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So Much Stuff! (And D23 Hasn't Happened Yet) · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Nordern Collider podcast, the
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Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the giggy things happening in the
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Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ariel casting and with me us always is third
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Speaker 1: times a charm. Jonathan strongly Yep. For a while there
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Speaker 1: were two of me on camera and two of Ariel
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Speaker 1: on Mike, and we don't know why, and we're still
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Speaker 1: bringing you the show. Gush, darn it. That's how dedicated
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Speaker 1: we are. Double your pleasure, double your fun, double mint gunk. Now, um,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't work. It's a breath men, it's a candy man,
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Speaker 1: it's a breath. And sorry, now that's something else. Uh.
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Speaker 1: We have a show that is packed to the jams
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Speaker 1: with news so much so that uh, there was so
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Speaker 1: much news that we don't have space for a mash up.
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Speaker 1: So we apologize, apologize for lack of mashup. But it's
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Speaker 1: funny because Ariel, you know, you and I we were
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Speaker 1: playing together the lineup, and I think as late as
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Speaker 1: Wednesday it's Friday now, but as late as Wednesday this week,
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Speaker 1: there wasn't a whole lot. There were like five stories
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Speaker 1: maybe on our lineup and then all gigginess exploded. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: so much so that WHOA, it's gonna be hard to
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Speaker 1: get through all of it. We'll try not to make
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Speaker 1: this episode twelve hours because Jonathan doesn't want to edit
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Speaker 1: that much. No, I I know, I definitely don't. And
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Speaker 1: we're gonna start with a bunch of stuff that was
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Speaker 1: announced on Star Trek Day, which you know, no one
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Speaker 1: told me that it was Star Trek Day, probably because
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Speaker 1: I'm not a Paramount Plus subscriber. I am, and I
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Speaker 1: honestly missed it. The past couple of weeks have been busy,
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Speaker 1: you know that if you've listened to the past couple
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Speaker 1: of episodes. But some great news came out of it.
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Speaker 1: The first of which is we got at school trailer
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Speaker 1: for Piccard season three, and it hits all of my
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Speaker 1: right next generation buttons. It's a it's definitely leaning hard
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Speaker 1: on nostalgia because it's really focusing on getting the gang
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Speaker 1: back together for one last ride. This is the final
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Speaker 1: season for Picard and it's the one that that has
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Speaker 1: the majority of the next generation cast getting back together.
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Speaker 1: There are a couple of absences. Data is not among
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Speaker 1: those in the trailer at least and for some reason,
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Speaker 1: Tasha Yar's not there, Jonathan, I'm only on episode two.
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Speaker 1: What spoiler Tosha Yard gets eaten by a tar monster. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's It's one of the most uh disrespectful ways to
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Speaker 1: get rid of a character ever. And it was due
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Speaker 1: to the fact that was it was Denise Crosby has
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Speaker 1: that our an him that she had she had contract
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Speaker 1: disputes with the the studio, largely because, I mean, if
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Speaker 1: you watch that first season of Star Trek Next Generation,
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Speaker 1: it is not good. And yes, it has its moments.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, I disagree entirely. It doesn't. I think I
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Speaker 1: think you have to wait till season two before you
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Speaker 1: start getting into moments h and you have to wait
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Speaker 1: till season three before you start getting into good episodes.
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Speaker 1: But that's that's my opinion. I mean, it's got, it's
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Speaker 1: got Patrick Stewart, He's a moment all by himself, Jonathan, Right,
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Speaker 1: So Picard, you know, Piccard. The series has had a
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Speaker 1: lot of mixed reactions among fans, Like there's some fans
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Speaker 1: who have uh you know who are like the hardcore
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Speaker 1: Star Trek Next Generation fans who object to the fact
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Speaker 1: that the tone of Picard was so different from Next
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Speaker 1: Generation and that they would argue that the character Picard
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Speaker 1: was so different from the version we got in the
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Speaker 1: Next Generation series that it felt like it was a
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Speaker 1: science fiction series that was using all the Star Trek
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Speaker 1: names but otherwise wasn't at all connected to the actual
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Speaker 1: original material. Um, this feels like it's kind of trying
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Speaker 1: to go back into the other direction to make it
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Speaker 1: more Next Generation E. But it's hard to judge one
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Speaker 1: way or the other based solely on a trailer. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I went into Picard because I've watched the
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Speaker 1: first two seasons thinking that it's like not expecting it
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Speaker 1: to be the Next Generation, and I liked it. The
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Speaker 1: end of the first season was just okay for me.
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Speaker 1: In the middle of the second season, it's a bit
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Speaker 1: slow at the beginning and end. We're fabulous. I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: looking forward to this new uh, this new part the
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Speaker 1: end of the trilogy and and seeing like Dr Beverley
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Speaker 1: Crusher again because I love her and Jordie Lafour. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited about it. I can't wait to tell
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Speaker 1: everybody what I think. I'm really curious because, like one
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Speaker 1: of the articles I read reference reference. Season two of
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Speaker 1: Picard has potentially the worst season of Star Trek ever,
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Speaker 1: like across all titles, not a Piccard. I don't agree.
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Speaker 1: I don't agree well, but I do like this is
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Speaker 1: hard because I haven't watched it, so I can't really
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Speaker 1: make judgments. I can say that critics that I respect
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Speaker 1: have said that their biggest complaint was that the Piccard
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Speaker 1: in the Piccard series does not feel like it's the
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Speaker 1: same character as Picard from the Next Generation series. And
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Speaker 1: to be fair, the Piccard in the Next Generation movies
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Speaker 1: feels like a very different Picard from the TV series,
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Speaker 1: So it's almost like you get a different Piccard with
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Speaker 1: each incarnation of the show, or or the the shows
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Speaker 1: that feature that character. I mean, but if you look
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Speaker 1: at let's say, you are, well, I don't know about you, Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: You're you're you're pretty much who you are all the time,
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Speaker 1: which is unless you're acting, which is great. But like
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Speaker 1: work me, or at least old work me. If you
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Speaker 1: saw me at my old, you know, forty hour week job,
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Speaker 1: that would be a different aerial than let's say, if
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Speaker 1: you'd see me on the weekend, if you saw me
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Speaker 1: dealing with a personal crisis, So I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: completely unreasonable. I think it was more about how like
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Speaker 1: some of the character's core values appeared to be completely different,
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Speaker 1: and like that there is a difference there, right, Like
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Speaker 1: you could say, oh, you know, work me, I'm totally
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Speaker 1: against murder, but personal me, I'm also still totally against murder.
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Speaker 1: Right that there's some things that do not change at
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Speaker 1: the core. That's true, that's true. I guess that's true. Anyhow,
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. Uh, even if I might
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Speaker 1: be one of the few, I'm sure I'm not, or
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Speaker 1: we wouldn't have a third season. I'm sure there are
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Speaker 1: many people looking forward to it. Something that most everybody
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Speaker 1: I know who has Paramount plus is looking forward to
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Speaker 1: is the next season of Strange New Worlds, which is
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Speaker 1: just if you want Star Trek that feels like Star Trek,
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Speaker 1: this is the show for you. It's got action, it's
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Speaker 1: got heart, it's got comedy. The people they cast as
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Speaker 1: the characters you know and love do a really great
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Speaker 1: job of sucking you in, even though they don't look
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Speaker 1: like the old characters necessarily. So um, I think it's
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Speaker 1: a brilliant show. The Again, like, since I don't have paramount.
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Speaker 1: Plus I haven't been seeing these, but the word I
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Speaker 1: hear is that, like you say, it captures the spirit
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Speaker 1: of the source material, and it it feels like an
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Speaker 1: expansion of that spirit. And even the actors who are
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Speaker 1: playing established characters, while they may not look and sound
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Speaker 1: exactly like the actors who originated those roles, the way
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Speaker 1: the characters are written and performed is in keeping with
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Speaker 1: the way that they were first portrayed way back in
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Speaker 1: the original series. And so that I I feel more
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Speaker 1: generous towards because I feel like it is honoring the
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Speaker 1: vision of the original series. Not that there's anything wrong
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Speaker 1: with taking things in a different direction. The Abrams films
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Speaker 1: show that that's a viable opportunity. But but if you're
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Speaker 1: wanting something to feel the way that you felt when
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Speaker 1: you first started watching, say, the original series, this is
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Speaker 1: more in keeping with that. And uh, and we heard
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Speaker 1: about an actor who's joining for a season two, which
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Speaker 1: is an interesting choice. Yeah, Carol Kane is joining as goodness.
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Speaker 1: She is a well, they just give us her name.
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Speaker 1: It's Pelia, Pelia pe l I A. Yeah, um, so
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what position she holds. She's shown in
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Speaker 1: a red Star Trek uniform. She's supposed to an engineer,
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Speaker 1: so I don't know she's a chief engineer, but she's
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Speaker 1: definitely in engineering. Yeah, and they say that she solves problems.
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Speaker 1: This is a quote from I g NN calmly and
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Speaker 1: brusquely thanks to her many years of experience. And that's
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Speaker 1: interesting because, like, I know that Carol Kane can play
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Speaker 1: a brusque character, but it's usually in such a comedic format,
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Speaker 1: or at least the things that I'm used to seeing
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Speaker 1: her in, like Princess Bride, I'm break up with Kenni
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Speaker 1: Schmidt um Scrooged, where she can be very matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: but it's always like exceptionally comedic. I'm I'm super interested
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Speaker 1: to see her in this role and see what she
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Speaker 1: brings to it. Yeah. It's also I like the idea
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Speaker 1: of kind of the no nonsense engineering person because when
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Speaker 1: you look back on original series, you had Scottie who
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Speaker 1: was more kind, kind of jovial and uh and humorous,
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Speaker 1: and then with Jordy, you had a character who was
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Speaker 1: very capable, but it always felt like he had a
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Speaker 1: sense of impostor syndrome, like he was trying to prove
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Speaker 1: himself so I like that this is another take on
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Speaker 1: a character who might be, you know, instrumental in engineering.
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Speaker 1: So I'm very curious to see how her character evolves.
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Speaker 1: Me too. I I wish I could give you a
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Speaker 1: cup of Paramount Plus, Jonathan, because I think you'd really
10:24
Speaker 1: enjoy Strange New Worlds. We have a few other Star
10:27
Speaker 1: Trek things I think we can go through pretty quickly,
10:29
Speaker 1: which is Star Trek Prodigy, which is the animated kids
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Speaker 1: show that Jonathan doesn't remember being a thing, comes back
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Speaker 1: on October. Yeah. Again without having Paramount Plus. It's like
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Speaker 1: if I don't have it, it doesn't exist. I mean,
10:44
Speaker 1: so to be fair, I don't remember if we talked
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Speaker 1: about Prodigy or if it was like on our show
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Speaker 1: notes and it was one of the things that we
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Speaker 1: got cut because you know, in previous episodes we had
10:55
Speaker 1: limited time in a certain structure, so we didn't get
10:57
Speaker 1: to cover everything we wanted to cover. But I've watched
11:00
Speaker 1: like a little bit of the series. It feels very
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Speaker 1: much like a Clone Wars or something like that kind
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Speaker 1: of a show, but Star Trek and s Star Wars,
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Speaker 1: so so not quite to the level of something like
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Speaker 1: Teen Titans Go. No, it's certainly not Teen Titans Go.
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Speaker 1: If you want something teen Titans Go, you should watch
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Speaker 1: Lower Decks, which is also coming back. They've put out
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Speaker 1: some trailers. Uh you know, it's definitely an adult show,
11:23
Speaker 1: is what I will say. Well, technically has already come back,
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Speaker 1: but they are there are the season is continuing fair enough,
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Speaker 1: and I think I don't know if it's happened yet
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Speaker 1: because I am very very far behind on Lower Deck.
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Speaker 1: It's the one that I haven't had time to watch. Um,
11:41
Speaker 1: they're either going to Deep Space nine, which I love
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Speaker 1: because that's my favorite Star Trek property. Right or wrong.
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Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's a totally valid choice. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I really I really liked the relationships they built on
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Speaker 1: the space station and the world building, and I didn't
11:57
Speaker 1: care for so much for the politics or the end
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Speaker 1: of the show, but I really enjoyed the journey. The
12:01
Speaker 1: other things we're getting is we're getting a prequel to
12:04
Speaker 1: The Wrath of Khan as a podcast. I tend to
12:07
Speaker 1: like scripted fictional podcasts, so I'm looking forward to this one. Yeah,
12:12
Speaker 1: we don't have a lot of details, Like we don't
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Speaker 1: know who's going to be playing the various characters. But
12:17
Speaker 1: apparently this is supposed to take place in the years
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Speaker 1: between Space Seed, which is the original series episode where
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Speaker 1: Cohn first appears, and the opening of Wrath of Cohn,
12:31
Speaker 1: where it's kind of him and his crew surviving on
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Speaker 1: SETI Alpha five, the remote planet where he and his
12:40
Speaker 1: his fellow crew members were set down by the Enterprise
12:43
Speaker 1: as it's kind of like a prison planet um in
12:46
Speaker 1: the sense that they can't really get off the plant,
12:48
Speaker 1: and it's very in the opening of the Wrath of
12:52
Speaker 1: con it's incredibly harsh conditions and you find out the
12:55
Speaker 1: reason why is that there was this celestial event that
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Speaker 1: pushed Cet Alpha five into a different orbit and completely
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Speaker 1: changed the environment as a result. So I'm very curious
13:07
Speaker 1: to hear about this uh in that you know, Cohn
13:10
Speaker 1: is a very interesting character. He is, uh someone who
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Speaker 1: is a brilliant strategist, but he has limitations to that,
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Speaker 1: and it will be fastening to see what kind of
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Speaker 1: stories can unfold within this realm. It's it's the rare
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Speaker 1: time where I feel like a prequel could actually expand
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Speaker 1: upon the story in a way that is legitimately entertaining
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Speaker 1: and not just like it doesn't feel like a cash grab,
13:39
Speaker 1: especially since this it's a podcast. Yeah yeah, um yeah,
13:43
Speaker 1: like the another great example of the Wolverine. Yes, we're phenomenal.
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Speaker 1: So if it, if it is similar to that, it
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Speaker 1: will be amazing. Something else that is amazing is that
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Speaker 1: we are getting some Star Trek Nerf like official NERF guns.
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Speaker 1: Were getting a Phaser rifle and a standard Phaser. The
14:04
Speaker 1: Phaser rifle is Lucy inspired on First Contact. Um, so
14:08
Speaker 1: they can give it some cool green patches. But the
14:10
Speaker 1: standard Phaser looks like other than its orange tip, looks
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Speaker 1: like a freaking Star Trek Phaser, and I am all
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Speaker 1: for yeah it. Uh, it will be a one dart
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Speaker 1: at a time little pistol. So the way that the
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Speaker 1: article suggests is that it's the thing you have locked
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Speaker 1: and loaded and ready to go. Would you've run out
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Speaker 1: of darts with your with your rifle. It's not your
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Speaker 1: go to weapon. Uh. And there is no stun setting.
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Speaker 1: It's just dart or nothing. I mean I if look,
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Speaker 1: if Nerve could come up with a stunt setting for
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Speaker 1: their guns, I would be really impressed. To be a
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Speaker 1: really dense Nerve dart. It hurts more than actually getting hit.
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Speaker 1: What is up with that Anyhow, these are available for
14:56
Speaker 1: pre order into October two UM, and then it looks
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Speaker 1: like they're going to be released in late about a
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Speaker 1: hundred bucks, which, if you are familiar with NERF gun prices,
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Speaker 1: is actually not that bad. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy to
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Speaker 1: me how the NERF form factor has evolved, because I
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Speaker 1: think back to like my childhood and yeah, it's the
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Speaker 1: stuff that's coming out now like blows everything I knew
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Speaker 1: away easily. And yeah, when you start to look at
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Speaker 1: the engineering and in this case the licensing involved, it
15:34
Speaker 1: starts to make sense that they're so expensive. Yeah. Well,
15:36
Speaker 1: and then like people will take these expensive guns and
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Speaker 1: they will mod them. And I know quite a few
15:41
Speaker 1: people who do, because I play a larp where people
15:44
Speaker 1: use NERF guns. So they'll mod them so that they've
15:47
Speaker 1: got like a adding capacity or a stronger shot or
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Speaker 1: more accurate. It's really like, so they'd buy this expensive
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Speaker 1: gun and then they add all of this amount of
15:58
Speaker 1: money of added craziness to it. Um. It's it's really
16:02
Speaker 1: it's actually really cool, I think. And in case you're curious,
16:05
Speaker 1: that larpe that Arials referring to is an alternate Western larpe.
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Speaker 1: It is not die hard setting dungeons and dragons as
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Speaker 1: cool as that would be. Oh, that would be so awesome. Yeah. No,
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Speaker 1: it's all alternate, uh like creepy wild West, weird West,
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Speaker 1: I guess, and I play a monster hunter, essentially a
16:25
Speaker 1: female version of Dean Winchester from Supernatural. Um. Yeah, I
16:29
Speaker 1: had originally pitched an idea which would have been a
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Speaker 1: fun character to play. I just never got into it
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Speaker 1: where I wanted to play kind of a snake oil
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Speaker 1: salesman type of peddler character akin to Dr Turnamanus in
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Speaker 1: the original Pete's Dragon film. And I think I still
16:45
Speaker 1: think that that would have been a lot of fun
16:47
Speaker 1: to role play, but I never went much further than
16:52
Speaker 1: buying a hat and some boots. I'm sorry that you
16:56
Speaker 1: bought those and you never came out. The game is
16:58
Speaker 1: almost over, but there are a few more of them. Um,
17:01
Speaker 1: if you want to invest that much into I think
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Speaker 1: I'm okay. Yeah, but having played the game for a
17:08
Speaker 1: few years now, like I think your character would have
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Speaker 1: been a great fit. Okay, enough personal geeking onto our
17:15
Speaker 1: next section, which is d C stuff. Yeah. In our
17:19
Speaker 1: our lineup, I organized our stories by category, and each
17:24
Speaker 1: one is something stuff except for Star Trek Day announcements,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to say everything stuff yeah yeah, instead
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Speaker 1: of miscellaneous. Yeah. In fact, Ariel is going into our
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Speaker 1: document right now and I can't spell, so it became
17:40
Speaker 1: stun It's that's that's what hey, I'm all about talking
17:44
Speaker 1: about studs. Um yeah, Ariels, that's what that typing sound
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Speaker 1: was was Ariel doing live and it's into our document
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Speaker 1: as we're recording. Super sorry, I can't hear the typing
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Speaker 1: on my end. My headphones are that good. Yeah, well
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Speaker 1: it'll come through on the recording. So anyway, d C
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Speaker 1: stuff our first story. So last week we talked about
18:04
Speaker 1: how Dan Lynn was in talks to potentially head up
18:10
Speaker 1: d C under the new Warner Brothers Discovery Company, but
18:15
Speaker 1: apparently those talks fell through. There were just some some
18:19
Speaker 1: things that the two parties could not come into agreement on,
18:23
Speaker 1: and so the search for a new head of d
18:26
Speaker 1: C continues. The current head is still reportedly going to
18:32
Speaker 1: phase out. There is going to be a new head,
18:35
Speaker 1: but they're still looking. Yeah, you know, I I'm a
18:40
Speaker 1: little sad about it. Lind seemed to have a lot
18:42
Speaker 1: of variety to his experience that might lend well to
18:47
Speaker 1: overall seeing the DC universe, but I'm sure there are
18:50
Speaker 1: other great candidates, and I'm excited to see what he
18:53
Speaker 1: does with one of the things that was kind of
18:57
Speaker 1: a stickler in the negotiations right backgridse who nonprofit UM
19:01
Speaker 1: which really is looking to bring diversity to the film
19:05
Speaker 1: and television industry UM with biopic creators h and things
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Speaker 1: like that. So I think it's a really good cause
19:13
Speaker 1: and something that of something that he wants to focus on,
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Speaker 1: and I look forward to seeing the great stuff that
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Speaker 1: comes out of it. Yeah, And um, you know, we
19:20
Speaker 1: know that Warner Brothers Discovery has this hope to create
19:24
Speaker 1: a more coherent and cohesive DC universe, something more akin
19:29
Speaker 1: to what we see with Marvel, which has been something
19:32
Speaker 1: I've been railing about forever. Where the problem I had
19:35
Speaker 1: mostly was just that there was no clear strategy coming
19:38
Speaker 1: out of DC that whenever a new product was coming out,
19:42
Speaker 1: you were wondering, Okay, does this tie into these other
19:46
Speaker 1: DC properties? Is it is it distinct from them? Is
19:50
Speaker 1: it completely separate? Is it set in a different DC universe?
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Speaker 1: And the issue the main issue I had was that
19:57
Speaker 1: it appeared that DC was trying to skip ahead to
20:00
Speaker 1: where Marvel already was and also was trying to scattershot
20:04
Speaker 1: approach where you had various properties that may or may
20:08
Speaker 1: not be connected to the core universe, and it was
20:11
Speaker 1: the lack of transparency and communication that was really frustrating,
20:15
Speaker 1: and that that appears to be something they want to address. However,
20:20
Speaker 1: that being said, we still have movies that are coming
20:23
Speaker 1: out that continue to confuse things um and that leads
20:28
Speaker 1: us to our next story, which is that there's a
20:29
Speaker 1: new trailer, a new full trailer for for Black Atom
20:34
Speaker 1: and this trailer has a lot more of the supporting
20:38
Speaker 1: cast featuring in it. It gives us more of a
20:43
Speaker 1: view of how the the character of Black Adam is
20:48
Speaker 1: kind of an anti hero that comes through. And then
20:53
Speaker 1: on top of all that, it also gives us Amanda Waller,
20:58
Speaker 1: the antagon miss in the Suicide Squad films. Yeah, Amanda
21:03
Speaker 1: Waller was the odd part for me. So it's interesting
21:06
Speaker 1: because I watch Black Adam and there are lots of
21:08
Speaker 1: characters that I like from the DC universe in it,
21:10
Speaker 1: like Hawkman, you know, and I guess the Adam I'm
21:13
Speaker 1: not sure if that's his name, but because essentially that
21:15
Speaker 1: he's gotten out him on his chest and he was
21:17
Speaker 1: the Adaman one of either the Flash or Green Arrow
21:22
Speaker 1: or that on TV. Anyhow, lots of characters that I
21:25
Speaker 1: like that they're squishing all into this one film. And
21:27
Speaker 1: on the one hand, like if you look at the
21:30
Speaker 1: first Avengers movie, we got introduced to a lot of
21:32
Speaker 1: Avengers that did not have their own standalones and it um.
21:37
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, like DC has not been great,
21:41
Speaker 1: they've tried to fit too much in. Yeah, it's again.
21:44
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where it gets confusing, right,
21:46
Speaker 1: because there's the question of for a while, there was
21:51
Speaker 1: a question of whether or not Suicide Squad fit into
21:55
Speaker 1: the Snyder universe, right, the stuff where you had Batman
21:59
Speaker 1: versus Superman and Justice League and there were questions about
22:03
Speaker 1: do those actually fit together or are they distinct and
22:08
Speaker 1: ultimately you had sort of a connection there. You also
22:11
Speaker 1: had questions about Shazam and that kind of got answered
22:14
Speaker 1: in in the final little moments of the first Shazam film.
22:19
Speaker 1: And now you have this Black Adam piece with Amanda
22:22
Speaker 1: Waller is kind of this connective tissue. There are a
22:25
Speaker 1: lot of things that collectively make this a bit confusing.
22:31
Speaker 1: All that being said, this trailer for Black Adam is interesting.
22:35
Speaker 1: It is. I don't know how I feel about it
22:38
Speaker 1: because part of the issue I have is it takes
22:43
Speaker 1: away one of the strongest tools that Dwayne Johnson has,
22:47
Speaker 1: which is that he has this incredible charisma and this
22:50
Speaker 1: incredible kind of humor to him, and the character of
22:53
Speaker 1: Black Adam lacks all that. I mean, as far as
22:57
Speaker 1: we do from the trailers, he might grow more of
23:00
Speaker 1: personality or more of a likable personality. I agree that's
23:03
Speaker 1: the strength of Dwayne Johnson, but I feel like, what
23:06
Speaker 1: a great challenge to get people on the side of
23:09
Speaker 1: this person who is such an anti hero. Yeah, I
23:13
Speaker 1: think it'll like the movie will have to speak for itself.
23:17
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting also to incorporate some characters like
23:21
Speaker 1: Dr Fate, you know, characters who I don't think the
23:25
Speaker 1: average person has really heard of or knows much about,
23:29
Speaker 1: like Hawkman, more so because he's been featured in cartoons
23:33
Speaker 1: and stuff. But some of the other characters who have
23:37
Speaker 1: long been standards in the d C comic book universe
23:40
Speaker 1: haven't really had much representation on screen. So it will
23:43
Speaker 1: also be interesting to me to see how those play out. Yeah, yeah,
23:48
Speaker 1: it will be I also know that they call themselves
23:50
Speaker 1: the Justice Society in the trailer, which is interesting. We
23:53
Speaker 1: have one more. That's all I have to say on
23:56
Speaker 1: Black Adam. I'm moving on ahead. Have one more DC
24:01
Speaker 1: piece of news, which isn't like super Big. It's that Pennyworth.
24:06
Speaker 1: It's just funny because of Jonathan's knowledge of things that
24:08
Speaker 1: don't exist. Pennyworth a k a. The Origin Story of
24:14
Speaker 1: Batman's Butler, which is the legit subtitle of Pennyworth. If
24:18
Speaker 1: you haven't been following it, it's a story of Alfred
24:21
Speaker 1: is getting a third season on HBO Max. It's kind
24:24
Speaker 1: of surprising to me because this one hasn't been getting
24:27
Speaker 1: a whole lot of press. I assumed it would be
24:29
Speaker 1: one of the ones that was cut. Yeah, so well,
24:33
Speaker 1: for one thing, like the first two seasons of Pennyworth
24:35
Speaker 1: were not on HBO Max, which is probably why I
24:37
Speaker 1: hadn't heard of it. It's also more of a spinoff
24:42
Speaker 1: of the the Gotham TV series and h That's another
24:47
Speaker 1: reason why I hadn't heard of it is because I
24:49
Speaker 1: bounced off Gotham as hard as you can within the
24:53
Speaker 1: first season. I just the tone and the the direction
24:59
Speaker 1: of Atham was so over the top and so much
25:03
Speaker 1: scene and re chewing from everybody that it exhausted me
25:07
Speaker 1: and I just couldn't I couldn't take it. So I left.
25:11
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't really care what happens because
25:14
Speaker 1: this is nigh unwatchable for me. And I left and
25:19
Speaker 1: I never went back. And I don't know what happened
25:21
Speaker 1: in Gotham, but I know that Pennyworth is kind of
25:25
Speaker 1: a spin off of that version of the story. I mean,
25:30
Speaker 1: I'm in the same boat as you. I tried Gotham.
25:32
Speaker 1: It just couldn't click with me. And you know, for
25:35
Speaker 1: anybody who enjoys it, I am super happy that you
25:37
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. They had a lot of cool concepts in
25:39
Speaker 1: there that just didn't play out well. And it's sad
25:42
Speaker 1: to me because I like spy stuff, and um, you know,
25:48
Speaker 1: Alfred was kind of like good am I or not?
25:52
Speaker 1: Am I? Yeah? Am I am? I five? In my
25:54
Speaker 1: six Yeah? Yeah, before he was, I almost said Adam
25:59
Speaker 1: West before he is Bruce Wayne Spler and the Wayne's butler.
26:03
Speaker 1: Adam West, if you didn't know, if you're if you're
26:06
Speaker 1: of a generation is unfamiliar, was an old, old old batman. Yeah,
26:09
Speaker 1: And then in the nineteen sixties series. Now, I will
26:11
Speaker 1: say if go if Gotham had had advanced to a
26:15
Speaker 1: point where it became clear that the version of Bruce
26:19
Speaker 1: Wayne and Gotham grew up to be Adam West, I
26:21
Speaker 1: would have stayed on board. Yeah. Um, that would be
26:25
Speaker 1: pretty funny. Speaking of spy stuff, let's move on to
26:31
Speaker 1: our Amazon stuff section. Oh well, if we're going to
26:34
Speaker 1: talk about spy stuff, we'll just reverse the order of
26:37
Speaker 1: our Amazon stuff stories, which is that Amazon has long
26:41
Speaker 1: been working on producing a series called Citadel, which is
26:47
Speaker 1: a Russo Brothers production. Russo Brothers most famous for directing
26:52
Speaker 1: the Avengers Infinity War and Endgame movies and being instrumental
26:57
Speaker 1: in those. Also famous for their involvement in the first
27:01
Speaker 1: couple of seasons of Community. If you didn't know, um yeah,
27:05
Speaker 1: they were behind that. But anyway, they're they've been working
27:08
Speaker 1: on this big concept at Amazon called Citadel, which I
27:13
Speaker 1: like to think of it as sort of the Avengers
27:15
Speaker 1: for spies, Like it's supposed to bring together all these
27:18
Speaker 1: spies from different nations, and then outside of that, there
27:24
Speaker 1: are going to be series produced in those individual nations
27:28
Speaker 1: that will follow those characters, that will be like Native
27:31
Speaker 1: language speaking versions of the stories, and then you will
27:35
Speaker 1: occasionally get these larger um events where characters will come
27:41
Speaker 1: together and it will be like a crossover. Very ambitious,
27:46
Speaker 1: and uh, you know Amazon just loves to set that
27:50
Speaker 1: bar for most expensive streaming series because this is the
27:53
Speaker 1: second most expensive for not so good reasons. Yeah, poor, poor,
28:00
Speaker 1: Uh it's not Lifford Dead, Poor What's the Last of Us?
28:03
Speaker 1: Because I know they were also vying for it. Yeah,
28:06
Speaker 1: there's just been a bunch of Like with Citadel, there's
28:09
Speaker 1: been a bunch of like difference of vision and reshoots
28:13
Speaker 1: and different entirely different cuts, right, Like there's there's a
28:20
Speaker 1: Russo cut of Citadel, and then there's the original showrunner
28:25
Speaker 1: cut of Citadel who that show runner had left the
28:29
Speaker 1: project at this point. So anytime you have two different
28:35
Speaker 1: cuts of the same project, it means something somewhere has
28:39
Speaker 1: gone very wrong. Either you have a director who went
28:44
Speaker 1: off the rails, or maybe you have producers who are
28:48
Speaker 1: far too u they are interfering too much. Um. But
28:53
Speaker 1: it's it's it's almost never a good thing. Yeah, yeah,
28:59
Speaker 1: and it's sad because well, I hope they figure it
29:01
Speaker 1: out because it's a really cool concept. I tend to
29:04
Speaker 1: like the stuff the Russa Brothers work on. Not you know,
29:08
Speaker 1: not everything is as strong as everything else, but as
29:10
Speaker 1: a general whole, I like their package of work. They're
29:12
Speaker 1: like portfolio of work. But yeah, also I just don't
29:17
Speaker 1: get these super high budget shows for streaming services, because
29:21
Speaker 1: we've talked about in the past, Like, you know, part
29:24
Speaker 1: of the reason that Discovery plus HBO max is trying
29:27
Speaker 1: to cut budget is because people are still figuring out
29:31
Speaker 1: the best way to profit off of these streaming networks.
29:36
Speaker 1: So really really high budget stuff, you know, might bring
29:38
Speaker 1: in subscribers, but if it doesn't, how do you get
29:41
Speaker 1: that back? And and how do you measure whether or
29:44
Speaker 1: not something was what brought subscribers in or not. I mean,
29:47
Speaker 1: you can look at the number of people who who
29:50
Speaker 1: streamed a particular title, like I'm sure that's one of
29:55
Speaker 1: the metrics that everyone behind the scenes is looking at.
29:58
Speaker 1: Their looking at how many times was streamed and and
30:02
Speaker 1: that is a kind of indication, but it doesn't necessarily
30:06
Speaker 1: correlate directly with new subscribers. So it's it gets really
30:11
Speaker 1: hard to nail down. You know, we brought in x
30:15
Speaker 1: amount of revenue because of these specific projects whereas when
30:20
Speaker 1: you're talking about a traditional film, like a cinematic theatrical
30:25
Speaker 1: release film, you can look at box office. That's a
30:28
Speaker 1: very easy way to see how well any particular movie
30:32
Speaker 1: did as far as bringing in revenue. So, yeah, this
30:35
Speaker 1: is one of those things where maybe this was a
30:39
Speaker 1: big project that was in the works. I mean, it
30:42
Speaker 1: has been a big project in the works for quite
30:44
Speaker 1: some time, so you could argue that this was from
30:48
Speaker 1: that era where everybody was pouring huge amounts of money
30:52
Speaker 1: into these projects in an effort to win more subscribers.
30:57
Speaker 1: And it hasn't caught up to the most Netflix kerfuffle
31:02
Speaker 1: where Netflix started to show a loss and subscribers and
31:05
Speaker 1: the rugs started to get pulled out from under all
31:08
Speaker 1: these different streaming productions. It may very well be that
31:12
Speaker 1: Citadel could be one of the last like big, big
31:16
Speaker 1: budget projects before things get scaled back. We just don't
31:20
Speaker 1: know yet. Yeah, going from the second most expensive show
31:24
Speaker 1: ever to the first lord of the Rings of Power series,
31:27
Speaker 1: Jonathan I just quickly wanted to touch on this. They
31:31
Speaker 1: were Rings of Power. I think did a great job casting.
31:35
Speaker 1: When I look at the trail, I haven't watched it yet,
31:36
Speaker 1: but when I look at the trailer. I find so
31:39
Speaker 1: many of the characters just like from the moments they
31:41
Speaker 1: get to emote briefly on screen to to the aesthetic
31:45
Speaker 1: that they have super cool and intriguing. But not everybody
31:48
Speaker 1: feels that way, and that really stinks. That really sucks.
31:52
Speaker 1: But thankfully the Lord of the Ring actors at least
31:56
Speaker 1: all of the Hobbits have kind of stepped up. They've
31:59
Speaker 1: they've been starting to wear shirts that in Elvish says
32:02
Speaker 1: you all are welcome here with every color, different health
32:05
Speaker 1: ear on it um to promote and encourage diversity and casting. Yeah,
32:10
Speaker 1: and um, so you've got certain bad actors, I will say,
32:16
Speaker 1: not like actors in the sense of people who are
32:18
Speaker 1: on screen, but bad actors in the sense of people
32:21
Speaker 1: who are using pretty evil arguments to justify their perspective,
32:27
Speaker 1: saying that you know, in Tolkien's universe, it should essentially
32:31
Speaker 1: be lily white, and you shouldn't have these people of
32:33
Speaker 1: color taking on roles of characters. And um uh. My
32:39
Speaker 1: argument to that is, it's a fictional universe, right, It's
32:44
Speaker 1: a it's a universe that does not exist. It is fiction,
32:49
Speaker 1: and therefore there shouldn't be any of that like limitation
32:53
Speaker 1: of who can play what in this fictional universe. We're
32:57
Speaker 1: not telling stories about people who really existed. You are
33:01
Speaker 1: not ruining this this fantasy world by incorporating other people
33:09
Speaker 1: into your story. And the thing that really sticks in
33:14
Speaker 1: my craw is that. And I was guilty of this
33:17
Speaker 1: for a very long time, Like I kind of fell
33:19
Speaker 1: into this trap when they announced when there were rumors
33:22
Speaker 1: that Donald Glover might play Peter Parker and Spider Man,
33:26
Speaker 1: I initially reacted against that because I was like, but
33:30
Speaker 1: Peter Parker's white, And that's an insidious indication of how
33:35
Speaker 1: culture starts to sculpt this this idea that everything should
33:41
Speaker 1: be catered towards specifically white straight men, like that's your
33:46
Speaker 1: that's your default, and anything outside of that is a
33:49
Speaker 1: deviation from the norm. And the insidious thing is that
33:55
Speaker 1: is essentially white supremacy. But it's white supremacy that's been
33:59
Speaker 1: packaged in such a way that it doesn't immediately appeared
34:04
Speaker 1: to be obvious to specifically white dudes, like they just
34:08
Speaker 1: they just assume everything was made for them, and anything
34:11
Speaker 1: that wasn't is a niche offering. That is that is
34:16
Speaker 1: the real underlying damaging thing about that kind of mentality.
34:21
Speaker 1: I agree, thankfully, we're seeing huge swaths of the geek community,
34:26
Speaker 1: you know, not in that same mindset. If you if
34:30
Speaker 1: you look at Dragon Con, which has happened this past
34:32
Speaker 1: this past weekend from when we're recording Labor Day weekend,
34:35
Speaker 1: you know, it takes five minutes walking through there to
34:38
Speaker 1: see people of every shape, color, and size playing you know,
34:42
Speaker 1: any character they want, and all of it is amazing
34:45
Speaker 1: and beautiful. And that's not to say like a great example,
34:50
Speaker 1: really great depictions of human that are not white people
34:54
Speaker 1: or Shira or you know, so on and so forth
34:57
Speaker 1: that were originally depicted white. We're getting black little mermaid.
35:01
Speaker 1: That is amazing, and that is wonderful. These are all
35:04
Speaker 1: things that should happen that I am glad that the
35:09
Speaker 1: geek community has such a strong voice in having make happen. Yes,
35:13
Speaker 1: And I my hope is to see fewer and fewer
35:17
Speaker 1: objections to this kind of thing as more people get
35:21
Speaker 1: more enlightened and start to consider, like, ultimately, even if
35:25
Speaker 1: you sit there and say, but Tolkien would have had
35:28
Speaker 1: an all white like set of races just because of
35:32
Speaker 1: who he was and the time that he was creating things,
35:35
Speaker 1: even if you argue that, my counter to you is, well,
35:38
Speaker 1: what do you think is more harmful having a depiction
35:43
Speaker 1: of Tolkien's world that includes diversity, which was not necessarily
35:47
Speaker 1: something Tolkien envisioned, or to deny diversity and therefore other
35:53
Speaker 1: anyone who isn't white. What is the most harmful choice there?
35:56
Speaker 1: Because I think it's obvious. Yeah, I agree, I am.
36:01
Speaker 1: I'm glad that casting trends continue to lean in the
36:04
Speaker 1: way of diversity, um an inclusion. I I look forward
36:10
Speaker 1: to watching The Rings of Power. Yeah, I've actually heard
36:14
Speaker 1: surprisingly very positive reviews, which is it surprised me because
36:20
Speaker 1: when I saw the trailer, I thought it looked a
36:23
Speaker 1: little too video ish, Like the cinematography looked too much
36:27
Speaker 1: like digital video, which makes everything kind of look a
36:30
Speaker 1: little fake. And I was worried that it was just
36:33
Speaker 1: going to come across as sort of the um was
36:37
Speaker 1: it the was it the Wheel of Time series or whatever,
36:40
Speaker 1: which did not did not get good reviews, and so
36:45
Speaker 1: I kind of just dismissed it, discounted it. Thought like, oh, well,
36:48
Speaker 1: this is not going to be worth watching. It's just
36:51
Speaker 1: gonna upset me as being a token fan. It's not
36:53
Speaker 1: gonna look good. It's not going to be good, but
36:55
Speaker 1: the reviews I've heard have been pretty positive and seemed
36:58
Speaker 1: to be getting better as the episodes continue to release.
37:03
Speaker 1: So I think I'm going to have to change my
37:05
Speaker 1: tune and actually watch it. Yeah, as soon as I
37:09
Speaker 1: get done with sam Man, I'm gonna watch Rings of Power.
37:12
Speaker 1: I'm doing a group watch. And that's why. So a
37:14
Speaker 1: couple of my friends and I get together and we're
37:18
Speaker 1: group watching Sandman right now, al though half of them
37:20
Speaker 1: have already watched it all the way through, and then
37:22
Speaker 1: we're going to group watch Rings of Power. Um. At
37:24
Speaker 1: being said, I totally watched the episode of Sandman that
37:27
Speaker 1: you did not want to see, Jonathan, and I absolutely
37:31
Speaker 1: did not. There was nothing about that episode I liked anyhow. Um,
37:34
Speaker 1: that's that's the diner episode. Yeah, that comic messed me up.
37:39
Speaker 1: Man when I read it, like way when I was
37:41
Speaker 1: in college. I read that and I was like, whoa
37:43
Speaker 1: this is? This is going to keep me up at
37:46
Speaker 1: night and I haven't seen that. I haven't seen the episode.
37:50
Speaker 1: Apparently they pulled their punches, and I still just I
37:53
Speaker 1: felt it was unnecessary and poorly done. Maybe the concept
37:58
Speaker 1: was good, but I thought the execution was poor, but
38:00
Speaker 1: the entire show, I think the casting is great. I
38:02
Speaker 1: think it's beautiful. It almost feels like the cliff notes
38:05
Speaker 1: of any issue or episode and it's just okay to me, okay,
38:11
Speaker 1: on to NBC peacocks stuff. Yeah, and the first one
38:16
Speaker 1: is a trailer you came across for a film called
38:20
Speaker 1: meat Cute. Can you tell us all what the like?
38:24
Speaker 1: The elevator pitch of meat Cute is Yes, so Keylle Kuoko,
38:30
Speaker 1: who is uh? She was Penny on The Big Bang Theory.
38:34
Speaker 1: She's the voice of Harley Quinn in the new show,
38:38
Speaker 1: meets up with Pete Davidson of all people, and and
38:42
Speaker 1: kind of they hook up at a bar and get
38:44
Speaker 1: to know each other, and then she admits that she
38:46
Speaker 1: actually knows him that she's been on like the same
38:50
Speaker 1: date with him seven days in a row or something
38:52
Speaker 1: like that. Basically, she can travel back in time and
38:57
Speaker 1: um experience the same day through a tanning that like
39:00
Speaker 1: it looks like a tanning bed, but it's what is
39:02
Speaker 1: all of this with tanning beds having magical powers? Lately
39:04
Speaker 1: with Lisa Frankenstein and now with this, Yeah, I don't
39:07
Speaker 1: know that it is weird that there's this convergence on
39:11
Speaker 1: tanning beds being used as like some other form of technology.
39:17
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a little it feels like it's a
39:19
Speaker 1: little hot tub time machine. Yeah. Yeah. So anyhow, she
39:22
Speaker 1: goes back in time and she meets him, and she
39:24
Speaker 1: dates a whole bunch, and like, it's interesting because unlike
39:29
Speaker 1: Groundhog Day, where you grow to like the character more
39:32
Speaker 1: and more, or um Palm Springs, where a couple of
39:36
Speaker 1: people are working through the same issue together, which was
39:39
Speaker 1: a really great Groundhogs variation, this version of groundhogs Day,
39:43
Speaker 1: like you kind of learn about more and more bad
39:45
Speaker 1: decisions that this time traveling woman continues to make, like
39:50
Speaker 1: the whole going back in history to kill Hitler, uh dilemma,
39:54
Speaker 1: you know. And and at one point in the trailer,
39:58
Speaker 1: apparently she tries to make this Pete Davidson's life better
40:02
Speaker 1: and it doesn't and he's like, what have you done
40:05
Speaker 1: to me? So I think it's a really interesting um
40:07
Speaker 1: like fifty first dates, Groundhog Day Butterfly effect. Yeah, ash
40:12
Speaker 1: up movie. At least it looks that way. I'll tell
40:15
Speaker 1: you what my impression was from the trailer, because when
40:18
Speaker 1: I walked away watching the trailer. Part of it is
40:20
Speaker 1: that the presentation, the order of presentation of information makes
40:24
Speaker 1: it a little tricky to figure out what the actual
40:28
Speaker 1: like narrative is. But based upon what I saw, this
40:32
Speaker 1: is my guess. My guess is Kaylee Cooko's character went
40:38
Speaker 1: on a date with Pete Davidson at some point in
40:40
Speaker 1: her past and then, uh, ultimately that doesn't work out,
40:45
Speaker 1: and then she sees that he is in a bad
40:49
Speaker 1: place in his life, and she determines to use this
40:52
Speaker 1: time machine to go back and start making changes to
40:59
Speaker 1: how that date happened in an effort to improve his
41:02
Speaker 1: life in her present day, like to fix him in
41:07
Speaker 1: other words, because there's a scene in the trailer where
41:10
Speaker 1: Pete Davidson actually says like, my pain isn't yours to
41:14
Speaker 1: take away, Like it's not your job to fix me.
41:17
Speaker 1: So that's kind of what the feeling I got is
41:20
Speaker 1: that it is this idea that she's trying to repair
41:23
Speaker 1: something from her past and in the process is kind
41:28
Speaker 1: of making things worse, um unintentionally, but it's that she's
41:33
Speaker 1: she's coming at it through possibly selfish reasons, but ultimately
41:39
Speaker 1: like ones that you can understand, like they're compassionate reasons,
41:43
Speaker 1: but it's messing things up. That was the feeling I got.
41:47
Speaker 1: But there's there's just enough information in the trailer to
41:52
Speaker 1: give you a chance to make up your own theory
41:55
Speaker 1: as to what this movie is actually going to be about.
41:57
Speaker 1: You just know there's gonna be like the Groundhog Day
42:00
Speaker 1: thing of reliving the same sequence repeatedly in an effort
42:05
Speaker 1: to reach a destination that is ideal. Yeah, it actually
42:11
Speaker 1: looks really interesting to me. Kaylee Kuoko and Pete Davidson.
42:15
Speaker 1: Neither of them are people that well, I've liked things
42:18
Speaker 1: that they have both been in. Neither of them or
42:20
Speaker 1: people that when I see them in something, I'm like,
42:23
Speaker 1: I want to see this because they're in it. But
42:25
Speaker 1: they both seemed like really cool characters and I want
42:28
Speaker 1: to know what's going on. So yeah, yeah, it looks sweet,
42:31
Speaker 1: it looks um it looks intriguing. Like it. It definitely
42:35
Speaker 1: sets itself apart from, uh, your your typical romantic comedy
42:41
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Even like the winking naming convention of
42:46
Speaker 1: calling it meat cute is kind of it's kind of
42:50
Speaker 1: a fun thing. So yeah, I'm actually curious about this one.
42:53
Speaker 1: It's it's if you had just sort of given me
42:56
Speaker 1: a very brief description head on, I probably would have said, Ah,
43:00
Speaker 1: that's not for me. But the trailer actually I'm intrigued.
43:04
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. The other thing we got a
43:06
Speaker 1: trailer for on the NBC pcock side of stuff is
43:10
Speaker 1: Quantum Leap, the Quantum Leap reboot. Yeah, yeah, it is.
43:16
Speaker 1: It is. It's it's the same concept. It's the concept of, Uh,
43:21
Speaker 1: there's this what's set that the future part is set
43:24
Speaker 1: in modern day that's a little different where it's set
43:27
Speaker 1: in two where the lead character activates the technology whose
43:34
Speaker 1: purpose we don't fully understand, at least according to the trailer,
43:38
Speaker 1: but it sends him to inhabit the body of a
43:43
Speaker 1: person from the past, and just like in the original series,
43:47
Speaker 1: it's explained that his task is to do something to
43:54
Speaker 1: save that person or a person within that targets life
44:00
Speaker 1: to um you know, be able to jump out and
44:04
Speaker 1: hopefully eventually jumped back into his own body. M hmm. Yeah.
44:09
Speaker 1: My my friends were having a giant discussion about it
44:13
Speaker 1: and how it ties into the original and how everybody
44:17
Speaker 1: has different opinions of the end of the original Quantum
44:19
Speaker 1: Leap versus this one, and it's just I wish I
44:24
Speaker 1: could be a fly on the wall for every geek
44:26
Speaker 1: conversation around speculation for this new reboot. Yeah, they've already
44:32
Speaker 1: changed things up because the the hologram who talks with
44:37
Speaker 1: our lead character is not like this wise cracking older
44:43
Speaker 1: dude like in the original series, but appears to be
44:46
Speaker 1: the main character's love interest. He just he can't remember her.
44:49
Speaker 1: He doesn't have memory of his past life as himself,
44:54
Speaker 1: and so um, there's kind of that that heartache aspect
44:58
Speaker 1: where the helper knows about their actual relationship. In two,
45:06
Speaker 1: the lead character doesn't, and she's trying to help him
45:09
Speaker 1: get through without distracting him too much. So I don't
45:12
Speaker 1: know how much that's gonna play in how much like
45:15
Speaker 1: unrequited love stuff we're going to get in the series,
45:18
Speaker 1: But that was definitely part of the trailer. Yeah, I'm
45:20
Speaker 1: looking forward to it real quick. Let's touch on some
45:24
Speaker 1: Disney stuff. Yeah, this isn't really we don't really have
45:28
Speaker 1: news so much as we're saying that. You know, Okay,
45:31
Speaker 1: first of all, Disney Plus Day happened. Maybe you subscribed
45:35
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff hit the the Disney Plus
45:39
Speaker 1: uh service, like the Pinocchio remake, which I watched a
45:43
Speaker 1: review of that before we recorded, and uh, and it
45:47
Speaker 1: was it was a pretty negative review. Like it wasn't
45:49
Speaker 1: saying it was the worst movie, but more largely like
45:51
Speaker 1: it was completely unnecessary. It didn't add anything. The stuff
45:54
Speaker 1: that it did add didn't work. So get kind of
45:58
Speaker 1: like that critique, which is what Ariel and I both
46:00
Speaker 1: suspected based upon the trailer. Um, Yeah, I'm sad to
46:03
Speaker 1: hear it though, me too. And they added thor Love
46:06
Speaker 1: and Thunder and a few of them, and they changed
46:07
Speaker 1: the c g I which also is not getting great review.
46:10
Speaker 1: I think it's fine either way as far as the
46:13
Speaker 1: c g I for that movie goes. But hey, now
46:15
Speaker 1: you can watch that, Jonathan. Yeah, I can finally see it,
46:18
Speaker 1: and I don't I won't know what they're talking about
46:20
Speaker 1: because I didn't see the cinematic version, so I won't
46:22
Speaker 1: know what c g I was changed. Let me know
46:24
Speaker 1: when you have, and i'll tell you. All right. Well,
46:27
Speaker 1: and the other thing is that annoyingly Disney has decided
46:31
Speaker 1: that D twenty three starts tomorrow, Saturday, the tenth of September,
46:36
Speaker 1: and we're recording today Friday, the ninth of September, so
46:39
Speaker 1: we can't report on what happened until next week when
46:42
Speaker 1: all the news will be old. But maybe it'll give
46:45
Speaker 1: us some great mash up possibilities. It might, And we
46:48
Speaker 1: do know that they're going to announce stuff that relates
46:51
Speaker 1: to Marvel, probably some Star Wars, maybe some mainline Disney
46:55
Speaker 1: material as well. There's some Willow Willow, maybe Willow. There's
47:01
Speaker 1: some rumors that that we might actually get some casting
47:05
Speaker 1: information about Fantastic four. I think that would be premature
47:09
Speaker 1: because that's supposed to be the first film in Phase
47:13
Speaker 1: six and we're just ending Phase four now, so it
47:17
Speaker 1: would surprise me. They can't talk about casting for Fantastic
47:20
Speaker 1: four because they haven't made me been groom yet. If
47:25
Speaker 1: they did, I wouldn't be able to talk about it,
47:27
Speaker 1: But definitively right now I am not then grim Well,
47:31
Speaker 1: there's there's one rumor that I am hearing, which is
47:33
Speaker 1: that Jody Comber, who was in Free Guy, she played
47:38
Speaker 1: the female lead and Free Guy is in consideration for
47:41
Speaker 1: Sue Storm in Fantastic four, So it's possible we'll hear
47:46
Speaker 1: something about that. I don't honestly, if I were Disney,
47:49
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't do any announcements about the casting yet
47:53
Speaker 1: because there's so much other stuff to get to before
47:56
Speaker 1: you get to Fantastic four. But who's to say. I mean,
48:00
Speaker 1: I agree. Also, we got a lot of uh, Marvel
48:03
Speaker 1: Star Wars news at Comic Con two, so it'll be
48:06
Speaker 1: interesting to see what's new. I know they've kept stuff
48:09
Speaker 1: that's new, but it'll be interesting to see what we
48:12
Speaker 1: might get. A couple of the trailers that they showed
48:14
Speaker 1: to Comic Con audiences but did not release online, we
48:19
Speaker 1: might finally get those at D twenty three. Yeah. Yeah, Okay,
48:24
Speaker 1: let's move to muscellaneous stuff. It's our last section. People.
48:27
Speaker 1: Thanks for everybody for powering through a couple of things
48:30
Speaker 1: real quick that we don't have, but I'm just gonna
48:33
Speaker 1: let you know they're out. Cover Kaigh comes out today
48:36
Speaker 1: September nine, and Weird the Alankovic Story came out yesterday
48:40
Speaker 1: September eight, So if you've been waiting for those, now
48:42
Speaker 1: it's your time to watch. Okay, let's get into the
48:44
Speaker 1: fun stuff. Okay. First off, the Crow reboot, which has
48:48
Speaker 1: been kind of in different levels of development hell over
48:51
Speaker 1: the past few years, looks like it's actually moving forward.
48:55
Speaker 1: Bill scars Guard is going to be playing the the
48:57
Speaker 1: title character, who is a a man who gets killed
49:02
Speaker 1: and then returns as sort of a revenant, an agent
49:06
Speaker 1: of vengeance. Um, the Crow has been adapted. It's it's
49:09
Speaker 1: based off a comic book, but it's been adapted to
49:11
Speaker 1: film a few times before. H And we know that
49:15
Speaker 1: they are scheduled to start shooting in a Newish studio
49:20
Speaker 1: in Germany, and it's supposed to be kind of an
49:23
Speaker 1: international cast, And that's about all we know about that.
49:26
Speaker 1: But yeah, it looks like the Crow reboot is finally
49:29
Speaker 1: really going to happen. I don't know if we ever
49:32
Speaker 1: needed it. I like the original Crow just fine. The Crow.
49:36
Speaker 1: I like the original the Crow just fine. But I
49:39
Speaker 1: think scars Guards an interesting choice for the main character.
49:43
Speaker 1: But I will at least give it a trailer to
49:45
Speaker 1: make any decisions on it. Something I've made a decision
49:49
Speaker 1: on based on a teaser trailer is the Glass Onion movie.
49:52
Speaker 1: You all know that Jonathan and I were already looking
49:55
Speaker 1: forward to it, but I cannot express how much more
49:59
Speaker 1: I am looking forward to this movie now that the
50:01
Speaker 1: teaser trailer has come out. It was flipping amazing. Yeah,
50:04
Speaker 1: and in case glass Onion doesn't ring any bells. This
50:07
Speaker 1: is the Knives Out to film. It's the sequel to
50:10
Speaker 1: Knives Out. Uh. The trailer features a bunch of people
50:15
Speaker 1: who are gathering together apparently to to do a very
50:20
Speaker 1: high price exclusive murder mystery weekend, and then a real
50:25
Speaker 1: murder happens. Everyone seems to be like the kind of
50:29
Speaker 1: person who loves to try and solve various puzzles, which
50:33
Speaker 1: just adds to that fun nature of them, introducing Daniel
50:38
Speaker 1: Craig's detective character who is a master at unraveling puzzles
50:45
Speaker 1: and getting to the nut of it. So I'm really
50:47
Speaker 1: excited about this too. Like, like Ariel said, we were
50:50
Speaker 1: already guaranteed to want to see this this film, but
50:54
Speaker 1: the trailer really made it clear that this is gonna
50:59
Speaker 1: be a fun murder mystery, not quite to the comedic
51:03
Speaker 1: levels of a farcet like Clue, but but more maybe
51:07
Speaker 1: more in like one of the more fun Columbo episodes. Yeah,
51:11
Speaker 1: I'm super looking forward to it, and I'm looking forward
51:13
Speaker 1: to Uh. My friend Kit said, it's Rhan Johnson does
51:16
Speaker 1: an escape room, so I'm looking forward to all of
51:19
Speaker 1: the Renan ran Rhan am I saying it right. Listen,
51:24
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to all of the escape rooms that
51:27
Speaker 1: come off of this movie that I can then pretend
51:29
Speaker 1: I'm a part of n be a part of without
51:30
Speaker 1: getting murdered. It's the guy who ruined Star Wars. We
51:33
Speaker 1: can just say that, no, he's he makes really wonderful movies.
51:37
Speaker 1: It was just a different tone that people didn't want
51:39
Speaker 1: in their post trilogy trilogy. Um. Okay, that's fine. I
51:46
Speaker 1: love you regardless, my friend. Uh okay, two more news
51:50
Speaker 1: stories sent a world a k A. Regal Cinemas and
51:53
Speaker 1: a bunch of others is going into bankruptcy to manage
51:57
Speaker 1: their debt. Although it's interesting to me because they're saying
52:00
Speaker 1: that like their experiences, their member clubs, all these things,
52:04
Speaker 1: all of their contracts there are still going to get paid.
52:06
Speaker 1: There's not gonna be any changes there. So in my brain,
52:08
Speaker 1: I'm going, how are they going to? This is so
52:15
Speaker 1: often we associate bankruptcy as going out of business. Those
52:19
Speaker 1: two are not the same thing. Ariel and I could
52:22
Speaker 1: tell you a lot about that if you just listen
52:24
Speaker 1: to our Business on the Brink series that we did. Um.
52:27
Speaker 1: But you know, bankruptcy is all about attempting to get
52:31
Speaker 1: things in a row so that either you can pay
52:37
Speaker 1: back investors as much as you can before you do
52:40
Speaker 1: close up shop, or you're trying to manage debts so
52:43
Speaker 1: that you can emerge from bankruptcy in a more stable
52:47
Speaker 1: condition and grow from there. That's the route that Cineworld
52:53
Speaker 1: is trying to do right now. And we have known
52:56
Speaker 1: that the cinematic world has been in trouble, and before
53:00
Speaker 1: there was a pandemic, it was in trouble because it's
53:02
Speaker 1: hard for theaters to make serious profits. Uh, they do
53:07
Speaker 1: not make huge profits from ticket sales. It's from everything
53:11
Speaker 1: else that really brings in more revenues. So hopefully they
53:16
Speaker 1: will be able to navigate this post bankruptcy world and
53:20
Speaker 1: emerge from it. Because even though I don't go to
53:23
Speaker 1: the movies anymore, I don't want to see them go away. Yeah,
53:27
Speaker 1: I mean, and hopefully eventually you'll be able to go
53:29
Speaker 1: to movies again. Hopefully I also don't want to see
53:32
Speaker 1: them go away. But to end our episode because it's
53:37
Speaker 1: been a journey on a very happy note for me
53:40
Speaker 1: at least maybe for you two, Jonathan, we are getting
53:43
Speaker 1: a new RPG game. It is a Monty Python RPG
53:49
Speaker 1: game called co Curricular Medieval re Enactment Program. Yes, it's uh,
53:55
Speaker 1: it's being presented as if it's a very serious way
53:58
Speaker 1: to do medieval re enactments, when in fact it's not.
54:01
Speaker 1: Um it is, you know, inspired by all things Monty Python,
54:06
Speaker 1: primarily Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but also there
54:09
Speaker 1: are other projects, including the original sketch series, Monty Python's
54:14
Speaker 1: Flying Circus, and the thought of a tabletop RPG that
54:21
Speaker 1: is based off of the humor and and stylings of
54:27
Speaker 1: Monty Python is really appealing to me. It's the kind
54:30
Speaker 1: of thing that you think of you immediately want to
54:32
Speaker 1: be part of that experience, as long as you have
54:35
Speaker 1: a game master who can totally roll with it, because
54:38
Speaker 1: that is going to be absolutely key for a good
54:41
Speaker 1: game playing session. With such an absurd premise, I agree,
54:47
Speaker 1: but it's it's a really great change if you just
54:49
Speaker 1: want comedy, if you're if you're a fan of watching
54:51
Speaker 1: live plays, you know mine are always the my favorite
54:54
Speaker 1: are always the ones that make me laugh a lot. Um.
54:57
Speaker 1: I really want to play this game. There's also like
54:59
Speaker 1: a mini game in it, which is kind of back
55:02
Speaker 1: in and based and has like dice catapults and farm
55:04
Speaker 1: animals and things like that, and uh, I don't know,
55:09
Speaker 1: it's so ridiculous that I like I have to play.
55:11
Speaker 1: I hate dm NG things, so I won't run a game,
55:14
Speaker 1: but by golly, I will find someone who is and
55:16
Speaker 1: I will find some time to do it, and I
55:18
Speaker 1: will play this ding dang game. Well, and they they
55:21
Speaker 1: have they're going to launch a kickstarter to fund it.
55:24
Speaker 1: That kickstarter launches later in October, and I've also already
55:30
Speaker 1: signed up to be alerted as soon as it goes
55:32
Speaker 1: live so that I can support it because I am
55:35
Speaker 1: determined to at least own a copy of this, hopefully
55:39
Speaker 1: at some point actually run a game in it. But
55:42
Speaker 1: I definitely want. I have a feeling that this is
55:45
Speaker 1: going to be one of those cases where the source
55:47
Speaker 1: book for the RPG is going to be entertaining all
55:50
Speaker 1: by itself. Yes, yes, I agree. So if you're excited
55:55
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55:58
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56:01
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56:10
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56:14
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