Reviews

This episode was a very welcome break from our main protagonists. It explores the sentimental backstory of Zuko and marks the true beginning of his growth as a character. It fills in the story of the Fire Lord and the royal family which were not previously explored in depth.

The ambience of the episode perfectly reflected Zuko's situation - lonely, abandoned, and traumatized. The flashbacks paint the trauma in Zuko's childhood, which finally explain his personality in past episodes. This episode wraps up his character arc since the pilot, and begins to show how the character of Zuko will change over the next episodes.

This episode has made Zuko, by far, one of my favorite antagonists of all time.

The episode, like many others, had its ups and downs. Only for this one, I felt weirded out enough to write a review about it.

The title of the episode is very accurate. The outbursts came left, right and centre whether you like them to or not, and even whether they were necessary or not. For a moment, I got teleported back to the time I was watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, because this episode was on par with it, only that Zoey doesn't have a mental illness that we know of. The point I'm getting at is that the outbursts and the events in this episode weren't naturally executed.

We've all reached rock bottom at one point in our lives, and any normal person wouldn't just lash out at everyone at a close proximity. Rebecca Bunch might have. But not Zoey. At least, not the Zoey we are led to believe we know about. Mo and the final scene really saved the episode.

Overall, the structure of the episode felt slightly confused, but owes its rating to a fortunate saving grace.

Another classic filler that you'd expect of the Walking Dead. Hallucination - check. Hallucination of a person you've killed - check. Getting stuck under debris - check. Getting stuck under debris for hallucinations to speak - check. Hallucination disappears and leaves character unchanged and uninspired - double check.

Completely predictable revelation of Beta's past, one which most viewers don't care and one that has little to no significance on the plot.

Some good shots and a glimpse of a new character aren't enough to balance out just how dull this episode was, plot-wise.

As much as I liked the idea of Farkle being the center of an episode and dealing with mental illesses, the production team handled this episode poorly. The episode revolved around general exposition and self-diagnosis, which is a poor message delivered to tweens and teens.

I went into the cinema with pretty high expectations, having seen such phenomenal ratings for the movie. All throughout, it didn't go as I'd expected so I was just ever-so-slightly disappointed in the plot arena. However, it turned out to be okay. It wasn't a perfect, Oscar-worthy plot, nonetheless.

The biggest problems I have with this movie are two things - jumps and focus.

Jumps is the editing and time jumps in the movie. The ratio of Jackson and Ally's story was far less than the final scenes mainly revolving around Jackson, and you could very easily tell the movie was rushed, and they were forced to cut out a lot. The focus was not too clear. Whether the story revolved around the couple, or Ally, or Jackson, it was just too ambiguous to figure out. It began with Jackson, and then moved on to them as a couple, and Ally's part of the story - both were rushed in order to continue focusing on Jackson, on which note the story ended. The ending was sad, at first, and then it just felt empty. I imagine the production team just went "We need a plot twist, and the audience should be expecting Jackson's lost of hearing in the end, so we need something that is unexpected. Let's kill him off."

All in all, the acting and songs were enough to compensate for the points deducted for the mediocre plot.

It was a pretty decent episode overall, but the one scene that stood out most was when Brian and Stewie had the deep conversation. It was not cry-out-loud sad, but it still makes you think about the relationship between Stewie and Brian. How Stewie would eventually grow up and Brian would be long dead by then. For some reason, it was actually tear-jerking to acknowledge that.

This movie is not for the faint-hearted, because it will literally "thrill" you to death. For once, the antagonists of the franchise actually have a good intention, and ultimately, you begin to wonder if the rebellion was a correct movement. What is unexpected is that the end happens so quickly. You'd think they would plan everything precisely and coordinate an attack, but no, what you thought to be one of the missions inside the "last city" led all the way to the final battle, which is probably why the movie is so thrilling. Also, it is one of very few movies that did not drift too far from the books, which I must say is very rare and amazing. In simpler words, definitely something you should see in your cinema.

As the critics claimed, the final installment of the Pitch Perfect series was very predictable, scattered all over the places and inconsistent. However, if you viewed it like I did - as a farewell instead of a usual movie - it's really good. Everything was coming to an end and the end was, rather emotionally, not enough to make people sob, but still it was a sad farewell. The music was... not bad. I loved most of the music, but some were kind of scattered and confusing, ie the final song. With the heavy instruments in the background, I could hardly hear the Bellas. But all in all, it was a great movie and will definitely add to my collection of Pitch Perfect DVDs

(Heavy spoilers for seasons 1-10) As the title suggests, seasons 1 to 5 were spectacular. Most characters were still young and looking for love in a childish way, while living their nerdy lives. Sheldon & Leonard's relationship with Penny is worth-mentioning - they were such good friends and Leonard even had a couple dates with Penny, which was really cute.

I've been binge-ing this show for a couple months now, all the way from season 1 through 11, although I've never lost interest, the show was very obviously going downhills from season 6 and forth. Reasons behind that I've noticed are the amount of drama and the characters-growth-in-maturity. Elaborating the former, the amount of drama created by the writers is just too much. For instance, the birth of Halley was sweet at first, but then it turned out to be a drag to the show. Bernadette and Howard, taking on the parents' roles, although often mischievous, are much less humorous ever since the birth of their daughter, and the funny bits are usually forced by Raj and Stuart, who have also grown a lot in terms of maturity, and are, of course, less humorous also.

Given that, the latter should be rather obvious. Although Sheldon doesn't seem to have that big of a change, his friends unfortunately do. Maturing isn't bad on its own, but if you're going to make them less funny, then hell naw'. Let's take some in the Social Group as examples. Penny, in the first couple of seasons, was kind of like a post-college sl**ty girl who was messed around by reality. With a never-ending list of boyfriends, she eventually settled with Leonard, to whom she was married to. A season after the said event, she began to develop a mature and boring personality, which no longer includes the sarcastic and who-gives-a-**** traits of her past. Amy, who has been a steady regular character for quite a while, used to be that isolated weirdo who had tried desperately to be part of the Social Group / the girls' group. Now that she's "officially" part of the said groups, she's lost that desperately funny trait of hers and also gradually becoming unfunny.

For some reason, this review has become more negative than I'd planned. Given that, I will not stop watching and caring for the Big Bang Theory since it's still one of my favorite shows. Despite it going downhill, which I hope is stopping soon, Big Bang Theory is still a wonderful sitcom to laugh at and watch, especially in times of stress.

Thank you for reading this essay-length review of mine, and have a very Sheldon day.

Being so-called - just another teen apocalyptic science fiction, it's actually not too terrible. The idea of the movie is pretty interesting, though the plot twist was rather predictable, it was still very fun to watch. Almost everything in the 5th Wave is expandable and thus a sequel is definitely wanted and possible, as long as it doesn't drift too far from the books - like Allegiant - it'll definitely be big-screen-worthy. Although I have to admit, the main characters aren't very skilled at acting. Cassie was fine, but Sam - given his age- was terrible at acting, which made the scenes with him rather cringey. The ending was pretty anti-climatic, but the story itself was so thrilling that if something wrong happens in the end, I would really have a heart attack.