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They dony return they cant and never will be seen again on TV

But if he had not died and then left Paradise with the Love of his life (this is what happens when Rjichard got on the Plane)

We get this (DS Camille Bordey & DI Richard Poole) DS Lisa Donckers and Professor Jasper Tempes a year and a half before DI Humphrey Goodman DS Esther Williams in Beyond Paradise UK answer to Brokenwood

OK due to the age diffrence no will they wont they and the french mum is gone (the DCI is the will they wont they) this is Beyond Pardise with Richard and Camile and its Good the supporting cast are shocking the crimes are easy and being on ITV the adds are Kjilling it but the central perormers are bring it forward they are good at there jobs and the charecters are intresting anf fun

McDonald & Dodds has the answers this show needs its supporting cast and crimes are way better and the laeds are almost identical to Death/Beyond Paradise and Prof. T.

Finlay Gemma Chan arrives in the MCU what took them so long ok I know what took them so long they had to make here an android angel who works for a being so powerful were not actually sure how to kill them even at the end of this movie

Gemma Chan is an actress on Parr with Rachel Weisz Olga Kurylenko Scarlett Johansson Florence Pugh stunning hot and very talented she never phones it in and always delivers so long may Sersi and the Eternals I hope we have seen some company for the GotG. We get an unexpected good performance from Angelina Jolie and the usual perfection from Salma Hayek plus the electric and not expected performances of Lauren Ridloff and Lia McHugh the next big things they were fantastic stole seems from Gemma and I did not think that was possible

Ok the casting across the Board was spot on and the script was good the story was accurate to the original and this is were people get upset its tough to introduce Demons and Angels to the MCU when we have Thor whizzing around being all alien and that so we get it again Gods Angles Demons are well not of this earth plus these guys have been here quite literally since the start and doing nothing. But and this is were you get the best stories in comics the Retcon it some times envelops or sits inside or along side and some times totally refurbishes but this one is so well thought out right up to the first end I was smiling and enjoying the story got my grin back at the very end though

This film is well cast written and performed the FX and the Stunts the CGI and the fight scenes are as MCU usual brilliant

seriously just how much can you want its fun its silly it has fantasticality hot people doing stupidly cool things and to top it off their a funny and entertaining family

The Eternals I think is an attempt to bring a new Space family in to the MCU but unfortunately they don't have a homicidal but cute Racoon and a Big Talking Cool Tree we get the Android Space Angels killing there God Oops sorry about the (second MCU) giant head and who knows what else from that space Giant and scary wooden box (and voice)

Al new characters in an all new story with conectins and possibilites for future stories with Dragons and Monsters and realitiesand people from else were

I mean come on this is a steep towards Danny Rand Colleen Wing The Meachum Siblings and fingers crossed Misty Knight & Mary Walker and an out side chance of Elektra Natchios remember Danny fought a dragon and the hand were digging for a dead one so like I said fingers crossed

As a movie we have a good story well told new fresh and interesting characters with past present and fingers crossed again a future. Very good fight scenes great stunts and FX and some as always great CGI including HP creatures including an actual dragon

seriously just how much can you want its fun its silly it has fantasticality hot people doing stupidly cool things and to top it off funny and entertaining friends and family

Its well cast and very well performed Awkwafina is only a couple of times OTT the actress the director and the editors all work to put a normal slap bang in the middle and she not a victim the artery bit mostly works and to be honest the character is sort of appealing never leaving her freinds side and taking the piss and the sisters side was funny

This is the Ant-Man movie of this Phase works very well and hopefully we will see more of the same.

A movie that if it had been made in the time it was set would have helped the MCU and the DCU (with/like Wonder Woman) by pushing a female lead up on the big screen and proving they can make buckets of money

This is as good a movie as the first four MCU movies it is equal to Ant-man, Black Panther and Shang-Chi in the second and third facies But every one forgets this is also an origin story we see how we get the super Heroin Avenger Black Widow and not the end product we have seen in Infinity War and It is way better then Doctor Strange and Captain Marvel which fail to interest and introduce a character you can engage and sympathise with not as easy as they thought

Now I know we would not get the spin in to Hawkeye so up down is life

This is a film like the best of its kind it takes the big Hero and puts them in a vastly smaller drama and again like the best of its kind adds a family dimension with humour that hits. Think Ant-Man meets Captain America: The Winter Soldier lots of new characters and fantastic fight scenes and so many bullets and bangs your head is ringing

This is how you (re)introduce a (new) character to the MCU this movie gives us a Past Present and Future Widow and a Cap Cold War (reformed) Baddie what's not to like

Super Hot characters doing super cool things? The story is very good the revel was good the end game was good. The casting was perfect the performances wonderful the FX and stunts were great the CGI was as usual minted.

The performances were good from start to finish the new characters ranged from OK to fantastic Ironheart pulls a Shuri on Shuri and steals it she was worth the price of a ticket the FX and CGI were good but the under water stuff was week

OK first of after the very sad death of a good actor this franchise had a number of choices to make

I will not list them but after you decide (the money was huge) we keep going put simply its who puts on the Black mask

After that they writers and every one involved has to work out how to get the mask on to the relevant character the story must support and channel the Mask to the character by eliminating each the possibilities in turn

Now because of this the story is all over the place. We get an old fashioned war of empires were the royal family leads from the front killing and maiming as they go and because its an absolute monarch no on says no. We get the new colonials are bad story they cant be trusted as they only look after their super rich big business and non coloured electorate. We get the spies are bad but good silliness of depends who's side their on. We get a new hyper intel agent young women who has ben exploited this time by old white guys. We get the pressures and problems our non elected leaders face because they didn't chose to be borne into the role and have no choice but to do what every one wants and expects

Look I have never been a fan of Black Panther as I have problems with the hole King thing and all the problems this brings to the story I cant see they are trying to fix it the Royals/Nobles are not to be pitted they are the source of the problem

Now dose the story work honest no the Baddies are simple miss lead and the real danger is elsewhere we see it but no one else dose come on all that tech all that brain power and its smash kill maim no I was not convinced and we take this bubbly quick clever intelligent articulate jovial young women and turn her into an angry killer nut job no one can say no to but at the last moment the big bad from the last movie saves her

Like I said we really tie our self's in notes to put the mask in the chosen head and it kills the film I don't know if the chosen performer can do it moving forward the potential is there but I am not sure the physical presence is even in the suit you know who it is I personally would have went a different way but I can see the potential

Because of the death and the decision to keep going this movie was always going to be a tough one to make we were going to see flips flops and pirouettes to put the mask on the chosen head and to be honest 7 (6) is generous because the whole empires at war thing dose not work it doesn't matter how we get their it doesn't work we lead they follow not again nations/empires at war because of an absolute leader doesn't matter if some one is tricking them their supposed to figure it out that's why they are the Heroes.

This is Good film and because of the distance from the Main MCU line it works The action and the CGI are great the FX and make up are great the story is fine the bad guy is a bad guy and people stay dead I think

They go back to the basics they worked in the Vol.1 and 2 they take the to be nice nutters of the MCU and put them on a ship told a very good story about defeating the actual and imagined demons The movie moves so fast you don't get to ask why and that's good because after wards you will

They keep the story in this case focused selfishly on the crew and their attached friends and family and this time as far as I can see there is no link to the main MCU story I could be wrong here so be kind. Only one surprise in the story for me as I know the RR story from way back so I was more focused on the other bits

Its not perfect way to much this is the last time we will see each other but they have space ships so em maybe not G and Neb managed fine. The absence of G was frankly week and the hole I am not your G was week before the end of Avengers and the split was what a long week ends difference that must have been a hell of a (Hangover) weekend murderess wack job too Super Hero in 3 - 4 days or one kiss come on

Every one gets to say good by audience actors and characters despite again it being pointless that every one has a space ship and Neb and G managed it its like those scenes in USA TV Shows were we get a scene for no other reason than its the last season episode and its nice but why

Here we get the added bonus of watching the heroes at their super best working hand in glove perfection to kill a lot of (innocent) slave soldiers after the big bad guy had blown up a planet and the heroes had well em ah done er (nothing) oh well they got a bit confused (I told you not to think about it)

Look you don't go to GotG film to examine the motivation involved by the evil charterer do we we go to see big bangs and space ships to see super hot characters being cool if the writers are OK we get a FF family dynamic and if your lucky you get Bumblebee humour this had all of them and to be frank it sits with the Suicide Squad and Vol. 1 and 2 a very good example of a Si-Fi fantasy Comic Book Movie and thank Goodness only one alternant character see it can do done

I have been a fan of GotG for nearly 30 years and have been reading RR since he was the second story in Transformers UK comics and I have to say this is not my outcome for my favourite Marvel characters but it is an (barely) adequate one despite the unnecessary (MCU) deaths along the way and I was at the end (ignoring the child soilder) content and entertained is the MCU back I hope so but I am not sure one swallow dose not a summer make.

The Flash as a series is like al the WB D. C. shows they start well and over time go down hill there are all sorts of reasons and they will be debated by all sorts of people for a little bit longer but its tuff to keep it fresh and new for sutch a long time its why soap operas are so bed and repetitive

The Flash gets the first huge pro fresh idea when they decided to cast Candice Patton and Jesse L. Martin I don't know who came first but the fact we had one got you the other and for a long time their performances were the key the dynamic was very good and Grant Gustin working in around and in-between them took the show in a new fresh and at times fun place

All shows have bad too and the Flash is the same I like Danielle Panabaker Keiynan Lonsdale they try as hard as they can but they never convince except for the Killer Frost stuff we never get a return for the investment

The First 4 are good they have some wonderful episodes some great singing and some deaths some were great some were indicators of were it was starting to crack and the crossovers which were week became the focus and instead of bring out the best featured the worst by accident

Season 5 is were we get the last of the New good ideas Jessica Parker Kennedy the most obvious and the intro of a lot of problems Flashing in the future losing Jessica Camacho Hartley Sawyer would hamstring the show we get Kayla Compton Victoria Park who I am sorry their characters are week and their performances are poor and as we move forward from this point no one dies even the baddies come back its terrible

I get the idea of Nora I see it ok the character was mostly good (stroppy teen was not) but Jessica Parker Kennedy is a fantastic actress so I get it like Tom Cavanagh you tie yourself in knots to get them back but even Tom was phoning it in way before the end and that's the problem after we lose they are dead and gone idea we have no more risk as no one dies the dad gus are not a threat

but to be fair after the big bad in 1-5 we get Kim Engelbrecht and Neil Sandilands in four, and Chris Klein and Sarah Carter in five these guys are scary motivated and beat each other, they are not speedsters because we have stopped 3 already but they are as unsettling as Zoom and to a lesser but similar degree Savitar who are broken minds out to destroy (I never understood the Reverse Flash was weird jealousy?) so how do you beat team flash

Now the coup Barry and Iris is a D. C. legend and once they are wed and that should have been way sooner but when this happens the writer have no idea what to do they cant imagen a married couple or any couple can have lives apart or even like Louse and Clark or the Netflix Characters separate stories or even a story were we don't place the wife in jeopardy every week Grant Gustin and Candice Patton have created some classic TV moments and Team Flash is way better with Iris in it but Iris in The Flash has become way to complex to be the Wife and Cheer leader for her husband having created a complex and interesting Iris they could not work out how to move her forward pity just released was the same for Cecile Horton Danielle Nicole is a fantastic actress equal to Candice Patton Carlos Valdes Jesse L. Martin Jessica Parker Kennedy, they brings some thing new fresh and in her case funny it is so good to watch her take on the mother hen and super hero roles and never stop smiling nails it every time but despite this she is reduced to joes wife why? Because no one can figure out how to for example create a Claire Temple Karen Page Marci Stahl Trish Walker Colleen Wing or Misty Knight Dinah Madani female characters with stories of their own who on occasion merge with a hero or heroin and who exist with out their male partner/lead

To be fair WB is probably the problem every one gets a couple and every one wants a wedding?

Its not all bad after five honest but we don't get the frill of one to five oh and if you don't invite your girl friend t a weeding you are in all sorts of trouble.

I liked Ant-Man and enjoyed Antman and the Wasp so I was very disappointed with this as I was hope full we could see a dysfunctional group of family friends come to gether to resole an important but not critical problem

I was unsure about making Ant man the new Cap Movie of the franchise as I could not see how they could take a nice family guy sit come situation and turn it into a glob spanning drama like 24

I believe like spidy the key is keep it simple keep it close tro home I agree their is a need to see growth in characters and addition to the cast is essential to move things on but and this is the honestly of it Ant-Man worked because the film was smaller and it fitted in as a small but absolutely vital pace af a bigger picture

Literally shrinking everything to make it fit turns out was not the answer to how do we make the sit com movie into the lead movie

The original movie was not a blow every thing up film it was clever and strangely heart felt the second as I said was badly needed because of the lake of a Wasp in the first one but it laked the engaging plot of the first

This one could have had anything and the tried to give it every thing its to far removed form the first two movies its like some one said we need to Thor or Gardiens this up we need scale we need lots of bad guys and a universal level problem with a simple resolve

We lose all the supporting characters form one and two we jump form ant and wasp size problems to problems so big they cant be imagined and added the big bad.

I am more disappointed with this than any of the other MCU releases because this one is so much worse than its predecessors it is shocking like I said about spider man far from home I was looking forward to this I hoped we could see old characters and new friends return for an update and a super simple solution to an ant and wasp problem that would in the future reveal a huge solution to a massive problem

But no we get the big bad up front and center and well turns out hes just misunderstood and has some issues also turns out he may be the big bad of all the big bads because if we do this wee thing we can beat him

If you make your big bad unbeatable how do you beat them its what happed in Green Lantern and FF4 II movies

This film is for me the Kick Ass 2 for the Ant-Man Movies I hope we get hour heros back to their Sitcom extended family and friends were it looks like they should be.

Over the Six seasons this is a ten Star but and it is a big but Lauren German and from season 4 Inbar Lavi they are way way out of their league should be an eight because of their very poor performances its the fantastic performers that are around them in fact all the other performers (except maybe Aimee Garcia but that could be the character) that saves this really amusing idea

Wait you said 8 I hear (no one say) ok in season 6 we get Brianna Hildebrand and that was a hole star in its self I cant believe how good they are I really didn't think they had it in them but on they walk and its as if they were there form the start a fantastic performance of a really interesting and lovable character that takes the show very nearly to a Ten.

This show has a number of very story (plot) and character ideas but it cant join them together

I enjoyed The start of seasons one and two which have very similar but weird endings its the middle bit of both again their are some fantastic ideas and characters but joining them together falls flat on its face and like every one of the new style format USA shows it has at least one too many episodes the story is slowed down to stretch it out and a lot of plot padding added

Now if Your a TNG fan ie this is the show you loved this will not appeal similarly if you were a DS9 fan this is not for you I could see voyager fans getting this because of a fan favourite returning to the universe but I was not a huge fan of this so I could be wrong

The problem Picard has is to understand what's going on you need knowledge of the previous shows and the movies and they were to be fair and I am a fan here they weren't all good all of the time and people cant go back and watch the equivalent of 21 years of TV (not sure you need the og or the enterprise) and one sort of retecon adjacent and very controversial/divisive movie too understand what the characters are talking about so any one who comes to it cold is baffled and those who get it have their ideas about the Trek Universe and what should and should happen and if they don't see their ideal, ideas they let you know about it look at Disco for that

I have imagined stories and events for the Universe and the characters and to be honest nothing in this shows comes close but they try and to frank about half of the ideas work but the bring things together the story arks for the season its not their we don't see a beginning a middle and an end joined together with stories character development its a sort of jumble of people places and events that are some how related if it was a book you'd bee flicking back pages to try and figure out who are what that was and why it was important

The writer (writers) want the sort of Sherlock idea were we see paths from all sorts of significant and insignificant things on screen became mixed to reveal before separating again to tell all sorts of parallel tales like the Netflix Marvel TV shows were a character has a story that comes to collide and be significant with the main plot but the other parts don't well not until latter on in not always as significant but still enjoyable for the viewer this is disjointed it lacks the flow

The New characters are very good we get some interesting back stories but the out comes are very poor to be honest they are so I don't know bland and to be frank agitating we have the unlikely hero couple the (now new) gay couple the peter pan and to top it all off no one dies (ok its trek I get it) they tie them self in such a horrendous plot at the end of season one to pull that off, the season two ending by comparison is interesting and has possibilities until that is season 3

The worst thing I can say about season one and two is they try some new things some work some don't but that's S-Fi some time the mad ideas work some times they don't

BUT and I have to say this season three is shocking it is a good example of the situation regarding past knowledge and new ideas it spins time back to the final episodes of TNG and the last scenes of Nemesis it ignores every other thing that has happened in the universe including Spokes failure but and this is the problem only because the writers did not like the events elsewhere in the universe not like star wars were they didn't like the events in The Last Jedi and had to wiggle about a lot to try and fix it season three just ignores the previous two with two exceptions Robo Picard and sevens (now definitely) gay partner

With the same problems of length disjointed plot and the added entertainment of two reveals that weren't and an ending so outrages I actually thought season one was good the only thing missing form season three is the Cook moment (Hunt for Red October) It is really bad so bad they get the fat enterprise back its shocking how poor it is it actually is on a par with The Last Jedi and to top it all off the suspected spin off possibility is yet another (Constitution) NCC-1701 they couldn't come up with a new name or even a new ship its the one they have been fling around in the hole season.

There is one thing I have to say about this there is one recall from TNG (DS9) and two new babies that work Worf is fantastic in particular when on screen with Raffi and the La Forge sisters are good dialogue was a wee bit flat at times and the daddy trying to save them was stupid but the actress were well cast and put some effort in

So Stop at 2 funny that was the Si-Fi jock for a long time.

Oh Dear its last of the summer wine in space

All the good we have had since the last episode of TNG has been swept away and every one gets to go back to that last episode and start again

No wonder all those (Botix) actors returned TNG says it loud and proud young is bad and old is good

Oh and to top it of the two not TNG characters are served up as canon fodder

We even go back to the Fat Ship yes the one that was blown up not the sleek battle ship you know for the coming Battle

And all of a sudden the son of Picard is a bit of a idiot and charges of to be a Hero upseting his mum who apparently has lost two sons?

Oh and the big reveal come on got it in the 1st red vines flash back actual had it worked out as only the pale ones could be Picards big bad looking for revenge on their biggest failure that wasn't a failure?

We did deal with the borg in season two and in voyager right?

Long live the Disco and the future!

Best Movie of its type since the French Original of Nikita (1990)

It has a story it has a script and it has heart and sole

This movie is a no were near as brutal as the original Nikita more like the Hollywood version. But and its a BIG BUT the addition of. Gina Carano apparently the inspiration for the film is the key too the ten.

She is a genuine physical presence on screen no need for Bourne or Bond style injections or gadgets and for once no super powers by the way big fan of the super powers too

Just a very fit strong fastr and very well traind women who can look after her self and her male companions

This is a worthy No Blood No Guts successor of Nikita and its the Movie Point of No Return 1993 with Bridget Fonda & Atomic Blonde wants to be just for the record I liked Atomic Blonde & Point of No Return but this is better it lacks the Hollywood gloss and ending and. Theron & Fonda are very good but Carano is better

Its only for comparison so truly watch both they are good but Haywire is a 10.

Far too long and bordering on Boring

OK 1st I don't get the need for this movie we have a Batman and OK he is not great but in batman movies/shows its the baddies they matter for the reason of simplicity I will include Selina here (I agree she not a bad guy she is like Deadpool and the new Harley an anti-hero)

This is were the problem lies and it is a shame because I really thought the new guy pulled off batman and was fun to watch (but he failed to pull of Bruce was terrible in fact with out the mask) The baddies were so poor it was like watching Jim Carrey Uma Thurman Arnold Schwarzenegger all over again treating the character like panto villains for goodness sake

The underlying shock story of Brucie's daddy as a nearly baddy was obvious from the very start with Alfred's first line including reference to the fact no one was running the business and all the money had gone and the mayor who by the way was a stand out because of the actress and not the writers says the Wayne's have taken on nations and one (but know their potless talk about a ships cook moment)

So there is no dating my enemies daughter moment and no oh heck that could work ether so we need on screen bad guys who are ether effective i.e. Peaky Blinders or sinister and possibility broken beyond repair or forgiveness joker in Dark Knight type or Thanos people you know will never stop as they are well broken beyond repair

They try with Paul Dano The Riddler but I don't know if its the performance or the writing but its flat and unconvincing he really isn't particular clever never mined cunning and he wants to be caught?

Now on to Selina (Zoë Kravitz) once more the story that introduces the most complete and complex female character in comic book history is a joke if your introducing Catwoman you need to introduce Catwoman not introduce Catwoman the Riddler and the penguin and the joker. You don't need all this going on you focus on Catwoman and batman and Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne which is four characters and is hard enough to pull off you don't try to attach her as an after thought like you did in Dark Knight Rises.

This character is as vital as Louse Lane and Iris West and the writers directors need to stop fighting it and accept its Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle from now on (I'm not talking wedding bells I don't think that fits for these two) but the romcom will the wont they was pathetic it was pitiful to watch and frankly cheep the we might do it next time Fast & Furious 7 Drive out was pitiful and the absolutely ridiculous she wont stay he wont leave I mean they have smart phones skyp and all the and the attached chat and communications they really don't have to try and make it so bloody dramatic Grow up ask her to stay show her the house and get over the stupid will they wont they we know they will OK

Zoë is her mothers daughter stunning and with so much potential but and I don't mean this as an insult she was struggling with the suit and the balaclava I don't think her frame fits in the design and its not her fault we have seen Johansson Pugh Lucas and Bicondova truly fill there battle dress and closer build wise Kurylenko and Steinfeld get armour and Battle dress to work with them the perfect example was Elodie Yung (I know she is Taller) right Battle dress and Mask to suit the character/actress it matters because like I said batman looks really good in the mask

Zoë Kravitz as far as I can see is an OK actress not Johansson Pugh Kurylenko Steinfeld or Yung yet (I haven't watched a loot of her stuff yet sort of like Zendaya I can see the potential but not the proof yet) but given the chance to put Selina in the day light (again the movie is way too dark) we could see a very capable actress emerge like Kurylenko in Hitman (and then 007) so for me we need to see her again in a better suit and for goodness sake put Bruce and Selina in the day light and contrast with Batman and Catwomen.

So Batman was good Selina Kyle was good the Mayor was good the FX and CGI were good the Music was Good the Story was bad the sound was terrible and every one else including Alfred and Gordon were terrible and it is way too long and for a film with Selina Catwomen Kyle in it she not in it as much as she could/should be Its way too dark and the sound was terrible(I know this twice but it was that bad)

Its a movie we did not need butt we have and the only good is the new Batman works and the new Selina works (High hopes for Zoë would like to see her again) I rely don't see the point of this far too long film I know catwomen is the most important character in batman and I know we need her but this movie only just introduces her because it has the character in it in every other way it is a bad film.

Season 3 as a story is a very big mess as we try to switch away from Allison back too Vanya

Elliot Page cant pull it off they don't have the talent to take charge of the show and the writers/producers realised way too late to fix it

Its why literally until the last couple of episodes Emmy Raver-Lampman is left to sit on the side lines

The return Ritu Arya as an actress and character was fantastic and the story was so good

The repeat of all the past mistakes is what drags it down the characters that don't learn from the past slow it down and make it messy Vanya Luther and new Ben

But its Allison sweeping in at the end serving her self you really do believe she can be trusted but no has to have her own way

Just one thing to add Claire had a Dad ?

This is not as good as Predators.

This is as near as can be a mix of the original two elite soldiers in an urban (suburbia) Environment The problem is not the cast or the story but the limiting factor of the planet i.e. Predators was in Space. The story could well have been placed after the original i.e. A Sec Ops team takes on an Alien Hunter.

The Kid part is silly but and this is the thing you have to remember we are watching a movie about a spec ops team taking on a super alien so silly is a bit well silly. I like all the cast up till this film could not figure out how Olivia Munn got work had only seen her in X-Men she steals this to be fair the ex-wife is good too But Munn steels this which brings up my problem with the film its the end were the heck was she the best character i.e. The clever, intelligent and to be honest the only one who knew what was happening she is the one who joins all the bits together is gone replaced by the little boy now I said at the start silly but even I struggled here

Like I said it runs like the original we see the endings of all the soldiers and it felt unnecessary and more like a final destination movie I really would have liked to see the Characters from The Predators mentioned or heard or some thing but it was simply the fact tat the Predators are at war

So is this as good as one Yes, as two yes, as Predators no probably not but that was a genuine step forward into a new world this is a bit of a step back but it is fun it is well worth the time to watch it.

I was so looking forward to this we have two great characters and with fantastic chemistry a return of some old interesting ones and some new very interesting ones I am surprised by the poor writing both plot and script Marvel has the Netflix link and both Disney and Marvel have Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. and Agent Carter to look at for how to do it well

I mention the Netflix stuff because they took minor characters including a Female and Ethnic minority lead to the very front we had/got Daredevil Deborah Ann Woll, Ayelet Zurer, Amy Rutberg, Elodie Yung Jessica Jones Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Carrie-Anne Moss Luke Cage Simone Missick, Alfre Woodard, Gabrielle Dennis Iron Fist Jessica Stroup Jessica Henwick, Sacha Dhawan, Alice Eve, Simone Missick and all Rosario Dawson The Punisher Amber Rose Revah, Giorgia Whigham, Floriana Lima OK segregation is possible not the best way forward but Iron Fist 2 and Punisher 2 really did try to mix the pot and if we are all honest that's the way forward

Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. and Agent Carter again mix the pot not as much as they could and should but the were trying they also looked at the politics of things very softly and some times if you blink you miss it but it was their, a couple of times they literately walked up and snaked you with it but again usually in a way that worked

This is were this show and to a degree the DC shows you have to compare this with fail they don't do it because its the right thing to do i.e. Bring a female character to the front (the new carter) or a good but jaded heroin fighting for the a cause with a European origin no they slap you in the face and take two of their best actors and give them the sort of speeches you get in the worst WB/DC episodes I know every one wants to blame every one else and that's fine but the Sam Willson in the comics and the MCU joined the air force for his reasons and yes he should be annoyed about the past but you cant fix it you can only fix ware you are

No more politics but honest the way this was written was strange it feels like a jigsaw with pieces missing and you cant see were but you know they are missing the title and promos look like lethal weapon in the MCU we get an added bones of a knew female supper villain and a big fan fav of a new cap but we don't see this mix we never get any real investigation of the scared vet fixing the present with Bucky we have no idea why the villain is a villain and the returns were nice but they were after thoughts to move the plot on the MacGuffin of a super soldier serum only the baddies take come on

As for the new cap a good solder with PTSD and anger management feels like an after thought and should or could have been tied to the Black cap idea i.e. New angry cap tracks finds the black cap and realises the people at the top have done very bad things before you could tie angry agent carter (maybe) into this she know were a lot of skeletons are and is motivated to create problems for the people at the top we have three warriors abandoned by the people who created them and struggling with what they did saw and had done to them I know its a repeat of the Bucky story but he was surly trying to repair the damage haven gotten a clean brain and a new arm to go with new friends?

Erin Kellyman has got to have been the most poorly served in this show we have no idea who Karli Morgenthau is or were she and the Flag Smashers are from and what is their motivation and it doesn't matter they are all gone in the end so problem over all to serve the Baron Zemo inclusion and his really stupid idea of pre WW I political science He is a very rich and very privileged and can't Imagine they could possibly be wrong simply because they are who they are and they are at the top so they must be right

Karli/Flag Smashers was a way to look at the blip and the breath taking double whammy those left behind went through all alone then swept aside I cant believe this wasn't used why put the character their if you do not use them these people went to extreme of taking and stealing the serum looking for and double crossing a Big Bad and taking on heavily armed government bodies and killing people people seem to love them but every official officer of any sort seems to went to stop them its like the writers know some thing but they don't want use to know it was strange

The actors were great all the way through the FX and CGI were top again the stunts and set peace were again very good bot the final punch up in the dark couldn't see anything the end speech and statue were poor but true and the finish i.e. All blown up was utter rubbish

I cant recommend this but you should decide for your self but if you enjoyed MCU on Netflix or the early WB/DC shows and Titans then this will disappoint if you have seen Doom Patrol, The Umbrella Academy you will be very disappointed. IF yo were a fan of Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. and Agent Carter you wonder why they bothered with this and if you come Straight from the MCU via the interesting strong try but fail of WandaVision you will wonder why you bothered this is a very heavy USA centered show and to be honest it was not worth watching.

Was a good idea i.e. Put every one in a different Universe and see what happens but it doesn't succeed it fails to surprise the Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. Framework idea was similar but had surprises and consequences, The show has way to many flash backs it doesn't tell you a story until it shows you the past and I know we will see the consequences in the films but they are a long way off

The return of some very good characters is the redeeming aspect Darcy Lewis, Monica Rambeau, Jimmy Woo all brought a shine to there movies and this show but their tails were very stop start they didn't flow anywhere more like wish lists for future films and shows and all the time they spend together and they still end up with completely separate stories no melding very like Defenders I genuinely hope to see them again but was under whelmed by the use of some very good performers Teyonah Parris nailed it I believed Monica was that brave that focused on the job and people were afraid of her

The FX CGI and acting were all top of the line we see Elizabeth Olsen acting not for the first time in the MCU but all the way through but and I cant figure out why at the end she stops we see no emotion with the after events/consequences it was weird almost like an android

The idea behind the show dealing with Loss and grief was good the side story of the two visions again good and the arrival of Agatha Harkness and Spectrum? Were very good I was happy to see these two key and very important characters arrive Kathryn Hahn was a show stealer on a level with Kat Dennings in Thor

For a first try and a difficult subject this is a good effort but it gets carried away with all the sit come stuff and the righters failed like I said to bring any story save the town being returned to normal to any sort of conclusion I know we will likely see them in the future but still. The show had money and resources behind it and really could have been better put together the spend way to much time in black and white and in sit come land because of this we need all the flash backs

If you came to this from the MCU you would be disappointed with the result if you came from it fresh I don't think you would be eager to continue to be honest this is not worth the time it takes to watch it the NETFLIX shows are way better. In fact Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. is better and to be fair their first season was a bit dodgy

5 (6) for the genuine brave effort and the return of some great old characters and one wonderful new one but the show starts way too slow never picks up and tries to tell yo every thing about Agatha and the Scarlet Witch in just one flash back episode to much too late never mind a bit of a let down big punch up at the end it never really kicked off was sort of like the air escaping from a balloon weird

Cant wait to see Agatha Harkness, Darcy Lewis, Monica Rambeau and Jimmy Woo again good characters very well performed but they cant save it.

Margot Robbie Rosie Perez are as usal top notch Jurnee Smollett is fantastic Ella Jay Basco was sort of there but did nothing in fact hardlky talks Mary Elizabeth Winstead is out of her depth she was stiff and looked uncomfertabile and unsure what was going on

Ewan McGregor was shocking Chris Messina almost pulled it of but Anthony Carrigan was a great deal better so even that cant save the film

This film looks feels and sounds like an exstended episode of WB TV shos like Arrow or legends it is clinky and bitty and never gets going its cheep

Mind it was nice to see them try but plese if you want to do another one look at the MCU Netflix tuff for scale look and feel and Agents of Sheild for the story and planing and both of them have ben well cast and performed

so dont bother with this one go whatch Shild or Mavels Netflix stuff its better

Oh dear what a disappointment I was so looking forward to another chapter with ne characters and what do we get

A repeat

I cant believe some one signed of on this it is a poor film all round it dose nothing for the character or the expansed universe

Every thing they do they unwind and return to original setting what a wast of time

We even have the exactly the same gets boy toy boy toy dies and its the same guy its so week I am really annoyed I loved the fresh fast fun first one the end sequence was OTT but everything else was spot on this is terrible it just wastes 151 min of your life

This film really is the pointless nothing that we see makes any difference to any one in it its like one of those TV episodes were every one is stuck in a time loop except only one person knows and they haven't changed ether its so poor

The only bit worth watching was the flash back sequence that little girl is so good

as for the end credits sequence some times people should let the past lie this was reminiscent of the casting of Nicole Kidman Michelle Pfeiffer. They were all good performers but the surgery and injections has created faces with no expressions at all Lynda Carter is no exception I actual thought shed had a stroke when she grinned at the camera

I am very disappointed by this film and look forward to number 3 with much trepidation

Is this a good episode of Death in Paradise No it is not why? well we had the old get the cook moment (hunt from red October) and a poor Sherlock Homes I remember/noticed something no one else did (sorry spotted it way before Neville did) conclusion not the shows best but to be fair it had been going for ten years so they cant all be locked rooms and Neville is lovely but he's not Richard sharp and prickly

Plus why was Florence sent away was there some covid reason or cant these to be on set for some reason together I mean Joséphine acting has been better then it was with Marshall's (initially fun) Clouseau performance she's back to the grandfather Jack level true Martins is better but Jobert and Martins were good together so sending her to the UK was a very bad idea could have worked if you'd have put Jack in the screen with her for fun but separating her from Neville and then having Camille work out Neville is doing a Richard and falling in Love with has amazing D.S. (every one can see it but him) was weird it was like a bit was missing and it was she was in London

I lead with the times on screen for Ben Miller i.e. DI Richard Poole now this is a scene every fan has been waiting for since 1 Nov. 2011 and thank you it was worth the wait two fantastic performers bring to life to amazing characters and doing what every one wanted just a pity one of them was dead but as poor as the episode was this was worth it I have rewatched this scene and these two are good at their jobs they just slip back into the emotion and the way they are able to flash use back was unnerving

I wonder who was setting what strait in this scene because it was truly like some one was saying they had regrets and you could not live with them particularly if yo had a chance to fix it

OK over all they were trying to mack sure every one was involved it didn't work I love the little (Young) Dwayne character but J,P, hasn't settled yet and turning a quick and clever kid into a jelly was bad (J.P. could have taken paternity leave and the DS's work with the new boy who uses his Dwayne skills to help the case) ev could jave been left to work with the boss who dose the same thing as with Poole and explains what it is he is feeling about the team and the DS this gives Nev the chance to show he understands why the boss feels so bad that some one was murdered and the effect it has had

We have seen Children's revenge for an injustice secret ID and the staff did it also the hidden lives on different islands so why not resolve the problems in the team the same way as before

As for the concern above about the Neville and Florence will they wont they I get it we have the lose of the love of her life and finding Neville in desperate need of help and support and friendship and protection and a lot else so she would fall in and do that the character is nice but remember it was supposed to be Madeleine. DS Dumas had gotten her up tight English DI to play in the sand like Camille had gotten her DI to do He Sat In the Sand with her paddled because of her and danced with her see were I am going. We could have a DS Camille Bordey and a DI Humphrey Goodman on our hands 2 years to set up a will they wont they to see some one leave and have to try and follow it through I hope it works and I hope they don't try to carry on regardless

Was this episode worth 2 parts no was it a good anniversary no we don't get to see any one because of the returning actors but that's not their fault it the writing you can do it if the returners fit in but because they had Catherine Bordey's life in peril we had to have her daughter front and centre I get it she would only come back because it was here mum OK but still that's the problem we get it explained in the Beach shot its not work that's keeping her away its Richard but the poor story doesn't allow for that with out a beach moment

So as I said Ten Years for two minutes and it was worth it so ten out of ten Thank you Ben Miller and Sara Martins for doing it. It really was worth the wait to see two very good actors on screen together again bringing to amazing characters to life (sort of) for one last time, we get a glimpse of what could have and should have been

And writers and producers learn from the Past don't force two characters together see what you can work out before going hell for leather regardless oh and J.P. will be a good role model for little Dwayne he was for Ruby