date as well.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and thirty eight seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for these episodes to have and to the episodes credit it really does have more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time and while yes granted the fact that the episodes plot isn't as fully fleshed out as it perhaps could have been this isn't a negative for this episode as the plot doesn't need to be that fleshed out in order to be good as it just needed to be simple enough for us the audience to get an idea of what's going on but then also be fun enough for it to work in a comedy setting which it was with the only real downside of this being the fact the fact that none of the characters that this episode introduces aren't that fully fleshed out as characters which is fine for the girls as they were only meant to be in this one episode and nothing more then that and it is something that does work for Terry as he's quite literally just an older version of Jay but it's something that works for Mrs. Cartwright as she not only just gets a few lines of dialog early on in the episode but due to the movie straight up showing us that she has a daughter it now makes her look like a bad parent as in this episode the daughter isn't seen nor is she mentioned and given by the size of the caravan that there staying in it doesn't look like that they had enough room for her when having her there would not only give the mother something more to do other then look disgusted at Terry whenever he leaves the bathroom but it also would have some extra dimension to her as a character as we could then get to see how she treats her daughter when compared to how she treats Jay where as here it looks like that she favors Jay over her own daughter but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode much like all of the other episodes in this show and the movies as well for that matter having alot of painfully moments in it from Will skidding on the floor of the disco to him then loosing his shoes and being bullied by a bunch of eight year old kids to any of the reactions from any of the series main four actors when there sat around the table inside the caravan waiting to have there dinner there's just alot of really funny gags in this episode and all of them work because nine times out of ten there all situations that us the audience have been in thus making them more relatable with the best moment in this whole episode being at the start of the episode where we see Will at school tied to a chair with bucket on his head put done to him by the school bully Mark Donovan all for apparently no reason with none of the characters able to remove the bucket because of the fact that Donovan has told them not to do with even Mr. Gilbert himself getting in on the act when he convinces will that he tripped and fell into the bucket whilst Will was just trying to tell the truth and when he does go along with the lie all Gilbert can say is that Will is clumsy with the best being all of Donovan's reactions to when someone does try to take the bucket of Will's head all of which are painfully funny to watch with all of this episodes jokes being really funny as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode is just so funny and is a good example of why this show not only worked back in 2008 but still works almost twenty years later as all of the characters are relatable characters and the stories are just as relatable as well but most importantly the jokes are actually funny with this episode episode having alot of the best jokes that this show would become really known for as well 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 an 8.5 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 Amazon . Co . Uk , the official The Inbetweeners 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 really great the official The Inbetweeners fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with really alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official The Inbetweeners fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Star Wars: Tales Of The Underworld Review

Whilst things might have stalled on the live action front when it comes to there animated output the world of Star Wars has never looked more brighter. As while we were all celebrating May the fourth Disney and Lucasfilm were busy dropping another series from there Star Wars Tales show with this one looking at the criminal underworld of the galaxy far far away and so then join me as I review the show that has a great front end but a bad back end with the show in question being called simply just "Star Wars: Tales Of The Underworld" enjoy.

The plot for for the first half of this show is Asajj Ventress and teams up with a young Jedi called Lyco Strata to find something called "The Path" whilst the plot of the second half of this show is a young  alien named Colby gets drafted into a life of crime one which sees him became known as the villain Cad Bane. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that are actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad as the plot for the first half of the show was really good but at at the same time tho this shows plot for the second half of the show wasn't all that good as it wasn't all that interesting and was kind of predictable to see play out where as with the plot from the first three episodes of the show you have no idea of where the plot is going and because of that you have no idea on if the characters are going to make it out show alive or not where as due to the fact that episodes four through six of this show are prequel episodes and feature a character that we already know to be alive and well at a much more later point in the timeline it makes those stories predictable as we already know who's going to make it out alive and who isn't with the plot for those final three episodes going the exact same way that you think that they would do and because of that there are less interesting to watch as episodes as well with the plots of this show also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Nika Futterman as Asajj Ventress , Tudi Roche as Cort and Daniel Ross as An Inquisitor. Also starring in this show is Barbara Goodson as Mother Talzin , Al Rodrigo as Quinlan Vos , Colby and The Shopkeeper , Steve Blum as A Smuggler and A Stormtrooper , David Acord as C-21 Highsinger and Imperial Tech 4 , David W. Collins as Imperial Tech 1 , Blik , Kingpin , A Service Droid and Raider 1 , Matthew Wood as Imperial Tech 2 , Helen Sadler as Imperial Tech 3 , Clare Grant as Latts Razzi , Lane Factor as Lyco Strata , Tony Amendola as Grandfather , Ellie Araiza as Granddaughter , Dee Bradley Baker as Raider 2 and The Raider Elder , Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as A Gangster and Lazlo , Vanessa Marshall as A Mother and A News Reporter , Eric Lopez as Young Niro , Dawn-Lyen Gardner as Arin , Corey Burton as Cad Bane and A Police Droid , Imari Williams as The Lawman , Artt Butler as Adult Niro , Oscar Camacho as The Deputy , Michael Bell as A Dock Worker , Idris Keith as Isaac , Gwendoline Yeo as The Mayor , Jason Hightower as Tay Grutty and Town Council Member 1 and Helen Sadler as Town Council Member 2.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good. Which is something that's to be expected as not only are some of this show main actors also reprising their roles from other Star Wars animated shows but alot of them are also a bunch of really good actors in their right as well with there performances in this show being the best of the bunch as they would have had several years in order to perfect there performances for there respective characters and it is something that really does shine through in this show because of it and while the shows newer actors do also turn in some really good performances as well for the most alot of them do deliver certain lines a bit more wooden which makes it comes across as if there unsure of how there character would say those lines which is very sadly the case for Lane Factor as Lyco Strata as even tho his character of Lyco Strata hasn't been seen in Star Wars until now Lane does make some of his lines sound very wooden almost as if he just learnt them five minuets before he started recording them with the acting that's in this show really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so good that all this shows actors have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show

For once it is actually hard to say just who is doing the animation for this show as there is no animation company listed anywhere online. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty top notch and was really good with this show animation being close to feature length film good alot of the time as that's just how good alot of this shows animation was with all of the characters having some really nice and fluid movements to them and the backgrounds being very detailed all the while still retaining the close look of Star Wars: The Clone Wars wit even some of the shows characters designs working really well with Asajj being a perfectly good example of this as her design perfectly fits in not only with the timeline in which her stories take place but also with what the character herself is going through as well with the only thing that really lets down this shows animation being the fact that they relay far to much on desert scenes which does add an air of cheapness to the shows animation quality as doing something in a vast empty space is very easy to animate and very cheap to do with this show having at the very least two of the six episodes feature a desert backdrop and while the desert does indeed look nice it is something that does make the show look very cheap to do this is despite the fact that the shows animation is of a very quality with the show being worth watching just for it's animation alone.

While there are some things that this first three episodes of this show does really well one of them sadly is not giving us alot of interesting things. Like for example in episode two "Friends" they set up the fact that Lyco Strata might turn on Asajj when he gets given an offer by one of her friends but the episode quite literally never reveals on if he does it or not when that could have added an interesting wrinkle to there whole dynamic as we know thanks to both Clone Wars and The Clone Wars what she's like as a character but we have no idea what he's like as a character and showing him willing to betray someone would add to his character a bit as well with another example oddly enough being in the very next episode "One Warrior To Another" we meet a Grandfather and his Granddaughter with it being revealed that the Grandfather knew Asajj from the Clone Wars however it's never really revealed not only what side he was on but also who he is either as that could have made for a really cool reveal and would have been a great way to give both characters some added backstory with it just making it feel like a waste of character and it's stuff like that that does let this show down quite a bit as both halves of this show have moments that could have been cool and interesting if the show was brave enough to actually follow through on them with an example from the Cad Bane story being the fact we don't get to see what happened Arin with it only being told to us when showing it would have made alot more sense and would have made those stories all the more tragic.

Out of the two stories the first one is quite easily the better one as it was the more interesting story that had alot more going for it. So much so that it's not hard to picture another animated series with Asajj and Lyco as the main characters as they work just so well to each other with them each bringing out something that the other needs with Asajj she brings out the killer instinct in Lyco and with Lyco he brings out her kindness with it being easy to see them going off and having more adventures in a future animated series whatever the plot of that series maybe and with them actually doing a spin off of Star Wars: Visions later this year who knows maybe there is room for a spin off of this show as well as those characters do have plenty of milage in them and heck it doesn't even have to be in animation as you could bring in the characters to the world of lice action and have there story continue that way something that you really can't do with Cad Bane as the types of stories that you can tell with that character are very limiting and even if you wanted to be brave and try to telling a more daring story it just wouldn't work as he's a more grounded character as he's the evil cowboy that walks into the town in every single western movie out there where as with Lyco and Asajj the stories are limitless as we have no idea where these characters could end up and while the idea of fully redeeming Asajj would go against her character as she's more cooler as the flat out bad guy having her be a bounty hunter and helping Lyco out on certain missions would be a good way to go with those characters and given that the characters do start to form a strong bond during these opening three episodes that is something that would make the most sense to do from both a storytelling and character point of view.

To be frank the only interesting thing about the Cad Bane episodes was seeing how he turned his back on his friend. Which even then when you see the set up of that final episode is something that you can see coming a mile away with even the surprise twist which i'm not going to be spoil here whilst that was a good twist it is something that they signal coming quite early on in the episode while it would be hard to say if the character of Cad Bane has been ruined thanks to this show his episodes don't really make you want to find out more about him and are purely there because of the fact that this creator and executive producer Dave Filoni co-created him and that's really it as his origins really didn't need to be reveled as it could be argued that not knowing how he became the way that he is is more scarier then actually knowing every aspect of his story as given the shows title you could have had any of the other bounty hunters or even mobsters from the Star Wars galaxy take his role and have their origins explained as that would be something that we really hadn't seen or if you really want to be creative you could have had the stories from both half of this show merge in the final episode which is something that could work as we don't really get a clear idea of when both stories take place in the Star Wars timeline but at the same time that could also risk making Star Wars fans angry as well but the point is that Bane didn't need his origins explained in this show as it tells us nothing about who he is or even was as a character.

Now then this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly no longer then sixteen minuets and forty seconds. With each episode being around fifteen minuets in length with the longest one being episode three which is sixteen minuets and forty seconds long which to be fair the fifteen minuet running time is a really solid running for this show to have as this show is quite literally telling two plot over the course of six episodes with the show really having more then enough plot there to cover those episodes as the Asajj plot takes up episodes one through three and the Cad Bane plot takes up episodes four through six however neither story really uses there running times all that wisely as none of the characters that the stories introduce have the time needed given to them to fully establish them as characters which is of course of no fault of the makers of this show as there working within a set timeframe but it is something that should have been fixed as some of these episodes very easily could have been twenty two minuets in length which is something that really would have helped out both stories as it would have meant that both stories would have had the extra needed to set up there characters in ways that feel organic and even adding an extra episode to either story would helped to flesh out either plot a bit more as well as the Cad Bane plot is so weak that it was hard to tell what the actual plot of that story was even meant to be until it was the start of it's third and final episode by which point it was far to little to late and the Asajj plot line is one could have been a little bit more longer as it was the more interesting of the two plots but I really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty not that bad. With this show having alot of really good action in it however alot of the shows best action scenes do some within the first two episodes of the show as the third episode really doesn't have an action scene in it and the action in the fourth , fifth and sixth episodes just boils down to who can shoot who the quickest which is fine going for the western vibe that the Cad Bane character is meant to be going for but at the same time tho it doesn't make for all that interesting of an action scene where as in episode one we see Asajj and Lyco team up an take one one single inquisitor with him actually putting up a huge fight even getting the better of both of them for a long while which does add an element of drama to do it and while the action in the latter episodes is decent and serviceable it's also a bit repetitive and not something that you'd really want or even expect for that matter to find in something related to Star Wars with the best action in the whole show going to the fight scene in episode two as we see Asajj and Lyco take down a bunch of droids as they try to help to steal an imperial shield relay unit from a shipyard with them only just managing to make it out of that scene alive only for the person that hired them in the first place to turn on them and set there assassin droid on them which does combine to make the action in that episode the best action scene in this show as there's just alot of cool moments in it and while the action in the rest of the show is good that one in episode two is the better of the bunch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this show is a must watch for lovers of Star Wars as while it's not as good as other Tales entries it is still a really good entry in it's own right and it's one that proves that there people still at Lucasfilm that really do know how to make good Star Wars media as you don't need a good Star Wars movie to see good Star Wars as sometime all you need is a little known animated show to show you that there is still some good Star Wars out there if your really willing to look for it 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 show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show 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 Star Wars The Clone Wars fandom wiki page , the official Disney fandom wiki page and the official Star Wars fandom wiki page. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very review being the really great the official Star Wars fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very show with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Young Jedi Adventures "The Young Jedi" And "Yoda's Mission" Review

With this review currently being written on May the fourth it means that it would only be right that something to do with Star Wars would be reviewed. While it would have been super easy to go with quite literally any of the movies or even with some of the more lesser known animation shows I thought that i'd mix it up a bit by reviewing a show that is not only still airing new episodes but who's target audience is little kids as afterall Star Wars is for them as well and so then join me as I review the episodes that sees some younglings go on a secret mission for Yoda with the episodes in question being called simply just "The Young Jedi" and "Yoda's Mission" enjoy.

The plot of "The Young Jedi" is when three younglings head to a new planet where they are to be trained they discover that one of the planets inhabitants is a pirate and has to convince to return all of the things that he's been stealing from around the town while in "Yoda's Mission" Yoda sends the three younglings on a special mission to retrieve something for a celebration that the people of the planet Tenoo or having and that the jedi are due to take part in. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in these very segments well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in these segments was in all honesty not that bad as they are both plots that will please the shows target little kid audience with the better plot going to "Yoda's Mission" as the plot of "The Young Jedi" just felt like the stereotypical pilot plot where as with the second plot it was not only a much more stronger plot but it was also alot more focused of a plot where as the first segments plot was a bit on the weak side of things with the plot not really kicking in until the segment was almost over and wasn't really all that focused on which does make sense given just how much that first segment had to set up where as with the second segment they could just get right into the plot with both plots also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in these episodes is Eric Bauza as EB-3 , Taran Killam as Hap and Jamaal Avery Jr. as Kai Brightstar. Also starring in these episodes is Juliet Donenfeld as Lys Solay , Nasim Pedrad as Master Zia Zanna , Emma Berman as Nash Durango , Dee Bradley Baker as Nubs , An Adult Pirate and An Alien Patron , Sarah Kramer as Pord and A Patron , Jonathan Lipow as RJ-83 , Dee and Kumpa , Trey Murphy as Taborr and Piotr Michael as Master Yoda.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes 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 episodes was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of this shows main actors are kids and so it is hard to judge there acting ability with all of the episodes kid actors doing a fine job with there respective characters but at the same time tho it would have been better if they cast kids had chemistry with each other as the kid actors in these episodes don't come across as having chemistry with each other with it feeling like that they were all recorded separately which is the norm for animated shows and movies but this is the case it would have been more beneficial to the show if the kid actors were all recorded together with it being obvious that the better actors in these episodes are the adult actors just because of the fact that they've had more time voice acting with Piotr Michael making for a really solid Yoda with the best actor from the adult actors being Dee Bradley Baker just because of the fact that he gets to play more characters and he makes them all sound very distinct from one another with the kid actor being Emma Berman just because of the fact that she actually sounds like that she's having the most fun out of all of the kid actors and that is something that does shine through in the final cut of these two episodes with the acting that's in these very episodes also being helped by the fact that the scripts for these episodes was so good that all these episodes actors have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out pf them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in these first two episodes.

Doing the animation for these episodes is the legends and the greats that are currently over at ICON Creative Studio. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in thee very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad as by all rights the animation in these episodes should have been pretty bad given it's target auidence but the shows animation was alot better then what it really had any right to be with really the only issue in regards to the animation being the fact that the animators seem to think that Lightsabers are bendy which got super annoying as that's not how they work and yet for some strange every single time a character does a move and they have there lightsaber out you can see the blade bending as they move and while the animation quality from these two episodes indeed of a really high quality there are little things like that that do take you out of the episode and remind you that your just watching a TV show and while "Yoda's Mission" does have the more stunning animation to look the animation in the first segment isn't that bad either as all of the locations be it the original Jedi temple to even the planet of Tenoo itself do look really good with it being clear that alot more thought and effort went into this shows animation then what was really necessary as no one would have blamed the animators that worked on these two episodes if they chose not to give it there best work and they still turned in some really good animation that could even be considered feature film worthy as it's just that good.

Sadly tho these episodes characters are the kind of characters that you see in alot of shows that are made for little kids. With all of them being just as bland and boring to watch which is fine for a show that's made for little kids but at the same time tho you still do want your characters to be memorable and good and that's something that's just isn't the case for these characters as none of them apart from Yoda isn't that memorable and do nothing memorable and even then Yoda himself is only memorable because of the fact that he's a legacy character ad that's really it with it not really being helped by the fact that all of the episodes main characters have the exact same personality in that there hot headed at times but they also have a heart of gold and will do anything for their friends which is fine for one character but when that's all of your main characters then there's clearly an issue that needs to be fixed as that character type only works because it's the one character and while the episode does try to add in little things like Nubs being the more comedic of the group and Lys being the animal lover of the group the first segment in particualr which is meant to showoff these characters does nothing with these traits and instead just has them all being distilled to the hot headed one with a heart of gold and that's really it and as for Nash there new pilot friend it's hard to even pinpoint just what her characters personality is even meant to be as the whole episode doesn't give her own which is kind of understandable as when your introducing this many characters at once one of them is going to fall through the cracks but at the same time it also means that she's just not that memorable of a character despite the fact that the idea of having a kid pilot is a solid idea for a character.

For those of you that don't know this show is the first and to date only Star Wars animated show to be set during The High Republic era. Thus meaning that while there are plenty of jedi to go around there are no sith characters with the very idea of doing a show that's made for little kids be set during this newly introduced era is a good idea as it's an era that really hasn't been explored all that much and given that there not producing anything for this era anymore that can be seen as being a shame as seeing just what the jedi were like prior to The Phantom Menace and how they got into the shape that they were in at the start of that film is more then a strong enough idea as all it would need is a bunch of really good writers to make it good and with the show being set during that era as well it's also a great way to get little kids into Star Wars without them having to wonder why seeing Ahsoka show up at the end of Rebels season 1 is a big deal for example as there pretty much is no lore for them to question as this is the start of that lore and for a kids show the simpler you can make the show the better and what better way to make a simple show then to go right back to the beginning of the timeline and explore an era that hasn't been explored and then maybe if those kids like this show then maybe then there parents can introduce them to The Phantom Menace and then start of there Star Wars journey from there as not is that film the more kid friendly out of the films but it's also got Yoda who they'll know for this show and is kind of similar in tone to this show as a whole as well.

These episodes do of course try to have lessons for little kids to learn like the fact that if you work together you can always get things done and real friendships will always mean more then material goods. Both of which are not only handled very well in both of these segments but there also lessons that we as adults could still stand to learn as well as we still do try and do everything on our own when if we stop for a second and ask for a help from people that we know and trust then we can get those things done and we do put more material goods over friendships with some of us even getting new things just to show up are friends when it would be more better if we didn't do that and instead supported and cheered on our friends and while these are lessons that are seen in every single kids show out there they are still good lessons to learn as well as they do help kids to become better people with the lessons even being woven into the episodes very well as neither segment does a three strikes thing where the character does the same mistake three times to the point where they have to learn the lesson as here the lesson is learned pretty quickly which could also be seen as being a bad thing as it means that the story as a whole is just rushing threw plot points but that's more due to the two segment per-episode formular that all kids shows these days seem to have and isn't an issue with this one episode and while the fact that it's the same character in both of of these segments learning these lessons when giving screen time to the other main characters would have made sense the audience that this show is made isn't going to about that as they just want to see the characters that are like them learning these lessons and that's really it.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty four minuets and three seconds. Which is pretty much the perfect running time for a show like this one as even tho the first segment has more then enough plot there to be it's own twenty two minuet special the episodes second segment "Yoda's Mission" doesn't have alot of plot there even with both of the segments being cut up into two eleven or twelve minuet segments with neither segment really using it's running time all that wisely as "The Young Jedi" doesn't take the time that it really needed in order to fully establish all of it's characters and takes far to long to get to the actual plot of the segment where as with "Yoda's Mission" despite it having the better plot of the two segments isn't as fully developed as it really could have been with it not really being explained why Yoda needed it to be Kai and his friends that need to get these seeds for him as really any one of the younglings or even Master Zia for that matter could have filled in that role perfectly and nothing about about the plot of the episode would need to be changed all that much with the first segment also having the issue of trying to introduce two many characters and not devoting enough time to fully develop them as characters as this is something that yes is a result of this segment being part of a two segment episode when it really did need to be it's own twenty two minuet special as then all of the characters that we are going to meet in this show can then be fully set up as characters and the plot of the segment could then be allowed to develop at a more natural pace and not just happen within the last few minuets of the segment but I really will admit that these episodes really do have some really good pacing to them tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured /, presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. As the episodes action is cartoonish enough for it pass as being action in a show that's meant for little kids whilst still hitting alot the notes that you expect to see in an action scene from something that's from Star Wars like outside of the fact that all of the Jedi use there lightsabers you do see them using the force to either move something or to force jump during an action scene all of which are things that we see alot of the time in action scenes from the Star Wars movies with the best action scene by kids shows standard being the one in "Yoda's Mission" just because of the fact that we do get to see all of the main characters really working together as a team which while we did get to see Kai , Lys and Nubs working together in "The Young Jedi" we really didn't see Nash helping them out until the very end where as here we get to see all of them working together as a team and that was something that did make that ending action scene against Taborr and his crew all the more fun to watch as then we get to see what all of the characters bring to the team like Lys is the agile one , Nubs is the heavy hitter , Kai is the thinker and Nash is the groups technician with all of them using those skills in their fight against Taborr and his crew which does make for a really fun filled action scene in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while these episodes are a pair of really good episodes in their own right it's the second segment that is quite easily the better of the two because of the fact that it just gets right into the plot of the episode and with Star Wars quite literally releasing a new show un this case Star Wars: Tales Of The Underworld on Star Wars Day it's really safe to say that Star Wars from an animation point of view really will always be for anyone 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 thee very episodes in this very review and as such that really does mean that this "The Young Jedi" earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me whilst " Yoda's Mission earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me with both of the episodes as a whole earning themselves 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 Star Wars The Clones Wars fandom wiki page , the official Disney fandom wiki page and the official Star Wars fandom wiki page. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episodes that I used in this very review being the really great the official Star Wars fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episodes with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition and May the fourth be with you all.

The Simpsons "The Principal And The Pauper" Review

It's been a good few years since I last covered anything from The Simpsons TV show and will with the show now back to getting rave reviews from both fans and critics alike. I thought that that now was the right time to take a look at another episode from the show with the episode being one that actually got some hate from the fans back when it first aired and so then join me as I review the episode that gives a side character some much needed back story with the episode in question being called simply just "The Principal And The Pauper" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a secret about his past is reveled Principal Skinner has to make a life changing decision. Now then 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 as it was a really good plot that does give the Principal Skinner character some much needed backstory as nothing all that much about the character had been revealed up until this episode and to the episodes credit it does so in a way that is genuinely quite shocking and yet also in keeping with the style of the show as the show up until this point in time was all about doing new and creative things with it's characters and that's something that the plot of this episode does wonderfully with the episode even giving some of the spotlight to Agnes which makes sense and seeing her have this heart to heart with her son was something that worked well and wasn't just thrown in because the plot needed it to happen as it felt like something that the character would do with it being something that does add to the plot of the episode rather take away from it with the only real issue regarding the episodes plot is the fact that it doesn't give us the chance to really get to the real Seymour Skinner as the plot just has him appear in a few scenes and that's really it where as a character that's this important to the plot of the episode really should have played a more active role in the plot of the episode itself with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Dan Castellaneta Homer Simpson , Groundskeeper Willie , Mayor Quimby and Abe Simpson. Also starring in this episode is Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson , Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson , Nelson Muntz and Ralph Wiggum , Yeardley Smith as Lisa Simpson , Hank Azaria as Superintendant Chalmers , Harry Shearer as Principal Skinner / Armin Tamzarian , Kent Brockman and Judge Snyder , Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel , Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner , Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover and Martin Sheen as Sgt. Seymour Skinner.

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. Which is something that really does make a whole lot of sense as the overall majority of this episodes actors have been with the show playing there respective characters since the very episode of the show and are STILL playing them all of these later and as such it really would make sense that they would know how best to perform there respective characters as they've had several years to perfect playing them at this point in time with it really being hard to say just who exactly was the best actor in this episode and really anyone of this episodes actors could make a very viable claim that they are best actor in this episode and it would totally be justified as all of this episodes actors are just that good with a slight edge going to both Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner and Harry Shearer as they both really do get a chance to shine in this episode and really get the chance to show us just what it is that they can both do as actors with the acting that's in this film episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Akom Production Company and Film Roman Productions. 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 acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good as while there was nothing that really stood out in this episode from an episode from an animation point of view all of the characters do have some really nice fluid movements to them with there even being a lot of known characters in group shots or in the background something that the show wouldn't typically do and yet here they are in this episode with this episodes animation even having some small details like the fact that when we see the helicopter flying in the flashback scene we see the wind coming from it's blades pushing down the grass below it which was a nice little touch and it's something that the makers of this episode really didn't have to include at all with the episode having lots of little touches like that that do help to make this episodes animation so much more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights the animators that worked on this episode really didn't have to put in alot of effort into giving this episode some good quality animation and while yes granted this episodes animation isn't as good as other episodes it still doesn't change that the animation in this episode is still not only good but also of a really high quality as well.

As was stated at the very start of this review this episode does delve into the backstory of Principal Skinner by not only revealing that he was in the army but also the fact that he's not really Seymour Skinner. With him only taking up that name due to the fact that he believed that his commander in chief and his mentor was killed in combat and so he took up that name not only to spare his mother the news that her son might be dead but also to honor his memory with this aspect of the episode being one of a few reasons as to why the fans of this show are very mixed about it with some calling it the best episode ever due to the fact that it does show us a human side of Principal Skinner with others hating as it's taking a character that we've known since the shows first proper episode and not telling us that he's not who we all thought that he was with even show creator Matt Groening and Skinner's voice actor Harry Shearer not even being that big of a fan of the episode with Shearer even being quoted in a 2001 interview as saying "That's so wrong. You're taking something that an audience has built eight years or nine years of investment in and just tossed it in the trash can for no good reason, for a story we've done before with other characters. It's so arbitrary and gratuitous, and it's disrespectful to the audience." with him being quoted at a later date as saying "Now, the writers refuse to talk about it. They realize it was a horrible mistake. They never mention it. It's like they're punishing the audience for paying attention." with Groening simply stating that he thought that the episode was a mistake which does track as then showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein do state on the DVD commentary for the episode that it did take a while for them to get Matt to agree to the episode.

On paper this episode really could have worked and really could have been a fan favorite episode as it does have all of the right ingredients. All it really needed was to focus alot more on Sgt. Skinner as that would then give us the audience a reason to care about his character and not do anything that goes against what we know about the character of Seymour Skinner in the first place which this episode could very easily do as his backstory was delved into in other episodes of the show but weather or not it does is something that I can't say as i've not seen those episodes but they do retcon the fact that Seymour knows Ned as according tot this episode he's never met him before this is despite the fact that in an earlier episode of the show he teamed up with Bart to get Ned ousted as school principal so he would there for know who Ned Flanders is and given that both Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein wrote that episode you'd think that they would remember that but it seems not as they don't even mention it in the DVD commentary for the episode as they spend quite literally the entire commentary just defending the episode and not really giving us any interesting piece of information about the episode outside of the fact that it's an episode that was due to air as the last episode of season eight and that's really it with this episode being one that does work if you haven't watched that many episodes of The Simpsons but at the same time tho this is an episode that despite having a really good premise to it just doesn't work all that well. 

What is really shocking is the very idea that Agnes might have secretly known all along that Armin Tamzarian wasn't her real son. As when he comes to tell her that her son has died before reversing course and then claiming to be her son she then has to direct him to where her sons bedroom is something that she wouldn't have had to have done if that really was her son as he'd already know where his bedroom is so maybe she saw something in Armin Tamzarian like the fact that he is also dealing with the grief of loosing someone close to him just like she's dealing with the grief of potentially loosing someone close to her and in that way they both did kind of need each other not to reveal that they know the truth as a way for them both to move on with this even leading to sweet moment between the two near the end of the episode where she states that not only has she known him far more longer then her real son but that she was actually more of a mother to him because of it with that statement being what convinces Tamzarian to return to Springfield and that was a nice little thing to have as it should have been Agnes that convinces him to return as she would know him the best and given that we spend the vast majority of this show with her bossing him around it was nice to see a more caring side to her character as well as we get to see that she really does care for Armin Tamzarian like an actual son something that we really hadn't seen before now with it being something that does work in the context of this episode as at that moment he didn't need to be yelled at by her he just needed to be mothered by her and that's exactly what we got in this episode.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and forty four seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have and to this episodes credit it really does have more the  enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time however tho this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the Sgt. Skinner character who is also meant to be a leading character in this episode plot isn't given that much screen time to actually show us why we should care him and to get across just what exactly he's like as a character as we don't even get to find out all that much about him outside of the fact that he's just several years working in a sweat shop in China and that's really it and this is something that does harm the episode as it means that us the audience aren't given a reason to care about his character and therefor when the characters quite literally wheel him out of Springfield in the back of train we feel nothing and while seeing some of Tamzarian's backstory was nice it would have worked just as well if we got to see things from the point of view Agnes as we don't know what she was thinking or feeling the moment that she saw Tamzarian answer her door and start to tell her that her real son might have been killed as that is something that could have added something to her character as well and while her role in the episode is fine without knowing what she thinking or feeling at that moment it is something that could have added some extra emotional weight to when she talks Tamzarian back into coming back to Springfield but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is comedy that really does mean 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 comedy that's actually featured / presented to us un this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However tho at the exact same time this episodes comedy wasn't as good nor as clever as it was in earlier episodes of the show as there aren't that many actually laugh out loud moments in this episode which is something that might make sense as this episode was more drama focused then comedy focused but at the same time tho this show was always a comedy and therefor the focus should always be on giving us good jokes and this was something that the makers of this show did understand even during this ninth season of the show and yet for some strange reason this episode just doesn't have that many actually funny moments in it with the best joke in the episode being when Kent Brockman does a segment on the real Seymour Skinner only for those that he works with to put a picture of Armin Tamzarian and when he corrects them on this they put up a picture of the real Skinner only now it's upside to which he just calls them all stupid and that's really it and even that joke isn't that good as even the episodes ending joke with the characters vowing to never mention Sgt. Skinner ever again and pretend that Armin is the real Seymour Skinner isn't as funny as it really could have been as while it's in there characters for them all to say something like that it's just not as good of a joke as it really could have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall while this might not the best episode of this show it's certainly not the worse one either and it's not that truly deserves all of the hate that it got as the premise is solid enough it just needed to be executed a bit better is all but because it wasn't it does mean that the episode wasn't as good as it really could have been tho and that is something that really does let this episode down by quite a bit 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 6.5 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 n this very review from the official The Simpsons 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 really great the official The Simpsons fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official The Simpsons fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.