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Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir: Re-creation (The Final Day - Part 2) (2023)
I expected more...
I wasn't a big fan of the final Gabriel/Marinette scene and everything that came after.
It was ridiculous. UTTERLY ridiculous that Ladybug transformed into Marinette within arms reach of Gabriel Agreste after 5 full seasons of evil and double crossing. Even Marinette is not that monumentally stupid.
Also - although they didn't show it - it seems Marinette respected Gabriel's last wish and did not tell Adrien about the villain his father was - and it's almost believable that she might be willing to keep that secret...BUT - AND THIS IS WHAT BUGS ME THE MOST about this:
- SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE KEPT THE SECRET FROM CAT NOIR - especially after leaving him a voicemail message (or text) about it earlier in the episode!!!
And on that note, I want to complain about one other thing that has bugged me for more than a full season... and that is that as soon as Marinette became "The Guardian", it's insane and unfathomable that she didn't know Cat Noir's identity. The guardian absolutely needs to know who all of the holders are. I could buy it IF she didn't want to reveal HER identity - but as Guardian, it's a complete dereliction of her duties to not know the identity of all of the holders.
Season 6 had better start with a flashback of LadyBug and Cat Noir revealing their identities to each other after Gabriel's wish - and Ladybug updating him on everything that happened - or I'll be so angry that Lila will probably akumatize me!
On a positive note, I want to cast my vote for the best line in all of season 5:
Ladybug (angrily): "Get Lost Butterly"
Had me laughing for at least a good 5 minutes straight - and then several more times over the next few days.
3% (2016)
English version audio is bad
The voice actors who recorded the English audio sound like they absolutely don't care about what they are saying or what is happening plot-wise as they say it.
Plot developments are predictable and uncreative - but what do you expect from a show in which they didn't even bother to come up with names for main things and places in the show:
The Process
The Offshore
The Inland
The Cause
How lazy is it that those things - which play such an important role in the story - don't have names? It's ridiculous and in retrospect it should have been an early red flag for me as an indicator that the show was very shallow creatively. How it made it 4 seasons is what perplexes me while far better series have been cancelled.
Stargirl (2020)
Better than expected!
Well - sorry folks - I wrote a 7 paragraph review that disappeared when I clicked submit and I'm not going to re-type it all - so I'll summarize my summary:
The main character is cute and likable and seems to act more like I would expect someone who found a magic staff would act! No denial. No fear. She embraces her new found power wholeheartedly!
The villains are intentionally one-dimensional and I'm pretty sure that was intentional as they are not really the focus - Courtney and her friends and family are.
I had low expectations and was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable Season 1 was. I can't wait for season 2! I recommend you add it to your list and give it a try when you're in the mood for a light-hearted superhero show that is entertaining and doesn't make you think too hard!
Supergirl (2015)
Worst Superhero Show ever!
Supergirl is obviously written for women. The cast is not balanced. Plotwise - ever character that matters is a woman - and there are soooo many of them. And of course there's a completely unnecessary lesbian couple - and so many "relationship" arcs where characters go overboard and talk about their feelings - to the point of being sappy. This show can't decide if it is an action series with superheroes or if it's a coming of age love story on the hallmark network.
I didn't look to see who the writers are - but my guess is that it's not written by women - because it's too sappy and bad for that. My guess is that the show runner and the writing team are misogynistic, middle shed men who *think* these are the kind of trashy, ridiculous storylines that women want to see.
Every episode has a misunderstanding that hurts someone feelings and they overreact - this sets up the deep conversation in which they explain their feelings, apologize, swear their love for each other and then hug it out. EVERY SINGLE EPISODE!!!
The characters are ridiculous in so many ways. You'd think that in a superhero show, the super powers would be what makes the show "unrealistic" - but it's not. It's the stupid things that the characters do and say in order to manufacture an emotional issue that can later be resolved (in an equally stupid way).
Every character in the show has had multiple occasions where they have a personal crisis in which they have to choose between doing their jobs - or risk damaging their relationship with some other character. This would be an okay story element if it were consistently done by the same character (like Lucifer and Chloe) - but it's EVERY character and it's multiple times per episode - and the situations are not just un-realistic, they're completely ridiculous.
The series is called SuperGIRL - so it's reasonable for it to have more female actors than male - but apparently, in the world this was shot on - there are no men at all that hold important positions! I thought it was clever for then to cast the Villain as Lex Luthor's sister Lena - but the rest of the cast should have been balanced - but it's literally ALL WOMEN!!! Her sister is in charge of the DEA (arguably the most powerful defense agency on the planet) - oh - and she's also the lesbian. The President is a woman. The owner of Catco - the media conglomerate is a woman. Even most of the villains are women. They do sprinkle in a few men in low level positions - and there are 3 "main" characters that are men (ie Jimmy Olsen) - but they might as well be women by the way they act and the words they say. They're certainly not like any men I've ever met! Oh yeah - 1 is a robot.
The show is complete trash and it's a miracle it's been on for 5 seasons. If you're ever going to create another show with all or mostly women - that's fine - but if you're just going to make them sound like emotionally unstable idiots - maybe it would be better if you didn't.
To be clear - I am not complaining about the fact that you the cast is mostly women. I'm complaining about the writers who can't seem to manufacture any realistic drama and create monumentally stupid dialogue and plot elements.
Forever (2018)
The only interesting plot points were left unanswered
The show starts off slow - but in episode 2, it takes a twist that could have been interesting but was handled extremely poorly.
One entire episode is devoted to a random couple (Andre and Sarah) that I thought was because they would be introduced to the main cast in subsequent episodes - but nope. Never saw them again and the plot was not advanced at all by the episode. Might as well have skipped it.
The mysterious fountain? Never explained it's significance. The mysterious man on the road? Never explained who he was or why he approached people. The long walk across the bottom of the ocean? Never showed where they ended up! Back at Oceanside? Back at Riverside? Someplace new? Thousands of people die every day. How come only a handful end up in Riverside/Oceanside? Where do the others go?
This was a lazy effort and a boring watch. I wish I had skipped the whole series.
Upload (2020)
Loved it and hope for more seasons!
This show is one of the first to show the world en masse what may be possible with technology and our battle against death - albeit a dystopian implementation of it. The 2 main characters are likable - albeit underdeveloped. I would have preferred a 45 minute episode length. Trying to squeeze the story into 10 x 22 minute episodes makes everything seemed rushed and forces them to condense the story a lot.
Someone will try to create this type of solution for death in the real world - if not in 30 years - then definitely in 300 or 3000 years - and I hope we see more shows like this which will serve to highlight some of the more obvious mistakes that can/will be made - especially when developing the earliest versions of this kind of afterlife. Hopefully by the time this type of afterlife becomes a reality, we as a society will have evolved to become a currency-less civilization and all of the capitalistic money grabs will be sidestepped entirely.
I hope that we see several more seasons of this show - with the interesting (if not somewhat obvious) twist that has Nora - and the rest of the people in this show's "real world" discover that this whole time they have been unknowing (memory suppressed) inhabitants of an "upload" world called "Earth 2100" and they explore the Russian nesting doll potential that we all already live in a simulated world within another simulated world, within another simulated world, within another, within another, etc...
But enough about philosophy... whether you accept the simulation hypothesis or not - this is an enjoyable show and I recommend it.
The Magicians: Apocalypse? Now?! (2020)
Probably a great episode - but StackTV customers wouldn't know it
Signed up for StackTV specifically to watch The Magicians and am hating it.
IMDB reports episode 5 as being 43 minutes - but on Feb 16th (11 days after becoming available) Stack TV STILL contains an incomplete, 32 minute version of the episode in which there are plot jumps and audio/video sync issues throughout the entire second half of the episode.
One second El is doing a spell outside a building and Margo is walking into a party - 2 seconds later, El is inside a building staring into a mirror and Margo appears to have been caught by security and is being interviewed in an office with Josh and 23. Then - Josh and the Security dude fall asleep and the episode ends.
On top of this StackTV quality control issue, incompetence and/or indifference. They want $13/month AND still force you to watch several commercials interspersed throughout the episode in 5 or more places.
Magicians is awesome. This episode is probably good - if you're able to see the whole thing. I wouldn't know.
StackTV is a shameless money grab by a greedy company that doesn't care about quality or its customers. Mistakes can happen - even from the best of companies - but GOOD companies fix their mistakes - quickly. The fact that an corrupt video is still in their streaming catalog 12 days after it was reposted to them is all I need to know about this crappy company and their customer service.
Doctor Who (2005)
Season 11 was bad. Season 12 is worse.
...and it's ALL because of incompetent writers and show runner. Chris Chibnall is a complete disaster.
Female Doctor? Fine! Jodi Whittaker had the potential to be as great as Matt Smith or David Tennant - if the script contained reasonable lines for her to say. The Doctor is inconsistent with the nature of the Doctor that has been developed over ALL the past iterations of the Doctor - and that's not okay - nor can it be explained away by the change from Male to Female.
Three companions? Seems like a lot - but could be made to work by giving ONE of them a side story each week and have the other 2 assist them with their problem. Chibnall tries to give EACH of them their own story EVERY episode - and they all suck because instead of spending 12 minutes on one companions story - he spends 4 minutes on each companion separately. That wouldn't work with good stories - and Chibnall's stories are NOT good.
At this point, I think Series 12 will be the last we see of Doctor Who - and Jodie Whittaker will unfortunately go down as one of the worst Doctor's ever - through no fault of her own.
The one chance they have to save this show is to BEG Stephen Moffat to come back for Series 13 - and to help them find a QUALIFIED replacement show runner. If they can get Moffat - I'm sure they can convince the network to renew.
One thing is clear though. They need to fire Chibnall IMMEDIATELY - and they need to fire whoever it is that allowed him to remain the show runner and head writer after watching what he did in Series 11.
Anyone who tries to blame the Series 11 and 12 poor ratings on Jodie Whittaker or the fact that the Doctor became female - is dishonest and a lying dog-faced pony soldier. The writing has been horrible. Chibnall and his enablers have killed this show.
Pandora (2019)
Awful. Just awful.
The first couple of minutes of episode 1 don't contain any dialog so the bad music and 1990's style special effects are immediately noticeable.
Then we meet the main character as she is met at the spaceport by her Uncles assistant who was sent to meet her. She is rude and dismissive to him. She has a chip on her shoulder and presents herself as a loner who doesn't want anything to do with any new people. Then she arrives at school and she's Miss Congeniality - making friends and acting all nice to everyone. No consistency in her character at all.
10 minutes later, she's stealing a faster than light ship with 4 of her new friends and heading off to another planet.... wtf?
I watched all of the first 2 episodes - but basically, it starts bad and gets worse - quickly. Don't waste your time.
Doctor Who: The Doctor Falls (2017)
Disappointed
Perhaps my expectations were too high. I rated Part 1 of the Finale a full 10/10 and expected the same from its conclusion.
Moffat did a good job of clearing the playing field for the new showrunner next year by seeming to eliminate the Master, sending Bill away and forcing the regeneration that we all knew was coming - but there was too much "magic" in an episode where I expected science and cleverness. I did enjoy the episode and I struggled with whether to give it a 7 or an 8 - but I have to say it was my least favourite Moffat-written episode. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Moffat - and I think that his worst episode is still better than most other writers best episodes - with the possible exclusion of Davies.
Here are some of the reasons I was disappointed:
The Master: The Master committed suicide, albeit a delayed one. That's just wrong. It was a major plot element in a previous finale under Davies that the one thing the Master would NEVER do is to end his own life - and that's what he did by killing the future version of himself. I'm sure it won't be permanent - but the way he killed Missy seemed pretty permanent. A better objective/motive for the Master not liking who he had become in Missy would have been to "kill" her in a way that forces a regeneration - but he just left her there to die. Completely out of character for him. I'm sure they'll find a way to bring him/her back in the future - but I felt that the murder was wrong and Missy's exit could have been handled better.
Selective memories: Moffat did a fairly good job of explaining why Missy had no memories of being the Master in this story by saying that since there were 2 versions of the Master present, they couldn't both retain the memories - which was a bit inconsistent with previous episodes but passable - until Missy throws the Master against a wall and makes him promise to always carry a spare Tardis part with him - which is apparently the one thing that he remembered from this time period? What? Missy remembered to carry the spare part - but she didn't remember that she was going to kill herself? Puh-leeze!
The Pilot: In the end, there was no cleverness to save the day, the doctor died and Bill was a cyber person until out of nowhere - from the beginning of Season 10, the Pilot shows up and magically fixes everything with Bill - and then in a Disney-like fairy tale ending, a single tear from Bill revives the Doctor. I'm sorry but this was too far-fetched for me. It would have been better/more believable to have Clara show up to save the day in her diner-form Tardis than The Pilot.
The Doctor Falls: ...eventually... but he withstands 3 direct blasts from a cyber weapon and keeps standing/talking?
The Elevators: The detonation can't be triggered remotely? What? Not plausible. The Doctor's body is unscathed from the massive explosion that killed all of the evolved, well-armoured cyber men - but left him untouched - and also spared Bill - who was wearing much less armour than all the rest. Surely he could have triggered it from inside an elevator - and then ridden up to his waiting Tardis. And after Bill declared she was staying, why was there any need at all for the Doctor to ALSO stay and die? Finally - in a ship full of technology that included the ability to send camera feeds from top to bottom - what are the reasons that the explosions couldn't be triggered remotely (besides Capaldi leaving the show). I think Moffat, with a bit of thought could have come up with a much better way for the Doctor to "almost die". It's clear to me that he did not give this episode his full attention, imagination and talent. Perhaps he's already begun work on his next project and rushed through this one?
I hope the Christmas special is suitably phenomenal. I would hate for a mediocre episode like this one to be the last one we get from Moffat.
The acting in this episode was very good. I have no complaints about anyone's performance. The story itself though, should have been better for a season finale.
Doctor Who: World Enough and Time (2017)
Trailers are not for fans!
Trailers are not for fans. They are meant to attract new viewers and to remind "sometimes viewers" that there's a new episode coming soon.
If you're a fan of a series - any series - hit the mute button and close your eyes for 20-30 seconds when a trailer for a future episode or season starts to play. If you're not a fan, and you watch the trailer, it may convince you to watch the show and it doesn't spoil many of the big reveals, shocks or plot twists because you're not familiar enough with the series to even understand most of them. But if you're a fan of the series, and you go ahead and watch the trailers - you've got nobody to blame but yourself for ruining the surprises. Complaining about it afterwards, or deducting a point from your review because YOU went ahead and allowed the surprises to be spoiled is kind of ridiculous.
It will be nice in a few years where all of the TV's are smart enough to know who's a fan of what and perhaps play trailers without any spoilers for "fans" of a series, or maybe swap out the trailer completely for "fans" and instead market a different series to you - one that you're not already a fan of - but for now, we don't have that and you all know what trailers are and how to avoid them - mute the audio and close your eyes.
It's not that hard. I do it all the time - and yes, I can see how a bit of foreknowledge could have diminished ones enjoyment of the latest episode - but, as I managed to avoid any foreknowledge - I greatly enjoyed this episode. I give it a 10 as I do most of Stephen Moffat's finales. There were a few bits of dialog I could have done without - but not enough to diminish my enjoyment of the episode.
There were a couple of reviewers that gave this episode a 4 rating and quoted some plot holes as one of the reasons for their low number. Seriously? Do these people realize that this was part 1 of 2? How can you complain about plot holes halfway through a story? Especially a Stephen Moffat story! He ties up all plot elements better than any other writer I know of. There's no way Moffat is going to give us a lame, unimaginative ending like Lost did. I hope that the 4's come back next week and upgrade their ratings after they see how deftly and cleverly Moffat wraps things up next week.
I can't say any more about the episode without spoiling something, so I'll let my 10 speak for itself and remind Who fans to NOT watch the trailers if they plan to watch the episode!!!
Supergirl: City of Lost Children (2017)
Worst episode to date. Awful dialogue.
I'm a fan of the series and have enjoyed most episodes but this one was so bad I had to leave a review warning others. Where to start? Well, firstly, I realize that this is science FICTION and it is our responsibility as viewers to accept certain things that are not normally possible - in order to advance an entertaining story - but Leena Luthor - a successful and accomplished CEO whining that their project, didn't work on the first try and being exasperated enough to quit and walk away from it in the early, experimental stages is way beyond credulity. And her line "...but what if it DOESN'T work?" is just completely ridiculous. It's not something that a person in her role would EVER say! She knows how research and development works and she knows what happens to projects that "don't work". This episode makes her look and sound like an incompetent 4th grade schoolgirl - not an experienced, successful CEO of a large company. Her self-doubt is inconsistent with her character and extremely inappropriate.
The rude way that James Olsens offer of help is turned down is not believable and out of character for the Martian dude. Throughout this episode, the self- doubt that so many different characters experience - and the various and far too numerous "you can do it", "I believe in you" and "you just need to believe in yourself" interactions in this episode made me want to vomit. I expect that sort of thing in "Once Upon A Time" and other Disney offerings - but I expected more from Supergirl. More consistent behavior from main characters, more adult dialog between characters and more Sci-fi/Superhero approaches to problem resolution are required. Whoever wrote this episode seems like they were lazy or lacked imagination - or possibly both.
Oh - and the other inconsistent and unbelievable thing I almost forgot to mention - was everyone in the show instantly calling the actions of the alien Mother (and then later, her son) - as "an attack"! In any other episode, that would have been labeled an "incident". And when the damage was done to the newspaper building - caused by the child - somebody also called it "an attack". Clearly there was no motive for any of the destruction - but instantly, their is a universal consensus that the mother is a terrorist and that her actions - as random as they appeared to be - were an "attack" of some sort.
There were plenty more examples of bad writing throughout this episode. I hope things are back to normal next week. This weeks episode was extremely, very not good. I hope this weeks script was an anomaly and look forward to better episodes in the future.
The Ranch (2016)
Give it a chance - huge difference between episode 1 and episode 10
I would have given this show 9/10 if it weren't for the horrid laugh track. I don't understand how anyone in TV show production can think it was appropriate or good in any way. It nearly made me stop watching after the first episode and it diminished my enjoyment of every episode thereafter.
In the first episode, it seemed like the dialogue was forced and that everything about the show was "trying too hard" but in subsequent episodes the cast quickly gets comfortable with each other and by the time I got to the 4th episode, everything was flowing smoothly and I began texting my friends to recommend it.
I hope that the addition of Megyn Price to the cast becomes permanent.
I can't emphasize enough how awful the laugh track is. It's the only reason I created this IMDb account. I hope this show returns for a season 2 but definitely WITHOUT the canned laughter.
Edit - May 2017 When Season 2 was released, I went back and watched some of the Season 1 episodes again and found that the horrid laugh track had been replaced by something suitable and appropriate! I re-watched all of Season 1 and enjoyed it so much more with the new laugh track. It's now a 9/10 rating. I only wish that some of you new to the show could hear how bad the original laugh track was.