From the Dungeons of Morningstar, my name's Stretch.
And I'm Clint, and this is Prevailing Strange.
For this week's Week in Review, I'll probably
jump straight into Daredevil being the finale
that it was. Yeah. Not much of a finale. Dude,
so disappointed. Dude, the fight scenes were
great. That scene with Matt and Frank in the
apartment, loved it. Everything else was a bit
fucking blasé. Oh, man. Even the fight scene,
I kind of felt like the blood special effects.
It looked like something from the 90s with a
splatter kind of overlay, and then it would just
disappear. It seemed to just dissipate. I did
notice when Frank was shooting people, it was
like they just turned a red light on in the room.
Yeah. I know you liked the lighting in the last
episode, but this was a bit too much. Well, that
was good. That was like an artistic thing, but
then this just seemed like chaos. Yeah. Like
talking about the special effects and being pretty
average, when he went down to Red Hook and he
stabbed old mate in the neck, it was like a 12
-inch fucking bowie knife. It should have hit
him in the other hand. It would have stabbed
him. Yeah. Man, I really wanted something to
be really happy about with this episode and I
don't think I got it. Okay. I don't know whether
you've seen. I've seen Brooklyn Nine -Nine. No,
I haven't seen it. You've never? I can hate working
here. I've seen Brooklyn Nine -Nine. Yep. That
to me is a more what New York City cops are like.
Yep. Okay. These ones here apparently were able
to take down the Punisher. How do you get so
many corrupt cops? Oh, man, some of those scenes,
like when they were standing around in a line,
they all had the exact same Punisher thing on
and here's Frank Castle and, you know, none of
them seemed to have any kind of guilt about what
they'd done. Like he said that. They idolise
him and none of them felt conflicted by the situation.
About beating the shit out of him with a shotgun
butt? Yeah. But another thing, like you're sitting
there and there's this guy who was... brought
you through the ranks and has been your boss
for years and you're all standing around and
you're watching the kinping scrush, like, crunch
his skull in pieces and then rip his jaw off
and you just do nothing about it. Yeah. Just
because he's the mayor doesn't mean he can do
that. Yeah, it seemed like a bit of a fucking
mess, didn't it? He's known these people for
what? Two months, I think they said two months
into his term and they're all willing to break
the law to this extent for this person? They
might be corrupt cops, but fucking hell. Yeah.
Three people can keep a secret if two are dead.
Please, man. All these people have this secret.
Yeah. I don't understand how all the criminals
in New York, which they're in abundance, have
never known that Red Hook was a free port. Yeah.
It all seemed all too convenient. Yeah. It was
a fucking letdown. Thoroughly disappointed. Up
until now. And we've got to wait until March
next year for the next episode. Yeah. I wanted,
when Frank was back, I'm like, shit's about to
go down. And it did, to the toilet. It went down
the toilet. It sounded like he was on the toilet.
Every time he did something. Yeah. Courtesy flush,
bro. Courtesy flush. Who does number two work
for? It was lame. I wanted so much to like it.
And then he's like, we've got to get an army
together. And then he goes to the pub and it's.
A few cops. Ex -cops. Yeah. Like, man, if that
door had opened and in came Luke Cage. In came
Danny. I would have been happy to see Danny there.
Just not that incarnation of Danny. No, no, no.
Like a new version of Danny. Honestly, what we
got, I would have been happy to see him walk
in. Yeah, it would have been an improvement.
And then Jessica Jones. Like, if they had walked
in, like, all right, let's talk this out. Even
Elektra. Even if Elektra walked in. If... Anybody.
I don't care. Yeah. I don't care. Give me something
to look forward to for the next 12 months, dude.
I feel like that's what they're building up to,
but at the same time we might be let down and
nothing. There's been a couple of Photoshops
going around of Daredevil walking the streets
with Spider -Man and shit. Like, dude, you can
only dream, but that's never going to happen.
Regardless of how many times we've seen D .D.
and Spider -Man together in the comic books,
I don't think that's ever going to happen. No.
I was glad that you were wrong that we did see
Frank Castle again. I just love seeing John Barenthal.
He's a great actor and I think he was made for
this role. He's just got to tone down the shit
grunts. Yeah. But I had a couple of new, I had
a couple of things there. There was the Spider
-Man theme at the end of that episode, a very
subtle Spider -Man theme in the music. I didn't
pick that up. I did. Because I was closing my
eyes and not wanting to watch it anymore, so
my ears were tuned in. But, yeah, it was when
he was forming the army. You sort of hear the
Spider -Man theme come in a bit. It wasn't the
Marvel theme, was it? No. Okay. No, Spider -Man.
Right. Yeah, I didn't notice that. It was not
the strongest outing, and I really wanted him
to bring it home, man. Like, I love seeing Fisk
in the white suit, for sure. And that menacing
grin he gets while he's eating his dinner while
all his prisoners are around and shit. You know
that? Just, yeah, I'm fucking untouchable. Shit
eating grin. Yeah, dude. It definitely, it didn't
feel like a finale. It felt like a mid -season
finale. And they're all, like when the Punisher
comes up and he's like dead set capping blokes
left, right and centre. He even smacked the shit
out of a chick. And the bloke sits down and he
goes, will you join us? Yeah. I'm like, what
the? Homie, please. And then. Bullseye. Where's
Bullseye in this? Like how the fuck did he get
out of that joint? And then at the end it kind
of, are they setting up a team up with Bullseye
and Daredevil? Like he killed Foggy. Surely not.
If there is a team up, I probably won't watch
anymore. You can't have, the way he was sitting
there talking about Foggy with Karen in the file
room. Not the file room, the storage container
where they had all their files. Yeah. And he's
in there and he's talking about Foggy and that.
You can't sit there and feel all that and then
stand side to side with the guy that killed him.
Yeah, I don't know where this is going. However,
I am open to be surprised. Yeah, absolutely.
I will give it a chance. But, dude, let down.
Such a let down. I'm sure there's people out
there that are going to love it, and that's fantastic.
I'm glad they did. But this one was a miss for
me. Absolutely. 100%. Totally agree. I love that
he was in the suit nearly the whole episode.
Loved it. The fact that we had to wait eight
episodes for it to be a daredevil show, not a
Matt Murdock police procedural sort of thing.
But, yeah, man, I'm right there with you. I agree.
One of the things that kind of irked me too was
the fact that it ended, the seventh episode ended
with him on the ground with a bullet through
him. And then the final episode, everyone had
kind of moved on. Like it wasn't, there should
have been some desperation. How did they get
out of there? How did Bullseye escape? Like there
was no edge. No, there was no urgency. There
was no. There was no, I don't know about you,
but I've kicked my toe and it took me off my
feet for a couple of days. I broke a pinky toe.
I'm not walking. Calling sick. Yeah, I don't
know. Have him drag himself out of there with
a gunshot wound. Don't have him go to the hospital
first and then bounce out. Now, another issue
I have, we've seen. in the comics and in the
Daredevil movie and in the Daredevil show that
Matt Murdock can't see features. It has to rain
or it has to be loud noises. He goes to his apartment
and he notices that Frank has had a shave and
a haircut. Come on, man. I didn't even think
about that. Of all the things you can notice,
he notices that his boyfriends made himself look
pretty for the occasion. How the fuck did he
see that? How did he know? I didn't even think
about that. Did he smell the brill cream on his
skin fade haircut? What the hell? I've got no
idea. You had a shave and a haircut. What the
fuck? Come on now. Guys. What? Yeah, I've never
heard of that. That is poor writing. Even the
chick who he's been boning for God knows how
long. He touches her face to see her and shit.
No, Frank, though, he knows when he's had a haircut
and a shave. That was another thing, when he
was feeling the paintings. With his gloves on?
Oh, come on, dude. Look, I know he's got powers.
Yeah. And I know he's not a metahuman, but he's
a superhuman. But, dude, no. Well, that just
makes it worse now you mention that. He was reading
Braille with his gloves on, bro. No, it wasn't
Braille. It was the print on the page. Oh, yeah,
the avocados at law. Yeah, he was too, wasn't
he? With his gloves on. And it wasn't even Braille.
No, it was just printed on a piece of wood. Oh,
fuck. Sorry for pointing that out, buddy. Yeah.
Oh, God. Why? Okay. Oh, bud. Look, the whole,
he's just witnessed what this task force is willing
to do. Yeah. And he takes Karen Page to their
hideout. No. That legal aid chick, Fisk's assistant.
Yeah. Blatantly. stabs one of the people that
she's worked with for years in the back. I can
see that she was meant to be conflicted and she's
just trying to save her own ass, but at the same
time there didn't seem to be enough set up for
that. No. The whole way through you see her wanting
to be on the outer of Fisk. Yep. And now she's
well in. I mean, you saw her being remorseful,
crying afterwards, but, yeah, there just didn't
seem to be that. kind of leverage in there for
that kind of payoff. I don't think the whole
way through that season he's ever said anything
remotely. Well, I'm sure that she's seen more
than we are because she's around him all day
and everything, right, and we've only seen snippets
of her day. And then I don't see how the way
that he's been portrayed in the show toward her
has made her as fearful as she is. Yeah. I know
it might sound stupid, but. No, no. No, that
makes sense. That was a graphic death, though.
That bloke. Yeah. The way his jaw just went like
gone. So, yeah. I did like seeing that he was
capable of that, but that whole scene was pretty
average. Yeah. Why did he? He didn't eat the
guy. It's not like he's going to fine dining.
Yeah. The blood's on your hand, bro. You're on
that perfectly. I want to know who he's dry to.
Who is his goddamn dry cleaner? Because every
one of these suits is always covered in blood
and they're always white. Yeah. I mean, maybe
he just buys a brand new suit every day of the
week or something like that. Maybe. Because why
can we make millions when we could make billions?
Can't believe he even said that. That's a doctor.
That's a doctor evil line. Oh, my God. I hope
the next 12 months goes fast because if. I have
to wait 12 months and be disappointed like I
am today. I'm going to be trey disappointed.
Well, I mean, speaking about the next 12 months,
we do have a fair bit of news and stuff coming
out. So much good shit coming, bro. Just today
in itself, there was a Star Wars convention in
Japan. Quite a spattering of news. Where they've
announced a few different things. I better get
my chest ready. Yeah, I was about to say, somebody
who you were pretty happy about. Defecating on
you. Face, neck and chest, bro. Face, neck and
chest. Let's go. Yeah, they've announced in the
end of May 27 Star Wars Starfighter starring
your man, Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling. And Sean
Levy will be directing it. Man, I haven't really
known much of Sean Levy's stuff apart from The
Atom Project. And Daredevil and Wolverine. Yeah.
He also done Red Notice too, didn't he? I believe
so. He's done a few things. Not big, big, big
time, but. I'm going to just have a look at that.
Yeah. The rumors had persisted about the fact
that Ryan Gosling was meant to be having some
kind of upcoming role in the Star Wars universe.
And I think Sean Levy had addressed that in the
presentation. I don't know whether it's going
to be a main continuity movie. It might be. An
old Republic movie? Just judging by the logo?
What are you putting that face for? Dude! Dude!
He's done a bit. He's done a bit? Yeah, yeah,
he's done a bit. Short list. Mm -hmm. Deadpool
and Wolverine. Yep. Not at the museum. Real Steel.
Free Guy. The Internship. The Adam Project. Not
at the museum too. Big Fat Liar. Date Night.
Just Married. Holy shit, dude. This guy's been
around. Yeah, he's been around. He's done a bit.
And they're all bangers. All right? Yeah. Colour
me interested. Yeah. So Starfighter, I get the
feeling that he's going to be a pilot, but that
doesn't necessarily mean anything. Who knows
where it's going to go? Him in a Poe Demeron
buddy cop movie? I have a feeling this is going
to be based earlier on. You reckon? I think so.
I do like Nizer of the Old Republic, though.
Yeah. I just kind of got that feel from when
they introduced the logo for it. It was that
kind of. Very orangey sort of look. Yeah. I could
be completely wrong. I don't really know. Because
we love to speculate. Pesculate. Pesculate. Pescapillion.
It is Good Friday. Yeah. In more Star Wars news,
Star Wars news. Fuck, them hard solos are going
well. Yeah. Let's go. In more Star Wars news.
The Mandalorian and Grogu movie? Yeah. That's
coming out. They're going to wrap it up with
the movie. Sigourney Weaver's been cast in it.
Oh, I love Sigourney. Yeah, I think she's great.
I don't know what role she's in. There's been
a few pictures of her with some droids and shit.
I am interested to see what they do with this
movie. Pedro Pascal's not in it again, is he?
No, he is, yeah. What the? Oh, he did The Voice.
Because he wasn't in the third season at all.
Yeah. I mean, he voiced him, but that was it,
yeah. I don't think he voiced him. I think he
only voiced him in season two as well. Yeah,
right. Or season two where he took the helmet
off. Well, in the first season he was quite heavily
involved, but then they're like, oh, you never
take his helmet off. Do we have to pay him that
much? Yeah. And let's face it, Disney's all about
profit. They don't really like paying the people.
Well, maybe they do. I don't know. Well, they
must be paying because. Yeah, I'm interested
to see what happens because are they going to
throw it off and it's going to be like a time
jump? Because what are we going to learn about?
And we'll see a teenage Grogu. Yeah, what are
we going to learn about Grogu? But then at the
same time, how can they do that? Because he's
like 50 years older. Yeah, I don't know. Are
we going to get a time jump at the end to kind
of see where he ends up? Oh, yeah, okay. Oh,
who knows? Where Mando dies? Maybe. Oh, shit.
Now I'm going to get sad. How did you feel when
they gave him a name? Grogu. I was fine. You
were fine? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I felt calling him
Baby Yoda was a bit of a smack in the face. You
felt like we shouldn't call him Baby Yoda? No,
he had his own identity. He was his own person.
Yeah, but the little fucker wouldn't talk. Piece
of shit. Just eating every cunt's kids. Yeah.
Oh, you've been struggling to have kids? You
have to test you back? Yeah, pretty much. He's
a little menace. So cute. I wanted to learn more
about him in the TV show. Yeah. Are we going
to find out who his parents were? Are we going
to find out? Are we going to get a flashback
of Order 66, how he got out? Oh, man, there's
so much shit that could happen. How would it
have been right? Here we go. If Yoda's wife was
at home, he's out trying to save the galaxy,
he comes across a bit of Green Strange and he's
like, what's up? And then throws a leg over his
piece of Strange and then she goes and has his
love child. Baby Yoda was... He's a love child.
That's why he's got no family. An illegitimate
child of Yoda. That's why nobody knows who he
is. They do his medical account at the end. They're
like, holy shit, there's only one person like
you. And he just goes, Papa? Oh, man. I'm sorry.
Yeah, I don't know. I can't hesitate to guess
at where this movie is going to go. I'm with
you. I thought they were going to go. As long
as they steer clear of the Boba Fett of it all.
Dude, that show let me down worse than Deadpool.
But hopefully it's – I want to see some shit.
I'm hoping – what's her name? Ahsoka. Yeah, not
Zoe Saldana. What's the other one? Ahsoka. Yeah,
but what's her – she's a night nurse as well.
Fuck. I don't know. Yeah, her. So, yeah, I hope
we see Ahsoka in it at some point because I absolutely
fanboyed the shit out of her character. Yeah.
I thought she looked incredible in the show.
I thought she was portrayed so well. Yeah. So
I'd like to see that wrapped up somehow. Well,
man, I think she is one of the most complex characters
in the Star Wars universe. Hands down, dude.
Like she was a Jedi. She left the Jedi because
of everything that went down. Taught by Darth
Vader. Yeah. And like felt portrayed and she's
very kind of grey Jedi, even though grey Jedi
isn't a thing. Yeah. But that's what she is.
Yeah. And she wields the Inquisitor fucking lightsabers.
Honestly, I loved her character, man. Yeah. And
I'm glad she was brought in. Yeah. Very stoic
kind of. Yeah. She had an edge to her as well.
Yeah. I think she. A great character. Absolutely.
And she was played so well. I am looking forward
to season two, even though one of my favorite
characters, he passed away in between. The guy
that played the turned Jedi. What was his name?
Steven. I don't know. He played the Sith guy
that was once a Jedi with the, he's not Padawan,
but like he's sidekick in Ahsoka. I didn't watch
Ahsoka. You're just lauding the character and
then you didn't even watch the TV show? I've
seen the cartoon. I'm talking about the show,
man. Yeah, no, but she was in Mandalorian. Yeah,
and you didn't watch the TV show. That's what
I've seen her in. Man, you should really watch
the TV show. Hey, do you like zombies? What about?
Have you ever seen 28 Days Later? I'm not sharing
anything with you again. You fucking jerk. What
about 28 Weeks Later? You seen that one? Then
shut your whore mouth. I mentioned that I was
going to watch the first two movies because I
haven't seen the second one. You're watching
with fresh eyes, mate. That's all. I said I'm
keen to see them with the 28 Years Later coming
out. So you should be. They're Mr. Boyle masterpieces,
right? Yeah. Itchy old mouse. You should watch
Ahsoka, you fucking jerk. Okay, I will. Full
metal archivist. So hard to keep a straight face
around you. You don't need to. It's a point.
But really, Ahsoka is really good. Back into
that. I'm fucking trying to keep this thing on
track, man. No, that's all right. So, yeah. Oh,
we'll watch Ahsoka. But, yeah, so I hope they
get to wrap it up like they deserve. I think
Dave Filoni and John have done a really good
job with this universe, and I hope they send
it out with the bang that it deserves. Very keen.
Yeah. Honestly, man, if you put Dave Filoni and
Jon Favreau in charge of something, you're going
to get gold. With Disney's backing, yeah, fuck
yeah. Dude, even without their backing, have
you ever seen Chef? Oh, yeah. Dude. I fucking
love that movie. Dude, such a good movie. Yeah.
And then the TV show as well. They did a reality
show where him and his mate, I think it was David
Cho, they went around traveling around doing
fucking so good. I do love a cooking show. Dude,
Jon Favreau is a king. Yeah. But, yeah, I'll
be interested to see that. We got the newest
Fantastic Four trailer coming out. This one hit
different. A lot more exposition. We see a lot
more of power sets and that sort of stuff. Yep.
We have confirmed from our speculation last week
that they are American, that she is pregnant,
that she does give birth. Yep. So this has actually
taken over a time. Visually looks so good. Does
look pretty good. On the power sets, it was good
to see Reed Richards in action. Finally. And,
like, not in a ridiculous way. I've always had
a problem with characters that are super stretchy
because sometimes you see them in the comics
and they're, like, they're fucking spaghetti
man around everything. Yeah. And it just takes
me out. The way he was kind of stretching between
pieces and pulling himself, like in the split
second that we did get to see that, I liked what
I saw. In the Fox Fantastic Four, when Mr. Fantastic's
at the club and he's dancing, his normal tux
is stretching. Yeah. No. And then it just looked
like he stretched infinitely, and I'm not sure
that's how Mr. Fantastic stretches. I think he
has a limit to how far he can stretch. I think
so, yeah. There has to be. And to me it looked
like there was – it didn't look stupid. I know
a person stretching looks cartoonish at the best
of times, right? I just think it was done right.
It does look pretty good. And I do like Susan
Storm's kind of the way they portrayed that.
It kind of looks like – With the light refraction
and shit. It looks so good. Yeah, almost like
a lens flare or something like that. Yeah. It
looks pretty cool. When Johnny Storm flames on
and takes off. Yeah. So good. And we get to see
a little bit more of him. So I think in the first
trailer he's up near the edge of space and then
he does that fall back. Yeah. No, he's chasing
the Silver Surfer. And she just flicks him off.
Fuck off. Which, again, we confirmed that it's
not Norrin Ratt. No. But it was when I really
loved the fact that we'd seen the Silver Surfer
for the first time. Special effects still aren't
finished and polished as of yet, so expect her
to look even better. I didn't hate what she looked
like. Yeah. Like, I mean. Apparently she's going
to be a lot more shiny. Yeah, okay. She looked
a bit dull, but she looks so good. Julia Garner
is her name, isn't it? Yep, that's her. She sounded
imposing. She goes, this planet has been marked
for death. Did you notice, it was one of the
first things I noticed in that. that when she's
like, are you the protectors of this world, then
she says that, you know, this world's been marked
for death. The intersection in the city that
the Fantastic Four are standing on, it looks
like a definite Avengers A. You did point that
out, yeah. I didn't go the Avengers A. I thought
it was like the four of the Fantastic Four, the
off -centre sort of could have been both. But
when you show me, it did look like an A. Yeah,
so I don't know if we're going to get some kind
of, clues about the Avengers in other worlds
or because she talks about you, the protector
of this world, that could lead us off because,
you know, Galactus goes between worlds and eats
them. But does that not mean that he could potentially
be jumping through the multiverse and eating
different Earths? I don't know. Yeah. It's all
speculation. When Shalabal does rock up and she
does, it does sound very. like, threatening as,
like, she does. I think she's going to do a great
job. This chick was in a few things. Like, I
didn't even know she was in the Sin City sequel,
Dame to Kill. Yeah, right. Like, she was in that.
She's been around that long. Yeah, man. And she
was in Ozark. Yeah. And she'd done that Inventing
Anna, which I thought she was a bitch in that,
but, you know, that was the character. Yeah.
But, yeah, I know we're getting this in July,
so there's still a bit more time to polish the
show, to polish the movie and just the special
effects, and there'll be some tightening up of
the sound engineering and stuff. But I'm excited,
man. It's going to be a big year. This is a big
year. We're talking about power sets. I'd like
to see how strong the thing was. Just picking
up that car and then just running through them
columns looked so good, man. And then pulling
the ship out of the bay with that fucking massive
chain. That was pretty cool. Yeah. I'm living
for the thing. He looks so good. He does look
good. He's got that kind of not quite granite,
I don't know what you'd call that, kind of shale
rock looking bit, like the hues in it where before
the plastic suits were just kind of very matte,
kind of white colour. There seems to be like
veins through his plates. Yeah. Oh, man. We see
them coming to dinner and... You know, oh, well.
You're late. You're late. And she goes, huh,
what? And then shit himself. And then he's like,
yeah, you know, you're going to be a great mom.
You're going to be shit. You're going to fail.
But we're going to be the best uncles in the
world. And then at the end of the story, you
see him sort of looking over the crib at Franklin,
which of course is going to be Frank. It's not
going to be Valeria because she's second born.
So we're going to see a Franklin Richards. Yeah.
So we know we're going to see him. If you see
that jump in the trailer and it's over nine months,
are we going to see another significant jump
to where Franklin's maybe four or five? Yeah,
this could go anywhere. It could go anywhere,
man. Because you see when they're in space in
the ship, like you think that's them taken off
for the first time. Yeah. And that's where they
get their powers. But then you see them again
suited up to go back to space and the thing is
the thing. Yeah. And then they're floating above
what looks like a world, what looks like it could
be potentially our world. Yeah. Getting demolished.
Well, we know what fucking Galactus does with
worlds. And then we talked about it the other
week. What if they come to the 616 universe having
been defeated, basically coming off an L? Well,
I think that's the way to go. Yeah. It's going
to be very interesting. Them coming to a new
world with their tail between their legs. I would
like to see it too if maybe Galactus isn't necessarily
going to be a galactic threat but a multiversal
threat in this. Well, I think they'll put the
multiverse to bed after this. I think this is
the last multiversal. I think we're going to
wrap it up with Doomsday. Right. Do you think
we're going to see an iteration of Victor Von
Doom in this Fantastic Four where they know he's
an enemy and then they go to this new one and
they're pallying up to someone that doesn't look
like Victor Von Doom, that he's actually Victor
Von Doom, and then find out Victor Von Doom's
a bad guy again? Yeah, I don't know. We still
don't know who John Malkovich is playing. John
Malkovich. Yeah, man, it could go any way. Anyway.
Well, we're going to see in July. Yeah. Which
I'm so excited for. But I've got to be honest,
man. I'm more excited for the. Thunderbolts?
Dude. Oh. And we get another trailer again yesterday.
Yesterday? Yeah. Did you see the asterisk change?
No. It was a six -pointed asterisk last week.
Right. Now it's a five -pointed asterisk. That's
interesting. In this new trailer, did you see
Taskmaster at all? No, not at all. I haven't.
I don't know what's going to happen with her
at all. But, yeah, that trailer, I don't know.
Again, it's a completely different trailer, but
it shows you so much different shit. Like the
Sentry referring to himself as the Void. When
he says that, too, and he's, like, full in shadow.
I don't know. There's like two real pinpricks
of light where his eyes should be. I'm like,
ooh, that's quite sinister. Yeah, dude. Where
it's just a black emptiness. There's not even
a shape. It's just like a character you haven't
unlocked in a video game yet and just these two
peering eyes and it's so demonic. We do have
another view of what is potentially his power
set when you see Yelena walk into it and then
we've got like, what looks like flashbacks of
maybe her looking back on her as a little girl
and some other little girl potentially training
for the Red Room. Maybe they might talk him down
in the end because apparently Yelena and Bob
are meant to have a connection in this movie.
Well, okay. When he goes, yeah, I am the void,
it's like, fuck. I am pretty fucking hype about
this movie. Like I said at the start, I weren't.
I'm like, why the fuck are they doing this? And
then they kept on showing us these trailers,
man. I'm like, okay, all right. Maybe I might
be keen on this. No, we will be going. Yeah.
Tax deductible. But yeah, dude, I'm so pumped
for her. The Thunderbolts. Fuck yeah. But yeah,
I have noticed every time you pointed out now
that every time they release a trailer and I've
watched the trailers, there is voids. There is
gaps. Yeah, I don't think we're getting the whole
picture. No. I think it's going to be a whole
Civil War thing. Probably, yeah. Who left fruit
salad in here the other day? I fucking wonder.
Fucking dickhead. We get Andor Season 2 starts
next week on Tuesday. Okay. You need to finish
watching the first season. Not as amped for that,
but I will watch. You didn't finish the first
season, though, did you? No. No. Well, maybe
if you watch the first season, you might be amped
for that because it's one of the best things
that Star Wars has done. Right. Okay. I am very
keen. I will be watching excitedly. Have you
seen much news on this? Mm -hmm. And what are
you expecting going into it? Yeah, I did hear
say that this is going to bookend into Rogue
One. Yeah, the bookend straight into Rogue One.
The meeting of K2SO. My dude. I'm very keen for
that. I want to know the story between, so he
was pretty reluctant in the first season to be
a rebel. But by the end of the first season,
he's. down for the fucking cause. So he's about
it now. Right. And, like, he's pretty good at
what he does. But, like I said, he was reluctant
at the beginning. I am looking forward to seeing
Andor full on point and what happens. Yeah, right.
Because it's like espionage is probably not the
right word, but it's espionage. It's kind of
infiltration, kind of very. Yeah, I think it's
a great story without being heavily reliant on
Jedi's and Sith and all that stuff. Oh, that
was probably my favourite part about it. And
that's probably another reason why I loved Rogue
One the way I did. It wasn't a Skywalker story.
That's right. It was something completely different
that we hadn't seen before. Is Alan Tudyk coming
back as K2 -SR? Yeah, I believe so. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. I would like to see maybe some hints at
some of the characters that did show up in Rogue
One. I don't want them to kind of... ruin any
of the, because he only just meets them all.
He does, yeah, yeah. Even just kind of hints
at maybe Mads Mikkelsen's character. Yeah, okay.
Little bits and pieces because Ben Mendelsohn.
Oh, is his name Galen Ersa? I think so, yeah,
Galen Ersa. Maybe a little bit of something to
do with him and Ben Mendelsohn's character. Yeah,
well, Ben Mendelsohn, his admiral was around
for a while. Mm -hmm. So, yeah. Yeah, there's
a bit there. Yeah, well, he was around when Genoso
was a baby because that's when he got Galen off
the planet. Yeah. So, yeah, he'd have to be around.
You'd imagine so. You've sold me a cake. He was
a dead sad man, one of the best characters I've
seen in Star Wars. Best droid in Star Wars. Easy.
Close. Him and BB -8. BB -8's cute as shit, dude.
I mean, yeah, there's cute and there's fucking
cool, man. Yeah, I don't know. K2SO was just
my brand. Yeah. Fucking sarcastic. When he smacked
the shit out of Andor when they mined the fucking
crystal. Yeah, the, what is that crystal called?
Kyber crystal. Kyber crystal. Yeah. And then
the little handle gives him afterwards like,
did you really fucking do that? Did you just
do that? Oh, I loved it. These are fucking hilarious.
But yeah, I've calculated our chance of success
for this mission. It's low. It's low. What else
was there news -wise? Oh, yeah. Amazon has picked
up the Pacific Rim TV show. Dude, give me more
Jaegers. God damn, Kaiju's and Yager's, man.
Another Guillermo that they just did not give
him money for. He should have been there for
the second one. Why do they keep shit in the
bed with this guy? He makes these movies that
just, they fucking change you. People love them,
literally love them. Dude, it made its budget
twice over just in Japan. Why wouldn't you give
that man more? Give him more. And, like, the
characters that he introduces, such a vast variety
of kind of characters. I don't know what this
series is going to be about, whether it's going
to be a prequel or whether it's going to be a
sequel. I don't care. Gypsy Danger is probably
one of the best. No, I'll stick with it. I like
him better than any of the Gundams. Just visually
an incredible looking Jaeger. Yeah. And just
the scale, like smashing each other with container
ships and shit. Yeah. It was my jam. I've always
been a fan of giant robots. I love their movies,
dude. Look, the sequel was a letdown, but I still
watch it, man. I still enjoyed it visually. Yeah.
The story wasn't compelling as the original.
No. Yeah, give me more. I'm here for it. And
Amazon just throws fucking money at everything.
And they even give the Lord of the Rings show.
Stupid money for that. That was the most expensive
TV show ever made. And they give it a second
season, and the first one completely underwhelmed
everybody. And they didn't do the Game of Thrones
one. HBO did that, didn't they? HBO did that.
They've done, Amazon has the Wheel Time series
as well. Right. Based on the books. So I watched
it first before I read the books in Wheel Time.
I thought it was an interesting concept, interesting
enough to go ahead and read the books. I'd been
on and off about the books for a while. Some
people love them, some people hate them. The
second season wasn't too bad either, but so far
they reckon the third season is the best season
out of all of them. Sell it to me. It's very
fantasy for fantasy's sake. Okay. It's very character
driven. There is the, what they call the dragon.
He is the one that kind of comes back every revolution
of the wheel. Yeah. And he's the one that's supposed
to save or destroy. So he's like an anchor being.
Kind of, yeah. So they've kind of pinpointed
him where this person's going to be in this one
kind of area of this medieval type world. And
there's kind of five kids that grew up together.
Kids, they're all teenagers, whatever, almost
adults. And it could be any one of them. So this.
Oh, so it's a metaphorical dragon. Yeah. Right,
okay. Yeah. They just call him or her the dragon.
Yeah, okay. He's the person that either breaks
or remakes the world. And basically there's the
Aes Sedai, which are people who can use magic,
but they're only women in this world because
any man who uses magic goes insane. Because of
the dragon, the last time, the last revolution
of Wheel, Pretty much he broke the world. Yeah,
right. And because of that, men can't use magic.
They go insane. So. Is each season a different
revolution? No. Oh, okay. So it's just, it's
the one story about the one band of characters.
Right. But in the books, yeah, very character
driven. You learn to love and hate some characters.
But yeah. Over 14 books, the story is about the
same five people. Oh, okay. So it's like just
a really long D &D campaign. Basically. Except
if, you know, we're playing it and then it's
just even longer. Yeah. So it kind of cops its
fucking shit because it was written by a Mormon,
so it's kind of a little bit. Preachy. Not preachy.
Good. It's funny because Mormons write a lot
of sci -fi and fantasy, which might have something
to do with they already believe in fake stuff.
But anyway. But it's kind of the way that he
portrays women in it is a little bit kind of
like, oh, dude. Stephen King? Goddamn. Maybe,
maybe not. But they kind of fix it a bit in the
TV show. Right. But, yeah. I can't really sell
it to you because you don't like fantasy. I do.
I like fantasy, but it's just that I don't like
Lord of the Rings. Well, I don't know. Maybe
this show might be for you. It's got the budget.
It's done well. And that's on Amazon, isn't it?
It's on Amazon. Yeah, right. Well, I've got Amazon.
I'll give it a bash. All right. Because all my
other Amazon shows are finished now. It's actually
quite good. It was good enough to make me read
14 books. Yeah, okay. TV show, so. But I like
fantasy a lot. I've been getting in, well, see,
there was a book I read and it was about a fella
and a time -travelling dog and he was a knight
time over again, but he was reborn and the dog
had to find him and, like, tell him that he was
one of these famous magician knights. The dog
had to tell him? Yeah. The dog talked? Yeah,
the dog talks. And so the dog is immortal. And
he just time hops, time jumps. He can do all
that sort of shit. But the bloke gets, when he
dies, the dog has to be stagnant and study and
then find him again. What's that called? I don't
know. Don't tell me about shit that you can't
tell me what it is. It was so long. But the books,
it stayed with me. Sorry, everything's just Dungeon
Crawler Carl at the moment. I mean, that's an
interesting concept. Vamp. While I look at this.
Vamp. Yeah, vamp. Vamp. Vamp. Yeah. What? Vamp.
Vent? Vamp. Just get, um. What the fuck? Just
continue. While I look at this. Vent? Vamp. Like
a vampire? No. Make up stories. Tell anecdotes.
Do fun stuff. I've never heard anybody say vamp.
Yeah, vamp along, man. Vent? Vamp. I think you
mean fucking Vamp. No, I mean Vamp. What the
fuck? That's it. It's called The Convergence.
Look. See, look. There's a dog by Craig Ellison
and guess who? Craig Ellison. And R .C. Bray.
R .C. Bray. Fuck, you can't get wrong about R
.C. Bray, man. Is it one book? Is it two books?
No, it's just the one book. Yeah, okay. Vamp.
Please fucking hold. Man, I'm going to tell you,
you're not going to find anything related to
what you think Vamp means. Yeah, but I'm fucking
telling you. Maybe I was wrong. I know you were.
Shut up. A seductive woman who uses her sexual
attractiveness to exploit men. There you go.
That works. Yeah, I can do that. Fuck. I thought
it was. Vent. Vamp. I'm not fucking seeing anything.
Shit. Storytell something. Apologize. You took
me out of it. Like I probably would have kept
talking if you didn't tell me to vamp. So convergence
is what it's called. Right, cool. There was a
couple of pictures that I've seen floating around.
One of Robert Downey Jr. Potentially, I'm not
saying this is legit, dressed up as a potential
Dr. Doom. Grandpa Doom. Grey haired, kind of
very Iron Man -esque kind of suit with looks
like an arc reactor in the middle of his chest.
I can't say whether this is legit or not. No.
I might put a picture up. Ooh! Who knows? Wow!
That's going to be cool. I'm going to watch this
episode. And there's another picture, which I
showed you just before. Dude. Lobo. Yes! On the
motorbike, looks pretty. Mate, that looks sensational.
Looks better than fucking Aquaman. Shut up, mate.
You can't tell me that that wasn't a sick take
on Aquaman. No, it was until they made the Aquaman
movies. I'm going to let you get to me, man.
I'm going to let you get to me. I think that's
all for the news. A little rant and sundry, which
is just us continuing to talk shit. Basically
what we're doing. Rant and sundry news coming
at you. Should we kick off with a couple of questions
from our mate Tarn Foster? I think so. Now, I've
been mates with Tarn, dude, since primary school.
Yep. We went through high school together. He
was the first person ever to introduce me to
Linkin Park. Right. I went to his house and he
goes, man, you've got to listen to this. Put
hybrid theory in. And I was sold, man. Like Linkin
Park have been my heart and soul since 2001.
Literally when Chester Bennington died, I had
to take my day away from work and I fucked off
down the coast. Anyway, he introduced me to PC
gaming. He introduced me to Foxtel. He was the
first person I ever knew that had. Well, it was
Ozstar back then. Yep. Like with the remote,
with all the numbers it did. So many fond memories.
His dad was just one of them stand -up men who
passed away a while back and he was just, Tarni's
just a really fucking great guy and was in a
band called Zero Conformity. Yep. And he'd actually
give me their CD. I've still got the CD, dude.
It had three songs on it and every one of them
was so good. But, yeah, he's been following us
and commenting on nearly every video. He has,
yeah. He had a couple of questions for us. I
think one of the first ones was, and I'm pretty
sure I know what your answer is going to be,
what movie, TV series, what ended too soon? There's
a couple. I have a couple. But first and foremost,
the first one that I will say is Firefly. Yeah.
I could see that coming. Firefly. Yeah. It just
needed more. There's so much that could have
been done with that show. Still, it's still a
rewatch for me, at least every six months. Another
show that ended too soon. I'll come back to you.
Okay. Give me yours. I had to think about this.
I'm thinking heroes. Now, when I say it ended
too soon, I want to forget the fourth season
completely. Forget the second, third, and fourth
season? No. I could see where they were going
with the other ones. The second season had their
merits. So second and third, I think they were
shot together. Anyway, but it was the fourth
season that hurt a lot. Because that was filmed
during the writer's strike. That was the one
where the carnival and all that shit. I don't
think I watched that season, have you? Yeah,
okay. So it was fucking horrible. So, yeah, there
was the writer's strike. They continued to push
on with the story and it just fucking folded
completely. Because that first season was transcendent,
man. It was incredible. Such a good show. Yeah.
I think it's because one of my favourite things
when it comes to, like, a lot of IPs, whether
it's like superheroes or whatever it is. I like
a found family. I like a cast of characters coming
together with their own abilities or specialities
or whatnot. There's just something about it I
like. And, yeah, you had like the cheerleader.
Then you had the time traveller, save the cheerleader,
save the world. Save the cheerleader, save the
world. Hiro Nakamura. Yes. The brothers, one
who couldn't figure out his powers, turns out
he could use any power, and the one that could
fly. Yeah. Like, there was some really cool,
and then fucking Skylar, was your name? Silas.
Silas. That's it, Silas, who was, like, the opposite
of Milo. Milo. Yeah, to consume the. Yeah. He
could figure them out by opening them up and
shit like that. Like, there was so much to that
show. Even the comic book writer that saw the
future. Yeah. It was something that, and when
I say it ended too soon, I feel like the writer's
strike was the point of where it ended too soon.
They should have stopped and went on hiatus or
whatever. Yeah. It could have been something
fantastic. Yeah. That first season, man, was
some of the best TV you'll see. It's unreal.
Yeah. But I do agree with Firefly. But at the
same time, Firefly has become this thing. Where
it's like, is it better that we didn't get a
second season? Because, like, there will always
be. Perfect. Perfect in that first season. They
made the movie on it. Like, I mean, Joss Whedon
for all his flaws. I fucking loved Buffy. Can
make good TV, man. Can make good TV. I loved
Buffy at the time. Looking back on it, it probably
went on far longer than it needed to. It's coming
back. It's coming back. Yeah, well, you know,
be that what it is. I agree, man. Buffy was good.
Back in the day of waiting week for week. Yeah.
I think that's something that we've lost, the
weekly episodic TV series. And then if you missed
it. Oh, dude, you're fucked. You can't catch
up on it. You had to talk to people at school.
What happened? Tell me. You can't go down and
download it. You can't go and stream it unless
you've got a parent who would record it for you.
You'd only find out six months after it finished
when they released it on DVD. Whatever it was
at the time. VHS. VHS at the time. Fuck, we're
old. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, that's actually a really
good one, Heroes. Ali Larder's character was
great in it too. God, that was a good show. It
was. It had so much potential. You have to re
-watch that. You have to re -watch that. No,
I'm going to stick with, I'll stick with Firefly.
Yeah. Everything else, every other TV show I've
sort of enjoyed has really, you know, Sons of
Anarchy had a, you know, it concluded. It had
a seven series arc. Friends, they concluded that.
Scrubs is coming back, but it didn't end too
soon either. Yeah, I mean, your mother probably
went on a bit too long, and then they shit the
bed with it by just killing the mother off in
one episode, and then he moved on. Fuck off.
That would really piss me off. Yeah. They should
have just been Robin all along. Why not just
leave it with Robin? Fuck me dead. What? Like,
they changed it because everybody knew or whatever?
Well, the person who played his wife, Christina
Migliardi, I think is her name, she was in The
Penguin Man. She's doing big things now. Dude,
in The Penguin? Fucking ferocious. Yeah, right.
Have you watched it? No, I haven't. Dude, please
watch The Penguin. You will not regret it. Okay.
Even forget the Batman of it all, it is a great
mob show. Yeah, okay. Very Soprano -esque. I
haven't watched that either. Fuck, I hate my
life. Watch it, man. She's sensational in it.
Okay. Because she did a few big episodes of Black
Mirror as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. The Star Trek
-y one. Yeah, man, where he keeps them all prisoner.
They're actually making a spin -off of that episode,
which I'm really looking forward to. That's another
thing that's just popped up on Netflix, the next
season of Black Mirror is out. Have you watched
any of it? No. You haven't seen any of the? No.
Oh, man. What was one of his other questions?
The other one was, what's a guilty pleasure?
Masturbation. What? To watch. Can't. To watch?
Masturbation. No. Oh, a guilty pleasure movie.
Dude, I've got so many. Some that are terrible
movies like Daredevil. Well, I think that's what
constitutes a guilty pleasure is something that's
terrible but that you like to watch. Yeah, Daredevil.
I still love it. The Ben Affleck one. Yeah. I
still love it, man. And everybody hates on it,
but Oblivion with Tom Cruise. I love that movie.
I don't hate on it. No. I love it. I've had a
lot of trouble with this question since Tana
asked it because I don't like to watch shit.
I don't re -watch stuff either. Yeah. Well, I
can't say Aquaman because it was just cinematic
masterpiece, but Daredevil was fucking. I still
watch that. I watched it here the other day at
the shop. Soundtrack is sensational. Electra
using size is laughable. And, like, at the end
where Bullseye is stabbing, like, impaled her,
like, let's say this is Electra. So he stabbed
her up like this, and it's on this angle, but
the other part of the blade's coming out here.
So it goes straight through her. Yeah, right.
Laughable. But. That was my favourite Ben Urich.
And just when he says, you know, go get a mat,
it's like, fuck yeah, sick. I'm getting excited.
I'm going to go probably re -watch it again tonight.
Thanks, Tom. Yeah, honestly, I don't think of
anything that would be considered a guilty pleasure.
I've liked – I don't want to say I like good
stuff because that's going to sound pretentious.
But, like, at the same time, I don't re -watch
shit. Why? I don't have time. Dude, you've got
to re -watch because you did. Okay. For me. Oh,
yeah. He's a blonde hazer. Yeah. Pube. Wow. That
was a long, straight pube. I find that if I re
-watch a movie, it changes. Whether it's. Sounds
so pretentious when you say that, whether it
was me that's changed or the media that changed.
Well, I mean, no, I do get that. I do think that
reviewing something like after a long time, you
do change. But at the same time, I don't like
to re -watch stuff, especially stuff that I want
to watch that I watched as a kid because I don't
want it to ruin that nostalgia because I've done
it once or twice and I'm like. I can't sit through
this. I used to watch this heaps as a kid. I
can't watch this now. I find if you re -watch
something, there's nuances and lines that you
miss that change the film as well. Or there might
be parts in a way you've looked away and you've
missed something. That comes around as well.
But, dude, you've got to re -watch something.
If you re -watched Aquaman, I think you might
even like it. I fucking doubt it. Science is
deafening, motherfucker. Well, things that I've
re -watched recently are Interstellar. You're
going to hate this. The Lord of the Rings. I've
been watching that with a young fella. Why torture
your children, Jeremy? I thought you liked him.
How dare you? He loves them. I'm going to have
to go around and give him a huddle. I love them.
He's been watching the Harry Potter series. Perfect.
There you go. Education. I have no guilty pleasures.
I can't. Man, I'm going to think about this for
a while. I have thought about it for a while.
I don't think of anything that I've got off it.
What about, I think Tarn said Transformers was
his. I hated him. You've never re -watched him?
Nope. Really? Really. Re -watch him? Man, come
on. No, I saw him once. I'm like, yeah, well,
that was enough. I've watched them all. That's
what I think of your opinion. This is a small
room with no ventilation. My phone's not going
to pick that up. It will. Really? Shit. Because
I'm going to spike that volume. Wow. You're one
of them people. Yeah, no, I haven't rewatched
any of the Transformers. I think Endgame and
fucking. Infinity Wars are the only ones that
I've gone back and re -watched. Oh, dude, I can
only watch, I've watched Endgame I think three
times now. That to me tore me to shreds. Just
seeing the ending to that story, I didn't want
to. I know it had to come to a point. Yep. I
guess I can now because Robert Downey Jr. isn't
dead. You fucked it. That to me was the definition
of an epic. You talk about your Braveheart being
an epic. This was a fucking epic. Dances with
Wolves being an epic. Endgame was epic. It was.
You talk about Dance With Wolves being an epic
and it's all like just one main character. I
haven't seen it. Oh, for fuck's sake. Steph watches
it all the time. I haven't seen it. Maybe I should
get her on the fucking podcast. She does re -watch
a whole lot of shit, man. I don't. You fucking
fuck. I'm across all the new shit. I see all
the new stuff. I don't really watch stuff. So
you watched all the new stuff? A lot of it, the
good stuff. When you were 12, did you watch all
the new stuff? So you didn't, 28 days later was
new stuff. Which was the first one, days later?
Days. I did watch it. Which I thought was a bit
shit because they could have gone 28 days, 28
weeks, 28 months, 28 years. I remember watching
the first one, but I wasn't invested in it for
some reason. And then the second coming out,
I didn't watch it at all. Third one's coming
out, I'm like, I need to revisit that. Rewatch
them. Not rewatch, watch. They are pinnacle zombie
movies, scary zombie movies. You see zombie movies
and they're not usually scary. They're gruesome.
They're not scary. These motherfuckers are scary,
dude. It's not like a zombie. It's a rage. So
they're not brains. They just want to kill you
and destroy you. It's rage and they run and they
run and it's scary as shit. Yeah, well, I've
just watched this new trailer and I'm like, oh,
man, there seems to be so much kind of happening
in this that I don't get, which I'm assuming
is because I haven't watched the first two. And
then I've seen. Yeah, there's zombies in it.
They look pretty cool. I think there's one scene
where there's one zombie, its eyes are glowing,
but I think there's a fire in the background
and it just looks fucking cool. Yeah. I'm like,
now I want to watch that, but now I'm going to
have to watch the first two. Watch it. They are
good, man. Yeah. Cillian Murphy's first acting
role, the first one. We see Jeremy Renner in
the second one. Yeah, right. There's another
zombie movie that came out a long time ago called
Doomsday. set in England, and instead of trying
to combat the virus, they've just walled off
Northern Ireland from England up. They've just
put a massive wall across. And the top half of
the country is self -governed. But there's people
in there that have survived the virus. But the
virus has just started in England again. Right.
So they send one chick up there who's like a
special forces chick, send her up over the… border
to find out how they survived and how they've
continued to flourish after the virus ravished
the area. And it's good. I don't think it even
came out in the movies. Low budget, lots of cannibalism,
fat cars, but good movie. Cannibalism and that
just, did you ever watch The Road? No, but I
read the book. You know what pissed me off about
the book? Yes, the book. This whole thing, he's
traversing the country with his kid. Don't talk
to strangers. Don't trust anyone. Don't do this.
Don't do that. Protects him with his own life,
sacrifices his life. And then he dies and he
says to his kid, love you, mate. Protect yourself.
Remember what I've taught you. Walks out, fucking
first person he talks to. He's like, oh, hey,
friend. Mate, I would have punched that kid square
in the face. I think I watched it when it first
came out, Viggo Mortensen, not long after. Has
he been in much stuff? Not long after The Lord
of the Rings. Oh, so no. The first movie, I think
it was the first movie, and I watched it and
I'm like, fuck, that was bleak. I'm going to
read this book now. And then I read the book
and I'm like, whoa, yeah, that was fucking heavy.
Yeah. Comparative to the Book of Eli? No. See,
I loved the Book of Eli until they started rewriting
the fucking Bible from someone's memory. Yeah.
I'm like, okay, it's fucking that. Could have
been anything else. It could have been a calculus
book. Here, we need to remember science. Sweet,
man. That's going to help the world. No. The
Bible. And they're rewriting it from this guy's
memory. A blind dude. Stop it. That's exactly
how the Bible was written. A whole heap of fellas
sat around a table and go, he said this. I remember
when he said that. Bro, I'm good at remembering
quotes in movies. I'm not going to fucking write
a book of them. Yeah, no. I didn't. Yeah. No.
What was I thinking of then? We're talking about
the road. We're talking about cannibalism. Two
cannibals sitting around eating a clown. One
says to the other, does this taste funny to you?
You want to know what my granddad said before
he kicked the bucket? Want to know how far I
can kick this bucket? Oi, that's a good one.
That's a cracker. I love that. On that note,
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