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Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi Review

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This bonus six-episode animated series sort of came out of nowhere. It was revealed, quietly stepping into the background while everyone else talked about the bigger new TV series and then just… came out. If I’m being honest this is a series of two extremes as its split in two halves, one focusing on Ahsoka and one of Dooku. The Ahsoka half seems damn-near pointless and doesn’t really add anything, where as Dooku was a fantastic look at how the Jedi fell to the Dark Side and why. Want to know more? Read on!

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Werewolf By Night Review

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While I didn’t have time to do a horror-themed marathon this year at least the MCU has come along and given me a horror-themed “Special Presentation” to put up on the day itself. I’ve said this a lot lately when it comes to obscure Marvel comic characters weirdly getting live action appearances but the announcement that “Werewolf by Night” was getting a special episode legitimately made me laugh. What a crazy thing the MCU is now… Even weirder is the fact that the special episode was really good! One of the better MCU things in years, really. Let’s take a look!

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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Review

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So the much talked about She-Hulk MCU debut finally arrives and it’s a comedy show, complete with sitcom tropes and fourth wall breaks (very in character, comic-wise for the record!) while sprinkling in a few important cameos to make sure everyone knows that is still very much an entry in the overall saga. Well… apart from that ending, yesh. Didn’t like that at all… Erm, anyway, I’ll get to that in spoiler bit at the end of the review, either way let’s take a look at the series proper!

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Ms. Marvel Review

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This was a legitimately hard review to write as I didn’t particularly like my time watching the show but it wasn’t because it was bad per say, just that it felt very much aimed at an audience that wasn’t me. I have zero interest in the life of an American high school girl, regardless of race, and as such large parts of the show just felt like I was watching something I had to rather than because I wanted to, all thanks to a want to say that I’ve “watched all of the MCU”. It’s not a bad show, it may even be a great show if your young enough (or have been waiting for Muslims or Pakistan to get some much deserved positive screen time) but for me… well, let’s take a look before I give away the score now and be done with it!

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Obi-Wan Kenobi Review

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Well, it’s been teased for literally years but it finally arrived: Ewan McGregor reprising his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a story set in between the Prequel and Original trilogies. It didn’t stop there though! Darth Vader / Anakin (played by Hayden Christensen no less), live action Inquisitors and even child versions of Luke and Leia.  Throw in some amazing scenes I can’t talk about until the Spoiler section and I was one pleased Star Wars fan!

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Moon Knight Review

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Moon Knight is the latest MCU Disney Plus TV effort, and at only six parts with a top Hollywood name at its core in Oscar Isaac it really felt like an MCU film stretched to double the length (though with more talking / character development than you normally get in the movies, obviously!) It was actually really good, though it was definitely carried on the shoulders of its lead rather than the writing or anything being the stand-out. Let’s take a deeper look, anyway…

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Red Dwarf VI Review

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I constantly go back and forth as to which is the better series out of V and VI, they both feel different thanks to yet another status quo change but both have the perfect balance of genuinely funny comedy and really interesting sci-fi plots. Basically strap yourselves in for more of me praising everything! Sadly for the last time, but there you go, few shows can keep this kind of momentum going… It was also the “final series” when I got into watching it, with me and my friends losing our minds in 1997 when we heard they’d be a seventh series, so more than anything else I see this as the end of the “original series”, at least as I watched them at home in the mid-90s.. Anyway, let’s look at Series VI, shall we?

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Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett Review

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The latest live action TV offering for Star Wars is here, and it’s not The Mandalorian… erm, until it is for the last three episodes, but hey-ho. They were good episodes! So, yeah, The Book of Boba Fett tells us just what the classic bounty hunter got up to post Sarlacc pit and it was actually a really interesting look at the character as he matures and finds a new life after his old one nearly led to his death. Let’s take a look!

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Masters of the Universe: Revelation Review

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This has been on my “Watch Later” list on Netflix for a while now and I’ve finally got round to watching it, being careful to avoid any over-the-top nastiness to do with the pushing of female characters along the way. I was a bit too young for He-Man growing up, Teenage Mutant Ninja (or Hero…) Turtles, Real Ghostbusters and G.I. Joe (or Action Force…) were more my generation’s thing, but my brother, who is four years older than me, was into it and had plenty of toys that I played with, so through that and just pop culture in general I was somewhat familiar with the basic premise of the show, but not being a fan may well have helped shield me from a lot of the criticism the show has faced. Let’s take a look either way!

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