3P Reviews: The Umbrella Academy, Season One, Episode Three

Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 8 Aesthetics and Style: 6 Creativity: 6 Overall Plot: 5 Subplots: 7 Sum: 32/50   Spoilers: Yes Audience Assumptions: None   The Umbrella Academy Season One Episode Three: Extra Ordinary - **   Part One: This Week on Klaus and Some Other Umbrella People THEY RUINED HIM! THEY RUINED MY…

What Makes a Good Character Relationship?

There are hundreds, thousands, maybe even more beautifully-written characters in published works. But what is a character on their own without any connection to the people around them? Isolated characters can only go so far; we are a social species, after all, so relationships of all sorts are important to us. Let's take a look at how fictional relationships work.

3P Reviews: The Umbrella Academy, Season One, Episode Two

In which Five makes some Mistakes, we meet the lovely antagonistic assassins (one of whom is a unionist), and Klaus gets some lovely unintended bonding time with his brothers.

3P Reviews: The Umbrella Academy, Season One, Episode One

Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 8 Aesthetics and Style: 6 Creativity: 6 Overall Plot: 5 Subplots: 7 Sum: 32/50 Spoilers: Yes Audience Assumptions: None The Umbrella Academy Season One Episode One: We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals - **** Part One: Eccentric Billionaire Buys Some Magic Babies, Ruins Them No preface necessary…

3P Reviews: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Season One, Episode Thirteen

Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 7 Aesthetics and Style: 7 Creativity: 7 Overall Plot: 5 Dialogue: 4 Sum: 30/50   Spoilers: Yes Audience Assumptions: None   Season One Episode 13: Beasts of Dublith - *****   Part One: Best Char Okay, so Greed is the best character in this entire series. A lot happens in…

3P Reviews: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Season One, Episode Eleven

Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 7 Aesthetics and Style: 7 Creativity: 7 Overall Plot: 5 Dialogue: 4 Sum: 30/50   Spoilers: Yes Audience Assumptions: None   Season One Episode 11: Miracle at Rush Valley - *   Part One: All Girls Can Deliver Babies, Don't You Know? How many times is it that we have…

3P Reviews: Primeval, Season Two

Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 7 Aesthetics and Style: 6 Creativity: 7 Overall Plot: 6 Subplots: 7 Sum: 33/50   Spoilers: Yes Audience Assumptions: No familiarity   Season Two - ****   Part One: Fun With Time Travel When we last left our intrepid heroes, Nick Cutter had gone through the Permian anomaly and lost…

3P Reviews: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Season One, Episode Ten

Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 7 Aesthetics and Style: 7 Creativity: 7 Overall Plot: 5 Dialogue: 4 Sum: 30/50   Spoilers: Yes Audience Assumptions: None   Season One Episode Ten: Separate Destinations - ****   Part One: Gut, Meet Fist Yes, I'm just that cruel, aren't I? Well, let's get into it. Long story short,…

3P Reviews: Doctor Who (revived series), Season One

Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 6 Camp: 6 Creativity: 6 Humor: 6 Subplots: 6 Sum: 30/50   Spoilers: Yes? If you've never heard about regeneration, go watch the show first. Seriously, it's worth it. Audience Assumptions: None   Part One: Let Me Tell You About My TARDIS Socks Yep, we're going there. I would normally…

3P Reviews: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Season One, Episode Seven

Series Breakdown Rating: Characters and Character Development: 7 Aesthetics and Style: 7 Creativity: 7 Overall Plot: 5 Dialogue: 4 Sum: 30/50   Spoilers: Ja Audience Assumptions: None   Season One Episode Seven: Hidden Truths - **   Part One: The Truth Within the Truth... Whatever that Means From the start, we have a bit of a location…