RWBY V5Ch.8: ‘Alone Together’ The Nightmare Girls This episode starts off with Ruby Rose (voiced by Lindsay Jones) looking up at the clear sky as some white birds fly overhead. She can’t sleep. And neither can her older half-sister Yang (voiced by Barbara Dunkleman) . We know they both have nightmares, and Volume 4 showed...
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RWBY V5C7: ‘Rest and Resolutions’ Trolling Nora In this episode of RWBY, 3/4 of team RWBY and 3/4 of team JNPR have fun around the dinner table. And then they discuss some of Ozpin’s secrets and lies which he’s let everyone believe. Weiss regales team RNJR of that time she almost manslaughtered a guest at her...
Marvel’s The Punisher Ep. 1 SPOILER WARNING These reviews will contain SPOILERS for the episodes I’m going over. Read at your own peril. Also, THOR RAGNAROK SPOILERS, as well as all Marvel Cinematic Universe films released at this point in time. I may also discuss SPOILERS from Dardevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and...
Qrow Branwen’s Sad Day This episode starts out with Qrow Branwen (voiced by Vic Mignogna) searching for Huntresses/Huntsmen to aid in the fight against Salem. In the first episode of this volume we were told by Qrow, and shown by the creative team that Mistral was a place of acceptance where people of all walks were welcome. The dour first...
RWBY Volume 5 Chapter 5: ‘Necessary Sacrifice’ This episode starts with Blake Belladonna (voiced by Arryn Zech) and Sun (voiced by Michael Jones) walking around asking Faunus to sacrifice their lives for the humans that think of them as a sub-species. Okay, well that’s a little harsh. I’ll try again. Blake and Sun are walking around trying...
Star Wars Rebels Review & Recap: ‘Rebel Assault’ It’s not a coincidence that the strongest episodes of this show happen when the creative team focusses on its female cast. This episode belongs to the newly anointed General in the “Rebel Alliance to Restore the Republic”: Hera Syndulla (voiced by Vanessa...
This episode had a double reunion and a lot of emotions. RWBY V5E4: ‘Lighting the Fire’ Yang vs Bandits So Yang (voiced by Barbara Dunkleman) is riding along on her bike with that bandit asshole from the volume opener (voiced by Clifford Chapin) . Remember the shady man she smashed across the room like a Serena Williams serve? We...
Star Wars Rebels S4E5: “The Occupation” There are some amazing (depressing) scenes of life under the Empire in this pair of episodes. However, before I get into that, I’m going to start this with a rant that’s been building up within me for a while. Why Ezra Bridger Fails We open this pair of episodes with Ezra (voiced by...
This episode of RWBY clarified a few questions that had been simmering for a while. The Speech We open the episode with Ghira Belladonna (voiced by Kent Williams) pacing the main room of the Belladonna manor with his speech script in hand. The passage of time has been one of those things argued about when it comes to different character POVs. For...
Star Wars Rebels: “In the Name of the Rebellion Part I” Since Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, we have all had to reconcile the new and unsettling information we were given about the “Rebel Alliance to Restore the Republic”. It was a starkly different picture of the lovable group of rogues we remember from A New...