Review for Time of The Doctor

Time of the Doctor Promo Art. BBC America. BBC 1. Doctor Who.

This is a review for the Christmas special and the last episode of Matt Smith as the Doctor. The special did come out yesterday so I'm warning everyone that this review will have spoilers. If you haven't seen it please take a moment and stop reading this to watch it.Okay, are you back? Are you good? Got yourself a snack? Okay, let's get started.

Psych The Musical The Review

Psych.USA Network.

Psych the Musical is the 110th episode of the Psych series. It's not only a two hour long special but it was one down in song, a musical. Not one of those where they rehash old song this one had all new songs. Now for those who don't know the theme song was written by the creator of the series Steve Franks.

Review for Holy Terror and Supernatural Season 9 So Far

Supernatural. Holy Terror Promotion Image. CW.

This week aired the mid season finale of Supernatural so I'm going to review the last episode and the season thus far. There will be spoilers and so if you haven't caught up you might want to skip this review. Last chance. Let's get into it.

Review For Day of The Doctor (Doctor Who 50th Special)

Doctor Who. Day of the Doctor. BBC1.

This past week the long running science fiction series Doctor Who celebrated it's 50th anniversary. The episode was titled Day of the Doctor and was simultaneously aired over 80 countries. Besides getting the World Record for the longest running series they also won the record for biggest simulcast.

While that is all interesting this is review of the episode so if you haven't managed to watch it yet stop reading there will be spoilers sweetie.

Review of: Is This A Zombie? Of The Dead

Is This A Zombie? Of The Dead. Funimation.

Funimation brings in another dubbed season of the zombie turned magical garment girl comedy. I have already reviewed the first season so if you want to check that out feel free to look back on past reviews. Since I have gone into the main cast before I'll do a quick review of some of the other characters before I go into the plot and what's good and bad about this season.

Review for Steven Universe

Steven Universe. Cartoon Network. Warner Brothers.

This week came the premiere of Steven Universe. This cartoon has been much anticipated by the people of the internet. Much of anticipation come from Rebecca Sugar the creator of this new show best known for working on Adventure Time. Rebecca Sugar talented song writer and wrote the theme song for the show. The show is light hearted and has fans hopping for something great.

The show follows Steven Universe who seems like your average boy but is in fact a members of a team of intergalactic warriors, your didn't see that coming did you? All the members of the Crystal Gems have a crystal that grants them powers to use against their fights against evil and took protect the Earth. Steven is still trying to figure out how to activate his gem, one that he inherited from his mother that happens to be located in his belly button.

Review Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened

Pokemon. Promotional Art Work. Viz Media.

The 16th pokemon movie was aired and I'm going to review, since that's what I do. Last week game the release of another game so there is plenty of things happening for the Pokemon fan base including a sneak peek of the next season but that will have to wait for another review.

The story was deals with a group of Genesect revived through fossil and who find themselves in a world far different from what they remember.  Mewtwo runs into them and due to its past dealing with human experiments tries to help them. Still the for the most part don't trust it. The story ends up in a city like New York in a place like Central Park. Ash and Company end up in the middle of the fight between the pokemon and Ash tries to stop it and find a happy ending.

Review for Pokémon X & Y

Pokémon X & Y Poster. Nintendo. Game Freak.

October 12 saw the release of the new addition to the Pokemon gaming franchise. Pokemon X and Pokemon Y happen to be the first Pokemon games made for the 3Ds. There are a lot of new features to check out in the game.

As always, there was the introduction of several new pokemon introduced in this new game but unlike other games this one also bring back many of the old favorites. One fun feature is that after the player select their starter they get to pick another starter from the original three starters from generation one. Through the game the player comes across many chances to capture old pokemon along with the new ones. 

One great feature about the game is its connectivity that allows you to connect to internet and to other players around the world. The friends that you have registered on your 3ds pop on the game as long as they too play one of the new pokemon games. You can trade much easier now and battles online just as easy.  All you have to do is have wi fi and click the wifi button on the on the screen.

Review of A Certain Scientific Railgun S

A Certain Scientific Railgun Title card. J.C. Staff.

The second season A Certain Scientific Railgun has finished airing a few weeks back and now its time to review and recap what happened. The season dealt with two story lines.

A little recap of what the show is about, Scientific Railgun is a spin off series of the A Certain Magical Index. It takes place in Academy City where science has found ways to develop powers in people. In this city Mikoto Misaka is ranked the third most powerful with the ability to control electricity. Though by most means she's just a middle school student but she and her friends get into troubles that grip the city and the dark side of it. The City has a dark side with researchers willing to do anything for their experiments. 

Review of Supernatural Season 9 Premiere

Supernatural. CW.

Season Nine of Supernatural started off with a bang. It picked up a few hours after Season Eight ended.  After trying to complete trials to close the gates to hell finds Sam dying with Dean struggling to find a way to save his brother. Castiel after being tricked last season finds himself now human and every other angel losing their wings has fallen to Earth. To make matters worse most seem eager to find Castiel and kill him.Things are certainly ramping up for the season.

As always be weary of spoilers when reading reviews, if you haven't seen the premiere you could get spoiled if you read on. The first episode of the season had three story plots going on, let's take a look at each one.

Review For Treehouse of Horror 24

The Simpson TreeHouse of Horro XXIV. 20th Century Fox. Gracie Films.

With Halloween just around the corner it comes time for another Simpson Halloween special. Thankfully this time it was actually aired before Halloween.

There was a lot going on this special and the opening itself deserves attention by itself. Now I'm sure you've seen your share of couch gags but this one really stood for me. Like most of the Halloween Special's the usual high jinks are Halloween themed but the animation crew really went all out this time. Through the whole opening gag they touched on every horror story ever. I mean ever. I saw references to horror literature from Poe, Lovecraft, and even Stephen King. There were characters and monsters from every horror film I knew like The Fly, The Birds, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, and the Day The Earth Stood Still.  There things like the Walking Dead, Godzilla and even things form past Halloween Specials. There also things like Hellboy and Blade along with monsters from Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth. That is to expected since Del Toro's team was the one behind the opening with Del Toro Directing it himself. If you are even barely aware of the horror genre you would still spot something you knew. It was wonderfully done and really in the Halloween setting. If you don't like The Simpsons but like horror you will get a thrill from the opening.

Review of Pokémon Origins

Pokémon Origins.TV Tokyo. Nintendo. Pokémon. The Pokémon Company

First off I have to come out that I have been a long time fan of the series and while watching the Pokémon Origins special there was a certain amount of nostalgia, so I'm a little biased. I don't think it's a bad thing though. The special deals with the first generation of Pokemon games and that has the greatest appeal to those who played them with they first came out. Let's get to issue at hand and review the four part special.

The special covers the entire plot of the first generation games, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue. The special does cover the whole plot but focuses on most of the actual story and on a few choice  major events. The story follows Red, the protagonist of the games, on his quest to become a Pokémon trainer and complete the Pokédex. The first part of the special deals with the start of his journey, picking his first Pokémon, battling his rival Green and his first Gym Leader. The second part focuses on the battle against Team Rocket in Lavender Tower and dealing with the ghost haunting the tower. Part three deals with Red's continuing fights against Team Rocket and his Gym Battle against Giovanni the leader of the Team. The Final part of special deals with Red battling the Elite Four, battling his rival for the championship and a battle against Mewtwo. Overall the writing staff picked some great parts of the games to focus on while still managing to cover the rest of the games along the way. The writers covered some Compelling, action packed, and emotional moments in the story.

Review of Servant X Service Season 1

Promotional Art. © Karino Takatsu/SQUARE ENIX, SERVANTxSERVICE Project

Servant x Service is a slice of life comedy that takes place in a civil servant's office. Yeah, doesn't sound great when it's described like that but in fact the show is pretty great. The show comes from the same mind that made the manga "Working."  The show provides a number of laughs and gives the viewers a number of unique characters. Now that the season has wrapped up we can look back at is as a whole. Let's start with a run down of all the major characters. As always, be weary of reading a head if you are afraid of spoilers.

Th series focuses on three new employs starting at a civil service office. The first one is the large breasted glasses wearing young woman that will be referred to as Lucy Yamagami. She's tends to be a hard worker, more than a bit naive and has an unquenchable love for books. Lucy is an odd name in Japan but her whole name is actually composed of several names that would take an entire two lines to write out. The sole reason she has become a civil servant is to find the civil servant that allowed such a ridicules name like hers onto a birth certificate and tell them off. Her entire reason for being there is simply revenge as she puts it.  Through the season we find out a lot about her and her past. Though it seems petty to go after someone for such a thing as a name the story tells how boys used to make fun of her name in school and how she was often isolated to the library where she developed a love of reading. There is also an arc about her dealing with her fellow employs and what feelings develop from that. Overall her character arc flushes out this naive girl and really makes her a realistic character and a large part of this world.

Review of Is This A Zombie?

Is this a Zombie? Funimation.

Is this a Zombie is an anime with a comedic take on the zombie genre. The anime has romantic subplots, harem comedy, mystery, dark humor and some truly terrifying moment along with some truly moving drama. It also has a main male protagonist that's a zombie and is forced to wear a pink frilly dress. Two seasons have been dubbed by Funimation and today we take a look at season 1.

The world of Is this a zombie take place in a world exactly like our own, except there is an unseen element the viewer get's to explore. Ayumu is a normal high school boy when he runs into a necromancer and soon after is killed by a mysterious serial killer plaguing his town. The Necromancer known as Eucliwood Hellscythe, incredible name by the way, revives him as a zombie. Ayumu spends his nights in an attempt to hunt down his killer and that bring him into the dark side the world. He starts to encounter, magical garment girls, vampire ninjas, evil animal beings dressed in school uniforms and a few other supernatural forces.

Review for Agents of SHIELD

Agents of SHIELD. ABC. Marvel.

The long awaited premiere of the spin off series from the Marvel movie premiered last night. The show promised thrills and a new look at the world the Marvel movies have created. Let's have a look if they managed to bring it.

The basic premise of the show is a team of hand picked individuals form a team to investigate and deal with strange incidents in the world post attack on New York shown the Avenger's movie. The team is lead by Phil Coulson from the marvel movies who is played once again played by Clark Gregg. Phil Coulson serves as the link to the movies to let the fans of the movies know the show is in the same universe. 

Review for the Premiere Of How I met Your Mother Season 9

How I met Your Mother. CBS

The premiere of the final season of 'How I Met Your Mother' aired September 23. With that premiere the final season gets underway at Barney and Robin's wedding. This last season was promised to take place at the wedding and finally introduce the mother. 

In the two half hour episodes that aired most of the main characters have made it to the venue of the wedding and things are setting up for it. In any television wedding there are always a few expected tropes and one such is cold feet which was actually subverted. Barney the shows resident casanova has often been held as the least likely to get married in this episode was show how much he's developed in the series run. The premiere showed how much he thought about his brother's own marriage as being the sign that he too could have a functional marriage. Everyone expected his brother's divorce to bring that all that confidence down. Barney took it rather well as he was more concerned about his brother and was confident in his soon-to-be marriage. There are still some hints and foreshadowing that it won't be clear sailing all the way to the wedding.  Still it showed how he he's grown and is ready for marriage.

Review For the Pilot of Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow. 20th Century Fox

This Fall Season Fox has premiered a new series by the name of "Sleepy Hollow" based on the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving. Today we're going to review the pilot of the series.

The story takes place in the modern day with protagonist Ichabod Crane, whose played by Tom Mison, waking up after two hundred years. Having slept through the end of the American Revolution he's a fish out of water and ends up teaming up with Abbie Mill, played by Nicole Beharie, to solve the mysterious behind everything in that town. The small town of Sleepy Hollow is set to be the backdrop off a battle for the very soul of humanity as during the American Revolution the founding fathers discovered that the war marked the start of the biblical of end of days. Crane was charged with the duty of stopping the first horse man of the apocalypse, and with their first fight their fates were tied together. Chopping off it's head Crane was mortally wounded and sealed their fates together so waking up the horsemen in the modern world woke up Crane too. The small town tied up with the supernatural forced and gives plenty of hints that there are people aware of that fact and are moving behind the scenes.

Anime Review Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends

Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends. AIC Build. Funimation

High school can be very hard on people, especially those who aren't social butterflies and today's review deal with an anime called Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends that is just about that. For clarification this review will deal with the first season that was recently dubbed and released by Funimation. 

Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends is about a group of outcast that join together in hopes that together they can figure out how to make friends. The animes is a odd ball slice of life comedy with some romantic harem comedy mixed in. Each episode is another misadventure for the club while there is an underlying arc involving the childhood of two characters. The plots are easy to follow so each episode can be watch in a nice leisurely pace.

Review For Futurama Series Finale "Meanwhile"

Futurama. Comedy Central and 20th Century Fox.

Today we review the final episode of the long running on and off series Futurama. The series has had seven seasons and number of movies that spans 13 years.

This episode deal with a classic trope of the guy learning he wants to spend his life with the girl he loves, still this is Futurama and they have a habit of turning tropes on their sides. Thanks to a new invention from the Professor a love struck Fry proposes to Leela. Things go awry and Fry ends up in a tragic time loop.

Let's get to the good and the bad of the episode. For the most part the story progress in a nice steady pace and the idea of time loop doesn't become the boring and frustrating repeating the same scene over and over again that tends to happen. Most shows just repeat the dialogue and actions over and over again so it was refreshing to see an episode where the time loop pushes the plot along and just give new jokes and new material. The time loop is handled in a very unique way as the device only allows someone to go back ten seconds and it takes ten second for the device to recharge, these limits are the driving force of the episodes plot.

Review For Welcome to Night vale

Welcome To Night Vale Podcast Cover Art from Common Place Books

As of late the podcast Welcome to Nightvale has been making waves and getting attention. The fans have run run wild with the series and I decided to check it out and review it. 

There is a lot to say about the series so let's start with a run down. As of the start of September there have been 30 audio podcast released all taking place in the world of Nightvale. Nightvale is a town in the middle of dessert that has been described in many way ranging from the most scientifically interesting town in the United States to a terrifying place. The show is a radio show hosted by the main character Cecil as he announces news from the small town. The news one hears aren't things you'd expect, in fact the range from airplanes materializing in the middle of high school basketball games, to a floating cat in the middle of the radio stations men's room to hooded figures that run around that everyone avoids making contact with. The town seems smack dapped in the middle of the most bizarre and strange things imaginable and everyone in town just shrugs it off as normal everyday events. The only evidence we have that this is not the normal for this whole world is the new comer scientist Carlos trying to warn and explain everyone that these things aren't normal as he studies the town and the various strange happenstance.

Review: Servant X Service Episode 9

This week's Servant X Service had a focus on romantic relationships. The show is about the daily lives of workers in a civil service office and anyone whose ever worked in an office knows relationship tend to happen so it's not out of place. Many shows try to do a relationship-centric episodes but ended making them feel forced or out of place but it's not the case with this one. The episode doesn't lose it's humor or the whimsy that viewers have come to expect from the series.

Review for Doctor Who 1996 Movie Enemy Within

DVD Cover For The Doctor Who Movie. BBC.

This year marks a milestone for not only science fiction but a certain show, this year marks the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Doctor Who has been an icon in science fiction and British Culture for half a century. The show is such an icon that many people who only started watching it when it was revived have noticed allusions to it in cartoon and books and many other things, truly the show has pierced into the mainstream pop culture. I myself have started to find things like this too, one iconic monster from the show, the Dalek, was even spotted in an old episode of the Cartoon Rugrats. Now with 50 years under its  belt there are many people who haven't watched all the episodes. Sadly some of the episodes footage has been lost before the show became the mega hit it is now. Still many fans are trying to watch every episode they can before the big 50th anniversary episode.

Review for Gravity Falls

Gravity Falls Tittle Card. Disney Channel and Alex Hirch. 

Review for Gravity Falls

There is a hit show called Gravity Falls on the Disney channel and I'm here to talk about it. I assume you have some knowledge of it since you're reading this or at the very least interested from what you've heard of it. I'll try to give you, faithful readers,  the highlights to let you know what it's about.

Review for Servant x Service

Review for Servant x Service

Promotional Art. © Karino Takatsu/SQUARE ENIX, SERVANTxSERVICE Project

Okay, there are a lot of animes that came out this Summer. It's the thing that happens, people have more time and the networks have shows for them to watch during their free time. This is going to be the first of some of the new animes that have come out. I feel it's a good time with Summer ending I got a good perceptive of them.