My SPOILER FREE First Impressions Of Pacific Rim: The Black

 

Pacific Rim fans even tho there have been just two Pacific Rim films the world of Pacific Rim has seemed to catch on with people and who can blame them it's giant monsters fighting equally giant robots that right means that the Pacific Rim franchise is going to be awesome. Well a new piece of media from the franchise / world of Pacific Rim has just been released and so I thought that i'd give you my first impressions of this new animated Netflix series and so here are my first impressions of the show the only just released 2021 show that is called simply "Pacific Rim: The Black" enjoy the post everyone.

The plot of the show just based of the first episode (which is what i'm doing this first impressions based of) seems to be that brother and sister Hayley and Taylor have lived there lives in relative safety away from Kaiju attacks but five years after there parents who are both Jaeger pilots go missing Hayley and Taylor find a decommissioned Jaeger that was used for training and vow to find their parents. In all honesty the plot to this show or at least this first season seems pretty straight forward and very predictable but I could be wrong and the show's setting is pretty unique since the show is set in Australia as such I do hope that the story gets better or at least a little less predictable otherwise I can very easily see this getting cancelled after season two assuming that it already has a season two tho that is.

Starring in this episode is Gideon Aldon as Haley Travis , Former Disney Channel and Austin & Ally star Calum Worthy as Taylor Travis and Erica Lindbeck as Loa. Also starring in this episode is Alexandra MacDonald as Brina , Jason Spisak as Ford , Nolan North as Marshall Rask , Camryn Jones as Young Hayley Travis , Cole Keriazakos as Young Taylor Travis , Bryton James as Corey , Ron Yuan as Shiro Ito and David Errigo. Jr. as Root.

In terms of what I thought about the acting that's in this episode in all honesty the acting that's in this episode is pretty bad but that's to expected since even tho the whole series has been released i'm doing this post just based off of the first episode and no one expects good acting in the first episode of a new show. As such that does give me hope that the acting in this show does indeed improve over the course of the first season altho given that this first season is only seven episodes long I really don't see that being the case at all if anything I see the acting getting better in season two and since this is a Netflix we now that this show is getting a second season since they give all of there animated shows multiple seasons but yeah just based of this first episode the acting isn't that good but there's huge rooms for improvement which in my opinion is a very good thing.

Doing the animation for this episode and thus the rest of the series are the greats and future legends over at Polygon Pictures Inc. In all honesty the animation in this episode is alot better then what I thought that it was going to be since you don't really expect the animation in a TV show anime to be really good but the animation in this first episode really did blow me away but for some reason the makers of this show chose to have the Jaeger (the giant robots that fight the giant monsters) move really slowly which to me just didn't seem that exciting and it takes alot of excitement out of the episodes action scenes in my opinion and i'll possibly go into further detail on this later on this very post but we'll see.

Now in terms of where this show fits in the Pacific Rim film franchise timeline I honestly cannot say since this show doesn't make it obvious where in the timeline this is show is meant to take place. Which I think is a good thing since if they did tell where in the Pacific Rim film franchise timeline that this show is meant to take place then it would have the die fans of of both Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim: Uprising wondering where are the main characters of those films and why aren't they helping out those in Austrailer but if they don't tell you where in the timeline that this show is meant to take place then it means that you can focus more on the story being told as well as characters and alot of other things in my opinion.

I honestly feel that this is a show that you can watch regardless of if you have watched the Pacific Rim films or if you haven't seen the Pacific Rim films. Since just based of this first episode it does a good job of telling what a Jaeger is and how to pilot a Jaeger as well as how many it takes to pilot a Jaeger as well as being it's own thing with it's own set of characters who have there own alleys and who have there own villains to fight as such this movie tie in / spin off doesn't really require you to have seen either of the Pacific Rim films in my opinion.

There  are a few things that I didn't like about this episode the first of which being the fact that Taylor (so far at least) is a pretty unlikable character and the other one being that the episode itself is kind of boring. While I do fully understand where Taylor is coming from since he wants to protect his little sister Hayley it's how he goes about doing that that makes him a pretty unlikable character so far and given that episode has a pretty average running time for animated episode not that much happens in this episode plot wise which makes this episode feel like your typical pilot episode in that it's just setting up the rest of the show all the while doing nothing unique , new or slightly interest all of which serve to make this episode fairly boring in my opinion.

Speaking of the running time for this episode this episode has a total running time of twenty eight minuets and thirty two seconds. Which is about the average running time for a show that's being made for and released on / via Netflix it's just a shame that the episode itself doesn't have enough story to cover that running time and as such I honestly feel that this episode should have been at least twenty two minuets long since that would have given this episode much better pacing and while it wouldn't have made the episode less boring it would have helped to make the episode a lot easier to watch in my humble and honest opinion.

Now then boys and girls this is an action show after all and there is action to be had in this episode and so that means that I have to discuss the action that's in the actual episode itself. This is where having the slow moving Jaegers is a bad idea because it slows the action down to a crawl since your waiting for the Jaeger to throw a punch or defend itself which even the action in this episode is really cool looking it's a chore to get through due to how slowly the Jaegers at least in this episode are being animated but that's just what I think anyways.

Overall this really isn't the best episode to open this new show on and since you only get one chance to make a good first impression I have to say that just based of this one episode this show has made a bad first impression on me personally. Yes there are some good things to be found in this episode but there are alot of bad things in this episode and i've discussed both the good and that bad things in this episode in this very post but since these are only my first impressions of the show I won't be giving "Pacific Rim: The Black" a rating since it's never fair to judge an entire show just based off of the first episode since any show can have a bad first episode just like any show can have a good first episode in my opinion , as for where I got the images that I used in this post well I got the images that I used in this post from the official Pacific Rim fandom wiki page as well as Google Images with my preferred website for images from this show being the official Pacific Rim fandom wiki page just due to how high quality and in some cases how high definition the images that are featured on the Pacific Rim fandom wiki page truly are.

The Flash 1990 TV Series "Pilot" Review

 

The Flash has been a character that's been around for decades and has been featured in so many TV shows both in animated form and live action form for some reason the character has only had TWO solo live action TV series. While many might think that the 2014 series is the first solo TV series for The Flash they are infact wrong for you see there was a TV series based on The Flash that aired in 1990 and so join me as I review the first the episode the 1990 TV series version of The Flash with the episode itself having the totally original name of simply "Pilot" enjoy everyone.

The plot of this episode is after his brother is killed the leader of a ruthless motorcycle gang forensic scientist Barry Allen must use his newly discovered powers to track down the motorcycle gang and bring them to justice before they take over or destroy Central City. In terms of what I thought for the plot of this episode in all honesty the plot for this episode was at best average since the story tries to be dark and epic that it forgets to be fun but it does help that the plot of this episode was really well told in my opinion.

Starring in the episode is John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen / The Flash and Amanda Pays as Tina McGee. Also starring in this episode is Alex Desert as Julio Mendez , Paula Marshall as Iris West , Robert Hooks as Chief Arthur Cooper , M. Emmet Walsh as Henry Allen , Michael Nader as Nicholas Pike , Tim Thomerson as Jay Allen , Priscilla Pointer as Nora Allen , Lycia Naff as Lila and Richard Belzer as Joe Kline.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode in all honesty the acting in this episode is at best OK. I say that the acting in this episode is at best OK simply because for every actor or actress who turns in a good performance like for example with John Wesley Shipp and Amanda Pays there's an actor or actress who turns in a bad performance like for example Alex Desert , Paula Marshall and Michael Nader which is a shame because when you see a good performance in this episode it really foes freaking stand out in my opinion.

Now even tho the Arrowverse technically started in 2008 with The CW TV series Arrow with the fact that this show show is now apart of the Arrowverse that technically now means that this show is the first show in the Arrowverse. Yes this show does tack place on a different (the now destroyed Earth 90) it's pretty cool to think that this version of The Flash is the longest running superhero in the history of the Arrowverse.

Now one of the things that I use curious to see how they would pull of in this episode is the effect of The Flash running since nowadays you would just use CGI archive the effect of The Flash running but that wasn't an opinion back in 1990. So how I think they did it for alot of scenes in this episode animation I think that they animated The Flash running and then added that animation to the scene but alot of the time they just use sped up footage of actor John Wesley Shipp which works just as well but you can tell that there just speeding up the footage but given the time period that this show was made speeding up the footage was most likely the only way that they could get the effect of The Flash running.

Now rather shockingly for a TV series based on The Flash this episode is pretty freaking dark because you see people not only getting shot at but you also see people dieing and if i'm being honest this episode being dark is both a good and bad thing. it's a good thing because it means that you can go deeper with your characters however it's a bad thing because The Flash is a campy character heck all superheroes are pretty campy weather we like to admit it or not and as such having this episode shy away from having any sense of fun doesn't really work since to me at least The Flash has always been a fun character and so seeing a TV show with The Flash as the main character not be fun is in my opinion a bad thing.

To me the villain of this episode who is called Nicholas Pike is in all honesty a pretty weak villain and i say that because we don't get to find out that much about him. The only thing that we get to find out about him is that he was the police partner of Barry's brother Jay Allen and that he was a crooked cop bug that's really it we don't get to find out what his end goal is or why he's evil and as such it comes across as him being evil just for reasons which doesn't make him a compelling character it makes him a boring character and in my opinion at least a weak villain.

The running time for this episode is one hour and thirty three minuets and forty seven seconds which I personally felt to be a bit on the long side. Simply because there's only enough story to cover at least forty five minuets and as such there are alot of scenes in this episode that go nowhere and add up to nothing heck even the character of Iris West gets written out of the show in the shows seconds episode which in my opinion makes her scenes in this episode pointless heck you could cut alot from this episode and you'd loose nothing of importance in my humble opinion.

Now then boys and girls this is an action show and that does mean that I have to talk about the action that's in this episode and well there actually isn't that much action to talk about. Since there's only one action scene in the entire episode which is fine for a TV show but it's not fine with your debut episode is over an hour and a half long but the action that we do have is ok given that this TV show is from 1990 there's not really that much that they could do with a character like The Flash in an action scene and so they do the best that they could have done it's just a shame that the resulting effort is at best just simply OK and nothing more.

Overall this was honestly a really good episode for the most part and it was honestly really interesting seeing this version of The Flash differs from the 2014 version of The Flash. However with that being said just like with all of the good things that are in this episode i've discussed the bad things in this episode in this very review and as such this episode gets a 6.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got the images that I used in this review from Google Images and oddly enough the official Arrowverse fandom wiki page with my preferred site for the images that I used in this review being the official Arrowverse fandom wiki page just because the images on the official Arrowverse fandom wiki page are pretty high definition or as high a definition as you'd expect from a TV show that came out in the 1990.

My First Impressions Of Punky Brewster 2021

 

Ladies and gentlemen it seems to be very common place now for every single streaming service to bring back a nostalgic property. Well the latest TV show from the eighties to get a rival has just been released onto a streaming service and while I didn't grow up with the original show mostly because I was born in the UK in the nineties and as such the original show didn't really air over here and so join me as I review the 2021 rival of Punky Brewster with this new show also being called simply "Punky Brewster" enjoy.

From what I can gather the plot of this show is now single mother of three Punky Brewster meets a young kid who reminds of her of herself. That's all I can really say about the show without going into spoilers since i'm only doing this post based f the first episode and just based of this first episode the story has promise but it's not something that i can see lasting beyond one season since the plot seems like it's one season story in my opinion.

Starring in this series is the shows executive producer Soleil Moon Frye as Punky Brewster and Cherie Johnson as Cherie Johnson. Also starring in this show is Star Wars Rebels and Scooby-Doo star Freddie Prinze Jr. as Travis , Noah Cottrell as Diego , Oliver De Los Santos as Daniel , Lauren Lindsey Donzis as Hannah and Quinn Copeland as Izzy. Now there are a few more actors in this episode but since I cannot find a cast list for this episode i'm just using the shows main cast list and as luck would have it all of the actors and actresses that i've just listed appear in this episode.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode in all honesty the acting in this episode was at best OK. Since the acting to me at least isn't as good is it perhaps could have been which I guess is to be expected given that this is the first episode of a new series but at the same time you always want to put your best foot forward and give us a good first impression which sadly at least in my opinion isn't the case when it comes to the acting in this episode but here's hoping that the acting gets better as the series goes on.

Now unlike the Saved By The Bell revival / continuation at least from what I can tell this revival doesn't really give that much nods to the classic series at least in this episode anyway. Which while I can see why the makers of this show chose not to include that many nods to the original show since it would alienate new fans but by not including nods and winks to the original show it kind comes of across as that the makers of this show didn't watch the original show and so they don't have that much respect for the original show.

Like I said at the start of this post i've not seen the original Punky Brewster and after watching the first episode of this continuation / revival I don't feel inclined to watch the original Punky Brewster. As such I don't have any nostalgic ties to the original show which in a way makes me prime for this show since like I said I don't have nostalgia for the original show but this is a show that I can't see winning new fans just due to how cheesy this show is which might have been the case with the original Punky Brewster but in this show that same cheesiness that the original Punky Brewster might have had doesn't work in this show in my opinion.

Now this is something that I actually didn't realise until I started to write this part of the post and so forgive me this part is a bit all other the place. I couldn't help but notice but this show has a very similar set up to another revival / continuation that being Raven's Home it's honestly shocking at how similar the set ups to both shows and so I can't help but wonder if the makers of this show were either inspired by Raven's Home or if the makers of this show straight up stole the set up to Raven's Home just due to the fact that the set up to both shows is very similar.

Now then without giving away anything about this episode if your a fan of the original Punky Brewster then you will want to stay around until just before the end credits of this first episode. Since there's something that is said that as far as I can work out from spending a few minuets on Wikipedia which is going to rock Punky Brewster to her very core but i'm not going to say what that thing since it's a pretty good way to get people wanting to watch episode two of this revival / continuation in my honest and humble opinion.

I don't know why this seems to be the case but every streaming service seems to either have a reboot / continuation of a beloved show or movie out or has a reboot / continuation of a beloved show or movie in various stages of development. Is creativity really so dead that every single streaming service needs to have a reboot or a continuation of a show or film on there service why can't these big Hollywood companies come up with new ideas for TV shows why do they have to keep on digging up shows from the past it's honestly getting pretty freaking tiresome hell they've just announced a reboot / continuation of both Fraiser and Icarly and Icarly hasn't been of the air for ten years so why the heck are producing a reboot / continuation of that show I really don't know.

This episode has a total running time of twenty eight minuets and twenty five seconds which for a show that's basically a feel good type of show and that hasn't got that much story (at least in this episode) is the right amount of running time. Since like I said there's not much story to tell in this episode and as such it doesn't make sense to have this episode run any longer then twenty eight minuets and twenty five seconds in my opinion.

Now then since this is a comedy show boys and girls that does mean that I have to talk about the jokes that are in this episode. Or at least I would if there were any jokes to talk about since I didn't laugh once during this entire heck i don't think I even raised a smile for any comedy is always a bad thing but there's always a chance that the jokes in this episode are perfectly in line with the jokes of the original Punky Brewster but even so a comedy has to make you laugh or at least smile and this episode didn't do either of those things for me personally.

Overall this was a pretty bad episode in my personal opinion but weather or not the original Punky Brewster was anything like this reboot / continuation I cannot say for the reasons that i've stated in this post. Now even tho i've listed a lot of bad things in this episode in this very post there are some good things in this episode which like the bad things in this episode i've talked about the good things in this very post but since these are only my first impressions of the show i won't give the show a rating since any show can have a bad episode and for all I know the show could get better in later episodes and you can watch all the episodes of this show right now on Peacock , as for where I got the images that I used in this post well I got the images that I used in this post from the official Punky Brewster fandom wiki page , the official Saved By The Bell fandom wiki page and the official Raven's Home fandom wiki page with my referred website for the images that I used in this episode being the official Punky Brewster fandom wiki page just because the images on the official Punky Brewster fandom wiki page were very high quality and as very high definition.

My First Impressions Of Superman & Lois Which Include TWO SPOILERS

 

Superman fans the man of steel has been the star of many TV shows and films both animated and live action and he'll most likely be the star in many more TV shows and films both live action animated in the future. Well the latest live action TV show to star the man of steel has just premiered and so I thought that i'd give you my first impressions of the show and so join me as I give you my first impressions of the show that is called simply "Superman & Lois" enjoy.

The plot of this show is after a family tragedy Clark Kent , Lois land and their twin sons Jonathon and Jordon move from Metropolis to the small town of Smallville where Clark must learn to be a father and that one or even both of his sons might have powers of there own. I admit that I like the idea behind the show however this actual first episode really doesn't have much in terms of plot which to me is a bad thing since if you don't have a plot then your film , TV show or TV show episode have no reason to exist in my opinion.

Starring in this episode are Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent / Superman and Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane. Also starring in this episode are Jordan Elsass as Jonathan Kent , Alex Garfin as Jordan Kent , Erik Valdez as Kyle Cushing , Inde Navarrette as Sarah Cushing , Wolé Parks as Captain Luthor , Dylan Walsh as General Sam Lane , Emmanuelle Chriqui as Lana Lang Cushing and Michele Scarabelli as Martha Kent.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode in all honesty the acting in this episode was really good for the first episode of a new show. That doesn't mean that I thought that the acting in this first episode was bad because it honestly wasn't but it's clearly not going to be as good as acting in say episode ten or episode fifteen of this show but to me I do feel that all of the actors in this episode did a really good job even if some of the actors feel wasted in this episode in my opinion.

Now I cannot find out who is doing the CGI for this show which is honestly a freaking shame due to what i'm going to say next. Since I really liked the CGI in this episode all of the shows set in the Arrowverse have good CGI in them and the same is true for this show at least based on this first episode since every CGI effect in this episode looks so good and I hope to god that this show keeps on having good CGI effects since any thing to do with Superman in live be it a TV show a movie is going to be an effects heavy production and and as such the CGI effects in this show should always be good in my opinion.

SPOILER ALERT FOR TWO THINGS IN THIS EPISODE OF SUPERMAN & LOIS RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Now as some one who has watched alot of if not all of the shows in the Arrowverse (yes i'm including the animated web shows in there as well) I was honestly shocked that the first episode chose to include a reference to the 1940's Max Fleischer Superman cartoons. I was shocked because no Superman media has made a reference to the 1940's Max Fleischer Superman cartoons and so it was good to see those cartoons get some love in this show in my humble and honest opinion.

Now there is one thing that might disappoint you guys and that's the fact not only does Melissa Benoist not appear as Supergirl but in this episodes opening narration Clark Kent / Superman makes no reference to Supergirl. Usually when a show doesn't make a reference to other more well known characters its because that they want the show to stand on it's own but here since Superman and Lis Lane ae already well known characters it would have made sense for this episode to at least mention Supergirl or at least include a line but why she's not in this episode since there's no reason whatsoever why Supergirl couldn't be the one to handle the attack at the Metropolis Power Plant at the start of this episode in my opinion.

THE TWO SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST EPISODE OF SUPERMAN & LOIS END RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will say that so far this show does seem to be lot better then Batwoman (I never even made to half way thought the first season of Batwoman that's bad the Batwoman TV series is in my opinion) simply because not only does this show have better writing and acting that Batwoman but it also respects the Superman lore which is something that Batwoman doesn't do. All of these reasons and more so far point to Superman & Los being a much better show that Batwoman because the acting on Batwoman was at best passable , the writing on Batwoman was bad and the Batwoman TV show doesn't respect the Batman lore like how this show respects the Superman lore which for a comic adaptation no matter if it's a film adaptation or a TV adaptation or whatever kind of adaptation you need to respect the lore of what ever it is that your adapting in my opinion and apart from Batwoman the Arrowverse shows are usually very good at respecting the lore of whatever hero or heroes that there adapting in my honest opinion.

This episode has a total running time of fifty one minuets and twenty six seconds which I personally thought was a bit on the long side. Simply because not alot actually happens in this episode since this episode is just setting up the rest of the show plus like I said near the start of the review this episode doesn't really have much of a story as such it seems pointless that this first episode of this new show would be almost an hour long when you very easily could have had the this episode come in at forty five minuets long and nothing of importance would have had to have been lost in my humble and honest opinion.

Now i'm not going to say why this is the case because it could be seen as a spoiler but it's also pretty given the plot the show but there's very little to no action in this opening episode. Which I personally found to be both refreshing and confusing at the time it's refreshing because it means that alot more time can spent with these characters and fully developing these characters especially the newer characters but at the same time it was confusing because this is a superhero show and you expect there to be action in a superhero show and so while not having much action in this first episode oddly made sense for the characters it was still a pretty strange thing for the makers of this show to do in my humble and honest opinion.

Overall this first episode really did get alot of things right and i hope that this show does continue to be as good as this episode. Yes this episode isn't perfect since i've talked about alot of the good things and the bad things that are in this episode in this review (the reason why i've not talked about the characters in this episode is because it didn't really make sense to talk about the characters un the first episode of a new show but if I do review this show at the episode fifteen if im still watching the show by then then i'll most likely talk about the characters then in that review.) and since this is only my first impressions of the show I won't be giving this show a rating just because I don't think it's fair to judge a new show just based of the first episode since every show can have good or bad episodes but I will say that this show is worth watching in my personal opinion.

As for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got the images that I used in this review from the official Arrowverse fandom wiki page , Google Images and the official Superman fandom wiki page. Honestly I feel that the best website to use for images from this particular episode (this episode has the totally original name of Pilot by the way) then i'd say use Google Images since Google Images have alot of verity of images but be warned not all of the images on Google Images are high quality or high definition so you've been warned. 

Game Of Thrones "Fire And Blood" Review

 

Game Of Thrones fans since I had such a good time writing a review for you all yesterday I thought that i'd write a review of another Game Of Thrones episode today. Just like with the last Game Of Thrones episode that I wrote a review for yesterday I had so many choices for good or even average episodes and well I went with the episode that has a pretty iconic ending and yes I will most likely be talking about that iconic ending in this very review and so join me as I review the Game Of Thrones season one finale with the episode itself being called simply "Fire And Blood" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Dany pays a terrible price to save Drogo all in the meanwhile the news coming out of King's Landing rocks the world of Westeros to it's core and sets in motion events that will have devastating effects on several groups of people for years to come. I will admit that the summery for this episode was a lot easier to write and I loved the story being told in this episode with the story itself being very well told in my humble opinion.

Starring in this episode is Michelle Fairley as , Catelyn Stark and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister. Also starring in this episode is Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister , Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen , Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont , Aidan Gillen as Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish , Kit Harington as Jon Snow , Richard Madden as Robb Stark , Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark , Maisie Williams as Arya Stark , Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy , Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark , Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon , Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane , Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister , Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo , Natalia Tena as Osha , Conleth Hill as Varys , Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister , John Bradley-West as Samwell Tarly , Julian Glover as Grand Maester Pycelle , and Mia Soteriou as Mirri Maz Duur.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode in all honesty the acting in this episode was in all honesty really freaking good in my opinion. With all of the actors in this episode giving some truly wonderful performances with some of the actors not even saying a word and you understand right away what that character is feeling that's how good the acting in not only this episode but in Game Of Thrones is as a whole in my opinion. 

Doing he CGI  for this episode is BlueBolt , Pixomondo and Screen Scene I have to admit I haven't heard of any of the companies that did the CGI for this episode which is a shame because I really did like the CGI in this episode. Yes there was only really one scene that had CGI with that being the ending to this episode but this show also uses CGI in more subtle ways like extending cities or making building either appear or bigger then what they are in real real life and I have to admit that the CGI effects in this episode were honestly really good but of course the CGI in this episode is as good as CGI effects in later seasons of Game Of Thrones 

Just to give you guys and example of how good the acting in this episode is the first scene with Robb Stark and his mother Catelyn Stark is a great example of how good the acting in this episode is. Since with barely any words since with barely any words being said you get that the two ae deeply upset by the death of Ned Stark and due to the fact that there are barely any words said between Catelyn Stark and Robb Stark you can tell what the other is thinking just by the looks that they give each other and this is something that would have been lost if the characters told you exactly how they were feeling instead of letting their body language tell you what they are thinking.

There is one shot in this episode that is infamous and it's the shot where you can see a George W Bush mask on a spike. Now both David Benioff & D.B. Weiss (the creators , showrunner and producers of this show as well as writers for not only this episode but for several other episodes) have said that have a George W Bush mask appear on a spike wasn't a political message but I have to wonder why was the scene removed from all home media releases and it's just in America it's every country that Game Of Thrones surely just removing the shot from all repeat episodes as well American home video releases would have been enough but it now means that fans outside of America now don't get to see what all of the fuss was about that shot was about which is a shame because I would have liked to have seen that shot and judge it for myself but it feels like I was robbed of that chance but at the same time I can see why the scene was removed since it could have been seen as a political message and that could have isolated some of the Game Of thrones fanbase in my opinion.

Now then sadly I cannot post the actual images that I want to use to talk about this just because the scene does feature nudity as do the images from that scene and this blog is rated PG so that means you'll have to make do with the above image. However by going of who is in the above image you can have a fair idea as to what scene I have to talk about because yeah that end scene with Daenerys Targaryen is so freaking good it's a scene where everything just comes together perfectly in my opinion with the music being really epic , the CGI being really good , the writing being really solid with alot of the characters in that scene getting some good lines and the acting from everyone in that scene / sequence being really good as all hell that final scene / sequence with Daenerys Targaryen steals not only the entire episode but the entire first season of Game Of Thrones for me because that final scene / sequence with Daenerys Targaryen is so good in my humble opinion.

Now just like with the last episode of Game Of Thrones that I reviewed I actually cannot remember the running time for this episode but I do now that this episode is at least fifty minuets long. Which for me at least is a bit of an issue just because this episode was so good that I wanted the episode to last longer and hell the episode had more then enough story for the episode to be longer if the makers of this show wanted to make the episode but since the makers of this show chose to not make this longer episode the episode goes by super quickly with scenes that should have lasted longer instead being over with in a few minuets and this in turn hurts the episode in my opinion since it now means that those scenes can't have as much impact as those scenes would have had if the episode was a bit longer in my honest and humble opinion.

Now then in what is rather a strange move for a Game Of Thrones finale there actually isn't any action or action scenes in this episode. With instead the main focus of the episode being how certain character react too the death of Ned Stark (this episode came out in 2011 so it's not a really a spoiler anymore so get over it lol) which is the right move in my opinion but at the sae time I would have liked to have seen some action scenes but at the same time I can see why there wasn't any action scenes in this particular episode tho but that's just what I personally think tho.

Overall this was a really good episode and it was a good way to end the first season of this fantastic show in my opinion. However there are some faults in this episode which i've discussed in this review and i've talked about the good things that are in this episode in this very review as well and as such this episode gets an 9.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got the images that I used in this review from Google Images and the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page with my preferred website to use for images from this episode or from Game Of Thrones as a whole being the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page just because the images that are on the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page are always pretty high definition which fir me at least is always a good thing since it makes the review more pleasing on the eye and it makes the image itself alot more pleasing on the eye in my opinion.

Game Of Thrones "Hardhome" Review

 

Now then Game Of Thrones the last time I reviewed an episode of Game Of Thrones was all the way back in July 2020 (with the exact date being either July 1st 2020 or July 2nd 2020 depending on where your seeing this review) as such I thought that it was about time that I review another episode of Games Of Thrones. I fully admit it was hard for me to pick an episode to review since there are alot of good and memorable episodes out there and join me as I review the Game Of Thrones episode that is called simply "Hardhome" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is episode Dany gets advice from an unlikely source , Arya makes progress in her training with the many faced god and Jon tries to rescue some Wildlings. If i'm being honest it was pretty hard for me to write a plot summery for this episode simply because not that happens plot wise and this episode is rather rightfully more focused on advancing storylines from earlier in this season (this episode is from season 5 / five by the way) which honestly made it hard for me to write a summery of the plot for this episode but I will admit that this episode did a good job of advancing the shows other storylines in a way that felt natural with one of the plot lines being advanced in this episode being so good that I might talk about later on in this very review but we'll see.

Starring in this episode is Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister , Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen. Also starring in this episode are Kit Harington as Jon Snow , Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark , Maisie Williams as Arya Star , John Bradley as Samwell Tarly , Hannah Murray as Gilly , Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giants bane , Alfie Allen as Reek , Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei , Tom Wlaschiha as Jaqen H'ghar , Michael McElhatton as Roose Bolton , Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton , Anton Lesser as Qyburn , Faye Marsay as The Waif , Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Karsi , Hannah Waddingham as Septa Unella , Brenock O'Connor as Olly , Richard Brake as The Night King , Ian Whyte as Wun Wun and Ross O'Hennessy as The Lord Of Bones.

In terms of what I thought about the acting in this episode in all honesty the acting in this episode was one of the many highlights of the episode. Simply because all of the actors in this episode manage to convey so much emotion without actually saying what there character is feeling and for a good scene to highlight is the Sansa and Reek / Theon since in that scene we see that Reek / Theon try and hide the pain that he experienced with Ramsay was torturing him and we see him open up to Sansa for few minuets thus showing us that Theon is still in there and that Theon feels a little bit of joy just by knowing that his old self is still in there and all of this is done with out a single word from either Alfie Allen or Sophie Turner telling us how either character feels and is a great example of how good the acting and the writing in this episode truly is in my honest and very humble opinion. 

Doing the CGI for this episode and I assume the rest of the series is El Ranchito , Lola Visual Effects , Rodeo FX , Atomic Fiction , Clearcut FX , Image Engine Design , Screen Scene , Cadence Effects and Nviz. What really did shock me about this episode is the fact that the episode makes great use of practical effects and while there is some CGI in this episode there's not that much CGI in this episode which is honestly a shame since the CGI effects in this episode look really good and in my opinion alot of why I think that the CGI in this episode looks really good is not because the CGI in Game Of Thrones is generally really good but because the CGI effects and the practical effects are blended together so perfectly in this episode that you can't really tell what was a CGI effect and what was a practical effect.

I will fully admit right now that the one speech that made me want to review this episode is the one that Daenerys Targaryen gives to Tyrion Lannister. That entire scene is so well written and given what we now know happens to Daenerys Targaryen I can't help but wonder if the bit where she mentions wanting to break the wheel was either a very clever bit of foreshadowing or if it has a double meaning since how Daenerys Targaryen acts when she says that she wants to break the wheel is very creepy and even the music gets a little bit creepy as well and as such i can't help but wonder if it's during season five (the season that this episode is from for those that don't know) is where Daenerys Targaryen started to go insane but that's just what I think tho.

In all honesty his is one of the best episodes of Game Of Thrones in my opinion since everything in this episode is just so freaking good. One of the only things that I didn't like about this episode is that Arya doesn't get a whole lot screen time in this episode I think Arya only gets one maybe two scenes in this episode which is a shame because her scenes are in my opinion at least pretty good but at the same time I can see why Ara wasn't included that much in this episode since this episode had so many storylines to juggle and so having one more storyline take focus in this episode would have been a bit much and the episode would have crumbled under it's own weight in my opinion. 

Now I said that I might mention the Cersei Lannister  storyline at the start of this review and I truly meant it. I honestly loved the scenes with Cersei Lannister in this episode and I loved how her storyline was advanced since we see her go even more crazy in this episode almost to the point where watching her is quite scary and I just love that and I love that even tho she doesn't out right say that she's planning to kill everyone in the sept you can tell that that's what she's thinking (yes I do know that she says that her face will be the last face that the people of sept will see but she doesn't say how there all going to die) and this honestly makes her more cold and calculated because due to the fact that she's had the time to think this through or at least that's I think anyway.

Now I can't recall the exact running time for this episode but I now that this episode has a running time of at least fifty seven minuets. Which I feel is another of this episode faults since this episode was so good that I wanted it to last longer and I wanted to see more of the characters that we got to see and catch up with in this episode but due to the episode being at fifty seven minuets long and the fact that the episode honestly had enough story for at least an hour and a half it meant that scenes felt rushed and because of the fact that some scenes felt rushed suffers because of that one simple thing in my honest and humble opinion.

Now then boys and girls since there was alot of action in this episode I have to talk about the action that was in the actual episode itself. In my opinion the action in this episode was honestly really good even tho we only got one action scene it was still a really cool action as well as an action that mixed both practical effects and CGI effects really well in my opinion the only action scene we got in this episode was the massacre At Hardhome / Battle For Hardhome which is honestly the only action scene that we needed in this episode plus this action gave birth to that awesome sight of The Night King raising his arms and thus brining back dead back to life but now to serve in his army which in my opinion just seeing that image of The Night King raising dead is such a cool image in my very honest and humble opinion.

Overall like I said earlier on in this review this is perhaps one of the best episodes in Game Of Thrones TV history in my opinion. However that doesn't mean that this episode is perfect because no episode of Game Of Thrones or any Tv show for that matter is perfect since i've discussed alot of this episode episodes flaws (this episode is also pretty forgetful) in this review just like i've discussed the good things that are in this episode in this very review as well and as such this episode gets a 9 out of 10 from me.

As for where I got the images that I used in this review in this review well I got all of the images that I used in this review from either Google Images or the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page with the website that I preferred to use for the mages that I used in this review being the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page simply because not only is there alot more images from this episode up on there but the images on the official Games Of Thrones fandom wiki page are for the most part very high definition which for me at least is always a good thing since it makes the review look alot nicer and alot more pleasing on the eye in my opinion.