From the Dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Clint.
And I'm Stretch. And this is Prevailing Strange.
Welcome back, guys, to our Week in Review, a
segment where Clint and I get to share our thoughts
on some of the content that we've checked out
this week. If you like what you see here, guys,
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exercise. What have you checked out this week,
buddy? I've checked out several things. The thing
I was most excited for was Andor, season two.
Finish that off. Dude, I'm telling you right
now, the sets in that, and I've followed, there's
a couple of Instagram pages where they're showing
the scenery of it. And then what they've done
post. Yep. Man, they didn't do much. No. They
might have done a couple of domes or a couple
of, you know, far away buildings and shit. The
fact that they found a majority of these places
and they're in the world today and they look
like that, holy shit. Yep. It was just beautiful.
Just eye candy from start to finish. Oh, yeah.
Even interiors and shit were beautiful. The story.
Sensational. Mate, give that Mr. Gilroy. Give
him whatever he wants, man. He's an incredible
writer. Yep. That show was sensational. K2SO
stole the show, man. Last four episodes just
stole the scenery. Hilarious. We've been out
for a week, so some mild spoilers, but yeah.
Yeah. Get it together, guys. Yeah. When they
go to extract old love from Coruscant. Oh, yeah,
and they're all locked down and he's coming through.
He's like, are you with us? No. Just slaps old
man off the bridge. It's so good. It was probably
one of – it is. It is my favourite Star Wars
story to date and all season one and two. Just
beautiful, gorgeous. I'd call them trilogy one
and two and Rogue One. The way it just kisses
up to Rogue One, man. It's just him and K2 getting
in that ship in the end. Yep. Wow. Yep. And we're
not going to see Diego Luna ever again. That's
him done. Star Wars, yep. He'd done a sensational
job. Oh, man. You know, even Bix, her ending.
Yeah. Chef's kiss, man. You know? I got choked
up when that happened. Oh, man. She made her
own sacrifices. Yeah, man. And she did it. She
knew what she was doing. Yeah. Yeah. You know,
it can't be easy for someone to walk away from
someone they love that much. But when they go
and do that and then you see them at the end
and they're – because she was messed up in this
season. Oh, yeah. Yeah. She struggled hard, man.
Mm -hmm. And to see her finally at peace and,
you know. Back with – So good. What was that
droid called, Little Red Droid? Can't remember.
Oh, I can't remember his name. He was like just
a sweet little guy. And following Handor around
in the first season and stuff like that, and
Handor's mum. Yeah. Loved it, man. Top tier,
9 .5 out of 10. It was such a good show. So beautiful.
And like I said, you sit there and you're like,
wow. She's did all the stuff and majority of
it wasn't CG. Yeah. Majority of them sets. were
real places that you can visit. Yep. Just fantastic.
Like when at the end scene where he's rescuing
Mon Mothma, just she left the Senate. Yep. And
they're running down that big bridge and you've
got that massive, it looks like an art installation,
that big white sweeping veranda looking thing.
Wow. That's actually real, man. You can walk
down that bridge. Sensational. Top tier. Great
writing. Absolutely. It's the best instalment
of Star Wars. As much as I love the original
trilogy, this is far better in my opinion. You
know, I can't forget his name, but his name's
Stellan Skarsgård's character. Yep. Like his
sacrifice and the way you don't know whether
you like the guy, but the fact that he's willing
to make that massive sacrifice and the fact that
that. They had that little flashback. Of his
adoptive daughter. You thought that they were
just partners through the whole season. And then
there's just this little, tiny little sprinkle
over here of, hey, no, this is their origin story
of them. And I think it's better that we got
it in that moment. As it was happening. Instead
of like over the entire series. I agree. 100%.
When she's sort of looking over him and you just
see the tears roll down, you're like, okay, I
get it. Yep. Because they kind of had a contention
about him. Yeah. They always seemed like they
were butting heads a little. And I think that
would have got tiring if you'd known their background.
But the fact you're like, oh, okay. You realise
their kind of history and why they are the way
they are. It was. I didn't really – in Rogue
One, I didn't really get Forrest Whitaker's character.
This explained it heaps better. Yeah. Like he's
not part of the Rebels. He's not part of the
– he's his own little thing. He just wants to
shitster and create anarchy and chaos. He plays
a big part in the Rebels TV show. Right. Yes.
Okay. Well, I think I need to watch that because
I hear such good things about that. Oh, man.
See, I tried to watch The Clone Wars. And I've
started a few times and then kind of got into
watching it a little bit. But we always just
kind of petered out. Yeah. I don't know. I think
I want to watch Rebels, especially because it
ties into a lot of the shows that they're making
at the moment like Andor and Ahsoka. Ahsoka.
Absolutely. But there's a lot of episodes. Is
there really? I think there's like three or four
seasons of Rebels. And there's 25 episodes. Something
like that, yeah. But they're only 20 minutes,
yeah. And that's another show I watched this
week. Short episodes. Great show. Cyberpunk Edgerunners.
Would you like to keep talking about Andor or
do you want to move on to Edgerunners? I think
we'll move on to Edgerunners. I could not look
away from Edgerunners. It is so beautiful. I
watched that the first time I had COVID. locked
in my room by myself in like a daze. But, yeah,
it's fucking – it's really good. It's good TV,
dude. If that was the first anime I would have
watched, I could understand me being locked in
because it was sensational. Yeah. And we talk
about it so much because we're wearing headphones
and it always sounds good, but sound engineering
was so good in that show, man. And just – Like,
you know, you see the key light, the bright pink
key light on everything. It's just beautiful.
I even started watching shit on YouTube about
people building salt bunk cars and everything
after I watched that. Oh, man. Yeah. It's a great
cast of characters. It's heartbreaking. Yeah.
Dude, as soon as you hear he's a Juan Carlos
Exposito. Yeah. Comes in in that last season
and like that last couple of episodes, that booming
voice. You're like, oh. Just spellbound. Yeah.
Just incredible. They're making a second season
standalone. I love that. Yeah. I love an anthology.
And, you know. Don't cheapen that first season.
No. Don't bring David back. Just leave it as
it is because he, you know, that sacrifice at
the end really just hammered it home. And her
sitting on the, you know, on the surface of the
moon. Yeah. And then he just shows up and you
can see the smile in Lucy's face. It's like,
it's perfect. Mm -hmm. Perfect ending. Yeah.
The fact that she was the only one that survived
was a bit heart -wrenching. But fuck, man, it's
such a good show. It's funny, there's a meme.
I'll put it up here and it's like a four -panel
comic. It's, hey, babe. Hang on, stop. Where
are you going to put it? You need to start, you
need to get your head read, mate. I'll put it
right there. It's a little four -panel comic
that's pretty funny. It's this couple and she's
like, hey, babe, I've got a cosplay to wear.
And she comes out wearing the cosplay of Old
Love. Which one? What she starts off in, the
blonde -haired chick. What's her name? The main
chick. Lucy. Lucy, sorry. It's been a minute
since I watched it. There's about five. Yeah.
Five chicks. Yeah, sorry. Lucy. Comes out dressed
as Lucy and, you know, like standing in the doorway
and then the next panel it's all made just on
the ground crying and she's like, really? It's
been two years. Dude, if she'd come out dressed
like Kiwi. Oh, God. Holy shit. Yeah, dude. I
rate that. If you're ever on the fence about
watching anime, watch that. It was Sensei. Don't
watch any garbage like Naruto, stuff like that.
That's for kids. See, it's funny. It's in that
area. It's like, is it anime or isn't it? It
is. You're exactly right. Yeah, you're right.
100%. Yeah, it's like Avatar. A lot of people
are like, it's anime, but it's not. No, I'll
put it. Anime is based on manga. Yeah, fair play.
All right. It's not anime. No, it wasn't. It
was based on a video game with penises. So much
nudity. Yeah, look, if it's stylised like anime
but it's not anime, I get it. But it was such
a good show, man. Yeah, it was. So glad I watched
it. Sensational, yeah. And then the usual suspects.
We watched the last season of Yellowstone again.
Again. We watch Ted Lasso again. Just it happens,
man. If I'm bored and I can't think of something
to watch, I'll put that on. But, yeah, I've had
a big week with Andor Season 2 and Ed Runners.
So I watched the first two episodes of Alien
Earth. I won't go into it. I'm not going to spoil
it for you. Good because I'm holding off on that
and Twisted Metal. It has divided people. Man,
that first episode looks like it's ripped straight
from the first Alien movie. Holy shit, really?
The set, the composition, the characters, the
style of the characters. Nice. Fucking sensational.
So they haven't gone and built their own world
yet. They're sort of still in. So that's the
ship. It kind of starts off as that ship that's
doing deep space shoot. That's the ship that
crashes. Yep. You get. How long are each episode?
About an hour -ish. Close to an hour. So I guess
I don't need. If they're that long, I don't need
to binge, do I? No. I could literally watch a
couple. Yeah, right. I might do that. I feel
like they're going to drop two at a time. Right.
Okay. And so we get at least four. One, two,
three. Yeah, four different aliens in the first
two episodes. Holy shit. Righto, let's go. It's
brutal. Yeah. It's like, yeah, very slasher -ish.
Yeah, right. But it's good. Does it lean into
the horror of Alien? So in Alien and Aliens there's
a lot of hiding in the dark and it's not as dark
in a lot of the scenes, but it's like I'll compare
it to. The Haunting of Hill House. So like bright
enough and there's things in the background that
you don't realise straight away. Dude, have you
watched it a second time? No, I haven't. Holy.
Because when you watch it the first time, it
draws your eye to the main characters and to
the centre focal point. Yeah, it's probably not
until halfway through the season that you realise
that there's things in the background. There's
shit happening back there, dude, that's scarier
than fucking anything that's in the foreground.
And what was his name? Oh, what was the bloke
who wrote and directed that? Oh, dude. Shit,
he's done that. God damn, he's incredible. Yeah,
I'll put the name here. Yeah. Just. That Horning
of Hill House still rates as one of the scariest
things I've ever fucking seen. Yeah, it's good.
That fucking bitch jumping out in the car scene.
Oh, yeah. Oh, God damn. So you don't quite get
the jump scares that you're used to with the
Alien series. Yep. But there is definitely, oh,
it's in the background and like it moves and
then it's more like it jumps to like a slasher
type gore type thing where it's less than the.
you know, hidden in the dark and you don't see
a lot but you hear a lot of screaming and shit.
Right. The characters are interesting. Right.
I'm not going to spoil too much about that but
you've got some big players in so there's not
just Weyland -Yutani. Right. In this series there
is five big corporations that run the world.
Do you know where this comes in? I do. because
I screenshotted a list of it today in the years
that it's based in. So it comes, so Prometheus
was based in 2089 to 2093. Okay. Covenant was
in 2104. Okay, so like 20, 30 years later. 10
years later. Right. Yeah. So Alien Earth is 2120,
so it's about 16 years after. So it's before
Alien? After Alien Covenant. Yeah, so it's before
Alien, first Alien. All right. By two years.
How good would this be if it butted straight
up to Alien? It won't. It won't? No, I don't
think so. I don't think we're going to get any
crossover with that. But so we have – it's weird
what it does. So in – Prometheus and then Covenant,
you kind of thought that David was the engineer
of the xenomorphs. Yep. But we have two years,
this is based two years after Covenant, but they
set out on an 80 -year round trip. Right. So
they've picked up a xenomorph specimen before
then. Yeah. So. Because of relativity. Not relativity.
I think just. Whatever they've picked up has
evolved simultaneously to like maybe whatever
it starts off with, whatever phase it goes through,
it always has an ultimate form. Yeah, right,
okay. So David's experiments might end up with
a xenomorph by the ultimate form where these
guys have picked up something that has already
been evolved in that point. I don't know. They've
messed around with it a little bit, but yeah.
Do you rate this, the two episodes you've seen
so far? I really enjoyed it. Okay. Yeah, I enjoyed
it. But at the same time, I enjoyed Prometheus
and Covenant. I know not a lot of people did.
You know what a lot of people liked? Not Aquaman.
They did. They liked it enough that we got a
sequel. Anyway. He's such a dog. Yeah, I'd be
interested to see what you say about it. It looks
really good. All right. Sweet as. What else you
got? I watched Talk To Me, the Aussie movie.
Did you really? You've seen it? I have. It was
good. It was really good. It's fucking good,
isn't it? They do a good job. They do a great
job. Danny and Michael. Yep. Considering I don't
like any Australian movies. It's good, man. A
lot of Australian movies have a tone about them
that I just don't like. But, like, you go back
to, like, Idle Hands. I liked Idle Hands. There
is some good Australian cinema. Viewing far between,
in my opinion, but this is really good. Like,
you could almost forget it's an Australian movie,
except there's the Australian twang in the accents.
Yeah. It's the first horror movie we've ever
watched where Rachel had to turn it off. Yeah,
right. Was that halfway through the movie where
old mate gets possessed? Old mate smashes his
face. It's heavy, bro. I almost looked away.
Like, that's how kind of like, oh, fuck. Confronting
his shit. Yeah. She goes sideways hard. And I
saw it coming, but it was fucking hardcore. That
scene. My God. Yep. My God. So I want to watch
Let Her In, which is their second feature. But
did you get intrigued to go and watch all their
shit that they used to put on YouTube? It's probably
not there anymore because it was removed so many
times. It was removed? Oh, yeah. How come? They
got so much shit removed, man. Why? Because they're
so violent. Really? Dude, they started just making
like Mortal Kombat movies in their backyard and
wrestling movies in their backyard. Yeah. Like
at home. At home in camera special effects. Graphic
as shit. Like doing fatalities with a circular
saw, cutting his mum's head in half. Yeah, right.
Bro. To the point where they were doing pranks
with people, where they were jumping in front
of cars and jumping onto cars and getting smashed
by cars. Dude. Oh, the McDonald's one where McClickety
Chicken. And Ronald, they call it clickety chicken
so they couldn't get done. Yeah. Clickety chicken
and Ronald, they didn't call him Ronald McDonald.
Yeah. But Ronald having a fucking beat down and
Ronald McDonald shoving clickety chicken in a
deep fryer. I think I've seen that. I didn't
realise that was them. Yeah, man. Yeah. Just
look up on YouTube, Racker Racker. Okay. Dude,
they've been doing this shit for years and they
deserve this shit. Yep. And they're so good at
it. Oh, man. It was a good original idea. I like
this. I like the fact that, you know, they seem
to be having like getting high or getting off
on the whole idea of doing this thing. Like it
was and then they're all filming it. So it was
kind of like a callback to like planking and
all that kind of the danger of these social media
posts and shit like that. Tide pods. Yeah, how
people are willing to do fucked up shit just
for fucking, you know, the clout. To go viral.
Yeah. Like some people posting everyone's farts
and burps for everybody to see. There's still
some people out there that really like that.
Well, hit the link down below for my OnlyFans
and my Patreon so you can sort of send me some
money for the burp and fart vids. If that's what
you want, we can sort that out. I could burp
your name real quick. I'd try to fart it. That'd
be a talent. That would be a talent. Oh, how
would you do it? I don't know. It wouldn't even
sound like a name, would it? But, yeah, like
kind of an original idea. But I could write your
name on my butt and then I could send you a video
of me doing a fart with your name. That wouldn't
work. A little bit of talcum powder on it. Yeah.
Antiquing. If that's what you're into. Clip it.
We'll do anything. I'll do it. I'll sell my soul.
I'll film it. Oh, dude. Oh, mate. I wish I had.
You know what? If I was a chick that was decent
looking, no one would ever talk to me ever again
the shit I would do on the internet. Because
they make so much, mate. Like there's a chick
on there that sells her feet pics and just smothers
them with peanut butter and makes like 15 grand
a month. Fuck, I could spend $150 on peanut butter
a month. Yeah, fuck, I know. Jesus. I'd even
lick it off my own feet. Oh, man, I'd do shit.
I'd do some pretty dirty stuff, but I don't think
anybody would watch it. Dude. Anyway. Yeah, great
movie. Yeah, exactly. Great movie. I loved it.
Yeah. That ending, too, was, like, pretty on
point. Yeah. Well, they're making a sequel, are
they? Mm -hmm. Okay. Which is kind of exciting
because that's what they turned down Street Fighter
for. Right. They were going to do the Street
Fighter movie. Yep. And they were signed on.
They were going to do it. And then A24 goes,
hey, bro, would you like to do a sequel to Talk
To Me? And he's like, they're both like, yeah.
Which is, dude, how many people in this day and
age jump straight into the deep end with their
own idea? Yeah. Fucking A. 824 men need to tip
their hats because that's by taking a risk and
by, you know, going, hang on a minute, these
guys have got a great story to tell. They've
got these hits. Guaranteed. Well, they're not
guaranteed, but they are now. Hey, 824, I've
got some ideas. Have you really? I'll tell Stoney.
But, dude, respect, massive respect. For the
Filippo brothers and for A24, man, for taking
a risk, well done. Yeah. We need more. There
needs to be more studios like that. Yeah. Fucking
hell. Fuck the Warner Brothers. I know we all
go to the cinema and we go to see the Supermans
and the Peacemakers and shit. Yeah. We go and
see the Marvel movies. Go and see these A24 films,
man. They deserve all your money. And Neon too.
Neon does some good stuff. Yeah, right. Oh, what's
the other one? And the Asylum. Everybody, go.
Nobody. Everybody watches silent movies. They're
so good. Have you ever watched a silent movie?
Sharknado. Jesus. Blumhouse does some good stuff.
Blumhouse does great stuff, dude. Naming your
own business after yourself is just such a lame
thing to do. Is that what his name is? Blum.
I didn't know anything about it. Fuck, it's a
morning star or something. I'm pretty keen to
watch Let Her In. Yep. Bring her back. Bring
her back, sorry. Yeah. Yeah. What was the other
one? There's another movie that's very similar
where there's somebody with a bag over their
head. That's very similar to the talk to me kind
of idea. I've seen some porn like that. In the
bag, everyone. Yeah, I know. But, yeah, that's
all I've watched this week. I could watch some
old stuff, but, no, that's what I've – I was
going to talk about a book I listened to this
week called Babel, but I don't know. I didn't
really read it. No? No, it was like a – what
would you call it? An alternate history. I don't
mind them, though. Yeah. If they're done right.
Yeah. Like in Glorious Bastards and things like
that. Yeah. So – I like the ones with the magic
system in it, like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell.
Have you ever seen? Never. So there was a TV
show. Great. Based on a book. Read the book as
well. Great. I thought that it was going to be
like this, but the magic system is real soft,
like real soft magic system, almost non -existent.
It's more just kind of like a drama type piece.
Not even drama. I wouldn't even know what to
kind of explain that as. Yeah, right. It was
all over BookTok for fucking six months there.
Fucking what? BookTok. What the fuck's BookTok?
So like influencers who all they do is read books
and like review and stuff like that, BookTok,
Bookstagram. Yeah, a lot of people read it when
it first came out and they said it was good.
I didn't read it. Not my thing. God, you're on
so many platforms, aren't you? I'm everywhere.
Jesus Christ. I've got Instagram and Facebook.
Yeah. Sometimes I don't even want that. Yeah,
I get that. I think I spend more time on Discord
and that's not even doing a thing. It's just
arc shit. Yeah. But, dude, it sounds sad. I've
got a lot of time at work. How do you go when
there's a machinery malfunction? I don't look
at my phone. I work on the fucking machine. Yeah,
but you've got your headphones in. Oh, you can
still hear outside. I've got the bone conducting
ones, so I can still hear. You do, too, don't
you? That's so good. You've got to wear earplugs
at work anyway. I still wear earplugs, but I
can still hear. You can hear through them. I'm
going to get myself a pair of them. They're good.
Comfy as fuck. I forget I've got them on half
the time. I wear them home. I'm like, fuck, I've
still got them on. Yeah, right. How long does
the battery last? Like I can listen to music
or a book. Full volume all day for like eight
hours at least. Fuck, dude, that's not bad. Yeah,
really good. Especially if that's what you're
doing at work. And like there's not going to
be super great quality, but like to get me through
work, man, like I can listen to a book, somebody
talking to me, listen to a podcast, I can hear
music and like still work and, you know. Yeah,
nice. Like I can hear somebody if they yell out
if something's fucked up. Yeah, perfect. We can
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