Cartoon History Star Wars Special

Cartoon fans today is a very special day for us Star Wars fans because it's May The 4th which is known as Star Wars Day. So to celebrate this day and for one day only i'm resurrecting one of my old series for a special all about the animated shows in the Star Wars universe these shows all range from shows that are no longer canon which is basically everything that was made prior to Disney buying the franchise and shows that are canon which is everything made after Disney bought the franchise, so let's start of at the very beginning with the non canon shows.

Star Wars: Droids / Ewoks

I'm putting these two together because apparently when they aired in America they aired them together as The Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour. To put it simply these shows were made to capitalise on three popular characters R2-D2 , C-3PO and Wicket all three of which were very popular with young kids and so to reflect that the shows were made for kids. For the Ewoks series they also made some changes to the lore of Star Wars with the Ewoks now being able to talk perfect English which is something I believe started with either the first or second Ewok movie. 

For Droids they made the show episodic so you don't really need to have watched the first episode to understand the second. What is interesting tho is that the Ewoks series was one of the earliest writing jobs for writer Paul Dini who would later go on to co-create Harley Quinn. According to my research the Ewoks series is also a follow up of sorts to the Ewok movies I can't say if that's true or not since i've not seen those movies and Droids is set inbetween Episodes 3 and 4 of the main film saga.

Star Wars: Clone Wars 

Astonishingly it would take around seventeen years before we'd get another Star Wars animated series and when we did get it it wasn't a full series. In 2003 Cartoon Network released the Genndy Tartakovsky directed Star Wars: Clone Wars were each episode was only a few minuets long and was designed to fill in the gaps between the then upcoming episode 3 and episode 2 of the main series. It's also worth noting that the character of Asajj Ventress actually makes her debut in this series.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

The previous show ended in 2005 with the final episode directly leading into Episode 3 and so it would be three more years until we got another chance to visit a galaxy far far far away. When we did get that chance tho it was worth it because we got Star Wars: The Clone Wars which would last six seasons with the first five all being made and aired before the Disney purchase and airing on Cartoon Network and season six airing on Netflix. This is a rare show in that it was made before the buy out so you could consider alot of it not canon but then there are episodes made after it heck there's even an upcoming final season that's going to be airing on Disney+.

Canon

Star Wars Rebels

Now we enter the era where the shows are indeed canon starting of with the show that directly followed the insanely popular Clone Wars. Like alot of Star Wars animated shows this one is set inbetween episodes of the main saga this time being episodes 3 and 4 unlike The Clone Wars which from what I can gather was popular since episode 1 this show took a bit of time to get popular if i'm right it took most people until season 2 to fully come around to it. This series also spawned Kanan and the book A New Dawn unlike The Clone Wars tho this one only lasted four seasons.

Star Wars Forces of Destiny

Now since we're covering all of the Star Wars animated shows that means I have to talk about a show which is mostly disliked by every Star Wars fan myself included. This show was first announced on April 12th 2017 and had a special preview of April 14th at Star Wars Celebration Orlando what makes this series stand out from the previous two tho it that it's the first 2D animated show since the 2003 Clone Wars show and it's also the first series to be an exclusive web series. 

What was a huge selling point for this show was the fact that pretty much all major actors from several Star Wars projects throughout the years all came back to play there characters. It's just a shame that there talents were wasted on this show which as of this writing is still going on even tho the last episode was on May 25th of last year.

Star Wars: Galaxy Of Adventures

     

I'm going to be keeping this one very brief because there's so little out there about the series but from what I gathered just by glancing at one of the Star Wars wiki pages it's basically a retelling of certain events from the main saga but done for kids. Again as far as I can tell this is still going on and like Forces Of Destiny is made exclusively for Youtube if i'm right this one was made for Star Wars Kids so yeah that's really all I can find on this show.

 Star Wars Resistance

Finally we reach the current Star Wars series which was first announced in 2018 on April 26th with the trademark being done on February 12th. This series is set before The Force Awakens with I believe the last episode of the first series taking place during that movie i'd say that this show uses cell shading for it's main style and unlike The Clone Wars and Rebels this one was influenced by anime and does not have direct involvement from Dave Filoni.

  

Letting You Guys Know Some Of The Animated Films That I Love

Boys and girls you've seen me rate alot of things from bad to worst over the past couple of weeks and mostly that's because there so easy to do. For this one I couldn't really use that title and so I had to ditch the concept so instead of rating some of my favourite animated films from worst to best i'm instead going to go a little bit more personal and tell you guys what some of my favourite animated films are and like my previous animation related post i'm going to be including anime in this post.

Anime

Ghost In The Shell

There's very little actually wrong with this film and that's because it does so much right it's a true classic in every sense of the word. Without this film we wouldn't have gotten The Matrix movies for better or for worse , what honestly sells me on this film tho is how well done the mystery aspect of the story is it's so rare for me to find a genuinely good mystery and that's what this film has in my opinion.

A Silent Voice

Now depending on where your seeing this post you'll know that i've just done a review of this movie and will thus already know what I think about it. To cut a long story short I think that this movie is easily better then Your Name and it deserves alot more attention from not only anime fans but fans of animation , to me this film is far more upsetting because of the fact that anyone who's been bullied would know what the main female lead Shōko is going through and will find the film more relatable.

Cartoons

Toy Story 1,2 and 3

Now then for obvious reasons I can't include the fourth one in this so i'm only counting the first three films. In my opinion these first three movies are the perfect trilogy they tell one complete story and they have fantastic animation which only gets better with each passing film. On top of what I just said the third and second films also have great emotional moments which work because we've gotten to know the characters and because of the fact that the films are so well written , so to say that the fourth one has a lot of live up to would be a huge understatement.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

I can't believe that more people don't talk about this film since it has alot of things that make a great animated feature , it's has a great storyline , it has great characters , great animation and great jokes this film has everything that an animation fan would love. The only reason why i can see people not talking about it as much is due to the fact that it's British and films from Britain don't get talked about as much.

Early Man

Sticking with Aardman for there newest film which is also the latest film from animation legend Nick Park Early Man is a football comedy set in the stone age. Yes Americans I said football because that's it's name now that i've just insulted an entire country I best explain why I love this film I love it because of the fact it has all of the things we've come to expect from an Aardman film plus it's set in my hometown of Manchester ,  on top of all that tho it's a weird film that on paper shouldn't work but it some how does and I love it for that.

Moana

Now one of the reasons why I love this film I won't go into because it can also be said for the next film i'm going to talk about and I would thus be repeating myself. Another reason for me loving it is the fact that the animation is truly beautiful to look at , each frame is truly stunning and it's not often that I get to say that about any film. This film also made me cry alot and any film that made me do that is in my opinion a great film.

The Lion King 1994

Now i've had to label this film just to make it more clear that i'm talking about the original movie because I don't want people to think that i've somehow got my hands on a copy of the remake. This film was such a huge part of my childhood it's a movie that I loved as a kid and I still love it to this very day , heck I love this movie so much that I not only saw the musical but I bought the soundtrack and I saw it when it re-released in 3D. Like Moana this film has jaw dropping animation and it's shocking that animation this good came from the Disney B team and again like Moana this film made me cry and I cannot remember what I was going to say when I wrote the Moana segment for this post so yeah i'm ending it here.

  

Rating Some Of The Non MCU Movies From Worst To Best

Marvel fans I thought that I would but a spin on another post I did last week and honestly I can't believe that no one's thought of doing this. We all know that the MCU is this machine that at this point prints money i'm not even kidding Endgame hasn't even been out a week and it's already made over a billion dollars and so I thought i'd take a look at the Marvel movies that aren't set in the MCU and rate them from worst to best.

Elektra

Marvel really hasn't had the best of luck with female lead movies Captain Marvel while making a tone of money at the box office isn't that good of a movie and the same thing is true for this movie. Altho this one didn't set the box office on fire Elektra is just Elektra in name only if anything this feels more like a bad romantic comedy then it does a superhero movie and it's so freaking boring no wonder it took them years to make another movie with a female lead.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

This film is just so bad in so many ways I think everyone is in agreement that this is the worst X-Men movie ever made. They some how make a character who was already watered down in the previous movies seem even more watered down if that's even possible and for some reason the makers of this film chose to give the film bad CGI because heaven forbid we have a movie where the CGI is actually good.

X-Men: The Last Stand

This movie isn't bad in that it's a bad movie it's bad because it was a let down here is this great epic storyline which could have a decent trilogy of movies but instead it's crammed into one movie. It's because of that fact that all of the storyline gets rushed I honestly would have been angry if this was the final film to feature the original cast because it's a bad send of for them and i'm glad that this film got retconned.

Ghost Rider

Honestly this film is more entertaining then it is bad because it's so balls to the wall insane that you can't helped but get sucked it in by it. I'm not going to say that this film is good by any means because it really isn't but there's so much fun to be had with the film that you can kind of forgive it for being bad that being said there's no excuse for not having a Nicolas Cage freak out those should be in every single movie he's in.

Blade

This right here was the first R rated Marvel film and the first Marvel film to have a person of colour as the lead character. This film was bada*s back in 1998 and it still is Wesley Snipes is perfect as Blade and in my opinion it's a must watch just so you can see how badas* Marvel heroes can be but at the same time there are things about this film that hasn't really aged well chief in which being the CGI.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Yes this movie isn't set in the MCU which means I can include it on this list. I really enjoy this film quite alot in my opinion it's a funny and fresh film and one that the Spider-Man films really needed since for a long time they all had one thing in common and that was they told the exact same origin story. The only film that didn't do that apart from this film was Homecoming , this film also has a great visual style that makes it stand out from all the other animated films out there.

Some Of My Favourite Animated Comic Book Films

DC and Marvel fans depending on where your currently seeing this post i've spent the past few days making posts about either company talking about both there film out put and there TV output. Both of those posts dealt with the live action side of things and well I thought lets not break the habit of a life time just yet except instead of talking about there live action stuff i'm only doing there animated movies and not all of the films included will be from either Marvel or DC.

Hellboy: Sword of Storms

This is one of two animated films to feature Hellboy and it's also the only one I own on DVD and the only one i've seen. I can't honestly say if this version of the character is close to the comic book version in anyway shape or form since my only exposure to the character is the movies but with the new movie now out I honestly think that this movie is better then the new movie just because it's at least trying.

Superman: Doomsday

While The Death Of Superman and Reign of the Supermen told this story better i'll always have a soft spot for Superman: Doomsday. This was the first animated superhero movie I bought and it kicked of my obsession with watching the latest DC Animated Movie so no matter if the other two told the story better i'm always going to come back to this one because of the fact that it has a special place in my heart.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

I'm counting both films here because they tell one story so it wouldn't really make sense for me to include one film and not the other. Like the other two movies I actually do own both parts on DVD and I watch them both regularly again I can't say if this is  true to the comic book or not but as a movie the story works , it has great animation , great action and solid voice acting I will admit I would have preferred Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill but the Batman and Joker we did get were solid enough.

Ultimate Avengers

Just like i'll always have a soft spot for Superman: Doomsday there's a few animated marvel movies that i'll always have a soft spot for and this is one of them. This was the first movie that introduced me to the Avengers I had heard of these characters but I didn't know they also teamed up so for me seeing these characters together in an animated movie was just so cool. I also noticed that the live action Avengers movies borrowed some elements from the comic boom that this movie is based off which I thought was awesome.

The Invincible Iron Man

This is the other animated Marvel movie that I have a soft spot for because both this and Ultimate Avengers were the first animated Marvel movies I saw. I might not be able to tell you the year it was either before or just after the first live action Iron Man movie. I will say that plot wise there's alot of similarities between the two movies and while I did indeed own this and Ultimate Avengers I have since gave them away to charity.

The Haunted World of El Superbeasto

 

Not many people know of not only this movie but also the comic book and that's such a shame because there both balls to the wall insane. That's honestly the best way to describe both the movie and the comic book I will say that this movie is made exclusively for adults so don't go thinking that little kids will like this because they won't but if you like something that just pure insanity in cartoon form then this is for you.

Wonder Woman

People give alot of credit to the 2017 Wonder Woman movie for being the first good female lead but those people either forgot or straight up didn't know about this one. This film was good back when it came out and it's still good ten years later and out of all the movies to get a sequel this one should have been one of them because there's so many stories that could have been told and while we are getting a new Wonder Woman animated film this year we won't be getting sequel to this film.

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies

This is the movie that none of us thought would be any good given the show that's spawned from but low and behold it was actually really funny. Seeing how good this movie was makes me wonder why the makers of the show don't put in the same amount of effort that they put into the movie because if they did the show would be ten times as good and would actually have a lot more fans then what it currently has.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Now then both this and the next film i'm going to talk about are very good films and it was honestly hard for me to choose which one to talk about first. I went with this one because it's the best Spider-Man film but it doesn't include who I think is the best Spider-Man Tom Holland this is honestly a super fun movie and is a love letter not just to Peter Parker but to all of the Spider-Men and that's not something that's been seen before now.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

You all knew that this film was going to appear on here at some point i've expressed my love for it so many times now that it would be pointless for me to say why I love this film. For me this is a film that every Batman fan has to watch at some point in there lives regardless if they've seen the animated series or not in fact i'd go as far to say that in terms of quality it's the Avengers: Endgame of Animated DC movies and if you've seen Endgame then you'll know that's quite the statement to make.

  

Rating Some Of The Live Action DC TV Shows From Worst To Best

DC fans lets be real for the next few months Marvel is going to be on everyone's lips and while there taking all the money ever made on the big screen DC is getting all the views across both TV and there are own streaming service. So I thought i'd rank some of there TV shows from worst to best and yes I will be including stuff done for there streaming service but i'm only counting the live action output since if I didn't the number spot would be very easy to predict.

Legends of Tomorrow

Out of all the shows set in the Arrowverse this is perhaps the worst one in my opinion and i'm saying that because it's the same storyline every single year there's this big bad guy that the team has to face all the while avoiding this big corporation who wants to stop them. It honestly gets boring after a while which is a shame because when it wants to be this show can be really fun especially during the action sequences.

Gotham

This show just aired it's final ever episode but in my opinion while that episode was indeed good the series as a whole just isn't. The reason why I think this is the case is because it's a prequel so we know none of the main cast of characters are going to die because they play a part in the Batman lore and so all suspense is gone but to the shows credit it does have a great performance from Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot.

Supergirl

Now i'll admit to not watching much of this current season so I can't really say if this season is any good or not but just based of the previous three this is one of the worst shows on the Arrowverse. It's not that bad of a show by any means but what really gets me is the fans the fans of this show can be really insane when it comes to these shows even going as far as threaten to boycott the show because an actress chose to leave the show.

Titans

Our first show from the DC Universe and I have to say that I really did enjoy this show alot the show had alot of things in it that I really liked like for example the acting from the leads was really good , I liked the fact that it was more mature because it's not a take i've seen on the Titans before and the action was solid. The reason why this show isn't higher is just because it didn't grip me so I wasn't compelled to watch the next episode.

Doom Patrol

Now i'll admit i've only seen the first episode of this show and so this show being placed here is purely based on that episode alone. To me the show seems really fresh and unique it has a great mixture of comedy , action and drama but as far as the first episode goes that's all it has since like Titans i'm not feeling compelled to watch the next episode so I have no idea if it's getting better or worse.

The Flash (2014 Series)

I know that not alot of people like this show but I love it for me it's a comic book show that's not afraid to be a comic book show. I will admit that there can be some bad episodes but the same thing can be said for every show , this show honestly has some of the best CGI seen on network television and they do it on a weekly basis as well. The show knows when to use humour which to me really does help sell the show because it makes it feel more real to me and it's easily the best show in the Arrowverse.

Some Animated Shows That I Like

Animation fans I thought that instead of bringing you another review I would instead do something a bit different. That is i'm going to tell you some of my favourite animated shows but instead of sticking just to cartoons like I normally would in this case i'm going to split it in half with the first half dealing with anime shows (Pokemon , DBZ etc) and the other half is going to be strictly cartoons and incase you couldn't tell by the title this is only some of my favourite shows and chances are what I like might not be what you like and vice versa.

Anime

Pokemon

I had to start of with this one it was one of the first anime that I ever watched and while I don't watch it as much now I still do watch the odd movie or two. The fact that this series is still going on is to me freaking insane we are on season 22 right now and as of this writing there have been over one thousand episodes of the show broadcast so that goes to show you that the show is still popular weather or not it's still good tho is open to interpretation.

DBZ

Anybody who saw this show growing up loved it and it was the same for me I watched this show every night it was on. Not only did I watch the show but i've also very recently seen some of the movies and yes that includes the new one which I don't like that much but i've also played some of the games and I was watching Super subbed. There's just something about this franchise which keeps on pulling me back heck it's due to my love of this show that I saw the dreadful Evolution movie and I own the DVD.

Love Live!

I've not specified which one because I honestly love them both and in fact there the only idol anime that I not only watched all the way through but also the only idol anime where I have one of them on DVD. I honestly don't know why anime fans don't talk about any of these shows because they are in my opinion well written , have great comedy and they get you invested in the characters i'll admit the set up for both shows is very similar but that's really the only issue I had.

Fairy Tail

I know that this is the most basic anime that you can like but I like the show it's not the best show by any means and it relies on the power friendship way to freaking much but it's a fun show. Like alot of things this show is also coming to an end but unlike those shows this one could be ending by the end of this year because each series for this show lasts hundreds of episodes so we have a while before this show ends.

Sword Art Online

Another show that not alot of people like but I do i've seen so many episodes of this show that it's unreal. I will agree with people tho when they say that the first season went downhill after the first arc because it did and that's the reason why i've not got the whole of season 1 on DVD I just have the first half because that's the good half and the only arc actually set in Sword Art Online. In my opinion tho this is a great gateway anime because there's a little bit of everything in this show so you could find something you like about it and go looking for more shows that have a similar aspect in them.

Cartoons

Adventure Time

Unlike alot of people I got into this show really late into it's run like it might have been around season 6 or 7 when I started watching it by that time tho all of the character development was pretty much over and done with but I stayed with it because the stories being told where so good. This show blends drama and comedy really well so you could be laughing like mad in one scene and then the next scene later you could be crying your eyes out.

The Flintstones

Without this show we wouldn't have The Simpsons or Family Guy this show is in my opinion one of the greatest animated shows out there. Not because it has any deeper meaning plot lines or has the best animation but because it has great writing. Anyone who's seen the first few seasons of the show cannot deney the fact that the writing for those seasons was the show at it's best and while the writing dipped a little when Pebbles was introduced it straight up went downhill when Bamm Bamm was introduced.

The Simpsons

How could anyone not like this show it's something that we've all grown up with and while that won't always make the show good the fact that it's still going gas to count for something. There's no denying that when this show was in it's heyday it was unbeatable and like The Flintstones in recent years the quality of the show has dipped at least in terms of writing but it's ogd up in quality in terms of the animation.

Robot Chicken

Honestly it would have been so freaking easy for me to put something like Steven Universe on here but I thought i'd go for something that's a little bit out there. For me this show is a great popcorn show and by that I mean you can just turn your brain of and laugh at what's being shown infront you yes there will be some that say the show isn't as funny as it once was and that's fair enough but in my opinion it's still funny.

Batman: The Animated Series

Come on this show just had to be in here it's such a good show and it's one that I highly recommend to lots of people. Without this show we wouldn't have gotten Harley Quinn since she was created for this show and more importantly we wouldn't have got who many people my self included think is THE voices for Batman and Joker that's really all I need to say because everything I could say about the show has been said by many others.