Season #3, Still Fun But the Least Entertaining of the Four Seasons
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The 138 half-hour episodes and the one-hour pilot of the service comedy "McHale's Navy" were originally broadcast on ABC from 1962-1966.  Although not as well known today as "Hogan's Heroes" (1965-1971 on CBS), it was a precursor and inspiration for that show.  Unlike the 1950's peacetime world of Sgt. Bilko ("The Phil Silvers' Show"), these two shows were based on the inherently amusing idea that although WWII was in progress, those involved could still enjoy themselves.  While Colonel Hogan and his men operated out of a POW camp in Europe, McHale and his P.T. boat crew were based on an island in the South Pacific.  P.T. (pocket torpedo) boats were quite the rage in the early 1960's because of accounts of President Kennedy's WWII service aboard one.  The series was given a further boast when Kennedy's exploits were profiled in "PT-109" (1963).

McHale (Ernest Borgnine) choose the island because it is isolated from the area's main Naval base and his main adversary Captain Binghamton (Joe Flynn), whose unexplained nickname is "Old Lead Bottom".  Binghamton is the Colonel Klink of the series although in this case he and McHale are supposed to be on the same side.  McHale and his crew are allowed to stay on the island because it allows them to respond faster to threats from their mutual adversary, the Japanese Navy.

While Colonels Hall and Klink actually seem to like Bilko and Hogan, Binghamton clearly dislikes and resents McHale.  The main sources of comedy are the futile attempts of Binghamton and his obsequious subaltern Elroy Carpenter to discredit and discipline McHale and his crew.  Of course McHale's crew provides them plenty of opportunities, while their combat performance is excellent their off-duty time is spent on a variety of unauthorized activities.

Only two members of McHale's crew are particularly noteworthy.  The bumbling and nave Ensign Parker (Tim Conway) and money grubbing schemer Lester Gruber (Carl Ballantine), a character loosely based on Ray Walston's Luther Billis in "South Pacific" (1958).  Conway was clearly the show's greatest asset.

This DVD set contains the 36 episodes from Season Three, the weakest of the four seasons.  By this point the writers were obviously running out of original ideas and in desperation resorted to showcasing Fugi Kobiaji (Yoshio Yoda), an escaped POW.  Fugi was a pacifist Japanese sailor being sheltered by the P.T. 109 crew on their island.  He had been an "extremely minor character" in the earlier seasons for a lot of good reasons (insert Pearl Harbor here) and whatever comedy potential the idea once had was not well served by the expansion of his screen time.

The series improved a bit in its next and final season when the crew was shifted to the European front and began operating in Italy.  Season Four was a classic case of "something so bad that it was almost good", as there was a perverse charm to these surreal episodes which had absolutely no connection with reality.

The series also spawned two feature films, "McHale's Navy" (1964) and McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force" (1965).

Then again, what do I know?  I'm only a child.
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The creation of a little boy character name Seven didn't do anything useful for this season, but there are still a few very funny episodes . This is one season you can purchase individual episodes rather than just buying the whole season like I did .
2144923
Seasons are getting more predictable as they go and I sure wouldn't rent last shortened season based on reviews I read. It's to bad because I really enjoyed seasons 1-3. Season 4 had some episodes that were left unfinished.
2357849
I have watched 5 years of this series, and like each year less than the previous one.  Thus season 4 is pretty far down on the list.  I get tired of all the "f" bombs and the hard to understand speech, and there is little continuity from one episode to another.  If that's the way people act and talk in New York, I am glad I'm not there.
2827182
Not as Entertaining as the first Two, or the Last. Has it's moments.
4866590
Always entertaining but I thought this season was really disjointed and had too many open ends. Still worth a watch though
3470414
I didn't care for it as much as Season 1 & 2. It seemed to just drag along. Hoping for a better season 4.
4799000
It's a good show. We have enjoyed this season as much as the others. The goriness has decreased slightly.
2881124
I don't like this season as much as the first 3. I feel like some of the characters were compromised and the episodes are more miss than hit, although there are a FEW that are great (i.e. Mad Love). I like the original animation more, but I do enjoy this style a lot as well (although I do question why they made Catwoman, Ivy, etc so damn pale, but whatever).
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This disc contains 4 episodes of the new TMNT series: Reflections, Ultimate Ninja, The Return of Nano, and The Golden Puck (billed as a bonus episode). While fans who are collecting the entire series will want this disc, there are two things to consider:

1)Reflections is a clip show episode, meaning you've seen at least half the footage already. Sometimes clip shows are decent - the original TMNT series managed a decent clip show, and the Simpsons has done a few funny ones. However, while the premise for Reflections isn't bad, the series has always devoted the beginning of its episodes to extended recaps. These got especially tiring during during the period from "Search For Splinter" to "Secret Origins." To do a clip show on top of recaps is redundant and annoying.

2)The Golden Puck is the worst episode of the season. It actually manages to get the season's funniest line, but the episode itself is boring and pointless and a waste of time and animation.

The other two episodes are actually really good - Ultimate Ninja ties into the Big Brawl multi-parter on vol. 13, while the Nano episode is a nice continuation of the season 1 original. However, that's only still 2 good episodes out of 4. Fans will want this, but others should pass.
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This was a decent season, not great.  Slow to start with some highlights, good action, but lacking slightly in the drama department unlike seasons 2, 3, 5 and 6.

The death of Anya was senseless and served no purpose.  Remember Tara died?  And yes that was sad but it served a purpose.  It brought Willow eventually out of her magic dilemna.  They should have killed Andrew, no not because he is annoying.  They should've had Andrew save Anya but die doing it, that way he redeems himself and Xander still gets to marry her.

The season is entertaining, but otherwise not great.  Three stars.
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Season 5 is not impressive. Too much mess in power struggle..
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I always found the earlier 3 seasons stronger than 4, 5, 6 and 7. Although 4 has some fun and unforgettable episodes. Season 5 introduced Dawn, had Buffy's mom die of natural causes, had her lose Riley and eventually even die, so yeah that was depressing. Dawn was at least cute and a good addition to the show though. Season 6 was mostly silly and decided to be violent and serious in the last episodes of it's season. Season 7 is the last season since Sarah Michelle Gellar wanted to move on to do other parts "laughs".

  I forgot she played Daffney in Scooby Doo already and oh yeah wasn't she in that bad Grudge movie ? She needs to beg Joss to write and direct a Buffy movie because she needs face it that Buffy is what she does best. Anyway this isn't a 100% worthy last season but it's way better than season 6 at least. After Firefly was canceled Nathan Fillion jumped over to Buffy as some episodes as a slimy "not literly slimy" invinceable evil priest guy. He makes you hate him and want to see him get what's coming to him. He man handles potential slayers and kills them violently. Oh he also pokes out Xander's eye. This guy is pure evil and a worthy villian to the show. I'm still not sure where he got his powers from though, I guess the First just gave them to him or maybe it's the church wine lol. It's funny how Adam Baldwin from Firefly also was on the last season of Angel as an unstoppable agent. It also wasn't explained how he got his powers as well.

  The First by the way is the first evil ever and make itself look like anyone that is dead. It made an appearnce in season 3 and tried to get Angel to kill himself in the Christmas episode. Here it mostly trys to drive Spike mad by appearing to be Buffy "since Buffy died once or twice if you count season 1 when she died for a minute or 2". There's also a tougher breed of vampires that even Buffy has trouble with at first. So the last season at least has worthy villians.

  It's also nice seeing Faith "the sexy Eliza Dushku" back. She finally makes up with Buffy and helps train the potential Slayers. The potentials at first decide they rather have her as their leader than Buffy. Angel also appears in the last episode of the series and Spike gets jealous when the two kiss. While Angel is jealous that Spike now also has a soul and that he's closer to Buffy. Sarah could've at least repaid David by appearing in the last episode to help out instead of Angel just ending with him getting ready to have a big battle. Instead Angel just ended with it appearing that him and all his friends will die. While Buffy at least has a somewhat happy ending. Eventhough just like with Angel it left me wanting more.
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This season is MUCH slower than the other seasons.  Spoiler Alert!  I'm also tired of producers killing off the few nice characters that are left, and in ridiculous ways.  I don't think this season compares to the first 4, but overall it's still worth watching.
341382
Pretty good stuff but doesn't live up to the intensity of the first three seasons. Plus, they (spoiler!) killed off Omar whose character was the highlight of all five seasons!
4638189
It's  not that the season is bad. It's more that it's not really good. 1st season i was rolling on the floor. This one is less impressive. I was able to hook a few ppl who never saw/ heard of Harvey Birdman. I cant let them see this season. I'm waiting for season 3 now. Hope it's better. :)
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Season 3 isn't as good as the first 2 but still way better than a lot of shows this past season. Too many relationships happening this year that took away from the action and the focus from several main characters. Go back to be a tough action shoe and less about being a drama.