iCarly Ramble: Good vs. Evil

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Firstly, I feel that this week’s newest episodes of Adventure Time and Regular Show were not worthy enough to be reviewed by me. (hopefully tomorrow’s will be better). I instead thought of a good idea; I will do a ramble about certain topics of certain shows. This way, I can not only discuss new shows, but old ones as well. My first one will have to do with iCarly and the struggle between good and evil characters in the show.

This topic does not only apply to iCarly, but to many other shows as well. Have you noticed that in a vast majority of the episodes, the “evil” character Sam tends to have a more positive outcome at the end of the episode and the “good” character Freddie tends to have a negative outcome? Take the episode “iMust Have Locker 239” for example. At the end of the episode, Sam takes 200 dollars from Freddie, destroys his much coveted locker (her mom does anyway), and for the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae thats already melted, he is caught by Mr. Howard after Sam has already left the scene. He most likely gets either detention or suspension for something that was clearly not his fault.

Another example: “iDate a Bad Boy”. Sam promises that if Freddie creates her a website, she will reward him with half the money she makes off of the site. She continually forces him to make changes to the website, which he does. After a while, he grows tired of these constant changes and he rips up the contract of their shared money agreement. Sam sells the website and does not give Freddie half of the money ($1000) he without a doubt deserved simply because he ripped up the contract. Again, evil conquers good.

I am not sure if you are fine with evil always winning in TV shows like this, but I am not a fan of it happening repeatedly. Like I said, it happens in many TV shows. Perhaps it has been a tradition since television shows came into being, but it would be nice to have the good side win once in a while, which it does. Maybe there is yet hope for the good characters in popular shows. I will go over more examples in other TV shows and also discuss many other interesting topics that can be found from analyzing them. Until then, thanks for reading!

iCarly: iBattle Chip Review

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Two nights ago, there was a new episode of iCarly entitled “iBattle Chip”. While it is fresh in my mind, I will review it.

First of all, while the plot was not entirely original, the episode itself was decent. The subplot was just a tiny bit more entertaining than the main plot. I’l cover the subplot first. It was original, but the references to “Galaxy Wars” are getting kind of annoying. At times I wish they would just say “Star Wars”. It was nice to see Sam stand up for a complete stranger and even funnier when, after being saved, the stranger asked Sam, “Can I hug you?”. Even I felt bad when Gibby started crying after his toy was broken, but was relieved after Freddie fixed it. It seemed kind of unnecessary for Gibby to melt the kitchen door twice, however.

Now to the main plot. When I first heard this was a Chuck episode, I figured we would see him at least once, but this was not the case (not that I’m complaining; I don’t like it when he abuses Spencer). Guess we probably won’t be seeing him for a while now that he is at military school. Man, for a nine-year-old, Chip looked extremely dangerous when they first showed him. Like I said, I don’t particularly enjoy it when Spencer gets beaten up by kids and this was no exception. First of all, he is at least 20 years older than Chip. He should be able to handle the situation without being scared and he certainly should not be beaten up by someone that is that young. Nevertheless, one of the episode’s funniest quotes was probably, Carly: Who did this to you? Spencer: Dora the Explorer! Who else?! Finally, it was cool that the subplot and the main plot combined and that in the end, Spencer got the last laugh. It will be interesting to see if Chuck returns.

So overall, decent episode with two interesting plots.

P.S. In my “Goliad” review for Adventure Time, I said I would review an episode of Regular Show next, but I need to view it again for me to review it; it has been a week since I last saw it. Sorry for the confusion this may have caused.