Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child Pilot Episode Version Review

 

Today is not just any day for you all see today is a very special as i'm writing this review on the exact day that Doctor Who first premiered on British TV screens all the way back in 1963 and well I couldn't think of a better thing to review. Then something that's from this truly iconic franchise however since the son of the first episodes original writer is keeping that entire first episode for himself I thought that i'd take a look at a Doctor Who episode that predates that one and so then join me as I review the pilot version of the episode that started it all with the pilot being called simply just "An Unearthly Child" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when her two school teachers become concerned about of their students they go to look for her only to stumble upon something that's truly out of this world. 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 honest I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it's quite literally the exact same plot as the version of the episode that would eventually air but seeing how different plot beats play out in both versions of the episode and what things about the plot both big and small was interesting to say the least in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is William Hartnell as The Doctor , Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman and William Russell as Ian Chesterton. Also starring in this episode is Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright what's interesting is that this pilot only features how would go into become the four main leads  with all of the other characters being unnamed school students and while the same thing is also true for the aired version as well here as it wasn't leading onto anything at that point it felt like it was the BBC just trying to to save some money but that oddly works in this episode favor as it only kept the characters that were relevant to the plot of the episode whereas in more modern Doctor Who they would fill the first episode out with characters that aren't that essential to the plot of the episode.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With alot of the cast turning in the exact same performance that they would later turn in the aired version of this episode while there are some changes to certain characters that does effect the acting alot of the performances in this episode match that of the original aired episode which just goes to show you just how good this cast was as they pretty much really nailed there character performance wise on the first go.

As someone who has the first serial in it's entirety several times it was weird seeing this unaired version of this classic episode. This is because it was so obviously a classic episode and so to see it what it was like before the episode had all of it's changes made to it be it from a performance point of view or a story point of view or even a lore point of view for that matter it felt weird as it was like I was watching a new episode of the show for the very first even tho it's quite literally the oldest ever episode of Doctor Who and yet it was also fascinating seeing a version of the show that might have been had there not been any changes forced on to the show changes which ultimately made the show the show that we all know and love to this very day.

There are alot and I mean alot of errors to be found n this very episode with the studio lights showing up on several occasions. On top of that we have actors flubbing lines which are kept in the episode we also have camera men bumping into the set and pieces of the set falling over and that's just the tip of the ice berg and all of which make it no wonder why this episode was filmed again as it makes the show overall look even cheaper then what it already is and while alot of the faults in this episode could be blamed on the BBC for giving the episode a very small studio to film in alot of the blame has to also go to the crew for not really working with what they had on the day as that would have made a huge difference.

Perhaps the biggest change made to the episode is how The Doctor himself is both written and performed as in the original episode he comes across and being grumpy yet childlike and understanding. All of which aren't present in this episode as in this version of the episode he comes across as being both grumpy and borderline abusive all of which is due to how the character was written in this episode and this s something that i'm glad that the Sydney Newman demanded be changed as The Doctor is meant to be of the main heroes of the show and as such he has to be somewhat likable and if the film "An Adventure In Space In Time" is anything to go by the character was sold to William Hartnell as having a twinkle in his eye and it's that twinkle in his eye that sadly isn't present in this version of the episode.

I'm not going to lie and say that this was a rough episode to get through because it really wasn't infact it was still a rather enjoyable episode to get through. As it has alot of potential to be a really good story and heck even some of the things that are add like Susan doing a Rorschach Test only to be horrified by it's results which was interesting as it seemed like that she knew that her grandfather wasn't a kind person and would try to do something to do her school teachers which is something that could have been explored if that idea was kept in the aired version of the episode and yet for some reason it was cut from the aired version which is weird as it would have given Susan an extra dimension to her character and it would have given her something to do other then just stand there and scream alot like she would eventually end up doing.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and six seconds. With this being the shorter version of this pilot episode as there is also a thirty six minuet version of this version of the episode as well with this version really having the really better running time as when you get right down to it there's no need to this episode to be anywhere even close to being forty minuets in length as the episode doesn't really have alot their interms of story to cover that large of amount of running time and while the extra long version might just be with alternate takes it doesn't mean that the episode has to be that long and to this episodes credit it does have some really good pacing to it.

So now then as this is a drama that means that I have to actually talk about the actual drama 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 drama that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of the drama in this episode was really done and really built but at the same time time tho it was still strange seeing The Doctor act as this person who is at times borderline abusive to his granddaughter yes it comes from a good place but seeing him out right yell at her for something that she didn't know was going to happen in the first place just felt wrong in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while it was strange seeing a version of the shows very first episode that was never meant to air in the first place it was still interesting seeing what could have been in the show had this version of the episode been allowed to air in the first place in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images  are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition and a very happy sixtieth birthday to Doctor Who and here to many more years of fun , adventures and dangers all across time and space.

Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie! Film Review

 

We are now living in an age where nostalgia rules and where anything and everything that could be rebooted is getting rebooted. Well now then yet another character from the eighties is getting a new lease on life except this time it's with a christmas movie which for some really strange reason is being released right in the middle of November and so then join me as I review the film that was almost cancelled for good with the film in question being called simply just "Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie!" enjoy.

The plot of the film is when Steve Urkel almost ruins christmas for good he decides to save christmas before it's far to late. Now then  interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as it was a really fun plot but at the same time it's also a plot that doesn't really make alot of sense with alot of things not happening organically but because the plot demands that they happen which just makes the writing in this film seem really lazy in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is this films producer and Sonic The Hedgehog star Jaleel White as Steve Urkel , Urkelbot and Stefan Urkelle and Joel Kim Booster as Clerk Gary. Also starring in this film is Nicole Byer as Sheryl ,  Tiana Camacho as Robin and Child , Arturo Castro as Dudley and Robin's Dad , Zehra Fazal as Suli , Miltra Jouhari as Clerk Leslie , Wayne Knight as Mr. Hodges , Thomas Lennon as V.D.I , Larry Owens as Santa , Jay Pharoah as Jay-Z , Dana Snyder as Mr. Kalan and Bus Dispatch , Brian Totchi as Mr. Kochiyama , Janet Varney as Old Lady Buechler , Amber and Woman , Kym Whitley as Mrs. Paxson , Micheal Lyon Wooley as Dream Santa and Plastic Reindeer , Ray Wood Jr.s as Department Store Santa and Old Man Buechler , Miki Yamashita as Mrs. Kochiyama and Neighbor and Dallas Dupree Young as Jordan.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of the cast of this film tuning in some really good performances the issue is tho is that while this is a rather solid cast the films script doesn't give them much to work with interms of what their characters as such this films cast can't turn that good of a performance as this films just won't allow for them to do it.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and he greats that are currently over at Snipple Animation Studios and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual animation 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 animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with this film mixing animation styles really well and in a way that makes sense with the films animation really being helped by the fact that we have a couple of experienced animation studios who know what there doing working on this very film.

This film is of course very loosely based of off Family Matters with that show of course being the show that introduced the world to Steve Urkel. After only seeing the first episode of Family Matters I have to wonder why the makers of this film didn't lean more into the family aspect of this film as this is a christmas which means that having the theme of family and what it means to be a family and to have a family even if it's just a makeshift one would have made perfect sense and yet the film doesn't take full advantage of where it's title character came from as this film feels like a really bad episode of Family Matters and not at all like a good episode of the show which is a shame as there is potential for this film to be a great christmas classic of a film.

For those of you that are wondering this film was very nearly cancelled for good as it was due to air on HBO Max and Cartoon Network last year. With the film originally going the title "Did I Do That to the Holidays? A Steve Urkel Story" and yet with a bunch of other projects the film was pulled from both HBO Max and Cartoon Network and yet for some reason the filmmakers found a way to release the film direct to DVD which is the best way to release this movie as Family Matters as a franchise really doesn't have that many fans to really justify the film being released on either HBO Max and Cartoon Network and at least this way the film still gets to see the light of day.

This film oddly features songs that are co-written by this films writer and a writer for King Of The Hill Wyatt Cenac and Jean Grae. I will admit that for a direct to DVD film this films aren't that bad with this film featuring songs that are alot of the times better then the songs that are in Wish with the song "I Love Christmas" being the best sing in the whole entire film just due to how fun this song with the song also not being that badly sung either but oddly enough this films songs suffer the opposite problem that the songs from Wish suffer from as the songs in this film were to long and far to frequent with thee film having a song every couple of minuets.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty six minuets and fifty four seconds. Which was a bit on the long side for this film as when you get right down  to it this film really doesn't have alot of story that large amount of running time with this film featuring alot of scenes that are filler scenes as they add nothing to the overall plot of the film with them just being there to pad out the films running time and really nothing more that with the alot of the films songs also feeling like filler scenes as well with this film also really feeling like that it's on repeat mode quite alot of the time as well but I will admit that this film really does some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well the  in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured /presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad With this film having some genuinely really funny moments in it all of which come from the Steve Urkel and seeing just what a destructible force of nature that he is and while this film does also feature some bad jokes as well those jokes are in the minority with the film really having more good jokes in it then it does good jokes in this very film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this film was alot better then what it really had any right to be and while it most likely won't cause Family Matters to earn any new fans what it will do is give a nice Christmas themed that both kids and adults can really enjoy in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boy 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 Sound Effects fandom wiki page , the official Family Matter fandom wiki page and google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images  are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: The Face Of Evil Review

 

This is it we now in the week of the sixtieth anniversary specials with Doctor Who having a very busy week this week. As not only do we have the start of the sixtieth anniversary specials to look forward to but we also have the debut of new colorized reedit of the very first daleks serial and well I thought that i'd review some more classic Doctor Who for you all and so then join me as I review the episode that introduces us to a new companion with the episode in question being called simply just "The Face Of Evil" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when The Doctor finds himself landing on a jungle planet he finds himself having to help to the planets cave people like inhabitants and save them from a computer that has a split personality. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual plot that's actually featured /presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not all that bad as this episodes plot was genuinely really quite engaging and was at times also really quite entertaining and well written when it really wanted to be as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Tom Baker as The Doctor and the voice of Xoanon and Louise Jameson as Leela. Also starring in this episode is David Garfield as Neeva , Victor Lucas as Andor , Brendan Price as Tomas , Leslie Schofield as Calib , Colin Thomas as Sole , Lloyd McGuire as Lugo , Leon Eagles as Jabel , Mike Elles as Gentek , Peter Baldock as An Acolyte , Rob Edwards as the voice of Xoanon , Pamela Salem as the voice of Xoanon , Anthony Frieze as the voice of Xoanon and Roy Herrick as the voice of Xoanon.

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 tn 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 for this show isn't really all that new as alot of this shows episodes contain some really good acting in them with this episode being no exception as we do get to see some truly wonderful acting in this episode with this being helped by the fact that not only is this episodes made up of some mostly good actors but it's also due to the fact that the script for this episode is so good that all the episodes have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.

As I mentioned at the start of this review this is the episode that sees the introduction of the character of Leela. I have to admit that only just based of off this episode and this episode alone Leela does seem like a pretty fun character with er more having street smarts and battle smarts which does put her at odds with the doctor's more pacifist ways of doing things and that is something that does create an interesting dynamic between the two characters and giving her a bit of an attitude does go along way to making her seem like she's a really un character as it means that she's not willing to take no for an answer and is more wiling to do what she wants to do just because she can do which is something that Doctor Who companion doesn't typically have.

Even tho both this episode and the previous episode have The Doctor be without a companion we don't really get to see just how that effects his personality. Which is a shame because as we all know when The Doctor goes without a companion for so long he basically starts acting like The Master with The Doctor needing a companion not only to talk to but also to remind him of his humanity which makes it all the more shocking that this episode didn't have him close to acting how The Master acts as by this point he'd been without Sarah Jane Smith for quite sometime and as such it would be really reasonable to assume that he would start acting like a villain as he's really had no one there to remind of his humanity.

While I do like the idea of the planet in this episode being one that The Doctor has visited before this episode. This episode doesn't go all the way with it as instead of it being a known planet in the world of Doctor Who it's instead one that we haven't heard of or even seen until this episode which means that the episode looses alot of it's emotional impact as it would have been much more better if the planet that this episodes takes place on was one that we'd seen before now like Skaro for example as then we'd know the planet and seeing how The Doctor had a negative impact on the planet would be all the more impactful as we know just evil a planet like Skaro could be and even was before The Doctor got involved in the first place. 

The cliffhanger ending of the end of part one is said to be one the best Doctor Who cliffhangers for most of the classic era. While this cliffhanger isn't as good as say the end of The Daleks episode one it is a really good cliffhanger as it leaves you wondering why The Doctor's face is in the side of a mountain and that is something that sets up a mystery for the remaining three episodes but at the same time it's not really a cliffhanger that makes you want to watch the next episode either which is something that the ending for The Daleks part one did do but with that being said if someone was to say that they really loved this cliffhanger ending I would totally understand why as it is a very striking image and it really is a really very well done cliffhanger as well.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember what this episodes grand total running time even was I do that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour and thirty minuets. With this story being four episodes long which is a bit of an issue as there's plenty of story there to cover at least five or six episodes and with that extra time the episodes could have developed more of characters and even shown us just how the relationship between The Doctor and Leela was going to be moving forward and showing them form some sort of a bond with each other both of which are key to showing us why Leela is going to be The Doctor's latest companion but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it.

So now then as this is an action how that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured /presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that. As it does give us a chance to see how Leela would be able to handle herself in a fight and while the action in this episode isn't as good as it perhaps could have been it's alot better then what it really could have been as well as the action in classic Doctor Who is never really that good and yet to see an episode that does some pretty good action in it just goes to show that the makers of this era of the show know how to do some really good looking action scenes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this was a really solid and I can see why alot of Doctor Who fans seem to really like this episode but at the same time this isn't the best Tom Baker Doctor Who episode either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly 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 that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk , the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images  are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

My SPOILER FILLED First Impressions Of The Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters TV Series

The Godzilla franchise has taken on many forms over it's near seventy years of existence and yet the one form it's never taken is an American live action TV show. Well that all ends right now with the return of the Monsterverse as for the first time ever we have an American Godzilla live action TV show and well you all just knew that I had to talk about the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the series that sees the king of the monsters tackle the world of TV with the series in question being called simply just "Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when  her father dies Kate discovers a secret that connects him to the organization known as Monarch. 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 not that bad with both of these first two episodes doing a really good of setting up the main plot of the show as well telling some really and at times some really very entertaining and at times very engaging plots in their right as well in freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in these first two episodes is F9 star Anna Sawai as Cate and The Flash star Kiersey Clemons as May. Also starring in these first two episodes is 461 Days Of Bento Ren Watabe as Kentaro , Kate star Mari Yamamoto as Keiko , The Muppets Mayhem Anders Holm as William "Bill" Randa , Joe Tippett as Tim , The Falcon And The Winter Soldier star Wyatt Russell as Lee Shaw , Kurt Russell as Older Lee Shaw and Takehiro Hira as Hiroshi.

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 was really surprising alot of the cast for this show is mostly unknown and so to expect great acting from them wouldn't have been the best of moves and yet in these first two episodes the cast gave us some really good performances which is helped by the fact that the scripts for these first two episodes is so good that all the cast have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally as that's,just how good the acting is in the first two episodes of this show.

For once I have no idea who did the CGI for these first two episodes as there's no effects company listed anywhere on IMDB. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these first 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 really good while the CGI in this show will never top the CGI in the movies just for budget reasons that doesn't mean that the CGI in these first two episodes was bad as it really wasn't as we get alot of really cool looking CGI effects in these first two episodes alone.

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

To connect this show to the Monsterverse we do have confirmation that this show takes place after the 2014 Godzilla and we also get John Goodman back as Bill Randa. With his scene at the start of episode one taking place during the events of Kong: Skull Island with alot of what we see in his scene connecting up really well with what we see in that film which just goes to show you that this is a cinematic universe that really is well thought out as everything that we see in both Godzilla's 2014 set scenes and older Bill's scenes matching up perfectly what we what we saw in their respective films which is something that alot of films and TV shows would fail to do for really a variety of different reasons.

The first episode of this show does make alot of use of time travel which did start to get quite confusing. As they would jump from one scene taking place in say 2013 and then the very next scene would take place in 2015 with nothing really connecting the two scenes but then we have scenes that are taking place in the nineteen fifties and while we do get a title card at the start of each scene the first time that we see them it would have been better if we got more of them all throughout the first episode as it really did start to get confusing the more episode one went one thankfully tho they did seem to calm down a bit on jumping around in time which did make it easier to understand just what time period we were in during certain scenes which did make episode two alot more easier to follow along with.

The human characters so far do seem to pretty one dimensional which is pretty par the course for the Godzilla franchise. However there is one thing that really did bug me when it comes to the human characters and that's the fact that the nineteen fifties scene feature an Asian woman working for the American government which just wouldn't happen and while yes this is a fantasy type of show and so it's not really bound to the rules of our world the Godzilla franchise is a fantasy series that's based on reality which means that there wouldn't be an Asian woman working for the American army especially so close after the second world war and the attack on Pearl Harbor but she is most probably the best character in the scenes that are set within the nineteen fifties thus far.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty nine minuets and forty eight seconds with episode having a grand total running time of exactly forty six minuets and eighteen seconds. With episode two having the better running as while episode one rather rightfully has the longer running time due to how much that it has to set up it also takes alot of time getting going where as with episode two it gets going right away and it helps that both episodes really do have more then enough there interms of plot to cover both of their respective running times with both episodes not really having alot of filler scenes as alot of the scenes in both of the episodes are needed in order to tell the plot of the show as best that they can do and it helps that both of these first two really do have some really good pacing to the as well. 

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty not that bad. While the action in these first two episodes wasn't as good as the action that we'd get in the movies it was still alot better then the action that we get i most modern TV shows as the action in these first two episodes was really cool looking and creative with all of the action looking really good and being genuinely really exiting to see as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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

Overall these weren't a bad set of episodes to kick start this show of with as they did a good of setting up the characters and setting up the rest of the plot for the rest of the show itself in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well all of the bad things that are in these first two episodes in this very post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if i'm still watching this show when this shows final episode airs or even is released online and then i'll give this a show review and a rating as well.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and  as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his very post from the official Godzilla fandom wiki page , Wikizilla and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Wikizilla since all of the images that are currently up and and on Wikizilla are all fairly high in quality and as well as being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Worzel Gummidge "Fire Drill" Review

 

We all have that show that even tho not alot of people care about it or even know about it we still look forward to watching it and maybe even talking about it in some way shape or form. Well for me Worzel Gummidge is one of those shows as I actively get excited a day or two before I sit down to watch the episode that i'm about to review and it was no different with this episode either and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Worzel go through his worst nightmare with the episode in question being called simply just "Fire Drill" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Mrs. Bloomsbury-Barton decides to have a bonfire and Mr. Braithwaite decides that Worzel should be on top of the bonfire it's up to John and Sue to save him before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally though / 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 thats actually featured  presented to us in this very episode was in al honesty really good with the plot being just scary enough to scare little kids but at the same time it's also lighthearted enough that you really do kind of buy into and just go along with it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee as Worzel Gummidge and Jeremy Austin as John Peters. Also starring in this episode is Charlotte Coleman as Sue Peters , Geoffrey Bayldon as The Crowman , Mike Berry as Mr. Peters , Norman Bird as Mr. Braithwaite , Megs Jenkins as Mrs. Braithwaite , Frank Marlborough as Daft Head , Norman Mitchell as P.C. Parsons , Michael Ripper as Mr. Shepherd , Joan Sims as Mrs. Bloomsbury-Barton and Last Of The Summer Wine star Sarah Thomas as Enid Simmons.

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 the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us this very episode was in all honesty really good.,Which is nothing new for this series as this series always has had some really good acting in it and alot of that is not only due to the fact that the episode ad the show has a bunch of really good actors and actresses in it but it's also due to the fact that the script for not only this episode but the show as a whole is so good that all the cast have to do is just say the words as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.

What I really expecting this episode to do was for them to reveal some more of the lore behind this show. With it being reveled in this episode in this episode that Worzel was made at the very least one hundred years ago by The Crowman now weather or not it's the same Crowman that appears in this series or is a different Crowman is never mentioned but given the fact that all of the The Crowmen in this show are treated as mystical characters with magical abilities it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that is The Crowman that we see in this series that made Worzel all those years ago and given that we now know for a fact that Worzel is hundreds of years old it makes you wonder just how he managed to avoid getting destroyed for all these years.

This is the episode that introduces us to the pure nightmare fuel that is Dafthead with the general idea being that he was created by Worzel , John and Sue. Yet for some reason the makers of this show chose to make the character look really terrifying as everything about his design is really of and misshapen and heck even his mouth can't open fully which just adds to the overall creepiness and while this show most certainly has never shied away from showing us scary images heck even the very first episode of the show is pretty has some fairly scary imagery it in they've never had a character deliberately look and act scary and that just takes things to a whole different level of creepiness and it's one that will most likely scare little kids.

There is one thing that I didn't like about this episode and that's the fact that they have Dafthead come alive just because Worzel created him. While I do like the idea of scary looking scarecrows being created as indeed this is something that Worzel Gummidge Down Under would do to great effect what I don't like is the fact that it implies that any scarecrow can create a scarecrow as that is something that should only be done by The Crowman as he would know what kind of magic that that would take in order to pull it off and yet by making Worzel bring Dafthead while it does make sense given the fact that Dafthead was created to replace Worzel on top of the bonfire it's something that shouldn't have been done as The Crowman could have tried to talk the adults in the village out of it and instead not leave Worzel to create a scarecrow which is something that The Crowman knew that he was going to be doing.  

For those of you that are wondering this episode is one of the episodes that does hint of and kind of ends with the death of Worzel Gummidge. I say kind of as while his body does indeed get burnt and blown up The Crowman does manage to save his head and so he builds him an entirely new body however just the very idea of Worzel Gummidge actually dying and the makers of the show actually going through does go to the show that this show treats it's kid audience with respective and doesn't dumb things down for them and while yes they do find a rather inventive way out of the corner that they almost wrote themselves into the very fact that they had the guts to kind of kill of the main character of the show really does show you that this show is one of if not the best kids programme ever made.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes grand total running time even was I do know that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly twenty five minuets. Which is pretty much close to being the bogstanderd running time for this show and to this episodes credit it really does have more then enough their interms of both plot an story to cover that large amount of running time with no scene in this episode feeling like filler as every single scene in this episode is about either advancing the plot of the episode or about setting up something that will pay off later on in the episode and it really does help that this episode really goes have some really good pacing to it as well.

So now then as this a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As this episode does have some genuinely funny moments in it however the main focus in this episode isn't the comedy it's the drama and on that regard the episode does have some really good drama in it as well as there's this huge sense of dread all throughout the episode with Jon , Sue and Worzel trying to prevent Worzel being put on the bonfire but when this episode tells a joke it is a genuinely funny joke that will get a laugh out of anyone in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall this was a really good and given it's firework theme it's one that's perfect to watch every November 5th and while this episode might be a bit to scary for kids it's something that most adults should love in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 9 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review Amazon . Co . Uk , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images  are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Godzilla: The Animated Series "D.O.A" Review

 

In just a few short days time the Monsterverse returns in a rather unexpected way with not a new movie but the franchises first live action TV series. As such I thought that i'd produce a tie in review however it was really hard to fir me to choose what review would serve as a great tie in review however I think that i've found a really rather solid choice and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Godzilla take a sleep for most of the episode with the episode in question being called simply just "D.O.A"  enjoy.

The plot if this episode is Nick and his monster hunting team travel to an island that's being terrorized by a giant worm and go to stop only to run into trouble when Godzilla finds himself knocked thanks to the islands government. 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 honest 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 honstey not that bad as the plot was really good but at the same time it was a rather lackluster affair with the plot giving us no stakes and being rather generic as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Ian Ziering as Nick Tatopoulos ,  Brigette Bako as Monique Dupre and Rino Romano as Randy Hernandez. Also starring in this episode is Charity James as Dr. Elsie Chapman . Malcolm Danare as Dr. Mendel Craven , Tom Kenny as N.I.G.E.L. and Frank Welker as Godzilla. This episode does only have the main cast of characters in it which is a shame because there's an army character in this episode that could have been played by Kevin Dunn's character as the two essentially fill the same purpose as being antagonists to Nick and the team and yet for some reason the series regular antagonist is no where to be seen in this episode which really doesn't make any sense as that character wouldn't give up on killing Godzilla.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about he actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us  in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of this episodes cast turning in some really good performances which is to be expected as alot of this episodes cast members are a bunch of really good actors and actresses but even this episodes cast can't make this episodes script work as the the script gives them all nothing to work interms of what it is that their respective characters personalities even are in the first place.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Sam Won Animation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well the in all honesty I in all  honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us n this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes animation really being alot alot better then it really had any right to be as nobody expects good animation from a series that's based of off a movie that not alot of people like and yet un thus episode we get some truly good looking animation with all of the characters getting some really nice looking and rather fluid animation.

One of the biggest issues that I ave with this episode is that for a vast majority of the episode Godzilla himself isn't in the episode. With him being knocked out and on the brink of death due to what the islands government does to him which while that is a good reason to not have him that much in the episode for a show that's named Godzilla and as Godzilla as the main character you'd think that Godzilla himself wold be in the episode as he's the one that we've come here to see and yet he barely shows up with us being left characters that we either don't like , haven't seen enough of to form an opinions or thanks to the 1998 Godzilla movie are just laughably bad characters heck the only likable and entertaining character in this episode is Dr. Elsie Chapman and that's really it as none of the characters are likable for various different reasons.

I do give this episode some credit for trying to kill of Godzilla this early into this shows run as that is a brave move to do. However at the same time tho as the show is called Godzilla we know that he's going to make it OK as there not going to kill their big franchise star which means that there's no tension in those scenes and while it was a brave move for them to try threaten to kill of the character it's one doesn't really work as this is a kids show and while having Godzilla almost die would work for a season or even series finale as there the stakes would high enough for that to a possibility and it would, bring closure to the series as a whole doing it this early on into the shows run is just something that really doesn't work in the slightest.

This episode is I believe the first time that we see a giant worm be a minster in anything to do with Godzilla. With it being painfully obvious why they haven't done it either before or since as there's not really alot that can be done with that basic idea for a monster as it makes the action scenes next to impossible to make look good and when the character disappears it makes the characters look dumb as there's no way that a character this size can just disappear without no one seeing it and while t's design is pretty good that's really the only good thing about it as the creature has no special powers that make it an actual threat to Godzilla with that meaning that we really have no reason to fear that Godzilla will loose as we know that he will find away to win in the end.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and twenty seven seconds. Which is a tad bit on the long side for an episode like this one to have as this episode has a fairly weak plot to begin with which means that this episode really didn't need to be as long as it was as while this episode most certainly has more then enough interms of plot to cover this amount of running time it's also a plot that is stretched rather thing because of this running time as such in order to fill out this running time we get rather pointless subplot with the Mendel character that really could have been cut out from the episode as it adds nothing to the overall plot of the episode but I will admit that this episode does gave some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As we do get to see Godzilla use his fire breath which will always look cool no matter who he's fighting however due to his opponent being a giant worm there's not really alot that they can do it make the action in this episode anything more then average as the monster doesn't have any powers that it can use against Godzilla which means that all we are seeing is Godzilla trying ad failing to beat up a giant worm and nothing mire then that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this Friday cannot come along soon enough and while this episode was a decent watch from a decent show it's an episode that's bot really as good as it could have been 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 episode in this very review ad as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

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