Doctor Who: The Church On Ruby Road SPOILER FILLED Review

 

Post regeneration are always hard episodes to pull of as the show has to do something new and yet feel so familiar as well. Well now we have another post regeneration episode with us this one also being a Christmas special and well in a year were we've had now four Doctor Who special all in the space of a month I think it's fair to say that we've had a good decent amount of Doctor Who related content all in the space just around a months time and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episode that not only introduces a new Doctor but also a new companion as well with the episode in question being called simply just "The Church On Ruby Road" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Ruby is tasked by her adoptive mother to look after her new foster daughter but when the baby gets kidnapped by Goblins she meets a mysterious alien who is always willing to help out in times of need. 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 pretty weak with the episodes plot being very thin at best which is fine as it's a Christmas special after all but at the same time it doesn't really get you hooked which is something that alot of the other Doctor Who Christmas specials did do despite also having fairly weak plots as well with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor , Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday and TV legend Davina McCall as Herself , Bobby Bradley as Denzel , Eastenders star and legend Anita Dobson as Mrs. Flood , Mary Malone as Trudy , Belinda Owusu as Woman With Pram , Barney Wilkinson as Policeman , Hemi Yeroham as Abdul , Michelle Greenidge as Carla Sunday , Angela Wynter as Cherry Sunday , Gemma Arrowsmith as Ruth Lyons and singer Christina Rotondo as The Voice Of Janis Goblin.

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 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 this episodes acting being alot better then what it really had any right to be as the plot of this episode doesn't really require good acting to pull it off and yet that's exactly what we get good acting from all of this episodes various cast members with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode was really good with the script giving the actors quite alot to work with interms of what there respective characters personalities are meant to be.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Automatik VFX and Real SFX. Now then in terms 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 the episode having some really good looking CGI effects which is really nothing new as the past three specials have all had some really good looking CGI effects in them which is mainly due to the team that's doing the effects on the show now but there not the only ones that need praise as alot of the good CGI also comes from Disney giving the show a really bigger budget and a bigger effects budget then it's ever had before now and let us hope that this trend does continue for the series moving forward.

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Not only do we get a new Doctor in this episode but we also get a new companion as well with this episode being there first adventure together. Interms of other companions Ruby Sunday does seem like a really fun characters altho we don't get to really find that much about her character which does make sense as she's meant to be staying with the show until at the very least series 15 but at the same time we should have been given something about her like what are her likes and dislikes things like that but we don't get any of that which is a shame because she is acted really well and she and The Doctor do have some really fun scenes together but we don't really get to see why The Doctor has chosen her to be his next companion with her just joining him for no reason which is something that all companions should have.

The Doctor does fair a little bit better in this regards as he is basically a child in a grown man's body which is something that does make sense as for all intense and purposes this new Doctor has just been born. Altho we don't get to see The Doctor choose his outfit which is a small issue but we do usually get alot of fun scenes during those types of scenes and to see that kind of scene missing from this episode just felt weird and while yes the ninth doctor didn't have that type of scene either but by that point he had already been the doctor for sometime and had already had his outfit for sometime and seeing The Doctor choose his outfit you get a chance to show us just what type of character this new Doctor is and that is something that is missing from this episode but by not having that scene in this episode it does allow for more scene with The Doctor and Ruby together which is where the episode is most fun and let's be honest when it comes to Christmas time TV all you really want is for what your watching to be fun and really nothing more then that.

There have been many controversial things in Doctor Who in the past but what got a lot of people weirdly upset was the fact that this episode was going to feature a musical number which is called "The Goblin Song" which is written by the episodes writer and the show current showrunner and executive producer  Russell T Davies. What makes this episodes song stand out is the fact that both Ncuti and Millie get to sing in the song and they don't have bad singing voices but the issue is tho is that when you think of Doctor Who you don't think of musical numbers and in that regards the song in this episode does stick out like a sore thumb as it's just something that isn't needed in the episode as all that the song is meant to get across of a baby slowly going to be eaten is the same thing that's put across in the scenes visuals but at the same time this song is a genuinely really good and fun song that is really well sung.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty five minuets and thirteen seconds. Which is a solid running time for this episode but at the same time tho this episode really didn't need to be that long as there's nothing about this episode that screams that it needs to have an extra long running time as you very easily could have told the plot of this episode in forty five minuets and all that you'd need to cut out is the song and alot of the pointless scenes with Ruby and her friends and cut down on The Doctor's and Ruby's time on the Goblin ship and that's really it with none of those having a major effect on the episodes which means that you'd loose absolutely nothing that's actually important to the overall plot of the episode but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured /  presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode not really having a focus on action with the episode instead having more of a focus on comedy which does make sense for a Christmas special and what little action we do get in the episode was really well done and was really fun and exciting to see with Ncuti looking really comfortable in the action scenes which is something that does work well for this incarnation as this version of The doctor does seem alot more like Jon Pertwee's Doctor in that just like the third doctor this new doctor is an action man type of hero and will be willing to get into fights in order to defend himself in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this episode was a fairly weak episode to start of this new Doctor's run on the show but at the same time it gives you all of the things that you'd expect from a Doctor Who christmas special as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well 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 grad old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.

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

Some Of My Favorite Things To Come Out Of The Whoniverse

 

Ever since the BBC launched the Whoniverse section on BBC Iplayer we've been seeing quite alot of new Doctor Who content all within the space of just over a month. With all of this in flux of content I thought that it was only about right that I tell you what some of my personal favorite things are to be found in this glorious section of BBC Iplayer and please note things like Doctor Who: Video Commentaries won't be counted as they are just basically DVD extra's and i'm not counting any old shows either and nor will I be counting Doctor Who itself as that would make the number spot pretty obvious and so then join me as I tell you what so me of my favorite things are to come out on the whoniverse enjoy.

Doctor Who: The Daleks In Colour

This is kind of a cheat as it is just an old episode of the show that was colorized and re-edited but given that was something new that we haven't seen before now that makes it count. This was something that was done to help Doctor Who to celebrate it's sixtieth anniversary and what a better way to help to celebrate this huge anniversary by showing a brand new version of the story that first introduced the world to the The Daleks yes it's something that didn't need to be done as we already have the original episodes in their original black and white format on BBC Iplayer the very fact that this film version of the story even exists really at all is truly something as it's something that the current Doctor Who creative team really didn't have to do and yet not only did they do it they also got both Nicholas Briggs and David Graham to record new lines as the Daleks as well.

While the coloring for this filmed version of the story could have been so much better that's not really something that you can blame of the current production team. As they got fans to colorize the entire story and the fans of course won't have the technology that professional people would have had and the fact that for some reason they chose to add in some really obvious CGI in the opening when the original opening worked so well in the first place really doesn't help this filmed version of the story out at all neither does the fact that at times the editing for this version of the story seems to be really all other place that does negate the fact that they still managed to tell the exact same time in a much more tighter seventy five minuets and with that shorter running time also comes the fact that really quite alot of what bogged the original story down is now gone completely.

Tales Of The TARDIS

This little show was sadly only made available for those of us here in the UK but fear not the rest of the world as your not really missing out on much. As the show doesn't really reveal any new information nor does it really set up anything that pays in the specials with this show basically being the Doctor Who version of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in that it does feature new scenes with returning actors some of whom played The Doctor others did not all it is basically the omnibus version of Classic Doctor Who stories and nothing really mire then that but given that this show was quite literally a last minuet thing that was added late in the day for the sixtieth anniversary celebrations it's amazing that we got in the final cut of the show was really as good as it was as we very easily could have ended up with something that's really much much more worse.

As a show on it's own this wasn't that bad of a way to help to kick start not only the Whoniverse section on BBC Iplayer. It's also a great way to kick of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations as the show is all about celebrating Classic Doctor Who which is something that the previous anniversary special The Day Of The Doctor didn't do with that special focusing more on celebrating the then current era of Doctor Who which us something that did leave alot of fans of Classic Doctor Who feeling left out as there was nothing in those celebrations that was for them and that celebrated an era of the show that they loved well now we have something that does celebrate that era of the show it's something that did get alot of praise from alot of people as it brought back episodes that don't really get alot of love and attention.

Doctor Who: Unleashed

The newest show to premiere as part of the Whoniverse is also one of the most fun shows that Doctor Who has right now. Granted this show is pretty much just exactly Doctor Who: Confidential but that doesn't mean that it's not a good show as this show is a really good show that offers us a unique look into the making of the show even if we're just five episodes as yes this show did premiere after the release of the Children In Need special it has already made itself a must watch show as it does give us some unique looks into what it's like making the show on a day to day basis and while the show would be better if they had a slightly better host and if they just got rid of the segments where the host tries to do something on the crew that doesn't mean that this isn't a good show as this show is a must watch for any Doctor Who fan.

There are some issues with this show that do keep it from being a great show as the show doesn't have that long of a running time. With the other major issue being the fact that it doesn't go into that much detail about the making of the show with the show just touching all of, the surface level stuff which is still great but it would be better if the show went deeper into the making of the show like showing us the table reads for each episode or showing interviews with the writer of the episode where they discuss what they idea was behind the episode and how they came up with that idea just stuff like that which will be greatly loved by alot of Doctor Who fans as it would give us more information about the show that we love and just going back to Confidential for a minuet it would be great if this episode talked about how they did certain effects like what they used to in Doctor Who Confidential as well as those are some very interesting things to talk about as well.

Imagine... Russell T Davies: The Doctor And Me

This one is also kind of a cheat as it's an episode of another TV show but it's been uploaded to the Whoniverse page so it counts. Right now this episode is perhaps the best thing if not one of the best things on the Whoniverse page as it goes into such great detail about the life and times of writer and current Doctor Who showrunner and producer Russel T. Davis with the best thing being that it just doesn't cover Doctor Who it covers quite alot of his filmography and while the episode isn't an easy watch as it's one hour and fifteen minuets long it is still something that is worth watching as you really get to see the man behind some of the greatest modern Doctor Who stories and finding what he took from his personal life to make some of his most successful was truly enlightening and by the end it was truly heartbreaking as well.

There's not really enough kind words that could be said by anyone to describe just how good this documentary is. As it truly is something that needs to be seen to be believed as you'll laugh quite alot but by the end you'll be crying so much more and it's those kinds of things that make you remember why he is one of the best writers working in childrens television today as he doesn't talk down to his audience and while yes some of the messaging in The Star Beast was a bit heavy handed as was what he said about Davros for the Children In Need special that doesn't take away from the fact that when he's good he's great and that us something that cannot be denied by his haters as without him we wouldn't have had the show back in 2005 and back for as long as it has been back as he filled the show with so much love , humor and yes even a bit of sorrow as well.

Doctor Who At 60: A Musical Celebration

As with the previous entry this is kind of a cheat as it's just a concert but at the same time it's also an oddly important one as well. As this is the concert where the new theme song was first debuted along with a great deal of things as well and while granted this concert is juts about the music of Doctor Who and nothing more then that the music of the show is just as important and just as iconic as the person who's playing The Doctor or any of the other characters in this show with it being twice as important for the music to he right as with the wrong track playing a scene could go from being serious on the day of filming to being comedic due to an editing mistake and with the right music choice the audience is going to feel exactly what the show makers want us to feel which in the end will help the show out a great deal.

While granted this concert show is just a trimmed down version of the one that was performed live on BBC Sounds. It is still a good show and who doesn't get a goosebumps hearing your favorite track from the show being performed live it's just something that will always happen and while yes it would have better if the filmed show wasn't an edited version of the show that was first broadcast on BBC Sounds that doesn't make t a bad show as all it does is make it a show that alot more people who perhaps didn't know that was first on BBC Sounds or even really what BBC Sounds even is for that matter can now watch and really get the exact same experience that those of us who did watch the BBC Sounds version of the show got when the show was first released.

This list was kind of hard to put together as alot of the stuff on the Whoniverse page is worth watching anyway and just keeping it down to just some of the new stuff was a challenge but a fun one none the less in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about alot of the shows that are on the Whoniverse page in this post however I would gladly recommend that those of you that can view the Whoniverse to do so as there a great wealth of content all of which is related to the show that we all love and while this post mostly focuses on the new stuff there's a ton of stuff from the past all about this truly wonderful show all of which i'm sure will be worth watching as much as this new stuff is and alot of which i'm sure will give us just as much information about the show then we could all possibly know what to do with.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki age , Amazon. Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being 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: The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe Review

 

There are just some things that go together beautifully with Doctor Who and Christmas being one of them. As for a long time it was a tradition that there would be a rarely Doctor Who Christmas episode with that tradition coming back in a just a few short days time and well I thought that as alot of these christmas specials aren't really talked about and so then join me as I review the episode that really does have a mouthful of a title with the episode in question being called simply just "The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is The Doctor serves as caretaker for the Arwell family where he tries to give them the best Christmas ever all the while the mother holds a secret that threatens to tear her family apart. 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 really fun with this episodes plot being the kind of plot that you'd both expect and want in a Christmas special as it really is a solid plot that's a really perfect plot for Christmas TV with this episodes plot also really being really rather entertaining and really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Matt Smith as The Doctor , Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams. Also starring in this episode is Claire Skinner as Madge Arwell , Maurice Cole as Cyril Arwell , Holly Earl as Lily Arwell , Alexander Armstrong as Reg Arwell , Sam Stockman as The Co-pilot , Bill Bailey as Droxil , Paul Bazely as Ven-Garr , Arabella Weir as Billis , Spencer Wilding as The Wooden King and Paul Kasey as The Wooden Queen.

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 alot better then what I really had any right be. As you really wouldn't expect an episode that has a really out there plot like this one to have some really good acting in it and yet that's exactly what we get with all of the actors that you expect a rather solid performance from really delivering in this episode with the same thing also being true for the episodes kid characters who are are really well acted with the cast for this episode really being helped by the episodes which gives the cast alot to work with interms of what there respective characters personalities are 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 naturally.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at The Mill and Real SFX. 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 honest I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode having some pretty good CGI in it especially given the fact that the budget for this show especially around this point in time wasn't that high to begin which means that they really couldn't afford to do some really great CGI anyways and yet for this episode that managed to have alot more good looking CGI effects in it whilst at the same time still having some pretty dodgy looking CGI effects that really haven't aged all that well.

While this episode is largely a lighthearted affair it does also deal with a pretty heavy subject matter that being the death of a loved one. With the Madge character struggling when to tell her kids that there father was killed in the war this is something that I both hated and loved about the episode I loved it because it showed the harsh realities of going to war but at the same time I hated it because it's not the something that you want to see in a Christmas episode and plus the episode doesn't go as far as they could have done with that idea with his death only being brought up a few times and we don't even see how his death affected Madge's personality as we see her being this rather cheerful character at the start of the episode and she remains as such all throughout the episode when it would have been more impactful if we saw how the death of her husband deeply affected her and seeing her struggle to tell her kids the news would have made it alot more emotional.

For some rather odd reason both Amy and Rory basically have glorified cameos with them only appearing in the episodes end scene. Which means that for the vast majority of the episode The Doctor is without a companion which just doesn't work as we know from previous episodes that The Doctor really does need a companion to stop him from doing truly evil things and yet here he is without a companion and yet he's acting just as he normally would do which doesn't really make sense with what we know he would be like but this is a Christmas special and showing The Doctor as doing evil things just wouldn't sit well on Christmas and showing him meet up with Amy and Rory does lead to very nice and emotional moment at the end of the episode.

As with the previous Christmas special this one is alot more lighter in tone then the rest of the series however given that this episode deals with death it is still slightly dark. Altho while the episodes more darker elements do work really well they clash with the episodes more lighter tone with them going from making jokes one second and then talking about death in the very same scene with there being nothing really to bridge the two which does create tonal whiplash which is a shame because both of these elements can work well together if they were fairly balanced with the episode showing us alot more of the lighter tone then it is the darker when in reality it should have been more fifty fifty and not favor one over the other this would then make the transition between the two feel alot more natural even more so if you added in a line of dialog that helped to ease us the audience in between the two tones that this episode is quite clearly really going for in this episode.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes running time even was I do know that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly fifty eight minuets. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for a Doctor Who christmas special and to this episodes credit it does make the most of it's running but the episode really doesn't have alot there interms of plot to really cover that large amount of running time which means that we do get scenes that add nothing to the plot and are there not only for some mostly bad comedy but they also add nothing to the plot of the episode with them feeling alot more like filler scenes as they are scenes that could have been removed from the final cut of the episode and nothing of value would have been lost from the actual plot of the 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 action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual actin that's actually featured / presented to us in his very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual actin that's actually feature / presented to us in this very epiosde was in all honesty not that bad. As while we don't get any fight scenes in this episode what we do get is a very exciting and action packed third act which was really well done as we got to see alot of really emotional moments just come together beautifully which was something that worked really well in this episode altho it would have worked better if the episode had a much more stronger story but with that aside the third act is the most exciting part of the episode and it was thrilling seeing how everything comes together beautifully in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this episode wasn't as strong as the previous Christmas Special it was still a rather fun filled episode that was a rather solid Christmas Doctor Who adventure 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 ad as such that means that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys ad 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 , Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being 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.

Sakura Quest "Off To Magical Manoyama" Review

 

When people usually think of anime nine times out of ten they'll usually think of any Studio Ghibli movie. However what they'll very rarely think of is a TV anime and well it's TV anime that I want to take a look at today as to mainstream people there really isn't TV anime and well I think that i've found one that some mainstream people might like as it is a cute anime and so then join me as I review the episode that gives a normal girl a not so normal job with the episode is question being called simply "Off To Magical Manoyama" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is down on her luck Yoshino Koharu accepts a job in the country that she thinks will only last for one day and yet when it finds out that it's a job that lasts for a whole year she has to decide if she really wants to stay or not. 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 it being a rather simple which in the episodes fairness is all it really needs as a show like this one doesn't really need a deep and dark complicated plot it just needs something nice and simple and that's what this episodes plot was it was nice and simple as well as being both entertaining and engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Alexis Tipton as Yoshino Koharu , Tia Ballard as Shiori Shinomiya and Mark Stoddard as Ushimatsu Kadota. Also starring in this episode is Aaron Roberts as Mino , Dallas Reid as Yamada , Leah Clark as Maki Midorikawa , Robert McCollum as Takamizawa , Rachel Robinson as Chitose Oribe , this shows voice director Caitlin Glass as Yae Koharu , David Matranga as Hashimoto , Kenny Green as Gen , Sonny Strait as Tora , Linda Leonard as Kinu Kadota and Jerry Jewell as Mr. Sandal.

Now the 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 isn't really all that surprising as alot of if not all of this episodes voice cast are a bunch of really good voice actors with alot of them being big names in the anime dubbing industry and as such it does make sense that they would turn in a good performance as not only are they a bunch of really talented voice actors but there also directed really well and the episodes script is just so good that all this cast really have to is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.

Doing the animation for this episode is of course the legends and the greats that are currently over at P.A. Works. Now then interms if what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in ll 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 this episodes animation being close to being movie quality yes the animation in alot of TV anime shows will never be fully movie quality with the same thing also being true for alot of animated shows as TV shows have to spread out there animation budget across several episodes but with this episode it came across as if they gave alot of there animation budget to this episode as it was really that good.

This episode does a fairly decent job of representing what country live is like in alot of countries with everybody in this small town knowing each other. As well as knowing everything that's going on in the town which is true for a lot of small towns that are out in the country as you'd only have a very small amount of people living there and everybody would know everybody else and they would all know what's going on in town and while the episode didn't get some things down about country live like people who are only well known in that small town what they did nail about country living and what it's like to live in the country was something that they really got down perfectly on top of all of that they went out of the way to make the town itself feel like a character which was something that they really didn't have to do and yet they went ahead and they did it anyway.

Instead of this show being a manga first and an anime series second this show was an anime show first that then got a manga adaptation. It's hard to say if the manga just straight up copied the plot of the show and added nothing new to it but given that the manga lasted for five volumes it's most likely that the manga rather added to the anime's plot instead of taking away from it which is really what a manga adaptation should do as if people want to see the original plot then all they'd do is watch the original anime and yet by giving them something new for the manga then your giving them a reason to continue to pick up the manga with this having the added advantage of possibly bringing in new people to watch the anime something wouldn't have been possible if the manga was just straight up coping the plot of the anime.

The characters apart from both Yoshino and Shiori do seem to be pretty one note and rather underdeveloped. This is of course perfectly natural given that this is the first episode but on the flip side of that is the fact that you always want to start of your show with your best foot forward and part of that does include starting to develop your characters and making more then Yoshino and Shiori interesting and funny characters and that's just not something that this episode does as alot of the of the rest of the characters in this episode just seem to be pretty one note and rather boring which really shouldn't be the case at all as they do have the potential to be some really fun and funny characters and when you start your characters of on rocky foundations it doesn't matter how thy end up because the foundations will always be rocky.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and six seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for any TV anime show to have and to this episodes credit it does take full advantage of that amount of running time as this episode really does have more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time but at the exact same time tho this episode could have benefited from being a at the very least forty five minuets which yes does run the risk of stretching it's thin plot even thinner but at the same time it would give more of the side characters a chance to not shine but to also become fully developed characters as well which would also help the show out in the long run as well but I will admit that this episode does have some really good pacing to tit 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 / resented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode having some really cute jokes in it all of which not only landed but they also felt very in character for these characters which only made the jokes seem even funnier and while this show most likely really isn't the best comedy anime out there it is one that does seem really like a comfort comedy with it's cute jokes being jokes that alot of people can really relate to which is something that will make the jokes in not only this episode but really in the show as a whole seem rather timeless in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode was cute and simple in all of the best ways possible both of which are things that work really well to this shows advantage and while the characters don't seem to be that deep for this kind of show that's not that bad of a thing to be in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that mean that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all f the images that  personally used in this very review from the official P.A. Works fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being 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: A Christmas Carol Review

 

There are so many adaptations of A Christmas Carol out there ranging from ones starring The Muppets to more serious adaptations. Yet there's always one version of this classic story that people really do tend to forget about for one reason or another with that one very episode also being the very one that i'm about to talk about today and so then join me as I review the episode that sees a great actor make his one and only Doctor Who appearance with the episode in question being called simply just "A Christmas Carol" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is The Doctor has just one hour to convince a greedy and really reluctant old man to help him save the lives of over four thousand people who about to crash their spaceship on Christmas Day. 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 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 the kid of plot that you'd expect a Doctor Who Christmas episode to have in that it's a bit of fun and really isn't meant to be taken all that seriously with the plot itself being a rather really entertaining and as well as being rather engaging plot in my freaking opinions anyways  / at least.

Starring in this episode is Matt Smith as The Doctor , Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams. Also starring in this episode is Sir Michael Gambon as Kazran and Elliot Sardick , Katherine Jenkins as Abigail , Laurence Belcher as Young Kazran , Danny Horn as Adult Kazran , Leo Bill as The Pilot , Pooky Quesnel as The Captain , Micah Balfour –as The Co-Pilot , Steve North as Old Benjamin , Bailey Pepper as Boy and Benjamin , Tim Plester as The Servant , Laura Rogers as Isabella and Meg Wynn-Owen as Old Isabella.

Now then interms of what 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 this episodes cast  turning in some really good performances in this episode was the same thing also being true for singer Katherine Jenkins who despite being a relative newcomer to the acting world manages to hold her own when acting with the likes of Sir Micheal Gambon and Matt Smith something which couldn't have been an easy task with the acting really being helped by this episodes script which whilst it's not the best Doctor Who Christmas script out there it's alot better then what it really should or perhaps even  could have been.

Doing the CGI for this episode is of course the legends and the greats that are currently over at The Mill and Real SFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the issue as alot of this episodes CGI is really dated in all of the wrong ways as while this episodes would have been really impressive back in 2010 compared to today's standards the CGI in this episode does look rather cartoonish with the worst of those coming from the cloud effects which do look like a cartoon and not something you'd expect to see in a live action TV show.

As with all adaptations of the A Christmas Carol storyline at it the core of this story is the romance between Kazran and Abigail. With the two going from friends to dating each other however it's the romance part of the episode that just doesn't work as it's something that's incredibly rushed despite it being rather well thought out and heck out of all of their scenes together there are only two technically three scenes where both Abigail and Kazran are alone with each other without The Doctor and that's not really strong enough to get across that these two are really falling for each other this wouldn't be a big deal if their romance wasn't a key plot point and yet there romance is a key plot point and as such the two really should have had more scenes alone together so that there relationship could be more fully developed and be alot more believable then what it is in the final cut episode.

What was rather interesting is that alot of the characters in this episode do have counterparts in A Christmas Carol. With The Doctor taking on the mentle of The Ghost Of Christmas Past and The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come, Amy taking on The Ghost Of Christmas Present , Kazran is Scrooge , Abigail is a mixture of Belle and Tiny Tim and the main family in this episode is The Cratchet family heck the only one who doesn't get a book counterpart is Rory who it could be argued does share the role of the Ghost Of Christmas Present with Amy but that would be stretching as Amy spends alot more time in that role then Rory does but either way seeing these character fill out these rather iconic roles in a new a fresh way was rather interesting with Kazran's father Elliot basically play the Jacob Marley only he doesn't come to warn his son that he's going to be visited by three ghosts.

As is to expected by pretty much all of the Steven Moffat Christmas Specials this one is alot more lighter in tone. Which does make alot of sense as they could use this episode to get whole families to sit down and watch this episode with their kids and not have to worry about there kids seeing something that might either be to mature or to scary and plus with this episode being a Christmas Special you do generally want to watch something that's just a little bit more lighter in tone and while this episode does hint at Amy being pregnant in this episode which might cause a continuity problem with an episode later on in the series it is still a rather lighter and a more fun episode fun filled episode to watch and for Christmas Day viewing that's kind of what you want anyways as you really don't want to watch something that's rather really dark in tone on Christmas Day.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episode grand total running time even was I do know for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour and one minuet. Which was a rather solid running time for this episode for this episode to have but at the same time tho this episode doesn't really take fully advantage of it's longer as it's new characters aren't fully developed and so they don't really come across as being that memorable with the same thing also being true for the romance between Kazran and Abigail both of which are things that could have been given alot more time and attention as the episode has alot more time in order to fully time in order to fully tell it's story but I will admit that this episode really does gave some fairly solid pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured /presented to us in this very episode well then n all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual actin that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode not really having alot of action in it as it is a more lighthearted episode but what little action we do get was rather fun and as to be expected from a Stephan Moffat script was also rather flashy and full to the brim with cheesy and fun moments and while the action in  this episode wasn't as good as the action in other Doctor Who episode it was still some really good action that was rather exciting when it needed to be and just downright fun to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if your not a fan of Stephan Moffat's scripts then this one won't win you over but as a Doctor Who Christmas Special Episode that's just meant to be a piece if light entertainment this was a rather solid episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page , Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being 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.

Batman: Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin Review

 

Batman as a character has been around for decades and will most likely be around for decades but there's no denying the fact that the character was at his most popular in the nineteen sixties. This is of course due the classic Batman TV show and well I thought that since i've reviewed really quite alot of Batman media apart from episodes of the classic Batman TV show that now was really the right time to dive right on in and check out an episode of the show and so then join me as I review that introduces Batgirl into the fold with the show in question being called simply just "Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when the commissioners daughter is kidnapped by The Penguin it's to the dynamic duo to find her before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad  with this episodes plot being rather simply which is also true for the rest of the episodes of this show as well however those episode had one advantage that this episode and indeed the rest of this season don't have and that's extra time which allowed for their stories to move at a more natural pace where as here everything plot wise moves along so fast that it's hard to really get into the plot of the episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Adam West as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Burt Ward as Dick Grayson / Robin. Also starring in this episode is Yvonne Craig as Barbera Gordon / Batgirl , Alan Napier as Alfred , Neil Hamilton as Commissioner Gordon , Stafford Repp as Chief O'Hara , Burgess Meredith as Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin , Jon Waltier as Henchman 1 , Jonathan Troy as Reverend Hazlitt , Elizabeth Harrower as Drusilla , Frank Gorshin as The Riddler and this shows producer William Dozier as The Narrator.

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 un this very episode was in al honesty not that bad. Which is pretty much par the course for this show as the acting in this show and it's movies isn't that good but it's not that bad either which is understandable given the scripts for this show usually aren't that good however the script for this episode seems to be worse then the scripts for the shows first two season as the script has to juggle three main characters and still somehow give Batgirl some personality and it can't do that and as a result of this the episodes cast just can't turn in that good of a performance as the episodes script just won't allow for it.

As alot of you will know this is the episode that introduces us to Barbera Gordon / Batgirl with the character here being a librarian. However what alot of you might not know is the fact that the character has actually appeared in the show as before this third season of the show was confirmed the producers shot a seven minute pilot film to either convince the the network to pick the show up for a third season to convince the network to make a Batman spin off show with the pilot introducing a slightly different version of the character and with the pilot film being a success the producers decided to make the dynamic duo a trio with this version of the character keeping some things from the pilot film like the fact she is a librarian but loosing somethings like the fact that her hidden closet is now in her apartment and not at her place of work and she even has a different motorbike as well. 

Another change that started with this third and final season was the fact that the show went from airing two episodes a week to airing just one episode a week. Which is something that just doesn't work in this episode as this is a story that really needed room to breathe and would have been alot better if it was two episodes long instead of just one with the same thing also being true for alot of the episodes this season as result of this reduced episode count it means that the stories in each episode can't be as good as they could have been as they now have three main hero characters all really fighting for screen time when the opposite would really be true if the show was still airing two episodes however in order to bridge the gap between each episode a teaser was added to the end of each episode that would tease the villain for the next weeks episode.

Alot of the villains plots for their schemes in this show are usually pretty over the top and really out there. With the same thing also being true for The Penguins plot in this episode as he wants to marry Barbera so then the Commissioner won't arrest him as he's apart of his family this is a rather out there scheme even for this show as there's nothing to really stop the Commissioner from stopping the wedding and from still arresting him even if he did succeed in his scheme but on the flip of that is the fact that his scheme is something that's not also fitting for this version of the character but is also oddly fitting for this show as both this version of the character and the show is known for being rather over the top and as such this villain scheme does fit in perfectly with the show and the world that this show takes place in. 

Thus show always put alot more focus on it's comedy with the comedy in this show not really being that bad. However the issue is tho is that alt of the jokes that the show got right have now grown old and stale as there's only so many times you can see that everything in the Batcave is called the bat something before it starts to get old and as such the episode should have tried to do something new with the comedy which they really could have done with the introduction of Batgirl and yet for some strange reason they didn't instead all they did was keep to the same jokes that worked back in the first two seasons of the show only now instead of being fresh and funny there now just stale and rather really unfunny which they really shouldn't have been as when those jokes are right they can be really funny jokes.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and fifteen seconds., Which isn't really enough time to tell this story and to also set up a new character and a new character dynamic none of this is the fault of the writer or the producers tho as instead it's the fault of the network who ordered these changes and as such the cast and crew had to do the best that they could have done with them and frankly they did the best that they could have dine given the changes that had to be made and as result of this much shorter episode count the episodes plot isn't allowed to breathe as now every single scene has to be about advancing the plot of the episode which wouldn't be a problem if the episode had an extra episode to really tell it's story with this not really being helped by thee fact that the episode has some really bad pacing to it with the episode being far two fast then what it really should have been.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual actin that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in al honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual actin that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Which is really nothing new for this show as this show has always had some really over and the top and fun and crazy action scenes which is helped by the fact that all three of the main heroes of this episode really do alot of there own stunt work which means that when you see Adam West throwing a punch that's that's really him doing it and it's that kind of believability that really makes the over the top action in this show and this episode really feel alot more real and believable in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode was a rather fun episode and it was fun to take a look back at the classic era of Batman and while this episode quite clearly isn't the show at it's best it was still a rather fun fulled episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thing 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 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the wonderful 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.