Recent content by Ian

I don't tune in to this show regularly, so I'd missed Ms. Kaboom's debut when it first aired. I liked it! She's a fun character, and the duel had some nice energy to it, which is all I ask of what are basically one-shot characters.

As someone who finds the show utterly unenjoyable for a wide variety of reasons, and will repeat those reasons every chance I have, I have to say...I really like that it makes you feel this way. : )

Here's the thing, thought. This is yet another example of the show taking a complex issue with no easy solutions, erasing its subtleties, and leaving behind empty platitudes. Mercy can be an important quality yes. But there comes a point in which mercy means letting people who have done wrong...

I'm beginning to think that the lack of extras is being built into the show's verse: it's the only way that April's idea of bringing in the turtles to eat at Murakami's made any sense. Yes, he's blind; any other employers are unlikely to be, nor will any customers that happen to show up in the...

It's not one thing or the other, though. Just like all it took to effectively show how Splinter still missed Yoshi was a scene of less than a minute in the 4Kids cartoon's Christmas episode, April's feelings can be expressed adequately without doing as you suggest. Here, for example, I though...

I'm not sure if I should be surprised or not that the show decided to go with "knowing what your opponent is going to do=instant super-reflexes + martial arts skills", and to do so without comment, as if it were the natural thing to expect from any telepathic character no matter their physical...

I guess I'll have to accept that this is one of those "turn off your brain" shows if I want to enjoy it: watching the turtles utterly ignore the big, obvious glaring weak point in the Kraang-controlled Metalhead--just aim at the utterly unprotected alien at the top, you guys!--was painful...

Not bad. Not mindblowing, but not something that leaves me depressed at the wasted potential of it all like some pilots I could mention. While the A-plot was nothing special--neither Snakeweed nor the Kraang come off as particularly credible long-term threats, and the almost complete glossing...

Even if newspapers aren't what they once were, I do think there is still merit to keeping Jonah a newspaperman, and part of it is precisely because it seems old fashioned. Jonah, to me, works best when he hearkens back to an era where print journalism was considered to have a certain level of...

Generator Rex was an awesome original premise brought down by spotty execution and a creative team lacking in confidence. What happens when the creative team goes to work on a concept that's been done plenty of times before? After seeing the first episode, my answer is "kind of a mess...

You know, if I had known episodes like this were going to be the result, I would have been waaaay more vocal about my desire to see the Gen Rex creative team attempt episodes where Rex wasn't the main point of view character. This was actually kinda great.

Quarry episodes in Gen Rex often feel like pleasant surprises. In a series in which the rogues gallery often feels mismatched, to me—they often feel as if they're toned down in order to have Rex be able to defeat them--Quarry feels like the sort of character who should have been Rex's...

Teen Titans was a much more versatile show. It also had an established arc structure, and the stories were simple enough so that they really didn't need much more development than they got. It wasn't always without issues--the show's inability to incorporate Terra into episodes that weren't...

While the show's mostly coherent backstory has been one of the more consistently pleasant things about it, the revelations behind this episode make me wonder about the soundness of it all. Unless the original nanite incident was subject to a super-secret cover-up we don't know about, it seems...

Here's the thing. Why this? Even if the show can't focus on The Main Plot for more more than a third of a given season, there's a million things they could do instead of heading into the bottom of the barrel of plot ideas--again--and producing an episode which actively makes the world worse...