Reviews of television shows
Thanks for the Crabapples, Giuseppe! | Written & Boarded by: Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim | Aired: July 31, 2014 | Reviewed by Josephus These are not my teardrops, daughter dearBut just a sheen of dew, that lingers herePast other … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Thanks for the Crabapples, Giuseppe!” and “Princess Day”
This episode kind of feels like the original Season 2 premiere. Last weeks episode was an emergency story that had to deliver a great deal of exposition about a sudden new lead character. It was such a large task that … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…- “Revelations”
“When does Adventure Time get good?” Adventure Time aired for 10 seasons over 8 and a half years and ~283ish episodes[footnote]Number gets fucky because there were some shorts that are part of the production orders but not generally collected with … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Little Brother” and “Ocarina”
Season 1’s title was “Signs and Portents” and it was a season all about establishing the universe while hinting at what was to come. By and large it did a great job at that, establishing several long running conflicts, and … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…- “Points of Departure”
Well here we are. I started this project while on my Christmas vacation and twenty two weeks later we have come upon the first big milestone, the season 1 finale “Chrysalis”. All of season 1 has been one great exercise … Continue reading The Last Best Hope… -“Chrysalis”
The Prince Who Wanted Everything Boarded by: Bert Youn, Kent Osbourne, Adam Muto, and Lyle Partridge Aired: June 26, 2014 Reviewed by: CedricTheOwl It’s been a while since we dropped in on the land of Aaa, everyone’s favorite Rule 63 … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “The Prince Who Wanted Everything” and “Something Big”
The Quality of Mercy is an excellent choice for a penultimate episode of the season. It has some light hearted bits while also expanding on the universe in interesting ways. We get new information on Centauri biology and Minbari morality. … Continue reading The Last Best Hope… – “The Quality of Mercy”
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”
