From the dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Stretch.
And I'm Clint. And again, this is Prevailing
Strange. Welcome back to our week in review,
a segment of Prevailing Strange where Clint and
I get to, you know, share some info on the content
that we've checked out this week. Glyntaris,
what have you checked out this week? I watched
that Annihilation movie you told me I should
be watching. Oh, yes. Honestly, dude. On Netflix
with Natalie Portman? Stan. It's on Stan. Oh,
okay. It's a Stan original. Dude. Really? Yeah.
Dude, it blew my mind. Yeah. The imagery in that
movie was sensational. Yeah, it's a visual feast.
Oh, absolutely. And the story was... You had
your guess and the whole way through you're like,
what the fuck is going on? Yep. The ending, I
didn't run into any issues. It explained everything
basically. So it's been a minute since I've seen
it and it's been out for a while so no spoilers
for anyone. 2008 and it came out. Yeah. So how
does it wrap up again? I forget. Okay. So they
go into the shimmer and they get to the, all
the shit starts going down and they have all
the - Area X. Yeah. No, no, no. Area X is the
shit. the station they're on, they go into the
shimmer. Right, okay. So they go into the shimmer
and all the mutated animals and shit are there.
They know from the first thing that something's
not right. Dude, there's one scene where Oscar
Isaac is cutting into old mate's stomach. I was.
Oscar Isaac's the husband that comes back. Yeah,
he's the one that comes back. And later on you
find out that. He didn't come back. He didn't
come back. So the shim is able to copy everything
that goes into it. Copy, mutate. It's like a
prism. So one thing comes out, heaps of different
things come. One thing goes in, heaps of things
come out. So it's able to clone, copy. And what
ends up happening at the end is they've got to
get to. this lighthouse that they know that that's
where the shimmer started. And it's actually
an alien race that's come down and landed. And
they're trying to essentially terraform the planet.
Right. Okay. The imagery of even just when they're
walking through the shimmer and then you're on
the other side of it, everything has like this
rainbow hue except for the people. It's so beautiful,
dude. And then they get to the lighthouse and
there's just fractals and amazing shit that you'd
see if you were on a fucking acid trip. Yeah.
And it was just beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
And then at the end, so she meets a copy of herself
and then kills it and then finds her way back
to civilization. Little do you know, though,
that she didn't get to actually destroy the shimmer.
The shimmer just took a different form, which
is now in her. Right. So her and her husband
are now both the shimmer. And it's that whole,
oh, dude, just a great film. Yeah, okay. So it's
very different from the book. Yeah, right. That
being said, I haven't read the second two books
of the trilogy. Right. Different beats, similar
ideas. I did read that or that made the movie
said he read the book. got the idea and wrote
a movie based on it. Right. Not an adaption,
basically. Even just when they're at Area X and
they're looking out over where the shimmer is,
because like it is, it's a fixed point at the
lighthouse and then it's sort of just spreading
out and it's slowly taking over the planet. People
have been going into the shimmer, have me coming
out except for one person, which is her husband,
and he's not right. He's... I'm not right. So
just looking at the visual and it's like just
this massive screen and, dude, you've got to
watch it. You have to watch it. It's great. It's
such a visual feast. Yeah. And so the book is
very different. See, if I read the book, I don't
think I would have gotten none of that imagery.
No. Very happy that I watched it first before
I read the book. I don't know if it's something
that you plan on reading, listening to. I'll
probably go to listen. So I won't go into too
spoilery, but there's a lot of different beats.
The husband isn't the only one that come back
from that expedition. It doesn't wrap up anything
like that. Yeah, right. At least in the first
book. Right. Where does the first book end? She's
made it to the lighthouse. Right. And there's
a bit of a showdown there and I think she's just
content being there. Right, okay. So she's an
entomologist? No, biologist. Biologist, yeah.
Biologist, that's right. So it kind of gives
this back story about how she kind of isn't really
a people person, likes to wander off and check
out these little ecologies. Right. And stuff
like that. So she's in a happy place, basically.
The first book, nothing to do with aliens. They
don't know what it is. Area X is The Shimmer.
Yeah, okay. The base is called The Southern Reach.
Right. So it's called The Southern Reach Trilogy.
So that's the project going into Area X. Right,
okay. Yeah. Very little kind of imagery about
that barrier. They cross. They walk through,
yep. The way that they get in there is very kind
of different. This is the thing. If you're walking
that far, why weren't they in quads? Go on a
dirt bike. So in the book they say they don't
take very much modern technology. I believe in
the book, in the TV show, the movie, sorry, they've
got like modern kind of equipment, don't they?
They've got video cameras. Yeah, well, they don't
take anything like that. Everything's written
down on paper, so there's a whole kind of they
don't want to take new technology in there. Right.
So in the book, do they have that scene where
Oscar Isaac cuts the stomach out of Olmey? No.
So you only kind of get backstory for him when
he came back. And so he came back and they had
basically, I think it was a few weeks together
in their home and then the Southern Reach. She
reached out to the Southern Reach because she
could tell there was something wrong with him.
And then he ends up. you know, passing away later
on after a long time due to complications. He's
not in the movie at all. Yeah. He ends up getting
better. And it's not the shimmer. It's a fungus
that recreates him in the book. Well, dude, one
of my favourite scenes in that movie was where
she was talking to a love that was the entomologist.
No, she wasn't an entomologist. She was a...
The linguist? No, no, no. She was the… Psychologist.
I'm just trying to think. She was the botanist.
And so she's like, you know, you want to win.
It wants to win. I don't want any of that. And
she's like, so what do you want? She goes and
just walks off. And then as she's walking off,
you see the plants and that growing out of her
skin and shit, and then she just disappears.
Yeah. And then you see all the plants that have
grown into the shape of humans and that. Yeah,
well, you do come across dead bodies that have
become very fungal and overgrown and shit like
that in the book. There's a hole. The first place
they come to in the base camp, it's like a set
of stairs that goes down into the ground. Do
they do that in the book? It's like a big butthole.
Yeah, okay. Well, this is like a set of stairs,
like man -made. Right. And there's this whole
weird thing where she thinks of it as a tower
going into the ground, but the others call it
a tunnel. And they all kind of argue over the
kind of how they perceive it. It's kind of a
weird cerebral type thing. And there's like writing
on the walls in fungal shit. There's a creature
down there writing stuff. Yeah, it's fucking
different. It's way different to the movie. Yeah,
right. Well, that's got me intrigued, man, because
like I said, man, the movie was sick. I liked
it. The fact that he's made Jeff Vandermeer,
I think his name is, two more books after this
in the trilogy. Yeah. I'm really interested to
see where it goes, whether we get another expedition
goes in, whether it's the botanist, because I
don't know about the movie. I can't remember
whether they actually have names. Yeah, I think
they did. Okay. Well, in the book, nobody has
names. There's the botanist, the psychiatrist.
Yeah, right. They're told when they go in there,
nobody's to kind of share personal life. Yep.
Yeah, there's no new technology. It's kind of
weird. There's questions still left there from
the start of the first book that hopefully get
answered in the trilogy. Yeah, right. Because,
yeah, it was like even when they were cutting
back and she was getting interviewed in the prison
cell. By the doctors. They were in the suit.
That's right. And she was surrounded by all them
suits. I was like, oh, so she made it out. But
they did it in a tasteful way. It wasn't like
back and forth, back and forth all the time.
It was just like when they had a question that
was going to give you some exposition. Sensational
movie, dude. I liked it. And then today I re
-watched Good Omens. Oh, yeah? Dude, that is
so good. The first season of that is sensational.
I haven't seen the second season yet, but. That
first season was so good. I started watching
it and was kind of like, eh. Like, I like the
actors, Michael Sheen. And David Tennant. And
David Tennant. I love them. And specifically
during, like, the pandemic when they were doing
the online. They had their little podcast. Fucking
funny as fuck, man. They're good guys. I like
them. Yeah. I thought the show was a little campy.
And we just were starved for time to watch shit,
me and Steph. and it just didn't quite tickle
the right bone to kind of continue watching it.
We picked something else up. So one day I might
have all the time in the world and go back and
watch it. Give it a go. It is good, man. Even
the second time around I enjoyed it. Did you
watch Sandman? No. The second season is coming
out soon. I've seen the trailer came out for
that. It is beautiful. You've got to make it
past the opening monologue because the bloke
who plays Morpheus. Well, here's Dream, the god
of dreams. Yeah. Dude, his voice is so sultry
it'll put you to sleep. Yeah, right. I've only
ever read volume one. Right. Not because I haven't
wanted to continue. I just never got around to
buying the rest of the volumes to read them first.
The audiobook, the Audible original isn't really
a book. It's a play. The BBC production. Yeah.
And you've got James McAvoy who plays Dream.
No, he doesn't play Dream. What's the other one?
Jude Law plays Dream. And his voice is sensational.
Just, yeah, beautiful thing, man. And to have
it in your ears all day is a good thing. But
I love them. You know, the writer has had these
issues in the last couple of years. There's been
some shit coming out of him. But separating the
artist from the art. 100%. I hate that he gets
money for it, but, dude, it's. He doesn't have
to get money for it. Yeah, well, he would get
fired. Fuck those guys. Yeah, fuck that guy.
But, dude, yeah, I love that shit. Like, it's
good storytelling, great storytelling. And the
fact you're a piece of shit, that is why I can
get you money. Speaking of less pieces of shit
and more of the BBC productions. Have you ever
listened to the Amber, not the Amber Spyglass,
the His Dark Materials? No. So it's Philip Pullman's
series. It's the, they made the movie with Nicole
Kidman back in the day, The Golden Compass. I
remember. That's the first book. And then they've
made a TV show with Daphne Keene. Right. X -23.
X -23. I've only watched the first season and
it is. With James McAvoy as well and it is fucking
sensational. Yeah, right. And the BBC production
of His Dark Materials is fantastic as well, well
worth checking out. But, yeah, I'm really interested
to see how that finishes the TV series because
they've done really well with the adaption. Yeah,
right. From what I've seen so far. And that's
a TV show, yeah? Yeah. On what channel? What
channel? What streaming service? What streaming
service? I believe it was a HBO. Yeah, righto.
I believe. So that'll be a max. Yeah. Really
good. Really high quality production. I took
Rach down to the Titanic exhibit for her birthday.
Yeah. How's that? So, doodles. Heavy. Heavy.
You get to the last room and it's. It's just
all the – fuck. It's just all the names on there,
dude, and you see – You've been pretty in -depth
with it the past few weeks. Dude, the last few
weeks it's just been Titanic documentaries and
just the amount of – when you see the third class,
second class, and then first class, and just
the names. And the amount of names that were
in the lower class that perished is fucking heartbreaking,
dude. And then you see the first class and there's
barely, when I say barely, there's still a couple
hundred people, but out of 1 ,500, majority of
them were people that worked on the ship. Yeah.
I think it was 2013 I was in Vegas and I saw
a Titanic expedition. I don't know how much it's
grown since then, but I thought it was pretty
good at the time. Just. To go down there and
see that and to see all the names on that wall
and then you think 1 ,200 people died in the
World Trade Center. To put that number next to
those amount of names, 1 ,200 is 1 ,200. But
when you see all them names there, dude, and
there's kids, dude. His whole family's all wiped
out. It's just fucking heart -wrenching, dude.
Yeah. Heart -wrenching. You think you're taking
your kids. And this is the thing, too. For a
first -class ticket, for one first -class ticket,
they had. like a comparison as to what else you
could buy with the amount of money that was.
Yeah, you could buy six tea bucket Fords for
one ticket. It would equal to $126 ,000 in today's
dollars for one ticket, bro, in first class.
Wow. One ticket, $126 ,000 in today's money.
Yeah. To die. Hectic. And then the white star
line. The company who had it paid out everyone
$1 ,000 in today's money per life. Jesus. No.
Fuck that shit. Jesus. So you probably haven't
had much time to complete watching Full Metal
yet? I surely have. Oh, he's finished it. I've
finished it. Fucking cried. Oh, dude. I fucking
cried, dude. Yeah. To see the brothers at the
end and to just have – fuck. It's heavy. To have
Al confirm himself that he is a human, that he
was a boy, that he was a person, that he wasn't
just made up by his brother, and for his brother
to sacrifice himself in that way, and then for
him still not to give up. Yeah. He goes, I know
my brother's there. I'm going to get him. And
then at the end, it's Ed sitting there in the
nether and he's sort of just waiting because
he knows his brother's coming. It's like, fuck,
man. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah. It's got the feels.
It's a roller coaster. They really, really, really
pumped in the ending. Like in the last three
episodes, there were still balls in the air.
Yeah. and like jamming shit down your throat
to finish it off. Yeah. But, yeah, dude, that
ending just with the brothers and realising that
they didn't need their mother, they didn't need
to bring her back, they just had each other.
Oh, fuck. Yeah, man. A fucking cartoon. Oh, man,
that's the beauty of anime and the fact that
a lot of people don't give it the time of day
is kind of crazy because it's a completely different
type of art form. It can be so silly and slapstick
and stupid half the time, but then just, you
know. But again, it was Al that brought it home
for me. Oh, yeah. He was, even at the end, he
was still my favourite character. Yeah. And even
Wrath, I started liking Wrath at the end, you
know, the homunculus. Yeah. I even liked Wrath,
even when he lost his arms and his legs and that.
It was good, man. Thank you. I appreciate it.
And I'll probably watch Brotherhood now. Brotherhood's
tighter. Right. Very similar beats. Some things
are slightly different. Action looks better.
Yeah. But, like, I wanted to introduce you. I
wanted you to go back to that. I'm glad I did.
Yeah. But, yeah, I'll watch that now. Maybe give
it some time to breathe. Yeah. There's the movie,
Shangri -La. I've seen some live -action ones.
Hard pass? Hard pass. Hard pass on all live -action
adaptions of anime. They just never quite hit
right. I heard Attack on Titan's good, though,
the live -action one. No? They never hit right.
There's something about them that's just kind
of icky to me. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. I get it.
The anime is there. Why do you need to watch
the live action? Can you pause? I've got a boy.
Yeah. So I believe it's called Return to Shangri
-La is the movie that's based after the original
series. Right, okay. It's not great. Gives some
closure, though. It's an hour and a half. So
you reckon watch that now or wait until after
Brotherhood? No, no, no. Probably watch it now
because Brotherhood ends completely differently.
Oh, okay. Yeah. I would probably suggest some
breathing time between the first watch and then
Brotherhood. Yeah. I believe you said last time
that you wanted something that was more geared
towards adults. Yeah. Well, there's a few movies
that you can watch that are way more kind of
adult anime that are fucking sick. Like what?
Well, the quintessential would be Akira. I think
you've heard of it. You've never watched it.
I have. Vampire Hunter D or Ninja Scroll. Three
great movies from. Movies or shows? Movies. Oh,
good. Yeah. Because that was so long. Yeah. Movies,
completely adult, cannot have kids in the room.
Okay. Yeah. What was it? Vampire Hunter D? Vampire
Hunter D. Vamp Hunt D. Yeah. Ninja Scroll. And
Akira. And Akira. I'll put them on the watch
list. But fuck you. Anime, bro. Wow. Lame. Yeah.
Tell me about it. But yeah, man, that's all I've
watched this week. What about you? I haven't
watched anything, but I – man, the only thing
I'll watch is this, but I edit. I might get to
watch something this weekend. I might be able
to watch something. What are you going to watch?
I want to finish Andor. I haven't even started.
Yeah. I like what I've seen in season two so
far. I haven't had a chance to finish it yet.
Three episodes in a row, IMDB's top ten. Yeah.
9 .8 or above. Yeah, I reckon. That's insane.
Yeah, hectic. So, yeah. But, again, that wasn't
written or directed by a guy who likes Star Wars.
No, no. He's a historian. Yeah. Sick. I reckon.
I did finish reading book 12 of He Who Fights
With Monsters. Okay. By Travis Deverell. It's
not for everybody, but I quite enjoy it. I don't
know how to describe it. It's lit RPG. It's not
a book book. It's not a reader's book. Right,
okay. Very much like Dungeon Crawler Carl. Very,
you know, splits. It splits a lot of people,
you know. People enjoy it for what it is. Other
people hate it because of what it is. I enjoy
it. Yeah, so do I. But, yeah, so the main character,
Jason Asano, he's an Aussie fellow. He's basically
an isekai book. Do you know what isekai is? No.
So in the whole kind of anime kind of realm,
isekai is when somebody is taken from our world,
playing mundane life, and somehow ends up in
a magical realm. Right, okay. Or highly technological
or they're pulled into like a, yeah. Some, almost,
yeah, like that's kind of Isco. So they're pulled
into another world and kind of. Yeah, right on.
Yeah. So he ends up in this world when he dies
on our world and in this world everyone has like
the ability to use magic. Where he ends up because
of some ritual that's going on is a bad place
and he kind of helps these people, adventurers.
helps them escape, but in the meantime, he needs
to kind of learn how to use magic, basically,
and the only magic he kind of has on hand is
all this fucking evil -ass shit. Yeah, righto.
So it's pretty much this whole story of nobody,
everyone's kind of standoffish about him because
he's this Aussie fella in a fantasy realm. Oh,
fuck these cunts. He's like an Asian -Australian
fella, just fucking sarcastic as fuck, never
had any aspirations, ends up with these powers,
dark powers. He's a smartass, and it's just him
trying to get his way through this thing and
nobody knowing what the fuck he's talking about
because he just goes off on tangents and shit.
It's entertaining enough for me. Are they long
books? They're pretty long. They're about Dungeon
Crawler Carl length. Oh, shit. It started off
like good length. Now it's 28 hours for a book.
I think the longest one was about 16 or 18 hours.
That's still pretty long. That's still pretty
long. That's still pretty long, man. So how many
words? Yeah. I'm glad I don't have to read it.
Yes, exactly. I mean, I'm blind the best of times.
I know that's not what you want to hear from
your tattooer. But. Not up here. No. Dude, when
I'm close, I'm, mate, almost like a hawk. But
as soon as you're like a metre or so away, it's
like people say, oh, dude, I waved to you at
the shopping centre the other day. I still haven't
seen you, bro. Man, I waved to you on the way
past a lot. Oh, shit. I beep, I flash my lights,
nothing. No. It's like everything's in Minecraft.
Like everything's just cubes and squares everywhere.
Shit hasn't rendered yet. No. I'm waiting. But,
yeah, I see people waving at me at the shopping
center. I'm like, I don't know. It's just a blur.
It's like even when Brett and Dave come in for
a coffee and I'll be down the front and I'll
be. I'm like, I don't know who the fuck that
is. And I just turn around and keep walking.
They're like, you rude bastard. I'm like, sorry,
mate, I can't see you. You talk to me first.
Yeah. Say, hey, Clint, how are you? Or from them
cunts, oi, fuckwit. Accurate. Whoa. Yeah, that's
all I got, bro. All right, cool. We'll wrap this
up, buddy. You wrap us up. No, I start the show.
Oh, shit. That's all we've got for our week in
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