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Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Win Or Lose TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review


Both Disney and PIXAR are two companies that no how to turn in good products when they really want to and while both companies haven't exactly been firing on all cylinders recently. PIXAR have just finished airing there very first ever original TV show and it's one that is going to be a hidden gem on Disney+ due to the fact that Disney really haven't been talking about it at all when they really should have been pushing this show to the moon and back and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show that's alot better then what it really had any right to be with the show in question being called simply just "Win Or Lose" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when there softball team which the big championship game both the players , the coach and a few other people find everything around them in their personal lives crashing down and changing. 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 this shows plot being alot better then what it really had any right to be as the trailer for this show made it put like that it was going to be straight forward with one linear plot however that is not the case as the show is instead telling the same story across all eight episodes but is telling it from different points of view of each time and as a result of that is the fact it really does make the plot of this show seem fresh and different each time we see it as each and every week we are getting two very different points of view and the plot for this show really does come alive and feel different because of that really unique way of telling what really could be seen as being really bland and generic sports coming of age type of story and yet due to it's unique way of telling it's story it does make this shows plot feel really fresh and different all over again with the plot of this show 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 show is Rosie Foss as Laurie , Josh Thomson as Frank Brown and Milan Ray as Rochelle Kiana Rodriguez. Also starring in this show is Rosa Salazar as Vanessa Rodriguez , Dorien Watson as Ira , Izaac Wang as Yuwen Wang , Chanel Stewart as Kai , Jo Firestone as Sweaty , Erin Keif as Lena , Lil Rel Howery as James , Melissa Villaseñor as Veronica , Flula Borg as Francis , Kyliegh Curran as Taylor , Jaylin Fletcher as Chicken-Kev , Tom Law as Tom , Beck Nolan as Brian Dyson , Jenna Ann as Rinna , Orion Tran as Little Yuwen , Rhea Seehorn as Carole , Mariah Thompson as Paula , Vyvan Pham as Monica Park , Harlow Hodges as Zane , Santina Muha as Cheryl , Dylan Buccieri as Odo and Will Forte as Coach Dan.

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 actors turning in some really good performances which is something that is both really surprising and yet at the exact same time not all that surprising either as PIXAR projects no matter how bad the project ultimately ended up being has always always had some really good acting in them and yet at the same time it was still really surprising as alot of this shows main actors are all either unknowns or kids and as such it would have been foolish to have expected good acting from them as you never really no what kind of performance that your going to be getting from any of them and yet every single actor even Lil Rel Howery who is at best at OK actor still managed to turn in a good performance in this show and alot of that does come down to the fact that who ever it was that was doing the voice direction for this show really did know how to get a good performance out of these actors with the acting that's in this show really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so good that all this shows actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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 very show.


Doing the animation for this show is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Pixar Animation Studios and Lemon Sky Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the 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 featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty just as on par with all of the animation in the PIXAR films as it's just that good and while having quality level animation in feature films is pretty par the course for a PIXAR movie for a PIXAR TV show on the other hand it's really still a new thing as while the company have produced a handful of shows recently for Disney and even a few short form shows in the past for Disney Channel this was the first one that's not based off of a film and so the animation really does have to step up and make you take notice as there's no legacy characters to fall back on and my god does it really step up as each and every single frame of this show look fantastic and while yes there are some scenes that do look better then others that's something that could be said for any show and is not something that's unique for this show but what is unique to this show is the fact that they actually use a mixture of animation mediums in this show with some episodes having scenes that are done hand drawn 2D animation and mixing it with the 3D CGI animation really well and it something that you don' t really get to see all that much in other shows or movies and that is shocking as it is something that can be really effective.

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It really save to say that this show will give people alot of characters that they will like with my personal favorite character being Vanessa. Just because of the fact that even tho she is a social media influencer and a single mother she is deep down down a caring mother who is willing do anything for her babies even work two jobs just to buy them the shoes that they want so badly and while yes she can be seen as being bit pushy in certain episodes in her own focus episode "Pickle" we find out that she can be deeply insecure person who is only acting like that as a coping mechanism and that is something that does make her character not only a really fun character to watch as you never really know just what it is that she's going to say or even do next but it also makes her one of the more real characters as well as we all have moments where we feel insecure and unsure of what to do next and to see someone who is a single mother who is not only living paycheck to paycheck but is also struggling to raise two children on her own does also make her one of the more sympathetic characters on the show as well and while yes granted there are other better written characters like for example Vanessa's own daughter Rochelle and a few others to name but very few of them are also fun characters with Vanessa also having the most real life issues that alot of people who are watching this show regardless of there age are going to either go through , are currently going through or have gone through at some point in there lives and that us something that does make the character of Vanessa stand out quite alot altho she could have done with out being a social media influencer as all that does is date the character horribly and to be frank is kind of cringy to see as well.

For some strange reason Disney chose not only to release two episodes of this show a week but also to barely promote the show. As they only released one teaser trailer and one full length trailer for this show and that was really it and yet for own animated projects they push those to the moon and back regardless of the quality of the product it self and yet here they have a really good show that judging by the really auidence score of ninety one percent on Rotten Tomatoes alot of the viewing audience really did love and yet because of the fact that Disney was already more focused on the next piece of product which in this case is there terrible live action remake of Snow White they chose to release two episodes a week of this show when releasing one episode a week will not only get a higher amount of social media engagement especially for episodes three and four as episode three ended on a cliffhanger you would then be able to build up hype and anticipation for the next episode something that we know for a fact that Disney wants to do is there now releasing Daredevil: Born Again one week at a time and guess what numbers for Disney+ and social media engagement is going to go up because of it now imagine if they also did that for this show as well as you would get alot more people subscribing to Disney+ as you would have that good word of mouth going around then since your releasing one episode of this show a week there going to have to come back on a week by week basis just to watch the next episode something that we are now seeing happening with Daredevil: Born Again.


What really does make this show feel alot more mature then what it really had any right to be is how it deals with the fact that all of it's main characters all go through various different forms of crisis. With each episode really exploring just how a character thinks and feels during times when they are perhaps feeling stressed out or in love or any of these deep and complex feelings that you would expect to covered in any of the Inside Out films but in a TV show that's not something that you'd expect with all of this shows characters having something unique to them that expresses how they are really feeling like in episode one Laurie develops kind of slug like creature that spits out one liners and says how she's truly feeling because of the fact that Laurie herself isn't that confident and in episode eight Laurie's own father coach Dan gets fatter and fatter as he's holding in just how stressed out that he's feeling which does lead to a rather action packed third act in that episode as we get to see all of the characters storylines come together in one third act scene where all of the characters come together to help Laurie's dad deal with the stress that's been built up and that is something that does teach us the audience that it's not good to keep things bottled up inside and nor is it good to experience all the kinds of stress and grown up situations that these characters experience as those are things that can and in some cases do harm to you and to see this tackle them in a mature ay is somethin that does make this show both look and feel all the more mature then what it actually is.

Now then the last two episodes of this show has / had an exact grad total running time of exactly eighteen minuets and twenty nine seconds and episode eight of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty eight minuets and seventeen seconds. With each episode of this show being around twenty two minuets long with all of this shows episode really having the exact right amount of running time that they all needed as they all have the right amount of plot there to cover there respective running time with the show really making the best use of it's running times that it really could have done as all of it's characters become really fleshed out characters not only in there own focus episode but in the show as a whole as well and while it would have been nice to have seen more of other characters and less of others like Yuwen for example who despite there being a focus episode on him that explains why he is this annoying show off type pf character he is still a really annoying character with the only real character who could have done with bit more screen time is oddly enough Kai herself who despite getting alot of focus on screen time in other people's focus episodes and her own focus episode does come across as being more of an afterthought in the show when there is so much that could have been done to flesh out her character even if they didn't want to go down the route that they was going to go down with her character but at the same time tho this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy 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 comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With this show really being alot more funnier then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this show really shouldn't have been as funny as it was and yet there's at the very least one laugh out loud moment in each and every episode with all of this episodes best jokes not coming from what the characters say or do but rather it comes from the characters just being themselves be it Kai just being goofy with Laurie or Vanessa using her biting baby Zane to defend Frank from a bunch of angry sports fan there are alot of really funny moments to be found in this show and they all feel like jokes that these characters would say or make as all of this shows jokes do feel character driven and that makes the fact that Disney are just sitting on this show all the more worse as it means that people who would normally like a show like this one aren't getting the chance to see it and that means that they could be missing out on not only some really jokes and episodes but also in some of the funniest characters that PIXAR have come u with for some time as all of this shows jokes and characters are just that funny with the show really being worth watching just for the jokes alone as that's just how good the jokes are in this very show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall if you haven't seen or even heard of this show yet go onto Disney+ and watch it as it's just that good of a show and with both Disney Animation and PIXAR now moving away from long form animated TV shows this could be the last time that we see original stories like this one get the longer running times that they really need to tell there respective stories with this show just being a really good show to watch not only for kids but adults as well 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 show in this very review and that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 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 tat I personally used in this very review from the official PIXAR fandom wiki page , the official Disney fandom wiki page and google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very review being the really great this official Disney fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this show with alot of them being better quality then what'd think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Disney fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Saturday, 8 March 2025

Superman: Doomsday Film Review


Believe it or not it's been almost twenty years since DC Comics started putting out direct to DVD animated movies on a yearly basis. As while yes they have put out "movie" length episodes of animated TV shows onto DVD they very rarely did full length films as a direct to DVD animated movie and yet the film that i'm about to be talking to you all today about really is the movie that kicked started it all and so then join me as I review the film that really kick started the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line up of films with the film in question being called simply just "Superman: Doomsday" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when an unstoppable killing machine is accidently released by Lexcorp it's up to Superman to try and defeat the beat once and for all. Now then interms 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 / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as it was a plot that could only be told in a movie length format and not in an episode of say Superman: The Animated Series for example as it would get butchered to death and while yes granted this movie does also condense the story the story of the book that this film is based off of by cutting down alot of the extra comic books that made up the whole story and while that would usually be bad thing here given the fact that this is DC's first proper direct to DVD animated movie it does make sense as not only are they starting of this line of movies by adapting the storyline that sees Superman get killed off but this is also there first direct to DVD animated film and so of course they have to cut it down in order to make it appeal to a much wider audience with the original story gaining a more faithful adaptation in a two part animated direct to DVD film release in 2018 with the plot of the book not really being effected in the transition to this film adaptation of the story as that's just how good the plot of this film really is with the plot of this film 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 film is Adam Baldwin as Clark Kent / Kal-El / Superman , Anne Heche as Lois Lane and James Marsters as Lex Luthor. Also starring in this film is John DiMaggio as The Toyman , Tom Kenny as The Robot , Swoosie Kurtz as Martha Kent , Cree Summer as Mercy Graves , Ray Wise as Perry White , Adam Wylie as Jimmy Olsen , Kevin Smith as A Grumpy Man , Kimberly Brooks as Murphy , Townsend Coleman as A Drill Operator , Chris Cox as Damon Swank , Hettie Lynn Hurtes as A Newscaster and James Arnold Taylor as Officer Tucker.

No 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 all of these actors being perfectly cast for this film which does make sense as the great Andrea Romano did the voice direction for this film and as perusal was able to get a good performance out of all of this films actors so much so that after a while it was easy to stop hearing the actor and to start hearing the character something that alot of modern animated films direct to DVD or not sometimes fail to do with it really being helped by the fact that alot of this films actors actually recorded there lines together which means that we do get a strong sense of the chemistry between the characters and actors as well something that is alot harder to do when the actors aren't bein recorded together with all of this films actors turning in performances that is perfect for there respective characters with none of this films actors turning in performances that would make there character feel somewhat out of character as even the more robotic voice that Adam Baldwin gives the clone Superman does feel right for that character as that version of Superman doesn't know everything about Clark Kent but does know pretty much everything about Superman and as a result of that is the fact that he would of course sound robotic at times as he's just reciting what he knows about Superman and that's really it with the acting that's in this film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them alot more naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.


Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the really greats that are currently over at Lotto Animation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then un all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty but at the same time tho this films animation really isn't all that good either as why yes granted this films animation is leagues better then we got in say Ultimate Avengers for example for one reason or another this films animation just isn't as good as the animation in other direct to DVD animated films and part of that might be because of the fact that this is there first direct to DVD animated film and so they just went with the cheapest animation studio that they could find but at the same time tho alot of it might just because of the fact that Lotto Animation aren't really that well known for doing animated movies as there more known for doing animated TV shows with the occasional foray into feature length films and while they would turn in better in animation in Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated here in this film there animation just isn't as good as we know the animation would get in not only the later DC animated films both theatrical and not but also in Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm as well with this films animation looking a lit dated in some areas and OK looking at best in others where as even as early as the 2009 Wonder Woman the animation would get extremely better looking as well.


Incase some of you don't know this film is the first adaptation of the classic Superman comic book story line The Death Of Superman. With this film giving us a more condensed version of the story and heck even Doomsday himself only appears in a very small handful of scenes and he's the one that does what Lex Luthor and so many others have tried and failed to do and that's actually kill Superman with Doomsday being this supposedly unstoppable killing machine that even has the Man Of Steel himself pausing to catch his breath something which Doomsday doesn't let him and this is something that does set doomsday apart from all of the other one of Superman foes as while he doesn't have the brains of Lex Luthor what he does have the speed and the muscle needed to defeat Superman something that does help him make a memorable first impression on us the audience so much so that it's easy to believe that he could defeat this truly iconic superhero with this also being helped by the fact that his design for this film is just knarly and out there that you can't help but to feel somewhat intimated by him and while comic book purists might have preferred it if they just kept the sack like design that they had in comic book for a movie you want something that's alot more cinematic and that's exactly what we got with his design in this movie and while that's not a knock on the comic book design for the character by any means it's just that Doomsday is a character that punch's first and asks question second and this current design for his character does reflect that part of his character.

In one of the issues of making this film a single part film is the fact that all of the films more emotional moments aren't given the time that they really did need to set in and sit with us the audience. With this being a big issues when it comes to the scene when Lois goes to visit Martha right after Superman has died and been buried and she starts crying because of the fact that she know what Martha knows and that's the fact that Clark Kent is Superman and she was his girlfriend in this movie and that's not something that she can say because it would be giving away who Superman was as well and yet the film just brushes over it like it was nothing when that is something that should have been given alot more focus on as it's a key part of her character arc for this film and yet the film does nothing with it with the same thing also being true for alot of the films over emotional moments as well with this actually being something that was actually very vastly improved upon in the 2018 The Death Of Superman two part film as they took the time to not only develop the characters alot more further then what they could have done in this film but they also added more emotional value to the storyline as well something that this film for one reason or another just couldn't do and while this film should get alot of credit for being the first direct to DVD DC animated movie it should be noted that out of the two versions of this story it's oddly the 2018 film that did it better because of the fact that it let it's more emotional moments sit with us the audience thus making them all the more impactful and slightly more memorable in the process.


What this film does really well is make Lex Luthor out to be even more psychotic then what he has ever been before. As due to the fact that he wasn't the one to give the killing blow to Superman he clones him just so that he can control him and on a nightly basis beat him up in a Kryptonite room with Kryptonite laced robotic hands all because of the fact that the real Superman is now dead and that right there is some messed up thing to do and yet it's also something that does feel in character for Lex Luthor in his own sick and twisted way as he like the rest of the characters in this film are mourning the death of Superman in there own special ways but with Lex he takes it to whole other level just because he can do and that is something that does make him a real threat to Superman as Lex can go to those extremes due to the fact that he's really rich and powerful where as Superman isn't and Lex has no moral code to stand by something that we see play out in this film as he openly kills his own assistant Marcy Graves in cold blook all for no reason whatsoever and killing someone is something that Superman would never do but what let's Lex's plan of cloning the dead Superman down is the fact that all of the things that he programmes into the clones are things that are public knowledge about Superman as nobody knows that Clark Kent is Superman and therefor they wouldn't know small things like what his favorite TV show is or more important things like who his girlfriend is and that's little piece of missing information that clues in Lois to the fact that the person that she thought was the realm Superman is infact a clone version of him.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and seventeen minuets and forty one seconds. Which to be fair is more then enough running time for this film to tell this version of the story as this film really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time and while the film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as none of the characters are given much development as all of them just have the same personalities as the main stream audience would know them to have but to be fair tho the film didn't really need to fully develop them as they are that well known characters would it have been nice if they were fully developed of course it would but alot of the people that coming into this film aren't coming to it to see some really well thought out characters there coming to see one of if not the world's most famous superhero get killed off and that's really it and again to be fair that is where this film shines it's brightest as the film does dedicate alot of time not only to the main fight between Superman and Doomsday but to also the after effects of such a massive battle as well with the film even showing us the audience how several well known characters where deeply effected by the death of this one person which was a really effective use of it's running time but at the same time tho this film would have been alot more better if the film did use it's running time alot more wisely by not only developing it's characters to the point where you actually feel sorry for Lois when Superman does die but to also allow more of a build up for his eventual return near the end of the film as well but I really will admit that this film really does have some really pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is ana action film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very fil 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 film was in all honesty not that bad. As due to this film having a more mature rating then alot of the other DC animated projects with this film getting an American rating of PG-13 which is the equivalent of 12 rating over here in the UK the film does get away with being alot more violent then what they could have gotten away with on either Superman: The Animated Series or either Justice League cartoon with them even going as far as to showing Superman bleed something that really hasn't been done since this film with the best fight in the whole entire film going to Superman Vs Doomsday as it was just so cool seeing these two alien beings just go at it and yet at the same time it did have those emotional gut punches as not only does Lois come to realise but us the audience also come to realise that Superman is literally giving up his life to defeat this one monster something that we hadn't seen before now because f the fact that no other monster had challenged him so much and yet here it works not only on just cool to see but also on a storytelling level as well with both characters even getting in lots of painful looking hits as well and that's not to say that the Superman Vs Clone Superman fight is a bad fight because it's not it just that this one was alot more better and alot more impactful as well just due to how good of a fight that it was and that's something that they couldn't replicate in Batman Vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while The Death Of Superman film really might be the better adaptation of the story as a whole then this film interms of telling a really more condensed version of the story then this film is still a really good adaptation so much so that it made ten million American dollars in home media sales when this film was first released all the back in 2007 as that's just how good that this version of this truly iconic story really 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 this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all pf 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 DC Movies fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very film with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Wednesday, 5 March 2025

My SPOILER FILLED First Impressions Of The Daredevil: Born Again TV Series


Just when you think Marvel has pretty much been destroyed thanks to the release of several failed projects including the more recently released Captain America: Brave New World they then go a head and release the first two episodes of this awsome show. With the new Daredevil show having just dropped on Disney+ you all just knew that I had to check out the first two episodes of this show just to see if it's any good and so then join me as I give my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the show that may leave fans of a certain character feeling really upset with the show in question being called simply just "Daredevil: Born Again" enjoy.

The plot of these first two episodes is after a major incident forces Matt to reconsider everything an old foe emerges from the shadows and runs for mayor of New York. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two 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 first two episodes was in all honesty really good with the plots being more in line with the Netflix show then anything that Disney+ has been putting out which is quite frankly really quite refreshing as it would have been seen as an insult not only to the character but to the fan of Daredevil as a whole if they gave this character a more lighter in tone plot as that's just not who that character is and yet they don't do that infact they o the opposite way and give him a more darker and more mature plot then anything that your going to be finding on the main Disney+ section which was in all honesty something that Marvel Studios really didn't have to do as they could have gone with the version of the character that showed up in the failed She-Hulk: Attorney At Law show and called it day but the fact that they went with a plot that's not only alot more serious but also alot more grounded in reality then alot of there other projects does show that they really do have alot of respect for this character with both of these episodes plots also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in these episodes is Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin. Also starring in these episodes is Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn , Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page , Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson , Wilson Bethel as Benjamin Poindexter / Bullseye , Kamar De Los Reyes as Hector Ayala / White Tiger , Zabryna Guevara as Sheila Rivera , Nikki M. James as Kirsten McDuffie , Genneya Walton as BB Urich , Arty Froushan as Buck Cashman , Clark Johnson as Cherry , Michael Gandolfini as Daniel Blake , Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk , Cillian O'Sullivan as Devlin , Victor Verhaeghe as Carlo , Gino Anthony Pesi as Viktor , Patrick Murney as Luca , Ruibo Qian as Detective Angie Kim , Susan Varon as Josie , Becky London as Judge Maribeth Hillson , Katherine Renee Cortez as Diana Montoya , Jeffrey Grover as Roger Cressna , John Benjamin Hickey as District Attorney Benjamin Hochberg , Andrew Polk as Judge Jerry Cooper , Nick Jordan as Nicky Torres , Johhny M. Wu as Forrest Tam , Michael Gaston as Commissioner Gallo and Ashley Marie Ortiz as Soledad Ayala.

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 really good. Which is something that's not really all that surprising as alot of the actors that are in the first episode are reprising there roles from the Netflix Daredevil TV show but it's also something that does indeed carry on over in the this shows second episode as well with the shows newer actors more then holding their own when it comes to acting against the actors who have played these characters before now and are so well beloved by fans and even then alot of those actors haven't really played these characters full time since the Netflix Daredevil TV show ended after it's third season and they all just step back into character as if they had never stopped when it comes to filming this new version of the show as that's just how good the acting in these episodes is both from the returning actors and from the shows newer actors as well with the acting that's in these very episodes also really being helped by the fact that the scripts for these very episodes is just so good that all these episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them more naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in these first two episodes.


Doing the CGI for these first two episodes is the legends and the greats that are currently over at RISE Visual Effects Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time it wasn't something that's all that good either as the original show mainly stayed away from using CGI with them more often then not using practical effects which helped to make the shows version of Hell's Kitchen feel more real and grounded where as here the shows uses alot of CGI and because of that the world that this show takes place in doesn't feel real as instead t feels like something that was made in a computer and while yes there are some really good CGI effects in these first two episodes no one is going to ever question that but when your doing a show that is basically a sequel to a show that that firstly alot of people really loved and that secondly had it's own unique style and look to it and really didn't use that much CGI in it's episodes then you owe it to that show and the fans of that show to try and match what they did on that show and part of that does yes include not having that CGI and if you are going to use alot of CGI then you better make sure that it's all really good looking CGI because if not the fans will notice and they will pick it apart because of it.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!



To be more then  frank when I first started watching episode one of this show I went into it with the idea of making this one a spoiler free post but that then very quickly changed when they killed of Foggy Nelson. Which was quite honestly such a shocking move to make as you don't expect them to kill a main member of the supporting characters and yet not only do they do exactly that but they also give him a big role in the first episode and make his death the key factor in Matt Murdock choosing to give up his life as Daredevil which was such a shocking move and while this is something that could very easily split the fanbase as there bound to be people who love Elden's take on the character from the Netflix show killing him off inn this episode was a great to say that this version of daredevil is going to go places that you never thought off and is going to do things that the previous show just didn't do and part of that does involve killing off Matt's best friend and while it is something that would have been much more better served if it happened at the end of the episode as it does make for a great cliffhanger ending having happen within the first twenty minuets of the show and having the rest of of that first episode be just about the fall out of this characters death and seeing how Foggy's death effects his friends does go to show you that the makers of this show knew how to defy your expectations and do something that nobody had every thought that they would do and because of that his death is really something that does work in the context of this episode.

What not alot of people would have realized is that the first episode of the show that was released wasn't infact the original first episode. As while yes Foggy's death was always intended to be in the first episode the show had a different director and different creative team on board but then for one reason or another that creative team got fired even tho a good chunk of this first season was shot and was pretty much ready to be released and a new team was brought on to overhaul the show and part of that overhaul involved creating the episode that we now see as being the first episode of the show however after doing some digging in turns out that this shows second episode is not only written by the original creative team of Matt Corman & Chris Ord but it's also directed by the original director Michael Cuesta now while it is impossible to tell if episode two of this show was the original first episode only with a few minor edits to it it is weird that Marvel would keep one of there original episodes if the plan was to do an overhaul of the series as a whole but on the other hand given that Michael Cuesta is also due to direct at the very least one more episode this season it could have been that this was just there original second episode and since it didn't really need changing they just chose to keep it and air it as is and have Michael Cuesta direct the next episode as way to show that there's no hard feelings between all of the original creative team either way it does make this show stand out as not alot of shows replace there entire creative team whilst the shows first few episodes are still in production let alone have those episodes come out as good as they are.


In again what could be seen as being a shocking move this show actually references the fact that Kingpin actually played a role in the Echo TV show. With it being a slightly big part of this shows second episode as it's reveled that after he got in shot in the head in that show he spent months in a hospital bed before waking up out of his coma and going somewhere unknown for several months which has now caused a rift between him and his wife and while this isn't focused on that much in episode two as that episode is more focused on reestablishing the Kingpin as someone who could be a threat if he so wanted to be one then it is in dealing with his problems with his wife but given the fact that the show even mentioned that has was having problems with his wife and that he genuinely doesn't know who hired Bullseye to take out Foggy Nelson in the first place it is possible that his wife did it just so she could show all of the other crime families that she's not to be messed but on the other hand given just how good Vincent D'Onofrio as this character and how he has us the audience hanging on his every word it is perfectly possible that he was laying to Matt when he said that he had nothing to do with Foggy's death both options to seem to be rather fitting for either the show or the character as the show from this first two episodes is all about defying your expectations and the Wilson Fisk character is all about thinking three movies ahead before even taking a single step so it is possible that he had Foggy killed of in episode one to get revenge on Matt for something that happen in the Netflix TV show.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty eight minuets and thirty three seconds while episode two of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty six minuets and fifty five seconds. While episode one does have the better running time as that episode does have more stuff to set up it's episode two that makes the most of it's running time as while both episodes do have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover there respective running times it's episode to that makes the best use of it's running time and uses it wisely as it shows just what a New York without Daredevil truly looks like which to be fair given the fact that Spider-Man also lives in New York isn't that much of a big deal but seeing New York without one of it's many protectors is an interesting angle to the episode as it means that whoever this shows main villain is can pretty much do whatever he or she wants to do as realistically there's no one to stop them and tell them not to it and while episode one does have some good things going for it from a running time point of view it doesn't make the best use of it's running time which is kind of understandable given just how much it had to do it is an episode that could have done with being just around ten minuets longer as then it could have given both Foggy and Karen a proper send off instead of just having Karen choose to leave the city off screen and it doesn't really allow for New York itself to be a character in it's own right something that the second episode does take steps to do but I really will admit that both of these episode really do have some really good pacing to them tho.


So now then as this as an action show that really does mean 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 / resented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. As even tho the action in the Netflix show was more better and more gritty then the action is in these first two episodes the action in these episodes worked just as well as this is meant to be a more experienced Daredevil and so of course he's not going to be all of the things of that he did in the Netflix show because he knows better he's had time to perfect his craft now where is in the Netflix he was basically in his year as Daredevil and not to mention the fact that in the Netflix show he was very rarely if every angry during a fight scene and so we never got to see just how that effected him as a hero and yet that's the first thing that we do see in this shows first action scene and while the second episode does have a pretty cool looking fight scene between White Tiger and a few corrupted Policemen it's the fight scene in episode one that's the better scene because of the story that it told and because of the fact that like the hallway way scene in episode two of the original show it was all done in one shot only with a few hidden cuts thrown in and it is something that still looked really good and while yes the Netflix show really will always have the better action because of it's more grounded take on the characters for this version of that same show the action from these first two episodes really was alot better then what they both really had any right to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!


Overall if you loved the Netflix show then chances are that your going to really love these first two episodes as it's all of the characters that you know and love all back and all played by there original actors with this show also being way more mature for any Disney+ show both of which combine to make a show that could be a hit show for Disney but either way it's a show that's really worth watching 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 post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if this post does decently well and if you guys want me to check out another episode then I will do it and that post would then be a review of that episode and that episode only and not a review of the show as a whole.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys an girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official Marvel Cinematic 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 post being the really great the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page really 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 with alot of them being better quality then what'd think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Power Rangers Time Force "Force From The Future" Review


There are alot of seasons of Power Rangers with some of them being better then others but there is one season that nearly all the people that love Power Rangers agree is a good season of the show. With it being the first two episodes of that season that i'm going to be taking a look at today just to see if it's as good as people say that it is and so then join me as I review the two part episode that has a really expensive looking first part and a really cheap looking second part with the episode in question being called simply just "Force From The Future" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Ransik an evil villain from one thousand years in the future escapes police custody and travels back to the year 2001 it's up to a bunch of police cadets to bring him back and stop and end to his evil schemes once and for all. 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 with this episodes plot being the kind of plot that would make for a really good Power Rangers movie plot with this episodes plot being movie quality good as that's just how good of a plot that this episodes plot really is and given that most plots for the first episode of Power Rangers are usually more in line with what to expect from the rest of the show at that point in time it's honestly refreshing to see a plot that actually takes chances and is actually alot more mature then what it really had any right to be as we straight up see the Red Ranger die in the first episode and how that impacts one of the other rangers as well which is something that Power Rangers didn't really do all that often and yet here not only do they do it but it's also forms apart of the Pink Rangers character arc as well with this episodes plot also being really rather entertaining and a well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this episode is Jason Faunt as Alex and Wesley "Wes" Collins and Michael Copon as Lucas Kendall. Also starring in this episode is Kevin Kleinberg as Trip , Deborah Estelle Phillips as Katie Walker , Erin Cahill as Jen Scotts , Brianne Siddall as The Voice Of Circuit , Edward Albert as Mr. Collins , Vernon Wells as Ransik , Kate Sheldon as Nadira , Neil Kaplan as The Voice Of Gluto , Eddie Frierson as The Voice Of Frax , Roy Werner as Captain Logan and Douglas Fisher as Philips.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which is actually quite shocking for Power Rangers as this episodes acting is damn near close to being movie quality good as while yes there are few odd line deliveries here or there the acting from all of this episodes main actors is just so good that it makes you wonder why the makers of this show don't put more effort into finding actors who can actually act because when they do do that we get some really good performances out of the actors and that is something that is really true for this episode as it really is hard to say just who the best performer is in this episode as while it's clear as day that both Kate Sheldon and Vernon Wells are having the most fun being the evil villains of this season and really are just really hamming it up and that is something that really does shine through in both of there respective performances Erin Cahill for example is really treating seriously and we get a good performance because of it with the acting that in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all thus episodes actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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 very episode.


As was stated at the very start of this review this episode is not only a two part episode but the first episode actually looks to be really expensive. With it being clear as day that the makers of this show put alot of effort and thought into that first episode as not do we see some really expensive looking practical effects but we also see some unique looking vehicle designs as well and yet when we get to the shows second episode none of that is present with episode looking like every other episode of Power Rangers in that it was done on the cheap for as little money as it humanly possible and while this wouldn't be a bad thing if the first episode looked cheap as well but as the makers of the show went out of there to show us what they can do when there given a budget to work with it makes all the more obvious when in the very next episode they just go back to how they've been doing things for nine years at this point in time but credit where it's due tho that kind of method of doing things cheaply and quickly has worked out well enough for them but at the same time tho it does also create this sort of whiplash as everything in the first episode looks so good and so expensive to make barring some projection shots and yet in episode to it really does look like it was made on less of budget then what both The New Addams Family and Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation had combined as that's just how cheap looking that that second episode really does look when spending just as much money on that second episode would only make the episode look better then what it already does but it would also make it look like that it takes place in the exact same world as part one.


Whilst watching part one it was hard not to compare it to the first Mad Max movie as visually they do look the exact same. Which is by no means a knock on this episode rather it's meant as a compliment as it means that episode one looks like that it belongs in a feature length film where as episode two looks like that it belongs in the TV show spin off of episode one and it makes you wonder why the team behind Power Rangers didn't put as much effort into making the rest of the Power Ranger shows look like that they belong in a movie as they quite clearly have the talent needed to do so and while it might have been a budget thing as Haim Saban was notable for being tight with his money surely by spending more money on making the product look as good as it does then it would mean that you'd get more money back because not only would kids be watching the episodes more and more on a weekly basis but more importantly at least from a Power Rangers point of view they'd also be buying the toys as well which means that if the show not only had good stories and good characters much like in that first Mad Max film but also had some really great looking visuals then you' get more people watching the show and given the fact that this season has more of an adult edge to it it's also something that would have gone a long way into proving to people that Power Rangers can be more then just a show for little kids and that if it's done right and in the right way then adults can enjoy just as much if not more so then what the little kids can do as well.

This season of the show was rather notable for it being the first season of Power Rangers to feature a Pink Ranger that is actually the leader of the team. Which was not only a bold move back then but at the same time it's also one that really hasn't been done since then as while yes granted Wild Force had the pink ranger be the leader of the team but by the time episode one had finished that role had gone to Cole the red ranger and even tho Cosmic Fury did a have a female lead the team for real she was the red ranger and not the Pink Ranger with there also being dozens of more examples and yet it's in this season and this season only that we get the Pink Ranger leading the team and not only that Jen was actually a really well written character as well with her being the kind of character who is not only a stickler for the rules and being a by the book kind of cop but when things get to dangerous or if her ego is threatened she's the first one in there fighting the good fight with her even having a personal reason to wanting to seen Ransik put back in jail as he was the one that killed her fiancée Alex in the future which does create tension with her and Alex's descendant Wes as Wes just wants to do right by her but due to what she's gone through with Ransik in the future she's not willing to open herself up to the possibility of finding someone else and it's those things that she she not only has to deal with over the course of this season but also in these first two episodes as well with it also being something that does make her a really well written character and perhaps even one of the best written characters in all of Power Rangers history as well.


To be frank Ransik is pretty freaking scary and creepy looking villain for that matter with him having one side of his face covered in metal which hides a hideous looking scar. On top of that actor Vernon Wells also gives him a pretty knarly sounding voice as well as even tho he does seem to SHOUT alot of his words of dialog which granted could be seen as betting annoying really fast it is something that alot adds to the overall creepiness of the character as here is a character that demands your attention not only from how he looks but he acts as well as even tho he has a deep love for his daughter Nadira he also holds a deep and passionate hatred not only for Time Force as a whole but for human kind as well and while his hatred of human kind isn't reveled in these first two episodes it is something that does get reveled later on in the show with this character being the kind of character that is willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done and is willing to go to any lengths to make sure that the job gets done not only right but quickly and efficiently as well with him also willing to get his hands dirty as it's him that causes the death of Alex the original Time Force Red Ranger in the distant future something that no other main villain from any other Power Rangers season has done either before or after this season with them all mostly relying on that particualr seasons foot soldiers to do alot of the heavy lifting where as in these first two episodes it's Ransik himself that's doing alot of the heavy lifting which is something that really does make him stand apart from all of the main Power Ranger villains out there as it shows us that he really is dangerous and deadly character.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and twenty six seconds and whilst episode two has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and twenty six seconds as well. It's episode one that uses it's running time a bit more wisely as even tho both episodes really do have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time it's the fact that episode one takes a bit more time in setting up alot of the characters that are from the future and in showing us just how exactly the Power Rangers version of the future both looks and works that make it stand out as episode to doesn't really spend alot of time in setting up Wes as a character as we only get three scenes with him throughout the whole episode and yet we are somehow meant to feel something when he agrees to help the other Rangers morph for the first time and while it is perfectly understandable that this episode doesn't fully explore Wes's character just yet as there are thirty plus episodes for them to do exactly that you still need to give us something to go off of and when you compare this to what we get in episode one where all of the other main characters are set up in a way that it is believable that they would go into time just chase down this one bad guy it is something that makes Wes's lack of a character in episode to really stand out all the more because of it but I really 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 really does mean that I gave 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 tought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. As while alot of this episodes action is rather rightfully saved for episode tow of this two parter episode the action that we got in part one whilst it was good in it's own storyline way it just wasn't as exciting as the action that got in episode two as in episode one we just got one Ranger fighting Ransik which was still cool to see but at the same time tho it didn't really look like that that episode used any fight footage from the shows Sentai counterpart Mirai Sentai Timeranger as Ransik is an original villain to Power Rangers where as with episode two because of the fact that they did get to use some of the Sentai footage we got to see all f the Rangers fighting as a team and while yes again granted the second episodes action also has it's problem like sloppy editing and pointless slow motion shots we did also get to see some really cool moves as well like Jen running on a wall just to take over several of Ransik's soldiers all by herself or with the team doing a poor impression of the bullet dodge scene from The Matrix which yes did look bad but it was still a cool move to see in this episode and while this episode did have some action in episode one it just couldn't compare to just how good the action in this shows second ever episode was as the action in this shows second ever episode is just that good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall it's not hard to see why people love this season of the show as from both a visual point of view and a storytelling point of view it's alot more mature and grown up then what had come before it and what would come after it as well with it being something that does prove that Power Rangers is not just for little kids as it can also be for adults as well 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 episode one of this show really does earn itself a score grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from and episode two of this show really does itself a grand old score combined score of a exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me and this very episode really does earn itself a total combined score of exactly a 7.5 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 Power Rangers fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com 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 the official Power Rangers fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with really alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Power Rangers fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Sunday, 2 March 2025

Daredevil TV Series "Cut Man" Review


We are now just a few short days away from the release of the latest live action TV series to featured the character of Daredevil and well since it's been a whopping FOUR years since I last reviewed an episode of this show. It only made sense that for this tie in review that I take a look at the shows second episode and so then join me as I review the episode that has a truly iconic fight scene in it with the episode in question being called simply just "Cut Man" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a nurse helps an injured Matt Murdock she finds herself swept up in a missing persons case. 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 with this episodes plot being shockingly violent and gory something that was all to common place with the Netflix Marvel shows with this episodes plot also doing a good of showing more of Matt's origin story which was something that does work well for this episode as at this point in the show we the audience are still trying to figure out if we like this character or not and therefor showing us just how he was growing up both before and after his accident does go along way into making us the audience care for the character and while there is a subplot with Karen and Foggy that does go nowhere as it's just there to be comedic relief and that's really it but even so because of the fact that the main plot of the episode was so interesting it felt like including this more comedic subplot was only added in because of the fact that the makers of this show felt like that they had to include those characters and not because of the fact that it's something that would benefit the episode as whole 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 Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Masked Man and Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page. Also starring in this episode is Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson , Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple , Peter Gerety as Sammy Silke , John Patrick Hayden as Jack Murdock , Skylar Gaertner as Young Matt Murdock , Alex Falberg as Semyon , Moisés Acevedo as Santino , Kevin Nagle as Roscoe Sweeney , Susan Varon as Josie and Dean Neistat as Officer Ray Peters.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting 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 acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which is really nothing new as a good chunk of this episodes actors are a bunch of really good actors in there right and even tho this episode is still very early in the shows run they do manage to perfectly capture there characters and with the case of Rosario Dawson become a recurring character not only this show but alot of the other Marvel Netflix TV shows as well thus giving her ample opportunity to perfect her performance as her character and while her performance in this episode is still a good performance it's obviously not going to be as good as when she would play the character in later episodes of any of the Marvel Netflix TV shows as by then she would have had the chance to explore the character a little bit more with the same also being true for alot of the main actors in this episode as even tho there performances in this episode is still really good it's obviously not going to be as good as there performances in later Netflix Marvel shows but that is something that does tell you just how good this episodes actors really are as even in this episode really pretty much all of the performances are really good in there own right as well with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all of this episodes actors really have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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 very episode.


As alot of you well all no doubt remember this is the episode that does introduce us to the character of Claire Temple. With the character being the main linking point between all of the Marvel Netflix TV shows and it's easy to see why they used her character to fulfil that purpose as they made her a nurse which means that naturally any of the Netflix Marvel heroes could run into her just by going to the hospital where she works and seeing her kind nature in this episode with her willing to help her out Matt without knowing who he is and why he's injured just because it's the right thing to do does make her a kind person and seeing her struggle to come to terms with the fact that the person that she's helping isn't all he seems to be does oddly enough make her a real person as alot of us would also struggle to come to those same conclusions if we helped out someone only for it to turn out that there's more to them then meets the eye and seeing her struggle to come to terms with the fact that Matt is a good guy does make for an interesting character arc for her to have in this episode with it being easy to see why the show kept on brining her back as she does come across as being a really likable character and one that if given the right chance and the right script could have very easily have led a show of her own and given the fact that Disney likes to make shows with female leads it's shocking that they haven't made a superhero show with her character as the lead character.


What was really odd is the fact that they just straight up rip off Rocky's speech about how it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward from Rocky Balboa. Which was something that worked really well in that movie as the character had been through alot over the course of five movies and yet because of the fact that it's not only told in flashback but it's both Young Matt and his father Jack Murdock saying it to each other it looses all impact as while there version of it isn't all that bad as it's then just saying "It aint how you hit the mat it's how you get up" is still a really good motivational speech but Rocky's speech was done better as not only was it coming from a character that had become a cultural icon at that point in time but it was also a really well written speech about not giving up in the face of adversary with it also being a father just talking and trying to reconnect with his son where as here as both the characters still really love each other and both of them have no reason to spout such a saying just yet it's not really something that works in this context where as if this speech had happened after Matt had had his accident and not before it then there would at the very least be some sentiment behind it and heck if the makers of this show really wanted that speech to happen exactly the way that it does in the final cut of the episode then they could have brought it back in the same episode only this time have Jack saying it to young Matt as he's trying to calm him down from just having his accident as that way it would make some form of sense.

What was shocking was the fact that alot of the episode really does take place just at Claire's apartment with there really being very few other locations that we actually get to see in this episode. This is something that is kind of refreshing as it means that we get the chance to see how Claire reacts under pressure and when something new is thrown at her but at the same time tho as this show is still developing it would have been wise to show us more of New York and how the people in it react to certain as while yes we have the mainline MCU films for that as well we've never really seen from the ground level heroes and that is something that could be more interesting to see as daredevil unlike say Captain America , Thor or Iron Man for example can be beaten easily and by everyday people and yet we don't get to see alot of that world in this episode which does have the add on effect of making the episode feel alot more claustrophobic then what it actually is with it also oddly enough making the episode seem alot more cheaper then what it actually is as well and yet by showing us more locations even if it's the Karen and Foggy plot line it would then go along way to make this shows version of world building seem alot more better then what it already is because as things stand this show really doesn't have to do that much world building due to it taking place in the MCU and yet because of the fact that we haven't seen New York from the point of view of these ground level heroes it would be more interesting to see there version of New York.


Whilst it was a good idea to show part of the origin for Matt in this episode as it is something that does help to further endure him to us the audience. Given that this is Netflix and the show has a more mature rating they really could have showed us Jack getting killed instead of it happening off screen as he was a major influence on young Matt and while they approach that they take does make sense by only showing it from Matt's point of view and there putting us the audience into his shoes it also would have worked if they showed us the characters death as well as then they could really make whoever did kill him really more of a bad guy and heck they even could have had young Matt there to great his father after the fight which is something that would have made sense for that character and it would have given the older Matt more trauma as he would have witnessed his beloved father get killed thus not only starting his lust for vengeance but adding fuel to it at the exact same time but what let's the origin down is the fact they perhaps do a little two much of it which is something that does make sense given that this first season was only thirteen episodes but given that the whole show was all about Matt becoming Daredevil they could have ended the season with him having the flashback to his father getting killed in the final episode as that's where it could be argued that Daredevil was well and truly born where as having it here doesn't really make sense from a storyline perspective and yet if they did have the death flashback happen in episode thirteen then the makers of the show could have milked it for more trauma over the course of the season by showing us in flashback form just how much they each meant to each other and how good of a father that Jack was to Matt.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty two minuets and thirty eight seconds. Which was a pretty solid running time for this episode to have as this episode really does have the right amount of plot there to cover that running time but at the same time tho all of the scenes involving Foggy and Karen in this episode felt like filler scenes as they not only add anything to the plot of the episode they also add nothing to either character either with them just being there to eat up screen time that would have been better used if it was say given to Claire or Matt for example and yet because of the fact that the makers of this episode felt like that they had to use the Karen and Foggy characters we get a bunch of painfully unfunny scenes in an episode that was doing just fine without them and really didn't need any padding as all the episode would have to have done to reach that exact same running time is expand on it's main plot and that's really it and by doing that it would allow for the characters of Matt and Claire to start to form a friendship with each other and maybe who knows we could have gotten some of Claire's backstory outside of the fact that she once dated some guy called Mike and if anything she was the one that needed to have some of her backstory explored in this episode as this was her debuting episode and there for there needed to be a reason for us the audience to care about her character and while we do still get that reason due to her interactions with Matt it still means that we know less about her coming out of the episode then we did going into the episode but I really 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 really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action tat's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With of course the best action in the whole entire episode also being the episodes only action scene and that being the truly epic and truly iconic hallway fight scene near the end of the episode with the thing that makes that action stand out from all of the other action scenes in other superhero shows not only being the fact that it takes place in one small location but also the fact that we see the villains openly using guns to try and fail to take down Matt and also the fact that the whole scene from beginning to end was done in long take which is something that's always going to be hard both for the director shooting it and the actors taking part in it as it means that everyone has to be on there A game and if one person just one messes up then they have to do the whole scene over again from the beginning and yet even tho there might have been one or two hidden cuts in there as they do go a random black shadow on the wall alot of the time the scene itself is well done as we get tot Matt pulling of alot of really cool moves with the scene itself being awsome and a true sign that if Marvel really does want to pull off a great looking and unique looking action scene then they really can do it as this scene right there is nothing short of proof of that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall with Daredevil: Born Again really coming out just a few short days this episode is a perfect one to watch in preparation for the new show as it shows you the character of Matt Murdock when he really was written at his best and here's hoping that the new show is good because it has some really big shoes to fill as both this show and this episode are just that good 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 a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images hat 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 marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com 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 the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.