House Of The Dragon "The Princess And The Queen" Review

It's been roughly eleven months since I last reviewed an episode of House Of The Dragon and well with the trailer for season quite literally dropping before sitting down to write this review. I thought that now was the absolutely right time to delve back into the show by watching an episode that I never got to watch upon it's first airing and so then join me as I review the episode that features the franchises biggest time skip to date with the episode in question being called simply just "The Princess And The Queen" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is with the birth of her third son Princess Rhaenyra continues to field allegations about her children from Queen Alicent while Daemon receives an offer that he might not be able to refuse. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes plot being alot better then what it really had any right to be as on paper a plot like this one shouldn't have worked and yet because we've had alot of time to really to get to know these characters this plot does somehow work and is also really entertaining ad really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Paddy Considine as King Viserys I Targaryen and Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen. Also starring in this episode is Olivia Cooke as Queen Alicent Hightower , Emma D'Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen , Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole , Graham McTavish as Ser Harrold Westerling, Matthew Needham as Larys Strong , Jefferson Hall as Ser Tyland Lannister , Gavin Spokes as Lord Lyonel Strong , Bill Paterson as Lord Lyman Beesbury , Ryan Corr as Ser Harwin Strong , Leo Hart as Prince Jacaerys Velaryon , Harvey Sadler as Prince Lucerys Velaryon , Ty Tennant as Prince Aegon Targaryen , Leo Ashton as Prince Aemond Targaryen , Evie Allen as Princess Helaena Targaryen , Shani Smethurst as Lady Baela Targaryen , Eva Ossei-Gerning as Lady Rhaena Targaryen , John Macmillan as Ser Laenor Velaryon , Nanna Blondell as Lady Laena Velaryon , Kurt Egyiawan as Grand Maester Orwyle , Paul Kennedy as Lord Jasper Wylde , Luke Tittensor as Ser Arryk Cargyll , Alexis Raben as Talya and Arty Froushan as Ser Qarl Correy.

Now then interms of what  personally thought / felt about the actual acting 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 acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty  really good. Which is really nothing as the acting from this franchise has always been really good and so to expect anything but good acting from this episode would be foolish and part of what makes the acting in this episode really good is not only the fact that the episodes cast are a bunch of really good actors but it's also due to the fact that the episodes director and the shows co=producer Miguel Sapochnik really does know how to direct his cast and how to get a bunch of really good performances out of all of his cast and it's also due to the fact that the script for this episode is really good and as such all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturally.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Incessant Rain Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty ,personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes CGI being movie quality as it was really that good which just like the acting isn't really all that surprising as this franchise has always had some really good CGI in all of their with this episode just going to show you that if you give something enough money you will always get some really good looking CGI that will stand the test of time.

The key theme running all throughout this episode is family with Daemon ignoring his family and his family trying to get him to notice them and Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen trying to project her family from that of Queen Alicent. Thus was key to making the episode work as the Targaryens are all about family and as such showing one of therm doing anything that they can do to protect her family does oddly make sense what doesn't make is Daemon ignoring his family as all they are trying to do is help him and to find some place permanent to stay something which Daemon should be willing to help them out with as he's all about family and yet he's ignoring his own family and their own wants and needs for seemingly no reason which doesn't make sense interms of his character and all it does is make him look like a really terrible father and family man.

Seeing both Rhaenyra and Alicent continue going from the absolute best of friends to bitter enemies is really interesting. As it does show that anyone can be drawn into playing the Game Of Thrones weather they know it or not and seeing just how far one of them will go to embarrass the other just hits home that right now there is no going to being just friends and this show does the smart by resenting neither of them of being in the right ad neither of them as being in the wrong as as we see in this very episode both characters are both show that can be in the right and yet both in the wrong at the exact same time which only makes there falling out all the more tragic as they were both pretty much doomed to be friends turned deadly enemies and while Rhaenyra does try to extend an olive branch to Alicent it doesn't come from a place of love it comes from out of desperation of trying to keep the secret of who is really her kids father just that a secret and while Alicent does try to get Rhaenyra to tell the truth about who her kids father really is it doesn't really come out of a place of love as it really comes out of a place of trying to get one up on Rhaenyra. 

There are some things that I didn't like about this episode like for example the fact Alicent has so far been this rather smart person who knows how to get what she wants. She allows herself to get played by Larys Strong. As while he gets a higher position in his own family she is left with guilt for his actions and her actions which is something that the Alicent of previous episodes would never have done no matter how desperate she is as she would have always have done the smart thing and not acted on impulse but on the flip side of this is the fact that it now adds a time bomb to the friendly relationship between Alicent and Larys as it's now only a matter of time before she tells the king what's happened and what her involvement in it was.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes running time even was I do know that for a father that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour and four minuets. Which to this episodes really is the perfect running time for this episode to have as it really does have alot of story to really cover that large amount of running time and given just how much it has to set up for the rest of the first season and how much it had to explain where these characters are in their lives ten years after the events of episode five it really did need a larger running time in order to do all of that and still tell a really good story which thankfully it managed to do really well and I will very much that this episode really does gave some really good pacing to it as well.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually feature /presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As the only kind of action that we get to see in this episode was just two people hitting each other but it was something that was so well done as it was built up not really well not only in this episode but in the previous episodes and as such it makes sense that these two would bare knuckle fight each other and to this episodes credit the action in this episode looked really goo in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this was a really solid episode of a really great show and while it's not as good as other episodes in this show it's still a really good episodes that alot of people will enjoy watching in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as well of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

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Doctor Who: The Chase Review

 

There's no denying the fact that when Doctor Who was just starting to get popular there was one set of villains that also started to get really popular. With those villain of course being The Daleks and well with the characters seen fast approaching their very own sixtieth anniversary I thought that now was the absolutely right time to check out another dalek serial from when they were in their heyday and so then join me as I review the episode that sees two companions leave the TARDIS and one companion join it with the episode in question being called sim ply just "The Chase" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when it's discovered that The Daleks are after the TARDIS it's up to The Doctor , Ian , Barbera and Vicki to find out why they want the TARDIS and stop them before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty one of the more weaker dalek plots as it's just not as captivating as alot of the other Dalek stories but what this episodes plot dos have going for it s the fact that the plot can be really quite entertaining at times with the plot of the episode also being rather engaging at times as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is William Hartnell as The Doctor , William Russell as Ian Chesterton and Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright. Also starring in this episode is Maureen O'Brien as Vicki , Robert Marsden as Abraham Lincoln , Roger Hammond as Francis Bacon , Vivienne Bennett as Queen Elizabeth I , Hugh Walters as William Shakespeare , Hywel Bennett as Rynian , Al Raymond as Prondyn , Arne Gordon as Guide , Peter Purves as Morton Dill / Steven Taylor , Dennis Chinnery as Albert C Richardson , David Blake Kelly as Capt. Benjamin Briggs , Patrick Carter as Bosun , Douglas Ditta as Willoughby , John Maxim as Frankenstein , Malcolm Rogers as Count Dracula , Roslyn De Winter as Grey Lady , Edmund Warwick as Robot Dr. Who Jack Pitt as Mire Beast , A Cabin Steward , Fungoid and A Mechonoid , Peter Hawkins as The Voice Of The Daleks and Thunderbirds star David Graham as The Voice Of The Daleks and The Voice Of The Mechonoid.

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. However with that being said this episodes script doesn't do the cast any kind of favors as it really doesn't give the cast much to work with which means that even tho the cast do turn in some really good performances which is to be expected from this cast as they a bunch of really good actors they can''t turn in as good of a performance that we all know that they can do as this episodes script just won't allow for it.

This is the first episode to feature new companion Steven Taylor who really doesn't get alot of screen time in this episode. Which is a big issue as it doesn't give us the audience a chance to form an opinion on the character as he only just appears in the final episode of the story and given that he's a character that's going to be travelling with The Doctor he really should have been introduced alot earlier in the story so that we could get the chance to form an opinion of his character and give us a reason to want to care about him as a character and yet by introducing him this late into the episodes plot it makes him feel like an afterthought and like he was only added in at the very last minuet in order to set up a possible companion for The Doctor as he really does play no major role in the vast majority of this story.

There are some things that will always be creepy and seeing the Daleks surrounding the TARDIS will always be one of them. As the very idea of these unstoppable killing machines surrounding the one place that we the audience are told is the safest place in the world and the only place were are heroes will always be safe and yet by showing the Daleks surrounding the TARDIS it makes it suddenly feel unsafe as they could find away to break into the TARDIS and in the best case scenario steal it and in the worst case scenario kill whomever is inside it at the time and there's nothing that are heroes would be able to do to stop them with the only thing creepier then seeing the Daleks surrounding the TARDIS  being seeing a bunch of Daleks actually in the TARDIS itself which is something that will always be creepy.

For those of you that are old enough to remember when Twitch live streamed every single episode of classic Doctor Who. This is the episode that has the classic "London 1965" meme that only became a meme as it was featured in literally every single advert that Twitch aired during episodes so much so that it became laughable and it became a meme and it was nice to finally have some context to that scene as it was kind of sad seeing Ian and Barbera leave The Doctor as they were not only one of the very first ever companions in the shows history but they were also partly responsible in making The Doctor the character that we really all know and love today as before he met them he was this cold hearted person who was closed of and had closed himself of to the opportunity of having human friends and yet because of Ian and Barbera the kind and warm hearted man that we all really know and love was really able to come back to the forefront.

The biggest issue that I have with this story is it's tone as the tone of the story is all over the place with the first two episodes being very serious and yet episode three is more comedic and episodes four through six tries and fails to be a mixture of the two. Which just doesn't work as the tone for the first two episodes is what should have been the tone for the whole story as the Daleks are monsters that command a more serious tone and don't really work well with a more lighthearted tone yes a more lighthearted Dalek story could work just look at the film Dr. Who And The Daleks as a prime example of that but what makes the tone in that film work compared to the tone in this story is the fact that from the very first scene that film lets you know that it's going to be a little bit more comedic where as in this story we get alot of serious scenes from the very first scene in the episode one and as such it clashes when we get to episode three and suddenly we are now in a comedy.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever running time this episode has I do know that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly two hours. Which is such a long time for this episode to have as the plot is so thin that it really does feel like two different stories glued together with the first two episodes being an actually good story and every episode after that feeling like a lesser story and such that this episode really should have been two or three episodes as that's the only amount of plot that the episode has enough episodes to cover and with that shorter episode count it would make the plot really alot more tighter and would have every scene be about advancing the overall plot of the overall story and it would get rid of the terrible comedy tone of episodes three through six as well but I will admit that the episodes really does have some truly wonderful pacing to it.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us un this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As we do get to see a rather solid fight scene between The Doctor and his robot self which for the time that this episode was made wasn't that bad altho I do wish that they didn't make it obvious when they used a stunt double and the fight scene between the Daleks and the Mechonoids is good and it would have been better if they they didn't put animated explosions over the top of the scene as that was really distracting and it really did bring down the quality of what was a really good and a really rather solid final fight scene in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this a rather weak Dalek story from their creator Terry Nation which is a shame because it had all of the potential to be a good Dalek story and I can see why this story was chosen to be the next Dalek as it would have made for a rather solid in my freaking opinions anyways / at ,least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

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Dexter's Laboratory "DeeDeemensional" . "Dial M For Monkey: Magmanamus" and "Maternal Combat" Review

 

We all have cartoon shows that we have very fond memories of watching when we was kid with alot of these shows mostly likely still holding up to this very day. Well when I was looking for images for my The Powerpuff Girls review I suddenly remembered another show that I used to like growing up and well I thought that i'd check out the very first episode just to see if it really was still a good show and so then join me as I review the episode that really introduced did the world to a boy genius and his kid sister with the episode in question having segments that are called simply just "DeeDeemensional" . "Dial M For Monkey: Magmanamus" and "Maternal Combat" enjoy.

The plot of "DeeDeemensional" is Deedee is set back in time by Dexter to warn him of a giant monster that he himself sets loose whereas the plot of "Dial M For Monkey: Magmanamus" is when a giant lava monster attacks the town it's up to Monkey to save the day before it's far to late with the plot of "Maternal Combat" being when Mom is ill Dexter builds a robot to do all of the cooking and clean but things start to get our of control when Deedee steals the controls for the robot. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots 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 plots that are actually featured / resented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with the plot of the first segment "DeeDeemensional" being the stronger and really the most fun plot of all three segments in in this episode my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Rugrats star Christine Cavanaugh as Dexter and Woman and Allison Moore as Dee Dee, Also starring in this episode is voice acting legend Frank Welker as Monkey, Man 3 and Pilot , Everybody Loves Raymond star Brad Garrett as Magmanamus, Man 1 and Driver , Spongebob Squarepants star Tom Kenny as Man 2 , Man 4 and Man 5 , Kath Soucie as Mom and Jeff Bennett as Dad.

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. This isn't really all that surprising as the episodes cast are a bunch of really known voice actors who we know for a fact can turn in a good performance with this really being helped by that the scripts for each of the segments are just so good and the fact that each of the segments co-directors really do know how to direct their cast and so all the cast for this episode have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturally.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Rough Draft Korea. Now the interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all  honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the animation in this episode being alot better then what it really had any right yo be as this is show that was made and released in the nineties and as such nobody was expecting the animation to really hold up an yet it's the opposite that's true as the animation really does hold up really well almost to the point where the show looks like that it was made in the early to mid two thousands and not the early to mid nineteen nineties.

If your wondering if this show was as fun to watch now as it was back then the answer is firmly yes as this episode was so much fun to watch. With the characters having some really great and fun interactions all of which go along way to make the episode feel as fun as it was back in the nineties with the same thing also being true for the set up for each segment which was really simple for each of the three segments with them being noting more then an excuse for the segment just to be fun and to have some wild ideas and when you add in the fact that the characters in all three segments coming across as being very likable characters it's no wonder that this show was always fun tom watch as we always wanted to see these characters get into these crazy situations and see just how they would get of them and how they would interact with each other.

As a comedy this show hasn't aged all that well with alot of the jokes in all three segments not really having aged all that well. This is n't of the fault of anybody involved with the making of the show as they of course don't know that jokes will age badly and yet that is very sadly the case with alot of the jokes in those episode as there are alot of jokes that were funny back in the nineties but now they just aren't that funny which is a shame because the set up of the first episode "DeeDeemensional" does allow itself to be open for some really good jokes and yet outside of one joke near the end of the episode this segment has really nothing funny in it with the same thing also being true for the episodes third segment "Maternal Combat" which despite it's funny set up and premise doesn't really have any funny jokes in it at all.

For some reason instead of having either one single segment or two eleven minuet segment this show has three segments per-episode. Which just doesn't work as it means that a segment that could have worked out really well as a full length episode now gets rushed as it has to fit in two other segments which might not be as a good as that one segment whilst having multiple segments per episode might work for a show like Animanaics the difference is tho is that show was made to host multiple segments per-episode where as with this show as it;s not in a verity show format it doesn't really make sense to have multiple segments in just one episode and it's not something that will always work as one story or even all three stories will suffer because of it and that is the very case with this episode as all three episodes do suffer from the short running time that all three segments are forced to have due to the fact that they have to fit in two other episodes.

Now then this episode has / had a grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and thirty six seconds. Which would be a running time that would work f this show was telling one story per=episode and yet because this episode is telling three stories in every single episode this running time comes across as being rather short as it means that all of the stories don't have the time that they need to be fully developed and in the case of both "Maternal Combat" and "DeeDeemensional" don't even have proper conclusions to them with them just ending without actually concluding the story that they were telling and while that might work for other shows it's not really something that works for this show as the stories that there telling are so good and yet because they can't be fully developed it's hard to fully get behind all three of the stories that are in this episode but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very review well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However as was stated in this very review alot of the episodes jokes were very dated and while the story of a Monkey fighting evil does lend itself to alot of god jokes the episode sadly doesn't take advantage of that set up but I will admit that when this episode tells a good joke you really do know about it but there alot mire bad jokes then there are good ones which given who was involved with the making of this show really shouldn't have the case in the slightest in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this episode was still a really fun to really fun and great show it's also a good example of the show having not really aged all that well in the ways that truly matter in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the goo ad as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

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The Powerpuff Girls 1998 TV Series "Monkey See, Doggie Do" and "Mommy Fearest" Review

 

The nineties was a great time for cartoons on TV with there being alot of shows being made that would go on to become truly iconic shows i their own right. Well thr show that i'm about to talk about today is one such a show with this show having a an a list team of people working on it from great voice actors and to really great writers and directors all of which came to together to make this show the hit that it was and so then join me as I review the episodes that introduced the world to The Powerpuff Girls with the episodes in question being called simply just "Monkey See, Doggie Do" and "Mommy Fearest" enjoy.

The plot of "Monkey See, Doggie Do" is the people of townsville are being turned into dogs and it's up to The Powerpuff Girls to find who is doing this evil crime and stop them once and for all and the plot of "Mommy Fearest" is when The Professor falls in love it's up to The Powerpuff Girls to convince him that his new girlfriend is truly evil. 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 n all honesty really good with "Monkey See, Doggie Do" having the stronger plot whilst the plot for "Mommy Fearest" was quite easily the weaker of the two segments in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this very episode is Catherine Cavadini as Blossom , E.G. Daily as Buttercup and Tara Strong as Bubbles and Woman Neighbor. Also starring in this episode is Tom Kane as Professor Utonium , Puppet Pal Clem and Talking Dog , Roger L. Jackson as Mojo Jojo , Tom Kenny as The Narrator and The Mayor , Rob Paulsen as Puppet Pal Mitch and Jennifer Hale as Ima Goodelady and Sequsa.

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 given who is involved with this show shouldn't really be all that surprising as the show has some really legendary voice actors working on show and a really good creative team writing and directing the show with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is really good and so all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturally.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Rough Draft Korea. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us n this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as the animation in this episode does look really good but at the same time it does also look really dated this is of course no fault of those making the show but it is something that dates both the episode and the show itself as it just looks like that it was made in the nineties and as such the shows animation really doesn't come across as really being timeless unlike the animation in say Tiny Toon Adventures for example.

In the first half of this shows first episode we do get to meet The Powerpuff Girls most iconic villain that being Mojo Jojo. With the villain just being as entertaining as he was back in the nineties which is nothing new for this show as the makers of this show did put in alot of effort intro creating memorable villains be it for there right reasons or for the wrong reasons and they also put in alot of time and effort into making the villains in not only this episode but the show as a whole as entertaining as the shows main heroes as well with Mojo being a prime example of this as why he's not the most creepiest villain in the shows history he is one of if not the most well known villain in the shows history and alot of that comes down to the fact that he is both really well written and really well acted as well both of which help to really make him a really entertaining villain.

Sadly the comedy is where this episode falters as the comedy in this episode just isn't that funny in the lightest. Which is odd because we have a bunch or directors in Craig McCracken , John McIntyre and Genndy Tartakovsky al of whom know how to make funny animation and how to make things funny in the world of animation and yet for some strange reason they just didn't do it in this episode with the jokes here just coming across as lazy at best and unfunny at worst and when you add in the fact that we get a shall we say adult type of joke with a straight up naked person appearing in this episode and yet it's just not that funny and all it does is make you wonder how in the heck they manged to get that scene past all of the censors.

Out of the two segments the first one is the better of the two just because it was a good example of what the show was like when it was at it's best. However with that being said episode two was also rather enjoyable as it gives us some insight as to what the girls are like at home which just reminds us that outside of their superhero duties these girls are still just little girls and so they do things that kids there age would like to do only because they have superpowers they now have alot more pressure of going to save the town as and when they are needed and seeing their home life was also really entertaining in it's own right as it made the segment feel more personal as it's just mostly confined to the girls house for most of the segment.

Now then the first segment has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly eleven minuets and twenty nine seconds whilst the second segment has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly ten minuets and one second. With the first first segment having the better running time as the first segment has more then enough their interms f plot ti cover that large amount of story where as the second second segment really doesn't have alot of story there and so alot of the segment comes across as being filler but both segments don't really to take the time to fully develop their respective villains which does make it hard to route for the hero as we're not really given a reason to but I will admit that both segments have some really good pacing to both of them.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk abut the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With both segments having some really good action in them as we get to see alot of the girls powers in the second segment and we get to see just how creative the girls can be in a fight in the first segment both of which make the segments respective action scenes look really good and look alot better then the action that we get in mist modern day action cartoon TV shows n my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall both of these segments were really entertaining in their way as they both show of just how entertaining this show was and could be when it was at it's best in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that the first segment earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 whilst the second segment earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out and the episode as a whole earns itself a grand old score of a 7 out 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the image that I personally used in this very review well then boy sand girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Powerpuff Girls fandom wiki page, IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being the official The Powerpuff Girls fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on the official The Powerpuff Girls fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: The Star Beast SPOILER FILLED Review

 

We are now here at the main event after weeks of waiting the very first of three brand new specials for Doctor Who have finally started airing. With all three episodes set to air over the next few weeks and while I most likely won't be covering all three episodes as and when they air I really will try to watch all three of then and so then join me as I give you SPOILER FILLED review of the episode that sees classic faces return and new faces debut with the episode in question being called simply just "The Star Beast" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when the newly regenerated fourteenth doctor lands on earth he finds himself drawn back into the life of Donna Noble and right in the middle of a tg war between to warring alien races. 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 al honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue as it's not all that good either which is a shame as we know for a fact that writer and returning producer ad showrunner Russell T Davies can turn in some really good plotlines for Doctor Who when he really wants to and yet here he just really doesn't do it at all for some reason but this episode plot is very entertaining and as well as being really very engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at last.

Starring in this episode is David Tennant as The Doctor , Catherine Tate as Donna Noble and Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble. Also starring in this episode is Karl Collins as Shaun Temple , Matt Green as A BBC Reporter , Jamie Cho as Colonel Chan , Ruth Madeley as Shirley Bingham , Jacqueline King as Sylvia Noble , Ronak Patani as Major Singh , Ned Porteous as The Voice Of Zogroth , John Hopkinson as The Voice Voice Of Zreeg , Cecily Fay as The Meep and Miriam Margolyes as The Voice Of The Meep.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt bout the actual acting that's actual;y featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With both David and Catherine turning in some really good performances with them both just slipping back in to characters so easily that it was like they had just finished playing their characters just last series with the rest of the actors also turning in some fairly solid performances as well with the acting in this episode being helped by this episodes script as while the plot is fairly average at best the script itself gives the cast alot to work with interms of what their respective characters personalities even are.

Doing the CGI for this episode is Untold Studios and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Real SFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty good with this episodes CGI being movie quality good with it being really obvious to see where alot of the budget for these episodes went to as when you look at episodes from eve just a year or two ago they don't have better CGI then what were getting now in these specials with this episode being a very good example of that.

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This episode not only take it name from but is also adapted from the comic book of the exact name with the comic strip appearing in Doctor Who Magazine. With the original comic strip appearing from February to April 1980 and being written by Pat Mills and John Wagner both of whom get referenced in the episode with a steel factory being named after the duo and while I haven't read the original comic strip and can there not tell you if this episode is faithful to the original comic strip or not I can say that it is great that Doctor Who is adapting more of the comic strip stories as there is a wealth of material out there that could possibly make for good episodes or even mini episodes.

With the return of the Noble family that does mean that we get the return of the comedy that only they can bring. With there quick witted comedy being  welcome return in this episode as this episode really does feel lie that it's the calm before the storm with the family getting alot of quick jokes in here and there all of which feel like jokes that they would do and all of which landed as they were that funny of a joke and while yes we do get confirmation that Rose is a transgender character they don't really hit you over the head with it with it only really being brought three times in the whole episode and while her character isn't as fully developed as sh could have been there is the markings of a truly character in there.

While we knew for a fact that we were getting a new Doctor Who theme and intro what we didn't really know for sure was if we were getting a new TARDIS interior. Well that's exactly what we got with this new TARDIS interior looking really good with it being a more bigger version of the first doctors TARDIS interior with the round things making a return only now they serve a purpose as being the main light source for the walls of the console room and there being multiple floors all connected by various ramp ways which does open itself up to more complex shots in the console room and while this new design is as good or as alien as say the first interior for the Eleventh Doctor for example it is still a really nice looking interior that looks really massive and it helps that this interior does have somewhat of an alien feel to it as well.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty seven minuets and eight seconds. Which is a solid running time for this episode to have as it does have alot of things to set up and it wouldn't be able to do any of that and still a good story but on the flip side of that is the fact that despite this episode having a longer running time the characters still don't get any kind of character of development which might be because these are special episodes being released weekly and so it could be that these characters could development over the next two episodes it is something that could have happened in this episode as the episode had more then enough time to give them some development and some fleshing out and I will admit that this episode really does ave some really good pacing to it.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episodes really being helped by the budget for all three specials as it allowed the team to really up the scale in terms of action as instead of the action mostly taking place in a quarry the best action set piece in this whole episode takes place in a fully populated London street with the team really getting ambitious with just how big the action in this episode really gets and that really does help the action in this episode feel alot bigger then the action in most of the episodes of this show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall while, it is great to see Doctor Who and to have new Doctor Who content thus far these sixtieth anniversary specials aren't of to a good start with this episode not being as good as it could have or perhaps even should have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child Pilot Episode Version Review

 

Today is not just any day for you all see today is a very special as i'm writing this review on the exact day that Doctor Who first premiered on British TV screens all the way back in 1963 and well I couldn't think of a better thing to review. Then something that's from this truly iconic franchise however since the son of the first episodes original writer is keeping that entire first episode for himself I thought that i'd take a look at a Doctor Who episode that predates that one and so then join me as I review the pilot version of the episode that started it all with the pilot being called simply just "An Unearthly Child" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when her two school teachers become concerned about of their students they go to look for her only to stumble upon something that's truly out of this world. 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 honest 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's quite literally the exact same plot as the version of the episode that would eventually air but seeing how different plot beats play out in both versions of the episode and what things about the plot both big and small was interesting to say the least in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is William Hartnell as The Doctor , Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman and William Russell as Ian Chesterton. Also starring in this episode is Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright what's interesting is that this pilot only features how would go into become the four main leads  with all of the other characters being unnamed school students and while the same thing is also true for the aired version as well here as it wasn't leading onto anything at that point it felt like it was the BBC just trying to to save some money but that oddly works in this episode favor as it only kept the characters that were relevant to the plot of the episode whereas in more modern Doctor Who they would fill the first episode out with characters that aren't that essential to the plot of the episode.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With alot of the cast turning in the exact same performance that they would later turn in the aired version of this episode while there are some changes to certain characters that does effect the acting alot of the performances in this episode match that of the original aired episode which just goes to show you just how good this cast was as they pretty much really nailed there character performance wise on the first go.

As someone who has the first serial in it's entirety several times it was weird seeing this unaired version of this classic episode. This is because it was so obviously a classic episode and so to see it what it was like before the episode had all of it's changes made to it be it from a performance point of view or a story point of view or even a lore point of view for that matter it felt weird as it was like I was watching a new episode of the show for the very first even tho it's quite literally the oldest ever episode of Doctor Who and yet it was also fascinating seeing a version of the show that might have been had there not been any changes forced on to the show changes which ultimately made the show the show that we all know and love to this very day.

There are alot and I mean alot of errors to be found n this very episode with the studio lights showing up on several occasions. On top of that we have actors flubbing lines which are kept in the episode we also have camera men bumping into the set and pieces of the set falling over and that's just the tip of the ice berg and all of which make it no wonder why this episode was filmed again as it makes the show overall look even cheaper then what it already is and while alot of the faults in this episode could be blamed on the BBC for giving the episode a very small studio to film in alot of the blame has to also go to the crew for not really working with what they had on the day as that would have made a huge difference.

Perhaps the biggest change made to the episode is how The Doctor himself is both written and performed as in the original episode he comes across and being grumpy yet childlike and understanding. All of which aren't present in this episode as in this version of the episode he comes across as being both grumpy and borderline abusive all of which is due to how the character was written in this episode and this s something that i'm glad that the Sydney Newman demanded be changed as The Doctor is meant to be of the main heroes of the show and as such he has to be somewhat likable and if the film "An Adventure In Space In Time" is anything to go by the character was sold to William Hartnell as having a twinkle in his eye and it's that twinkle in his eye that sadly isn't present in this version of the episode.

I'm not going to lie and say that this was a rough episode to get through because it really wasn't infact it was still a rather enjoyable episode to get through. As it has alot of potential to be a really good story and heck even some of the things that are add like Susan doing a Rorschach Test only to be horrified by it's results which was interesting as it seemed like that she knew that her grandfather wasn't a kind person and would try to do something to do her school teachers which is something that could have been explored if that idea was kept in the aired version of the episode and yet for some reason it was cut from the aired version which is weird as it would have given Susan an extra dimension to her character and it would have given her something to do other then just stand there and scream alot like she would eventually end up doing.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and six seconds. With this being the shorter version of this pilot episode as there is also a thirty six minuet version of this version of the episode as well with this version really having the really better running time as when you get right down to it there's no need to this episode to be anywhere even close to being forty minuets in length as the episode doesn't really have alot their interms of story to cover that large of amount of running time and while the extra long version might just be with alternate takes it doesn't mean that the episode has to be that long and to this episodes credit it does have some really good pacing to it.

So now then as this is a drama that means that I have to actually talk about the actual drama thats actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual drama that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of the drama in this episode was really done and really built but at the same time time tho it was still strange seeing The Doctor act as this person who is at times borderline abusive to his granddaughter yes it comes from a good place but seeing him out right yell at her for something that she didn't know was going to happen in the first place just felt wrong in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while it was strange seeing a version of the shows very first episode that was never meant to air in the first place it was still interesting seeing what could have been in the show had this version of the episode been allowed to air in the first place in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images  are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition and a very happy sixtieth birthday to Doctor Who and here to many more years of fun , adventures and dangers all across time and space.