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NETFLIX's Avatar: The Last Airbender ist but a pale shadow in comparrison to the fantastic animated show of the early 2000s. They try to cram all the emotional moments of the entire animated show in season one on Netflix.

To make one big example: We all know the powefull episode "Tales from Ba Singh Se" in season three that finishes with the stunning 'Leaves From The Vine' moment where uncle Iroh's backstory is fianlly beeing revealed. For two seasons the viewer was made to beleave that Iroh is just a weird old fool but revealing the tragic death of his son during the first siege of Ba Singh Se is what tunred him from a tough general, a man of war, into a the wise mentor who had enough of fighting.

It were moments like this that made the original show great. It was a great display on how well written all these characters were.

In the Netflix show however, all these moments are all laid out for you and shoved right into your face. It is not a journy where the viewer discovers things. It feels more like a strawl through fields of member-berries: "MEMEBA IROH? MEMEBA HOW SAD HE WAS?" He does not even sing the song, instead it is just the melody from Leaves From The Vine played via orchestra in the backround.

All this makes the whole relveal so much less effective! Granted I shed a tear watching this, but only because of how powerfull the original was and how THAT made me feel.

Can't rate this show higher than 5/10. At least the costumes are quite good and some of the casting fits a lot better than in the terrible movie adaptation.

I recommend watching the origianl instead.

The first time I was made aware of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer was back in 2004 when I was 14 years old. Back than I was going through a tough puberty and when my best female friend at that time tried convince me to watch this. Well, I was somewhat... appalled: A mostly female cast, including a cheerleader who fights vampires, who is also in love with a vampire, together with a nerd, who is also a witch and a guy whose only super power is making jokes all the time.

This could only be for girls...YUCK!

Boy was I wrong!

This realization would only come 17 years later during my quarantine due to the evil C. Out of boredom I decided to give Buffy a try...and what can I say. It hooked me instantly. The overall lightheartedness of the show and the easy accessible characters are just what I needed in these dreadful times. There are so many bad shows out there these days, and as a guy who grew up watching sci fi of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, it was so good to see the old style of weekly shows again, with an ensemble cast. Every single episode has something unique and memorable. I could not find a single really bad one.

Buffy: The Vampire Slayer is one of the best fantasy/mystery/horror-shows out there and it is clear that later shows like Supernatural or Grimm, were heavily influenced by this one.

Also of note:

• Buffy is what sparked the vampire craze of the late 90s and early 2000s and would set up such cliches as the always smoking and leather coat wearing, pale, good-looking vampire.

• Is the first television program that ever used the expression "to google" (Willow asks Buffy in 2002, season 7 episode 4: "Have you googled her yet?). Therefore, is the show credited for spreading the term.

• Angel, Buffys mysterious lover has his own Spin off show, which is also great!

I highly recommend this. It is a shame it took me all these years to finally watch it. Go watch Buffy on Disney+!

Ps: Buffy TVS and Angel are THE BEST shows on Disney+! Sad but true!

One of the weirdest writing decisions I have seen in my life. The way the authors wrote Alex out of the story is outright offensive to the fictional character "Alex Kamal".

"The day was saved by our heroes...AAAAAAAAAAAAND than Alex died of a stroke. THE END!" This is no joke! This literally how they killed of one of the best and most beloved characters of the show!

Seriously what a weak way to get rid of an actor...They should have either found a more respectful way to kill him of or replace the Actor Cas Anvar with someone else... This is especially bad since Alex DOES NOT DIE IN THE BOOKS!

To rate this last Episode 9/10 is ridiculous! Because of the weak writing around the passing of Alex I can't rate this higher than 7/10. Otherwise this last episode was quite good. This is why I also can't go any lower.

Who is this old man? Wait, that's not Captain Picard! And who is this woman? Wait, that is NOT Seven Of Nine! They Ruined these Characters! They ruined it all!

Seriously, this is not Star Trek and here is why:

Why does Data only call out to Captain Picard?

• Geordi La Forge has always been Data's closest friend in TNG!
• He respected Data right from the Start
• He was always giving him help and advice regarding Data's wish to be human without making fun of him

So why does he not send for Geordi to help him? Especially since Picard was always "mildly annoyed" by Data. The captain respected Data merely on a professional level, but a deep close friend to him, he was never!

So where is Geordi?

Why do the Romulans need help from the Federation?

The Romulan Star Empire is...well...A BLOODY EMPIRE... with hundreds and hundreds of planets under their rule, a huge Starfleet to enforce their law and keep the empires peace. And now you are telling me that this SUPERPOWER of the galaxy cannot mount its own rescue mission and is also not able to relocate its refugees on the hundreds of hundreds of planets they rule?

This! Is! Absurd!

Regarding the above, keep in mind that these refugees are the inhabitants of their former home world, so basically the most romulan Romulans there are. And now the rest of the empire leaves its own core-people living as poor bums without any help what so ever scattered in federation space.... Yea, right!

I could go on about the Romulans in this show, since they are portrayed so immensely wrong and unlike the Romulans in original Trek but that just would take too long.

Speaking of poor bums: It has been established countless times in original Trek, that poverty, hunger and suffering has been abolished in federation space in the future...

Remember when Seven Of Nine was a gun wielding super mercenary in Star Trek Voyager?

What? You do not remember that?

Well that's probably because she wasn't. She has always been a scientist and later a teacher to the freed Borg kids.

Data had a "daughter". Her name was Lal. He loved her dearly and was actually sad when she died in TNG. So why was he painting this Soji-person and dreaming about her as his daughter?

They cloned Data...an android...how? How does one clone memory from something that does not store memory...what is this nonsense?

Am I the only one ore does this show strangely feel like they were trying to copy the Expanse...just in the Star Trek universe?

• Rocinante in the Expanse, La Sirena in Picard...Spanish named ships in both shows

-rag-tag group of people who have to do something in a dystopian dark future, also in both shows

Com on...it is obvious...with the exception that the Expanse works...STP does not!

There is more wrong with this show, but these are the things that bothered me the most. It is as if the creators of this show did not watch original Trek since they know nothing about it.

Hurr Durr, who famous in Star Trek? Hurr Durr, Picard and Data! Let's put in show! Seven Of Nine also famous, Hurr Durr...and hooooooot! Let's put in show, too and they have to do THING in space! NOW SHOW GOOOOOOOOD, Hurr Durr!

This is how I imagine the creators planned this. Nonsense! Shame on them!

No all jokes aside, my final recommendation: If you are interested in Star Trek and want to enter the Universe, don't watch this! Focus on Original Trek and start either with The Original Series (the 60s style of this isn't for everyone, granted) or The next Generation, which is a must see! But this show is garbage and should not be regarded canon!

The last episode of the Mandalorian was not perfect, but good! There where a few problems with this one, mostly these three points:

1. How could the former imperials kill all the Mandalorians when they where bested by one Mandalorian, a former shock tropper and a Bounty hunter...THREE peolpe! Three People could kill severl squads of troopers, but whole garnison of these Mandalorian "superwarriors" could not?? How?

2. Why did Baby Yoda let the speeder-bike-troopers hit him? He almost killed Cara Dune because she had a friendly match of arm-wrestling with Mando...As if been beaten severel times to the head is ok or somehow not bad...What is that nonsense?

3. When Mando was hit by Moff Gideon, he was Dying, or even near death. IG puts bacta spray on his head wounds and within seconds Mando is ready to fight again. Remember back in Empire Strikes Back, when Luke litterally had to bath in bacta for at least a day in order to be okay again...So why does this bacta heal Mando within seconds? I gues The Mandalorian is a Videogame now.

Other than that the final episode was fine. I liked the conclusion and I'm looking wforward to more! 7/10 Episode. (8/10 show)

This episode is very overrated. The 9.1 score (30.04.2019) is ludicrous! One of the worst episodes of the show. There is to much wrong with the plot. Don't get me wrong, I rated the entire show with a solid 9/10 but this was just bad!

Here are the main things that bothered me:

-How did our heroes survive the first charge of the undead army? thousands of soldirs are simply swept away by countless undead, but the main chracters somehow survive?

-nonense cavlery charge at the beginning of the battle. 40000 riders are sent into the complete darkness without knowing where the enemy is and than are killed within seconds...only Sir Jorah returns...somehow. But at least the burning swords looked cool...

-Arya kills the Night King...How? He was sorrounded by thousands of undead and all of his officers...she magically flew across all the undead soldirs and jumped him with her knife.

-The Night King is brought down very unspectacular. He does not speak a word and barely does any fighting himself.

-John has no part in killing the Night King. So why did the lord of light resurrect him? So that he can kill Cersai?

-Arya has Superpowers now...Countless adult Unsullied slodirs who train their entire lifes from child- to manhhood to become the perfect soldirs are easily washed away by the undead charge...but 15 year old Arya who trained a few years to become a SILENT ASSASSIN...NOT A WARRIOR...is somehow able to kill the undead left and right with ease.

-The Undead have super senses...but the Night King does not??? During the library scene, Arya has to hide from some undead by using her sielnt sneaking skilkls. (By the way: Why does she have to hide?...a few scenes earlier she killed them with ease!*) She crawls under a table, but due to the wounds she got from the previous fighting, she bleeds on the floor. The undead soldirs are able to hear the blood drops hit the floor and rush to find her under the table...So why can't the Night King hear her magically flying through the air before she kills him?

*The writers porbaply created this scene to remind the audience that she is a SILENT ASSASSIN...NOT A WARRIOR!

-Sam becomes a coward again...for some reason! You would think that his time with the crows would have given him some spine...but no! For some reason Sam is just as clumsy and cowerdly as he was at the beginning of the show...also he ist still fat, after all this fighting and wandering around in the wilderness. Do the writers know that one can actually lose waight and that beeing overwaight is not a character trait ?

Fazit: There should have been much more main character deaths , Arya is why to overpowered all of a sudden, over all anticlimactic ending to the white walker story ark, that has been build since episode one, eight years ago.

Dissappointing 6/10 episode in a usual 9/10 show.

The Orvills second episode of season two was one of the best episodes in the whole show! Why does it get all the hate? I do not understand!

Bortus comes from alien world where the people only have one gender! This was established right from the start! So why are people offended by the fact that he "watches" porn containing members of his own single gender race? I don't get it!

The only thing that is a little strange is the fact, that a computer virus infecting the simulator room, can cripple the entire starship. Why aren't these systems kept seperated from each other? This was something that was also bothering me in the Star Trek Shows.

Otherwise this episode was great!

Keep it up!