Scotty Newton - All Round Entertainer

Hot off the heels of last week's first 1 star rated episode, Dragonball Super delivers Episode 4 'The Pilaf Gang's Master Plan.' But will this be the episode to finally start hinting at a new plot? Read on Z Fighters.... Summary           So this episode begins another mentioning of the fabled Super Saiyan God again, just in case you are a new viewer and missed the 9000 mentions of it in the last 2 episodes, as Whis and Beerus are on the way to King Kai's planet. Cue some more harmless food banter. The bulk of the episode then features a catch up with the characters just before Bulma's party kicks off, including Chi Chi, the Krillins, Goten, Trunks, the absent Vegeta and Goku, as well as no one's favourite villains, the Pilaf gang. GoTrunks are up to old tricks, sneaking around Bulma's hidden bingo prizes, as Chi Chi and #18 dream of winning said prizes. When Trunks deactivates Bulma's security grid and reveals the Dragonballs, it incident...

ICYMI episode two review here http://scottynewton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/dragonball-super-episode-2-review.html           With my episode two review I asked the question of wether Super would set up a potential epic new saga or just being a nostalgia induced filler train and now that we've had two episodes reintroducing all of our favourite characters, it's judgement time.  Will the series take a super step forwards into new territory? Or are we going to keep sidestepping, while looking over our shoulder? Dragonball Super Episode 3 Review Hunt for the.... snore Well said Old Kai.           Episode three of Dragonball Super, titled ' Search for the Super Saiyan God' manages to do the impossible and have even less plot episode two, this time deciding to leave out the humour that at least made its predecessor watchable. We begin with Beerus still trying to remember the name 'Super Saiyan God', even though he said ...

Episode 1 review here if you missed it- http://scottynewton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/a-worthy-return-to-tv-for-dragonball.html           After last week's lacklustre return into the realm of TV for Dragonball, anticipation and expectations were high for this week's follow up, titled 'Vegeta's Family Trip.' A lot of my criticism for last week's episode was that although it was a fun romp and did a good job of getting each of the character's unique personalities right, it did little to set up an enticing new series. Will episode two rectify this and put it down to growing pains? Or is this the direction we can expect for the rest of the series? Dragonball Super Episode 2 Review Super Saiyan Dad That's so Vegeta           After his absence in the last episode, this week the main focus (or at least the first half) is, as the title suggests, on Vegeta and a family outing. Vegeta is having a family trip with Bulma and Trunk...

History           January 31st, 1996 was the date that Dragonball Z disappeared from TV screens, leaving fans with a Spirit Bomb hole in their hearts that the ill-received, semi-sequel series Dragonball GT and its pink monkey shenanigans couldn't fill.  With the franchise on the rise in popularity thanks to the hugely successful lines of video games, as well as re runs of the show,  two new short specials were created, 2008's Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return! and 2012's Episode of Bardock , although neither reached the highs or the audiences of the series. Dragonball is better when stretched out over a long series as it's the only way to get its ludicrously epic scales across. For the 25th anniversary came Dragonball Kai , a 'revised', remastered and recut version of Dragonball Z , cutting out on filler and giving us glorious HD, but no new content or sagas. After seeing the success of Kai, Dragonball Z: Battle of Gods the movie was rel...

Well it's time of year again where the internet breaks, forums and social media go into meltdown and the agonising wait for gamers across the world until November begins.  Uncharted 4 with the main space. Are they going to blow our minds or is this a giant FU Microsoft? Bethseda used an online countdown reveal of Fallout 4 in favour of E3. E3 is back and it's.... not promising to be better than ever. Like, at all. But there's Uncharted? And VR? And we're past the awkward launch phase? And Uncharted?! There is, but there have also been the most leaks ever (poor Nathan Drake Collection) as well as companies choosing to announce their news over the internet just days before the main event. Why? So they can have a few free days in the spotlight and avoid the possibility of getting lost in the all consuming hurricane that is the E3 news.  Why did Fallout 4 get announced just days before Bethseda's first ever E3 conference? Because it's all anyone w...