Large Nerdron ColliderAriel enjoys a weird lunch. Jonathan enjoys Dead Boy Detectives more than he thought he would. Who will enjoy Zack Snyder's animated project about humans versus the Norse gods?
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large nor Droun Collater Podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the world around us and how very excited we are about them. I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always is the delightful, amazing, wonderful friend that I have named Jonathan strictly.
Hey, Hey, Ariel, I'm curious, do you have any suggestions for an ideal afternoon snack?
For an ideal afternoon snack, No, but for a nutritious afternoon lunch. I certainly do gushers and coffee.
This is actually true. She is currently drinking coffee, and before we started recording she was eating gushers.
I spared you all that ASMR, but I did not spare Jonathan.
That's true. I was not spared. I sat through the whole thing. But then I told her it made me think that she was having the lunch of champions, or at least of Griffin McElroy, because it sounded like a very macelroy kind of kind of meal.
Great minds.
Yeah, and then you said you would work it into the show if it would come up naturally. I'm like, oh, I can make that happen.
That's because you're such a good friend, Jonathan that you I don't mind putting my eating habits on blast. So I am working with a personal trainer and I have been all year. So I'm trying to put more protein and then like less fat and diet of fat and carbs in my diet. And it's not that I'm cutting out fats, are carbs, All of these things are important for a healthy body. But I'm trying to adjust how much of each I eat each day.
Yeah, yeah, your macros.
My macros. Yeah, because I've always kind of held to the moderation right as my mindset. But then there are some weeks where I'm just so busy and I'm like, it's a gusher's kind of a day. And when Costco has them in a giant box, that can be every day.
Yeah, now I understand. Uh Uh. We've been getting some vegan gummies because a lot of gummies are made with with essentially collagen is what it really comes down to, so their they're animal byproducts. Uh. And because we don't eat mammals, we go with a sort of a veep plant based approach, and we found some that are so good that it's a it's not it's a bad thing because I I have to. I have to really impose limits on myself otherwise I'll eat a whole bag in one sitting.
So I hear you, I want to know what those are now, because I'll.
Look it up after the show and i'll let you know. Because I don't remember offhand. I do remember that I saw an ad for it online and then I I ordered them just kind of to see how they were, because typically we just picked these sorts of things up if we happen to see them at a store, and it's usually someplace like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's or something like that where we'll find them. But this one I ordered right from the company online, and it's a it's a European company that only recently fairly recently started selling gummies in the United States. So when I find it, I'll send it your way. They have normal gummies, but they also have like the sour patch kind, and those are my favorite.
That sounds amazing. I've been getting like ads for like licorice stores lately, and I'm weird. Yeah, I mean, it's a Facebook thing, and so it's always one of those things like when you get a Facebook ad, you're like, I'm not just going to click on this ad and buy from it because you don't know. You don't know.
I'll say something about that after you're done, but go ahead.
But they're like, some of these are like salmiaki or, which is a very salty finish liquor. Salty's an equipment an equiv equivalent word licorice because it's not really salt or. But then they're like, and then we have these sour fruit rainbow fruit leathers, and I'm like, is that really licorice or is that just a fruit and gummy candy.
Yeah, as a as a sane person, I despise all licorice, So I would never have idea of that. And I realized that you have your Scandinavian roots, and therefore, by law, you're supposed to like things like pickled fish and licorice.
I don't. I don't think I've had pickled fish. I haven't been able to bring myself to to eat it. Pickles are one of those things that I've only recently come to like, I want to say, in like the past five to ten years, Pickles and Sauer kraut and giannardi, the other pickled vegetables the.
Stuff you find in Italian foods, the.
Stuff you find in Italian foods, and licorice is the same. So I was very picky. I was a rather picky eater as a kid at certain times, and then as an adult I was a limited eater. Now, I like most foods that don't hurt me. Not all, but most, and licorice is one of them. Although a Twizzler, a red Twizzler, I still cannot get behind.
Now. To me, those are just they just taste like wax, like you know, like the old wax lips, those kinds of things where you're like, oh, you're not supposed to chew on that. I mean you can, but why I prefer.
The wax lips because there's no like real flavor to them.
Well there's, I argue, there's not really any real there's like the twizzlers have flavor the same way that Lacroix has flavor.
Right, But I'd rather drink water than a Lacroisse lacrosse laqua.
I say, Lacroix but whatever.
Like kriiky but uh but yeah, so I'd rather chew on like the wax that comes around an old wax bottle candy than on a red Twizzler. Any listeners out there who like Twizzlers more, you can have all of mine. I'm glad you like them. We're not go to waste.
We're not judging you, at least at least not to a point that we'll admit on on microphone. I was going to say, though, you mentioned the Facebook thing and the tendency to not click on Facebook ads, which is a good instinct because in my experience, nine times out of ten those are like scams. They're not real ads. So the one that I've been running into recently not food related at all. So I'm going to throw that out there. But and I mentioned this to you, Ariel. I think I we talked about this. But sam Ash, which is a was was a music store chain, but it's been going up of business and so they've been trying to sell off their stock. And I've been checking the sam Ash store just to see like what's been kind of going on sale, and a lot of things are still pretty much priced the way they normally would be. So I haven't really bought anything, but I keep an eye out because I'm like well, if anything gets marked way down. I'm left handed, so things like left handed guitars they don't sell as fast because there's not as many left handed players out there. So I keep thinking I might have a good chance of scooping up a decent guitar for a decent price. Facebook, I keep getting ads that are about sam Ash closing down, but they're not. They're all like fakes. They're all stores that are posing as sam Ash but they're not actually the store. And in fact, the sam Ash website has a link that says beware of scam, like they are aware that this is happening, and they're like, the only site that is ours is samash dot com. So I started reporting some of these fake ads and Facebook was like, oh, well, that turns out this doesn't violate our terms of service or whatever. And I'm thinking, so your terms of service allow for fraudulent advertising. That's good to know. So I'm just saying it right now to everybody out there. Facebooks official terms of service allow for fraudulent advertising. That's not libel. That's what they said to me, based upon the fact that I reported a fake ad and they said, this doesn't violate our standards.
Yeah. Yeah, So if you see something on Facebook that you might like, look it up outside of Facebook and also look it up on like the Better Business Bureau or reviews or something like that, because even if it is a real business, it may not be a great business. I'm sure everybody listening already knows that, but.
Just in case. I mean, often I have seen stuff where it's like, oh, well, that seems like a crazy price for whatever it happens to be, And then I'm thinking, wait, chances are this is either outright scam, which means you're not gonna get you know, whatever it was you ordered. You might get like a super cheap, knockoff version of it, but it's not going to be the thing you wanted, or you won't get that at all. Like you, I've heard stories about people ordering stuff online and opening up a box for like, like, for example, a power drill and finding three cans of doctor pepper in there, so that would make up the same amount of weight, but it's clearly not a power drill. And then like the story was the guy called up uh this was through Amazon, though it wasn't through Facebook, but same sort of principle called up Amazon was like, yeah, I spent two hundred dollars on this drill and I got these cans of doctor pepper and they were like, could you send it to us? Like do you want me to send you three cans of doctor pepper? And they're like, oh, no, you're right, that doesn't make sense. We'll just refund you.
Yeah. I've had that happen where like I get but with Amazon, I know it's usually well unless it's something like the three cans of doctor pepper, Like I will occasionally get something other than what I ordered, and half the time, if it's under a certain dollar amount, they're like, just keep it, donate it, give it to somebody else. And I'm like, what am I going to do with these baby shark stickers? I don't need them? But it's because it's something else that the company that particular storefront cells. But they're usually pretty good about it. I will say, though, if it's something like Kickstarter, I will I will fall down that rabbit hole and then I will get immense amount of ads from that same Kickstarter on my Facebook, which I guess is better than fake ads. So there's like in dice bites right now, which is silicone molds to make things like macarons that are shaped like D twenties.
Cute.
Yeah, not necessary. I've I've had very good self control, but it is cute.
Yeah, I've. I tend the kickstars I tend to back are ones that are about RPGs that I think sound interesting. And despite the fact that I know, deep down in my heart the likelihood of me ever getting my act to get together and doing an RPG it's very very low. I keep wanting to, but it hasn't happened.
I'm excited if you ever do for your for your.
Piracy D and D. Yeah, yeah, I mean I've got that. I've got that world set up. We I've got half of an adventure kind of sketched out, so I could technically do that. I just need to get again get my act together and actually do it. But yeah, it's I I have a real problem. I have to talk myself out of backing kickstarters for RPGs because that's my kryptonite. I did one for a punk rock post Apuckalyptic RP. I did one for Blade Runner. I did one for a Monty Python RPGs.
We had friends who worked on that one.
Nice.
So you're supporting my friends.
Hey, Yeah, well you know I gotta I.
Gotta support yourself too.
Yeah, I gotta at least show some self control or else I'm I'm just gonna I have to admit I've got a problem. Uh. So, before we jump into thirty seconds or last, because we've got a lot of stuff to talk about this week, which, by the way, that means that we will not be doing a mash up yet again. But that's because we have a mountain of stuff to get through. But before we do that, let's let's talk about what we have watched. And for once, Ariel and I both watched all of the same thing.
Yeah, we both finished dead Boy Detectives, albeit I only had what like seventy five percent of one episode left.
Yeah, and I had like I had like more than half the series because I was telling Ariel, I have this issue. It happened to me on dead Boy Detectives. It happened to me big time on American Horror Story season one, which is that in my head, I feel like I've watched at least half a series and then it'll turn out like, no, you just watched the first like three episodes or whatever. Yeah, So I had about half the series to get through. So ultimately, what did you think of Dead Boy Detectives?
I liked it, and they left it in a place where I hope that it gets a season two because the storyline that they left hanging, of course, is the one that you're most interested in. I think. I think throughout it kind of had the same kind of like tonal issues for me. But in the last two episodes, once they wrapped up the one character's character growth storyline and that was no longer the crux of that character's problem, I found I found it just the show flow better.
Yeah, I actually actually because the character you're talking about is Edwin. Yes, not to spoil anything, I don't want to spoil what his character journey is. But once that happened, I found Edwin to be far more relatable and likable. And because that was the issue I told you before, right, was that I was not clicking with either of the two lead characters. I liked. I liked a lot of the supporting cast, although arguably there's more than two leads, because Crystal Palace is technically I mean, I would say she's just as important as the two boys, but uh yeah, I liked him more after that, I still didn't click with them as much as I did all the supporting cast. So my my question for you, Ariel, is who was your favorite character in that first season of dead Boy Detectives? So I I have to no, tragic Nick has got to be up there.
Tragic Nick is definitely up there. But tragic Nick is very much a supporting character. I think he's he's just such a fun character and he he falls into like the whole like almost almost less of like a Neil Gamen trope and almost more like like a Stephen King trope to me, because tragic Nick is a man who used to be a walrus.
Well, it's tragic Mick because you switch the letters around. It's magic trick.
Oh huh clever.
Never you did. You didn't pick up on that, did you?
I did not pick up on that. Sometimes I'm a little uh face value on the media that I watch. But also I didn't watch it with subtitles.
So that that's fair. That's fair.
So like it's a lot easier for me to pick up on stuff like that when I'm reading it. Sure, And also I'm legitimate thought they were saying tragic Nick the entire time, so I wouldn't have picked up on tragic mic magic Trick because I didn't think that was his name. He's a great character. He's played well. He's like it just brilliantly cast. He's very likable without having without being like a black or white good or bad character. He's just delightful. I really like Nico, though I feel like she she didn't sup. She also didn't super fit into the series until the last couple of episodes, once Edwin resolved his first character arc.
And she has a lot of elements of kind of the tropy manic pixie dream girl thing going on, like to a point where you're like, you're you're treading awfully close to some Asian stereotypes that perhaps are a little little too reductive.
Yeah, yeah, but I do feel like she had good character growth, and I really like her friendship with Edwin. That being said, of like the main character of like I would say the main three characters, Charles is my favorite.
Okay, that's I think.
Yeah, I mean, I know you didn't super connect with him, but I relate to the whole like putting on a happy face and pretending everything's okay when you're maybe not, and I know a lot of people do. And then also, like I guess both boys were bullied in their childhood. But there are just some certain things about him that I related to, and so I found his character relatable and believable and very likable. So yeah, that's what about you.
My favorite character is Esther the Witch.
The Witch.
Yeah, she's my favorite character. She is so awful and I love her. And although I did say, like, it's kind of funny because all the characters that's at one point or another are kind of chewing the scenery. I think Crystal Palace probably the least amount, honestly, out of all the regulars. But like everybody has like they're kind of over the top moment, except that's all Esther has. She doesn't have anything other than over the top moments. So she like destroys the scenery of every scene she's in. It's almost like she belongs in a different show. And I kind of love her for it.
Yeah, but I mean, and with her, it's fine. It like, but with like the talking cat, so the Dandelion sprites, those felt like they belonged to a different show in a jarring way.
Yeah, Well, especially the Dandelion Sprites because they were in a jar.
Although I do like I don't remember the actress's name, but she was also on some episodes of Make Some Noise on Dropout, so that yeah cool.
Yeah, no. Yeah, she's a comedian who's been in a lot of like I've seen her like doing lots of improv type stuff. So seeing her in a series was fun. It kind of reminds me of what is it. I can't remember what I was watching, but I mean it might have even been Dead Boy Detectives. I can't remember at this point, but it was I was watching something and Chris of Call Me Chris. She's like a YouTuber and a TikToker. She shows up just as a supporting character, like not even supporting, Like she's kind of a kind of like almost like a featured extra, like she has a couple of lines. But it was I remember seeing her in something and being like, oh, I know who this person is. I didn't know that they ever did any acting.
Yeah, well, she was a part of like a comedy troupe. I don't remember which one. It wasn't it wasn't similar to like she's now it's going to drive me crazy. Because they do a lot of a lot of TikTok stuff. She at least used to be a part of it. It's not like bouche or anything like that.
It's yeah. But anyway, so we both watched Dead Boy Detectives. I would give it a recommendation. I think it's worth watching, even though like there were moments that didn't really click with me, and like I said, I had trouble connecting with the two male leads, but I still enjoyed the series. I have questions about the like the justification to have characters move into a situation where they could presumably be included in the second season, when you would think, like, okay, but realistically this character would not go along with everybody else so that they could be in season two. I understand why you want them in season two, but with the logic of the story going, it seems like a big stretch to be like and me too. It's destiny and there are characters who you know, if they do show up in season two, you're like, Okay, do you just not live in that New England town and that's why you're here in London or whatever. No, I don't mean to spoil anything but like there there there is a change of scene by the end of the series, and you know, naturally certain characters you would not expect to make the transition from Town number one to town number two.
Yeah, I agree. I will say I connected more with Dead Boy Detectives than I did with Sandman, which you also watched more of this week I did.
I'm still not quite finished that I was watching the Dolls House, which that's about how far I got when I was reading the Sandman comics. I think I read maybe one or two, just kind of random issues after that. But so I'm rapidly reaching the point where like the stuff I'm watching is not going to jog a memory because I hadn't read the stuff. Even now, It's not like I know where things are going because I read Sandman when I was in college. That was like thirty years ago. So when I'm watching this stuff, those memories are pretty fuzzy anyway. But yeah, I'm getting to getting up to the convention with the Collectors and the Corinthian if you know what that means that you know where I'm at. Otherwise, Yeah, I'm getting toward the end of season one, and I understand I think there's like a two parter that's kind of a spin off after that. Okay, yeah, I haven't seen those either, So I've got like, I think, three more regular episodes plus the two parter, and then I'll be caught up and ready for season two of Sandman.
One of those, I thought, so you've passed my favorite two episodes of Sandman already, both of which have death in them. But one of the two parters I thought was really amazing, and then the other two parter was just weird mm hmm and about cats. And the only funny thing about that is one of my cats was very, very interested in it. This is a little creepy.
Does the King of Cats from Dead Boy Detectives make an appearance?
I don't think so, but it's been a while, so I could be wrong.
Because there's there's definitely references to, like because Despair shows up in Dead Boy Detectives.
Yeah, but I don't know if the King of Cats showed up it was it might maybe, but as a cat. Yeah, so because it's that episode's animated, gotcha. Yeah. I I thought saman was well done, but I didn't super connect to it. I wanted to, I just didn't.
Well, it's interesting because dead Boy Detectives and sand Man, they like, they exist in a world that's similar to ours but not identical to ours, and that can be confusing. At least it was confusing to me, right because I just assumed, Oh, this is set in our world, except there are these other forces and characters and stuff. But there would be little differences where I'm like, oh, this isn't our world, because because that's different enough where that's departure from our world, and that would just create a confusion. Like I do really well with purely fantasy settings where you've just got a world that's just made like Middle Earth, it's just made up, and you know, once you get your head around that, you're fine, or ones that's more like magical realism, like the Dresden books, the ones that are set in Chicago. I get set in modern day Chicago, except that there's all these fantastical creatures and people that inhabit the world. I can get my head wrapped around that. It's when it's somewhere in between where I start getting lost.
Yep, same here, same here. I didn't really I didn't, really, Uh, I guess notice that, But maybe it's because I was just assuming it was in some weird bizarro world from the get go, like some American gods level world.
Sure, yeah, which I mean, And that's a totally cromulent assumption. As the Simpsons would say.
It's a big word. But yes, I follow. Uh that is that is interesting. If I ever go back and watch it, I'll have to pay attention for that, I do. I didn't go back. You told me that in the episode with the Fish and dead Boy Detectives that they play the Wellerman, and I still haven't gone back and listened for it. Yeah, I'm mad that I didn't notice it.
Well, I think I think you'll have to have headphones on to really pick it up because it's so quiet. It's it's just this little it's almost like a music box instrumental version of the Wellerman. And you've got these two characters who are inside the belly of a sea monster. And at least in the first scene that features these two characters, the background music is the Wellerman, which Ariel's band has been playing for years and years and years before it ever became a viral sensation on TikTok, And so when I heard it, it made me laugh. But The only reason I noticed is because I was watching the show on my computer with headphones on, and if I hadn't had the headphones on, I might have been able to tell that there was music playing, but I doubt I would have been able to recognize it.
That is okay, I don't feel as bad now, but I still have to go back and watch it. Anything else that you have watched, Jonathan.
Now, that's pretty much it for me. I believe I haven't been to the theater, so I still, I mean still haven't seen Furiosa. By the time I make time, it's going to be out of the theater. I know it.
Yeah, I'm a similar boat.
Yeah, I still want to see that, and I know there's other stuff coming out that I would be interested in. Still haven't seen Fall Guy.
Which is in theaters but also available for rent at home.
Now, Yeah, so I need to I need to get off my keyster and watch some stuff.
If you get off your key star, it's going to be hard to watch it, John.
Well, I gotta at least make an effort to get someplace where I can watch it. I think the next thing I want to tackle, because you mentioned it in our last episode, is Umbrella Academy. I think I want to actually get into that. I did see It's funny because it was after you had already mentioned this on the episode. I did see a clip of the Footloose sequence from Umbrella Academy, and it made me laugh so hard that I'm like, I need to see the context for how this actually happens.
Yeah, yeah, it's still just delights me. There are definitely very dark moments of the show too. It's kind of not as dark as Dead boyd Detectives, but goes between the funny and the dark, similarly.
Kind of like Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Yeah. Yeah, but I loved the Footloose. I love anytime they put a little bit of dance and joy into it because I think that's just such a delightful part of life.
Yeah, I'm glad that that exists, and so I look forward to Finally, It's so funny because I heard so much general buzz about Umbrella Academy without hearing enough specifics to get my head wrapped around what it actually was. But I knew that people were into it, like some people were really into it, but everyone seemed to at least think it was interesting and worth watching, and I just never got around to it. And then you know, you talked it up. We talked about the final season coming up, and then I saw that video and I was like, yeah, you know what, I think I've I think I've really been sleeping on this. I need to watch it.
Yeah, just don't play the Umbrella Academy game that was kickstarted. That is nigh unplayable.
Good to know.
It's beautiful. It's a beautiful game, but it's just the gameplay is not great. I also, well, I guess now that we're recording this on a we're recording this on Friday, so technically I'm no longer caught up on Doctor Who because this is the day that it releases. But I have been keeping up with it. And I feel kind of bad because I think I'm in the minority of people for this past week's episode Rogue, because I had a whole bunch of friends who loved it and for for interpersonal reasons and romantic type reasons and things like that, and that was all fine, but the actual plot of the story itself felt so pandery to me as a geek, like they were just trying to shove in a bunch of popular culture references to make me go oh, popular cultural references that I didn't like it. I felt like it was poorly written, like they could have put those things in in a good way, but it just was.
So it sounds like it was ready player, who it really was.
At one point, the Doctor, if you haven't caught up and you don't want to spoiler, it's not really a spoiler because it's not really a plot point. And I think that's my problem with it. The Doctor is on this spaceship and he talks to this other person and he sees some like a set of dice like Dungeons and Dragons type dice, like a D twenty set on the console. He goes, oh, do you play D and D? Is that where you got your name from? And that's all they ever say about it. They pan to some dice. He asks that it's confirmed, and then that's all they ever say about it, And why did you That was so poorly put in there in an episode where one of the first lines, oh, my Bridgerton.
This is an episode that's about cose playing in a really creepy ways.
I as I understand, Yeah, yeah, it's it's bird people who want to cosplay is like Bridgerton folks, so they go back in history and kill people and take on their forms, which does sound kind of cool. They use the word cosplay so much that it almost lost meaning to me, and I just again it's you could have done it in a good way. And I know why people like the episode, but I just still think it was bad writing. I hate to say that.
That I think it would appeal to me if all the bird people talk to like bird Person from Rick and Morty.
I don't know who that is. I was about to say they don't, but then I realized I have no idea. I've watched all of zero point four five episodes of Rick and Morty.
Yeah, I'm not recommending Rick and Morty necessarily, but anyone who has watched it will know what I mean when I say bird person.
Yeah, so that's it. You guys can totally come at me and discord if I've way missed the mark on this past episode of Doctor Who. If you loved it, I'm so glad it just it didn't quite hit for me. But I also liked the episode before that, Bubble Dott and Bubble. And I know a lot of people didn't, and I thought.
It was pretty good.
So that's what I've watched.
So if you're wondering, if you're wondering who it is that keeps skewing all the demographics, it's Aerial. She's the one. It's me. She's the one who likes the stuff that no one should like, and that's why it keeps getting made. So now we know Van helsing.
Yeah, all right, well, dog dead of Night.
We got so much to get through. And once again we're half an hour in and we haven't even hit thirty seconds or less. So how about we do that. Let's tear through these.
Yes, okay, and first, Arcane, which we will actually be talking about again later in this episode, has announced that they are doing a video on demand in four K Blu Ray release, and that's really cool because you don't normally get that from Netflix. But it kind of gives you shirty if you like this series. Our Kane is based off a League of Legends, which is a video game. A bunch of people loved it. I thought it was okay, thought that the animation was great. But anyhow, it gives you a bit of surety that if Netflix decides to drop the show, you'll still be able to watch it. So that's really cool and kind of a big deal.
Definitely friend of the show. Shaye Lee is excited for this next story. So Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock are returning for a sequel to the nineteen ninety eight film Practical Magic, in which they play a pair of which sisters who have the absolute worst aunts ever. And I will stand by that, Shaye Lee. Anyway. Akiva Goldsman, who worked on the original screenplay, is back to pen the sequel. The original film was not an initial success, but found appropriately enough a cult following, and now here we are.
I've never seen it. We talked about how glass Onion and Knives Out was getting a next movie, Wake Up dead Man, while Ria Johnson has released his first image from that. It's a Benois Blanc or Daniel Craig and he looks I don't know to mean, he looks a little rough, like maybe they thought he was a dead man or something.
I don't know.
This is just purely speculation. Anyhow, I'm excited for it.
That's it.
It's not really news. It's barely news. It's barely thirty seconds or less.
It's great audio. I saw a picture that you can't see. Well, we've been waiting for a while for the upcoming spinoff series The Penguin, which of course is a spinoff of the playful Metagascar films. In The Penguin, one of the little mafiosa like birds named cobble Pot strikes out on the Zone to really conquer the underworld of Gotham City. I'm almost sure this is one hundred percent correct. Anyway, Now we know that The Penguin is going to launch in September with an eight part series, and presumably it'll set up The Batman Part.
Two Rebel Noon, that two part masterpiece that Netflix said was too long for Zack Snyder to release. His one part is getting a directors two part director's cut in August. Yes, because twenty one percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes really calls for it. It is bloodier and sexier, and as Slash Film puts, there's even more wheat.
All right. Twenty two years after its original release, The Lord of the Rings the Two Towers hit the domestic box office top ten list again. It was screened this past Sunday as a sort of special event, and the film brought in just under two million dollars, which you know, isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, but still impressive for a movie that originally came out more than two decades ago. And if you missed it last weekend, good news, Warner Brothers has extended it to this weekend.
That is good news. Next is barely news again. Avity Falls might be getting another season. It was a really cool cartoon that ended up being a bunch of books after it got canceled after two seasons. But it looks like we might get more. And that's really cool. That's coming from a Disney executive, Meredith Roberts, so that rumor might actually hold a little bit of weight.
That will make my father and my nieces very happy, all right too.
I really like that.
Eric Kripke, the dude running the show The Boys on Amazon, has announced that season five will be the swan song for the series, so as a reminder, Season four premiered yesterday on June thirteenth. I haven't seen it yet, but we get one more season before everyone hangs up their tights, at least for this part of the story. And I can't say that I'm surprised, because I don't think Billy Butcher is going to make it that much longer since they've been teasing his demise for pretty much all of season three.
That's Carl Urban, right, mm hmm. Okay, if you liked Coraline, another movie I haven't watched, I hear that, I just haven't watched it. Henry Selick is adapting another Neil game in Work the Ocean at the End of the Lane. It's also going to be stop motion animation. It is not a direct sequel to Coraline, and the original story is at least in any way, but it's going to kind of be like a cousin to the movie.
Yeah. I love that book. I read it many years ago, so I look forward to seeing that adaptation. Well.
National Chater actually did a stage play of it that you can rent.
Oh, I should check that out. Thank you for letting me know and for letting our listeners know well. James Gunn is dealing out tiny little tidbits about season two of Peacemaker. One such tidbit is that Tim Meadows will be taking on the role of a character named Langston Flurry, presumably an agent of Argus, the department headed by Suicide Squad's Amanda Waller. We also know that gun has an anime ad DC series called Creature Commando's coming out soon, another Amanda Waller group, and that Frank Grillo, who voices Rick Flagg Senior on that show, will be in Peacemaker as the same character.
Yes. James Gunn has also been dribbling out news about the upcoming Superman movie, most recently a couple of pictures of the store from I guess it's not a storefront. I guess it's kind of a storefront The Daily Planet, which looks like a bookstore. I'm really confused anyhow, some sneak peets of The Daily Planet, and also because it films in Atlanta, I'm trying to determine where in Atlanta this particular bookstore is. I should talk to Hose a Monkey on TikTok and see if you can find it for me. It's probably a lot easier to find than that. I could probably figure it out myself.
Well, buckle up, Princess Bubblegum, because Adventure Time is coming back. Variety reports that Cartoon Networks Studios will be launching a film and two different TV shows tied to the beloved series, The New offerings will include adventure Time side Quests, which is said to look like early Adventure Time episodes and named at kids. It'll be more episodic in nature. Then there's Adventure Time, Heobmo, a preschool series, and finally a film of some type and we don't know any details.
Fun. I liked Gravity Falls better than Adventure Time, but Adventure Time did give me some really good fun MEMI type culture stuff.
Cool. I guess the thirty seconds songs For some reason, I thought you had one more.
No, I was like, why are you judging me for that?
I wasn't judging it was. I mean, like, I'll definitely cut down the pause in the edit, but I'm keeping all of this. But now for those listeners at home who are wondering what the heck just happened, So I write out all of my thirty seconds or left stuff. That way, I can have all my snarky, smart ass jokes in it. But it means that I don't have our lineup up, and I only write mine. I don't write I don't write down aerial stories. So in my head, you had one more and that's why it was a long, awkward pause.
Okay, that's fine, I'm not going to judge you for writing yours. I probably should write mine, but I'm lazy, and that's why you guys get such succinct stories from me all the time.
There's nothing wrong with it. I mean, I used to do the same thing. I just got to a point where I was like stressing myself out trying to do the thirty seconds or less. So I wrote it because it was less stressful for me. That's the only reason it's not. I don't think it's better, it's just that's how I can do it without raising my blood pressure, which I cannot do anymore.
Oh gosh, No, I get that. I get that.
I have a question for you, Ariel. Yes, this is a question that again, it's kind of like the story about the picture, uh where like, how do we how do we talk about a first look at something when it's literally just a still photo? But in this case are you.
Are you really trying to tell me that I shouldn't include those in thirty seconds or less.
No, that's not me saying that at all. I've done the same thing. I have also talked about first looks at stuff. It's it is funny to do because you know, we're just having to describe a picture. But no, the reason why I would ask is Ariel, you're wearing a T shirt that has stitch on it. What does the there's words on it too? What does your T shirt actually say? Oh?
Shoot, it says out of this world?
Got it? So the reason why I had to ask you is that from the beginning of this episode, because of where the camera cuts off, I thought the first word was we not out, And I was like, why are you wearing a French lelo and stitch T shirt?
See, I thought you were gonna say I couldn't see what the rest of it said, so I thought I said out damn stitch.
Which also would have been funny, But no, I thought I was convinced you were wearing a French stitch shirt because we means a me yeah, we means yes but yeah, or or we means cute and fluffy, depending upon your your interpretations.
Yeah.
So a lot of stuff happened this past week one thing, and we cut back a lot of what we were going to talk about. But a lot of things that happened this past weekend were various game showcases. Because E three used to be a thing, it isn't anymore. It died, but we do have other events that happened, Like there was Summer Game Fest with Jeff Keeley's group, there was a PC Game Expo, there was an Xbox Game event. There was an Ubisoft event coming up next week. Probably they haven't officially announced when it's happening, but we know that before June is over, Nintendo is going to hold their Nintendo Direct event. So we've got a lot of video game news that's been coming out, and we've got a few of those stories that we wanted to talk about here, some stuff that just kind of stood out to us. One interesting thing I thought was that there weren't that many Triple A titles being talked about over that weekend. A lot of the titles were kind of independent games or what you might think of as like maybe Double A titles, not Triple A titles. Yeah, doesn't mean they're bad. They look amazing. A lot of these games look phenomenal. They just have smaller budgets and teams working on them, than say, your your Elder Scrolls games, or your Fallout games or your Grand Theft Auto games or whatever. And we've got about three games here that we specifically wanted to mention, but obviously, like there were dozens talked about over the weekend.
Yeah, yeah, but the first is Not is a game we've known about for a while, but we just got a new trailer for it, which is South of Midnight.
Yeah, this one looks so atmospheric. You're playing a young woman and she has these weaving abilities, and by weaving she can do things like grapple onto specific points on levels and help that helps her traverse parts of levels takes place in like the Bayous of Louisiana. It's got an incredible atmosphere, Like the atmosphere of this game is in my mind. It's doing ninety eight percent of selling the game. Yeah. Yeah.
And the art, like the character art is also absolutely beautiful.
Yeah, it reminds me. It reminds me a little bit. I mean it it almost almost looks stop motion in points, but it also kind of reminds me a little bit of the art style of border Lands. Not I mean, it's obviously not in that same aesthetic, but the art style itself kind of gives me a little Borderlands feel.
Yeah. Yeah, I've I don't know, I really like it. I feel like we haven't gotten many, if any games set and kind of BUYO with in the Bayou with like creole type magic, it seems just really cool.
Yeah, And to have like a young black woman as the protagonist is also really cool, And all the character designs look really interesting. The fact that one of the big monsters is a truly enormous gaiter, Like I can't tell if she has been shrunk down. That's kind of like I get the feeling that almost that she has, because otherwise every creature she's encountering is of gargantuan proportions.
I don't think she has, though, because the gameplay trailer she's riding a giant catfish and then she goes to ring a bell at a church. That's true to to get the I guess the alligator to come after her so that they can get a clear path past it, which is it actually was like I held my breath during that gameplay trailer. This is very good, Like I can I can imagine playing it and then having that cut scene and being like, oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, because that's how I respond to video games now, you know. But yeah, the church is normal size.
To her, that's true. Yeah, I didn't even think about that, but you're absolutely right. So yeah, I guess all the critters are just truly as that means. The alligator is like the I mean, it is the size of an island, So.
Yeah, it's got trees growing off of it, you know, which which could be I don't know. And this is this is because I haven't done the right amount of research to remind me. I don't know if it's like the weaving type magic is like voodoo or woodoo or something else like that. So that's why I am not using any of those terms. But it could be that whatever those forces or powers or energy is is causing those animals to become massive, and maybe that's part of what she's got to fix.
Could be.
Yeah, although I know she's looking for her mom.
So all I know is that that the teaser and then this trailer both have shown me everything I need to know that I want to check this game out like it's I don't need to see anything else to know that this is one I'm interested in. It's supposed to come out in twenty twenty five. We don't have a specific release date yet, but yeah, it should be out next year. I mean never count on that because obviously game development is a very challenging and complicated process, and sometimes things have to be delayed. Just be patient. But yeah, the goal is to have it out next year. The next trailer we have is for a almost like a reimaginating, reimagination I guess I should say of Doom.
Yeah, it's Doom the Dark Ages, so it's all of that. I don't know, I've actually never played Doom.
Well, it's the it's a lot like the most recent reboot of Doom, but you have kind of medieval inspired or fantasy armor inspired elements to it, with weapons that have been influenced by the fantasy genre, monsters that have been as well. It's very similar to the Doom action you would expect, but with a almost like a reskin. It's more than that. It's not just reskinning Doom. It's more it's deeper than that. But it also looks to me like there are some of the gameplay involves taking on larger groups of enemies, whereas my experience, at least with the last time I played Doom was that it's more like you're encountering sometimes a small group, but usually it was like maybe just two or three at a time, and you would have to kind of deal with those before moving on and dealing with the next group of two or three. This one is like occasionally you're seeing groups of thirty or so and you have the kind of weapons to take on those sorts of numbers. So interesting.
Yeah, that's the art. The art is pretty is the wrong word. It's well done.
Yeah, it's kind of got a very industrial medieval look to it.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if that one's on my game playlist. I'm going to be completely honest, Like I was like, Okay, Doom, that's super geeky, and then I mistook it for those Dead Space dead Space see reason.
I like Doom when it first came out, But as I get older, the first person shooter games, I mean, they're just harder for me. My twitch skills are not keeping up with my age, which is just kind of the way of things. So this may not be a game for me simply because I would probably find it very frustrating. It is supposed to come out in twenty twenty five as well.
What about old arcade style games, I do love them, Yeah, like the old teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, game.
Like the side scrolling beat them ups, like like you could go all the way back to Double Dragon, but the sweet spot would be like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, the Simpsons game, those sorts of things where you're it's a side scrolling beat them up. And the reason why you're bringing this up is we're getting an IP that has never had that treatment is getting it some time later this year.
Yeah, we're getting a new Power Rangers game. At first, honestly, both myself and my husband thought it was a reskin of Teenage Meeting Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time, which we own. We have both the one up Arcade Ninja Turtles game, and then we also have the new one that released for every shreds Revenge or whatever it was, Shredder's Revenge, which is phenomenal.
It's great, it's so good.
I love it. It is like one of my favorite current games because you can just switch in and out who you're playing, whether you can play by yourself.
It's wonderful.
Anyhow, Yeah, so this one, at first, I thought was just a reskin of that, but it's not. Apparently they're gonna do a bunch of different art styles in it, so it may not just be solely side scroller. Oh okay, but it looks like a lot of fun, And because I had so much fun with Shredders Revenge, I immediately think I'm have fun with this.
It sounds like they were supporting local player co op up to like five players, which makes me wonder what system you can have five controllers hooked up to.
Maybe it's one of those things where you can remote party, which yeah, I mean, I guess, I guess you could, like if you had wireless controls, maybe you could hook up more Xbox controllers. Yeah, maybe it'll be something like jack Box where you all use your phones to control.
I doubt that though, Yeah, I mean, any latency would make that really tricky. But yeah, I think that's cool. I love these style of games. I don't have any connection to The Power Rangers IP. I never watched it, so I don't really care so much from that perspective, But seeing games of this nature come out, I think that's cool.
Yeah I do too. It's called reata my morphin Power Rangers readers rewind so oh no, it is saying online and local So that is interesting. Super excited?
Are you just as excited over the fact that Blade has lost yet another director. No, no, I guess not. Yeah. So we've known that Blade has been in development over at the MCU for years, Like it was announced before the Pandemic that that was going to be one of the movies coming out on the MCU slate, and it has seen multiple delays. We have now lost a second director, and there's also been kind of a revolving door of screenwriters as well, with people coming on board and then leaving. And so, yeah, the most director, Jan Demige, who directed Lovecraft Country or was like the showrunner of Lovecraft Country, has now left the project. So yeah, not great, But they.
Did say it was an amiable parting.
Yeah, well, I mean I hope that that's true. I seeing how many people in general have left Marvel projects. Typically, the reason that we hear is that the director gets frustrated that they don't have the amount of control they would like over the project, because, you know, Marvel has this desire for every piece of the Marvel puzzle to fit in the larger picture, and as such, there are often requirements or requests that Marvel will make for a film to include certain things in order for it to have this kind of connection to the other property, and a lot of directors kind of bristle at that for understandable reasons, like I don't think they're wrong to resist that, but when you're resisting against a multi billion dollar global company, it's it's it's easy to see who's going to win.
Yeah. Yeah, but I and maybe it's because they want to bring the Eternals back. Yes, that's the one.
Yeah, why would we want to bring the Eternals back?
Well, because in theory in the Easter Egg, at the end of the Eternals, that was Blade's voice.
That's true, Yeah, which I did not know. I had to look that up to find out that there was Blades Voys.
Yeah, but you know, and not all of the delays with so one. The original Blade movie was dorky and fun and I quite enjoyed it. So I, of all of the properties to be remade, I think this could be a fun one that they could do some cool stuff with. And it's filming in Atlanta. And as a actor, I'm always a little bit selfish about stuff like that because I'm like an opportunity for me to be in a thing. But you know, not all of the delays are their fault because it also came during the strikes and all that.
Yeah, you got the pandemic and then the strikes and but yeah. According to Kotaku, apparently, at one point during this development, the character of Blade had been so deemphasized in his own movie that it sounded like they were going to lose their blade. Like the actors like, hey, I did not sign up for this. I didn't sign up to be a supporting character in a movie that is titled after the character.
Yeah. Yeah, I guess I can understand that.
Yeah, so hopefully that gets that ship gets righted. Originally, that movie was supposed to come out I believe in twenty I think that movie was slated to I mean, it's been rescheduled a couple times already, but I would place money on a bet that it is not coming out next year.
Yeah, I'm guessing that it's also going to be I'm also guessing that it's going to be delayed. That's how that sentence should be structured. Something that is no longer getting delayed is season three of Vox Makina. We just got a trailer and the release date.
Yeah, it's the trailer is Essentially, it's the opening for like the opening credits or the opening sequence for the show for season three. It's releasing on October third. I will say, if you have listened or watched the actual play sessions that this is based off of, you are going to pick up on a lot of references to some heavy stuff that's going to happen to those characters.
I mean, I will say that intro looks pretty sad. I've not actually watched the actual play of Vaux Macana, just mighty nine and listen to a little bit of Bell's Hell's So I don't know what those things are, but every season has had some kind of dark, heavy stuff.
Yeah, I'm not gonna spoil anything for anyone. I do know what happens, uh, and it's it's I mean, it's gonna provide some incredible drama for some of the characters in Vox Makina. And yeah, there's lots of little nods to that in this opening, nothing so overt that you would be like, oh, I watched the opening of the first episode of season three, and now I know everything that's gonna happen. That's not what I'm talking about. But if you do know where it's going. You're gonna be like, oh, I know what that's referencing.
Well, I'll have to have you spoil it for me after the episode.
Mm hmm. Sure. So yeah, we also got a trailer for Arcane season two. You mentioned Arcane in the thirty seconds or last segment.
Yeah, and this looks like more of that.
Story, which I haven't I haven't watched, so I got nothing to say. I mean, I'll say this, I agree with you. The animation style is really impressive.
Yeah, it's very pretty, it's very unique. I watched season one, so a bunch of my friends watched season one, and I played a lot of League of Legends. I was never good at it, but I played a lot of it. It was like the thing my friends group did for a while either before after Minecraft, and I enjoyed the game, and then I watched the series in like a group watch with my friends, and I kind of just didn't care. Like there were parts of the story that I liked, but none of the characters really grabbed me enough for me to be invested. And I ended up playing on my phone while watching it, like I know enough of what happened, but it just it didn't. The story didn't grab me the way I was hoping it would. Maybe my hopes were too high for it.
Yeah, I, having not watched it, I don't really have any comment on this. We do know, you know, it's coming out in November, and that this is being touted as the final chapter. So it's kind of funny because when you think of like, I don't know, maybe it's because I've been just trained on trilogies, but I would expect season three to be the final chapter, not season two. But I'm like, well, if that's how long your story is, that's how long your story is.
Yeah, So I think that that's it's they're calling it the final chapter because it's wrapping up the story with VI and Jinks and all of that, And I think that's another part of the problem I had with the story is like there were some characters that I recognized because there were definitely characters from the game in there, but it was hard to figure out who they were all the time because they were at a different point than when you play them in the game. So I didn't get to enjoy the Easter Eggs as much as I had hoped. But even though it'll be kind of the final chapter for this sibling storyline. In theory, they have a lot of other stories within the universe that they want to tell, so you might get a different League of Legends series that is maybe not either not called Arcane or its own thing.
Yeah, a little spin off of some sort. It's interesting because, I mean, it wasn't that long ago when we talked about how Netflix had really gutted the animation side of its original programming. So just the fact that anything at all is coming out, I think it is pretty encouraging. We also got a very brief look at Severance season two. There was a tweet that went out that gave an eleven second long video which really told us nothing. And we don't even get a date for when it's coming out. It's just supposedly still coming out later this year. This is a series. It's on Apple TV Plus. If you aren't familiar with Severance, the plot is it takes place in a near future where this company has developed a technology that allows it to sever to separate your memories so that when you go into work, the memories you have at work are completely separate from your own personal memories and vice versa. So you have no memory of your work when you're in your normal life, and you have no memory of your normal life when you're at work, and then things get weirder from there, like that's the jumping off point for where things get weird. And the first season was fantastic. I loved it, and I have been anticipating season two ever since, so I'm glad that we got a first look. It is frustrating that we don't know when that second season is going to drop.
So they released that ex tweet whatever Twitter's blip, but it was also a part of a larger like here's the slate of our shows ad So I think that's why you don't have more information, but I really just added it there so that you would know.
Well, I'm pleased to know, because you know, you always worry that something's just going to fall through the cracks at some point, and the first season was It ended in such a way that you really wanted to see where the story goes next, Like it was a cliffhanger kind of ending. So I'm curious to see how it continues from there. Are you curious to see the ongoing adventures of a certain marmalade loving bear.
I am. Yeah, Jonathan is referencing Paddington, which is a movie franchise that I did not think I would like in any way, shape or form, And then I watched the Paddington two out of laziness and loved it, and so yes, this in Paddington three, Paddington in Peru. Paddington goes to visit his aunt, I believe in Peru and then they have to go into the Amazon to find her. And it looks delightful.
Yeah. Olivia Coleman looks like she's having the time of our frickin' life. In this trailer. She plays a nun, a nun that plays guitars. Ala the nun from the Sound of Music.
Yeah, i'llah, Maria.
I loved this trailer. It's I mean, like the Paddington movies come across is so wholesome and delightful and silly, and those are things that really appealed to me. So yeah, I love this trailer.
Yeah. Yeah, I know. Jonathan said, we don't have a mash up, but if you go back to our older episodes, there is a padding to Deadpool mash up.
Yeah, and this one will be coming out in November eighth. This year.
Yes, something coming out a little bit sooner is another Zack Snyder project, Twilight of the Gods.
Yeah, so if you are thinking, gosh, it's been ages since I've seen Zack Snyder figuratively pick up a couple of action figures and smash them together while going, uh, this show is for you.
It's a cartoon. It's Norse mythology. I will say one thing for it. Unlike a lot of Zack Snyder's stuff, the trailer was pretty short.
Yeah, yes, the trailer is fairly short. Twilight of the Gods. It tells the story of this romantic couple who end up essentially declaring war on the gods. And so it's like if you took three hundred, but instead of the Spartans defending against the Persians, now it's humans fighting against gods. That's kind of the gimmick. And like I said, it does I mean, like I always say, the sex Snyder's action movies, like all, whether it's three hundred or whether it's you know, the the the superhero stuff, it does just feel like he's just smashing action figures against each other, and like you can't tell if they're fighting or kissing and that's a Zack Snyder movie, and this looks like that except animated.
All right, so does that mean that Superman and Aquaman were just kissing.
That's more like Superman and Batman. They were kissing for a whole movie. For yeah, until until until for a second, Batman was worried that they were actually brothers when they found he found out that both of their moms are named Martha.
Yeah, it's brilliant, brilliant. I mean, I get that that is actually true to the.
Comics, but it's so dumb. It's it is so dumb. It's dumb for the reason like, I don't mean it's dumb that they both have a mother named Martha. I mean it's dumb that Batman would use that as the reason to stop beating the crap out of Superman.
I mean they both have parent trauma, parent issues. Yeah, well Superman shouldn't.
But I've got so well, I have nothing good to say. Let me put it that way, which should be pretty clear at this point.
Okay, well, let's move from infuriating dumb to fundum, which with the fact that teenage mutant Ninja Turtles is getting a new paramount TV show.
YEP, It's a twelve episode series that debuts on August ninth. It's called Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It is it is essentially a continuation of the tmn T Mutant Mayhem. We got that film, so it's that animation style. I did tell Ariel that based on the trailer, it felt to me like, I mean, animation for television is almost always cheaper than what you get for animation and film like, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the animation in this looks cheaper to me than Mutant Mayhem does. But the thing that kind of got to me is it felt like they were intentionally dropping frames like like, have you ever seen those old old cartoons from like the sixties and seventies where they saved every penny they could by reusing the same like moment space spacehest coast to coast did this right? Like like, that's how this feels to me, and it was distracting to me. But apart from that, like the performances and all that, that's that was very much in line with the Mutant Mayhem film.
Gotcha, Yeah, I didn't. I didn't get that so much with the animation, though there are some moments that feel kind of like an anime comic as opposed to an animated cartoon. The thing is the thing that threw me with the movie and I haven't watched it, but with the movie trailer and with this, and I want to watch a movie, and I want to watch this because I've heard good things about the movie. Is one of the Ninja Turtles sounds infinitely younger than the rest?
Yeah, yeah, it's true. One of them sounds like a legit kid, and a lot of the others sound like an actor playing a kid or.
A teenager or something. But it's like, hey, we've got a bunch of seven sixteen seventeen year olds and then a ten year old. I'm like, what what that doesn't but it still looks fun.
Yeah, it looks fun. I'll probably check Well, no, I won't, it's Paramount plus. I won't check it out, but that's because I don't have Paramount Plus.
I will check it out, and I will tell you what you're missing out on sounds good.
You can also check out and tell me about my spy the Eternal City. Because I have no intention of watching it.
Do I have to you put it on the lineup line. Yeah, so My Spy was a Dave Fautista movie that went through like name changes and massive rewrite reshoots and like massive delays and isn't it isn't it a kids movie? It's a kids movie, and I think it only got mediocre reviews. So I was gobsmacked to see that a second one is coming out, and this time it looks like it's set in Italy, Italy, Italy.
Italy, Italy Italy, which is Italy three times as Italian as Italy is.
Look now, I've like, if you say beetlejuice three times, you summoned beetle juice. I've just summoned to the spaghetti monster.
That's fine. I could go for some pastar right now. But yeah, the trailer looks like cute spy kids, spy movie type stuff. I was starting to worry that Batista is becoming like the Rock, you know how The Rock was like in every movie for a while, Because we just got a different Batista trailer last week, which was that the assassin's film The Killer something or other but anyway, a movie in which he plays an assassin who puts a hit out on himself because he thinks he has an inoperable brain tumor, and it turns out he was misdiagnosed. So I'm like, what what sort of weird project were we going to see Dave Batista in next week? Yeah?
Yeah, I've got similar feels, you know, But good for him. I guess this movie hits a kind of dumbchord that doesn't appeal to me, but the cast does. Anna Ferris is in it, Kristin Shawl is in it, Craig Robinson, Kenjieong, and Flula Borg who Fluaborg is just such a weird, funny person that I'm like, I don't know, I don't want to watch it, but I almost want to watch it just for him.
Yeah, I will give this one a skip. But I mean, like, again, it's not made for me. I don't have children. It's not the sort of thing I would necessarily seek out. I haven't seen the Paddington films, even though everyone I've ever heard talk about them. It sounds like I would totally love those movies. It's just again, one of those is just never on my radar because it's not like I have a kid to bring to it. Not that you need to have a kid in order to enjoy a family film. I don't think that's true at all. I love lots of family films. It's just in order for me to see it first, there usually has to be some other circumstance in place, like someone else's idea for us to go that kind of thing.
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. I have a hard time getting out to a movie theater right now.
Well me too. I mean we you know the fact that we still haven't seen Furiosa, and that's right up our alley. So yeah, yeah, See the problem is that we don't live close enough together, because I guarantee you if we did, you and I would have already gone to see Furiosa together.
We would have.
We'll have.
We don't live that far apart. It's just finding remembering that, hey, we both have some free time.
Yeah, well, and it has to be enough free time to build in the actual driving as well, right, because yeah, it's not that far apart, but it's not super close. And that like when you're adding it to the running time of a movie, both before and after the film is played, you're like, Wow, this is a significant time devotion that we're asking from each other. And yeah, we just haven't. I don't know. Maybe when we hit thirty years of friendship we'll be able to do that. It's got to be not that far off, not that far off. No, Like we met in two thousand and one, that's so we have. Yeah, we've known each other. We've known each other for more than two decades. We've been good friends for a little less than that. Yeah, because it took some time for Ariel to like me.
No, not at all, but probably the reverse. But okay, so we are you know, we have known each other a long time, and I feel like we're really good friends and sometimes we think on the same wavelength. Because I also watched the trailer for Those About to Die and considered putting it on the lineup.
Yeah, this is kind of like, this is my version of my spy the Eternal City, where I put something on the lineup where I was like kind of sort of feeling it. So, for Those About to Die is a series that's premiering on Peacock on July eighteenth, and it come the title comes from for Those About to Die, We Salute You, And it's essentially a Gladiator series. It almost feels like Gladiator. The series based on the trailer.
I mean, isn't it also Troy?
I guess, like, but like it's you know, Anthony Hopkins plays a Roman emperor, a lah, you know, similar to Julius Caesar. I don't think it's supposed to be Caesar. Maybe it is, I don't know, but yeah, it's uh, it looks like it's one of those stories of down trodden, oppressed gladiator is swearing too up in the social structure of Rome and to take down the powerful. It's essentially eat the rich Roman.
Addition, yeah, he is not playing Julius Caesar. He's playing a character called Vespasian Vespasian.
Oh, he's a vespa Yeah.
And then there's and then there's tighter Titus flavor punch.
Titus flavor punch. I don't I can't see whatever it is you're looking at.
So flav Avinus probably okay, it's it's Flavia Nus. I'm putting the space in those letters.
In a very nice place. F L A V I A n U S.
Flavianus. Thank you. I swear I can read and speak English.
Well that's not English, so you're fine.
The letters are. But yeah, I don't know. It could be interesting. It's on Peacock, so you know it may not be Stars or Showtime or HBO level gory sexy, which means I might like it better because sometimes those channels can.
A little too extreme, a little.
Too extreme for me. But it does feel very much like Troy, another show I didn't watch because I heard it was too extreme.
Uh yeah, this one, Like I included it because I felt that it was it touched on things that we would typically talk about, but I didn't feel I didn't feel a strong desire to follow this, which is unfortunate because I actually do have Peacock, so I could watch it if I wanted to.
But this one, I guess you don't think about the Roman Empire that much.
I don't and had no idea what the heck anyone was talking about for the longest time, Like I was like, why is Roman Empire showing up? Because like, I'm not plugged into social networks, so I don't like I only become tangentially aware typically when one of my friends says something and I'm like, oh, this must be one of those mean things I hear so much about. A meme, A meme, a meme.
Yeah, I am plugged into social media and I had to still look that up at one point.
Well, next, next up, next up, We're getting We're getting a two part animated treatment readaptation of Watchmen. Yes, the same graphic novel that inspired the live action film several years ago, which then, of course created a spin off HBO series, which was, in my opinion, far better than the movie, also far better than the original graphic novel. I am not a fan of the graphic novel. I know a lot of people are. It always struck me as equal parts silly and disturbing, Like there's some disturbing ideologies that characters are expressing in that, and I'm not entirely I'm not convinced that they are ideologies that Alan Moore intended people to think. We're good ideas, but that's not how audiences work, And so some people have really embraced the nihilism of Watchmen in a way that's upsetting. Anyway, we're getting an animated version of it.
Yeah, so I agree with you. I think it was supposed to be commentary of Hey, let's maybe not yeah.
Maybe maybe Arshak is not the role model you think he is.
Yeah, let's look at let's look at our shortcomings and maybe be better. But uh, you know, it looks like a decent animated whatever. But it feels exactly the same as the book, and it feels exactly the same as the movie. Like I don't feel like there's any new ground being tread.
Yeah, maybe maybe the ending of this animated one is going to be closer to the original Graphic novel, which in my mind means it'll be dumber. Like I didn't think the live action movie was perfect, but I think the way the live action film created the global threat at the end made a billion times more sense than the way the Graphic novel ends.
And yet you like the TV show better, which picks up where the Graphic novel.
It does, Yes, the TV show. The TV show ignores the film and is more of an extension of the original Graphic novel. But uh, they don't really, they don't really deal with the whole thing. Like in the Graphic novel, psychics are real, Like psychics are a real thing, but that's not explained right away. This is again getting back to where I was talking about how I have trouble with worlds that are not clearly defined, where you start to assume that because in the original Watchmen graphic novel, super heroes are not super powered, right, they don't have superpowers. They're vigilantes. They're mass vigilance. And then you have masked criminals who kind of pop up almost as an ant sir to the mass vigilantes. This is sort of like the whole concept of Batman created his own villains kind of thing. But no one has superpowers. They're all normal humans. They just dress up in different stuff and they train really hard, but they don't have powers except for Doctor Manhattan, he's the only exception. And then midway through the graphic novel, Alan Moore introduces psychics who are real in this world, who have real psychic powers, and I'm like, well, hang on, you've explained that human beings don't have superpowers. I would argue psychic abilities are a superpower. They're certainly not real. So like I balked at that when it was introduced in the graphic novel, and the global threat at the end of the graphic novel heavily involves psychics working together to create a false threat to the Earth, and that's where I thought was super dumb. And then the film version instead what they do is they they frame Doctor Manhattan as the existential threat to the Earth, which I think made perfect sense based upon Doctor Manhattan's nature and abilities.
I agree, I can't actually say that he isn't a threat to Earth. But yeah, but then the TV show, because the threat that they make up is a giant space squid. So in the TV show it starts with just these random squid showers happening. Yeah, which is delightful. But here's it. Like, the thing is, I didn't ever read the comic until the movie came out. I wasn't a super fan of the movie, though I did like some of the stylings, like the original Silkspector's costume was super cute. But but I when they made the TV show, I saw the reason why, and I saw the value in it because it was a continuation and just a phenomenal story and relate characters and just just so well, so well done.
This I just.
I don't know, there's got to be something that makes it special.
Yeah, yeah, I don't, and I don't know if there will be, apart from the fact that it will obviously showcase talented artists who brought the animation to life. That's always you know, that's an admirable thing, and there'll be some things that you can do in animation obviously that'll be way easier than having to try and bring that to a live action screen. So yeah, yeah, this almost felt like why bother. It's kind of like how I occasionally hear rumors. There was this one piece I almost put it in for discussion, but decide not to because ultimately it's all speculation. But it was about how Warner Brothers would love to buy the rights of Harry Potter off JK. Rowling with the ultimate tent of rebooting the like essentially redoing the whole Harry Potter series. And I'm like, do we need to We already have all those movies and sure the movies aren't perfect either, neither is the source material. But the movies aren't perfect, But do we need to remake all of those? And I guess for Warner Brothers the answer is yes, But that's because of financial reasons.
Financial reasons, you know. I would say that maybe if they were able to separate the material from the artist further, that they might get some of that audience back. Yeah, but like you said, the source material itself has problematic stuff. In it.
Yeah, And I just think it doesn't like I feel like the Harry Potter series is one that ramps up really nicely up to the middle point of the series and then kind of sadly declines. It's not like a roller coaster so much as great build up up through Prisoner of Azkaban in particular, and then after that it starts to falter.
I agree. I haven't read the books, but I've seen the movies and I agree with you. It's like really good ramp up and it doesn't jump the hippogriff. It just kind of falls underneath it as it flies.
Yeah. Yeah, and then and then a bunch of characters that you have emotionally invested in all die at the end.
So it's the children's edition of Game of Throne, it.
Kind of is, And so yeah, I but anyway, the speculation was essentially saying something similar to how Disney bought the rights of Star Wars off George Lucas, and that Warner Brothers would like to do this partly because it would allow the separation of the material from the author, which, you know, the author continuing to be transphobic has been a huge issue for that, like for many reasons, and the fact that she is not very good at screenwriting, that the Fantastic Beasts movies didn't do so well and in fact petered out, like there were supposed to be five of those and they only made three.
So yeah, and then like the latest Harry I don't know if it's the latest, one of the more recent Harry Potter games was also just the plot line of that.
Was super troubling, So I guess I did add it into our lineup accidentally just by talking about it. But anyway, the likelihood of Warner Brothers doing that I think is really low, largely because I don't think Warner Brothers has the capital to spend to buy that material off. JK. Rowling. I mean, it's such a valuable ip. I can't imagine. You know, you're talking about a company that is willingly shelving finished movies, never to show them ever ever, in order to get a tax right off. That doesn't sound like the kind of company that's going to shell out billions of dollars to purchase the rights to the Harry Potter franchise.
I agree, Yeah, I hope they don't. With Watchmen, I A get okay, So like you get a bunch of DC animated stuff and it's all Batman or Superman or whatever, right, and there's a lot, but it's all different stories. So maybe this will encourage other stories within the universe. And if they can hit similar chords as the HBO TV show that I could get behind that. So if this is a launching point for that, then I support it.
Yeah. I mean I was always hoping for a second season of the Watchmen live action series. Still.
Look, I still vaguely hope for that. I still vaguely hope for a third season of Gallivant.
That's never going to happen. Need to let the dream die.
Look, I can't, and maybe if I hold on to it long enough, it will come true.
Look, I've already had to come to terms with the fact we're not getting a third season of Shmigadoon, so that that hurts too, because the second the first season was okay, but the second season was great.
I would rather get a third season of Gallivant than Shemiga Dune.
But that's just it is, just you, So that's why it's never gonna happen. Okay, Oh that's okay. Smiga Dune is also not getting a third season no matter what either.
So I've exlained and next we're going to talk about a trailer for something I hadn't seen. Thank you Jonathan for adding it. It's the story of me during this episode. It's called Space Kide.
Yeah, it's kind of like it's I mean, I almost didn't put this in, but I saw it just before we were to get together and record, and I thought it was, like, it doesn't seem like the kind of movie I would typically find funny because it's a it's a party girl movie, and it's a movie about this woman in Florida. She is a party girl type like she It's clear that she was kind of like the sorority party girl in college and she never really grows out of that. As a young adult. She's working in a bar and all this stuff. But she secretly wants to be an astronaut. And then NASA ends up essentially saying like, you can apply to be an astronaut in the space program, and she decides to fake her credentials and apply for the chance to be able to go up into space, and it works. It gets her in the door for the training program, and then she has to figure out how to survive the training program in order for her to actually go to Space. And it looks pretty funny.
It looks really funny, it looks really cute. I'm hoping that it's one of those like that there's it's a character growth story and that she learns to be a really badass space. And it's got some great cast in it, and I'm trying to remember their names. All of a sudden, Why can't I remember anybody's name?
I mean, it's it's like you caught it from me. Let's see if I can check out the cast here.
Tom Hopper's in it. He is a character in Umbrella Academy. Gabrielle Union's in it, so that's really good.
Dave Pholly of Kids in the Hall he's in it.
Yeah, yeah, there's a I mean, I'm like, I'm a big Dave Pholly fan.
I'm a big Kids in the Hall fan. So I love seeing those guys pop up in movies all the time. Ah yeah, I don't. I don't know that this looks like it's going to be super good, But it does look like it would be entertaining. It doesn't also doesn't look like the kind of film that I would ever go to the theater for. But that's okay because it's an Amazon Prime movie, so it'll be on Prime on July fourth.
I might I occasionally have like these. I call them Crochet and Rose days, though we never actually drink rose, just kind of crochet and talk. So maybe I'll put that on in the background next time I have a Crochet day.
It sounds good, and it definitely sounds more like the kind of film that would go over well for such a gathering, as opposed to Sonny.
Yes, which is not the dramatized version of Always Sonny in Philadelphia.
Yeah. I said that if this were an LLENC mashup, it would have been what happens if you mash up Big Hero six with Megan, you get Sonny.
Yeah. I believe it's an Apple Plus TV show. Now I'm not entirely sure, but it's about this woman whose family dies and they give her a robot and she doesn't like robots, and then she finds out that her husband, her late husband, created it. And it starts with Shida Jones, who you might know from as Anne from Parks and Rec Parks and Rec and so so it's and then there's like this big mystery, so it also feels very like intriguy in a fun way, despite that it's dealing with her family's death. I don't know, it looks interesting to me.
Yeah, I can't really. I can't really get a handle on what the tone is because there are parts of it that make it look like dramedy and other parts that make it look like thriller slash horror. There's obviously the science fiction elements, because you've got this anthropomorphic, you know, humanoid robot that has this AI stuff built into it. Yeah, so I don't have a handle on what the story actually is. I don't know how to feel about it yet. And maybe it is the kind of thing that if I were to watch it, I'd be like, oh wow, this is really clicking. But the trailer did not do that to me.
I'll probably give it a try while I wait for the murder Bot series to come out.
Okay, fair enough, fair enough.
Our last story and we'll wrap things up, is that we are getting an among Us animated series and there's a trailer for it. And the thing that amuses me the most is this trailer has like maybe one scream and nobody else really talks in the entire trailer, but it has an insane voice cast.
Yeah, it's it's it's funny because it's the trailer whether there's no voice acting whatsoever. And then at the end you get like the list of voice actors who are or actors who are part of it. And it was shown this this trick teaser was shown during the Summer game Fest because I was watching a live stream of the Summer game Fest when this came on, and everyone was like huh, because everyone was hoping to hear some of the voice acting. I mean, you've got folks like Patton Oswalt does a voice for it, Phil Lamar, who does lots of Elijah would does voice. Aculey Johnson actually Johnson yep. Wayne Knight uh Uga alumni, Wayne Knight alumnus.
I should say, wait, is that please tell me he has played Batman?
No, Wayne Knight, No, he played Newman in Seinfeld, the post office guy. He's he's the dude from Jurassic Park who is the reason why the fences fail.
So my brain has always just assumed that that guy's name was Newman, and I know that's not true.
I do think that wayn Knight playing Batman would probably make me pee my pants.
It would be that. And also it's the perfect name, Bruce Wayne the Dark Knight Wayne.
Oh yeah, no, yeah, yeah, from a from a name standpoint, sure, but every other standpoint, I mean, Patton Oswald being Batman would be more believable.
I I would listen to either of them play Batman. No one's ever going to be Kevin Conroy anyhow.
So event Nicole Brown is in it too. She was in Community, so oh nice, she's one of the other voices.
Yeah, but the trailer actually looks pretty cute. It looks lighthearted for a for a sabotage series based on a game that ended many friendships.
Yeah. Yeah, it's funny how it's come out, like, you know, so late after the phenomena of the actual game. Not that the game is over, I mean people still play it, but I would say that it's definitely well pasted. Its like peak social relevance.
Yeah, I think it's peak relevance was during the pandemic because it was a perfect game to get online.
Yeah, totally, yeah, it would know. It's it's just funny to see a TV show. Finally, I mean, these things take forever to go through development, so it shouldn't be a surprise, but it does make you wonder, like, you know, what's the what's the thought process that goes into green lighting either a series or a film based off something that's hot right now, because you've got to know that by the time the thing comes out, that wave will have passed and maybe you'll be able to recapture it. Like some things end up being evergreen and they last, they're timeless, but others are not. And so I'm curious to see if this ends up being a timeless thing or if everyone's like, oh, you remember that time when they tried to make a TV show out of among Us?
Yeah, yeah, I hope. I hope because I like a lot of the voice actors, a lot of them are geeks. I hope that it's very successful and that's it. Yeah, okay by everybody.
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Oh okay. So so yeah, Jonathan, if people want to contact us and talk to us about among Us and reveal that they're the trader, how do they do that?
Well, what you're going to have to do is you're going to have to go out there, and you're going to need to make a animated TV series based off the jack Box Party games, but like jack Box Party games circa twenty twenty one, and your animated series is going to be extremely relevant only to the games that were available in the Jackpux Party packs of twenty twenty one, nothing since then and nothing from before that. And I need it to be like twelve episodes long. You're also going to need to get like some really decent cast members to be part of it. They'd be great if you can mix it up where some of them are more known for like their on camera work, but a lot of them are just known for their voice work, and make it a real ensemble show. Don't bother with a plot. No one's there to see it, h and just you're going to need to make this and get it launched on one of the popular streaming services you all know the ones I'm talking about. When that goes out, you're going to get some pretty rough reviews, Like they might say, like the cast is great or whatever, but you know, who the heck thought it was a good idea to adapt this into a series. That's going to be said a lot. You're gonna have to weather all that, and then you're gonna have to wait another three months, and then Ariel and I are going to cover it on the show. At the end of that show, I'll give you the real instructions on how to get in touch with me, and that's what you need to follow, and I'll answer your question.
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