FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! EPISODE 19 We open with Faith and The Mayor, and the latter has given his new protege a gift: a very fancy dagger! He wants her to do him a favor and go to the airport to pick something up for him. She initially balks at such a menial chore, but he lambastes her for her insolence and calls … Continue reading More Bad “The Ascension” Jokes: A BTVS Retrospective, S3 E19-20
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! Buffy is out hunting! One of my two favorite ways this show opens! She is battling two fleshy monsters who don’t have mouths. Hey, is this that silent episode I hear so much about?! Neat! She kills one, but the other gets away. The dead one bleeds white-out for some reason? It absorbs into Buffy’s skin and vanishes, which … Continue reading I Write A Haiku: A BTVS Retrospective, Season 3 Episode 18
It’s time for more TMNT reviews! This time, it’s the key mooks of Shredder during the early seasons of the 2012 Nickelodeon series. DOGPOUND/RAHZAR (Chris Bradford) -Rocksteady & Bebop were initially not used in the 2012 Nick Toon- instead, Shredder’s top henchmen were two human goons- Chris & Xever. However, both were very quickly turned into mutants themselves. Chris Bradford, voiced by eternal villain Clancy … Continue reading Jab’s Reviews: TMNT (Dogpound, Fishface & Tiger Claw)
It feels weird starting off with even number episodes. Stupid Xander! This is all your fault, too. We start off with that Anyanka demon lady talking to her… boss, I guess? He is reprimanding her for losing her powers, and she asks for them back. He says no, which is just sensible. You can’t have your demon minions just losing their jewelry willy-nilly. She decides … Continue reading A PlayStation Commercial… Errrr, A Buffy The Vampire Slayer Retrospective, S3 E16-17
EPISODE 14 We start off hunting again! It’s Buffy and Faith out killing nondescript monsters and girl-talking. Faith is using Network TV Language to express shock that Buffy and Xander have never boned. Look, Faith, just because you have cripplingly bad taste in sexual partners, doesn’t mean… everyone in this… town… Okay, fair enough. You got me there, Faith. I, too, am shocked the writers … Continue reading Bad Girls Bad Girls, Whatchya Gonna Do? A BTVS Retrospective: S3 E14-15
Here’s me putting out “the rest of the Nicktoon characters”. Most just have tiny bios. PIGEON PETE-Pete was a normal pigeon mutated by the Kraang into a humanoid. He was taught to speak by Kirby O’Neil (April’s father) and delivered a message to her when he escaped. He later allies with the show’s version of the Mighty Mutanimals, now acting as a background character. He … Continue reading Jab’s Reviews: TMNT (2012 Nicktoon Side Characters)
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! We open up with Buffy Hunting! Ah, back to the comforts of home. Faith, Buffy, Giles, and Willow combine to kill three blue demons. Giles is worried and desperately wants to know what these monsters are. Oh, it turns out Xander is there, too. He was batted away by the beasts and left lying under some rubble. The scene … Continue reading Seriously? A Xander Episode?: A BTVS Retrospective, S3 E13
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! In two and a half seasons, I have learned something. This show has two different beginnings: “Buffy Is Hunting”, or “At School”. This one is “Buffy Is Hunting”! So Buffy is out hunting, and mom shows up out of nowhere with a snack. How did she know where Buffy was? I’ve never seen Buffy tell her “I’m going out … Continue reading Parents Just Don’t Understand: A BTVS Retrospective, S3 E11-12
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! Season 3 episode 9 starts off with some Davey-Jones-From-Pirates-Of-The-Caribbean-ass monster choking Buffy out and just… letting Willow and Xander run around to assist her until she can kill it. The three of them talk for a second about Cordelia and Oz, but then pivot to Faith. They agree they need to invite her out more often, for her sake. … Continue reading “I WANT YOU SO BADLY!”: A BTVS Retrospective, S3 E9-10
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! We don’t really OPEN with Buffy, Faith, and Giles out hunting–there is an opening sequence of no import with the gang at The Bronze–but it is the first relevant thing that happens. Giles just chills out while his two slayers go to town, and… why do the vampires always leave him alone when he is out with them? Isn’t he … Continue reading NFL Films Presents: A BTVS Retrospective, S3 E7-8
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! It’s off to SunnyDale High School where we start this episode with our main characters sitting around talking about Homecoming. So you know what that means! It’s still way too early in the year for sunset to be 5:30, god damn it! (Unless Homecoming is in January or something) Scott has not asked Buffy to Homecoming yet, setting up … Continue reading Wait, Xander AND Willow Are The Worst? A BTVS Retrospective, S3, E5-6
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! Moving along through season three of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, we start off episode three with Willow, Oz, Cordelia, and Xander all heading out of school and discussing how, as seniors, they finally get to have lunch off-campus. Where is off campus? In the yard of the school. So there you go, I guess. Anyway, Buffy has set up … Continue reading MONSTER FIGHTS! A BTVS Retrospective, S3, E3-4
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! Season three starts off with the gang attempting to pick up an M.I.A. Buffy’s slack by hunting vampires, but… they are not particularly good at it. They are good enough to not die! But not to actually defeat any bloodsuckers. Their dialogue alerts us to the fact that school starts back up tomorrow. Buffy’s been gone all summer! Didn’t … Continue reading It’s Pet Sematary Now: A BTVS Retrospective, S3 E1-2
FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! Two-part season finale time! Let’s see to where all of this Angelus stuff has been building, shall we? We start off in the 1700’s, and we see a very human Angel and his mate getting bollocksed in a pub. I’m not… I’m not from where they are from. Did I use any of those words right? A drunk Angel … Continue reading Time For A Sword Fight! A BTVS Retrospective, S2 E21-22
CASEY JONES:-A curious addition to the TMNT mythos, Casey Jones has become the second most important human ally after April O’Neil, and is so prominent that he’s as important as any individual Turtle in the 1990s Film series, and shows up as a major character in the 2003 & 2012 cartoons. In most continuities, he is a violent, hard-headed, stubborn vigilante who’s a bit crazy and ends … Continue reading Jab’s Reviews: TMNT (Casey Jones)
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