WB Wonder Woman 1976 Episode 3 Review

A Wonder Woman Episode Accidentually Broke Out During An Early Reality TV Competition Filming…
So it’s the lovely ladies of the Miss Dream GI Pageant. Lovely ladies… As long as they don’t talk, bicker, Reality TV emote, etc.

So… Does this count as in before every exploitive Reality TV Competition ever aired?!? Anyway the MC for this Pageant of errors is Dick Van Patten… So. When they decided on the pageant numbers? Was it deemed that Eight Is Enough?

The Pageant is supposedly the cover for sabotage. Which seems random, but in fact is actually a bit clever when it’s all revealed. Anyway the target is supposedly the build of Radar Scanners.

Now, wracking my brain back to the era? This seems to me to be a tie in to… Pearl Harbor! After all, in that faithful day in 1941 prototype radar technology has spotted the attack coming!

So, in this Universe, the military fast tracked development of this prototype radar system, now about to finish and send out fully operational G1 Radar Systems for the growing battle in Europe and the Pacific.

Yeah. The radar system is not the real target of the sabotage. As you see attack after attack seemingly fail. Which includes a rather strange sabotage of a truck with radar supplies coming in.

Apparently the truck was rigged with a rather Wille E Coyote looking prop of stick dynamites… By a seemingly time displaced soldier from Vietnam. Because what?

This must have been cleaning day of the WB prop department. Later on we have sabotage killers dressed like cast from The Rat Patrol so… Yeah. That happened.

The gang at the War Dept is stymied! How did this saboteur sneak into the base… He didnt! He obviously did it at the check in gate, in front of at least the co-driver of the truck! Also? Apparently they were in on the sabotage!

Why? After being rigged to explode? They drive into the base, drive into a tunnel… Suddenly stopped, jumped out, and fled the tunnel before the explosion. Because reports said nobody was harmed.

Yeah. I know the 70s are a bit squeamish about harming people with kids watching, but this is a bit ridiculous! Steve and Diana goes to investigate the base. But they realize a morale boosting beauty pageant is happening at the same time.

Uhh… What? Considering this is a well known morale pageant? And it’s going to be transmitted to everyone from the base via Armed Forces Radio? How is it the U.S. War Dept not know about this!

Steve tries to imply he wants to hire another one shot hit female character to infiltrate the pageant. The audience watching boos him, and cheers when Lynda Carter dons a wig and joins the cast of GI Jane The Pageant.

From word one everyone acts like they’re in a 21st Century Reality TV Comoetition. So much bickering and backstabbing. Anyway did they bring in a well known Broadway composer to be the pianist?

Obviously they have Dick Van Patten as the MC and Magician. And it’s fun by a male & female duo. The last is there to den mother the ladies comoeting. The guy? Hes… The Sabotuer Leader.

Yeah. Who didn’t see that happening. Anyway soak this episode in everyone. It’s the most females in display while still being most modest. After all, it’s 1942 through the lens of 1976 primetime TV.

Diana is great as Wonder Woman… But fails as a spy. She ends up sneaking away from the group to help… Help… Let a bomb blow up but not let it… What. The bomb wasn’t that big a bomb. Even shielding an unconscious Steve it wouldn’t have hurt him.

So why not just grab the bomb and throw it high in the air? Plot convenience. Anyway she returns to the group But has to fake showering (closest you’ll get to her nude folks, her in towels). Suddenly she’s suspicious.

It doesn’t help that she did all this without telling anyone on base what she’s doing. So nobody is there to collaborate her story. Meaning she’s instantly outted as a possible threat. But not kicked out of the pageant.

But the big show is about to happen. While setting up the stage our leader overhears someone proclaim the obvious dangerous overhead hanging lights are dangerous if cut. Or something. Said voice decides to rent space in his head and repeat said warning.

So that’s the plan. While Diana helps Dick Van Patten with magic? She will be randomly crushed by falling lighting. Then the whole plan falls to hell because that’s stupid. All the guys are there pacified. Don’t rock the boat.

So if the plan wasn’t for the radar? Why was it done. Easy. All the failed sabotages was planned to route an incoming General Dwight D Eisenhower (actor portrays him in episode) for them to kill.

The last act gets hectic. Finally told of Eisenhower’s arrival by General Blankenship, Steve does his Conan deduction and realizes all sabotage was meant to reroute the general into a trap.

They chase down the General to stop him. Etta goes to warn Diana but meets Wonder Woman instead. Oh. This is the first time the flashy iconic transformation sequence is used! Yay. She ends up saving Dick Van Patten and another woman from that light trap.

Who is she? Why was she mistaken as Diana? Was it Etta? Someone else? Didn’t pay attention. You’ll have to watch for yourself. Anyway it’s time to end this.

Wonder Woman heads out to aid Steve and Blankenship in saving Eisenhower. Easily overcoming the small sabotage unit. Guns, rocket launcher, nothing stops Wonder Woman.

She captures the gang. Eisenhower is safe. The Radar System is shipped out to aid in the War effort, and Wonder Woman is declared the winner of the GI Dream Girl pageant! Duh. I’m sure 1976 Lynda Carter was a lot of guys dream girl!

Anyway that’s Disc 1. I’ll wrap up the full Season 13 episodes total, so 10 episodes on 3 discs, before the year ends. Sadness? Today’s Sadness is you will never live to see another fun enjoyable Super Heroine show like Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman. Ever.

Well… Let me just say… The upcoming series from MAX? Paradise Lost? (Focused on Themascyria and the Amazons of the new DCU?) That doesn’t sound lighthearted or enjoyable to me! You?

Well that’s the 70s. Finally done. Let’s mosey on over to the Sadness of the 80s next. For March Sadness continues ever forward. I haven’t picked my next review yet. But I’m sure it will be somehow sad… ness. Stay tuned.

WB Wonder Woman 1976 Episode 2 Review

The Nazi Wonder Woman Is… NOT Baroness Von Gunther!
Bad Brave And Bold! Someone took two entirely different characters (from Episode 1 & 2) and created the Baroness Von Gunther character in Barve And The Bold!

That’s a crime against characters! The real Baroness Von Gunther is a femme fatale egotistical mastermind… Who fell short, and got rolled repeatedly down a grassy hill fighting Wonder Woman!

This is the Nazi Wonder Woman. With legit backing to her claim. Part of the young Nazi party Olympiads in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, she proved her strength in competition.

But this is all about how she’s micromanage by her idiot of a male superior Hitler sent her to work with. By the way? They all refer to THE FUHRER, but never call him by name. Adolph Hitler.

Remember not so hidden base in Berlin? Yeah? Apparently this set is going to be a revolving door of stupider and stupider Herr Kommandants throughout the 13 episodes in WWII. Starting with Sexist Nazi Pig.

At this point word of Wonder Woman has reached Berlin from the failed Nazi Spy Rings dismantled so far. Our Frauleine has come complete with footage from the 1975 Pilot movie!

This new Kommadant? Does not care that Wonder Woman has all these amazing powers, doesn’t even care for his ally (sent by Hitler himself). Yeah. Spoiler… I’m sure he gets whacked eventually.

Hitler is intrigued by Wonder Woman. And wants her captured so the secrets of her powers are revealed. To that end he sent Germany’s greatest woman to subdue her. New Kommadant is not impressed.

But all she needs from him is to sneak her into the U.S. so she can capture Wonder Woman. And yes. The Americans are not dumb enough to be tricked by any diplomatic trickery using her athletic credentials to sneak her in.

The plan is to sneak into the War Dept (now called the War Dept by the way, as opposed to The Office Of Defense from the 1975 movie), disguised as a cleaning lady. Drug him with knockout gas, and kidnap him by rolling him out with the laundry! Easily done!

The plan is to take him to a warehouse, hide him in the warehhouse, and tell the War Dept that Trevor is captured and how to find him. Expecting Wonder Woman. Since she works at the War Dept? Done.

This is not the capture point. No. Our dark WW wants to see if WW lives up to her hype. I think kicking a bunch of Nazi ass in under a minute counts as living up to her hype.

The big takeaway is that she sees the Magic Lasso in action, used on a strong fearless man to compel the truth. So she can find Steve Trevor. For us? He gives us first hand testimony of the lasso.

According to him? The lasso completely overpowered his will, and his attempts to resist it left him with nausea and a headache. So the lasso completely overrides the brain and controls through it.

She decides to live up to her role as the Nazi WW, impersonating her at a war bonds fundraiser for the War effort (cue the real Wonder Woman delivering a PSA on buying war bonds!) She’s captured easily.

Steve sees through the Nazi WWs disguise, but ultimately fails to save her. He decides to defy orders and go solo to Germany to save her. Getting help from British OSS (precursor to M-7 I think).

Our Nazi WW returns, satisfied she holds the secrets to WW in her hands. In the form of her belt (which gives her amazing strength) and lasso of truth. Thankfully nobody added her Golden Age character weakness against bondage.

However she still has to contend with the male Nazi asshole Hitler insisted she works with. Who repeatedly tries to ship her back to her division…despite the fact her division is supposed to be farther up the command food chain than his post.

Not even when she shows him the power of the lasso to compel the truth from Wonder Woman does he believe. Mostly because she talks about Paradise Island. Apparently an isle filled with strong women unhindered by men? Possibly 90% lesbian? Pisses him off.

But it sends the wheels in the Nazi WWs head whirling. Sure enough she will have ample chance to put her change of mind to good use. Why? Because we are about to go in circles here!

Questioning WW his way, with the Nazi WW nagging him about the belt and lasso, pisses him off to the point he angrily throws both at WW. Who catches them despite being strapped to a table. She frees herself, beats them up, captures the Nazi lady, and escapes.

Great. And if episode yes? No. She finds out back in Washington DC that Steve got captured trying to save her. So she flies the Invisible Plane back to Germany. Where Nazi WW and Herr Asshat are still bickering away.

She saves Steve, but they’re trapped in some water well electric trap thanks to blonde Nazi lady sharp thinking. Since asshat learned nothing? He keeps pushing her buttons…

Until WW finally gets through to her. She then easily overcomes the asshat and his male support aide. She frees WW & Trevor, and they all part on ambicle terms. Probably never to see the blonde lady again.

No. Brave And The Bold doesn’t count. That’s not this lady. Anyway that’s that. Our one and only appearance of the Nazi Wonder Woman. If we see her again before the WWII season ends? That would be nice. Anyway next time? Beauty Pageant for Morale!

Yup! Beautiful ladies cheering up the troops via a beauty pageant setup… As opposed to singing and entertaining like Bette Midler in For The Boys. Anyway I’m sure we will be entertained… So put that sword down Russell Crowe! Sit, stay, and watch the ladies march! See you.

WB Wonder Woman 1976 Episode 1 Review

Before Detective Conan, There Was Detective Tommy!
The start of Season 1 of Wonder Woman. Features Baroness Von Gunther in her first appearance… Huh. Be disappointed? She’s not the same lady seen in Batman Brave And The Bold.

Yes that’s a cartoon and this is live action but that lady was a blonde sociopath, this one is a dark haired femme fatale with a dark Basic Instincts streak. So different women.

Also? We first meet her… I’m custody. At a military prison near DC. A badly run military prison, as we see that a Nazi agent has already been placed as a guard. To be Von Gunther’s subordinate.

The start of the season has the Nazis planning to frame Steve Trevor for sabotage, while working hard to destroy the latest weapons shipments meant for the front lines. As the allies continue to push the Nazis out of occupied Europe.

This framing plot is ok. Maybe it places a giant emphasis on Steve Trevor as a war hero, but to be fair? Lyle Waggoner pulls off the hero role well, while still being acceptable down to Earth guy.

The investigation of Steve as a saboteur is spearheaded by a guy that, don’t be shocked, is a Nazi agent and Von Gunther’s associate in this whole sabotage scheme. But we aren’t quite there.

After a failed attempt to frame Steve for the destruction of another weapons depot… Hidden in a plot friendly random barn in Virgina… Wonder Woman saved him and another guy by the way. It’s decided maybe Baroness Von Gunther knows something.

At the prison we meet the warden’s son, Tommy. A regular old detective as he spends his days investigating stuff. By chance he stumbles upon a dropped secret key, to a secret tunnel that leads out of the prison.

Not only is the prison easily infiltrated by a Nazi agent, it’s built with an old Civil War era escape tunnel nobody ever sealed up. What Von Gunther credits later to Austrian Immigrants.

It’s Tommy’s tireless investigation that reveals that Von Gunther has been slipping out of prison via this tunnel. And that she is getting rides from the man investigating Trevor. Why? Because he’s kinda dumb. That agent guy.

He has to send a car to ferry Von Gunther back and forth from the prison. Yes. But didn’t 1942 have car rental businesses?!? He didn’t need to implicate himself by using his private car for the trips!!

Von Gunther immediately realizes, after being questioned by Trevor, that he knows she’s behind the sabotage from inside prison. She and her cohort outside decide to kill Trevor and frame him faster as an agent.

How? Well this time it’s plot convenience. Wonder Woman saved Tommy, and learns of what he found like the secret tunnel. He wrote it all down though… Which is important later. She lends him her lasso, the Nazi agent in the prison steals it.

They trick Steve Trevor into signing a note confessing he’s a Nazi Spy, pretending they caught Wonder Woman. Eventually figuring things out with Tommy’s help, she arrives to save Steve but is captured by Von Gunther.

The Nazi agent in the prison kidnaps Tommy from the warden’s office… How? I don’t know! He somehow had to carry him through the whole prison and to his escape car without being stopped!

But he forgets to take Tommy’s notebook. The father (the warden) finds it, and the whole secret tunnel and involvement of the big prosecutor guy in Von Gunther’s escape, and the secret Nazi in the prison? All comes to light thanks to Tommy.

Nice end. It brings an estranged father and his son closer together. Though why is the son living full time in a military prison with his father? Do the inmates hire Tommy regularly to investigate for them to prove their innocence?!?

The plan is to take Steve and Wonder Woman to the next big sabotage, and leave their corpses at ground zero. Implicating them in the sabotage. But the episode is nearly over so they get free.

Steve captures the Nazi Spy hiding as an influential guy in DC. Wonder Woman gets into a slightly downhill rolling March with Von Gunther. Eventually capturing her. The sabotage ring is broken, the sabotage stops, Steve is cleared of sabotage charges, all is well.

So… Next Episode we premiere the Nazi Wonder Woman. Why do I have a sinking feeling that this character and Baroness Von Gunther are two entirely different women? Merged together decades later because of… Convenience?? Huh?

The Nazi Wonder Woman. Who is she? Let’s meet her next time, tomorrow as we review Episode 2. See you.

WB Wonder Woman 1975 Movie Pilot Review Finale

It’s WWE Nazi Smackdown With Nazi Wonder Woman V1.0!
Ok it’s time to bring the movie pilot to a close. First transformation. First use of the Lasso of Truth. Wonder Woman using her power of ventriloquism! And Version 1.0 Nazi Wonder Woman!

Apparently Carl brought his entire Nazi Sympatizer network from New York! He has a few like minded agents to help him capture Steve Trevor. The Taxi Driver? Not an agent. But not paid enough to risk his life to save Steve.

So they need to take Steve to their apartment to question Steve. Why? They need to break into his safe back at the Defense Dept or the Dept of War to get the plans…

Seriously? This show is way overblowing the act of attaching an upgraded telescopic lens to the bomber’s line of sight periscopes! Even the Nazis can create better lens… Oh wait. No! They killed all the skilled people in their concentration camps! Never mind!!

Why not simply drill the safe… Oh right. Power tools didn’t exist in 1942. Bomb the safe? Nope. The plans must be brought back intact… Ok ok. Drug Steve and get the code to his safe.

Wonder Woman, disguised as Nurse Diana Prince, finds out the stupid head nurse disobeyed command and let Trevor check himself out. She sends Wonder Woman to the War Dept, where Trevor said he was going. Oh. First Transformation sequence. Zero fanfare.

Yes. He didn’t go there. But Wonder Woman has to sneak in at night there. To fight Steve’s Nazi secretary. Who apparently is her own Nazi Wonder Woman, as she manages to hold her own against Wonder Woman… For a minute or two.

Wonder Woman uses the Lasso of Truth in her. Good on the lady actually trying to fight the lasso, but failing. Interesting fact. Golden Age Wonder Woman loses her powers when tied up. Also Wonder Woman in Superman Red Son Elseworlds Universe.

Wonder Woman ends up in a bind. She has to reach Steve before the Nazi lady’s team kill a him… Oh. Wonder Woman delivers her first woman empowerment and sisterhood of peace speech to Nazi lady by the way. She also has to stop the Nazi Bomber.

Oh yeah. NOW an actual Nazi Bomber model is used! No more WWII need footage cut ins. So how does Wonder Woman do it? She calls the guys holding Steve, and rescheduled his execution by an hour using Nazi Lady’s voice.

She then used her Invisible Plane to intercept the Nazi Bomber, and latch into its topside so she can confront its pilot. Who is long on talking, short on action. Folds with one punch.

She then tricks the U-Boat into revealing its exact location, and suicide flies the bomber into it destroying both. Getting out with the Kommadant, turning him over to DC Police… Huh. She calls him a spy, unaware she just turned in a major Nazi Kommadant.

She saves Steve from the Nazis holding him… Apparently whatever the lady did to call them to DC blew their New York covers. They were about to flee to occupied Europe, the U.S. No longer safe for them. They’re captured.

The scene? Short. Carl and one guy shoots at Wonder Woman. Carl giving up first, his face saying he realized they’re wasting their time shooting at her. The big burly guy of the trio? Pulls out a switchblade and yells AH-HA!!

AH-HA WHAT STUPID! You are carrying a switchblade! Anyway gets his ads kicked in under a minute. Same with the other two. Steve is saved, the plans saved, the factory saved, Nazis captured.

So now it’s time to shake your fist at the show in anger. Steve regrets hiring a hot woman as his secretary. First? Sexist. Second really? She wasn’t that hot. Third sexist. His boss then disrespects Lynda Carter as Diana Prince. Who is sexy no matter what!

Once your done booing? That’s it. The pilot movie is over. A good start for a three season run of Wonder Woman. Not as long lived as Charlie’s Angels, but it had a good run. Look on the bright side! Before it’s all over? Wonder Girl will be introduced!

Not that this series leads to Silver Age Teen Titans. Heck, nobody from this show appears in that one made for TV movie with Adam West Batman, Burt Ward Robin, and the Silver Age Justice League! But still… You take what little wins you can get.

Tomorrow we roll into 1976. And Episode 1 of the short lived Season 1 set in World War II. Only 13 episodes…compared to the over twenty episodes each in the 70s (Season 2-3).

Episode 1 means the arrival of Baroness Von Gunther, the Nazi Wonder Woman… 2.0. Her introduction, and her first meeting with Wonder Woman. Coming tomorrow. See you.

WB Wonder Woman 1975 Movie Pilot Review Part 3

Meet Carl, The Nazi Stooge Doctor Who!
No. Seriously. I don’t know how else to explain his role in this movie! Given how he’s seemingly everywhere instantly? And this is 1942? It has to be using a TARDIS! There’s no other way!

The movie is wrapping up soon. Maybe by tomorrow or Wednesday we will wrap up. Anyway the next parts line up in a way to Sensation Comics Wonder Woman origin. That’s fine.

What’s not find is that it bends the origin to fit the plot going on in this movie. And that, as you already seen, ruins all continuity as things just make no sense! This Review is a good example.

Last time? Our spy in DC called Carl to come and aid in the Wonder Woman problem. Just as she does that? Wonder Woman is walking about DC oblivious to how odd she looks… But not for long. She does walk into a dress shop to buy new clothes.

Plot Convenience ok? Plot convenience. She catches sight of men robbing a nearby bank. In her most polite Christopher Reeves as Superman demenor? She stops them.

Kudos to the crook who only shoots women in self defense. Not like he will hit her. Anyway this time her bullet reflecting is a bit jump skippy. Like the footage was rush spliced together. She stops them and the cops misunderstand her. Like in the comics.

And thus plot adherence ruins the comic tie in. Now, in the comic a lecherous showman tricks Wonder Woman into performing her bullet reflection trick on stage. He’s a sexed up ads who wants to exploit her. He gets his ads handed to him.

Here? She does the show. Just to show off her bullet reflection trick again… Yeah, this pilot is slow on action I’m afraid. Though having Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies test her with a damn Tommy Gun was nice! She lives! And she eventually ditched the showman.

Sigh. In the comic… Wait. Wonder Woman gets away from this pointless time killer once to dawn over Steve in a nurse guise. Nope. She hasn’t done her twirling transformation once yet. Probably not until Episode 1 (1976).

In the comic? The showman was a pervy guy looking to exploit a hot sexy woman with talents. Here? He’s… Carl. The New York Nazi agent that the DC femme fatale yanked from his post to aid her.

Remember. She has just called him in New York when we went back to watching Wonder Woman street shopping and crime stopping. Even if an hour or two passed from call to now? It doesn’t work!

He had to drop everything, drive directly to DC, and find one star spangled woman with zero leads from his DC superior. Also? Her call have him no specific orders. Here? He has a full secret identity as a show producer, complete with office and theater rental, set!

The only way he could do that? Get in his TARDIS, and arrive weeks in the past. All so he can set up his identity and rent the office and theater. All for his role… Huh? He was a showman hired by the Nazis? Yeah? But he works in New York! They’re in DC! How!!

Why stop there. He then, after Wonder Woman leaves him behind, calls his contact to say he couldn’t keep her distracted (and away from Steve Trevor). How! We just saw her at the show watching to see if they could kill Wonder Woman!

What is this? Magic rotary phones!!? How did he call her? Especially as she was in the theater watching their plan to kill Wonder Woman fail miserably! But wait… There’s more. Oh. He’s not a real Nazi. He just likes their money. Goofy after hangup Heil Hitler.

AGAIN?!? THIS IS 1942!! The Long distance operators aren’t going to not listen in during a damn war! You just announced that your a Nazi to Ma Bell (precursor to AT&T!!) Dammit!!

The next recycled Luftwaffe Iron Cross fighters is ready. By the way why! You know Nazis really did have an experimental jet fighter back in 1942! They could have used that! But stock footage so ok.

If you think that the Nazi Secret Base Kommadant has figured out that his Elton John looking second is a traitor? Nope. No such luck. Oh. The pidgeons? They belong to the Nazi Kommadant!…

WHY DO THE PERSONAL PIDGEONS OF THE BAD GUY KNOW HOW TO FLY RIGHT TO ALLIED COMMAND IN EUROPE! ALSO NO! THIS BASE ISNT IN FRANCE OR ITALY! IT’S IN BERLIN GERMANY!! WORST SECRET BASE EVER!!

Yes it has to be in Verlin. Why else would his second tell the Kommadant that the next jet fighter is being sent will all due haste to Berlin… Unless THEY ARE AT LEAST NEAR BERLIN!! Sigh.

So the race is on. With the next Nazi her fighter… Which is not really a Jet Fighter, but an Iron Cross fighter… The bad guy is passing through friendly Argentina, on his way to New York.

Thankfully plot convenience has Steve requesting an American prototype plane to fight the Nazi. Bad news? His taxi ride is driven by Carl… See? Now he used the TARDIS to get a guise as a Taxi Driver, and be at the right place and time to get Steve Trevor!

Yes. He somehow checked himself out of the military hospital, despite his command ordering them to keep him at that hospital. Not to let him run off silly nilly… Sigh.

Tomorrow Wonder Woman will have to save Steve. Then they will have to confront the Nazi in an aerial battle to end the movie… Hopefully. Stay tuned. We might end this movie tomorrow. See you.

Tsuburaya Ultraman Nexus Episode 22 Review

Just Another Bring A Hunted Person Home For The Gang At Memory Police Resistance.
Ugh. Turns out the dying Jun needs several more episodes to properly die in! Sigh. This is dragging on forever!

So let’s see. By the end of next disc there will be a new Nexus, but it won’t be Kazuki. Despite calling himself Dark Mephisto way back in the origin of how Mizorobi met Ultraman? He won’t officially be DM until disc 4.

There are other things, but let’s be disappointed in them together when I review them in the future. Anyway last we checked? Jun was dead. They called in the crash cart to defib his heart.

Then during the attempt to restart his heart, TLTs chairman somehow figures out to somehow trigger Ultraman into saving Jun. By using the brain CAT scan to… Something.

Ultraman intervenes, and withdraws Jun. Who goes to talk to Kazuki via glowing form. Not Tony Stark hologram shows up to warn Jun that he can’t continue to become Ultraman as it will kill him. He then let’s Jun go.

I’m a few episodes TLT will realize Kazuki, Nagi and Captain knew all about Jun being Nexus, and his it from them. They are understandably pissed, but that’s for another review.

Ultraman drops Jun off with the waiting female Editor. She takes Jun home and cares for him. They talk, their story expands a little, but ultimately he runs away from her and nothing really happens.

Well… Other than their talking and him flashing back again to that native girl dying. That’s it. Still amazed of the village she died in. The indigenous South Asia village of naturally born stunt petformers. I hear studios thrive on finding their village!

Mizorogi? Still alive. Decides to rip off any overtly dramatic movie by texting alien text to Nagi, passing by Lady Editor after she parts from Jun, and watching dark evil clouds roll in. No. It’s not Gozer.

Either Kitty Koopa lives, or its another being… Oh. Not Kolchak? Yeah. He’s officially moved into the official apartment (main setting of the group’s online comedy series “Three Men And A Conspiracy”). He gets to know his fellow Memory Police fugitives better.

They show him that, despite being caught off guard, the Memory Police rebounds by planting false info about his news story. Writing it off as SFX model work and photography.

Except once again the Memory Police had bucked up. It’s not the news story they had to kill, it was the pictures. As long as they exist, the Memory wipes done by the MP might as well be stopped. Just looking at Kaiju images triggers their memories to return.

So, since nothing dies in the internet? These one set of images is enough to reverse all the Memory Police’ work. Which means… It’s time for an actual possible force behind the Kaiju to arise.

So it might be true that Kitty Koopa survived Nexus’ Specium=166 finisher. It might be a new related beast. It might be new altogether. But starting in the local city underground, and working it’s way to groups of people. Allowing itself to be seen.

Though it is only tentacles fetching humans through a rift portal, no doubt to help the creature recover from mostly death, the plan idclear. Spread fear of the Kaiju through the population. At a rate not even the Memory Police can hold back.

No. Now that Not Kolchak has unwittingly released the catalyst to reverse the mind wipes, it looks like the enemy is moving forward with a new plan.

Not listening to crazy Not Tony Stark’s warnings, the episode ends with Jun becoming Ultraman Nexus. Don’t worry. He won’t be long for this show.

So let’s see. I’m a few we find out Jun wasn’t the first person to merge with Nexus. We find out the light seen by Lady Editor was a new Ultraman arriving. And we find out the Kaiju threat has a plan. But it’s all in Disc 4. Stay tunrd.

It’s February. So tomorrow it’s back to Case Closed. Season 2 and Detective Conan and the Detective Boys… How Hardy Boys of the Season. Stay tuned as we review Episode 27 tomorrow. See you.

Birdie Wing Episode 12 Review

A Lot Of Build Up Signifying… Not Much.
So let’s see. From the start of the third arc they built up this new tournament. Building up to this confrontation with the best High School level lady golfers of Japan.

So… Would you be surprised to find out that this is a lot of build up which won’t pay off until Season 2? Yeah. This feels like it won’t really be resolved in this finale of Season 1.

I guess that’s fine. It leads to a new season eventually and I’m ok with it. But as such there is no real incentive to review Episode 13. Not yet. Not until we have Season 2 in hand and ready to review.

Yeah yeah. That will take awhile. Not just the wait for it to be streamed, but it to be released from the US/UK Bootlegger in physical DVD release for me to buy and review. So this may take awhile to resolve.

This release is kinda rough. After seeing all the episodes it looks like these DVDs suffer from synching issues. With the subtitles either lagging, flashing by too fast, or occasionally not appearing. Considering how basic this DVD release is? How did they do this?

I don’t think this is a sign that the bootleggers made their own subs. These days bootleggers are way too lazy to actually do their own subs. I’m done cases? Like Komi? A hand made fresh sub might actually be superior to the Netflix sub.

I think this is a sign that they recorded the master copy for this bootleg off an unreliable WI-FI signal. The lag issues seems to be a sign to me that they made the master copy using a fluctuating WI-FI that stuttered as they recorded.

To be fair to the Chinese Malaysian bootleggers? They put more effort into their master copies that they rip for their DVDs. The only time quality fails is when they bootleg long disc space eating series like Kamen Rider series. And jam more than they should per disc.

A standard DVD disc? Cannot hold a dozen episodes like any Kamen Rider series. The major drawback of doing this is that the bootleggers have to bitcrush the episodes to fit in each disc. These make Kanen Rider bootlegs vastly inferior to an Authentic release.

This is fine. Even packing 7 & 6 episodes on each disc doesn’t require them to be bitcrushed. So quality is at least passable. It’s not 4K superior. But it is acceptable.

So you probably noticed that we are not talking yet about the tournament. That’s because not much happens. Yes. We do see the new two lady rivals of the series. Twice. Commenting on what’s going on without actually being in the tournament.

This feels like it’s trying to tease how Eve & Aoi won’t be a good fit as partners. But we already know they’ll be a great team in Season 2. Sigh. Episode 13 is a Match Point tournament in school. This I guess is supposed to strain the friendship of Aoi & Eve. Yeah.

This episode we see that they are already an odd couple. Aoi killing Eve with her infectious kindness and joy. But even so. By the end of the tournanent, and yes it ends fast, they’re grumpy at each other? Do much so Aoi’s Caddy/Watcher fears she’s ruining her image.

I think the most unexpected bond formed in this episode is between the loveable goofy Caddy Ichina… Izzy!!… And Aoi’s Caddy. A kind of odd couple all their own, with Ichina doing it manually and Aoi’s Caddy trusting technology more than her own senses.

Yeah. They would end up being friends. Which feels like this is building up to the Caddys working to mend whatever breakage happens in the two’s friendship. Ugh.

Yeah for all the build-up the tournament ends fast, and with no surprises. Aoi & Eve win. Then we have a time jump of two weeks. It’s back to school life… Implied but not shown.

We have a brief cameo by the mom/daughter (former caddy) (her old family back in Europe), and the introduction of thevMatch Point tournanent. Where both golfers must work in unison to win.

Huh? You mean the Anime Team slipped? They forgot that Eve and her former family were supposed to be talking in English for this scene? Just ascwell. Eve’s one time talking English sounded too unnatural, especially for one who learned English for several years.

So I guess that’s that. I’ll be keeping an eye on E-Bay and watching for Season 2. Stay tuned for updates. Anyway we are ready for one more review before February and Case Closed Season 2. What shall it be? Good question… Hmm… Stay tuned.

Birdie Wing Episode 11 Review

When You Are Pushed To The Breaking Point…
So this is a tale of being pushed past ones limits, the sin of the senior staff guy who sacrificed someone he cared for to obtain victory, and another family member joining the Plot conspiracy.

The episode starts with Aoi, and her caddy slash mentor/watcher. She’s getting ready for that new tournament the show is building up towards. But her mind is on Eve.

Apparently every time they want to duel, Aoi’s schooling or responsibilities calls her away. By the end of the episode you learn Aoi is a Freshman First Year student. So yeah. All her extra duties are family based.

We meet Aoi’s overtly stereotyped grandfather. An old Japanese male who… Raised a foreign girl (the mom) since she was young? We learn that by glimpsing two pictures prominently displayed in his home.

By the end of the episode, and yes I’m sure this surprised nobody, we find out that he’s as intent on the school winning as the mom. Why? Guess that gets revealed in Episode 13.

So. We already know that Evangeline (Eve) has been roped into being a part of this tournament. But she needs one more year to make sure she’s ready. Enter the President of the Golf Club of the school. A female golfer on a sabbatical from golf due to Golfer’s Elbow. A common golf ailment.

Except we learn that this is from that guy who we’ve seen moving heaven and earth to get Eve in the school, then the tournament. Pushing her past her limits until she ended up with a possibly career ending elbow injury.

So this lays at our feet the question. Why is beating this new tournament such a no compromise all or nothing affair? During Eve & Izzy’s training (as golfer and caddy) we are introduced briefly to the big opponent Eve will face. The rival golfer this tournament will be hinging on overcoming.

These drills that the injured lady takes Eve & Izzy on seems normal. Except she decides to play the role of Uatu the Watcher. And pits the pair against a ton of hardcore worst case What If scenarios.

This seems harsh. Like she’s there to bully Eve… Unless you are open minded to the fact she’s intensively drilling Eve in a ton of worst case What If scenarios. Preparing her for a great deal of possible scenarios that could go wrong.

For her part? She has a in her mind (for the sake of us the audience) talk. She is fully aware that she’s pushing Eve hard. But compared to how hard she was pushed, ending up with maybe a career ending injury? She might not be pushing too hard.

For my part? I think I would like to see this lady have a story in Season 2. Her climb from injury, self doubt, self hate and blame, to recovery and returning to get golfing prime. That would be nice.

Anyway since we have another training montage? That further cuts into the opportunities for Eve and Aoi to duel… And yes I considered the fact maybe the small blonde lady in grandfather’s pictures was Evangeline and not the mother. But we shall see…

Anyway all this. A long road of manipulation, bartering, using a woman until she was broken, and 3-D Shogi playing politics? All leads to Aoi and Eve being teamed for the tournament.

The episode ends with the pair finally teeing off against each other. This scene is basically the one we have seen in the opening credits all season. We even have the senior guy tell them to just golf and stop chatting.

Too late. The end credits run, as I thought they would, and the episode ends. That means the season ends on a two part tournament where Aoi and Eve compete together for the first time.

So how will this two parter go as we wrap up Season 1? Guess we will find out soon, as we review Episode 12 tomorrow. Coming up.

Ok. Let’s get the obvious out of the way. Yes. I will order the Season 2 DVD once those bootlegging bootleggers release it. First I’ll look at the even more ridiculous sport of Women Racing… It when young Japanese girls think they’re Equis Horse Women. Pretty Derby.

The show that doesn’t even care it’s not realistic. Girls running in races against each other, with horse DNA, ears, and tails… WHAT!!! Sigh… Great. I’m reviewing some creators Rule34 dream made real.

This year in the non Case Closed front? We review Pretty Derby Season 1, finish The Ultraman 1979, FINALLY review Hazbin Hotel Season 1 (get booked in… Hell?), and more. This year. See you.

Birdie Wing Episode 10 Review

Straight To The Point… By Not Getting Straight To The Point.
Apparently it’s time to have this world’s John Wick inspired mafia hold the new organized whatever’s drink. Because the Golf Mafia has nothing on Higher Education Golf.

Last time we saw, Eve (Evangeline) wanted to duel her Japanese friend (perhaps secret sister) Aoi. Aoi wanted Eve to enroll in Jedi Golfer Academy…

No seriously. It seems everyone of import in this series uses the force when golfing. So much for just having a nice slice of life fun sports drama with beautiful ladies. Nope. It’s either over the top or bust.

Yeah yeah. Despite my snipping I still like the series. I’ll even return for Season 2. But why must everything be over the top? Anyway time skip! We ended last episode with Eve wanting to duel Aoi. Now? She’s enrolled in the Golf Academy.

But that’s not the Only jump ahead. We find out Aoi’s mother knows of Eve. And she wants her in the school. So that she becomes Aoi’s rival and pushes her daughter to be the best she can be. And hey. They’re both friends AND rivals. So best of both worlds.

But we have subterfuge and intrigue again. Remember that higher up of the school who wanted Eve in? He knows of her from the time she challenged Aoi in that highly publicized tournament. And he wants to add Eve’s skill to the school.

A major tournament is happening, one newly created because all good major plot devices are newly created. He wants to add Eve’s power to the school’s doubles team for the tournament.

Is this guy just an opportunist looking to keep his school as the top Alpha Academy of all ladies golf academies? Is he tied to the European Mafia? Is he just a minor tool to start Eve towards being a legitimate pro golfer? Who knows.

At this point we know this. In all the time that passed? Eve and Aoi hasn’t golfed once! Apparently I’m thinking they’ll drag it out all the way to season end… Then cut it off just as it starts to end the season. Sure, we still have THREE episodes, but that’s my theory.

Anyway! Would you be surprised to discover that Eve is the scary new delinquent in school? She can study just fine… She’s just bored with all the educating. Makes sense since isn’t she, like, twenty-something? Didn’t she graduate from school already!

Worse, her caddy Izunami? Not Sonomi? Ugh. It’s going to take me days to memorize her name… And by the time I do that it’s the end of Season 1! Anyway trying to keep Eve out of trouble is a full time chore for her.

Eve talks two random girls to show her the local hot spot (the mall). Where Eve and her new friends have fun, and we discover Eve is as skilled at basketball as she is in golf! Great! When they cancel this series she can get transferred to a female reboot of Slam Dunk.

Returning to school late she’s told by… I’ll call her Izzy (our lovable caddy)… That there’s a curfew. HOW those other two girls with Eve managed to stay out and not worry about the curfew? Who knows. But this is where Eve is challenged by one of the Academy’s top students to… Miniature golf.

So I’ll just cut to the chase. This girl, and the older senior student who aids her, are the school’s present too entries into that new tournament. And they meeting and challenging Eve is no accident.

I guess it should go without saying that ladies in this school challenging Eve probably have ulterior motives. Sure enough, in the end credits, we find out that they were there in behalf of that senior guy who got Eve into the school. Testing her out.

Thing is? I don’t think they know that he’s setting them up to fail. He wants Eve in on that tournament. Odds are he’s going to make sure Eve & probably Aoi replaces them. That means they just helped themselves out of the tournament. Maybe. But there episodes, so…

So today Izzy learns that Green Bullet is best of Eve’s Rainbow Powers to use in miniature golf. The senior member of the duet has to replace her partner once she realizes that Eve has psychologically worn her out.

Let’s see. Younger one uses the Golf Force to see the lines linking ball to hole. Older one sees how to act in the moment. Time coming to a standstill as she makes her move. And yes. Somehow the main girls can still think their dialogue while frozen in time. Amazing! Look Doctor Strange! No Time Stone!

Izzy earns her stripes as a pro caddy today. Stopping Eve before she can take her shot, realizing the senior lady’s shot caused a imperfection in the mini golf flooring before the hole, which would divert the ball away from the cup if Eve took it straight on.

With Izzy’s guidance, she sinks the shot in one averting disaster. That strengthens the bond as golfer and caddy between the two. Anyway that’s that. The match is over.

Since the whole mini golf challenge was to scope Eve’s strength for the senior guy? It just proves his move to add Eve to the school was the right choice. The episode ends with Eve and Izzy grabbing dinner. Since its too late for curfew they might as well eat.

Three episodes… Huh? Oh right. That senior girl? She’s the Korean champion and head of the Academy Golf Club. The premiere school club for all the lady golfers.

Eve still wants to duel Aoi. This episode they placed the Golf Club and membership as a barrier between Eve golfing vs Aoi… Because plot convenience. So I guess that’s out of the way, having impressed the South Korean female golfer who leads the club.

But we need Eve to prep for the tournament. Find a parter to team with. Qualify for the tournanent. Then play the tournament. That should eat up the rest of Season 1’s time I would think. But we shall see.

Regardless. Episode 11 is tomorrow so… See you then. And yes. If every arc is four episodes each? Then maybe Episode 13 might be a fun standalone game between Eve & Aoi? With Izzy being caddy? That might be fun. But we will see how the remaining three play.

Birdie Wing Episode 9 Review

Time Flies By When Your Replacing Your Secondary Cast
The whole of the episode takes place at the exclusive Japanese golf academy where Aoi schools. Because need new secondary cast.

And we need a new opening since we said goodbye to a lot of the cast we started out with. But I guess at worst we won’t get a new opening until Season 2.

So this is a prestigious golf academy in Japan. You know this is so because Mt. Fuji is in the background. Of course. Apparently all series taking place in Japan needs Fujiyama San as backdrop.

So we need new cast. So enter Misono. Our cute replacement for Eve’s younger sister, and former caddy. She’s a bit of a slow waker, but she’s a Kitty Pryde when it comes to being best caddy. She just fails at waking up on time to catch the bus to school.

Then we have the closest thing… Huh? Oh you see the images where Aoi and her watcher stop to talk to Misono after she misses the bus. Do they help her… No. Sucks to be her.

We have the closest thing Misono has to some sort of friend. She wants Misono to be her caddy as she works her way to getting into the Junior Asian Ladies League. And one day the LPGA. But Misono needs to be Eve’s caddy so…

Despite this being a high end exclusive academy? Eve easily gets into the grounds. Looking for Aoi. She nearly kills Misono or her kinda friend by splitting someone’s head open with her Blue Bullet shot… Hmm… So I’m This case a real bullet shaped like a ball.

I like how Eve starts off speaking English… What European country is she from again that speaks English? Not the UK. They don’t use the Euro (Euru). Italy? Belgium? Plotholvia? Oh. Eve also can speak fluent Japanese.

I would call that in and of itself Plotovia, BUT it just builds on my theory that Eve (full name Evangeline, which is what her new passport and ID say, her original name of the life She forgot) is actually Japanese. And related to Aoi. But we shall see.

She wants to finish the game she started with Aoi back in Episode 2? But she has to beat the school’s braggard student in order to get the chance. One hole… She wins.

Also apparently Misono read the manga beforehand. Because she offers to be Eve’s caddy, despite the fact she said nothing about being a full fledged student. Except that’s where the plot is headed isn’t in.

Eve at first doesn’t seem to be looking for a Caddy, but deciding that this girl reminds Eve of her once sister? She decides to accept her, and starts by training her in the Rainbow Bullets.

Eve wins, Aoi arrives and tries to unsuccessfully glomp her, and then she takes Eve to her room. Where Eve gets naked and showers alone… Already with the fan service!!

She tells Aoi she has no home, and no family (we have what may be the last flashback of the family Eve left behind). Aoi seems ready to invite Eve to join the school… But first she needs to convince Eve to join — her clothes. She seems to want to play Rule34 Golf?!?

The way the episode is going, with one of the senior staff talking to Aoi’s mentor and watcher? The school knows of Eve when she golfed as Eve Aleon so… It seems they would be open to Eve joining the Academy.

Explains why Aoi’s mentor is outside her room as Aoi frantically tries to get Eve to wear clothes. Sigh. Well that explains why Aoi’s mother knows about Eve and the mafia I guess. She’s going to be an antagonist I suppose?

Or are we going to find out that Aoi’s mother is also Eve’s true mother? I wonder… Anyway that sets the ball rolling on the new normal for Eve’s life after fleeing Europe. What’s next? Find out tomorrow as we review Episode 10. See you.