Reviews of television shows
It’s so cool when a classic American cartoon incorporates Japanese artistry in innovative ways: Adventure Time invited Fukuoka native, Masaaki Yuasa, to write, storyboard, and direct the episode “Food Chain,” and he really did his thing with it. I didn’t … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Food Chain” and “Furniture & Meat”
Now we are in the home stretch of Season 1. There were some wobbly episodes in the middle, and some so so performances from the main cast (Jerry Doyle) and some of the guest actors, but this is the start … Continue reading The Last Best Hope… -“Babylon Squared”
Directed by: Adam Muto and Nick JenningsWritten and Storyboarded by:Graham FalkReview by Josephus Brown As this show goes on, it starts to become a lot quieter. There’s a lot more trusting the audience to keep up with things, and a … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time- “Sad Face”/”Breezy”
After a short recap, we drop right back into the action, and it turns out the large mysterious ship from the cliffhanger in the first episode is an Earth Alliance warship, the EAS Hyperion. Captain Ellis Pierce, played by Ron … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“A Voice in the Wilderness(Part 2)
Two parters used to be a big part of broadcast television. Before serialized storytelling caught on as the default in most dramas, a two parter gave extra incentive to come back in a week, to see how a bunch of … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“A Voice in the Wilderness(Part 1)
Wake Up | Boarded by: Cole Sanchez and Andy Ristaino | Aired: April 21, 2014 | Reviewed by CedricTheOwl Welcome to season 6 of Adventure Time, everyone! We’ve gone through 156 episodes of zany comedy, high adventure, and crushing emotional … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Wake Up” and “Escape from the Citadel”
This episode feels like a pretty good standard episode of a scifi show. We have an alien culture that is being difficult to work with, and we have a telepath that has to decide on what to do with her … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Legacies”
Bad Timing | Boarded by: Kent Osborne and Pendleton Ward | Aired: March 3, 2014 | Reviewed by Prestidigititis It’s October, 2014. Adventure Time is well into its sixth season on the air at Cartoon Network, and for the last … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Bad Timing” and “Billy’s Bucket List”
Product placement is one of those crappy parts of television and film. It was something that greatly offended me as a young show watcher. When I got older I learned to live with it if it meant a show I … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Eyes”
Lemonhope Part 1 | Boarded by: Tom Herpich and Steve Wolfhard | Aired: March 10, 2014 | Reviewed by CedricTheOwl What duty do the freed have to the enslaved? What obligation does a survivor have? These are tough questions to … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Lemonhope Part 1” and “Lemonhope Part 2”
Rewatching episode 15 “Grail” was something of a milestone in my rewatch of Season 1. It is the first episode that I really dont have much of an opinion on one way or the other. It is basically fine. It … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Grail”
After soaring for two weeks in a row, Babylon 5 gets brought back down to Earth so to speak by “TKO”. This is probably one of the most hated episodes of Babylon 5, and easily one of the worst in … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“TKO”
When I was a kid I would tell people that my favorite color was grass. I meant green, but I guess I meant that specific kind of green that was grass in my child mind. It’s funny how little things … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Blade of Grass” and “Rattleballs”
Every season of Babylon 5 has a title. It is an interesting conceit from the showrunner J. Michael Strazynski. The point of it is to reinforce that Babylon 5 was always meant as one coherent story, with each season being … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Signs and Portents”
Welcome one and all to the first half of season 6 of Adventure Time reviews! Seasons 5 and 6 of this show are double length, consisting of 52 episodes instead of 26, so we’ll be handling signups a little differently. … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time Season 6A Central Hub and Sign-up Thread
The streak is over! After episodes 9, 10 and 11 were duds with little redeeming value, episode 12 comes riding over the hill to the rescue. Possessing a great A plot, and a B plot that takes one of the … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“By Any Means Necessary”
The Pit | Boarded by: Jesse Moynihan and Ako Castuera | Originally Aired: November 18, 2013 | Reviewed by: Lyssie Picking up where the last episode left off, Kee-Oth is carrying Jake through a void full of shards of glass, … Continue reading Come Along with Me: Adventure Time – “The Pit” and “James”
Finally we get to the last of my “always skip” trilogy, Survivors. On paper this episode would not be too bad. Getting an episode to focus on the backstory of one of our main cast is essential in Season 1, … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Survivors”
When I saw the chance to write a Second Look article, I jumped on it. I loved the concept, I loved the structure of it. I even happened to be doing a rewatch of a show I had not seen … Continue reading Second Look – Space: Above and Beyond
We Fixed A TruckDirected by Elizabeth Ito & Nick JenningsWritten and Storyboarded by Cole Sanchez & Andy Ristaino Sometimes we have to forgive the ones we love for transgressions. But sometimes something is utterly unforgivable. Someone has crossed a line … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “We Fixed a Truck” and “Play Date”
Box Prince | Aired: October 7, 2013 | Reviewed by Ralph Over at the A.V. Club, Oliver Sava[footnote] Wait a second . . . “Oliver Sava” is “A.V. Club” spelled backward! [/footnote] wrote, of “Box Prince”: “It’s one of the … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Box Prince” and “Red Starved”
