Latest / Large Nerdron Collider / The Crush of Comic Con
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- 0:10Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Nerdon Collider, the podcast
- 0:13Speaker 1: that's all about the geeky things happening in the world
- 0:16Speaker 1: around us and how very excited we are about them.
- 0:18Speaker 1: I'm Ariel cast in and with me as always, and
- 0:22Speaker 1: we're both back after long last is my amazing friend
- 0:26Speaker 1: and co host Jonathan Strickland.
- 0:28Speaker 2: The podcasters, they're beckon down the podcasters.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Yeah, we makes sound cool.
- 0:35Speaker 2: We were on a bit of a hiatus for multiple reasons.
- 0:39Speaker 2: We actually had an episode another lost episode. There's a
- 0:42Speaker 2: couple of those now, a lost episode because we actually
- 0:45Speaker 2: recorded one. But then all chaos broke loose in my
- 0:50Speaker 2: life and I'm the one who edits the show and
- 0:52Speaker 2: it just never made it to publishing. That's totally on me.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Ariel bears no responsibility for that one. And then the
- 1:00Speaker 2: following weeks both of us had crazy schedules. Now, Ariel's
- 1:05Speaker 2: got lots of stuff going on in her life. I
- 1:08Speaker 2: had a brand new show launching on my slate of
- 1:11Speaker 2: shows over at iHeart, and that took over my life
- 1:16Speaker 2: still technically is, but it's a little more manageable right now.
- 1:20Speaker 2: So yeah, it really impacted us recording this, but we
- 1:23Speaker 2: missed it so much and figured that it was only
- 1:26Speaker 2: a matter of time before we came back, and we
- 1:28Speaker 2: figured we had to come back on the week following
- 1:31Speaker 2: San Diego Comic Con because wohden't you know it? A
- 1:34Speaker 2: lot was announced?
- 1:36Speaker 1: Goodness gracious, so much.
- 1:39Speaker 2: Yeah, we're only going to talk about like like ten
- 1:43Speaker 2: percent of what happened at Comic Con because there's just
- 1:46Speaker 2: two It would take two episodes just to cover the
- 1:49Speaker 2: comic Con stuff.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Yes, and Jonathan's going to keep me in line because
- 1:53Speaker 1: I didn't. I read the highlights from Comic Con and
- 1:56Speaker 1: I kind of followed as it happened, though it was busy,
- 1:59Speaker 1: so I certainly missed, but I didn't make amazing notes
- 2:02Speaker 1: like Jonathan.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Did on it, So I like that you call it
- 2:05Speaker 2: amazing notes. In some cases, it's literally they showed a
- 2:08Speaker 2: trailer and like some cases, like the trailers that they
- 2:12Speaker 2: showed have subsequently been released online and we've got a
- 2:15Speaker 2: few of those in our lineup that we'll talk about too.
- 2:17Speaker 2: But in some cases, it's one of those things where
- 2:20Speaker 2: it was exclusive to the people who are at Comic Con,
- 2:22Speaker 2: and the rest of us peons will get it eventually,
- 2:25Speaker 2: but it's not out yet.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not as bad as Cinema Con or.
- 2:29Speaker 2: D twenty three, which, by the way, is happening next weekend,
- 2:34Speaker 2: not this not this weekend, but next weekend. So yeah, August,
- 2:37Speaker 2: as it turns out, becomes a huge month for announcements.
- 2:42Speaker 2: So we'll be talking not so much about the D
- 2:45Speaker 2: twenty three stuff because obviously that hasn't happened yet, but
- 2:47Speaker 2: we'll definitely talk about the comic con before we get
- 2:49Speaker 2: to all that. Though. We usually like to start episodes
- 2:52Speaker 2: by talking about stuff that we have seen since the
- 2:56Speaker 2: last time we recorded, and since the last time we
- 2:58Speaker 2: recorded it was like a month ago, I imagine that
- 3:01Speaker 2: there are a few things to talk about there are.
- 3:05Speaker 1: I didn't put everything that I've been watching down, but
- 3:07Speaker 1: I put down some highlights. I finished the final season
- 3:11Speaker 1: of Star Trek Discovery, which was delightful and ended in
- 3:16Speaker 1: a way that it ties back into the universe in
- 3:18Speaker 1: like other stuff that they've set up, so that was nice.
- 3:23Speaker 1: It took me like four days to finish the last
- 3:26Speaker 1: twenty minutes of the final episode, though, because I just
- 3:29Speaker 1: kept getting pulled away like I wanted to give it
- 3:32Speaker 1: my attention, so I didn't put it on when I work,
- 3:34Speaker 1: which is what I do with a lot of stuff
- 3:36Speaker 1: sometimes usually with Nautilus Live. But if that's not on,
- 3:40Speaker 1: then I'll put on a show. But I really wanted
- 3:42Speaker 1: to pay attention and so it just took forever, but
- 3:45Speaker 1: I enjoyed It might have been my favorite season. I've
- 3:50Speaker 1: been watching Never Stop Blowing Up on Dropout, which is
- 3:53Speaker 1: their current dimension twenty actual play. It's a game based
- 3:56Speaker 1: on like the Kids on Bikes Kids on Broom system,
- 4:00Speaker 1: and it's got a lot of fun mechanics and it's
- 4:02Speaker 1: just bonkers. It's so bonkers that even my husband is
- 4:05Speaker 1: watching it and he doesn't watch actual plays.
- 4:07Speaker 2: So this is the one that takes a lot of
- 4:10Speaker 2: inspiration from like eighties and nineties era action movies.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So to spoil the first episode, tune out
- 4:18Speaker 1: for thirty seconds if you don't want the spoiler. It's
- 4:20Speaker 1: all these people who work at like a video store
- 4:24Speaker 1: who get sucked into a VHS and embody these action heroes.
- 4:29Speaker 1: So it's very like Jimungi hmm meets diehard ish.
- 4:36Speaker 2: We also both watched Ratfish on Dropout and that was
- 4:40Speaker 2: I loved it.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Yeah, I've I keep up with most dropout shows. There
- 4:47Speaker 1: are a couple that I don't really watch just because
- 4:50Speaker 1: they haven't grabbed me as much, and I'll watch like
- 4:53Speaker 1: the occasional episode, but I haven't finished. But Game Changer,
- 4:57Speaker 1: I'm actually all of those I've I've complete. But yeah,
- 5:01Speaker 1: Ratfish was a really great game. It was based on
- 5:03Speaker 1: the Circle, but it was all people pretending to be
- 5:06Speaker 1: fictional characters for the well percent of people pretending to
- 5:10Speaker 1: be fictional characters.
- 5:11Speaker 2: And one of them pretending to be one of the
- 5:13Speaker 2: actual players.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Yes poorly uh, and just playing with each other. And
- 5:18Speaker 1: whereas a lot of games, in Game Changer sometimes the
- 5:22Speaker 1: players find frustrating, which I think is kind of for
- 5:25Speaker 1: the camera because they know going in. But sometimes if,
- 5:27Speaker 1: like if you don't guess the game or you do poorly,
- 5:30Speaker 1: once you do the guess the game, it can still
- 5:31Speaker 1: be frustrating. This one, it seemed they all enjoyed all
- 5:35Speaker 1: the way through.
- 5:36Speaker 2: Well, one guy in particular was grousing a bit about
- 5:41Speaker 2: having to stay there after already being eliminated from the game.
- 5:44Speaker 2: But I'm not going to name names because people may
- 5:47Speaker 2: want to go and watch it.
- 5:49Speaker 1: I've vieeded that out of my brain.
- 5:51Speaker 2: It was fun it was fun. The basic concept being
- 5:54Speaker 2: that you know, they all had I created identities and
- 5:57Speaker 2: they only interacted through a saly texting. They were all
- 6:01Speaker 2: put up in a hotel in different hotel rooms, and
- 6:04Speaker 2: they didn't even know which other members of Dropout were
- 6:08Speaker 2: participating in the game, which made it even more complicated.
- 6:12Speaker 2: And yeah, I just found it an exceedingly entertaining game.
- 6:17Speaker 2: I thought the ending surprised me, but I and I
- 6:22Speaker 2: was surprised to see the order of eliminations, especially the
- 6:25Speaker 2: first one. But it was a really fun show.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Yeah, the first elimination, I was really sad. I won't
- 6:31Speaker 1: harp on this too long because anybody who hasn't watched
- 6:33Speaker 1: us no idea. The first to elimination made me really
- 6:35Speaker 1: sad because that's my favorite player slash character by far.
- 6:41Speaker 1: But I also kind of knew who won because social
- 6:43Speaker 1: media dropped hints that ruined it from me.
- 6:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew who won because there was a YouTube
- 6:49Speaker 2: video where someone asked a question of the one of
- 6:55Speaker 2: the players that revealed the winner. And this was before
- 6:58Speaker 2: I had watched the act and it hadn't been out
- 7:02Speaker 2: for that long. When I saw that, I was like,
- 7:05Speaker 2: what a bummer? Like we'll be talking more about spoilers.
- 7:09Speaker 2: I'm sure a little bit because I didn't run this
- 7:12Speaker 2: by you before we started recording Aeriel. But I'm assuming
- 7:14Speaker 2: you're on the same page as I am, which is
- 7:16Speaker 2: that one of the other things both of us watched
- 7:19Speaker 2: was Deadpool and Wolverine, and I think a moratorium on
- 7:23Speaker 2: spoilers is absolutely necessary for that film.
- 7:27Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I definitely think so. I like we can
- 7:29Speaker 1: give our general impressions and whether we think you should
- 7:32Speaker 1: see it or not if you haven't already. I'm guessing
- 7:34Speaker 1: a lot of you already have. But yeah, I don't
- 7:36Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to spoil things. I knew
- 7:39Speaker 1: the one because somebody had posted a picture of the
- 7:42Speaker 1: billboard before the episode, even the first episode.
- 7:45Speaker 2: Right, the winner got a billboard on Hollywood Boulevard, so
- 7:49Speaker 2: that was that was the prize, and they could have
- 7:52Speaker 2: whatever they wanted on that billboard. So having a picture
- 7:56Speaker 2: of the billboard obviously tells you who the winner was.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Yeah, which is really interesting because I don't think you
- 8:01Speaker 1: watch thousand Airs, which is another new show this season
- 8:04Speaker 1: on Dropout, where a panel of friends are given one
- 8:07Speaker 1: thousand dollars to spend any way they'd like to entertain
- 8:11Speaker 1: their friends, and then the winner gets a prized that's
- 8:13Speaker 1: one thousand dollars from the host of that episode, and
- 8:15Speaker 1: the host changes every episode and the friends change every episode,
- 8:18Speaker 1: and it's delightful and one of the episodes the winner.
- 8:24Speaker 1: This was also before it aired, the winner was given
- 8:27Speaker 1: pr lessons as a part of that thousand air episode
- 8:33Speaker 1: and that kind of tied into it too.
- 8:35Speaker 2: Gotcha, so you also saw dead Bull and Wolverine. What
- 8:38Speaker 2: was your like, what was your take? Did you enjoy it?
- 8:43Speaker 1: I did? Yeah, you know it. I definitely think that
- 8:51Speaker 1: it has a specific audience built in. I think if
- 8:56Speaker 1: you're a younger Deadpool viewer, you may not get a
- 9:02Speaker 1: lot of the references in it.
- 9:05Speaker 2: Yeah, there are a lot of references to properties or
- 9:08Speaker 2: proposed properties from the Fox era of Marvel. So in fact,
- 9:17Speaker 2: most of them, I would say most of the references
- 9:20Speaker 2: are actually from the Fox era, not all, but most
- 9:23Speaker 2: that and that could mean that if you're younger and
- 9:26Speaker 2: you're not as familiar with the Fox era, those references
- 9:30Speaker 2: might be lost on you.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Yeah, which I actually liked because some of the Fox
- 9:35Speaker 1: stuff that came out was really good, and then some
- 9:38Speaker 1: of it was just okay or not great, but I
- 9:42Speaker 1: appreciate appreciating it because one, you know, it's Deadpool and Wolverine, right,
- 9:49Speaker 1: and so Wolverine's part of the X Men. X Men
- 9:51Speaker 1: came out long before we got iron Man or Thor
- 9:56Speaker 1: or any of that stuff. So Fox walked so so
- 10:00Speaker 1: MCU could run. Yeah, so I appreciate that. And also
- 10:06Speaker 1: as an actor, sometimes you're involved in projects that don't
- 10:09Speaker 1: end up good, but that doesn't mean you didn't put
- 10:12Speaker 1: your whole heart into it to entertain people and bring
- 10:14Speaker 1: value to somebody's day. And to remember that is just wonderful.
- 10:18Speaker 2: Yeah. I think most of the Fox Marvel stuff was decent.
- 10:25Speaker 2: X Men three is probably the one that I would
- 10:28Speaker 2: hold up as saying this was not very good. But
- 10:31Speaker 2: the stuff that I think of as being more misfires
- 10:34Speaker 2: is actually on the Sony side, not the Fox side.
- 10:37Speaker 1: I mean Wolverine origins.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Wolverine origins, yeah, which they have referenced in Deadpool before.
- 10:45Speaker 2: But yeah, that's because Deadpool shows up in Wolverine origins,
- 10:47Speaker 2: but it's not the version that you are used to.
- 10:51Speaker 1: But again, that was Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool or in
- 10:54Speaker 1: Wolverine origins and so again, I don't think we would
- 10:59Speaker 1: have Deadpool and Wolf, or Deadpool two or Deadpool one
- 11:01Speaker 1: if it hadn't been free So.
- 11:03Speaker 2: How of the three, how does this one stack up
- 11:06Speaker 2: for you?
- 11:08Speaker 1: I think that the story in one and two is better,
- 11:11Speaker 1: but I think the story in three is still enjoyable.
- 11:14Speaker 1: And I was surprised many times throughout the movie in delightful,
- 11:20Speaker 1: delightful ways that I can't talk about that I've talked
- 11:23Speaker 1: about behind the scenes. Yeah, and I really enjoyed it.
- 11:28Speaker 1: I would see it again. I will probably own it
- 11:31Speaker 1: along with the other Deadpool movies. It was super raunchy.
- 11:35Speaker 2: They're not as raunchy as the first two, Like it
- 11:38Speaker 2: was really oh yeah, come on.
- 11:41Speaker 1: There was some stuff in three that I was like,
- 11:43Speaker 1: this is more raunchy, but you know each other.
- 11:46Speaker 2: I'm thinking of the montage in part one with all
- 11:49Speaker 2: the holidays, and I'm pretty sure that one wins out
- 11:53Speaker 2: over three.
- 11:55Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it wasn't super graphic.
- 12:00Speaker 3: That montage, I don't think, but you know, they make
- 12:04Speaker 3: jokes about it about the fact that they have the
- 12:07Speaker 3: the limits on what they can do because of Disney,
- 12:11Speaker 3: But that even made the trailer, so that's not a spoiler.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but I've really enjoyed all of like the
- 12:18Speaker 1: just the interviews with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman that
- 12:21Speaker 1: have been happening.
- 12:22Speaker 2: I've enjoyed most of them. But man, that was a
- 12:24Speaker 2: pr blitz.
- 12:27Speaker 1: It was It was a lot, But it looks like
- 12:28Speaker 1: they're having fun.
- 12:30Speaker 2: Did you see their Hot Ones episode?
- 12:32Speaker 1: I did. Yeah. I feel like if you haven't watched
- 12:37Speaker 1: the movie and you have avoided spoilers, continue to do
- 12:39Speaker 1: so because it really is better to be surprised. I
- 12:43Speaker 1: like a lot of things they did with the movie,
- 12:44Speaker 1: with with some of the plot lines, it just made
- 12:46Speaker 1: me absolutely delighted.
- 12:49Speaker 2: Yeah. We went with to see it with our friend
- 12:52Speaker 2: of the show, Shaye Lee and uh and I have
- 12:55Speaker 2: to say that if you're gonna see a raunchy comedy movie,
- 12:59Speaker 2: sitting next to is guaranteed to be just as entertaining
- 13:03Speaker 2: because she laughs loud and hard.
- 13:07Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. The other thing I'll say about Deadpool and
- 13:11Speaker 1: I almost said versus Wolverine, but it's just dead Pool
- 13:12Speaker 1: and Wolverine. The villain was really good, Like they Cassandra Nova.
- 13:21Speaker 1: The character is not somebody that I was super familiar
- 13:23Speaker 1: with in general, but the actor that played them was
- 13:27Speaker 1: just it was effortless, and the villain was scary and
- 13:32Speaker 1: fun and enjoyable and not too over the top and
- 13:35Speaker 1: like had an easy to understand motive and just just
- 13:40Speaker 1: one of the MCU's better villains.
- 13:42Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, I agree, at least as far
- 13:46Speaker 2: as being kind of intimidating and such, I think that
- 13:51Speaker 2: they did a great job. I think if I'm gonna
- 13:54Speaker 2: pick the best villains who have shown up in MCU
- 13:58Speaker 2: or MCU adjacent projects, I think my award is still
- 14:03Speaker 2: going to kill Monger for perhaps the best one. But
- 14:08Speaker 2: and maybe Vulture from Spider Man.
- 14:11Speaker 1: I really liked those two. Kill Monger unfortunately suffered from
- 14:15Speaker 1: CGI ending and that wasn't that wasn't yeah Michael B.
- 14:20Speaker 1: Jordan's fault.
- 14:21Speaker 2: Yeah, that that was the standard Marvel thing about third
- 14:25Speaker 2: act turns into a PS four game.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I liked the villain in the first Doctor Strange. Again,
- 14:32Speaker 1: I think they had like an understandable, followable motive. I
- 14:36Speaker 1: know a lot that that's divisive on a lot of people,
- 14:39Speaker 1: but yeah, I like the Doctor Strange villain. Well you
- 14:42Speaker 1: you also not Dormammu, but the low level villain, right.
- 14:45Speaker 2: The guy who still steals the paper. Not Morto either, right,
- 14:50Speaker 2: because that's Michaelson. Yeah, yeah, well you have on our
- 14:53Speaker 2: notes here. You also have one other thing you wanted
- 14:55Speaker 2: to talk about that you watched while we were on hiatus.
- 14:59Speaker 1: Yes, and this show. Oh man. So it's Scavenger's Rain,
- 15:03Speaker 1: which started on HBO and then got moved to Netflix
- 15:06Speaker 1: because thankfully they're not just shelving everything. They're selling stuff
- 15:09Speaker 1: off now. It's an original sci fi cartoon. It is
- 15:15Speaker 1: definitely not for kids. Nothing like super explicit has been done,
- 15:19Speaker 1: but it is like there's just some very disturbing stuff
- 15:22Speaker 1: in it. It's very alien, aliens ads adjacent. You know,
- 15:28Speaker 1: maybe an older kid might be able to handle it,
- 15:30Speaker 1: but there's a there's a lot of I am enjoying it.
- 15:33Speaker 1: It like they do such a good job at building
- 15:36Speaker 1: the world in a way that feels so alien that
- 15:39Speaker 1: you're like, what the heck is going on? I can't
- 15:41Speaker 1: look away because I'm gonna miss something and keeping it fresh.
- 15:50Speaker 1: I told my friends that I was watching with after
- 15:53Speaker 1: the first episodes only one. I don't have to watch Aliens, Romulin, Romulus, uh,
- 15:59Speaker 1: because this is this is plenty enough spooky sci fi for.
- 16:03Speaker 2: Me, probably not quite as much body horror, not as much.
- 16:08Speaker 1: I mean, there's still some scary, weird, gross stuff in there,
- 16:11Speaker 1: but not as much by any means. And it's a cartoon.
- 16:14Speaker 1: It's a very simply drawn cartoon too, so you know,
- 16:21Speaker 1: it's just not going to be quite as visceral. There
- 16:24Speaker 1: are some things. But it's got a great voice cast,
- 16:27Speaker 1: and it's kind of got the problem of like, it's
- 16:30Speaker 1: good and it's interesting and it's new, and I kind
- 16:32Speaker 1: of wrote it off because the animation is so simple.
- 16:35Speaker 1: It just the style didn't grab me. And I think
- 16:39Speaker 1: a lot of people wrote it off because it was
- 16:40Speaker 1: a cartoon, but a whole bunch of people who did
- 16:43Speaker 1: watch it are like, we want a season two, and
- 16:45Speaker 1: so far it doesn't look like that's gonna happen. But
- 16:47Speaker 1: then it just also got an Emmy nod, so maybe
- 16:50Speaker 1: it will happen. It's got a great voice cast, including
- 16:55Speaker 1: someone who was in Deadpool and Wolverine as well as
- 16:58Speaker 1: I can't remember the actress's name, but she was maybe
- 17:01Speaker 1: in Arrested Development. They were maybe in Arrested Development. Is
- 17:06Speaker 1: also a voice in it, and it's I enjoy it
- 17:09Speaker 1: if you like spooky sci FI. I recommend it. It's
- 17:12Speaker 1: on Netflix. It's one season but two episodes in and
- 17:15Speaker 1: I'm like, what the heck, So.
- 17:18Speaker 2: I'll definitely have to check that out because, like, I
- 17:21Speaker 2: still have a ton of stuff to watch. It's still
- 17:26Speaker 2: my to watch list is still incredibly long, but I
- 17:29Speaker 2: have been tackling it. So I also saw Deadpool and Wolverine,
- 17:34Speaker 2: but we've already talked about that, But the other.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Where does it fall for real? Quick? Where does it
- 17:39Speaker 1: fall for you? In the three movie?
- 17:40Speaker 2: Probably Deadpool one is probably my favorite. Deadpool and Wolverine
- 17:45Speaker 2: is next, and Deadpool two is third, but it's real close,
- 17:50Speaker 2: and tomorrow I might give you a different order, Like gotcha,
- 17:55Speaker 2: there was something that happened in Deadpool and Wolverine where
- 17:58Speaker 2: I was like, I thought that particular character was dead
- 18:04Speaker 2: uh huh, but that particular character is now showing up.
- 18:07Speaker 2: And sure we have the explanation in Deadpool two that
- 18:12Speaker 2: Deadpool has access to a time machine. I just couldn't
- 18:15Speaker 2: remember at the end of dead Bool two if that
- 18:18Speaker 2: was one of those things that was shown, like the
- 18:21Speaker 2: rescue of that character, if that happened, and I haven't
- 18:24Speaker 2: gone back to watch Deadpool two to find out.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Yeah. I do wish I had watched Deadpool two before
- 18:29Speaker 1: seeing Deadpool and Wolverine, just to there are a couple
- 18:32Speaker 1: of things that I was like, what, just what? Okay,
- 18:34Speaker 1: I guess yeah, okay.
- 18:36Speaker 2: Yeah, because this was a case where I'm like, that
- 18:37Speaker 2: person was very mostly sincerely dead in Deadpool two, so
- 18:42Speaker 2: why are they there? Also, well, no, that's another spoiler. Okay,
- 18:46Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I'll off Mike off recording. I will
- 18:50Speaker 2: ask you about something because I thought it was a
- 18:52Speaker 2: cop out for Deadpool and Wolverine. But but it's a
- 18:57Speaker 2: minor issue, Like it's one of those actually kind of
- 19:01Speaker 2: things where you're like, actually, how would that work? Anyway.
- 19:06Speaker 2: I also actually started and then watched all of what
- 19:11Speaker 2: we do in the Shadows, the TV series, up to
- 19:15Speaker 2: up to the end of season five, and season six
- 19:18Speaker 2: comes out in October, so.
- 19:20Speaker 1: It's a lot of what we do in the Shadow.
- 19:22Speaker 2: But each season is like eight to ten episodes long,
- 19:26Speaker 2: and they're about and they're about a half hour, so
- 19:29Speaker 2: it's not it's not as much as it sounds on
- 19:32Speaker 2: first blush. You're talking about the equivalent of four to
- 19:36Speaker 2: five hours per season, and there's five seasons, so Becca
- 19:41Speaker 2: and I we sat up late and watched you know,
- 19:44Speaker 2: we would binge like two or three episodes, sometimes three
- 19:47Speaker 2: or four per night, and we got through them real quick.
- 19:51Speaker 2: So we finished season five last night, in fact, and
- 19:57Speaker 2: very much enjoy it. You Know, my favorite character varies
- 20:01Speaker 2: from season to season because sometimes characters suddenly sport specific
- 20:07Speaker 2: motivations and character traits that were not present in other seasons.
- 20:11Speaker 2: They are not consistent by any stretch of the imagination.
- 20:14Speaker 2: So my favorite character's changed depending on what's going on
- 20:17Speaker 2: in seasons. But I am consistently entertained by it. And
- 20:22Speaker 2: then I've watched the first well, I'll come back to it.
- 20:29Speaker 2: I watched The Boys all of season four. I can't
- 20:32Speaker 2: remember if I had done that before we went on hiatus,
- 20:35Speaker 2: but I'm all caught up on that. Yeah, okay, so
- 20:38Speaker 2: I'm all caught up on the Boys. I'm not excited
- 20:42Speaker 2: about season five because I feel like season four was
- 20:46Speaker 2: a lot of treading water, you know, to kill time
- 20:50Speaker 2: before season five, which is supposed to be the last
- 20:53Speaker 2: season of the Boys. Whether it will be or not
- 20:56Speaker 2: is still an open question.
- 20:59Speaker 1: I feel like maybe we talked about this in the
- 21:02Speaker 1: last episode, which we didn't release.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's why I feel like I
- 21:06Speaker 2: haven't talked about it, because I did talk about it.
- 21:08Speaker 2: Y'all just didn't hear it. Ariel didn't though, So anyway, Yeah,
- 21:13Speaker 2: The Boys, I didn't really care, Like, I didn't think
- 21:16Speaker 2: season four was bad, but I did feel like it
- 21:21Speaker 2: was a lot of stalling so that season five can happen.
- 21:25Speaker 2: Like I didn't, I didn't feel like it was justified.
- 21:29Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of reviews also saying, I mean,
- 21:32Speaker 1: basically around certain story points that the show runner, writer whomever,
- 21:38Speaker 1: Eric k Eric Kriske, Yeah, kind of lost the point
- 21:44Speaker 1: of the show at a couple of points and did
- 21:46Speaker 1: things more out of malicious humor than to make a
- 21:50Speaker 1: salient point or give compassion to a situation that maybe
- 21:53Speaker 1: should have compassion.
- 21:54Speaker 2: Yeah, they're so in two separate occasions in the show.
- 21:59Speaker 2: I mean, Huey exists to be tortured, that's all. That's
- 22:04Speaker 2: his reison d'etre in The Boys. Apparently, like every time
- 22:10Speaker 2: they send Huie in to do something, I'm like, have
- 22:13Speaker 2: you not learned that every time hue is the one
- 22:16Speaker 2: who has to go in and do something, stuff goes
- 22:18Speaker 2: wrong and he gets absolutely tortured as a result. Why
- 22:24Speaker 2: do you keep making him be the guy who goes
- 22:27Speaker 2: into the place like that makes no sense. But yeah,
- 22:31Speaker 2: there's like I won't use the language because this is
- 22:35Speaker 2: a family friendly show, but he has put through a
- 22:40Speaker 2: couple of different cases of abuse and it's played up
- 22:45Speaker 2: for laughs both times, and it's really disturbing that it
- 22:49Speaker 2: was used as it was used as a joke, whereas
- 22:54Speaker 2: like the show, season four is all about people kind
- 22:57Speaker 2: of coming to grips with their trauma. None of it,
- 23:01Speaker 2: by the way, I felt resolved in a way that
- 23:04Speaker 2: was satisfactory. Like I wasn't satisfied by any I saw
- 23:08Speaker 2: what he was doing, but it felt so by the
- 23:11Speaker 2: numbers for the resolution part that it didn't feel like
- 23:15Speaker 2: it was earned based upon the serious amount of drama
- 23:20Speaker 2: that trauma caused. So anyway, that's my own personal opinion.
- 23:24Speaker 2: I still will watch season five. I want to see
- 23:27Speaker 2: how it all wraps up, assuming it does wrap up,
- 23:29Speaker 2: if they announced they're going to do it season six,
- 23:31Speaker 2: maybe I won't bother And we'll talk later in the
- 23:34Speaker 2: episode about another Boys related announcement that came out of
- 23:39Speaker 2: San Diego Comic Con. The other thing I watched was
- 23:43Speaker 2: the first few episodes of the Time Bandits series which
- 23:48Speaker 2: Taiko Watiti and Jamaine Clement have been presenting. Jamayne plays
- 23:55Speaker 2: Ultimate Evil, which was what David Warner played that character
- 23:58Speaker 2: in the original Time be movie. Taiko a Tit plays God,
- 24:03Speaker 2: so in.
- 24:05Speaker 1: Lisa Kudro is also in it, who's also a very
- 24:07Speaker 1: funny per.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Lisa Kudro is playing the leader, not really the leader
- 24:11Speaker 2: of the bandits. So in the original Time Bandits all
- 24:14Speaker 2: the bandits were played by little people actors who were
- 24:17Speaker 2: playing all the different characters like Widget, and I think
- 24:21Speaker 2: it was Fidget actually Fidget in the movie Widget. In
- 24:24Speaker 2: the TV series, they are not played by little people
- 24:28Speaker 2: actors in the In the television series, they're all actors
- 24:33Speaker 2: of of average stature. Lisa Kudro is kind of the leader,
- 24:38Speaker 2: not leader of them. I will say this, I prefer
- 24:43Speaker 2: the film. I think the sense of humor in the
- 24:46Speaker 2: film works more for me. I am enjoying the series
- 24:54Speaker 2: to an extent enough to keep watching. But I think
- 25:00Speaker 2: and some of the performances are fantastic. The boy they
- 25:03Speaker 2: got to play the lead character, he's great. But and
- 25:08Speaker 2: the different range different eras they visit are really interesting.
- 25:11Speaker 2: It's not the same thing that was in the film version,
- 25:15Speaker 2: but I think I prefer the original movie. I have
- 25:21Speaker 2: a deep love for that film. It's a very flawed
- 25:24Speaker 2: fantasy comedy, but I think I prefer it to the series. However,
- 25:29Speaker 2: I'll still watch the series that's on Apple TV. Plus
- 25:32Speaker 2: it's worth checking out.
- 25:34Speaker 1: I want to watch the other one that we talked
- 25:36Speaker 1: about that has Rashida Jones in it her name.
- 25:39Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember seeing the trailer for it,
- 25:44Speaker 2: and I cannot, for the life of me remember remember
- 25:47Speaker 2: what that that was called.
- 25:50Speaker 1: It's called Sonny, Okay, And I want to watch it
- 25:54Speaker 1: because I keep seeing trailers for it, and maybe I
- 25:56Speaker 1: keep seeing trailers for it because I looked it up,
- 25:58Speaker 1: but you know, positive.
- 26:00Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's it for what we've seen. And now
- 26:05Speaker 2: we've got a whole thirty seconds or less section to
- 26:09Speaker 2: blast through before we go and talk about all the
- 26:13Speaker 2: trailers and comic Con news.
- 26:16Speaker 1: We might have to keep ourselves, you know, we're not
- 26:19Speaker 1: super long into the episode already, but we might have
- 26:21Speaker 1: to keep ourselves.
- 26:22Speaker 2: Kind yeah, moving at a clip down.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So first thirty seconds or less story Deadpool
- 26:29Speaker 1: and Wolverine that is good. Yeah. Right now, it's made
- 26:36Speaker 1: a bunch of movie, a bunch of Oh my god,
- 26:40Speaker 1: that's so distracting.
- 26:42Speaker 2: I thought I would try it. I guess that's not
- 26:44Speaker 2: going to work.
- 26:45Speaker 1: Oh no, it was my suggestion. We can do it again.
- 26:47Speaker 2: No no, no, no, I'll I'll get this is a gimme.
- 26:52Speaker 2: It's a mull again start over, and I'll keeping all
- 26:55Speaker 2: of this in, but I'll do the regular music.
- 26:58Speaker 1: Sorry, okay, dead Pool or no music at all, whichever.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Dipol and Wolverine is now the ninth biggest rated hit
- 27:06Speaker 1: in the domestic box office. That's pretty huge. It's making
- 27:11Speaker 1: a bunch of money. It's made like two hundred and
- 27:13Speaker 1: eighty million domestic in like five hundred and fifty million international,
- 27:18Speaker 1: and that was like yesterday, so it could have made
- 27:21Speaker 1: more by today. But that's that's really good news, I
- 27:26Speaker 1: guess for the movie industry that has been struggling. It's
- 27:29Speaker 1: still struggling, but you know, still good news. And it
- 27:33Speaker 1: is also done better than several recent MCU movies, although
- 27:38Speaker 1: the one I'm sad about it did better than shang Chi,
- 27:40Speaker 1: and I thought shang Chi was fantastic.
- 27:43Speaker 2: So okay, we'll be talking about the news from Comic
- 27:46Speaker 2: Con later today, but one thing that wasn't really covered
- 27:49Speaker 2: would be Marvel's Disney Plus series. Thankfully, Charlie Cox recently
- 27:54Speaker 2: gave some updates on the eighteen episode Daredevil Born Again series.
- 27:58Speaker 2: He revealed that the characters Karen and Foggy Nelson will
- 28:01Speaker 2: both return after some rewrites and reshoots, and that King
- 28:06Speaker 2: Pen and Punisher will be back too. The series will
- 28:09Speaker 2: reportedly have its own tone, distinct from the Netflix versions,
- 28:12Speaker 2: but will still be gritty and violent. And it's gonna
- 28:15Speaker 2: come out in twenty twenty five.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Quee, I've you know, like, okay, three seconds to us. Sorry,
- 28:23Speaker 1: Squid Games. Squid Games two is coming out December twenty sixth,
- 28:27Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. It's been a really long time. But
- 28:29Speaker 1: don't worry. You're not gonna have to wait as long
- 28:32Speaker 1: between season two and season three because season three comes
- 28:35Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty five and it's the final season.
- 28:38Speaker 1: I still haven't gotten through season one. I'm like halfway
- 28:41Speaker 1: in and every time I go I need.
- 28:42Speaker 2: To watch Squid Games.
- 28:43Speaker 1: I'm like public, there's something more fun.
- 28:46Speaker 2: Well, sad news for fans and renegade now, the Disney
- 28:50Speaker 2: Plus series is not getting a second season. The series
- 28:53Speaker 2: followed a young woman's experiences as a highwayman in eighteenth
- 28:57Speaker 2: century England, had a little bit of magic added there,
- 29:00Speaker 2: and it won a few really passionate fans, including friends
- 29:04Speaker 2: of ours, but not enough people watch the series. It seems.
- 29:08Speaker 2: Ariel and I both share blame on that one. I
- 29:10Speaker 2: know it's not the same thing at all. But Apple
- 29:13Speaker 2: TV Plus did renew The completely made up Adventures of
- 29:16Speaker 2: Dick Turpin for a second season earlier this month, so
- 29:19Speaker 2: that's something.
- 29:21Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, But in positive news, it's taken a while.
- 29:26Speaker 1: Everything has taken a while because of the various strikes.
- 29:29Speaker 1: Right now, there's a video game voice voice actor strike. Reasonable,
- 29:36Speaker 1: but you know the AATSI just finished. Before that, it
- 29:38Speaker 1: was actors, and before that it was writers. So IATSI
- 29:42Speaker 1: Chemster's just signed an agreement. I think it might need
- 29:45Speaker 1: to be RIGHTIFU anyhow, But Box mockin of season three
- 29:49Speaker 1: is coming October third. They've released their first little clip
- 29:52Speaker 1: from the show, and it looks delightful and just as
- 29:55Speaker 1: good as the first two seasons. They've also released like
- 29:58Speaker 1: some line art based like storyboard animations from mighty nine,
- 30:03Speaker 1: which is also coming but probably in twenty twenty five.
- 30:06Speaker 1: But it's good to know that both of these things
- 30:07Speaker 1: are still on the slate because people were wondering.
- 30:10Speaker 2: The choose your own adventure style horror game Until Dawn
- 30:13Speaker 2: is getting a film adaptation, and we have some information
- 30:16Speaker 2: on casting. Peter Stormayer, Maya, Mitchell Belmont Camelli are joining
- 30:22Speaker 2: a cast that also has Ella Rubin, Michael Samino, g
- 30:25Speaker 2: Young You, and Odessa Aziong. Shooting is to begin in
- 30:29Speaker 2: a couple of weeks. The game harkens back to horror
- 30:32Speaker 2: genre films like I Know What You Did Last Summer,
- 30:34Speaker 2: mixed in with some supernatural horror. Will a film adaptation
- 30:38Speaker 2: be as riveting as the game? I have my concerns.
- 30:41Speaker 2: I also wonder if they'll end it like Clue and
- 30:43Speaker 2: say this is how it could have happened. Because the
- 30:45Speaker 2: big thing and then Until Dawn is your decisions affect
- 30:48Speaker 2: who lives and who dies. So there are like lots
- 30:51Speaker 2: of potential endings of that game.
- 30:52Speaker 1: It just needs to be a choose your own in
- 30:55Speaker 1: the movie theater choose your own ending. Everybody gets a
- 30:58Speaker 1: screen that pops up in front of their face and
- 30:59Speaker 1: they get to speaking of realizations of films. Warhammer forty thousand,
- 31:07Speaker 1: this is news, not news. Warhammer forty thousand may or
- 31:10Speaker 1: may not happen. Kleider reported that it depends on everybody
- 31:15Speaker 1: hitting getting an agreement over creative guidelines by December twenty
- 31:19Speaker 1: twenty four. But they set a year deadline in December
- 31:22Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, so it takes time, and I'm
- 31:25Speaker 1: sure it takes longer again with all the strikes happening.
- 31:28Speaker 1: But I know that we've talked about how excited Henry
- 31:32Speaker 1: cavill is for this property. Hopefully they'll come to an agreement.
- 31:36Speaker 2: James Gunn announced this week that production has wrapped on Superman,
- 31:40Speaker 2: the film that will launch the latest in a long
- 31:42Speaker 2: line of Clark Kents. The movie is to be released
- 31:45Speaker 2: on July eleventh of twenty twenty five, assuming post production
- 31:48Speaker 2: goes as planned. David corn Sweat plays Soups. Rachel Brosnahan
- 31:53Speaker 2: is Lois Lane. Nicholas Holt continues to play bad guys
- 31:56Speaker 2: by being Lex Luthor. There are a lot of other
- 31:58Speaker 2: heroes and villains who will appear in the film as well,
- 32:00Speaker 2: from Metamorpho to Mister Griffic to Otis to Jimmy Olson.
- 32:06Speaker 1: I kind of said when they posted their first at
- 32:09Speaker 1: the Studios in Atlanta picture that that was too much
- 32:11Speaker 1: sexy for Atlanta to hold, But yeah, I guess I
- 32:14Speaker 1: hold it hold to that. Still, Deadline is doing great
- 32:18Speaker 1: at their article naming. They just released one called Breaking
- 32:22Speaker 1: Bads and it talks about Sigourney Weaver playing Prospero in
- 32:26Speaker 1: the West End starting in December, and I'd be like,
- 32:29Speaker 1: that's cool. I like traveling to see funky people do
- 32:32Speaker 1: fun theater. But then also in the article they talk
- 32:35Speaker 1: about Tom Hidleston and Haley Atwell doing Much Ado about
- 32:40Speaker 1: Nothing in like February, and I'm like, UK, I cannot
- 32:43Speaker 1: spend that much money to go visit you.
- 32:46Speaker 2: Wow, I didn't know about the Hidleston and at Well
- 32:50Speaker 2: thing right and much how Much Ado is my favorite
- 32:55Speaker 2: Shakespearean comedy And I will be telling Becca at this
- 33:00Speaker 2: as soon as this episode's over, and I have a
- 33:02Speaker 2: feeling we'll be planning a trip to the UK to
- 33:05Speaker 2: see that, because holy cats. First of all, that's going
- 33:10Speaker 2: to be the most frickin attractive version of mush Todo
- 33:13Speaker 2: about Nothing I've ever seen. I mean, yes, yes, I
- 33:17Speaker 2: have a crush on both of those actors, so.
- 33:22Speaker 1: You know, and I will say, like it's hard because
- 33:25Speaker 1: I really like the version with David Tennant and Catherine.
- 33:30Speaker 2: To Oh yeah, that one's fantastic too. So well, because
- 33:34Speaker 2: Katherine Tate and David Tennant they have such amazing chemistry,
- 33:38Speaker 2: right and and they really bring the fire of Benedict
- 33:42Speaker 2: and Beatrice. And Catherine Tate is so good at being
- 33:47Speaker 2: arch and pointed and she can cut right to the
- 33:51Speaker 2: bone at will though I feel like she has that
- 33:54Speaker 2: same capability like you started to see a little bit
- 33:56Speaker 2: of that, like Agent Carter and stuff. Right, So, and
- 33:59Speaker 2: hit'll Hidleston's been good in everything I've ever seen him in.
- 34:03Speaker 1: So his performance in The Royal shakespare this is either
- 34:08Speaker 1: National Theater or Royal Shakespeare Company. They might be the
- 34:10Speaker 1: same thing. I don't know. I'm losing my geek card
- 34:12Speaker 1: over that. His portrayal of Coriolanus was amazing.
- 34:15Speaker 2: Wow. Also one of the least produced Shakespearean plays, right
- 34:22Speaker 2: up there with Timon of Athens and Pericles.
- 34:24Speaker 1: All Right, I was never a fan until he performed it.
- 34:27Speaker 2: So well, let's kick this episode right in the Coriolanus
- 34:30Speaker 2: and talk about talk about the that's I took that
- 34:34Speaker 2: line from I took that line from Brush Up Your
- 34:37Speaker 2: Shakespeare from Kiss Me Kate, so that's I can't take
- 34:40Speaker 2: credit for it. Kiss Me Kate did it way better
- 34:44Speaker 2: and earlier. But yeah, let's talk about San Diego Comic
- 34:47Speaker 2: Con and some of the news that came out of it.
- 34:49Speaker 2: So I do have, like like Ariel said at the beginning,
- 34:52Speaker 2: some rudimentary notes just to kind of touch on it.
- 34:55Speaker 2: Like I said, we're not going to talk about everything.
- 34:58Speaker 2: There was way too much, so.
- 35:01Speaker 1: Yeah, how do how do you even? I guess the
- 35:04Speaker 1: biggest news to me that came out of it was
- 35:06Speaker 1: the whole Robert Downey Junior thing.
- 35:07Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so first off, some of the news that
- 35:11Speaker 2: came out of San Diego Comic Con contained spoilers for
- 35:15Speaker 2: Dead bulll and Wolverine. So we're not going to cover
- 35:17Speaker 2: any of that because, like we said at the top,
- 35:21Speaker 2: we think that's a movie that if you want to
- 35:23Speaker 2: see it, you should see it without any spoilers, or
- 35:25Speaker 2: as few spoilers as you can. I went into it
- 35:28Speaker 2: with a couple of spoilers, but thankfully, some of the
- 35:31Speaker 2: biggest moments I did not expect and that was delightful.
- 35:38Speaker 2: But yeah, one of the big stories. It's part of
- 35:41Speaker 2: It's part of a huge story for Disney, which is
- 35:44Speaker 2: obviously that Jonathan Major's after being found guilty of domestic abuse,
- 35:50Speaker 2: has effectively been wiped from the multiverse. He had been
- 35:54Speaker 2: playing Kang, and there was a lot of speculation as
- 35:57Speaker 2: to whether Disney would recast Kang because they have recast
- 36:01Speaker 2: actors before. Heck, one of the other actors who's coming
- 36:05Speaker 2: up in upcoming Marvel films, Harrison Ford. He is replacing
- 36:10Speaker 2: William Hurt. Now in that case, it's because William Hurt
- 36:12Speaker 2: passed away, but he will be playing Thunderbolt Ross in
- 36:17Speaker 2: William Hurt's place. But you know, they recast war Machine,
- 36:21Speaker 2: for example, so there was some speculation that that could
- 36:25Speaker 2: happen again. It is not. We originally was going to
- 36:28Speaker 2: have the you know, Avengers King Dynasty as the next
- 36:32Speaker 2: Avengers movie. Now it's Avengers Doomsday with Doctor Doom as
- 36:38Speaker 2: the villain, and Robert Downey Jr. Has been announced as
- 36:42Speaker 2: the actor who will be playing Doctor Doom, which obviously
- 36:45Speaker 2: raises more questions, right is this is he playing a
- 36:49Speaker 2: variant of Tony Stark from somewhere else in the multiverse
- 36:53Speaker 2: and this Tony Stark adopts the identity of doctor Doom.
- 36:58Speaker 2: Is he actually playing Victor von Doom, who, for some
- 37:02Speaker 2: reason happens to look and sound just like Tony Stark.
- 37:07Speaker 2: We don't know.
- 37:08Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to wait to find out. I
- 37:13Speaker 1: want to give the MCU time to really massage their
- 37:19Speaker 1: story so that it's better, because they've been talking about
- 37:21Speaker 1: doing that after the last few flops, like really making
- 37:24Speaker 1: sure that what they present is new and fun and exciting.
- 37:32Speaker 1: I will say side note to this with Doctor Doom.
- 37:36Speaker 1: I did accidentally catch the leaked footage from Fantastic four.
- 37:41Speaker 2: Wow, someone shot that on a cell phone.
- 37:45Speaker 1: I take it and yeah, and like, I'm sure it's
- 37:48Speaker 1: down now. But I kind of was like, what is
- 37:50Speaker 1: this And by the time I knew, I'm like, oh, well,
- 37:52Speaker 1: that's what I just watched.
- 37:53Speaker 2: Well, I read I read a description about the footage,
- 37:58Speaker 2: because like, clearly, I'm people have to report on something
- 38:02Speaker 2: so Fantastic four. They did show a first look at
- 38:06Speaker 2: some of the footage from that, not so much a
- 38:08Speaker 2: trailer as kind of I guess kind of like a trailer,
- 38:11Speaker 2: just not an official trailer is From what I understand,
- 38:14Speaker 2: the film is called Fantastic four first Steps, and the
- 38:18Speaker 2: bit of the trailer actually does have a reveal for Galactus,
- 38:23Speaker 2: the Devourer of Worlds. The other thing that was confirmed
- 38:28Speaker 2: is that Fantastic Four does largely take place in an
- 38:31Speaker 2: alternate version of Earth, and it's in the nineteen sixties,
- 38:34Speaker 2: so it has kind of a period piece feel to it,
- 38:37Speaker 2: but an alternate version of the nineteen sixties, like almost
- 38:41Speaker 2: like the nineteen sixties, the futuristic nineteen sixties that people
- 38:44Speaker 2: in the nineteen forties were dreaming of, right, so it's
- 38:48Speaker 2: not an accurate representation of Earth's nineteen sixties. That sounded
- 38:54Speaker 2: really cool. I haven't seen that footage, but it does
- 38:57Speaker 2: sound neat. They also show off some footage from Thunderbolts
- 39:02Speaker 2: Asterisk because not has the asterisk at the end of
- 39:06Speaker 2: the title. That just sounds to me like it is
- 39:10Speaker 2: what everyone says it is, which is Marvel's version of
- 39:13Speaker 2: Suicide Squad, which is funny because DC has a new
- 39:16Speaker 2: version of Suicide Squad we'll talk about too.
- 39:19Speaker 1: And hey, even Star Trek has a version of Suicide
- 39:21Speaker 1: Squad that we're going to talk about.
- 39:22Speaker 2: That's that's also true. They also showed off footage from
- 39:26Speaker 2: Captain America Brave New World. This shows like Sam as
- 39:32Speaker 2: Captain America, he is no longer the Falcon, although he
- 39:34Speaker 2: does still have the Falcon suit and can fly and everything,
- 39:37Speaker 2: but now his his buddy has become the Falcon. In
- 39:41Speaker 2: the MCU, the.
- 39:44Speaker 1: Not Bucky Barnes, Not Bucky Barnes.
- 39:46Speaker 2: No no, no, no. This is like the guy who
- 39:48Speaker 2: was also in his unit that ends up becoming the
- 39:51Speaker 2: new Falcon. He was in Falcon in the Winter Soldier.
- 39:54Speaker 2: You see more of this character.
- 39:57Speaker 1: Isn't that character also in the comics, like Phoenix or
- 40:00Speaker 1: something like that might.
- 40:01Speaker 2: Be, but I think he just takes on the persona
- 40:04Speaker 2: of Falcon. Now now that Sam. Because Sam moves up
- 40:07Speaker 2: to Captain America, this guy gets promoted to Falcon. It's
- 40:09Speaker 2: the chain of command. And in the footage they showed
- 40:14Speaker 2: at San Diego Comic Con, they and they mentioned something
- 40:19Speaker 2: for the first time in the MCU, not the first
- 40:22Speaker 2: time in Marvel movies, but specifically the MCU. It was
- 40:27Speaker 2: our very first time hearing about this mysterious otherworldly metal
- 40:32Speaker 2: called Adamantium.
- 40:36Speaker 1: In my brain, it's just been already talked about.
- 40:39Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but in MCU so far it's just been vibranium.
- 40:44Speaker 2: And then I don't think they ever mentioned uru as
- 40:47Speaker 2: the metal that Thor's hammer is made from, but like
- 40:52Speaker 2: that's the those the only.
- 40:52Speaker 1: Two guardians of the Galaxy two.
- 40:56Speaker 2: It's possible, but yeah.
- 40:59Speaker 3: I.
- 41:00Speaker 1: Vibranium is caps shield and also Black Panther.
- 41:05Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yeah, Vibranium's ability is to absorb kinetic energy.
- 41:10Speaker 2: So you if that's why Captain America can withstand, like
- 41:14Speaker 2: if the Hulk punched his shield, the shield would absorb
- 41:18Speaker 2: the kinetic energy. Although we still see Keptin America get
- 41:21Speaker 2: thrown backwards a lot, so maybe that's to suggest that
- 41:25Speaker 2: the shield has only only a certain amount of ability
- 41:28Speaker 2: to absorb kinetic energy and after that you are still
- 41:32Speaker 2: feeling the effects. But in the footage, you also see
- 41:36Speaker 2: Thunderbolt Ross as played by Harrison Ford, asking Captain America
- 41:40Speaker 2: to reform the Avengers, so that's interesting. And you also
- 41:45Speaker 2: and you also see him transform into Red Hulk.
- 41:51Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, who who? Who would have thought that Harrison
- 41:56Speaker 1: Ford would still be an action star?
- 41:59Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, and replacing William Hurt at that.
- 42:04Speaker 1: As it's fine, he seems excited about he seems excited
- 42:07Speaker 1: in the role so I hope he's excited about the role.
- 42:09Speaker 2: And of course they do some jokes, just like they
- 42:11Speaker 2: did with war Machine. They do some jokes about how
- 42:14Speaker 2: he looks different. He's trying out a new look, and
- 42:17Speaker 2: that's clearly a sly reference to the fact that it's
- 42:19Speaker 2: a different actor playing the part. We got some other
- 42:23Speaker 2: stuff up. Sorry to bore you, Ariel, but we got
- 42:25Speaker 2: some o.
- 42:26Speaker 1: It's the the AC in here. I don't know if
- 42:28Speaker 1: our listeners can hear it, but it's blowing directly on me.
- 42:31Speaker 1: When I get cold, I go into hibernation.
- 42:33Speaker 2: Mode, whereas I don't have AC in my room, and
- 42:36Speaker 2: when I get warm, I get that way too, So I.
- 42:38Speaker 1: Should have turned it off, but it got like immediately sweltering.
- 42:41Speaker 2: When I did. Oh yeah, I understand. So some other
- 42:46Speaker 2: stuff outside of Disney's Marvel announcements, they some things we're
- 42:51Speaker 2: going to talk about in the lineup, so I'm not
- 42:52Speaker 2: going to bother with those. But they did have a
- 42:55Speaker 2: new trailer for The Penguin, which shows more of how
- 42:59Speaker 2: Oswald aka the Penguin is facing off against Falcone's daughter,
- 43:04Speaker 2: who is you know, they're kind of locked in a
- 43:06Speaker 2: power struggle to take over the crime family. That looks interesting.
- 43:12Speaker 2: We found out about another spin off of the Boys.
- 43:16Speaker 2: This is going to be a prequel called Vault Rising.
- 43:19Speaker 2: It's going to feature Soldier Boy and Stormfront Slash Liberty.
- 43:24Speaker 2: Apparently it's also going to be a murder mystery, and
- 43:27Speaker 2: my guess is it'll be lots of people doing terrible,
- 43:31Speaker 2: terrible things to each other and others.
- 43:34Speaker 1: Are you gonna watch it or do you think you're
- 43:35Speaker 1: gonna cut your losses after season five?
- 43:38Speaker 2: Uh? I mean I want to say I'm gonna cut
- 43:43Speaker 2: my losses. But I did watch gen V and that's
- 43:47Speaker 2: going to come back another season, so we'll see. I know,
- 43:52Speaker 2: I try. That's why I watch what we do in
- 43:54Speaker 2: the Shadows. It's even as absurdly dark as it is,
- 43:58Speaker 2: it's more uplifting. Uh. Netflix is still determined to produce
- 44:04Speaker 2: a BioShock film adaptation. They talked about that at Comic Con.
- 44:08Speaker 2: But the original plan was to do like this big
- 44:11Speaker 2: budget film adaptation. Now it sounds like it's going to
- 44:13Speaker 2: be a much smaller budget film with a smaller scope.
- 44:18Speaker 2: Makes you wonder if they're going to be able to
- 44:20Speaker 2: pull it off because BioShock, that's a game that has
- 44:24Speaker 2: a pretty impressive setting, and it seems to me like
- 44:28Speaker 2: whether whether you're looking at Bioshocks one and two or
- 44:30Speaker 2: BioShock Infinite, those settings are insane and it brings to
- 44:36Speaker 2: question like what what corners are they going to have
- 44:40Speaker 2: to cut in order to tell a story set in
- 44:43Speaker 2: one of those worlds. And then we also learned about
- 44:47Speaker 2: Doctor Who getting a spinoff mini series called The War
- 44:49Speaker 2: between Land and.
- 44:51Speaker 1: Sea, Yeah, which is Doctors not available for it, so
- 44:56Speaker 1: Unit has to step up. And the way that they've
- 44:58Speaker 1: set up Unit in the latest well in the last
- 45:01Speaker 1: few series of Doctor Who, but especially in the latest
- 45:04Speaker 1: series they've developed, they've put a whole bunch of characters
- 45:06Speaker 1: in there that are just so much fun to watch,
- 45:08Speaker 1: and so it's exciting to get to see them kind
- 45:11Speaker 1: of take the center stage like Torchwood did. But one
- 45:14Speaker 1: of the main villains is going to be the Sea Devils,
- 45:16Speaker 1: and I just think they look dorky.
- 45:18Speaker 2: Yeah. I know nothing about this because I'm not a
- 45:22Speaker 2: Doctor Who fan, so I'm going to withhold judgment. And
- 45:27Speaker 2: there was plenty more that came out of Comic Con.
- 45:30Speaker 2: I don't mean to suggest that the stuff I just
- 45:32Speaker 2: talked about that constitutes everything, or even the most important stuff.
- 45:36Speaker 2: That was the stuff that leaped out to me. But
- 45:40Speaker 2: obviously I didn't cover anything of the actual comics, and
- 45:43Speaker 2: there's tons of other projects I didn't touch on.
- 45:46Speaker 1: I feel like there are two other important things to
- 45:48Speaker 1: note on because we're going to talk about some of
- 45:50Speaker 1: this and I already kind of alluded to it. Star
- 45:52Speaker 1: Trek has two new shows coming out, and one is
- 45:55Speaker 1: a live action comedy starring one of the voice actors
- 45:59Speaker 1: from Lower Decks, So that's exciting. I guess it's going
- 46:03Speaker 1: to try try to be like comparable to early Early
- 46:07Speaker 1: Times Orville maybe, but I'm glad that they're expanding out
- 46:11Speaker 1: and trying more stuff like a live action comedy. The
- 46:15Speaker 1: other one is they're doing Starfleet Academy with Tilly from
- 46:19Speaker 1: Star Trek Discovery. Also Tag Nataro from Star Trek Discovery,
- 46:23Speaker 1: who's just amazing. Tak Nataro is brilliant and everything, and
- 46:28Speaker 1: then Robert Pricardo, who was from I think Star Trek Voyager,
- 46:32Speaker 1: and I just think that Robert Pricardo and Tignataro in
- 46:35Speaker 1: a show is just the most amount of snark that
- 46:38Speaker 1: you're ever going to get in a show. And I'm
- 46:40Speaker 1: so excited for it. I don't care about Starfleet Academy
- 46:43Speaker 1: as a unit of the universe, but I do care
- 46:47Speaker 1: about seeing these two characters, these two actors interact with
- 46:50Speaker 1: each other.
- 46:50Speaker 2: So I care about Starfleet Academy only so much as that.
- 46:54Speaker 2: My parents wrote a couple of books in the Starfleet
- 46:57Speaker 2: Academy young adult series, and I would love it if
- 47:00Speaker 2: those would get option to be made into stuff.
- 47:03Speaker 1: Oh that would be really cool. Hey all you Paramount
- 47:08Speaker 1: Our show, go.
- 47:11Speaker 2: Look at Brad and Barbara Strickland Starfleet Academy books and
- 47:14Speaker 2: get back to me. Okay, yeah, yeah, all right. So,
- 47:17Speaker 2: like Ariel said, we're gonna touch on some other stuff
- 47:20Speaker 2: that was talked about at San Diego Comic Con throughout
- 47:23Speaker 2: the rest of this. But we've got, let's see, it
- 47:26Speaker 2: looks like approximately one bazillion trailers to talk about.
- 47:30Speaker 1: Yeah, more accurately, fifteen Ye. So the first is a
- 47:36Speaker 1: movie called four thirty. It's a Kevin Smith movie. It's
- 47:42Speaker 1: the vibe is essentially Kevin Smith does Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
- 47:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I said that. It feels to me like it
- 47:49Speaker 2: fits snugly between clerks and mal rats. But the general
- 47:54Speaker 2: premises You've got this one young man in high school.
- 48:00Speaker 2: He has a crush. This set in nineteen eighty six.
- 48:03Speaker 2: He has a crush on a girl that goes to
- 48:06Speaker 2: school with him. He works up the courage to ask
- 48:10Speaker 2: her out on a date to go see a film
- 48:13Speaker 2: that's playing at four thirty, and then, because of his
- 48:19Speaker 2: behavior and the behavior of the ne'er dowells he hangs
- 48:22Speaker 2: out with, he gets subsequently banned from the movie theater.
- 48:26Speaker 2: So it becomes kind of like a heist movie about
- 48:29Speaker 2: how can he still keep his date with this young
- 48:32Speaker 2: woman when he has been banned from seeing movies at
- 48:37Speaker 2: this movie theater. And Yeah, as I watched it, I thought, Okay,
- 48:42Speaker 2: it's higher production value than what you see with a
- 48:45Speaker 2: lot of Kevin Smith movies. It looks slicker than a
- 48:48Speaker 2: lot of Kevin Smith films, but it is probably the
- 48:51Speaker 2: most Kevin Smithish feeling film I've seen in a long time.
- 48:57Speaker 1: Yeah, side note about it also looks cute like it
- 49:01Speaker 1: looks heartwarming, I think.
- 49:04Speaker 2: But probably also pretty raunchy.
- 49:07Speaker 1: It probably also pretty raunchy, and a good mix of
- 49:09Speaker 1: like actors you don't know and actors you do you know,
- 49:12Speaker 1: like Kevin Smith does he seems like a cool guy.
- 49:15Speaker 2: Though.
- 49:15Speaker 1: Did you hear his story about going to see Deadpool
- 49:18Speaker 1: and Wolverine? No, apparently he couldn't go. He wasn't he
- 49:22Speaker 1: owns a movie theater and he couldn't go. I'm relaying
- 49:25Speaker 1: this from my husband, so I might get some of
- 49:26Speaker 1: the details wrong. But he owns a movie theater and
- 49:28Speaker 1: he wasn't in town to go see it there, so
- 49:30Speaker 1: he looked to he went. He got tickets at some
- 49:33Speaker 1: other movie theater there. He was near where he was,
- 49:36Speaker 1: and I think while he was like getting popcorn or something,
- 49:39Speaker 1: he saw a director he recognized, Randall Kleiser, who is
- 49:44Speaker 1: the director of Greece, was seeing the same Deadpool and
- 49:47Speaker 1: Wolverine as him, and he super loves Grease in that director.
- 49:51Speaker 2: So what an interesting and weird coincidence.
- 49:55Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and also just showing that people who like
- 50:00Speaker 1: fanboy over people and they also fanboy over people and
- 50:03Speaker 1: that's kind of delightful.
- 50:04Speaker 2: Actually, one of my favorite things to watch on YouTube
- 50:07Speaker 2: are compilations of actors fanning out over meeting other actors
- 50:11Speaker 2: or sometimes musicians like it could be that too, but
- 50:14Speaker 2: that's always delightful because it reminds you, oh, there are
- 50:17Speaker 2: also people.
- 50:20Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's lovely. Just like the next trailer we're
- 50:25Speaker 1: going to talk about Spelldown.
- 50:26Speaker 2: Yeah, an animated film. This is coming to Netflix, and
- 50:31Speaker 2: it's funny because it talks about from the creator of
- 50:34Speaker 2: Toy Story and a Bugs Life and cars and Toy
- 50:38Speaker 2: Story two and all this kind of stuff. And I'm like, yeah,
- 50:41Speaker 2: that works a lot better than saying from producer John Lassiter.
- 50:44Speaker 2: Since Lassiter was kind of forced to resign from Disney.
- 50:50Speaker 2: I'm like, no, wonder you didn't use his name, But
- 50:54Speaker 2: that's neither here nor there when you look at the
- 50:57Speaker 2: actual First of all, he didn't write it or direct it.
- 50:59Speaker 2: He's a producer. But the film is an animated fantasy
- 51:03Speaker 2: movie features a young woman who's a princess and her
- 51:08Speaker 2: parents have gone to this mystical forest and they get
- 51:12Speaker 2: transformed into monsters, and the stories about how she's trying
- 51:17Speaker 2: to find a way to get them to change back
- 51:19Speaker 2: into humans while everybody else is thinking, like, we have
- 51:24Speaker 2: to exile these monsters. We can't have our kingdom ruled
- 51:28Speaker 2: by monsters.
- 51:30Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's a nice turn on The princess
- 51:35Speaker 1: is the hero story because you don't often see them
- 51:37Speaker 1: like trying to actively save their parents.
- 51:41Speaker 2: Yeah, well in Disney, their parents are usually dead.
- 51:43Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean I guess Beauty and the Beast
- 51:46Speaker 1: Beauty does Bell does try to save her father, both
- 51:50Speaker 1: in the Disney and in the book version. But I
- 51:54Speaker 1: just I think it looks delightful and funny and cute,
- 51:57Speaker 1: and it's got amazing voice actors.
- 52:00Speaker 2: Yeah, it definitely gave me vibes of like an early
- 52:03Speaker 2: Pixar film, Like it has that kind of tone to it,
- 52:07Speaker 2: but with updated, you know, language, and like it doesn't
- 52:10Speaker 2: feel dated. It feel it just feels like it has
- 52:13Speaker 2: that same kind of sense of humor and the desire
- 52:16Speaker 2: to tell a story that, ultimately, while on the surface
- 52:20Speaker 2: is absurd and silly, has a lot of heart to it,
- 52:23Speaker 2: like you were saying, So, Yeah, I think it looks
- 52:26Speaker 2: really adorable, and the fact that it's going to be
- 52:28Speaker 2: on Netflix that's great, Like I'll actually be able to
- 52:31Speaker 2: watch it and not have to go to the theater
- 52:33Speaker 2: like I did for Deadpool and Wolverine.
- 52:36Speaker 1: Yeah. I enjoyed that experience though, was there were definitely
- 52:39Speaker 1: some other industry folk in the theater with me sitting
- 52:42Speaker 1: behind me because they were laughing at all of like
- 52:44Speaker 1: the meta industry jokes about day players and speaking lines
- 52:48Speaker 1: and things like that.
- 52:49Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was just US three at my
- 52:52Speaker 2: particular screening of it, but that's okay. We also got
- 52:57Speaker 2: another trailer for Joke fully Adieu.
- 53:01Speaker 1: Yes, this one. So the first trailer for Joker too
- 53:06Speaker 1: made me think that everything with Harley Quinn was in
- 53:09Speaker 1: the Joker's mind. The second trailer has me questioning that.
- 53:13Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Lady Gaga comes out looking pretty awesome
- 53:19Speaker 2: as Harley in this particular trail. I mean, it's a
- 53:21Speaker 2: very different Harley than what we've seen before, but that's fine.
- 53:24Speaker 2: It's also a different Joker than what we've seen before.
- 53:28Speaker 2: But I think she looks like, literally the look of
- 53:31Speaker 2: her is fantastic. But her the little bits of performance
- 53:35Speaker 2: that we get to see, she comes across one extremely naturalistic,
- 53:40Speaker 2: like she's giving a very natural kind of performance, very genuine, yeah,
- 53:43Speaker 2: and compelling. So I wasn't sure if I would want
- 53:48Speaker 2: to watch the Joker sequel because I have complicated feelings
- 53:52Speaker 2: about the first one, but I really want to see
- 53:56Speaker 2: Lady Gaga's performance, and Joaquin Phoenix gives me amazing performances Joker.
- 54:01Speaker 2: It's not it's not his performance I have issue with
- 54:04Speaker 2: with the first film.
- 54:06Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't watch the first film because of some
- 54:09Speaker 1: of the things you talked about, and also like it
- 54:11Speaker 1: just seems the kind of film that would make me
- 54:14Speaker 1: feel worse after watching it than better. So I didn't
- 54:18Speaker 1: really have huge hopes for the second for wanting to
- 54:21Speaker 1: see the second one, and I still kind of don't
- 54:23Speaker 1: want to see the second one, but I do absolutely
- 54:26Speaker 1: want to see Lady Gauga's performance in it. So now
- 54:29Speaker 1: I have complicated feelings. I also have complicated feelings about
- 54:33Speaker 1: the new hell Boy movie, and we got a second
- 54:35Speaker 1: trailer for that which does give us like some more
- 54:39Speaker 1: I guess stakes with the character. Like we get to
- 54:41Speaker 1: learn about the characters in the movie a little bit
- 54:43Speaker 1: more and maybe care about them just a tiny bit.
- 54:46Speaker 2: And a little hint of the lore in the movie.
- 54:48Speaker 2: This one's hell Boy crooked Man, and so we get
- 54:51Speaker 2: a little tiny glimpse at the lore of this crooked
- 54:55Speaker 2: man character, as well as some looks at some other
- 54:59Speaker 2: kind of cool set piece is like one aboard a train, Yeah,
- 55:03Speaker 2: what did you think? Like this is definitely way more
- 55:07Speaker 2: of a horror take on hell Boy.
- 55:09Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't mind that they're leaning more into the horror,
- 55:12Speaker 1: because that is definitely an aspect of hell Boy, you know,
- 55:16Speaker 1: even like just visually, even David Harbor's hell Boy had
- 55:20Speaker 1: a lot of very fantastic It was a very fantastical story,
- 55:23Speaker 1: even though it was super dark and had a lot
- 55:24Speaker 1: of fantastical imagery in it. This one's is just much
- 55:29Speaker 1: more like muted and down to earth and creepy and horrory,
- 55:32Speaker 1: and I'm fine with that, even though horror is not
- 55:34Speaker 1: my favorite genre. But there does not seem to be
- 55:38Speaker 1: much wonderful hell Boy banter, and that's what makes Hellboy
- 55:42Speaker 1: so fun to watch.
- 55:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I still haven't seen the David Harbor one, but
- 55:45Speaker 2: I have it on Blu Ray because I belong to
- 55:48Speaker 2: a horror movie club thing where every month I get
- 55:52Speaker 2: four horror Blu rays sent to me and I don't
- 55:56Speaker 2: get to choose, I just get them. And let me
- 55:59Speaker 2: tell you, my heart collection has really diversified in the
- 56:03Speaker 2: months since I got this. My wife got this for
- 56:06Speaker 2: me as a as a gift, and so I keep
- 56:09Speaker 2: getting movies from like, Oh, I've heard about this, but
- 56:11Speaker 2: I've never watched it, So I'm really excited about seeing it.
- 56:17Speaker 2: This trailer. I really dug it. I really really thought,
- 56:21Speaker 2: like the horror aspect looks good. I agree with you, Like,
- 56:26Speaker 2: so far the trailers don't really show kind of the
- 56:31Speaker 2: the smart alec side of hell Boy as he's typically portrayed.
- 56:36Speaker 2: We haven't really seen that where he makes like kind
- 56:39Speaker 2: of sarcastic remarks and that kind of stuff. But from
- 56:45Speaker 2: a tone perspective, it looks really interesting. I want to
- 56:48Speaker 2: see it.
- 56:50Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I will. I will have to common sense media.
- 56:55Speaker 1: But I don't think it's going to be too scary
- 56:58Speaker 1: for me because it does have that fantastical element to
- 57:01Speaker 1: it interesting.
- 57:03Speaker 2: So that's a that's a discussion for us to have
- 57:07Speaker 2: on another time. I'm not going to do it.
- 57:10Speaker 1: It doesn't look too scary. There's somebody horror. There's definitely
- 57:13Speaker 1: one moment in the second trailer where somebody like inadvertently
- 57:16Speaker 1: eats a raccoon that upset me.
- 57:19Speaker 2: Yeah, I like how you put it as opposed to
- 57:22Speaker 2: a raccoon crawls into this person's.
- 57:25Speaker 1: Mouth, yes, and around their face and down their gullet. Yeah. Look,
- 57:32Speaker 1: I'm trying to make it to a point where I
- 57:34Speaker 1: can process it's.
- 57:37Speaker 2: That person who ate a raccoon. I mean, it's like
- 57:39Speaker 2: the little lady who swallowed a fly, but.
- 57:42Speaker 1: The actual crooked man like that design is not too
- 57:44Speaker 1: scary for me.
- 57:45Speaker 2: Yeah, it actually isn't to me. It's not even as
- 57:48Speaker 2: disturbing as the crooked neck lady from the Haunting of
- 57:51Speaker 2: Hill House, which I thought was a truly upsetting character design.
- 57:57Speaker 2: It's fantastic. Look. Haunting of Hill House is a masterpiece.
- 58:02Speaker 2: Everyone should watch it. It is I mean, it's Mike
- 58:05Speaker 2: Flan again. It's it's just an incredible piece that's actually
- 58:10Speaker 2: more about family trauma than it is about all the
- 58:14Speaker 2: horror elements. But the horror elements are so well done.
- 58:20Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I just looked up I I also, I've
- 58:22Speaker 1: been told that I should watch that, but I haven't
- 58:26Speaker 1: gotten to it yet.
- 58:26Speaker 2: It's it's creepy and unsettling, and it is at times
- 58:30Speaker 2: very scary, like there's some there's some both some jump
- 58:33Speaker 2: scares and some atmospheric stuff that's pretty scary. But ultimately,
- 58:38Speaker 2: the word I would use to describe that series is sad.
- 58:43Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's honestly why I haven't watched it yet,
- 58:47Speaker 1: because I have to be in a mood to watch
- 58:48Speaker 1: something sad her. Her design is not too too bad.
- 58:53Speaker 2: You gotta see it in action. But okay, well, let's
- 58:58Speaker 2: let's talk about let's talk about something that's not scary.
- 59:02Speaker 2: But what would happen if you were to mix say
- 59:05Speaker 2: James Bond spy thriller type stuff with Star.
- 59:09Speaker 1: Trek, you'd get Star Trek suicides gone, I mean section
- 59:13Speaker 1: thirty one.
- 59:15Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we got a trailer for that.
- 59:17Speaker 1: So Michelle, you know, plays Captain Philippa George You I
- 59:22Speaker 1: always I can't get it right. I've watched the entire series.
- 59:25Speaker 1: Now who in an alternate universe is like a mean,
- 59:30Speaker 1: evil empress and then kind of becomes a good guy
- 59:34Speaker 1: and early this is like earlier seasons of Discovery, So
- 59:36Speaker 1: if you haven't watched it, we're past the spoiler embargo
- 59:40Speaker 1: on it. And so this is her kind of teaming
- 59:43Speaker 1: up with other people and the the Star Trek people, Starfleet,
- 59:52Speaker 1: Starfleet sending people to keep her in check because she's
- 59:55Speaker 1: a wild card. It looks fun. Anything with Michelle yone,
- 59:59Speaker 1: it tends to be pretty good.
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: So I can appreciate that people look at this and
- 1:00:04Speaker 2: say it looks fun. I don't want to yuck anyone's yum,
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: and I don't. I don't want to be that that dude.
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: I mean, like like Mike's Takloska from Red Letter Media,
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: but or Rich Evans also from Red Letter Media, where
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: where I say, not my Star Trek, but this really
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: isn't my Star Trek, Like it feels so different from
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: Star Trek and the ethos that Star Trek had.
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: Okay, but we kind of I think we talked about
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: this in an earlier episode, like the problem is Star
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: Trek isn't getting new fans.
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: Sure no, And that's not me saying it's bad. I'm not.
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: This isn't a criticism. It's just that I have. It's
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: a barrier for me. I can't get past what is
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: Star Trek to me and be able to enjoy Star
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: Trek this way.
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: I think if I hadn't stuck it out and watched
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: Discovery all the way through, I would agree, which did
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: become my Star Trek the later seasons one. There are
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: some criticisms some people have told me that I kind
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: of agree with, but overall, I really enjoyed it, especially
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: the last season. But h but because this was a
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: part of that story, I feel like it was a
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: good gateway into me enjoying this story in an alter
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: literal alternate universe in the Star Trek world, which already explored, like,
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: there's so much room to explore anything because it's more
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: space than we've.
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: Ever looked at.
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: So well, and.
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: We have we have more Star Treks. Do you want
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: to just do you want to just talk about Strange
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: New World season three now? Because I think it makes
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: more sense to just group the Star Trek together and
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: then we'll jump back to creature creature commandos, not fature comforts.
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: That's a totally different thing.
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: Yes, okay, yes, we can do that.
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: Okay, Well, then let's talk about Strange in the World
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: season three, because we got an extended first look at
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: an episode of that in which Pike and crew have
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: to turn themselves temporarily or so they think, temporarily into
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: Vulcans in order to complete a mission. And then, and
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: I really do mean this, hilarity ensues.
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we don't know why they had to turn
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: themselves into Vulcans to do this mission, but they use
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: some tech from a previous season, and they all pick
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: on Spock because they are now all full Vulcan and
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: he is only half. It is amazing. It makes me
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: very excited for season three. I was already excited for
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: season three or Strange New Worlds, I am more excited.
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: This also is not my Star Trek, which is, but
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: it's weird because it's not my Star Trek in a
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: totally different way than how Star Trek Discovery and Star
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: Trek Section thirty one are not my Star Trek.
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: Why is this not your Star Trek.
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: Because it's too it's too silly. It's too silly.
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: But not all of it, like you have to have look,
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: even Star Trek Next Generation had some silly episodes. Well
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: should look at the episode where they all get turned
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: into kids, which I love. I love that episode. But
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: in the same series, you've got the there's only what
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: two lights, three lights?
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: Four lights? There are four lights four lights. That's that's
- 1:03:43Speaker 2: not played up for laughs though. That's he's literally being
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: tortured psychologically.
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: But them being kids was is what I'm saying.
- 1:03:52Speaker 2: Right, Yes, in the original series had trouble with triples,
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: which also has been told in every other iteration of
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: Star Trek.
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: And there are some very hard hitting moving episodes of
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: Strange New Worlds. They are all silly there's a couple
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: of silly each season.
- 1:04:09Speaker 2: It's just a Carol. Carol just comes across as such
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: a ridiculous character.
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: Oh, I love her character. She's Carol Kine. Yeah, she's amazing.
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: I'm not saying she's bad. I'm just saying it doesn't
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: feel like Star Trek to me.
- 1:04:24Speaker 3: It feels too silly.
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: Have you watched it?
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: I guess I've only seen bits. But the bits I've
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: seen are the ones where I'm like, like, I love
- 1:04:32Speaker 2: the idea when I first heard it, because it sounded
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: to me like it was getting back to the inspirational
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: version of Star Trek. Right, yes, about exploration, but the
- 1:04:44Speaker 2: execution I've seen has left me feeling that it's perhaps
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: gone a little too hard.
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: No, so I think Carol Caine could most be compared
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: to like a low key, less ridiculous cue. Well, she
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: isn't a cue, but she is an alien though, Yes,
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: but they explain it well. I like her character. She's
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: not a huge part in the series either, Like, I
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: think you should give it a try. Look, you liked Orville, Right.
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: I've seen only clips of Orville. I've never watched a
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: full episode shoot.
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: Anyhow, there is room for both the funny episodes and
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: like start Our Exchange New Worlds has made me cry
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: multiple times. There, It's made me like tense from like
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: anxious situations or scary situations multiple times. You've got to
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: have the variety in the episodes so people don't get
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: burnt out. And I think they do a very good job. Okay,
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: I think it's worth doing more than just clips that
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: confirm that you don't like this shit.
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think that's the issue, right, is
- 1:05:46Speaker 2: that I have seen just excerpts and not full thing.
- 1:05:51Speaker 2: Here's the thing though, Like it's because it was on
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: Paramount Plus, which was one of the many streaming services
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: I don't subscribe to.
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I specifically subscribe to Paramount Plus for the
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: Star Trek content and now I'm keeping it for after midnight.
- 1:06:10Speaker 2: So well, we have one other one, Lower Deck season five.
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: We got a trailer for that, and I gotta tell you,
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: this is not my Star Trek.
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: That's fine. Lower Decks also isn't necessarily my Star Trek.
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: It was a little a little It has gotten better,
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: but the first like I watched like the first half
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: of a season and it was just a little too
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: at the time like body. For me, I would say
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: a little closer to like not quite family guy humor,
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: but closer to that. And for some reason it just
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: didn't strike me.
- 1:06:45Speaker 2: But it feels to me like if people couldn't get
- 1:06:48Speaker 2: their scripts accepted by Futurama, they wrote one for Lower Decks.
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but a whole bunch of people I know
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: who love Star Trek also love it. It's hitting its
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: final season. But what I will say about this trailer
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: is for everybody who is sad about Lower Decks ending.
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: So there's a whole bunch of people. This trailer gives
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: you hope, like it's a it's a nice happy like
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: this isn't the end for these characters. Kind of a trailer.
- 1:07:13Speaker 2: So yeah, but then the second to last episode they
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: all explode, and then the last episode is just just quiet.
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: All of them reconglomerated into one person who shows up
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: in Starfleet Academy.
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: Just like a giant amorphous blob. So those are all
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: the Star Trek things. But now let's get back to
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: the comfortable creature Commandos of comfort. Yes, creature Commando. This
- 1:07:36Speaker 2: is this is this is DC's version of Suis Squad.
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: Suicide Squad that's also not Suicide Squad.
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: It almost it gave me more of like hell Boy.
- 1:07:45Speaker 2: Feels, which gives me Suicide Squad feels. But okay, yeah,
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: so Creature Creature Commandos. I am going to mess this
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: up every time I try and say this trailer. Uh,
- 1:07:55Speaker 2: it's another Amanda Waller thing. So she's the one who
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: created the Suicide Squad, which is part of why it
- 1:08:02Speaker 2: feels like that, and it includes characters who were in
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: James Gunn's Suicide Squad because Weasel's in it. But the
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: it's Amanda Waller finding a loophole because after Suicide Squad
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: there's a mandate that says she's not allowed to make
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: any more super villain teams of human supervillains, so she
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: does it by choosing non humans.
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, honestly, it's got like Frankenstein and the Bride
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: of Frankenstein and Gi Robot, who is very like a
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: hell Boy and also Shaun gun does g I Robot's voice,
- 1:08:38Speaker 1: so he's not just Weasel.
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: Yeah. We also and I'm excited for that, get mister
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: Fossphorus and.
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: Who is Alentu Dick.
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I am curious how long they're gonna go before
- 1:08:51Speaker 2: they make a Frankenstein versus Frankenstein's Monster joke because it
- 1:08:54Speaker 2: is Frankenstein's Monster. It's not Frankenstein. That is true.
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: That is true. Steve A. G I believe plays his
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: character from the DC universe in this cartoon as well.
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: So but yeah, it looks like, you know, the Creature
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: Commando's essentially play almost an identical role to that of
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: Suicide Squad. So the question is how often will Creature
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: Commandos be worse than whatever the problem is they're sent
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: to fix.
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: I look forward to finding out personally.
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: We also got another trailer for the season two of
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: Rings of Power. I have to be honest with you, Ariel,
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: I scrubbed through this. I watched it most of it,
- 1:09:38Speaker 2: but I scrubbed through it. Yeah. It was like it
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: was like a four minute long trailer or something, and
- 1:09:44Speaker 2: I was like, I'm running out of time to watch
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: all this stuff and I still have to record.
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: And also so Rings of Power was okay. It wasn't
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: my favorite show. I like to fall Out way more.
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: It was okay. This trailer just brings a whole bunch
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: of storyline that we know happens event in the story
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: before the Hobbit and where are the rings and all that?
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: Yeah, this light this is going to have a lot
- 1:10:06Speaker 2: more Sourn action where Sourn is posing as an elf
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: and trying to gather all the rings of power together.
- 1:10:16Speaker 2: Apparently Tom Bombadil is in this season. I watched the
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: trailer and I was like, I don't know who which
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: of these people is supposed to be Tom Bombadil, because
- 1:10:25Speaker 2: no one stuck out to me as Tom Bombadil.
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: I think I did. I what stuck out to me
- 1:10:31Speaker 1: was that the end looked so cgi Yeah, and so
- 1:10:35Speaker 1: did the giant Eagle.
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well, I mean that's the difference between a
- 1:10:41Speaker 2: streaming TV show budget versus a feature film budget. I guess.
- 1:10:46Speaker 2: But I'll say this, like, if I didn't already know
- 1:10:53Speaker 2: so much about Tolkien, I might be interested in seeing this.
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: I'm not mad about it, Like, I'm not up in
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: arms the way some quote unquote Tolkien fans are where
- 1:11:02Speaker 2: they're like this is ruining everything. It doesn't ruin anything.
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: It's a it's a version of the story about how
- 1:11:09Speaker 2: Sourn gains power, and it's one It's a story that's
- 1:11:14Speaker 2: not really told fully in Tolkien's stories, like he alludes
- 1:11:19Speaker 2: to it and kind of summarizes it, but we don't
- 1:11:21Speaker 2: get a full telling, So I'm okay with it. And
- 1:11:27Speaker 2: it looks like it. It looks like the people who
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: are acting in it are doing a pretty good job.
- 1:11:32Speaker 2: But that's about all I have to say.
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: So next, we got a teaser trailer for Like a
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: Dragon Yakuza. Did I get that right?
- 1:11:40Speaker 2: Yakuza?
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: But yes, Yakuza or is it Yakuza Like a Dragon?
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: It all depends on which verse, It depends on which version.
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: So this is an adaptation of a video game series.
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: In America, it's called the Yakuza series. In Japan, once
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: you translate to English, it's the Like a Dragon series.
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: And now, finally in America they have adopted the Like
- 1:12:04Speaker 2: a Dragon naming convention with the most recent release of
- 1:12:09Speaker 2: the game. But it just makes talking about this series
- 1:12:12Speaker 2: even more confusing. At any rate, we got a teaser
- 1:12:17Speaker 2: for the live action series based off this video game series.
- 1:12:22Speaker 2: This one's on Prime, I believe.
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, it's just a tiny teaser. It looks very
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: pretty and it's got a bunch of action stars who
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: I recognize and I would probably like to watch do
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: some stuff.
- 1:12:35Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm curious to see if they can really capture
- 1:12:38Speaker 2: the tone of this game series, because this is one
- 1:12:40Speaker 2: of those game series I think of it kind of
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: like Fallout or sometimes Grand Theft Auto, where you have
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: like really crazy shifts in tones. So like in the
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: Yakuza series, it's clearly set around criminal organizations right in Japan,
- 1:12:58Speaker 2: and you are playing someone who is in one of
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: those organizations and kind of navigating through a really treacherous storyline.
- 1:13:08Speaker 2: But you also have lots of opportunities to do side
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: quests in the Yakuza games, like sing it karaoke bars
- 1:13:16Speaker 2: and play arcade games, and like it gets very some
- 1:13:21Speaker 2: of the quests are very silly, but even the side
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: quests can be very very silly, and I'm wondering if
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: that's going to happen in this show.
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: My guess is yes, And the reason why is because
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: I think Fallout is one of the best things that
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Originals has done in a very long time.
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: And since you said it's a similar tone, they've already
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: they've already put the training wheels on that.
- 1:13:44Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just the question of whether or not the
- 1:13:46Speaker 2: creative team in charge of the series has kind of
- 1:13:49Speaker 2: the similar outlook, because like it could end up just
- 1:13:54Speaker 2: being a really gritty crime series and just be kind
- 1:13:59Speaker 2: of like the yaku version of what we're gonna get
- 1:14:01Speaker 2: with Penguin, because I don't think we're going to get
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: any levity with Penguin.
- 1:14:05Speaker 1: Sadly, No, I wish we I wish we did, but
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: I wish we got some Batman with Penguin. But that's okay.
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: Although I don't know. After Gotham and Pennyworth, I don't know.
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: So I am hopeful. I am hopeful for Like a
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: Dragon You because I like that genre of storytelling. So
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: I'm also vaguely hopeful for Blink Twice though it might
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: be No, it's probably not gonna be too scary for me.
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: It might be a little scary.
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: It's a psychological thriller, horror movie type thing, right this
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: is We talked about this once before on the previous
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: episode that may or may not have been published. I
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: don't know, but it's a story in which a couple
- 1:14:48Speaker 2: of young women are invited to go to this billionaire's
- 1:14:53Speaker 2: private island, and at first they're just kind of like
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: overwhelmed with how lucky they are that they get to
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: experience this, because most people never will. But then slowly
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: it appears that something sinister is going on at the island.
- 1:15:07Speaker 2: This trailer gives a little bit more context around that
- 1:15:12Speaker 2: where people are starting to suspect that something hinky is
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: going on, and it does look intense. It certainly helps
- 1:15:24Speaker 2: cement my general feeling that billionaires should not have that
- 1:15:32Speaker 2: much money. And when people say eat the rich, I'm like,
- 1:15:35Speaker 2: I'm listening.
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: Yeah, it definitely looks scary. The cast is amazing. Hailey
- 1:15:44Speaker 1: Jewel Osmond, Yeah.
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: Hailey Joel Osmond is at least playing a supporting character in.
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: This, Yeah, Channing Tatum, Channing Chatum yeah yeah. And then
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: also I talked about them earlier. Aliyah shock It from
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: Arrested Development is in it, and a bunch of other
- 1:16:03Speaker 1: people too, but those are the three that really stuck
- 1:16:05Speaker 1: out to me.
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably gonna go see this honestly, because it
- 1:16:09Speaker 2: looks like it looks intriguing, like it definitely it has
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: stuff that's gonna stretch credulity, like this whole idea of
- 1:16:18Speaker 2: being able to drug people so specifically that they forget
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: a person, because like that, that's an element in the trailer.
- 1:16:26Speaker 2: There's a point where our protagonist is talking with another character,
- 1:16:30Speaker 2: and that other character has no memory of the protagonist's
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: friend who also went on this island but is now missing,
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: And she's like, I don't remember, so this is someone
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: I have no memory of. And I'm thinking, it seems
- 1:16:43Speaker 2: at least maybe it turns out that this person is
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: actually working with the billionaire to do terrible things. But
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: it seems at least that people on the island are
- 1:16:53Speaker 2: being drugged so that they are being controlled and their
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: memories are being controlled. But you're like, how could you
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: be so precise in being able to erase an entire
- 1:17:06Speaker 2: person out of someone's memory?
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: Movie magic?
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: That's honestly, that might be the answer.
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: It feels like it feels like glass Onion meets white Lotus.
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: Meets maybe a little bit of black mirror.
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely. Speaking of black mirror esque, Bleaker Street
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: is coming out with a movie that may not be
- 1:17:30Speaker 1: too scary for me to watch, even though it is
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: going to be scary, called Slingshot.
- 1:17:34Speaker 2: Yeah. This is a science fiction horror films thriller. Thriller
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: that's good, Yeah, I mean thriller.
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: More than according to Google's.
- 1:17:43Speaker 2: Well there's some there's some body horror in that trailer,
- 1:17:46Speaker 2: although you assume it's all hallucinations, but it's still some
- 1:17:50Speaker 2: gross stuff that happens. But yeah, the plot is that
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: there's a small crew. They're on their way to tighten
- 1:17:58Speaker 2: one of Saturn's moons. They are spending a good deal
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: of their journey, which is going to take a couple
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: of years, essentially in cryogenic stasis, and they occasionally have
- 1:18:09Speaker 2: to be wakened up to do like coarse corrections and
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. And they're going to sling shot
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: around Jupiter. They're going to use Jupiter's gravitational pull to
- 1:18:20Speaker 2: slingshot their spacecraft onward toward Saturn and the moon of Titan.
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: And one of the members of the crew, at least
- 1:18:30Speaker 2: one of them, appears to have an adverse reaction to
- 1:18:34Speaker 2: the cryogenic sleeping process. And yeah, it looks intense, it
- 1:18:41Speaker 2: looks good.
- 1:18:43Speaker 1: Yeah it does. I don't always like stuck in space stuff,
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: but it has been growing on me. And it also
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: has frenchchie from the Boys, who I love that actor.
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: Yeah, I recognized them immediately. I was like, as soon
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: as I saw him, I like, wait, does that And
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: then I heard them talk like yeah it is frenchy.
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, I'm tentatively looking forward to that one.
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: What else do we got We're almost at the end?
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: Who yeah, we got we got the movie where Megan
- 1:19:12Speaker 2: Fox plays Megan, but not really Megan.
- 1:19:15Speaker 1: Yeah. She it's a it's not a news story, but
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: it looks it looks okay. It's Megan Fox is in
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: like a AI android type person.
- 1:19:27Speaker 2: In a film called Subservience.
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: Serviance where she takes on the care of this family
- 1:19:33Speaker 1: and it looks like develops emotions and feelings and care
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: for this family. So when the family's wife comes home
- 1:19:39Speaker 1: from an accident, then jealousy ensues and the wife is
- 1:19:43Speaker 1: in danger. The wife was the younger daughter in The
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: Nanny and she was also a character in the last
- 1:19:48Speaker 1: couple of seasons of Doom Patrol, so that's also exciting.
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: Yeah, so this this makes me think of the horror
- 1:19:54Speaker 2: film Megan, Like. It does have a lot of that
- 1:19:57Speaker 2: kind of energy going on, a little bit of fatal
- 1:19:59Speaker 2: attract Like this idea of a dangerous woman and engaged
- 1:20:06Speaker 2: in an affair with a married man who then realizes like,
- 1:20:09Speaker 2: maybe this was a bad idea, but by then it's
- 1:20:11Speaker 2: too late. It's got a lot of that kind of
- 1:20:14Speaker 2: energy going on. Megan Fox looks like she can play
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: a soulless robot pretty darn well.
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: So I think she's got a lot of nuance in
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: her performance in the trailer, and I think it's lovely.
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she does a great job. I also think,
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: by the way, like she's in phenomenal shape that woman.
- 1:20:33Speaker 2: Like it's ungodly the shape that woman is in, because
- 1:20:39Speaker 2: there's a sequence where she's like drops her dress. She's
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: wearing underwear, but she drops her dress and I just
- 1:20:44Speaker 2: was like, wow. I wasn't like oagling. I was just like,
- 1:20:48Speaker 2: that is a muscular woman.
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I So here's the thing. I was not
- 1:20:54Speaker 1: a huge fan of like Megan Fox in her earlier
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: work because either it was Transformers or didn't super watch it.
- 1:21:00Speaker 1: She didn't really thrill me in the second teenage Mutant
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: Ninja Turtles movie or the first one really, But in
- 1:21:11Speaker 1: New Girl she was phenomenal.
- 1:21:14Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, can we not go an episode without
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: you telling me I have to watch New Girl.
- 1:21:20Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying is like her performance in
- 1:21:23Speaker 1: that show was so delightful that I'm I'm potentially excited
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: to watch this very scary movie now because I like
- 1:21:32Speaker 1: her acting.
- 1:21:32Speaker 2: Now, I think you need to see Jennifer's body.
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: I think that would be too scary for me.
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: It's come on, that movie came out like two thousand
- 1:21:43Speaker 2: and nine. You can totally.
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: Create of Killer Clowns from out her space.
- 1:21:48Speaker 2: That's not a scary movie.
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: It's not scary.
- 1:21:51Speaker 2: It's not it's a it's a horror comedy. That's like saying,
- 1:21:55Speaker 2: oh Man Adam's family. That scared the hell out of me.
- 1:21:59Speaker 1: It's still afraid of Jaws, Jurassic Park.
- 1:22:02Speaker 2: Dude, Oh my gosh, Ariel, we gotta fix you. I
- 1:22:07Speaker 2: gotta fix you too.
- 1:22:10Speaker 1: And I like alien and aliens.
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: I think I think you can handle Jennifer's body. I
- 1:22:15Speaker 2: also think you can handle killer clowns from outer space.
- 1:22:18Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know if you would enjoy, well,
- 1:22:21Speaker 2: I don't think you would enjoy killer Clowns from outer Space.
- 1:22:24Speaker 1: Killer clowns from outer space. That's the thing.
- 1:22:26Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
- 1:22:27Speaker 1: It's it's scary, and I hate it.
- 1:22:29Speaker 2: It is not.
- 1:22:30Speaker 1: I'm not even afraid of clowns. I hate that movie.
- 1:22:34Speaker 2: It's not so much. It has a great soundtrack by
- 1:22:36Speaker 2: the Dickies.
- 1:22:38Speaker 1: You know, that's fine. It's scary. I don't like the story.
- 1:22:41Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, It's okay.
- 1:22:45Speaker 1: What I'm talking about.
- 1:22:46Speaker 2: You know what, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. I'm
- 1:22:50Speaker 2: not gonna cast aspersions. Everyone has their their thing. The
- 1:22:55Speaker 2: fact that you're scared of a comedy, I know, I'll
- 1:22:57Speaker 2: make sure that next time I see a comedy, I
- 1:23:00Speaker 2: let you, you know, kind of ease into it so
- 1:23:03Speaker 2: you're not scared too much. But yeah, Jennifer's Body, you
- 1:23:08Speaker 2: gotta check it out because I think it's one of
- 1:23:11Speaker 2: the few like I agree with you, Like Megan Fox,
- 1:23:15Speaker 2: I felt like I felt like she didn't. She was
- 1:23:19Speaker 2: used as a juvenile fantasy material in Transformers like Yeah,
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: to the point where it was disgusting, and I thought
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: Michael Bay was a terrible person for doing it, and
- 1:23:33Speaker 2: teenage mutant Ninja trolls didn't give her much to work with.
- 1:23:36Speaker 2: But Jennifer's Body, it's actually good because it kind of
- 1:23:41Speaker 2: explores that whole juvenile fantasy thing and turns it on
- 1:23:45Speaker 2: its head a little bit, which I think makes it interesting.
- 1:23:49Speaker 1: So, like looking at her body of where she's just
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: done a bunch of stuff that I haven't watched or
- 1:23:53Speaker 1: having cared about, or stuff like Shrek forever after, you know. Yeah, So,
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: like she's done a bunch of stuff and it's but
- 1:24:03Speaker 1: it's either been stuff that I haven't realized was her
- 1:24:06Speaker 1: or it's just been properties that haven't appealed to me.
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: But as an actress, I think she's really good, and
- 1:24:13Speaker 1: I do think that Transformers maybe give her a bit
- 1:24:15Speaker 1: of a overhang that she had to climb out of.
- 1:24:20Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Yeah, that's the Michael Bay problem right there. Like
- 1:24:24Speaker 2: if you want to, if you if you were to
- 1:24:26Speaker 2: look up the definition of male gaze in cinema, it
- 1:24:29Speaker 2: would just be Transformers. I remember distinctly the moment where
- 1:24:35Speaker 2: I was like, this camera could not focus more on
- 1:24:38Speaker 2: this young woman's rear end than it is right now
- 1:24:41Speaker 2: as she's bent over looking into the engine of a vehicle,
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: and and I was like, I am uncomfortable watching this,
- 1:24:50Speaker 2: like it's it feels creepy.
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: Well, don't worry, because Transformers is getting a redemption arc
- 1:24:57Speaker 1: and it's.
- 1:24:57Speaker 2: In an animated prequel set and I'm not kidding, three
- 1:25:02Speaker 2: billion years before the main Transformers storyline.
- 1:25:06Speaker 1: Yes, and it's got multiple things going for it. It's got
- 1:25:09Speaker 1: good action, it's got good humor from the trailers, and
- 1:25:13Speaker 1: the first trailer was more humor. This second trailer that
- 1:25:16Speaker 1: just came out is more action. And it's also got
- 1:25:19Speaker 1: Transformers that you know which parts go where and how
- 1:25:22Speaker 1: they work.
- 1:25:23Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is Transformers one. It's an animated film.
- 1:25:28Speaker 2: Chris Pratt is voicing Optimus Prime.
- 1:25:31Speaker 1: And Chris Pratt.
- 1:25:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to say, yes, I could be wrong.
- 1:25:34Speaker 1: Look at Usworth.
- 1:25:36Speaker 2: Oh maybe it is Chris Hemsworth. Maybe I got the
- 1:25:38Speaker 2: wrong Chris, because I do do that.
- 1:25:41Speaker 1: It's Chris Helmsworth and Brian Tyree Henry and Scarlett Johanson
- 1:25:45Speaker 1: and Steve Buscemi.
- 1:25:46Speaker 2: Yeah, who's playing Steve Bushimi is Starscream.
- 1:25:49Speaker 1: Yeah, and John Hamm and Laurence Fishburn and Keegan Michael Key.
- 1:25:52Speaker 2: Well, thank you for jumping Thank you for jumping in there,
- 1:25:54Speaker 2: because yeah, we've established this that if there are two
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: people who have similar names, I will always go with
- 1:25:59Speaker 2: the wrong person. So yeah, Chris HEMSWORTHO Chris Pratt. But
- 1:26:04Speaker 2: the which is weird because for a while Chris Pratt
- 1:26:07Speaker 2: sounded like he was going to voice everybody but Transformers one.
- 1:26:12Speaker 2: It gave me kind of Smallville vibes, Like if you
- 1:26:16Speaker 2: watched Smallville. A big attraction of that was seeing Clark
- 1:26:21Speaker 2: Kent and Lex Luthor form an unlikely friendship, but you
- 1:26:25Speaker 2: know how it's going to turn out. You know it's
- 1:26:26Speaker 2: not going to go well. And this trailer has a
- 1:26:29Speaker 2: lot of that energy too, of these two characters who
- 1:26:33Speaker 2: are clearly in a doomed friendship, and they play that
- 1:26:37Speaker 2: up big time. It looks there was quite a bit
- 1:26:41Speaker 2: of humor in this trailer too, more so than what
- 1:26:46Speaker 2: you would typically see in a Transformers film. It actually
- 1:26:48Speaker 2: was giving me teenage mutant ninja turtle vibes.
- 1:26:51Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, am I like clamoring to see this? No?
- 1:26:55Speaker 1: But if I watch it, I think I would enjoy it.
- 1:26:58Speaker 2: Honestly, It's the first Transformers property I have seen in
- 1:27:03Speaker 2: ages that has me at all interested, because I did
- 1:27:08Speaker 2: not I watched three, two or three of the live
- 1:27:12Speaker 2: action films, and I did not like any of them.
- 1:27:15Speaker 2: I hated them all. I haven't seen all of them,
- 1:27:17Speaker 2: but all the ones I have seen I actively do
- 1:27:21Speaker 2: not like, and this one I had no interest in,
- 1:27:26Speaker 2: like the Beast Wars one or anything like that, because
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: by that time in the line of the Transformers, like
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: the original toy series and the cartoons and everything. I
- 1:27:36Speaker 2: had lost interest in Transformers anyway, so I have no
- 1:27:38Speaker 2: nostalgia for like all the Beast war stuff, right, I
- 1:27:42Speaker 2: had stopped watching by that point. I liked the classic
- 1:27:45Speaker 2: era of Transformers because that's what I grew up with
- 1:27:48Speaker 2: when I was a kid in the early eighties. So
- 1:27:50Speaker 2: this one with the sense of humor, I'm like, huh,
- 1:27:54Speaker 2: I've never thought of Transformers in that context, Like, I've
- 1:27:58Speaker 2: never thought of them as being funny. But this looks
- 1:28:02Speaker 2: like it could be really entertaining, So I might actually
- 1:28:04Speaker 2: watch it.
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: Yeah, let me know if you do, because then I
- 1:28:07Speaker 1: will definitely put it on my radar as well so
- 1:28:09Speaker 1: we can talk about it. And this has been an
- 1:28:15Speaker 1: epic episode, as they always are, as they always are.
- 1:28:20Speaker 1: Not too bad considering the amount of stuff we had
- 1:28:22Speaker 1: to talk about next week if we're back next week,
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: because my schedule is still a little wonky, so we
- 1:28:28Speaker 1: have to discuss that, but it's clearing up. We'll probably
- 1:28:32Speaker 1: also be super epic too, because because is D twenty
- 1:28:37Speaker 1: three this week next weekend, Oh, so it'll it'll be
- 1:28:41Speaker 1: before we'll know a little bit about D twenty three
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: by the time we start to record, but only the
- 1:28:48Speaker 1: tiniest amount because it will have started when we go
- 1:28:52Speaker 1: into the studio. So yeah, yeah, so but yeah, it's
- 1:28:56Speaker 1: it's been fun to talk about Jonathan. If folks wanna,
- 1:29:01Speaker 1: if folks wanna tell us what they're excited about from
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: San Diego Comic Con or anything they have thoughts on
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: about our episode, Man, I'm rusty, how would they do that?
- 1:29:13Speaker 2: So you're gonna have to go on a quest, I'm
- 1:29:17Speaker 2: sorry to report you absolutely have to take on a
- 1:29:20Speaker 2: quest of vast importance. We're talking rings of power level questing.
- 1:29:26Speaker 2: Your quest will require you to go to a nearby
- 1:29:31Speaker 2: hardware store or electronics store and find a window mounted
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: air conditioning unit that will fit my casement windows. And
- 1:29:41Speaker 2: then you're gonna have to get that unit to me
- 1:29:43Speaker 2: so that I can have an air conditioner inside the
- 1:29:46Speaker 2: office where I record episodes of Large Nerdron Collider, so
- 1:29:50Speaker 2: that by the time we finish an episode of Large
- 1:29:53Speaker 2: Nerdron Collider, I am no longer sitting in shorts that
- 1:29:56Speaker 2: have turned into stew So that's that what's your quest
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: is get me an air conditioner for my office, because
- 1:30:04Speaker 2: this is miserable. And if you do that, I promise
- 1:30:08Speaker 2: I'll tell you anything you want to know.
- 1:30:12Speaker 1: And if that's outside your budget, I was going to say, no,
- 1:30:15Speaker 1: absolutely do that, but I'm afraid you're gonna end up
- 1:30:16Speaker 1: with like many air conditioners.
- 1:30:20Speaker 2: Don't really do that if I if I had to,
- 1:30:23Speaker 2: I could go out and get one myself. Don't actually
- 1:30:26Speaker 2: do anything like that. I am just kidding. I want
- 1:30:29Speaker 2: to be clear about that, because you never know. Sometimes
- 1:30:32Speaker 2: a listener can go a little crazy and next thing
- 1:30:35Speaker 2: you know, I get like an insane home Depot gift
- 1:30:38Speaker 2: certificate or something. No, I'm good, it's just it's just
- 1:30:41Speaker 2: a particularly hot day in Atlanta and there's no air
- 1:30:45Speaker 2: circulation in my office.
- 1:30:47Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyhow, if it's outside your budget, and it should
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