Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 1 Review

Well then after avoiding this show for so many years heck i've seen the movie more times then I have this show i've decided to set out on my biggest challenge yet and not just review the show as a whole but to review each season of Avatar: The Last Airbender so here we go with season 1.

When I normally do a review of anything I don't take notes and that's because most of the shows I've done a review of don't tend to have a story but since this show does have a story I had to make notes and the only two episodes I didn't make notes for was the two part finale it was that damn epic and it set up season 2 pretty damn perfect.

The plot for season 1 was young waterbender Katara and her brother Sokka find a yound boy Aang trapped in an Iceberg and when he's freed it turns out he is the avatar the one is destined to bring peace to the world but he hasn't mastered the elements of airbending those being Water , Fire and Earth and he's only mastered Wind so they set out to find both Aang and Katara a waterbending master. I think with this season it wasn't just the destination that mattered but also the journey it takes them a good eighteen episodes until they reach there destination where as if this show was made they would have reached it in ten minuets.

The first season starred an evil Jake long (look it up trust me you'll laugh) , Zach Tyler Eisen , Dee Bradley Baker , Mae Whitman , Mako and Jack DeSena. This is a sixty episode show so i'm not going to name every single actor but tho even tho Dante Basco is awesome in this show and why wouldn't he be his uncle is freaking Mako all I could here was Jake Long so in my eyes Jake turned evil.

The rest of the voice cast did a really great and that's in part because they are really good in this series every actor is truly believable but also because the voice director for this was the legendary Andrea Romano who's worked on freaking everything from Batman: The Animated series to the recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show and if anyone can get a great performance out of any actor it's her.

When I first started the show I thought that the story and the story telling was just going to be for little kids but my oh my was I wrong yes it does start out like that in the first few episodes but as the show goes on the story telling because more and more mature the audience isn't being talked down to instead we are being talked to on the same level and I never expected that.

Now what you might have noticed is that this show kinda looks like an anime and by kinda I mean it's anime in everything except the name but to this show's credit I think this kind of style helps with it's mature story telling and I think that having that anime look also lets you know that the comedy moments will be funnier due to the facial expressions.

The animation it self is truly stunning and is beyond what I was expecting from a show made in 2005 all of the characters even the ones that just appear in one episode have some great movements to them and in the action scenes the movements are really fluid and fast paced thud helping sell the fact that these fights are life and death.

I've been praising this season alot but I do have to say that I did notice some animation errors where people suddenly have no face and the fact that alot of the episodes just wasn't that good like for example The Waterbending Scroll episode while it does a good job of expanding the world it's not this seasons best episode and it teaches kids that it's ok to steal.

Now I have no idea how much research the writers did on this show but I found that Bumi in Hindi actually means Earth and one of the four elements that Aang has to learn is Earthbending so either that's a clever bit foreshadowing or it's a nice little easter egg for nerds either I thought it was bringing up here.

The amount of great actors who play villains in this season is truly breath taking it reads like a who's who of geek culture i've already mentioned Rafio from Hook and Mako are in this but The Fire Lord is played by The Joker / Luke Freaking Skywalker himself Mark Hamill and flipping over to another franchise with the word star in it's title original series Star Trek actor George Takei is in this show altho for the life of me I can't recall who he played and Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs plays Admiral Zhao.

I freaking loved the fight scenes not because they were well executed altho that was part of the reason but because of how beautiful they were look at like I said before the animation is really faced paced in those scenes so it helps sell the scene and I hope to god these awesome looking fight scenes continue in seasons 2 and 3.

This show really knows how to balance between comedy and drama you get most of the comedy done with within the first five minutes of the episode while at the same time dealing out alot of story information and then you'll maybe get some jokes at the end and I have to say Sokka is easily the funniest character in this show nine times out of ten everything he says is funny as hell and I cannot believe they got away with using the word floozie on a kids show if you don't know what it means look it up but when I heard that I must have laughed for a good twenty minuets just because I didn't expect it.

Overall this was a solid first season i'm shocked that it didn't take me as long as I thought it would to finish it and I cannot wait to start season 2 Earth in a few days so for me this season gets a 8.5 out of 10. 

   

Robot Chicken Season 9 Episode 10 "Factory Where Nuts Are Handled" Review

Robot Chicken fans i'm back after a week of to get some rest and I have to say this was a very enjoyable episode so here is my review of Robot Chicken Season 9 episode 10  "Factory Where Nuts Are Handled".

In this weeks show Mary Kate and Ashley head to Mexico , Michigan J. Frog and his cousin Pepe have a chat and Megatron suffers from PTSD. I'm being honest here I cannot remember most of the sketches from this weeks episode and i'm not sure why that is they weren't that long and they were pretty funny.

This weeks episode starred Seth Green , Genevieve Angelson , Rachel Bloom , Larry Herron , Victorious star Victoria Justice , David Kaye and Tesha Kondrat. Whoever does the casting for this series well done because I had no idea who was playing who in this episode and that's the best thing you can say about any actor in any show or movie.

I'm not going to repeat what I say every week about the animation because honestly i'm getting sick of saying it which is why these reviews will be short unless something drastic happens and if not then i'll have to reconsider doing this on a weekly basis but yeah the production value for this weeks episode was pretty high.

Like I said before most of the jokes for this weeks episodes were just forgettable they were funny jokes but if your like me you'd forget them a few minuets after watching the episode but my favorite sketch featured the legend that is Michigan J. Frog he's a funny character anything he says or does is funny in this episode.

Overall this was a decent episode and like I said before i'm going to reconsider doing this as a weekly series maybe just doing the season premiers and endings with maybe the specials so that way i'm not repeating myself week after week this episode gets a 7 out of 10 from me.  

  

  

Wacky Races 1968 Review

Guys i've already reviewed the reboot of Wacky Races so I thought lets review the original series and it's spin-offs but for this week i'm just tackling the original series the spin-offs will follow in the following weeks so racers start your engines here is my review of the original Wacky Races.

For those that didn't know there was a show called Wacky Races before the reboot the show aired in 1968 and ran until 1969 with only one single series to it's name spanning seventeen episodes with each episode having two separate Wacky Races but what's interesting is the fact it was only cancelled because parents groups thought it was to violet even tho kids see alot worse in Scooby-Doo! this is the one that got canned. 

The set up for the show is eleven wacky racers race to see who is the world's wackiest racer and set up alone makes this better then the reboot because they actually feature racing and the race doesn't stop so the show can have a plot and that's what Wacky Races should be racing and nothing else and unlike the reboot there's alot of racers and the show makes good use of all of them.

The series starred Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly , Private Meekly and Clyde the leader of The Ant Hill Mob , Don Messick as Muttley, Professor Pat Pending, Gravel Slag, Little Gruesome, Ring-a-Ding (also a member of the mob) and Sawtooth , Daws Butler as Rock Slag, Big Gruesome, Red Max, Sergeant Blast, Peter Perfect and Rufus Ruffcut , John Stephenson as Luke and Blubber Bear , Janet Waldo as Penelope Pitstop and Dave Willock as The Narrator. 

In all honesty I loved Paul Winchell as Dastardly in this series he's so evil and yet at the same time you want to see him win at least one race and unlike the reboot which gives Dick a British accent here he speaks American and it suits him better then a British accent does. There's not really much more I can say about the rest of the cast that hasn't all ready been said because of how legendary the voice actors are but I will say I really did think that The Narrator was played by someone from the racing world and was sad to see that was not the case.

The animation was done by Hanna-Barbera with the famous duo of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera directing and producing every episode of the show and I have to say that for me at least the animation wasn't that good I get that they made shows on the cheap but even so the animation seen in this show isn't there best work and I noticed alot of animation errors as well and not just in the early episodes either they were through out the whole series I honestly lost count of how many times Muttley's ears were colored wrong.

What this show does really well I thought was it focused more on Dastardly and Muttley the villains of the show I don't think there's been a show before it or since that had the villains get more focus then the heroes and because of that those two are the most developed out of all the characters but sadly for me tho the least developed is Penelope Pitstop at the most she gets a sentences worth of dialog in must of the episodes and that's it and I think that's because when they were making the show she was seen as an after thought and her character and car were created because the makers thought the show needed a female driver oh and by the way her official creator is Iwao Takamoto who's a legendary character designer.

People who talk about this show often talk about Dick Dastardly being capable of winning and it's true he is actually a good racer once you stop and think about it he often starts out last and yet works his way up to first place the only reason he doesn't win is because he stops to do his tricks which even after they've failed he still tries to work his way back into the race that takes alot of skill and I have to give him credit for that.

The show was written by Larz Bourne , Dalton Sandifer , Tom Dagenais and Michael Maltese I think that the all of the stuff Micheal wrote was largely ignored because I didn't find the show to be that funny and I know Micheal is a very funny writer I can easily see someone who's seeing this show for the first time laughing alot but I grew up with the show and I didn't find it that funny for some reason altho I have to say that I did enjoy the puns those were freaking funny as was sassy Dastardly and the show is very entertaining.

I have to talk about Penelope some more because I feel like she is such a product of the times she is the most feminine driver out of the cast of the characters , she always needs help from someone and her cars gadgets or beauty products now you could say that's part of her character and you'd be right to say that but at the same time if this version of the character was made today people would be calling the makers of the show sexist.

Now since the show's main goal was to find the world's wackiest racer I think it's fair to assume that the racer with the most wins would be that racer so i'm here to tell you who the top three wackiest racers or tied for number three with a total of eleven points it's The Ant Hill Mob and Penelope Pitstop and number two it's Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth with a total of thirteen points and beating them by one single point it's The Slag Brothers.

It wouldn't be a review of Wacky Races without talking about the cars I really liked the cars in the show they each suited there driver or drivers perfectly and each of the cars are just as Wacky as the people behind the wheel and I have to say that my personal favorite car belonged to the person with the best name on the show the Convert-a-Car driven by Professor Pat Pending the car can do anything the episode or scene requires it to do and I love the play on the Patent Pending.

Overall this was a really entertaing show and I generally didn't know who was going to win each race and while I do enjoy the reboot I think that this is the better version so for me the show gets a 7 out of 10. 

  

My Brief Thoughts On Apple & Onion

So then there's a new show on Cartoon Network out and when I say out I mean you can watch the first two episodes on demand the official premier isn't for a few more days but still here our some thoughts I have about Apple & Onion.

Just based of these first two episodes this looks to be an episodic show which I guess does make sense since this is a slice of life show but at the same time I do wish there was a slight narrative in the show but i'm only judging it of the first two episodes so who knows there could be a story developing in the future.

I had no idea this had a British cast as Apple we have the shows creator George Gendi but it's the voice of onion that truly shocked me as we have Richard Ayoade from The IT Crowd doing his voice and I have to say both actors are pretty funny in the first two episodes but the casting gets even more awesome as Onions dad is played by Stephen Fry that is just pure great casting right there and yes I know there's more actors in this but since this isn't a full review i'm not going to name every actor.

I'm going to come right out and say it the character look freaking weird to me and that's not just the side characters it's every character I get what they are going for making every piece of food into a person but that doesn't stop them from looking like they just escaped from a mental hospital and I can see the designs putting some people of watching the show.

I will say this about the show it's humor at least for these two episodes was pretty spot on I honestly cannot count the amount of times I laughed out loud and I think that's helped by the fact that Richard is a generally funny person and the kind of humor that this show has seems to be right up his alley.

Since i've only seen the first two episodes I cannot make a full comment on the animation but based on what i've seen the animation in the show is far better then most Cartoon Network shows these days I won't name any shows just because at some point it just becomes dull to bash on the same show time after time but lets just say it has a movie out this year with the name Goes To the Movies.

So far this does seem like it could be a great show for the network and if i'm still watching by the time episode twenty roles out then yes there will be a review but if i'm not watching it by that time then there's no review.

My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Forgotten Friendship Review

Pony fans when I woke up this morning I had no idea that by the evening i'd be here writing up a review on the newest Equestria Girls special so here is my review of My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Forgotten Friendship.

As far as I can tell the special is an adaptation of the book A Friendship To Remember by Perdita Finn and just going of the MLP Wikia the special does seem to be really faithful to the book. The plot is someone steals the memories of Twilight , Applejack and the rest of the gang apart from Sunset Shimmer so it's up to her to find out who did it and get her friends back. I'll admit I knew who the villain was from about the half way mark it's not a good mystery at all but the story it self is pretty solid.

The film stars the great Tara Strong , Rebecca Shoichet , Ashleigh Ball , Tabitha St. Germain , Andrea Libman , Cathy Weseluck and Kathleen Barr. In all honesty there's not much I can say about the acting since these actors have been playing there characters since 2010 so of course they are going to know how best to play there respective characters and thus all of the actors do a solid job and it is nice to hear new dialog from these characters since we are nearly a month out before the season 8 premier.

I will say that unlike Magical Movie Night which was just the Equestria Girls TV series sold as a movie there is one plot this time around and the animation for a TV special isn't that bad but the issue I have with the animation is this is following the movie which had better animation so anything that came out after that is going to look cheap by comparison but with all of that said it is not see the familiar animation style of the show.

The best word I can use to describe this special is cute and in all honesty I think that's the best word to use this spin off franchise it's cute nothing more and nothing less altho it does make me wish that this spin off franchise was canon just because it would present more story telling possibilities but i'd fully understand if any of you pony fans didn't like that.

There's a few good jokes in the special I personally laughed at lot at Twilight for spoiler reasons i'm not going to reveal which version of her but if you've seen this special then you'll understand why I thought that there were alot of scenes in this special with Twilight that were so in character they made me laugh and for some reason this spin off franchise is now meta because they make a lot of meta jokes and they are all really funny.

Honestly at this point with the Equestria Girls franchise I do wish they'd try something different which I know they are doing with the toy line but i'm talking more about the films and specials just because after a while they all start to blur into one and they all start to feel like they are the same thing and not a different film or special.

Overall if your into MLP or if you know someone who is into this franchise then they might like it but at the same time even if you are into MLP you'll see nothing new here and you'll know where the story is heading and who the villain is so with all of that in mind and bearing in mind this is more aimed for little girls because heaven forbid the guys get something aimed at them in this franchise I give this special a 5 out of 10.

The Flintstones Series Review

Hey there cartoon fans this review has taken me the longest to do and I have to say it was worth it to give you all the best possible review I could so lets travel back to the stone age and visit everyone's favorite stone age family The Flintstones.

For those of you who either don't know or have forgotten The Flintstones was a TV series that started in 1960 and ran for six seasons ending it's initial run in 1966 racking up an impressive 166 episodes a record which for a long time stayed with The Flintstones until it was beaten by another famous family The Simpsons and i'm guessing they will keep that record until the end of time.

The set up for the show is it's 60's America but in the stone age and as you can most likely guess from what i've just said there's no story for the show but the show isn't episodic because what happens in what episode might effect the next few episodes as was the most famous storyline for the show the birth of Pebbles which started near the end of the third season and a few episodes later she arrived on the scene.

This series has the late Alan Reed voicing Fred and the rest of the cast includes Jean Vander Pyl as both Wilma and later Pebbles , the great Mel Blanc as Barney and Dino , for the first for seasons we have Bea Benaderet as Betty but for the final two seasons we got Gerry Johnson and finally the great Daws Butler as Bamm-Bamm.

The casting for the show I thought was pretty spot on as you could tell I didn't name every actor only the actors who played The Flintstones and The Rubbles and I have to say I really enjoyed Alan Reed as Fred since I grew up with Henry Corden playing Fred I was shocked to actually find myself enjoying Alans portrayal of the character and the rest of the cast are really fantastic I can't really say much about Mel , Jean and Daws since they are legends but I freaking love the voice that Bea uses for Betty.

While watching the show I found out a few things that I didn't know about the characters like for example Betty's maiden name in the show was McBricker and how the couples first met in the two live action films they have stories with contradict each other but here they met at a hotel where both couples pretended to be rich fearing the other wouldn't like them if they knew the truth and that's the tip of the iceberg.

One thing I noticed that's a negative is the quality in the shows writing took a nosedive around the third or fourth season with the first two seasons being written by Looney Tunes veterans Warren Foster and Michael Maltese as well as Arthur Phillips. The stories in those two seasons were more relatable and had more funny gags in them but from the third season on wards they had a rotation of writers and the stories became more kid friendly which wasn't the intention of the show when it first came out.

   

It's time to talk about one of the elephants in the room the animation yes it is cheap and yes the backgrounds do repeat themselves alot in the show honestly you could make a drinking came about how many times the backgrounds repeat but I still found the animation to have a charm to it maybe it's because I grew up with the show and thus i'm already used to it but at the same time I do see where people are coming from when they say the animation in The Flintstones is bad.

This one i'm not sure is an elephant or not but there's alot of animal cruelty in this show it's not awkward to watch or anything like that but it does make you wonder what are there animal cruelty laws in Bedrock or do they even have any.

Now I know alot of people have said over the internet that the show is not funny and boring and while the latter can be said for certain episodes the show is pretty funny and I think that came down to the writing because if you watched the show during during the Pebbles and Bamm Bamm era then there were alot of unfunny jokes but if you watch the show before they were introduced you will find alot of jokes that will make you laugh out loud a few times.

Now not alot of people know this but during the shows run it had to opening and closing themes and if you want to get technical five opening credits for it's first two seasons the opening and closing themes were Rise and Shine which lasted until season 3 episode 3 where it was replaced by the more well known theme Meet The Flintstones. 

The opening and closing credits also changed in that episode because for the first two season the opening credits basically followed Fred going home , picking up a dress and turning on the TV while the closing credits was just him getting ready for bed in season three we got the more familiar intro so I won't talk about that but we got two more opening credits after it because after they introduced Pebbles they added Pebbles to the intro and then after that because they wanted to sell some toys they added a scene with Pebbles playing with what they were trying to sell and then finally we got Bamm Bamm added into the mix.

It's thanks to this show that we got The Flintstones franchise and I guess you could say it's still going strong with smash success that was The Flintstones comic book series but there have been a few bad notes with the live action movie prequel and the weird WWE team up movie.

Overall it doesn't matter what I say about this show because it's legendary and you have all most likely all ready made up your minds on if you like the show or not like I said before this has taken me the longest to do because Batman and The Looney Tunes Show both took at least a day to watch and review this review has taken me closer to two days to watch and review and since this show is all ready a legendary show i'm not going to rate it.

Some Thoughts About Final Space

Guys a few days ago TBS did something I don't think any other network has done and that's debut the premier episode or in this case episodes on Reddit and now finally i've seen those two episodes and here are some thoughts I have about Final Space.

Bottom line I really like it so far but i'm going to go into a bit more detail as to why starting with the mystery yeah there's a mystery in this show in the opening few minuets of both episodes one and two we see our hero is nearly dieing and yet we don't know why or what's caused this current situation plus there's this other mystery with another main character which starts in episode two.

The cast consists of creator Olan Rogers , Fred Armisen , Spongebob Squarpants , David Tennant , Tika Sumpter and Coty Galloway and I have to say that based of the first two episodes the cast are really good I honestly couldn't tell who David Tennant was playing in this show and I won't spoil it here just because it doesn't sound like at all nor does it sound like Scrooge Mcduck either.

Unlike most other cartoon shows I review this isn't episodic or at least these first two episodes aren't we see things set up in part one that pay off in part two and I hope we get more of that in future episodes I obviously cannot talk about the story just yet as we are only a few episodes in but I do like the fact that there seems to be a story forming.

Unlike Hot Streets where the animation was very mixed here the animation seems to be really freaking good and to be frank I was shocked at how good it really was just because I don't really think TBS has made a good cartoon series and yes I don't count American Dad as that show is made by Fox where as this show is made by TBS.

Not only is the animation really good but so is the CGI and the backgrounds I find it's very hard to see good CG in cartoons as it often stands out next to the 2D characters but here it honestly does look really freaking good and the backgrounds look like something you'd see on Rick and Morty or any Steven Spielberg produced show.

Guys to give you a fair warning these two episodes are violent as heck especially episode 2 where a main character has something happen to them and you see something I thought i'd never see in a cartoon and that's really all I can say about it without either spoiling the episode or making some of you feel sick but it's also something i'm glad they added since it makes the show feel more real somehow.

I don't exactly know if i'll do a full review of this series yet it all depends on how many episodes there are and if I can find the time to do it but this is a show I will be watching when it comes out that's how good it is I actively want to watch the next episode.

Overall guys this is a show worth watching it's dark and twisted in some places so if you like that kind of stuff then you'll love this and you watch the first two episodes now on the TBS website and on the TBS app or if you want you can wait until February 26th to watch them both on TV.