Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! "A Clue For Scooby-Doo" Review

Scooby-Doo is just one of those franchises that will never ever stop going with it being rebooted and retooled every few years or so. However none of the other Scooby-Doo shows or movies that alot of us grew up with and love so much would really even be a thing were it not for the original series as it's that original show that really gave us all the things that we still really love about the show and a,bout the franchise to this very day and so then join me as I review the episode that introduces another classic Scooby-Doo villain with the episode in question being called simply just "A Clue For Scooby-Doo" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when the Mystery Inc gang see a ghost walking out of the sea during some time at the beach they take upon themselves to work out who this ghost really is and to solve the mystery of missing boats. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot 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 plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as the plot of the episode was really interesting as even tho it just gives us the bare bones of a plot that's all you really need for a classic Scooby-Doo episode and that's something that this episode gives us in spades and while yes it would have been nice if you episode had a more stronger plot that's not really something that we crave from a classic episode of Scooby-Doo as all we want from this show is the characters acting how we know them to act and solving a good mystery with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is voice acting legend Don Messick as Scooby-Doo , Ebenezer Shark and A Mouse and Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers. Also starring in this film is voice acting and Scooby-Doo legend Frank Welker as Fred Jones , Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne Blake , Nicole Jaffe as Velma Dinkley , Hal Smith as The Ghost of Captain Cutler and voice acting legend Jean Vander Pyl as Mrs. Cutler.

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 al honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this episodes cast turning in some really good performances which was both really shocking and yet not all that shocking at the exact same time it's shocking in that this was only the second episode to air and about the third episode to be produced and as a result it would have been understandable if the cast didn't turn in that good of a performance as there still trying to find there characters but at the same time it's not all that surprising as this episodes cast is made up of bunch of really good voice actors with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and good performance will come out of them naturally.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Hanna-Barbera Productions. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good for the most part as this is still Hanna-Barbera Productions and there are still quite alot of animation errors to be found in this episode with the most striking one being that for one full scene Shaggy's hair goes from being brown to being blonde as this is was early on in the shows production this is forgivable however tho it's really something that really could have been fixed be it for DVD releases or Blu-Ray releases or even when the series was added to HBO Max but it wasn't it was just kept in and it's really that kind of animation error that really does bring down the overall quality of the animation in this episode.

What was truly shocking in this episode is that they actually made Scooby-Doo to be quite a bit braver then what he normally is. As in this episode he takes on the The Ghost Of Captain Cutler head on which is something that he would never do later on in the shows run and yet he does it here for no reason with this being something that does kind of make sense due to how early on in the shows run that this episode was being produced but at the same time it makes it all the more weird that they would suddenly change it with no rhyme or reason and yet at the exact same time tho it's also something that does make Scooby-Doo work as a hero as he's willing to take down the villain head on because the villain in this case is cashing down him and Shaggy all of which makes you wonder why this aspect was toned down at best or just straight up removed at worst as you very easily could have gotten some really cool moments out of it just look at the ending to the third act of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed for proof of that.

While this does make sense from one point of view the makers of this episode chose not to give both Fred and Daphne alot of screen time in this episode. Which again does make alt of sense as the makers of the show have gone on record as saying that they found those characters to be the most boring of the whole gang as there just very one note characters but at the same time tho it also doesn't work as they very easily could have used the extra screen time to fully develop there characters and make them more interesting and yet because of the fact that they were stuck in this mindset of having to very dull and boring characters that they didn't like that's all they ended up being when they really could have been so much more then that and heck even giving them more screen time in this episode could have added to the episodes plot as it could have given us more suspects which in turn would have made the mystery really all that more interesting and complex.

As an actual mystery this episode does fair a little bit better as the mystery aspect of the episode was really well handled. With there being more then enough clues for kids to work out who the culprit is the issue is tho is that they don't really give a good enough for the culprit to be doing what there doing as stealing boats as a form of revenge really doesn't make sense for who they have doing the crimes in the first place and it would have made alot of more sense for one of the other suspects to be the one doing the crimes if that was the motif that they were going to e sticking with but if not then they really should have given that character a better motif that makes alot more sense like maybe there's some money aboard one of the ships and they were hijacking the boats in order to keep the money for themselves that is something that would have worked for that character and doing something to keep the money is a classic Scooby-Doo motif that you can't really do wrong.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and four seconds. Which is a solid running time for this episode to have as the episode really does have more then enough there interms of plot to cover that amount of running time but at the exact same time tho if the episode was even just five or even ten minuets longer then it would have allowed for some character development between the Mystery Inc gang which would have helped not only the episode but the show as a whole in the long run as it would gave given us more of an insight as to who these characters are as people and not who they are as two dimensional cardboard cutouts and it would have given us the chance to fully work out the mystery for ourselves as more clues could be shown including Captain Cutler himself but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that meas that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As there are alot of funny moments that are in this very episode that whilst aren't laugh out loud funny but are at the very least cute funny with alot of those moments coming from Scooby-Doo himself like the scene where Shaggy and Scooby pretend to be a ships mast to get away from The Ghost Of Captain Cutler which whilst that isn't laugh loud funny it's a cute moment that does manages to get a laugh out people and that's the best way to describe the comedy in this episode as the jokes in this episode aren't always really going to be laugh loud funny but that they will always be cute moments that will get a laugh out of people in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall this was a really rather solid episode of the show that whilst not the show at it's best as you can quite clearly see the shows growing pains that is something that's to be expected this early into the shows run and you can quite clearly see all of the potential that this show and this franchise does have in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

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Worzel Gummidge Down Under "Stage Struck" Review

Some shows have alot of very important episodes be they important because they add something to the shows lore or important because they take away from the shows lore or important because the shows key creative left the show. There are a ton of reasons why a show could have important episodes and while Worzel Gummidge never really had that many important episodes during it's four series run it's it's continuation series Worzel Gummidge Down Under that has a very important episode and so the join me as I review that sees the old writers be replaced by a rotation of New Zealand based writers with the episode in question being called simply just "Stage Struck" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when the Ballet comes to town Aunt Sally finds herself being invited to watch them rehearse the show and Worzel has to try and get something to help Aunt Sally's flowers grow in her garden. 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 bad as the episodes plot was really thin at best with it being really hard to tell what the actual plot of the episode was even meant to be in the first place outside of the really brief synopsis as that's just how thin this episodes plot really was with the plot of the episode not really rather being all that entertaining and nor was it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Jon Pertwee as Worzel Gummidge , Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally and Jonathan Marks as Mickey. Also starring in this episode is Stuart Devenie as Jeremy Carp , Maria James as Eloise , Ross Jolly as P.C. Peacock , Brian Sergent as Terence , Aaron Taylor as Robert Mahoney , Glenis Levestam as Lady 1 ,  Anne Chamberlain as Guest 2 , Kevin Wilson as Guest 1 and Sue Wilson as Lady 2.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As this episodes cast are a bunch of really good actors and alot of the have been playing there characters for years at this point in time and so they would of course no how best to play there character and what kind of performance would best suit there respective characters in any given scene with the show always having some really good acting in it even in some of there bad episodes however the acting in this episode really isn't helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this films episodes cast nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place.

This episode is a really important episode in the shows history as it's first episode not to be written by series creators and writers Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. With the episode instead being written by oddly enough the co-writer of The Lord Of The Rings films Fran Walsh and you can really tell that they lost the main writers with this second series of the show as the dip in script quality is evident from the first scene onward as there are alot of things that either aren't explained or just don't make sense alot of which also oddly enough revolve around Aunt Sally as she is seen living in a caravan in this episode something that she wouldn't be cought dead doing and if somebody was to catch her living there she would make up a lie and say that it's not her place and for some reason she's she's given a human love interest which is something that also doesn't make sense either as she wouldn't settle for someone who directs the ballet as she would always want someone who is of royal blood and nothing less then that would do for her.

In a rather refreshing move this episode lets Una Stubbs dance as she was actually a trained dancer before she turned to acting. With her dancing in this episode being something that perfectly fitted the character of Aunt Sally as she would actually dance like how she does in this episode because she doesn't know any better and of course she would always stay at the centre of the stage because she wants to be the centre of attention but at the same time tho it would have been more better if the makers of this episode had her dance really well as that would be something that would take us the audience of guard and yet for some reason they don't do that they instead just go the stereotypical route which while it is something that works well enough for a kids TV show it is also something that is dull and boring as you know exactly what that character is going to do and as a result of that it would have been better if the makers of this episode had Aunt Sally be a genuinely good dancer.

For a show called Worzel Gummidge Worzel himself really has next to nothing to do in this episode with Aunt Sally being more of a main character. Which really shouldn't be the case as the show isn't named after her it's named after Worzel and while Aunt Sally works well enough as a minor recurring character she doesn't work all that well as a main character as due to the previous series we know that she really is horrible to Worzel something which now has be toned down because she's the episodes main character which means that she alot of the time has to act out of character if the makers of this show wanted to make her more kind then fine do that but do it in a way that doesn't go against what we the audience know the character to act like and don't do it by taking screen time away from the title character as that's the character that the audience keeps on coming back to see and are not coming to see Aunt Sally constantly flirt with Worzel just to break his heart and get what she wants by the end of the episode.

For some reason they chose to introduce a new character in this episode with them not including Manu for no reason whatsoever. This wouldn't be an issue if it weren't for the fact that they bring Manu back in the very next episode and if they gave this new kid character a personality as the only personality that they give her is that she's a girl and that's it which doesn't make her a fun character as all it does is make her a rather dull and boring character with Mickey being left to try and make the scenes that the two characters share together watchable and as much as the Mickey character can be a fun character he just can't help to make this character seem fully formed and that is of course of no fault of her actress as it's rather a fault of the episodes writer and it's something that should have been fixed especially as she's meant to be a new recurring character who may or may not be in future episodes of the show and yet the makers of this episode go out of their to make her a dull and boring character.

Now then whilst I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes running tie even was I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly twenty four minuets. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this sequel series to have but this episode really doesn't have alot there interms of plot to cover that large amount of running time as the plot of episode is so weak that it just comes and goes whenever it wants which is something that wouldn't be that much of an issue if not only the episode was better written but the episode also had a much more shorter running time as the plot of this episode would have been fine if the episode was ten minuets long but as the episode in almost twenty five minuets long the plot really should have been alot more stronger then what it actually was but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

Son 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 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. Really bad as there really was nothing that was all that funny in this episode as while the show always has more cute funny moments in it then straight up laugh loud funny moments in it in this episode they don't have jokes that are really alot more cutely funny they just have the type of jokes where you know what the punchline of the joke will be before there even done with the set up for the joke and as a result of that all your really doing is watching characters that you love get butchered by a terrible script that really is lacking in jokes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode is quite easily up there with A Little Learning as one of the episodes in this franchises history but while that episode had the excuse of them still trying the tone of the show this one really doesn't have that as an excuse as they got rid of two people who really did know what the tone of the show was and those are the two that really should have stayed on to make more episodes of this show 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 5.5 out of 10 from me.

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Iron Man 1994 Animated Series "Rejoice! I Am Ultimo, Thy Deliverer" Review

There are quite alot of animated shows that are based of off comic book heroes some series are fairly well known like Batman: The Animated Series or even perhaps X-Men: The Animated Series or even Spider-Man: the Animated Series. There are however some that aren't quite as well known like the show that i'm going to be taking a look at today as while the character that this series is based of off is now very popular thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe he wasn't always as popular as he was today and so then join me as I review that has Iron Man fighting against a giant robot with the episode in question being called simply just "Rejoice! I Am Ultimo, Thy Deliverer" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when The Mandarin unleashes and looses control of the giant robot Ultimo it's up to Iron Man and his team to stop the robot before it's far two 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 but that's also the issue tho as this episodes plot wasn't all that good either as it just gave the stereotypical superhero kids animated series plot and nothing more then that with the plot of this episode feeling rather like that it really belonged in the plot of an eighties animated show and not one that was made in the nineties as the plot of this episode wasn't all that strong either with the plot of the episode not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Starring in this episode is Robert Hays as Tony Stark / Iron Man and The Charter Boat Captain and James Avery as Jim Rhodes / War Machine. Also starring in this episode is Ed Gilbert as The Mandarin and Ultimo , Jim Cummings as Modok and Luciano Pavarotti , Tony Steedman as Justin Hammer , James Warwick as Century and Sam Jaggers , John Reilly as Clint / Hawkeye and Vacationing Man , Casey DeFranco as Julia Carpenter / Spider-Woman , Shepherd Girl and Vacationing Woman and Katherine Moffat as Wanda Frank / Scarlet Witch.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As the cast that you expect a good performance from like Jim Cummings and James Avery really do deliver a really rather solid performance in this episode as there respective episodes how it's the rest of the cast that just don't turn in that good of a performance with alot of them being really wooden at best and just downright bad bad at there worst which is something that really god bring down the overall quality of the acting in this episode with the acting in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so bad as it doesn't really give any of the actors anything to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place.

Doing the animation for this episode is Encore Communications and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Rainbow Animation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as there was quite clearly alot of love and effort put into the animation for this episode but with that being said it's also quite clearly not that good either as there are some animation errors in this episode which could have been fixed very easily and yet for some reason wasn't and while the animation in this episode was better then the animation in say Fantastic Four for example it's still not as good as the animation was in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.

This is the episode that introduces the friendly rivalry between Wanda and Julia Carpenter as they each try to become Tony's love interest. This was a pretty bad down point in this episode as it's something that really doesn't play a part in the episode this is despite it being a fun aspect of both characters as it gives them something to do for the rest of this first season of the show despite being backup for Tony Stark but with that said they could have handled this part of both of there characters that little bit better as it's something that really does come out of nowhere and heck if they wanted to connect it to the plot of this episode then they really could have done by having each woman trying to outdo the other leading to Julia Carpenter confronting Ultimo by herself thus setting up the third act of the episode and yet the episode doesn't do that with this aspect of the characters feeling like something that wasn't all that well thought out with there storyline really alot more like an after thought and not like something that's an important aspect of both characters.

Out of both this episode and the debut episode for the Fantastic Four animated series this one does come across as being the worst one of the two. As at the very least the one for the Fantastic Four animated series was at the very least entertainingly bad where as this one isn't even that it's just straight up bad with the episode being very cutty cutter in that everything that you think is going to happen does happen in the episode with the episode doing nothing new or all that interesting compare this with Spider-Man: The Animated Series which aired not long after this show they at the very least took risks with more long form story arcs having six or seven part episodes or even X-Men: The Animated Series which would tell one story over the course of one single season despite having multiple single episodes stories as well this show however just plays things to safe which would have worked back in the eighties but it doesn't work in the nineties.

Ultimo in this episode really isn't that good of a villain which in this case is understandable as he is just a mindless robot. However at the same time we don't really get to find out why he's disobeying The Mandarin and MODOK as he just does it when we first meet him in the episode and yet they never explain it away when they really should have done as it's a key plot point as it gets the whole plot of the episode moving and is the whole reason why Iron Man is needed in the first place and yet the episode never goes into detail about it with Ultimo himself being nothing more then a mindless machine which again does make sense but we also don't really get to find out why he's doing what he's doing as he's just walking around the desert for no reason and yet for some reason he's treated as a big threat when he really isn't all that big of a threat especially when compared to either to MODOK or even The Mandarin for that matter.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and fifty six seconds. Which is a really rather solid running time for this episode to have and is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show to have but at the same time tho this episode could have done with being just a little big longer as that would then allow the makers of this episode to fully develop some of it's characters including the series main characters and to fully develop the episodes plot as well but this would also have had the issue of stretching the episodes plot even thinner then what it already is and when push does indeed come to shove the story has to always come first no matter how much time you add onto the episode if it effects the plot then it should remain as it is no matter what improvements could have been made if the episode was even a little bit longer but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is was 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 the episode doing a decent job of showing why each member of the team belongs on the team but for some reason Wanda despite being the strongest member of any team that she's on really does nothing to help the team out action wise and even the show is named Iron Man and Iron Man is the main character of the show it's not Iron Man that takes Ultimo down it's Hawkeye which is in a way really refreshing as it does make sense as Hawkeye is there best archer but at the same time with the show being called Iron Man you'd expects Iron Man to be the one that really delivers the show that takes down Ultimo in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this show is better then the Fantastic Four animated series in some regards this episode is far more worse then the debut episode of the Fantastic Four animated series in alot more regards with the worst thing about this episode being the fact that it's both boring and forgettable in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then iv;e talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me,

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Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin Review

There are so many important episodes ranging from episodes that change how certain characters act to things that are added to the lore of the show. This show is choc filled to the brim with episodes that might not seem to important at the time of broadcast but over time become important episodes of the show with the episode that i'm about to review for you all today being one such example as this is an episode that adds something to the lore of the show something which the Chris Chibnall era of Doctor Who has all but wiped out of canon and so then join me as I review the episode that not only introduces some important lore to the show but also introduces an interesting take on The Master with the episode in question being called simply just "The Deadly Assassin" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when The Doctor is framed for the assassin of the time lord presendent he has just forty eight hours to clear his name or else he himself will end up dead and buried. 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 good which is of no surprise as this episode was written by the great Robert Holmes who wrote many a Doctor Who story with this episodes plot doing a good job of keeping you invested in finding out who the real culprit is and in making sure that you can't take your eyes of the screen incase you miss something important to the plot with the episode with this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Tom Baker as The Doctor , Angus MacKay as Borusa and Bernard Horsfall as Chancellor Goth. Also starring in this episode is Erik Chitty as Co-Ordinator Engin , George Pravda as Castellan Spandrell , Derek Seaton as Commander Hilred , Hugh Walters as Runcible , Llewellyn Rees as The President , Peter Mayock as Solis , Helen Blatch as The Voice Of The Matrix and Peter Pratt as The Master.

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 all of the episodes cast turning in some really good if not borderline great performances with Tom Baker himself being on top form as The Doctor with him really having a blast in this episode with alot of the episodes cast also being on top form as well which does make it very hard to say who the best performer is in this episode as all of the episodes cast are just on top form and while some are clearly having more fun in the episode then others that doesn't mean that they turn in bad performances because they don't with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all the episodes cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.

This episode marks the first appearance of what could be considered the second incarnation of The Master. With this version of the character beg at the end of his of life and unlike The Doctor who just grew old this one is decaying with him being nothing more then a shell of his former self in every sense of the world with this new design being really creepy looking which is something that is oddly fitting for a villain as a villain should look scary and even with Doctor Who being a kids TV show they still managed to make him look like the stuff of nightmares and while the design for the character is creepy looking what doesn't work is the fact that the characters mask does make it hard to hear what the character is saying alot of the time which does mean that alot of his lines of dialog do get missed quite alot of the time and again with the mask it does make it hard to tell if he's talking or not because you can't really see his mouth moving.

There are two things that make this episode an important episode of the show the first and most important of which is the fact that it's the episodes that introduces a limit on how many times that a time lord can regenerate. This is something that whilst it's done in a throw away line in episode four it's also something that goes on to become an important aspect of the show as it now means that every single time that The Doctor does infact die he or she is getting one step close to there death and it's something that the show at least in the classic and even to some lesser degree the modern era of the show was very good with sticking with and while yes there's the whole The Brain Of Morbius thing with previous Doctors being shown on screen that episode was aired as part of season 13 before this rule was set up and yet ever since this rule the show was very good with sticking to it as that's how important that this rule was to the show with the rule really being pretty much retconned out of the shows lore thanks to the The Timeless Children episode of the show.

The other thing that makes this episode an important is that it's the first episode in the shows history to not feature a companion. As The Doctor is by himself for the entirety of the episode and while those are usually a very mixed bad with alot of them not really exploring the potential of what The Doctor might be like and might act like when he's not got a companion here they also fall into that exact same trap and because of that we don't really get to see The Doctor act how we've been told and some cases have seen how he acts when he's not been with a companion for very long and while this could by chalked up to the fact that he's only just left Sarah Jane it still would have been interesting to see him act like a monster when he's say confronting The Master like he has the chance to genuinely kill The Master of for good but that's when his humanity kicks in and he stops himself from doing just that and yet the episode doesn't give us a chance to see anything that awsome as the episode doesn't give us the chance to see what The Doctor is like when he's been on his own for a while. 

In a rather refreshing move the episode really doesn't linger to much on trying to work out who is partly behind the killing of the time lord president. As they just straight up say that it's The Master around the halfway point of the story with the story then shifting focus on to who he was working with which is something that does work in one regard as it does lead to a genuinely good action sequence but then once you find out why this person did what they did it also doesn't really make sense either as we find out that the person that actually pulled the trigger was Chancellor Goth with his reason behind it being that he wanted to become the president of Gallifrey which doesn't make sense as the previous president was retiring in the first place and was about to name his successor who was highly rumored to be Chancellor Goth which means that it was pointless for him to be the one that pull the trigger as he'd only end up getting something that he was highly rumored to be getting in the first place with it being better if episode had say Commander Hilred or even Borusa be the ones to pull the trigger as both would have the means and they could be given the motive to actually want to the current president dead.

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 tie of roughly one hour and thirty minuets. Which is oddly short a running time for this episode to have as you very easily could have gotten two more episodes out of this story alone as having be a four part episode while it does force the plot to get alot of the focus it also means that the plot has to get rushed with the episode having more then plot to cover at the very least six episodes and if the episode did have those extra two episodes it wold allow for there to be some development with the time lords as it would allow us to see why The Doctor really doesn't like working with them instead of just brushing over it until the very end of the story 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 / resented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the fourth ad final episode of this story having a surprisingly entertaing and thrilling third act action scene between The Doctor and The Master that looks so much better then what it really had any right to be and is just as epic then what it really had any right to be as well as Doctor Who at least in the classic era of the show wasn't really known for it's action and yet here we get not one but two really good action and thrilling actions scenes both in the same episode and both of which were really good and were really thrilling and entertaining to watch in the final cut of the episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode was for lack of better word amazing as it has everything that you'd expect there to be in a good episode of Doctor Who and then some with the episode adding something good to the lore of the show whilst The Timeless Children retconned that in order to add in something that nobody really likes in the first place in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 9 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 , 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 really great and really legendary Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this episode and are really of course on Google Images are all really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Fantastic Four: The Animated Series TV Series "The Origin Of The Fantastic Four Parts One And Two" Review

Back in the nineties Marvel would turn pretty much anything into an animated series be they from popular characters like the X-Men or Spider-Man to more lesser known characters like Iron Man. Well believe it or not there's one animated show from the nineties that alot of us myself included just straight up forgot about as while it does feature some semi popular characters the show itself was packaged together with Iron Man: The Animated Series and so then join me as I review the debut episodes of the show that let's be honest here alot of us just straight up forgot was even a thing in the first place with the episodes in question being called simply just "The Origin Of The Fantastic Four Parts One And Two" enjoy.

The plot of these two episodes is during a telethon the Fantastic Four reveal there backstory in which they have to stop Puppet Master from using human puppets to try and take over the world 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 these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho the plot of these episodes isn't all that good either as there's nothing in both of these episodes that demands that it be a two part episode as the whole plot really could have been covered in just one episode with the actual plot itself being so thin that it might as well not even be there as it really just comes and goes as and when it chooses to with the plot of these first two episodes not really being really rather entertaining nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in these episodes is Beau Weaver as Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic and Warden Butler and Lori Alan as Sue Richards / Invisible Woman. Also starring in these episodes is Chuck McCann as The Thing and Guard Clancy , Brian Austin Green as Johnny Storm / The Human Torch , Dick Clark as Himself , Gary Owens as Himself and Bystander 1 , Neil Ross as The Puppet Master and Bystander 2 , Pauline Lomas as Alicia Masters , Joan Lee as Miss Forbes , Gina Tuttle as Woman TV Reporter and Jim Cummings as Slash Curtis , Bull Donavon and Skink Lomas.

Now then as for what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. With the cast for these episodes doing the best that they could possibly do as alot of the cast for these episodes aren't that really well known voice actors and as a result of that is that it would be unwise to expect them to turn in a great performance in these two episodes and while some of these actors really do turn in a good performance like Brian Austin Green who really is just a pure joy to listen to as Johnny Storm / The Human Torch we also have Pauline Lomas as Alicia Masters who really just sounds really wooden in the her role with the acting in these episodes not really being helped by the fact that the script for both of these episodes was so bad as it doesn't really give the cast anything to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place and that is something that really does bring down the overall quality of the acting that's in both of these first two episodes.

Doing the animation for both of these episodes is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Wang Film Productions Company. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad as there is clear effort put into the animation but at the same time there are some animation errors to be found in the first episode alone with Sue going from her civilian clothes to her Fantastic Four clothes and back again all in the same sequence and while it's really not unusual for Marvel animated shows to have animation errors in them in this show really alot of them were really distracting as all they do is take you out of the episode and remind you that all your doing is watching an animated TV show.

In what could be seen as a rather bold move these episodes instead of having the entire team as the main character instead have Ben Grimm / The Thing act as the main character. As he's the one that gets alot of the plot and alot of the screen tie which is something that doesn't quite work as this is only the first two episodes of the show and as a result of that is the fact that the whole team needs to be set up first before you start individual focus episodes later on in the shows run as by then the team would be fully set up as characters and the show could afford to do these one or two focus episodes to develop certain team members and yet by doing it this early on in the run all it does is make the rest of the team feel like side characters when they all should have been the main characters at least in these bunch of episodes with the show having more of an ensemble main cast like what they did on X-Men: The Animated Series.

As was mentioned at the start of this review this show was packaged with Iron Man: The Animated Series and aired as part of the The Marvel Action Hour. With the block in it's second season being renamed the Marvel Action Universe which saw the addition of oddly enough Biker Mice From Mars being added to the block pairing up Iron Man with the Fantastic Four does make sense as they are apart of the same company and do take place within the exact same fiction universe as X-Men and Spider-Man: The Animated Series but what doesn't make sense is adding in Biker Mice From Mars as yes the show was popular but it doesn't really go with the whole Marvel branding and as a result of that is you risk you putting of the Marvel fans who just want to watch back to back Marvel shows and you risk putting of people who aren't fans of Marvel but are fans of Biker Mice From Mars as Marvel fans won't want a block that's named after Marvel to have a none Marvel themed show in there and the other fans won't want to watch two shows form something that they don't like just to watch the one show that they do like.

While it is understandable that the show didn't use Dr. Doom right away as he is a big enough villain that you don't really need him in the opening few episodes of the show. You still do need a better known villain then The Puppet Master even if it's just a low level villain like Mole Man as The Puppet Master isn't really a strong enough villain to hold an entire episode by himself where as Mole Man is just campy enough and just low level enough that you can kind of get away with it for at the very least this shows opening few episodes where as with The Puppet Master you can't really do that and while yes having a deeply serious villain in your opening few episodes can indeed work just look at Spider-Man: The Animated Series as a key example of that they also need the writing for the character and for the episode to be just as good and sadly that's not the case with the episode as while The Puppet Master is treated seriously the episodes inter cuts his scenes with the more comical scenes at the telethon which causes all tension to be lost right away.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and fifty one seconds where as episode two of this show has / had an exact grand total running tine of exactly twenty one minuets and fifty one seconds. With both of the episodes having the exact same running time and to both of the episodes credit they really do make the most of that running time but at the same time tho even tho both of these episodes spend alot of time on the telethon it doesn't effect the plot in any way whatsoever which just makes all of these scenes feel alot more like filler scenes as they really could have been cut out from both episodes and nothing regarding the episodes plot would have been effected and it would infact cause both of the episodes to flow alot better then what they do as with those telethon scenes they cut back to it whenever the main plot gets going and all it does is cause the episode to loose momentum but I will admit that both of these have some really good pacing to them tho.

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 these very episodes and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. As the episodes do have some really good action scenes in them with the episodes making great use of all of the teams powers and using there powers in some really creative ways but at the same time we the audience aren't really given a reason to care for the team as both episodes don;t give us a reason to care for them outside of the fact that there the heroes and that's really it and while the episode does have some good action in it as the episode fails to make us care for the actual team the all of the good action just does hit as hard as it really should have done in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it's not hard to see why this show has mostly been forgotten about by alot of people as there's really nothing in these first two episodes that really stands out for all of the right reasons with even these first two episodes being really forgettable at best and really just downright bad at it's absolutely worst 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 these first two episodes in this very review and as such that means that these very episode really do earn them selfs a combined 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 In personally used in this very review from the official Marvel Animated Universe 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 the really great and really legendary the official Marvel Animated Universe fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these episodes and are really of course on the official Marvel Animated Universe fandom wiki page are all really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Thomas & Friends: Calling All Engines! Film Review

While alot of people who grew up with Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends still talk about episodes of the show and occasionally mention Thomas And The Magic Railroad. Very people if anyone talk about the films that came out after Thomas And The Magic Railroad with the first of those films being the very film that i'm about to review for you all today and so then join me as I review the film that has more learning scenes then actual plot with the film in question being called simply just "Thomas & Friends: Calling All Engines" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when the steam engines and the diesel engines can't get along and cause several delays including the building of a new Sodor Airport it's up to the engines to put there differences aside before it's far to late. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / flt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that good as while it is understandable for a kids film to have a rather simplified plot for it's kid audience this films plot is so simple and easy to understand that all it does is make you wonder why this is the plot of a film as it's really epic enough to be a film plot with this not really being helped by the fact that the film straight up stops the plot of the film several times to have a learning segment for no reason whatsoever with the plot of the film not being really rather entertaining as well as not being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

The narrator and thus the only cast member for the film is of course the regular series narrator at this point in time Michael Angelis. Who gave the characters different voices to make it easier to fully understand who is talking something which Ringo Starr did try and fail to do in most regards with the voices that Michael Angelis gives the characters being oddly fitting for each of the characters altho Percy's voice can be a bit grating at times during the main series run here tho since he's not the main character his voice isn't as annoying to listen to and while Ringo Starr felt like an odd choice to be the series first official narrator Michael Angelis is the perfect choice as he sounds like someone who is reading you these stories as your drifting of to sleep where as when Ringo Starr was reading it felt like he was trying to keep you invested for five minuets instead of letting you drift of to sleep to the sound of his voice.

Now then interms of what I personally thought /felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film 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 film was in all honesty really good. With Michael Angelis being the pitch perfect narrator for this series so much that amongst the franchises fanbase he really is a firm favorite with him being one of if not the best UK narrator that the series ever had and it's really not hard to see why as he has the voice that really is just pitch perfect for not only this film but for this series as a whole with his acting in this film really being one of the very few saving graces that this film has going for with the acting in this film not really being helped by the fact that the script for this film is just so bad as it gives Angelis nothing to work with interms of what the characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does bring down the overall quality of the acting that's in this film.

As this film was made when the series was still using models for all of the train characters there really isn't anything in the way of traditional animation. With the models in this film looking just as good as you'd expect them to from the model era of the franchise however at the same time it's quite clear that the models that are used in this film aren't up to feature film with them just basically being the exact same ones that would have been used in the filming of the show which from a money saving standpoint really does make sense as all of these models wouldn't have been cheap to make but at the same time tho as this is the second ever Thomas film the people that were behind making this film really should have upgraded the models for this film just to make them look film worthy instead of looking like they've just finished using these models to film an entire series of the show and while the faces themselves really don't look to bad they also don't really match up with what the narrator is saying about what's meant to be going on in the plot either.

For some reason this film uses the full series 8 intro which just doesn't make sense at all as this is meant to be a film. Yet by having the full TV intro play in full it makes the story feel alot less special then what it already is as you wouldn't expect any movie that's based of off a TV show to use the intro of that TV show and yet for some reason they do it here at least with the following film they have the excuse of there using to introduce the guest narrator where as here they don't even have that excuse working for them this is made all the more odd when you take into account that all of the later films in this franchise have there own unique intro that's exclusive to that particular film and all of which makes you wonder why they didn't do it for this film as this is meant to be the first Thomas film since Thomas And The Magic Railroad and as a result no one would blame the maker of this film if they really wanted to go all out on it and yet they don't they just play the intro for series 8 with nothing or interesting added to it.

This film does get some credit for daring to do something that the TV show at least during series 8 wouldn't do. With that being show a storm hitting the island of Sodor as that's a key plot point in this film and the film rightfully treats it as something epic as we get to see how alot of the steam engines are effected by the havoc that the storm causes be it from the suspension bridge collapsing or the fact that alot of the trains temporary sheds are destroyed we get to see every little bit of destruction that the storm leaves in it's path and while it would have been nice to see how the diesel engines would have been effected as well as that would have given the engines more of a reason to work together outside of trying to get the airport finished so that they can take passengers places on the island which is a neat thing but if both sets of engines were effected by the storm it would have shown that despite all of there differences in both appearances and personalities the steam engines and the diesel engines really are the exact same at the heart of it all. 

While this film gets so few things right like bringing back both Lady and Diesel 10 there's one thing that the film gets drastically wrong. That being the fact that the film stops the action for a learning scene where the narrator in the most condescending way possible tries to tech kids these most basic of things alot of which won't even apply to the kids real life and all of which really aren't needed as all it does is make it feel like that the makers of the film were forced to add them by HIT Entertainment the franchise owners at the time as the makers of the film wouldn't want to disrupt the story for something that adds nothing to the plot of the film and while it really was nice to see Lady again again she doesn't really do all that much as all she does is appear to Thomas in a dream and convince to set up a meeting between the diesels and the steam engines and that's really it which just makes her appearance in this film really feels like that she was only there really to help to justify the calling all engines title and nothing really all the more then that which even then still doesn't make sense as alot of the shows engines aren't even in the film at all.

Now then this film really has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and one second. Which does make it one of the more shorter Thomas films with the shortest one thus far being Thomas And Friends: The Adventure Begins which clocks in at around forty five minuets long with this film not really having alot of plot there to really cover that large of running time which only makes the forced learning scenes all the more worse as they feel like the makers of the film were padding out the films running time instead of just creating a story that was more fitting to that running tie or just going with a shorter running time either option would have been preferable then what it was that we got in the final cut of the film as it's those scenes that really drag the film to a complete halt to which it never comes back from each and everytime that one of these scenes appears with this not really being helped by the fact that the film has some really bad pacing to it.

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 film 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 film was in all honesty not that bad. As while the film does rather rightfully have alot of jokes that are very child friendly when the film does tell a good joke it is something that is worth pointing as while little little kids might find this film to be both charming and hilarious the grown ups watching the film might not and yet there's still a few good jokes in this film that both sets of people will find enjoyable and will get a laugh out of them with this film very sadly having alot more bad jokes then it does have good jokes in them but when you hear a good joke in this film you really will no all about it as it is something that really does standout in the sea of of really bad jokes that are in this film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while Thomas And The Magic Railroad will always be the worst Thomas film out there this film has to be a close second just because of the fact that it's boring and has pointless learning scenes that feel more like filler to pad out the films running time all of which combine to make the film very hard for any one kid or adult to sit through and watch all the way through 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 film in this very review and as such that meas that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 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 Thomas The Tank Engine 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 Thomas The Tank Engine fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of the images that are on the official Thomas The Tank Engine fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all really being really fairly freaking high in definition.