Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm Part 1 Review

Much has changed since the last Mortal Kombat

tournament. Dark forces of Outworld have begun

invading the Earth Realm. These attacks are seriously

weakening Earth's dimensional fabric, enabling

not only Outworlders to enter the Earth Realm,

but warriors from other domains as well. Only

the most extraordinary warriors could possibly

meet this challenge. Liu Kang. Princess Kitana.

Sub -Zero. Jax. Sonya blade Mike wolf Kiva Curtis

striker Driven by purpose and bound by honor

these are the defenders of the realm Hello and

welcome to the latest episode of pixels in the

animation. I am one of your host Deidre and Mike

and joining me in this Epic journey is TV's mr.

Nail the super -sized guy. Oh wait the wrong

podcast wrong podcast, dude. I Don't know maybe

at this point. We should extend the show to include

wrestling video game cartoons. Anyway, no, no

It's bad enough what we've already gone through

in the last four years or heard of how long the

show's been going on. But yeah, this is the animation.

We are back on a semi -releasing kind of basis.

We're in episode 58 here. This is gonna be part

one of two for Mortal Kombat Defenders of the

Realm. And this is going to kick off... completely

different era of the podcast because this stuff

is unlike anything we've ever seen before after

Mortal Kombat we will have you're gonna cringe

at this I know you are four episodes only because

it's just easier to do them this way four episodes

for Street Fighter season one part one part two

season two part one and part two and after that

we have something even more terrifying dark dark

stalkers season one part one and part two and

then we get to some fun from episode 66 to 68

we will be doing earthworm gym okay so there's

that And then episode 69 is gonna be that weird

random franchise episode we were gonna do which

includes Battletoads and what was the other one

you had mentioned? The other Mortal Kombat cartoon

which the name escapes me at the moment and there

is... Oh, uh, Bubsy. Bubsy, that's what it was.

Yeah, that's the one you always mentioned. And

then after that we're gonna do a general episode

overall discussion on Donkey Kong Country because

I just can't. No, and then after that from episode

71 to 71 to holy crap Alright episode 71 of the

podcast episode 93. Oh my god We're gonna be

going through all episodes of both sonic cartoons

first the dark one sad am then the adventures

of sonic so sonic is pretty much gonna Be the

swan song of the podcast Neil opens a beer yay

we can only be drinking at this point who knows

so Mortal Kombat defenders of the realm I did

not plan this folks between myself and Neil we've

had a lot of things going on in our personal

lives I'm not gonna say a lot of what that is

on my end it's mainly my mom passed away last

year but 2015 was a year of hell so we didn't

really get a chance to record anything and it

almost seems fitting wouldn't you say since this

is the 20th anniversary since Mortal Kombat defenders

of the realm came out came out 20 years ago this

year I can tell you're so excited when was the

first time that you saw this I Probably around

the time it came out and I saw it once I was

like, yeah, this is not something I need to see

I mean, it's not terrible. It's one of those

cartoons where if it was wedged between like

Freakazoid and Animaniacs I would I would sit

through it just to get through it But if like

real Ghostbusters was on another channel, I would

immediately flip over so it's one of those cartoons

and unfortunately this cartoon was I think sandwiched

between the Street Fighter cartoon and One of

those other shitty cartoons. I don't I don't

think it was dark stalkers, but it has in the

Wikipedia article for it at the very very bottom

where it says see also Yeah, it lists Street

Fighter and dark stalkers. I don't know if that's

obviously that's just references from Wikipedia

But I I don't know if that was what it was sandwiched

between but yeah, I mean I had seen this like

a briefly but I would rather be strapped to a

chair watching Annihilation over and over and

over again on this cartoon. I know Annihilation

is bad. I know people hate Annihilation, but

Annihilation is better than this. What about

Mortal Kombat Conquest? That was the TNT series

that aired after WCW Monday Nitro for like a

season. Was it a cartoon? It was live action.

It was kind of okay. See, I'm not a die -hard

MK fan. I'm kind of like, like, when Mortal Kombat

1, 2, 3, and 4 came out back, way back in the

day, like, I got it. I thought it was cool. I

thought it was interesting. I like certain characters.

When the first movie came out, I got more interested

in it, but I've never really, like, I've never

followed the franchise like a lot of people have.

I enjoy playing the games. I mean, you know.

i mean each of those original four games had

some really cool characters in it uh... i'll

say right now i could not stay in the fact that

they gave sub -zero brother but whatever was

one way to keep the name alive i guess uh...

you know you know for a game called mortal kombat

i think he was like one of only two characters

to officially have died in the can of the original

games like the other one was johnny cage The

only reason why they killed Johnny Cage off is

because the actor Was in a commercial for another

game a competing game and they fired him Jesus

That's So Mortal Kombat defenders in the realm

it's only 13 episodes and only had one season

Before we get in go ahead say mercifully. Oh,

yeah. Yeah mercifully Yeah, I don't think anyone's

asking why isn't there more of this It actually

got a finale though that was kind of weird Kind

kind I got a finale Well, they gave it an episode

that it could it could end on that and if they

didn't get another season Oh, yeah, at least

we still have this Yeah, I mean the finale was

kind of I hate to say this in a podcast about

Mortal Kombat, but Jesus Christ, that ending

was almost Disney. As far as, oh, Liu Kang is

gonna go off with the princess and... God. As

long as we have each other, Liu Kang, oh my God,

give me a break. This dominatrix princess girlfriend.

Yeah, yeah. So before we get into the episode,

because we are going to be reviewing... this

episode by episode in this show in these two

podcasts just like uh... we did originally in

uh... in the super show stuff but we're going

to be doing seven episodes of this podcast and

six episodes in part two so we can get all thirteen

done uh... is the only way i can get it cut down

to two podcasts so but we have to go over the

voice cast before that because you have clancy

brown as raiden brian tochi yep that's right

the voice of movie leonardo as lu kang crease

summer no boy you keep your favorite tiny tune

as katana i don't mind her no i i love crease

summer i i i just meant you know you and ben

and your elmyra and all that stuff yeah we kind

of got hung up on elmyra yeah Tongue two three

one two And then you have Dylan from 90210 is

sub -zero Luke Perry what the hell did he need

this is 1996 as far as I know Beverly Hills 90210

was still very popular in 1996 right did he need

a paycheck that week or that I Don't know it's

my normal Go to is that he needed to rent money,

but if you saw you know Yeah, exactly. Dorian

Harewood as Jax, which he's done some cool stuff.

We'll go over his stuff here in a second. Olivia

Davao as Sonya. That was not inspired casting.

Oh wow, Neil Ross as Shang Tsung. Yeah. I've

got better things to do tonight than die. As

much as I love Neil Ross and I interviewed him

a couple years ago, I think it was the last year

or the year before on GCRN, I did not know he

was going to be the voice of Shang Tsung and

my entire notes through half of these episodes

are why couldn't they have gotten the movie actors

to do voices? Then you have... The man himself,

Hellboy, Ron Perlman, the striker. I didn't even

recognize Ron Perlman's voice. Really? I didn't

at all! I'm gonna have to go back and watch like

five minutes of an episode. I caught myself there.

So, all right, with this voice cast, and it doesn't

even list some of the other characters, even

in the show, because I looked at the end credits

of the show, it only lists the core team here.

I just kick. So, Brian Tochi as Liu Kang, it

kind of worked, but not really. He doesn't have

the same inflection and the same emotion that

Robin Shu brought to the live -action role. Kree

Summer as Katana works, but I don't know. It's

just Kree doing her normal voice, and there are

some times where she's speaking as Katana where

she changes her inflection a bit. Poor Lex Luthor,

I mean... This was the year that you know, Superman

the animated series came out and Clancy Brown

was the voice of Lex Luthor and holy crap He's

also Raiden why? Well, that's one of those where

he probably just took as many jobs as he could

and he's like, well one of these is gonna stick

Yeah, thank God The reason why I mentioned Dorian

Harewood as the voice of Jax is because I believe

wasn't he? wasn't he war machine in the iron

man yeah he was warming yeah i know that's why

i recognize his voice he was war machine in the

in the 1994 iron man cartoon he didn't get in

there until season two but um but yeah uh this

this cast i what are your overall because oh

my god this cast um respectable cast what are

they doing here i don't know yeah i um It I'm

really surprised it didn't list it here. It doesn't

even and actually on the Wikipedia article it

lists various Like if there's notes like oh special

guest star of you know guest voice Don Lewis

is Shiva or Guest voice Reno Romano is rain You

know so it lists that kind of stuff for special

guest voice Frank Welker is six -headed creature

great I serious Kevin Michael Kevin Michael Richardson

as yeah Yeah Yeah One of the episodes you had

John Rhys Davies, which was strange but cool.

Yeah The only one it doesn't list for a voice

and I wish I could find this I mean maybe I can

find it when we take a break or something But

it doesn't list the asshole who is voicing scorpion

Cuz I'm sorry that is one voice you needed the

movie Whoever did the voice for the movie character?

The good over here the guy in this sounds just

like he Yeah, yeah, get over here It's like what

the fuck is wrong with you So yeah, we're gonna

get into this we're we're going to be always

you people better love us for this is going to

be sheer torture said money yes eight that's

the truth send the money now we'll be back in

a moment with episode one combat begins again

So where's the rip? Mountains. Tibet. There's

an ancient burial ground in those mountains.

It's built into the side of the cliff face like

a fortress. If Scorpion takes it before you do,

he can hold it indefinitely. That works both

ways. If Scorpion holds up in his burial fort,

we'll be able to keep him pinned down there.

Ah, ah, ah, not so simple. I'll explain on the

way. You're coming? Give me a... Alright, first

up, episode 1, combat begins again. The writer

for most of these is Sean Catherine Derrick,

okay? The defenders of the realm face a pack

of invading cybernetic units, seemingly Shao

Kahn's basic foot soldiers led by Sektor. voiced

by Dorian Harewood and Cyrax. The situation takes

a turn for the worse until Sub -Zero intervenes

and assists the warriors, forcing the invaders

back to Outworld. Sub -Zero tries to warn the

warriors of the incoming threat from Scorpion,

although Sonya Blade is hesitant to believe him

due to the fact he betrayed his clan, dun dun

dun. You know what I noticed about this show?

All of these episodes is... they are so ham -fisted

certain lessons and emotions and oh my god woe

is me stories every every all 13 episodes have

a woe is me story for every single character

yeah you know what's weird about this is that

this show feels like i've seen it before in a

different program i don't know i can't really

place it but like every episode feels like something

i've seen before it's like cookie cutter tv writing

Yep, and the first note I have Shut the fuck

up Sonya Combat time is a catchphrase that get

old and tired fast like after one use Yeah, pretty

much And this is Olivia Davao. I mean she did

starfire in Justice League. She's she was the

you know The the arch nemesis of Robert Goran

in law and order criminal. I mean come on I just

don't get it. I Do like even though it's still

kind of pissed for I do kind of like the animation

The animation is for the time for it being 20

years ago. It's not the worst animation It is

it is leaps and bounds better than the Street

Fighter cartoon and the Double Dragon cartoon

Well anything's leaps and bounds above the double

dragon You know, it's a good thing I didn't remember

about that because yeah, I kept very quiet hoping

that you You know the voice acting yikes just

yikes Oh my god double dragon cartoon zero stars

all the way around every episode zero Reviewed

Okay, there you go Yeah, no, we're already set

on this. I'm just we're stopping at a hundred

episodes. That's it or just no way I mean we've

been doing this show for god three four however

many long years it is and no After episode 100,

that's it. But for now I do like the introduction

to the story. They kind of pick up where the

first movie left off. They also throw in bits

from the second movie. They ignore Sindel. They

ignore a whole bunch of other stuff from the

second movie, which most people would probably

think, oh, that's fine. The character, outside

of the voice acting, the actual characters and

how they are portrayed besides their voices,

it's better than I thought it was going to be.

Because I thought it was just going to be crap.

Yeah, it really was they were coming off the

movie because I never would have guessed that.

It did kind of trick me at first because it starts

the first episode as if there were episodes before

it. It was referencing things that we didn't

see. So I'm like, did I start on the wrong episode?

What the hell is going on here? Yeah. What else

did you have for this first episode? just I mean

well it's interesting that they just kind of

like hit the ground running they didn't they

didn't really have like uh an introductory period

they just threw you into the cartoon and and

uh you know it was like like I said it was like

there was an episode before it and we just didn't

see it and uh and Sub -Zero came in and uh we

Don't know if there's not much else to say it.

It just it was just interesting that they chose

to do it that way Not a lot of other cartoons

do that Yeah, it's like, you know, normally a

first episode is very tedious Yeah, and this

one kind of wasn't I mean, you know, we I think

they were going on the assumption that everyone

had seen the first movie Everyone would know

these characters at least the core care, you

know, Sonia and Lou and and Raiden and all that

and You know, I'm sure you know and don't get

me wrong love cleansing Brown I'm sure but you

know, and I'm sure they couldn't have done the

I'm sure what's his name? Oh god, you'll have

to remind me the first Raiden not Christopher

Lambert. Yeah I'm sure he probably would have

cost too much. But Jesus Christ we need really

needed him as as Raiden in this. Well, there

could be only one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just...

This first episode, yeah, you're right. There

is an introduction, but there really isn't. We're

led to believe and we're supposed to assume that

we know these characters from the movie and it's...

The way I read it was it was supposed, the way

I watched the animation, it was supposed to,

you know, pick up, you know... several years

after the first movie. Like, it wasn't several

months, it was several years, because they're

trying to introduce Shang, uh, not Shang Tsung,

duh, Shao Kahn, and all that, and obviously Shao

Kahn didn't happen until Annihilation. Um...

We almost ought to have special episodes reviewing

the original Annihilation, oh god. Anyway, um...

the first episode if it's sorry it's as far as

uh... as far as reading it on a scale of zero

five for the gc ralph i'll give it a three take

two points off of the voice acting but i'll give

it a three what about you know it's kind of average

i'll give it a three i think we're gonna do these

two at a time folks this is easier that way stay

in the scorpion was the next episode and in that

one the team soon discovered that rift has opened

up in ancient burial ground in the Tibetan mountains

drawing on the powers of darkness scorpion an

undead warrior who is denied entrance to the

realm of honored dead and banished in the realm

of lost souls has amassed a force of undead warriors

and seeks to continue increasing his force with

undead warriors from all the realms dun dun dun

And the synopsises on the wiki here, people are

longer, I'm just not willing to read all of them.

First few sentences, fine. Okay, so we have Scorpion

here. His voice actor alone, outside his voice

actor and just the pitiful little boy voice he

uses, get over here. It's like Michael Jackson

was in Mortal Kombat or something, I don't know.

Wow, that was weird. Hey, Bubbles. Yeah, yeah.

it was uh... outside of the voice acting for

scorpion in the character had a pretty damn good

story line of this i like that because we didn't

really know the whole point of the first movie

is you don't know a hell of a lot about scorpion

that's the whole appeal of his character and

giving him a story here uh... was somewhat kind

of cool my notes for this one someone please

kill sonya someone please just kill the bitch

My god like I didn't want to even finish watching

this with two episodes in folks I didn't want

to finish watching the series after just oh my

god And my other my other two notes are about

scorpion. Yeah, we're scorpion voice ever Luke

Perry is weird as subs. It just sounds weird.

I don't know Yeah, what about you? What did you

have for notes for sting of the scorpion? Just

the weak voice and you know what think about

scorpion is that The movie and this cartoon both

kind of play him as a villain But in the game

he's more like he's more like an anti -hero.

He's like not really on either side and he's

just this Well, that's that I'm talking about

the old games. I don't know what he's like in

the new games, but he was always a loner Yeah,

you're talking about the classic like I said

one will combat the original game two three and

four Yeah, he wasn't really on anyone's side.

He was just kind of in it for himself and Chasing

down, you know the original sub -zero not the

one of this cartoon Although he does go after

the one in this cartoon because they get that

mixed up Yeah Yeah, because in the games he actually

respects Sub -Zero's brother Yeah, yeah anything

to do with the games folks that you may want

to hear us talk about it's going to revolve around

here at least the original four it's not going

to revolve around anything that is current for

Mortal Kombat kids like I said I am at best a

Hanger on the fence fan, you know, I'm very very

loose with my Mortal Kombat fandom. So Know nothing

of the current generation of Mortal Kombat stuff

All right, we're gonna take a break move on to

episode three after the three and four after

this Ageless not exactly ageless. We don't grow

old but either way I'd rather not be a shish

kebab Age Episodes 3 and 4. Episode 3 is called

Acid Tongue. A new dangerous enemy. The Raptors.

Creatures of a strange reptilian race led by...

Komodai? More than once simply referred to as

Reptile. Didn't he die? No, that was the second

movie that he died in. Appears before the Earth

warriors. Jax's cybernetic implants are damaged

by Komodai's acid. causing the loss of an important

microchip without which his arms cannot function

properly. As a result, Jax loses his self -confidence

and Sonya returns to the place of battle to look

for them but is sort of abducted by Komodai.

I just want to say that this is my favorite episode

just because Jax learns nothing. Yeah, Jax doesn't

learn nothing. It's like, you got to use your

brain, not your muscles. That's what counts.

And then he gets his cybernetic arms back. He's

like, no, I'm going to stick with these. I didn't

learn anything. It's like there's an episode

of Family Guy like that. It's like, hey, Peter,

did you learn anything? Nope. And they just cut

the credits. Gotta love how Jax in the beginning

is like acid. Oh my god. Oh my god. Get it off.

Get it off Lucky didn't land on your skin. Yeah

The only thing and I will repeat this throughout

this podcast and next week's show Consistently

good about this cartoon is the music the music

is awesome As you said, this episode was all

about Jax trying to find his inner strength and

confidence and all that. I feel like this is

just a repeat from, honestly, Mortal Kombat Annihilation.

Did Annihilation come out after this? Yeah, now

that you mention it, that was a subplot in that

movie. Yeah, I mean, the whole thing. Like I

said, I think Annihilation came after this cartoon.

And I'm like, wait, what? What's going on here?

Why are we doing this? I don't get it. Fuck you,

movie. Copy the TV show. Oh, poor movie. Yeah,

this movie... I'm looking at it on Netflix right

now. I'm looking at information. Mortal Kombat

Annihilation 1997. Will say as much as everyone

hates annihilation at least they got the cybernetics

better in that than in this because I'm sorry

Cyrax and sector and even smoke smoke comes in

later Looks like shit. Yep The effects the the

net the energy nets give me a fucking break,

please come on This show so this franchise deserved

a better animation studio I Don't know I'll have

to look and even see what I don't even know the

damn animation studio is for this show But oh

my god is is bad those late 90s cartoons man.

They just can't draw robots 80s were better hashtag

transformers g1 Okay, any other thoughts on the

third episode before we get into the fourth one?

Nope. Alright, episode four. who was once thought

to be long dead, sparking jealousy in Liu Kang.

Rain, unmasked throughout the entire episode,

informs them that Shao Kahn is seeking a powerful

scimitar hidden in the Sacred Temple. The Earth

Warrior is ready for battle before it is too

late, only to discover later that Rain is a traitor

and has abducted Kitana. Dun, dun, dun. Two things.

Most predictable episode of the series. Because

if you know the game, you know Rain's a bad guy

automatically. And two, he should never take

his mask off because he looks emo. He's like,

I'm Rain, I'm gonna go listen to Cure albums.

Dude, you know who he looks like in the cartoon?

Who? Fucking Morph from the X -Men series. It's

like an older version of Morph. It's too bad

he didn't suffer the same fate. Hey, oh come

on you got to have some sympathy for more I have

sympathy for more if I just don't have sympathy

for rain Okay, well there you go So they rely

on a flashback in this episode because the Shang

Tsung and Liu Kang's final battle is shown At

the beginning of the episode But when Shang Tsung

is knocked into the pit the array of metal spikes

is seen in the film is obviously absent in the

cartoon he's done falls to his uh... is falls

to his death on on a flat ground is also shown

wearing his mortal kombat three outfits it just

goes to show you that these people producing

this cartoon had no clue like they had a clue

but they only took like the most strange points

of of trying to uh... uh... going back what would

you read really quick as i forgot what would

you rate acid tongue I'll give it a two I gave

it a one. I just can't Jackson that no tell about

emo. Oh my god, Jax just So as I said Not only

is Liu Kang super emo in this episode He's also

having age issues was it revealed in the movie

that you don't age if you win the tournament

I don't remember Don't remember that being something

listeners. Let us know actually you know what

Mike Dodd comment on this episode and let us

know is Being a mortal a part of the winnings

of Mortal Kombat because he's all worried about

growing old with Kitana or not growing old with

Kitana or if he's going to if and again, this

is 1996 people so You know that robin williams

is a robot in nineteen ninety nine didn't come

to a later worrying about ageism so well it just

it did but they had a really weird take on it

because he technically he's not immortal he just

doesn't age he could still like oh say it is

heart -wrapped out by another combatants okay

you know it's they kind of they said that somewhere

i i vaguely remember that it's like he could

still die but he doesn't age So we are four episodes

into this series. I'm wondering how the hell

they haven't run into any humans at all. Any

other people, citizens, whatever. I mean, seriously,

even with the remote places that they are fighting

the bad guys in, there has to be. You mean to

tell me there's no humans that live in New Guinea?

Seriously, really? Either it's the post -apocalypse

or they're out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah

Yeah, and for some reason the outworlder the

outworlders always pick the most uninhabited

places to come in Like you know as I'm as I was

watching through the series. I'm like hey, it's

masked without the vehicles Because it's every

location you would think of that the mask team

would go fight venom With nobody around except

for maybe one village, and there's not even one

village in this one Moab, Utah, what's right

there? This episode turned into the adventures

of Liu Kang's love life. Yeah There's not much

there's not much to be emo about in that in that

case because he's He's hanging out with the chick

who like always wears a dominatrix Costume, I

mean there's nothing to complain about now granted.

She's not really drawn sexy, but if that was

my girlfriend, I'd be happy Yeah, well, I think

the thing here is is that because of this is

the episode with With rain like the whole thing

with Luke hangs jealousy that's that's where

the emo thing comes in because he assumes Oh

you know because rain used to be her boyfriend

or fiance or whatever the flying flying bicycle

kick fuck i don't know purple rain and on that

from the artist formerly known as or the artist

with those I don't even know what he's called

anymore the artist formerly known as the artist

formerly known as Yeah, I mean seriously folks.

It's just too alright, so Skin deep well, I didn't

ask you. What would you give skin deep? One I

just didn't think didn't care about rain at all

Didn't care about rain. I hated the fact that

they turned Liu Kang into an emo jealous bitch

One as well for me. All right up next is old

friends never die Sub -zero goes out to meet

with his friends smoke who unexpectedly returns

after being gone for many years Sub -zero and

smoke were best friends before on Nero the Grandmaster

of the Lin Kuei clan gave the order for an Automation

of the ninjas sub -zero managed to escape this

fate, but smoke was captured and transformed

Now sub -zero wants to know if his old friend

has retained his human soul a face become only

machine for murder He's more machine than man

now twisted and evil Yes, so true I do what I

do like because I was never really sure Between

Annihilation and Mortal I think it's more isn't

it Mortal Kombat 2 the game when the ninjas come

in the cyber ninjas It's Mortal Kombat 3 smoke

is in Mortal Kombat 2, but he's like a hidden

character and he's not playable Okay. Yes. Okay.

So between Annihilation and Mortal Kombat 3 what

I like about this is seeing how the ninjas actually

became cyber ninjas Like the fact that they take

actual people in Basically turn them into Ninjas

a la Robocop kind of oh my god smoke is Alex

Murphy. Holy crap At the the only note I have

about this episode is at the end How did the

others even find sub -zero? Because he goes off

they say he's consistently. Oh, we don't know

where they are. We don't know where they're fighting

and then Poof. At the end, everybody's there.

I just don't get it. What did you think of the

bromance of Sub -Zero and Smoke? Interesting,

I guess. Not really entertaining. Just kind of

bleh. Because, you know, we're not really given

a reason to care about Smoke. And even in a flashback,

he's got a terrible character design. It looks

like they drew that face in like 10 seconds.

Okay, that's smoke go and The the ending was

kind of like like well, you're still a traitor

Sub -zero, even though I tried to escape with

you and I don't know somehow he's still he's

still like a soulless robot But he remembers

Oh, so he decides he's not gonna go after sub

-zero anymore. So I'm like, well, which which

is it? No, what who cares? Yeah, it's just not

I don't know like like you said it seems like

they'd they'd they'd they'd pulled you know really

homeless guy from few years ago the golden voice

oh yeah that's what they did with this they pulled

a bunch of homeless people out and had them write

this stuff or something something they pulled

people off the street to have them write these

in and it's loosely connected to the movie into

the games and stuff but you know they should

have had that kind of voice uh... uh... scorpion

That guy would have been a better scorpion craft

macaroni and cheese get over here. Oh Damn that

would have been awesome. What would you give

old friends never die? One I'm gonna give it

a two only because I like seeing the origins

of the cyber ninjas Now it's time for Omega Red.

Oh wait, no, sorry, wrong series. Familiar Red,

episode 6. When Kano begins creating unnatural

portals to intentionally torment the Earth warriors,

they realize that the Black Dragon Gang is backing

in. Nightwolf gets very worried after leading

his fellow warriors to temporary rifts around

the world that close before they arrive. That

takes umbrage with the warriors to - uh, deeming

all of these incidents in incorrect readings

of his computers. Dun, dun, dun. Okay, so Kano

returns, Kano's back, he's... basically... huh?

He's basically the mole from Whack -A -Mole.

Is what he's doing with these portals. I mean,

seriously. Like, just... I'll say this, the only

voice actor... To really really nail of movie

voice is whoever the hell voiced Kano because

it doesn't sound exactly like the actor from

the film But it sounds enough of that Australian

accent that he had that it's somewhat tolerable

And that was Michael Dez bars as as Kano and

you had John Vernon as Shao Kahn Wow, huh That

hmm All right notes for familiar read let's see

this series is more emo self -doubt than anything

I've ever seen with all the male characters This

this episode is funny in concept, but it wasn't

fun to watch I mean, it's it's basically Nightwolf

the entire episode be like I'm not going crazy

guys really Yeah, pretty much. Oh, and something

I forgot to mention from the first episode since

we're talking about Nightwolf is, my number one

rule for cartoons, don't show people typing.

It never looks right. God damn it. Stop doing

that. The sound effects aren't hitting the keystrokes

properly. Well, it doesn't look like he's typing.

It looks like he's typing. Yeah, it just, yeah.

Seeing Kano versus Sonya in animation is kind

of cool, but yet again the voice acting is getting

on my nerves. Any notes for this one? Just what

I said, just that it was Nightwolf going out

of his mind and animated typing bad. Rating?

1. I'm also going to give it a 1 I was gonna

give it a 2 for the voice acting on Kano, but

Just just can't Alright and finally in this part

1 of 2 for Mortal Kombat we have episode 7 fall

from grace We have in a battle against Shokan

warriors Sonya acts With overconfidence as a

result striker is seriously wounded He decides

to suspend Sonya because he feels she can't work

as a team with the others After being ordered

to take striker back to the compound with Nightwolf

out to help fending off Shiva's troops They are

attacked by a detachment of Shoken warriors learning

a lesson in teamwork while battling the Shoken

warrior She regains striker's confidence and

is reinstated Yeah, it's all hearts and flowers

and blah blah blah You know I liked Sonya in

the first movie the second movie was kind of

meh, but I liked her in the first movie She was

kick -ass. She was awesome. She was kind of in

your face a little bit, but I don't know this

Sonya just sucks Yep But one thing I did like

about this episode is that they gave her shit

for almost the entire episode They're all Sonya

it's too bad you suck It's like what she what

she failed once they they just didn't let her

forget it And even at the end of the episode

or let they're like, well, okay, we're gonna

let you off the hook this time. I Mean I get

they needed the teamwork episode because Sonya

is not really a team player most of the time

but Striker I'm sorry. This is not the police

Academy you can't You can't put people on suspension.

First of all, how do you put them on suspension?

There's no one else around. It's like either

she's on the team or she isn't. I mean, is she

just going to live there? Like I said, I thought

this was a post -apocalypse. So the fact that

she can be suspended is weird. It's like, are

you going to replace her? Oh, no, you can't.

The characterization in this is just so hard

and at the end The fake emotion on Sonia is just

But this is the teamwork lesson episode Neil

it's the tea everybody needs to learn teamwork

and there's no I in team and there's no I What

were they really going for here like this is

this is not a loose Shimer cartoon You don't

have a PSA at the end in today's episode boys

and girls Pringer and I were picking berries

Just don't eat the poisonous ones to give this

one I'll give it a two I guess Yeah, I'm kind

of right there with you. It's a little bit better

than the the familiar red one but i don't know

so that's that's the first half of uh of the

season here um we're gonna take a quick break

come back with final thoughts and all that other

good stuff and close out this episode after this

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so far with the first half of the season? Just

that I'll probably never see this cartoon ever

again. Yeah, I am perfectly fine Never watching

this ever again. This adds nothing to the Mortal

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couple hours drafting the first act of a new

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