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Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Entombed (2023)
Ridiculous reviews
Reading these negative reviews makes me laugh. Adults get upset about an episode in a children's series. Just ridiculous.
Why don't you take the episode for what it is: an interlude in the whole story and a tongue-in-cheek homage to Indiana Jones, which is even reflected in the music.
Again, it's a children's series, made to entertain children.
And for those who mock the lack of background on the Destroyer: Anyone with some knowledge of fantasy and science fiction can figure out that the former inhabitants of the planet built a weapon of war that turned against them and destroyed the planet.
And who knows, the allusion to the age of the weapon might be a hint to the upcoming movie, which is supposed to be set 25'000 years in the past of the events in the Star Wars canon.
So, calm down, sit back and enjoy the show.
Good lord!
Dragons: The Nine Realms (2021)
Fat and unsubstantial
I love the original movies and the "How to train your dragon" series. But this series is extremely disappointing. The characters are lovelessly created, boring and stereotypical. And the stories... well. I know it's a series for kids. But so are the movies and the other series, but the individual stories were logical and coherent. Here, however, hardly anything makes sense. And neither do the characters. In the old series, the stories were built around the character traits of the dragon riders. Here, the character traits change to fit the particular story in an episode. That's pathetic.
But the dragons are beautifully drawn.
The Winchesters (2022)
Viewable
The series is not bad, but is not Supernatural. It doesn't have to be.
But certain things happen too fast: John accepts too quickly this world that turns his whole world upside down; mysteries are solved too quickly and the love affair between Mary and John seems forced, it doesn't grow. Somehow the chemistry between the two is missing.
And why does Mary suddenly know Kung Fu or something like that?
It's just a typical spin-off of a good and popular series. But on the whole, the series is amusing entertainment, if you don't expect too much.
Have I finally reached the minimum character limit of IMDB?
The Wheel of Time (2021)
Teenage Lovestory Rev.
I have to revise my initial opinion due to the weak 1st season.
To avoid any misunderstandings: I still don't think the series is good as an adaptation of Jordan's fantasy series, the story deviates too much from the original and I don't completely agree with the cast either (e.g. Aiel have been living in the desert for about 3000 years and should look accordingly emaciated, not full like a cat that has just eaten milk). But that's just my personal opinion.
However, as a fantasy series, without an exact reference to the original, I think it's good. The second half of the second season makes up for a lot of the length. And the acting performances by Madeleine Madden and Zoë Robins are impressive!
I'm actually looking forward to the third season.
Almost Paradise (2020)
Lame
I don't know where these high ratings come from. They must be paid critics.
I watched the first episode because of Christian Kane. I loved him in Leverage, The Librarians, Leverage Redemption.
But in Almost Paradise his bad boy outsider behaviour doesn't work.
Almost Paradise is just another action series like so many others: A disillusioned but still idealistic ex-cop, a beautiful, sexy woman as a sidekick, a former colleague of the ex-cop who acts like an anal-retentive jerk.
The story is lame, predictable and shallow. The characters stereotypical and the acting is bad.
I am sorely disappointed.
P. S.: In the German dubbing, a different voice has the role of Kane than in Leverage, The Librarians and Leverage Redemption. That should have been a sign to me.
Leverage: Redemption: The Golf Job (2021)
Hurley's back!
I love how Drew Powell plays Jack Hurley. Generally, the three of them - Noah Wyle, Christian Kane and Jack Hurley - have a good chemistry when they play together. That's what I love about Leverage, the chemistry between the actors.
I think one trivia has been forgotten. At the end of the episode, Jack Hurley calls out to "Sister Lupe." That's a connection to "Leverage 04x14, The Boy's Night Out Job".
Leverage: Redemption: The Card Game Job (2021)
Nod to Game of Thrones
For the con, Harry Wilson pretends to be the inventor of the card game. With his masquerade, he looks like George R. R. Martin. Is this a little homage to Game of Thrones?
Titans: Lazarus (2021)
Interesting reference
Probably only older generations will recognise that Scarecrow is playing In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida from Iron Butterfly from "Manhunter" by Michael Mann (1986) while explaining to Jason Todd that he has been resurrected.
In that film, a serial killer makes a suit out of pieces of his victims' skin that is supposed to make him immortal.
A nice allusion from one psycho to another.