Batman "Heart Of Ice" Review

It's safe to say that out of all of the animated series that have been released Batman: The Animated Series is easily one of the best superhero animated TV shows out there. With the show not only giving us great adaptations of classic villains but also giving us new characters that would go on to become fan favorite characters with the episode that i'm about to review for you all today being a good example of the show bringing back a classic character in a way that is not only new and different but also completely and utterly heartbreaking as well and as so then join me as I review the episode that sees the series debut of Mr. Freeze with the episode in question being called simply just "Batman "Heart Of Ice" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a bunch of laboratories are being targeted all over Gotham it's up to Batman to find out who is committing these crimes and stop them once and for all. Now then 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 the plot of the episode being somewhat of a dark horse as it presents itself as being a very cut and dry type of episode but then the longer the episode goes on the more that it becomes clear that the plot isn't as black and white as we first made it out to be with the plot of the episode at first sounding like that these laboratories are being attacked for no reason but then as the episode goes on we find out that not only is there a deeply tragic reason for these attacks but also who we think is the villain may not be the actual villain at all 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 Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Alfred Pennyworth. Also starring in this episode is Michael Ansara as Victor Fries / Mister Freeze , The Munsters' Revenge and The Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure star Bob Hastings as A Police Officer , Mari Devon as Summer Gleeson and Star Wars star and voice acting legend Mark Hamill as Ferris Boyle.

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 really good. With all of this episodes cast turning in some really good performances which really isn't all that surprising as this episodes cast are a bunch of really good actors and while Kevin Conroy would usually be the true standout actor in any given episode of this show in this episode that honor really does go to Michael Ansara was really does nail it as Mister Freeze with him being able to make the character sound both cold and emotionless when needed to do but when he's Victor Fries we get a sense of how warm and caring he was as a person and all of that comes from how great Michael Ansara well and truly is in this episode 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 which in turn really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Spectrum 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 I8 in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with the characters having some really nice and fluid movements to them but what really does sell the animation in this episode is the fact that the backgrounds in this episode just look fantastic with alot of them looking like works of art as that's how good they look and the fact that an episode of this show has some good animation to it is really nothing new as this show always has some really good animation to it with this episode not really being any different with even the characters facial expressions looking really good as thats how good the animation really is in this episode.

This is the episode that gave Mister Freeze his now iconic and quite frankly rather tragic backstory with it being revealed in this episode that he's only doing evil things to try and find a cure for his wife. Which makes everything that he does in the rest of the series ad the movies all the more tragic as it comes not from a place of hatred and greed but from a place of love and compassion with hi only seeking revenge on the person that stopping his experiments because that person shoved him into a bunch of chemicals turning him into the person that he is now and as a result of that is the fact that this episode does also technically have two different villains one being Mister Freeze and the other being Ferris Boyle a business man who when in the public pretends that he's all for the people but when he's behind closed doors he's a cruel and evil person who's only looking out for himself whereas with Mister Freeze it's the opposite that's true as he's evil when he's out in public and he's a kinder and more softer person behind when he's behind closed doors.

Out of all of the shows many episodes this is the first one that got nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In An Animated Program. With this episode deserving that award as it is a really well written as from a writing perspective it really does make you care for the villain and gives you a twist that not only makes you see the villain in a whole light but also makes alot of sense interms of episode as we see from an earlier scenes that Ferris Boyle isn't a good person when he's not a good person and the very first scene that we get with Mister Freeze we see that he really does care about his wife as he's seen just talking about how he wants to be with her again and lamenting the fact that he can't be with her due to her illness and while it could be argued that this puts us one step behind Batman interms of what he knows about who is committing these crimes it could also be argued that that's really the point as we the audience are meant to see Mister Freeze as a villain at that point and having Batman believe that he is the villain until the very last moment is a great way to get that done and still keep the surprise reveal that he's technically not the villain of the episode as a surprise and while it would be nice if we the audience would really still be on the same level interms of what he's knows about the episode it would also run the risk of making that really great surprise and plot twist come out of nowhere as well.

One of the big issues that this episodes is the fact that for a Batman story Batman himself doesn't really appear all that much in the episode. With oddly enough Mister Freeze getting more of the episodes screen time which does make sense as he is meant to be the main character of this episode and this episodes story but at the same time you don't want to tune into an episode of Batman and have Batman himself only appear in a small handful of scenes and while yes Batman does have an impact of the plot as it's thanks to him that we get to see Freeze's new origin story but at the same time that also makes Batman feel alot more like a character that's just there to give out exposition and not really add anything to the plot of the episode as that's all he does in this episode he just dumps information after information when he really doesn't need to and while this does rightfully make Batman feel like a side character in his own show there should have been a better way to do all of that and still have him act as a main character akin to Mister Freeze and heck even the episodes actual main villain Ferris Boyle doesn't get alot of screen time in the grand scheme of things and as a result of that is the fact his character really isn't as fully developed as he really should have been.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and thirty four seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have and to this episodes credit it really does make the most of it's running time with alot of the episodes scenes being about either advancing the plot of the episode or setting up things that will be payed of in the episodes final act with the fact that Bruce Wayne develops a cold at the start of the episode only to have that come back in the episodes climax being a very good example of that and while the episode really would have benefitted from being a movie as there really is more then enough plot to there to be a movie just as there's more enough plot here to really cover it's running time as it really is if it was a movie tho then it would have allowed a much more wider audience to view this new take on Mister Freeze instead of it just being a few people 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 episode that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As while the action is the episodes more weaker aspects this is only due to the fact that there's only so much that you can do with Mister Freeze action wise and as a result of that is the fact that we get action scenes that whilst they are very visually pleasing they aren't as exciting as they really could have been as all they are is batman trying not to get by Mister Freeze's freeze ray and that's really it and while that's fine for one or two action scenes when that's every action scene tho that's when they start to get dully boring this is despite the fact that the animation in this episode really do help the action look as good as they could have done in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this episode is as tragic and as beautiful as you'd want it to be and is quite easily one of the best episodes in this shows history it's still an episode that has alot of room for improvement this is despite the fact that the episode really does gave alot of things going for it as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that re in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really foes earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 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 personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official batman: Te Animated Series 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 the official Batman: The Animated Series 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 very episodes and are really of course on the official Batman: The Animated Series fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

X-Men '97 TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review

I think that it's fair to say that both Marvel and Disney have had a terrible year last year with alot of there films and TV shows either flopping badly or being at best very divisive. Well there was one show released near the middle of this year that has proven that with the right creative team that actually knows and are fans of the source material that both Marvel and Disney can indeed put out some worthwhile content and so then join me as I give you mt SPOILER FILLED review of the show that was so much better then what it really had any right to be with the show in question being called simply just "X-Men '97" enjoy.

The plot of this show is one year after the supposed death of there leader Professor Charles Xavier the X-Men find themselves in a new fight one which sees them come into contact with an old enemy. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good with the plot of this show being so good that at times it really does feel like the plot of the movie but only it was done as a TV show and while the above synopsis might not be the best representation of the shows plot it is the best way to describe the plot of the show without going to much into spoilers as the plot of the show really does takes so many twists and turns that nine times of ten you really don't see coming with the plot of the show also being really entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Ray Chase as Scott Summers / Cyclops and Cal Dodd as James Howlett / Wolverine. Also starring in this show is Lenore Zann as Anna-Marie Raven / Rogue , Alison Sealy-Smith as Ororo Munroe / Storm , George Buza as Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy / Beast , A.J. LoCascio as Remy LeBeau / Gambit , Holly Chou as Jubilation Lee / Jubilee , Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey and Madelyne Pryor / Goblin Queen , Matthew Waterson as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto , Gui Agustini as Roberto Da Costa / Sunspot , Christopher Britton as Nathaniel Essex / Mister Sinister , Adrian Hough as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler , J.P. Karliak as Kevin Sydney / Morph , Ross Marquand as Charles Xavier / Professor X , Gil Birmingham as Daniel Lone Eagle / Forge , Eric Bauza as Sentinel , Ron Rubin as President Robert Edward Kelly , Catherine Disher as Val Cooper , Chris Potter as Nathan Summers / Cable , Lawrence Bayne as Carl Denti / X-Cutioner , Alyson Court as Abcissa , Theo James as Bastion , Martha Marion as Emma Frost and Moira MacTaggert , Todd Haberkorn as Sebastian Shaw , Gavin Hammon as Bolivar Trask , Courtney Taylor as Callisto , David Errigo Jr. as Mojo and Gladiator , Abby Trott as Spiral , Josh Keaton as Steve Rogers / Captain America and Mike McGill as Thaddeus Ross.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good. With all of this shows cast members turning in some really good performances which really isn't all that surprising as alot of this shows cast are reprising their roles either from the original show or from other X-Men TV shows and would therefor thus now what kind of performance would best suit there character in any given situation and the shows new actors more then hold there own when it comes to acting against alot of the returning cast members with Holly Chou being a very suitable replacement for the great Alyson Court as Jubilation Lee / Jubilee and Matthew Waterson making for a great replacement for David Hemblen as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto with the acting in this show really being helped by the fact that the scripts for this show are just so good that all this shows cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this show.

Doing the animation for this show is Happy Tiger Animation and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Studio Mir. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about e actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featu4ered / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty phenomenal with the animation in this show taking inspiration from anime by having a very anime aesthetic to it but done in a way that the animation in this show can also look like that it was made in the nineties as well with this shows animation looking alot better then other animated shows out there right now as despite this show being pretty much a more mature take on the X-Men characters it has animation quality that is up with Avatar: The Last Airbender interms of it's quality which is something that you don't see not only in adult animation but in animation as a whole as alot of animated shows are there just to be product fodder for whatever network is releasing them and because of that the animation does indeed suffer yet with this show the animation is just top level and is a good example of just how good animation really could be and as well as the fact that not all animation has to be just for little kids.

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It's safe to assume the best episode of this show it's easily the shows fifth episode "Remember It" as it's an episode that takes the show in a completely different direction. As until that point it seemed like that the show was going to be about Magneto trying to do good and earn the teams trust and yet by the end of the episode we find out that actually the show is about mutants just trying to survive and that sometimes they can have a very bad day with this episode being a good example as it's something that effects not only this episode but the remaining five episodes of the show which is such a smart move as something like this would've most likely been the focus of one episode and then never mentioned again in the original show only being brought up every once in a while and yet because of what happens in this episode it effects episodes seven , eight , nine and ten with it only being brought up at the very end of episode six which is such a smart move as it now allows us to see what alot of the mutants of the world thought about this truly dreadful attack that saw thousand if not hundreds of thousands of mutants die.

One of the things that this show kind of became known for was for it's cameo's from characters in the wider Marvel Animated Universe. With this final episode being no different as we get to see Iron Man , Captain America , Cloak & Dagger , Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson among others and while these cameos are fun to watch it was getting to the point where it was becoming distracting as all they ended up doing was pulling you out of the episode instead of keeping you invested in the final episode of the shows first season while the cameos are fun to see they should've been done a bit more sparingly just to make them feel alot more special or just have them appear in the important episodes of the show as that would make the world feel alot more bigger then what it actually is instead of taking time away from the shows main characters  which has the add on effect of making it shocking when they reveal that Magneto is actually evil again something which was never hinted it and thus comes out of nowhere when it happens in the shows eighth episode and heck the character doesn't even have a plan with him wanting to end the world just for the sake of ending the world all because of the fact that he believes that it was humans that launched the attack on Genosha.

Something else that feels like wasted potential is the fact that in episode seven the show shows us a much more darker side of Rogue. With the show making it seem like that she's going to be somewhat of a villain with her even leaving the team in episode nine to join up with Magneto and yet the show just straight up drops it in episode ten with the team now fully trusting Rogue again even tho just a few minuets ago she tried to kill them and as a result of that is the fact that we end up with what could have been a good idea feel wasted as the very idea of seeing Rogue be a bad guy even if it was just for a few short episodes of season two would have made sense from a storyline perspective given everything that she goes through in this first batch of episodes and yet the show drops that idea and that plot line of her trying to cope with the death of Gambit for no reason when that is a plot line that really should have been resolved by the end of this final episode as it would have brought closure to that characters character arc.

Now then the episodes of this show have / had an exact grad total running time of roughly twenty seven minutes with this final episode having the longest running time of the whole entire series with this episode being forty minuets and three seconds. With the final episode really deserving that long running time as it really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that large amount of running time and it really did need to have that large of amount running time as it had so much story to wrap up and it wouldn't be able to do that if the episode was thirty minuets long and with the extended running time it allows the makers of the episode do alot more emotional stuff which is what they do with Scott , Jean and Cable as both Scott and Jean say what they think is going to be there final goodbye to there son as they think that there going to die and that is a moment that would have most likely been cut out of the episode if the episode had a much more short running time 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 show 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 show was in all honesty really good. With the action in the show really benefitting from the shows animation as the animation in the show makes the action in the show just leap of the screen with the episodes animation rather rightfully getting alot of the shows best animation and as a result of that is the fact that the we get a bunch of action that all look really good with them also having some really cool moments in alot of if not all of the shows action scenes and it's during those action scenes were we get to see just what it is that each members of the team get to bring to the team with even Jubilee getting her time to shine as well in alot of the shows action scenes something which very rarely if ever happend in the original series and yet it happens in this one and it looks so good along with alot of the shows many action scenes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this show is so much better then what it really had any right to be as it's a good example of how to do a sequel series that is both really respectful to the original series and those characters and yet at the same time introduce this incarnation of the characters to an audience that perhaps wouldn't have watched the show growing up in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 9.5 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 Disney 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 great the official Disney 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 very episodes and are really of course on the official Disney fandom wiki page are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: Space Babies AND The Devil's Chord SPOILER FILLED Review

After three long years and seven specials Doctor Who is finally back with a brand new full length series. To say that the hype for these first two episodes has been big would be a huge understatement as there has been alot of hype surrounding the release of these first two episodes so much so that you couldn't really escape it as it really was everywhere and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episodes that see the launch of the latest Doctor Who series with the episodes in question being called simply just "Space Babies" and The Devil's Chord" enjoy.

The plot of Space Babies is when The Doctor and Ruby find themselves on a space station crewed by babies they have to find out what the thing is that's haunting the babies and in The Devil's Chord The Doctor and Ruby find themselves at Abbey Road in 1963 where they have to defeat someone who wants to rid the world of music forever. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad with The Devil's Chord having the much more stronger plot which would have been better served as the actual first episode of the episode whilst the plot of Space Babies is a plot that's better served for that of a Christmas special and not the main series itself with both plots being really rather entertaining and as well as being really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in these episodes is Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor , Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday and Golda Rosheuvel as Jocelyn. Also starring in these episodes is Sami Amber as The Voice Of Eric , Lonnee Archibong as The Voice Of Adjani , Shola Olaitan-Ajiboye as The Voice Of Poppy , Param Patel as The Voice Of Marcel , Robert Strange as The Bogeyman , Cadence Williams as The Voice Of Sandra , George Caple as Paul McCartney , Philip Davies as George Harrison , James Hoyles as Ringo Starr , Simon Jason-Smith as Vinnie , Jeremy Limb as Timothy Drake , Chris Mason as John Lennon , Kit Rakusen as Henry , Shirley Ballas as Herself , this shows composer Murray Gold as Himself , Johannes Radebe as Himself , Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget star Josie Sedgwick-Davies as Cilla Black and Jinkx Monsoon as Maestro.

Now then interms of 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. However that's also the problem as the acting in both of these episodes isn't all that good either with the voice cast in episode one not really turning in that good of a performance with there performances coming across as being wooden but at the same time the acting from the live action cast in both of the episodes is really good for the most part as Jinkx Monsoon does have a habit of shouting alot of her lines when it would have better suited if her lines weren't shouted at all what really really foes help the acting in these episodes is the fact that the scripts for both of these episodes is just so good that all the actors in both of these episodes have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in these episodes.

For once it's impossible to say who did the CGI for both of these episodes as there's no effects company listed anywhere online. Now then 8nterms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI thats actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad with both of these episodes having some really good CGI but at the same time there are some effects in both episodes that don't look as good as the rest of them with the babies CGI mouths in Space Babies just looking weird and kind of off putting and alot of the effects that the villain in The Devil's Chord uses just looking either A) unfinished or B) to cartoony to be taken seriously in a live action show all of which makes you wonder where all of the Disney money in these two episodes went to as alot of the time you can't really see the money either on screen or really in the CGI for both of these episodes.

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One of the things that got alot of hate from the second that it was announced was the fact that Disney+ and thus America are technically getting this show at a much more better time. With the British getting the show at midnight on BBC IPlayer which means that if you love Doctor Who and you live in the UK it means that you somehow have to avoid spoilers all day long which shouldn't be a thing as Doctor Who is a UK institution and has been since the nineteen eighties and yet for some unknown it's the Americans that are getting favored over the people that helped to make the show as big as it is in the first place with this being made all the more odd that when you take into account that when they tried doing a same day release for The Day Of The Doctor they gave the UK audience the better time whilst the Americans got the special in the afternoon which begs the question why the same thing couldn't be done here with this feeling more like something that was forced upon show as current showrunner was caught on Instagram liking comments from people who really don't like the fact that the Americans are being favored over the British audiences.

The villain of episode two The Maestro really does feel like she or they are trying to be hard to be funny and scary. With it being revealed that they are actually related to The Toymaker which really doesn't make sense as that character doesn't seem like the kind of character to have kids as he seems like the type of character who really does care more about himself to settle down and start a family which makes this what does seem like a good idea seem like one that was done to justify why The Maestro is acting how there acting instead of having them act crazy and insane just because of the fact that there crazy and insane which is all the reason that you'd really need you don't need to know why The Master is crazy you just know that he's crazy and that's all you need for that character to work and it's the same thing for this character but with that being said tho this character does seem like a fun character who could really develop into a great villain for this new era of the show and the fact that they openly give you a reason as to how that character could return during the episodes musical shows that the makers of the show know full well that there expecting her to become a series regular villain should she be brought back. 

While both episodes have there more goofy moments with the Devil's Chord even having a musical number near the end of the episode and Space babies having talking babies. It's Space Babies that seems the more goofier of the two which isn't as bad thing as it does make the episode more fun but at the same time tho it's also something that doesn't work as it gets in the way of telling a good story which in that episodes fairness it really could have bee and it's those more overtly goofy moments that go along way to make that episode feel alot more like a Christmas special as talking babies are the types of things that you'd expect to see in a Doctor Who christmas special and not something that you'd expect or even want to see in the show proper and while the musical number in The Devil's Chord is a goofy moment here it actually serves a purpose to the story unlike the musical sequence in The Church On Ruby Road as here it goes to hint at how the villain could be coming back and while both episodes are incredibly goofy both episodes are also really fun to watch as well.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember what ever the grand total running time was for both of this episode I do know for a fact that episode one has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty six minuets and twenty four second an episode two has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty nine minuets and forty eight seconds. With episode two having the better running time as it has more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that large amount of running time where with episode one where it does have alot of plot to really cover that large amount of running time it also has alot of scenes that feel alot like filler scenes that are there just to pad out the episode when the episode itself doesn't need padding out take for a example the bit with The Doctor and Ruby being in the dinosaur period where Ruby steps onto a butterfly and becomes an alien really thanks to the butterfly effect whilst it is a fun scene it's also one that doesn't really play a part in the episodes plot but I will admit that both episodes really do have some some really good pacing to both of them 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 these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us un these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the problem as the action in both of these episodes wasn't all that good either with episode one having the better action out of the two episodes just because that's when the episode feels alot more fun but in a good way where as the action in episode whilst impressive doesn't really take fully advantage of what it is that The Maestro can do and thus it feels alot less creative and alot less fun to watch as well but when we get some good action in that episode it really does grab your attention and really is some creative action but episode one will always have the better action out of the two just due to how fun it is but what could have made it better was if they actually had the babies play apart in the episodes just to really go all the way with that episodes goofiness and it would have the action in that episode all the more fun to watch as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall while Space Babies is the more fun of the two episodes it's The Devil's Chord that is the overall better of the two episodes as that episode feels like it should have been the series premiere where as Space Babies feels alot more like a Doctor Who christmas special due to how goofy that it is 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 both of these episodes in this very review and as result that means that Space babies earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 where as The Devil's Chord earns itself a grad old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 with both of these episodes earning a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly really freaking high in definition.

Worzel Gummidge "Choir Practice" Review

Worzel Gummidge is a show that really did capture lightening in a bottle with alot of the people who were involved with making the show believing that the show hit it's stride in it's third series. With the episode that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today being not only one of the more filled episodes of the show but also one of the series most underrated episodes as well and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Worzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally join the Church choir with the episode in question being called simply just "Choir Practice" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is when he's placed in the church's graveyard to scare of some birds Worzel finds out about the Church choir at the same time Aunt Sally joins the church choir just for the free food. Now then inters 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 as it gives us everything that we've come to love film this show at this point in time with the plot of episode being as wonderfully done as alot of the series more better episodes and while this episodes plot isn't as good as it really could have been it's alot better then the plots that we would be getting in Worzel Gummidge Down Under's second series 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 Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee as Worzel Gummidge and Jeremy Austin as John Peters. Also starring in this episode is  Charlotte Coleman as Sue Peters , Norman Bird as Mr. Braithwaite , Jonathan Cecil as The Vicar , Mike Berry as Mr. Peters , Thorley Walters as Colonel Bloodstock , Megs Jenkins as Mrs. Braithwaite , Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally , Michael Ripper as Mr. Shepherd.

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 tought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which is really nothing new for this show as alot of the shows episodes including the ones that aren't so good have always had some really good acting in them and alot of that does come down to the fact the actors in this show are a bunch of really good actors who have a really good director who in turn really does know how to get a good performance out of all of his cast members with really even alot of the side characters in this episode giving us some really good performance in this episode as well as the main characters all of which is something that really does raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode what really helps the acting in this episode is the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this episode.

In what was a shocking move for this episode Aunt Sally is basically that of a side character in this episode. With her character not even showing up until about halfway through the story maybe a little bit less then halfway but even when she does show up she basically acts like a ide character which is the best position for this character to have as she really is a truly awful person and forcing her into a main character role like what happens from the fourth series onwards just doesn't work as there are only so many ways that you can show her acting cruel to over people who truly do love Worzel Gummidge before it starts to get old and it starts to loose any and all impact that something like that should have and yet by having her in a much more smaller role akin to that of a recurring character then she can still be a horrible and it doesn't get old and boring and even here when she does act horrible towards Worzel at the end of the episode it still has some impact to it and alot of that s due to the fact that she wasn't in this third series all that much.

On the episodes DVD commentary it was revelled that this episode is actually Jeremy Austin's favorite episode of the show. With it not being that hard to see why it's so good as it does give you all of things that all of the best Worzel Gummidge episodes have from the greatly written characters to the funny set ups and then some it's all there in this episode and while yes this episode could have been alot better then what it was like for example the episode could have done with spending a bit less time at the Church as that setting really added nothing to the episode it still doesn't change the fact that the episode introduced a new location that could have been a great location to use on a more regular basis and it would have been really good if we got to see The Crowman in this episode as seeing him joining in with the Church Choir could have lended itself to some more humours moments and yet for some unknown reason the character isn't featured in the episode at all when this is the type of episode where that type of character would have worked out wonderfully in.

To give this episode alot of credit the idea of having this episode set in the Church is a solid idea as it does lend itself really well to the more gothic settings that this show does sometimes have. With this setting also playing up it's more spooky which while being very kid friendly is the type of things that does work well enough for a character like Worzel Gummidge that the episode itself does kind of get away with it as Worzel himself is basically one big kid but at the same time the Church itself isn't really explored all that well and as a result of that is the fact that the Church itself does feel rather small when it's opposite that's more then likely true and as a result of that is the fact that the setting itself does feel wasted as it serves no real purpose outside of giving the choir a place to rehearse when the village hall also could have filled that function rather well and while the episode would have to explain why the vicar is having them rehearse at the village hall and not at the church that's something that really could have been done with a single line of dialog. 

The episode does drop some plot lines like the fact that we see that Worzel is scared of ghosts something which doesn't really get a pay off in the episode. Nor do we really get any resolution to the fact that Worzel himself is trying to leave the church graveyard because he believes that he doesn't belong there as he's a field scarecrow with this being something that could have been resolved if they had The Crowman in the episode to help to explain it to Worzel why he's being put to work there for the time being and as a result of that is the fact that it would have made the episode feel alot more focused and alot more better then what it already is and yet even tho the makers of this show are usually very good with tieing up lingering plot lines they for some strange reason chose not to do so with this episode which makes this episode feel like it's incomplete or that there are some scenes that would tie up those plotlines and while the episode does give a solid reason for Worzel joining the choir no reason is given as to why Aunt Sally is joining the choir outside of the fact that she wants people to see her in her new white dress and that's really it.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes grand total running time even was I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grad total running time of exactly twenty six minuets. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have and to this episodes credit it really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time as every single scene in this episode is all about advancing the episodes plot and just making sure the episode itself is just nothing then pure fun something which might have been lost if this episode was a little bit longer as it would be stretching the episodes plot even thinner then what it already is and the episode would need to be filled with an awful lot filler scenes in order to really pad out the episodes running time which combined would make the episode alot less fun to watch but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is 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 good. With this episode having alot of painfully funny moments in it even the fact that having Mr. Peter being unable to sing is funny because his actor Mike Berry was an actual singer who had a few UK top 10 hit songs under his belt before transitioning to becoming an actor with the best joke in the whole entire being when Worzel starts his first rehearsal he gets into argument with Aunt Sally which they do by singing what it is that there going to do to each other which is really nothing more then pure comedic gold and is a very smart joke to include in this episode as it goes to show you that this shows writer Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall really do know how to tell a really good joke in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it's not hard to see why this episode is beloved by one of the episodes actors as it is a really good episode that is a good example of just good this show really could be when it's at it's best but at the same time tho this episode really isn't as good as it really could have been tho 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 mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 "The Mask" Review

Mystery Science Theater has introduced alot of people to alot of really bad movies alot of which would have been lost to the sands of time and forgotten about forever. The film that's covered in the episode that i'm about to review for you all today is no except as when this episode was first coming out the film that features in it was largely forgotten about with alot of people not really even knowing that this film was even thing in the first place and while this episode didn't really fix that it has somewhat slowed it down and so then join me as I review the episode that is the shows first ever halloween special with the episode in question being called simply just "The Mask" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Jonah and the bots celebrate halloween and have to try and survive the latest bad movie to be thrown at them from Kinga and max. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot thats actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty good but at the same time this episodes plot was also on the thin side of things which s a common thing for this show as more often then not unless it's a really important episode then the shows host segments don't really ave much in the ways of a plot and even in this most recent season there was very little there interms of plot in it's episode with this episode being a prime example of that as it's basically a special holiday themed episode and nothing really all the more then that 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 this episodes director and co-writer Jonah Ray as Jonah Heston and Hampton Yount as The Voice Of Crow T. Robot. Also starring in this episode is Baron Vaughn as The Voice Of Tom Servo , Felicia Day as Kinga Forrester , this episodes co-writer Patton Oswalt as Max , this episodes co-writer Rebecca Hanson as The Voice Of GPC and Mrs. Kelly , Yvonne Freese as The Skull , the shows creator Joel Hodgson as Ardy , Ivan Askwith as Bonesy and Sharyl Volpe as The Voice Of Magic Voice.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acing 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 film was in all honesty not that bad. With all of the episodes doing the est that they can do with what little that they've been given to work with as there's not really much there interms of plot for the cast to sink there teeth into and turn in that good of a performance and while the voice actors in this episode are indeed the true standouts of this episode it's the acting of the live action cast that do somewhat let the quality of the acting down a little bit just due to the fact that not alot of them have that much to do and those that do have alot just turn in average performances with the acting in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode isn't really all that good as the script for this episode doesn't really give the cast a whole lot of two work with interms of what it is that there respective 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 episode.

As was stated at the start of this review this is the shows first ever Halloween special in the shows history. With the episode really embracing the halloween holiday with Jonah and the bots even going trick or treating complete with costumes which was a nice little touch as was the fact that the villains headquarters is filled to the brim with spider webs which they do explain away in the show in a way that does make sense but at the same time it does go along way to showing us that the makers of this episode are quite clearly having fun with this episode and celebrating the fact that it's halloween and given the amount of bad horror movies out there it makes you wonder why this show hasn't tackled any of them before now as the show really could have fun with alot of the cheesy movies from the seventies and alot of the Full Moon Features films and heck they even could have taken on some of the films from Troma Entertainment as well as all of the films from both of those studios are perfect films for this show to take on.

The film that's the main focus of this episode is of course the 1961 Canadian surrealist horror film The Mask. With the film pretty much being shown in it's entirety with there not being edited down and as a result of that we the audience get to see just how strange and weird that this film is and while the team behind this episode do make the obvious jokes of making references to the Jim Carrey film of the same name they don't really mention just how stranger and weird that this film is which is something that they really could have done as they could have gotten alot of jokes just from how strange and weird that this film was and while they do point out the fact that they don't need anyone to tell us when the film is in 3D as yes this film was a 3D film it's not something that was needed as scenes like that would most likely appear in alot of films as alot of people wouldn't know what 3D is when it comes to feature length films but what they could have done is called out just how weird and strange that this film gets as the films gets weird quickly and it only gets weirder.

In a rather odd move is that there are technically two different versions of this episode available with one being in 3D for the scenes in the film are in 3D and one that's just in standard 2D. This was a rather odd move as it basically means having to film to different versions of the scenes in the theater and editing two different versions of the episodes which would take alot of work to do and it's rather odd that the makers of this episode would do that as there's nothing really new that they could joke about in the 3D version that's in the 2D version but at the same time given that the makers of this episode now aren't bound to whatever it is that whatever network or streamer that there airing on wants them to do and as a result of that is the fact that they can now do alot of the things that they couldn't do in both seasons eleven and twelve of the show and in this case that means producing essentially two different cuts of the same episode and releasing them both at the exact same time on there very own streaming service The Gizmoplex. 

To get back to all of the good things in this episode all of this episodes host segments are some really fun parts of the episode. With the cast quite clearly having a blast in all f those segments and just going with and embracing the pure madness of this film with them even showing what trick or treating might be like for Jonah and the bots in this episode which does lead to the most fun and possibly even funniest part of the non theater segments of this episode with even Max getting in on the costume fun which does go to show you that even tho he's a villain on the show he's still like all of us a big kid at heart but on the flip side of the of is the fact that alot of the host segments in this episode don't really go into that much detail on the Halloween holiday with alot of them just basically covering the same stuff that you'd expect a kid to know about Halloween which does in someways make sense as Jonah most likely doesn't know all that much about Halloween but it still would have been nice to see them explain some of the other halloween traditions and not just the most popular one.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of one hour and thirty four minuets and fifty four seconds. Which is the bogstandard running time for this show to have and to this episodes while it doesn't alot of plot there to really cover that large amount of running time it does make the best use of that running time by giving us alot of the shows signature host segments alot of which are all really fairly entertaining and by giving us alot of host segments alot of the characters alot of really funny scenes alot of which would have most likely have been pushed to the side to make room for the plot which in away does make sense as well but this is a comedy and there for the focus should be more fifty fifty and thankfully that's not really an issue for this episode tho this is despite the fact that the episode had more then enough running time there to justify pushing the seasons plot of the now three hosts planning to make an escape but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very 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 good. With the episode having alot of really funny moments alot of which do come from the episodes host segments as we get to see the characters just having fun like at the start of the episode we see Jonah , Crow , Tom and GPC telling each other scary stories but because they could have to end the story at any second there only telling each other the end of the story which is really a funny joke as is the fact that nobody really gets that Jonah's costume is that of actor Tom Atkins which is funny but it's also something that gets old really quickly but alot of the shows best jokes do really come from the jokes that Jonah and the bots make about the movie in the theater in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this was a really decent episode of the show as it does give what is basically a forgotten horror film the chance to become a cult classic and it is fun seeing the Mystery Science Theater 3000 characters celebrate halloween in the only way that they know how and that is something that really does make this episode really fun to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all f 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 7 out of 10 from me.

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