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Brent (00:01:18 - 00:01:20): Welcome, loyal listeners, to another episode of True North Nerds!

Ryan (00:01:20 - 00:01:21): Yay!

Brent (00:01:21 - 00:01:36): This week, uh, we are talking Supergirl. And some news. Uh, this may be an interesting episode to listen to. This might be the last episode of the podcast. We’ll find out.

Ryan (00:01:36 - 00:01:43): Oh, why would it be the last episode? Are you quitting on us? If you quit, we’re gonna keep going without you. I don’t care.

Gen (00:01:43 - 00:01:46): Yeah, all right, replaceable.

Brent (00:01:47 - 00:01:49): But before we get to all that, we have Gen.

Gen (00:01:49 - 00:01:50): Hi.

Brent (00:01:50 - 00:01:52): And we have Kevin.

Kevin (00:01:52 - 00:01:53): Hi, I’m here.

Brent (00:01:54 - 00:01:55): And we have Ryan.

Ryan (00:01:55 - 00:01:56): That’s me. Hello.

Brent (00:01:56 - 00:01:59): And I think we have some news.

News: Eurovision, TMNT, DC Animation, Streaming, Conan, G.I. Joe, and Film News

Ryan (00:01:59 - 00:02:33): Yes, we do. And I’m driving the bus today, so we’re going right off a cliff. Here we go. Um, yeah, plenty of news. This one, I’m gonna, I’m gonna throw this one out there and Kevin can tell us all about it. Um, because I know nothing about Eurovision. Oh, but Canada has now— well, because CBC has been made part of the Greater European, um, Broadcasters Association or some such thing, um, that Canada is now joining Eurovision. What is Eurovision?

Kevin (00:02:33 - 00:02:51): Oh, Eurovision is the world’s biggest song competition. It is watched by like a billion people. Everyone in Europe watches it. Um, there are only a couple of countries outside of Europe that are part of it. Um, Australia and Israel are the 2 countries outside of Europe.

Brent (00:02:51 - 00:02:52): And Morocco.

Kevin (00:02:52 - 00:03:02): Oh yeah, Morocco was in and then they were out again. There was some controversy last year with Eurovision. Some countries pulled out because they didn’t like the inclusion of Israel.

Brent (00:03:02 - 00:03:03): Got it.

Kevin (00:03:03 - 00:03:49): What’s going on in the world. Uh, but it is huge. It has been going on for over 50 years. Um, the biggest act that you may have heard of that came out of Eurovision is a little band called ABBA. Uh, this is— this will not be the first time a Canadian has either performed or even won Eurovision because Celine Dion did compete for Switzerland in the 1980s. So, uh, but it is huge. It is huge everywhere in the world except North America. So, um, uh, it is a— on this side of the Atlantic, it’s kind of an underground thing. Um, it’s huge in sort of the gay circles. And, uh, uh, but it is, it is really a really big, big, big deal.

Ryan (00:03:49 - 00:03:53): Awesome.

Kevin (00:03:53 - 00:03:56): Yeah, I think it’ll be fun to cheer on.

Ryan (00:03:56 - 00:04:10): Do you think the Canadian participants will actually have a chance, or will they be treated like, uh, like, I guess, England, or, you know, who, um, all the other countries, people just decide not to vote for them no matter what? from what I’ve heard.

Kevin (00:04:10 - 00:04:49): Again, Eurovision is not just a song popularity contest, it’s also political. And I think right now Canada’s status in the world is pretty high. So plus that coupled with the fact that Canada is the 3rd largest music producer in the English world. Did you know that? Our music industry is the 3rd largest in the English-speaking world. So people know our musicians and know what kind of music comes out of Canada. So I think we’ve got as good a chance as Bulgaria, who won last year.

Gen (00:04:49 - 00:04:54): I think I saw the movie.

Brent (00:04:54 - 00:04:57): Yes, yes, yes, we did.

Gen (00:04:57 - 00:05:03): Yeah, that’s really all I know about it. I knew ABBA came from there too, but that’s really all I know about the competition.

Ryan (00:05:03 - 00:05:06): That’s more than me. My only exposure to it was that episode of Doctor Who.

Kevin (00:05:07 - 00:05:08): Oh, I forgot about that.

Ryan (00:05:09 - 00:05:10): It was like space Eurovision.

Kevin (00:05:11 - 00:05:11): Exactly.

Gen (00:05:12 - 00:05:15): So if Canada’s competing in it, I’m assuming it’s going to air here somewhere.

Brent (00:05:15 - 00:05:17): It is CBC, isn’t it?

Kevin (00:05:17 - 00:05:25): Yes. Uh, yeah, because the CBC joined the European Broadcasting, um, Commission, uh, CBC will be broadcasting it.

Gen (00:05:25 - 00:05:29): Like, I’m way more interested in following this than I was— than I would be in following FIFA.

Kevin (00:05:30 - 00:05:44): Yeah, the, the strange thing is though, is because it’s hosted in Europe and it’s mostly done live, that means things in Canada will air live in the middle of the afternoon. Um, so I don’t know how exactly that’s gonna work.

Gen (00:05:44 - 00:05:53): Yeah, well, I’ll follow it through TikTok Shorts, I guess. Probably 2 weeks after it’s happened, like a proper adult.

Kevin (00:05:53 - 00:05:54): But this—

Ryan (00:05:54 - 00:06:01): No, if you’re a proper adult, you’d be following it on Instagram another 2 weeks later. Oh, right, after it’s already been on TikTok.

Brent (00:06:01 - 00:06:04): Facebook, my friends, Facebook.

Ryan (00:06:04 - 00:06:04): No, no, that’s—

Brent (00:06:04 - 00:06:06): now you’re—

Gen (00:06:06 - 00:06:06): come on.

Kevin (00:06:06 - 00:06:32): Yeah, this is, this is a part of the platform Mark Carney ran on when he, when he was, uh, when the election happened. So really, he has come good on his promise. Yeah, no, that was part of— that was one of his platforms. It wasn’t a major component of his platform, but he talked about Canada joining Eurovision way back, uh, 2 years ago when he was running to be Prime Minister.

Gen (00:06:32 - 00:06:33): I quite like Mark Carney.

Kevin (00:06:33 - 00:06:39): I, I think he’s a pretty smart, intelligent man who is doing good things.

Gen (00:06:39 - 00:06:43): Yes, I don’t follow politics that closely, so that’s basically my overview of him as well.

Ryan (00:06:43 - 00:07:00): Yeah. Um, okay, we’ll see if Brent has opinions on this next news item. Uh, they have announced a new Live-action onstage touring show for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Brent (00:07:00 - 00:07:01): Oh, that one.

Kevin (00:07:02 - 00:07:05): Go ninja, go ninja, go ninja, go!

Ryan (00:07:05 - 00:07:30): Now it doesn’t appear to be the, the live studio or live stage show that we grew up with. Um, sounds like this one is supposed to— yeah, I hope not too, because those turtles are old. Yeah. Uh, it sounds from the description I read that, uh, It’s more like a kind of like a history of the Turtles, I guess, you know, kind of just like a broad strokes Turtles story.

Gen (00:07:32 - 00:07:32): Not—

Ryan (00:07:32 - 00:07:33): it’s not rock and roll show.

Kevin (00:07:33 - 00:07:35): It’s not The Last Ronin the musical.

Ryan (00:07:35 - 00:07:53): No, that would actually be kind of cool. It’d be better than the live— the rock and roll show they did, you know, that was sponsored by Pizza Hut back in the ’90s. But those Turtles have showed up on April— on, on Oprah, so You gonna run out and buy tickets, Brent?

Brent (00:07:53 - 00:08:03): Uh, probably not, unless my nephew wanted to see it. If my nephew wants to see it, yeah, I’ll, uh, I’ll figure out something maybe.

Gen (00:08:03 - 00:08:05): But does he know about the Ninja Turtles?

Brent (00:08:05 - 00:08:26): Um, he did. He seems to have forgotten them. Yeah, because he— well, he is young, so it’s— he’s of the age where, like, you know Things come in, things come out, especially with his generation. And like, I don’t mean that as an insult, they’re just like inundated with things so much.

Gen (00:08:26 - 00:08:34): He, he asked me if I could knit him a character called Bing Bong from a video game, and I had no idea what that was.

Ryan (00:08:34 - 00:08:35): What a Bing Bong is?

Gen (00:08:35 - 00:08:35): Yep.

Kevin (00:08:35 - 00:08:38): Yeah, not, not Bing Bong from Inside Out.

Gen (00:08:38 - 00:08:40): No, that’s what I thought.

Brent (00:08:40 - 00:08:43): That’s what we were clearing up right out of the gate.

Gen (00:08:43 - 00:08:53): No, it’s like some weird, like, spheroid thing. I don’t even know what video game it’s from, but I was like, you’re better off finding it on Temu, honestly.

Kevin (00:08:53 - 00:08:54): Yeah.

Ryan (00:08:57 - 00:09:30): Um, okay, we got a DC, uh, cartoon announcement. Some new shows announced, uh, while we were away the last 2 weeks. Yeah, they have announced a Joker Laugh Riot show. Uh, a crypto show, and the one that’s getting the most, uh, I guess excitement in the comic book community, the— an animated version of Absolute Batman. Uh, with the announcement of this Absolute Batman series, the after— you know, the aftermarket price of the first issue shot up like another $100.

Brent (00:09:30 - 00:09:31): Oh.

Ryan (00:09:31 - 00:09:58): Um, which is crazy. And also makes me very happy that I purchased that for cover price when it came out. Um, no details as far as like what the Crypto and Joker shows are gonna be. I don’t know, like to me I think like Joker Laugh Riot and Crypto both seem like those should be like those kind of 15-minute shorts type shows.

Kevin (00:09:58 - 00:10:04): I thought I read though that The Joker one was like an anime style thing.

Ryan (00:10:04 - 00:10:05): Okay.

Brent (00:10:06 - 00:10:27): And is it like, is it a version of the Joker we haven’t seen, or is it like— I could see like the Harley Quinn, like the Harley and Ivy Joker voiced by Alan Tudyk. Yeah, I could see giving that version of the Joker like shorts. Yeah, but so yeah, I don’t know.

Kevin (00:10:28 - 00:11:03): According to, uh, things that I am seeing on the internet right now, uh, Batman is gone and Joker is going on a crusade through the underworld. Joker launches a ruthless crusade through Gotham’s underworld to find the killer who murdered Batman because he feels he should have been the guy who killed Batman. As his violent quest pushes him closer to vigilante than villain, he confronts the truth that without Batman, he doesn’t know who he is. That is the synopsis for Joker: Laugh Riot.

Ryan (00:11:03 - 00:11:04): Okay.

Kevin (00:11:06 - 00:11:16): Um, it does say— this is on IMDb— that the country of origin is Japan. Okay, so it is an anime officially, but that’s about all we know.

Brent (00:11:16 - 00:11:17): We—

Kevin (00:11:17 - 00:11:19): there’s no announcement of cast or anything like that?

Ryan (00:11:19 - 00:11:34): No, no, they just showed the, the title card pretty much. So I’m surprised there’s as much information that you just read out there for it. So, um, so yeah, we’ll find out sometime, you know, by the end of year, early next year. Takes a little while to make a cartoon.

Kevin (00:11:34 - 00:11:49): So, I, I mean, I like that the DC Animation is putting out new shows, but everything is always either Batman or Superman. Why has there never been a Wonder Woman animated series? I would love an absolute Wonder Woman animated series. That show would rock.

Gen (00:11:50 - 00:11:53): Oh, is that the one that I, that I read that you gave me, Brent?

Brent (00:11:53 - 00:11:53): Yes.

Gen (00:11:53 - 00:11:55): Yes, that would be awesome.

Kevin (00:11:55 - 00:12:08): So I’m not complaining that we’re getting, uh, 2 Batman and a Superman-verse show, but I would love a Wonder Woman show, a Justice League show, a Green Lantern show.

Ryan (00:12:08 - 00:12:10): Well, we are getting a Green Lantern show.

Kevin (00:12:10 - 00:12:12): Well, we are a live-action Green Lantern show, but—

Ryan (00:12:12 - 00:12:15): No, we’re getting that Green Lantern cartoon, My Adventures.

Kevin (00:12:15 - 00:12:23): Oh right, we are. Yeah, okay, so, all right, Kevin reminds me I haven’t watched— sorry, and then I said Kevin has just put his foot in his mouth.

Ryan (00:12:24 - 00:12:26): Oh, that’s okay, you’re allowed to. It’s your foot.

Kevin (00:12:26 - 00:12:27): Thank you.

Gen (00:12:27 - 00:12:29): Um, it’s what we do here.

Ryan (00:12:29 - 00:13:01): Yep. So I just remembered I didn’t watch last night’s episode of My Adventures with Superman yet. I’ll have to watch that later today because we’ve already seen that Green Lantern, um, Jessica Cruz, show up in an episode as a fan. at a super convention. It was pretty cute. Um, so I haven’t checked yet, but apparently Project Hail Mary should be streaming on Amazon Prime, uh, as we speak. Should be available. You did? It is awesome.

Gen (00:13:01 - 00:13:03): I saw it. I have— we haven’t watched it yet.

Ryan (00:13:03 - 00:13:15): Yeah, but so it’s supposed to be July 3rd was the release date to Prime. So yep, and this is after that, so There you go. Get out there and watch it if you haven’t yet. It’s a great movie, as we have told you before.

Kevin (00:13:15 - 00:13:16): Yes.

Ryan (00:13:17 - 00:13:29): Um, this year, uh, sticking with Amazon, uh, they are, uh, Amazon MGM Studios is actively moving forward with a sequel to Masters of the Universe.

Brent (00:13:30 - 00:13:30): Oh yay!

Ryan (00:13:30 - 00:15:50): Even with its poor box office performance, uh, they are still gonna move forward with it. Which is awesome because I’m sure once it, once it shows up on streaming, it will be a hit on streaming. And, uh, it sounds to me like their goal wasn’t necessarily for it to be, you know, this big moneymaker at the box office, but things that it has done was brought attention back to the franchise, sold merch. Um, and yeah, like I said, I’m sure it’ll be popular on streaming. So they are going forward with a sequel. Yay. We got some news out of the Sony corner of things. So specifically from the PlayStation, they— if you’re a PlayStation user and you buy movies through the PlayStation Store on your PlayStation, um, yeah, you are gonna be losing— well, if you have these, there’s up to 550 movies that are disappearing from their platform come September 1st. Even though you’ve purchased it, you will no longer be able to access it. It’s all stuff from StudioCanal. So titles such as Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Rambo: First Blood, RoboCop 2014, Sharknado, Terminator 2: Judgment Day— those are all titles that come through from that studio. Um, so this is falling in the, uh, the ongoing debate of physical versus digital media. And, um, you know, what’s better? Which one do you prefer? I know we’ve all been moving towards digital, but if there’s something you really like, I still suggest you buy a physical copy of it because this is happening more and more where, you know, platforms are losing rights to things. And aren’t bothering to re-up them. And if you’ve bought your library through their platform, you just lose access to it. No refund. Like Brent mentioned the other day when him and I were talking about this, I’m sure buried somewhere in some terms and conditions or whatever, it says that this could happen. Yeah. And that even though you’re purchasing it, you’re not really purchasing it. You’re purchasing a long-term rental license.

Gen (00:15:50 - 00:16:11): Basically. Yeah. This is why Brent and I have the rule of, um, we don’t buy— we used to buy a lot of physical media, mostly because there was no streaming services back in the, you know, the old, the dark ages. And now our rule is if it’s something that if it left, if it left streaming, we would miss it, then we can buy it physical media, right?

Ryan (00:16:11 - 00:16:12): Yeah.

Gen (00:16:12 - 00:16:19): Uh, but Brent said that— and Brent, please correct me if I’m wrong— didn’t you say that Project Hail Mary isn’t even going to be available on physical media?

Brent (00:16:19 - 00:16:44): So far there’s been no physical media announced for it. That could always change, but at the moment there’s no disc for it. Um, there’s a bunch of other stuff like that. Now there is some, you know, weird things involved with it. Like, so Disney doesn’t produce their physical media anymore. Sony actually does, right?

Gen (00:16:44 - 00:16:45): Hmm.

Brent (00:16:45 - 00:17:11): So There are some like possible hiccups, but like, um, one of our customers at Big B, he, he doesn’t have much in the way of streaming services. He would prefer to spend his money on other things, which I get, but he is a physical media collector and had been buying, uh, the, the various Star Wars shows when they’ve been released on Blu-ray, right?

Ryan (00:17:11 - 00:17:12): Yep.

Brent (00:17:12 - 00:17:35): And I believe the last season of, uh, Mandalorian has not been released, with no announcement that it’s ever coming. The, uh, and there’s something else in there too, uh, second season of Andor maybe. Yeah, but they’re like, there’s a couple like holes that are now developing because of, of this.

Ryan (00:17:35 - 00:17:46): So yeah. Well, I could see it still coming because it took a while before those first seasons of the, of like Mandalorian even got released.

Brent (00:17:46 - 00:18:10): Now the thing is, is they just, they have not made any announcement to that, to that effect. But like he even said that too, is like it took a while. But I think he said it’s also like we’re now surpassing the mark for, for one of them between the seasons that would’ve been, yeah, between when the season aired and when like they got a Blu-ray kind of thing. But yeah, that could change.

Ryan (00:18:10 - 00:19:39): Yep. Yeah, so it’ll be interesting to see what’s going on. And it’s funny too, because with— I guess with this, there was also a— like last year this happened on Sony’s network with a different studio at a smaller scale. I think it was, uh, Discovery stuff. Like if you had any Discovery shows, yeah, they all disappeared off their network. So those ones aren’t necessarily things you’re gonna go out, run out, and need to have physical copies. It’s Discovery Network stuff. But when it comes to some of these movies, you know, like Terminator 2 and Evil Dead, like, these are movies that people are big fans of that like to have copies of. Now, copies do exist of, but between this and people getting back into records and CDs, you know, it’s wondering, you know, it’d be interesting to see how far the shift back to people actually buying physical media— like, when, when do we finally hit that happy medium where things have, you know, we kind of, we went too far one way, now we’re gonna overcorrect again, and then it’ll just— we’re gonna land somewhere in the middle of, okay, the streaming’s out there, there’s gonna be some physical available. It’s like, yeah, you’re not— you know, we’ve seen you go into Walmart, you can barely find any CDs, um, or movies nowadays. You go to Best Buy and they used to have big movie sections. Yeah, now they’ve got a few like racks, right?

Brent (00:19:40 - 00:20:11): So yeah, I’m surprised more studios haven’t taken to the print-on-demand idea. Yeah, like it, you know, for your big ones, yeah, you have it available, but like, I don’t I don’t know why that’s not like possible for me to say, I want this one out of your library, I will pay $20 for it, click, comes to me in 6 weeks. Yeah, like not like no specials or anything, it’s just a bare-bones Blu-ray, whatever. But I, I’m not sure why that’s not more of a thing.

Gen (00:20:11 - 00:20:43): Yeah, and I also, I’ve noticed a lot of like at thrift stores, um, VHSs are starting to become more popular. Oddly enough. And, uh, because there’s a lot of movies, I guess, that never made it onto DVD but were only on VHS. Um, and even cassettes are becoming more popular. Like, I see tons more cassettes and VHS at the thrift stores than there used to be. Yeah, because like you said, that’s the only place you can get it. So there’s tons of Blu-rays and DVDs. So yeah, if you’re looking for something, uh, try thrift— try a thrift store.

Ryan (00:20:43 - 00:20:44): Yeah.

Kevin (00:20:45 - 00:20:46): There’s always eBay.

Ryan (00:20:46 - 00:20:51): Yep, there’s always eBay. I don’t know.

Kevin (00:20:51 - 00:20:57): I, yeah, I like, I like the convenience of being able to just scroll through my menus on my TV and—

Ryan (00:20:57 - 00:20:58): Oh, for sure.

Brent (00:20:58 - 00:20:59): Yeah, yeah.

Kevin (00:20:59 - 00:21:36): No, but I, I, you know, are they— it all comes down to money. Are the studios making money? And this even goes back to your say— telling— saying that Masters of the Universe is getting a sequel. They know that they’re gonna make a ton on streaming. It’s gonna be watched a gazillion times. And so they went ahead and greenlit it because they know that there is money in there. There’s money in the banana stand, to quote the Bluth family. So, you know, I just say, like, wait, let’s just wait and see. It’s all gonna work itself out in the end.

Ryan (00:21:36 - 00:22:46): Oh, exactly. That’s what I’m saying. I just hope we don’t get to the point like it was, you know, in the we’ll say early ’90s, where if you wanted a VHS of a movie, you either had to be part of, you know, Columbia House, or, you know, buy a used copy from your local rental store for like $20. Because trying to buy it somewhere, you’re looking at $50, $60, $70 for a movie because it was only available really to rental places. But, uh, yep, I don’t have any room for more stuff anyway. But, you know, at least I, you know, I become pickier and choosier about what I do buy. But sometimes you’re like, oh man, I wish I could watch this. And then you try to see where is it streaming, and it’s like, oh, apparently it’s not streaming on anything I have available to me, and I don’t have a copy of it. So I guess I’m not watching this movie today. That happened to me this week. I felt I was in the mood for like an action movie So I wanted to watch 13 Hours. I’ve watched that a bunch of times. I couldn’t find it on any of the streaming that I have access to. So there you go.

Gen (00:22:46 - 00:22:47): Yeah.

Ryan (00:22:48 - 00:23:04): Uh, what else is in the news? That’s done. That’s done. Oh, so for— we got another new cartoon announced. Genndy Tartakovsky is developing a Conan the Barbarian series for the Cartoon Network studio and Prime Video.

Gen (00:23:05 - 00:23:05): Cool.

Ryan (00:23:05 - 00:23:31): This should be awesome because he does really cool cartoons like Samurai Jack and Primeval, which is one I love the look of. I just, I can’t, I don’t know, I guess it’s a pretty much silent cartoon because it’s a caveman and a dinosaur. There’s not really any dialogue to it, so it’s made it hard for me to watch it and pay attention because you gotta pay attention to it. You can’t just, you know, be doing other things at the same time.

Brent (00:23:31 - 00:23:33): It’s like watching a subtitled movie.

Ryan (00:23:33 - 00:23:53): Yeah, exactly. You gotta be really in the mood to watch it, but it’s great. His artwork’s always— cartoons are great, you know, the stylized look. He did those original Clone Wars, uh, shorts that, that were great. So, um, him doing a Conan, I think that’s just— that’s an awesome pairing. Oh, Brent, you’re a Conan guy. What do you think?

Brent (00:23:53 - 00:24:20): Um, I’m very— well, I like his stuff to begin with. Like, Samurai Jack’s awesome, you know, it’s— he is a very good creator. This is something he’s obviously passionate about because he was working on this like, I think it’s 2008, I’ve seen, like pitching it to studios and just like places passed on it.

Ryan (00:24:20 - 00:24:21): Okay.

Brent (00:24:21 - 00:24:44): And the, the other cool thing is it’s not While it’s Conan the Barbarian, the— apparently this is going to revolve around kind of like the pirate years of Conan the Barbarian, which don’t get represented in media too, too much. It’s mainly from the stories and from like, you know, a couple of the comics and stuff like that, right?

Ryan (00:24:44 - 00:24:46): So he becomes a pirate?

Brent (00:24:46 - 00:24:55): Oh yeah, Conan’s been a thief, he’s been a pirate, he’s been a king. Like, it— like, he’s had a lot of occupations.

Ryan (00:24:55 - 00:24:58): Well, that’s good. Gotta diversify.

Gen (00:24:58 - 00:25:00): Yeah.

Brent (00:25:01 - 00:25:15): Um, yeah, so I’m looking forward to it, but like, it’s early days still. Like, they— it’s like pre-pre-production. It’s just Amazon signed off on like, we’re gonna give you money to try and make this a thing.

Ryan (00:25:15 - 00:25:24): Yeah, it’s in the same, uh, boat as, you know, a little bit further advanced, I think, probably than that Firefly cartoon. Because at least this has a studio.

Brent (00:25:24 - 00:25:28): Yeah, maybe. And like, he’d been working on it for quite some time.

Ryan (00:25:30 - 00:25:32): Yeah. Uh, am I— oh, go ahead, Kev.

Kevin (00:25:32 - 00:25:47): I’m excited for this. I, I’ve never been a huge Conan fan, but Tartakovsky’s animation is so cool. Yeah, you know, uh, go back to original— the original Clone Wars shorts and that kind of stuff too, right? I mean, he knows how to do tie-in media.

Gen (00:25:49 - 00:25:50): He did Dexter too, didn’t he? And Powerpuff Girls.

Brent (00:25:50 - 00:25:51): Yes, he did.

Kevin (00:25:51 - 00:25:52): Yeah, yeah.

Ryan (00:25:52 - 00:25:54): Oh, see, I didn’t realize those were his shows too.

Brent (00:25:54 - 00:25:56): Yeah, he’s like done a lot of cool stuff.

Gen (00:25:56 - 00:26:11): Johnny Bravo? Uh, no, no, not— it’s similar but it’s not the same, I don’t think. But definitely Dexter and Powerpuff Girls. Yeah, I love his art style. He did Samurai Jack too, didn’t he?

Ryan (00:26:11 - 00:26:15): Yes, yeah, that’s the one. That’s the, the big one I know him from, other than Star Wars.

Brent (00:26:15 - 00:26:34): But yeah, uh, Dexter’s Lab, Samurai Jack, Clone Wars, Primal. Uh, it’s a— there’s a cartoon on right now called Unicorn Warriors Eternal. Yeah, uh, apparently that was also him, or was just recently on, I guess. Yeah. Uh, he like was also involved in the Hotel Transylvania films.

Ryan (00:26:34 - 00:26:38): Yeah, I read that. I was surprised by that.

Brent (00:26:38 - 00:26:45): Yeah, yeah, it’s— he’s, uh Like, he’s worked on a lot of stuff.

Kevin (00:26:45 - 00:26:47): He did Flintstones on the Rocks.

Gen (00:26:47 - 00:26:49): Did he do Fairly OddParents?

Kevin (00:26:49 - 00:26:50): No.

Brent (00:26:50 - 00:27:29): Uh, no, no. But he’s also like— he worked behind the scenes on Powerpuff Girls and, uh, worked on Two Stupid Dogs. Like, he came out of like that Cartoon Network— yeah, mill, which— well, mill actually isn’t probably a good thing, but it was like, you know, like they turned out some really talented people in that period where he was there, and he’s definitely like probably at the forefront. Um, it’s kind of forgotten he was like going to be the director of a Dark Crystal sequel that never happened.

Ryan (00:27:29 - 00:28:27): Oh, that would have been good. Yeah, there, there was like kind of some vague announcements and then it just went So yeah, we have that another, you know, thing to look forward to in the next couple years. My last little bit of news, I’ve had multiple people send this to me the last couple days. So apparently there’s reports, and right out of his own mouth, Paramount is moving forward with Danny McBride’s G.I. Joe reboot movie. Hoping to start filming next year, and it sounds like his treatment for the movie will follow Duke and a team of Joes that find themselves in a town that’s secretly Cobra, you know, taken over by Cobra. It’s like a Cobra town. So pretty much sounds like the Springfield storyline from either from the cartoon or the comics, or this, this idea has come up a few times in G.I. Joe lore.

Gen (00:28:27 - 00:28:27): Oh.

Ryan (00:28:27 - 00:28:50): Yeah, so I think it should be fun, and it sounds like he’s a real fan. He talks about in this one interview from this week that, yeah, growing up he played with G.I. Joes. He still has his G.I. Joes from when he was a kid. He kept them to give to his son. His son wants nothing to do with them. It’s his daughter that plays with them. She’s like—

Brent (00:28:50 - 00:29:13): so yeah, so she’s playing with them in the bathtub and everything, and So I’m gonna, I’m gonna comment a little bit because Danny McBride, like, they keep like categorizing him like a lot of places, like, oh, he only does comedies because he like, he did Eastbound and Down and all this. And that’s not entirely true, especially if you watch some of those shows. There is some dramatic stuff to them.

Gen (00:29:13 - 00:29:13): Oh yeah.

Brent (00:29:13 - 00:29:39): Like, uh, Vice Principals especially had it. But also he’s the guy who co-wrote the latest Halloween films, for better or for worse. The first one, awesome. Uh, we, we got a sort of a chain of not so great after that, but is he— he does have some chops behind him, and I’m hopeful this, this will work out.

Ryan (00:29:39 - 00:30:23): Yes. Uh, it sounds like he’s already got some ideas for casting and has been contacted by people that want to be involved. Of course, he didn’t go into any names because it’s way too early for all that. But sounds like he had originally wanted to pitch a Dreadnoughts film, and they were like, yeah, that’s great, but we kind of need to reboot the whole franchise. So nobody’s gonna know who the Dreadnoughts are. Come back to us with a G.I. Joe story first. He’s like, okay, cool, cool, I can do that, I can do that. So he said he sat down with his buddy that he writes with, and yeah, they came up with this treatment, and it’s been greenlit. So There we go. Uh, still not— I’m assuming not going to be our GI Joe Transformers crossover that we were, uh, teased.

Brent (00:30:23 - 00:30:28): Yeah, at the end of, uh, I feel that ship has sailed, the last Transformers movie.

Ryan (00:30:28 - 00:30:46): But yep, who knows, this could still lead into it. You never know, right? The Energon universe is out there. We’re getting it hopefully in cartoon form. We’re currently getting great comic books, so who knows. But, uh, as far as my news is concerned, that’s what I’ve got. Anybody else have anything?

Brent (00:30:46 - 00:30:49): I got one. Okay, you go first, Kevin.

Kevin (00:30:49 - 00:31:11): Okay, I, I got a movie news bit that is surprising, and, uh, it was kind of under the radar, but I heard about it on a podcast, and I just checked, and it’s been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter that a sequel to How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the jump— the Jim Carrey, Ron Howard movie is in development with those guys back.

Brent (00:31:11 - 00:31:16): Really? Because Jim Carrey’s kind of retired.

Kevin (00:31:16 - 00:31:46): Yeah, well, he said, uh, apparently, uh, Jim Carrey has said he would do the Grinch again provided he could do it with motion capture and not the excruciatingly painful makeup job that he had to suffer through. Yeah, yeah. So, um, Ron Howard is on to direct, um, The same— Alex Berg, Jeff Schaeffer, and David Mandel are writing, and Jim Carrey is in talks to come back in another Grinch film.

Ryan (00:31:46 - 00:31:52): I wonder what— how do you follow that up? Like, what’s the sequel to The Grinch?

Kevin (00:31:52 - 00:31:57): I don’t know, because his heart grew 3 sizes that day.

Ryan (00:31:57 - 00:32:00): So maybe he has a heart condition.

Gen (00:32:00 - 00:32:02): Yeah, it’s him dealing with his heart condition.

Brent (00:32:03 - 00:32:05): It’s, it’s basically a kid’s version of Crank.

Gen (00:32:05 - 00:32:07): I don’t know.

Kevin (00:32:09 - 00:32:17): Maybe it’s, uh, I don’t know, the Grinch defending Whoville from some kind of outside over-commercialism thing. I don’t—

Brent (00:32:17 - 00:32:17): who knows?

Kevin (00:32:17 - 00:32:18): It could be anything.

Gen (00:32:18 - 00:32:22): But ironic if it would be over-commercialism he’s defending them against.

Kevin (00:32:22 - 00:32:26): That just came— that was the thought from the top of my head.

Gen (00:32:26 - 00:32:47): I know, I know. But I’m like, oh, that’d be funny. He’s defending him from the very thing he’s become. Yeah, yeah, I, I honestly don’t think the Grinch needs a sequel in any shape or form. It didn’t even need the backstory that that movie had. Like, it’s a 20-page kids book, just let it be what it is.

Kevin (00:32:47 - 00:33:01): But anyway, there’s that, that’s coming. Oh, also, uh, here’s some theme park news for you that, uh, Universal just opened their new park In Frisco, Texas. Have you guys heard about this at all?

Ryan (00:33:01 - 00:33:01): No.

Brent (00:33:01 - 00:33:03): Is it the one with the He-Man stuff?

Kevin (00:33:03 - 00:34:00): No, that’s a Mattel park. This is a Universal park. It’s called the Universal Kids Resort, and it’s got lands themed to, uh, Camp Jurassic and Shrek and Minions and Trolls, that kind of thing. Um, so they had a bunch of influencers, theme park influencers, come before the park opened And, you know, most times influencers who are, uh, you know, brought there by the company say very, very nice things about their park. Well, some influencers were like, nope, there’s no way I can say nice things about this park because it’s, it’s in the middle of Texas, very hot, very dry. It has no shade. It’s, it’s not a highly themed resort. like Epic Universe was that opened last year. This is a bare bones— it’s almost a Santa’s Village-like park with Universal IPs in it.

Ryan (00:34:01 - 00:34:04): Yeah, so they’re not the target audience for it.

Kevin (00:34:04 - 00:35:07): No, they are not. But it, you know, there’s a little river raft ride and basically they just ride— you just ride through a concrete trough. They could have tried a little harder with some color and maybe put up some shade structure I know it’s not the park for me. Like, they’re looking at the Legoland market. There’s a Peppa Pig theme park that’s at the same kind of level. That’s what they’re going for here. But after Epic Universe was so huge and beautiful, everybody was expecting that, and that is not what this is. It’s got some kids rides. It has no— it has one roller coaster, but it’s not a big thrill thing, right? It’s a, it’s a theme park for families with kids under 10, and that’s what they built. And we’ll see how it goes. Give it a couple years, maybe when the trees grow in and there’s some shade, it’ll be nicer. But go take a look at some pictures of the Universal Kids Park in Frisco, Texas, and which is just outside of Dallas, by the way. So yeah, it’s, um, it’s, it’s there and it’s—

Ryan (00:35:07 - 00:35:08): It’s there.

Brent (00:35:09 - 00:35:15): There. It’s like a great tagline for it. Universal theme park, Texas. It’s just— it’s there.

Kevin (00:35:15 - 00:35:17): Yeah, yeah.

Ryan (00:35:17 - 00:35:18): What else you’re gonna do?

Kevin (00:35:18 - 00:36:12): I mean, I got it. I gotta give it— I gotta give it to Universal. They are trying things outside of their theme parks because they’ve also opened the Universal Horror, um, attraction in Las Vegas. That’s been running for almost a year now. They’re building a second one of those in Chicago. So they are doing some things to, to try to expand their brand. Oh, they’re building a new park in Great Britain, the Universal Great Britain Resort. So Universal is on the expansion path. But, uh, this is also news that came out this week too. Comcast, the owner of NBCUniversal, wants to split their tech— the tech side of their business and the content side of their business into 2. So NBCUniversal will be split off into its own company, and Comcast will be a different company. both will be publicly traded like they were before they merged.

Ryan (00:36:12 - 00:36:16): Yeah, funny how that works.

Kevin (00:36:16 - 00:36:36): Yeah, so I don’t know what that means for people who like Universal movies or theme parks, but that is happening too. Well, while Warner Brothers and Paramount are trying to make giant mega corporations, Comcast is like, no, our company’s too big, let’s break it into 2.

Ryan (00:36:38 - 00:36:48): The entertainment section is dragging down our, our cable package section, and, uh, so we got to separate these 2 entities and so we can make more money over here and hopefully over there.

Kevin (00:36:48 - 00:36:50): Yep, could be that too.

Ryan (00:36:50 - 00:36:52): What was your news, Brent?

Brent (00:36:52 - 00:37:15): Um, so one of my favorite movies might be getting a remake. I’ve heard this before, so let’s chuck this into don’t hold your breath on it, but this has a couple people behind it. StudioCanal and The Picture Company are shopping around a package for the remake of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York, directed by Zack Snyder.

Ryan (00:37:15 - 00:37:32): So it’s funny, I hadn’t heard anything about this, but when you said one of your favorite movies was being remade, the first one I thought of was, was, was Chinatown, and then Escape from Big Trouble in Little China, and then, and then New York.

Brent (00:37:32 - 00:37:35): So yeah, because they, you know, they’ve already tried one thing and that didn’t well.

Gen (00:37:38 - 00:37:46): And it’s funny, they didn’t like that one. Oh yeah, where he was like, what’s my favorite movie? And I think I went through like 5 movies before he’s like, yes, but what about this one?

Ryan (00:37:46 - 00:37:57): Yeah, yes, but not that one, this one. And it is— so even if it happens, you won’t be able to watch it on your PlayStation though, because they don’t have the rights to StudioCanal Films anymore.

Gen (00:37:58 - 00:37:58): Yep.

Brent (00:37:58 - 00:39:47): It all comes back around. By the time this gets made, if it gets made, maybe. Um, I’d like to go— here’s my take on it. This is a movie that doesn’t necessarily, like, doesn’t need a remake, like a lot of movies. It’s like, you know, like, I’m really coming to the old man conclusion of like, why don’t you remake the bad movies and try to make them good? It’s like, take a movie that had a great idea but turned out terrible and turn that into a remake. Um, in regards to Zack Snyder, In regards to Zack Snyder, um, to quote Sloan from the song Cokes Me, it’s not the man that I hate, it’s their fans. And, uh, I, I think he’s a very good director. Um, I liked Man of Steel. I went on record on Geek Hard at the time of liking Man of Steel, and I stick by that. Batman v Superman was poop. Uh, Justice League was— I, I don’t hate it like a lot of other people do, but I also don’t love it. Um, as a visual director, I think he’s good. Can he do this? Yeah, maybe. Um, I, I think the, the press thing for it, uh, is a little misleading because it’s expected that John Carpenter is going to sign on as an executive producer. Yeah, he probably will, but they’re like, it will have involvement from John Carpenter. Like, no, no, it won’t. Because he— Fan Expo in Toronto, there is a famous clip of him where he’s like, oh, these remakes are great because I sign on as an executive producer, I hold out my hand, and money appears in it.

Ryan (00:39:47 - 00:39:48): Yep.

Brent (00:39:48 - 00:40:27): So he’s like, he has no illusions. to it. Like, he signs on as like his name, and like, he famously doesn’t really get involved with them. The, the latest Halloween series, he did the score for the, the new first one in that trilogy. So like, maybe something like that, maybe. But, um, coincidentally, in this news, I also came across, uh, a bit from a Zack Snyder friend, and that would be Jason Momoa, who we’re going to get to a little bit later in this podcast.

Kevin (00:40:28 - 00:40:28): Where—

Brent (00:40:28 - 00:41:09): here’s the quote: Do we need a remake? I even like Escape from LA. I love Kurt Russell. And the truth is, like, as much as I love Zack, someone’s like, I want you to do Snake. And I’m like, I love Kurt Russell. I don’t want to. I never want to step into that. It’s one of those things where you’re like, oh my God, I would love to do that. But at the same time, I’m like, I love him too much. I really love Kurt. I say good luck to whatever actor is going to do that. So, uh, as I am wont to say, dump trucks full of money can change minds. But, uh, I think we can count Jason Momoa out as Snake Plissken.

Gen (00:41:09 - 00:41:15): Wouldn’t that be funny if like All of the actors just decided to band together and refuse to do that.

Ryan (00:41:15 - 00:41:19): Nah, someone— they’ll find somebody.

Gen (00:41:19 - 00:41:27): I know it’s not gonna happen that way, but I just think it would be funny if it did. We’re like, you know what, we’re gonna have a united front.

Ryan (00:41:27 - 00:41:36): That’s what they say. Oh yeah, well, we’ll use AI then. Who needs actors? Minnaboda.

Kevin (00:41:36 - 00:41:37): Yep.

Ryan (00:41:39 - 00:41:42): All right, um, well, I think that’s it for news then.

Brent (00:41:42 - 00:41:47): Cool. So let’s get into the— oh, sorry, Gen, did you have something?

Gen (00:41:47 - 00:41:49): Nope, I just went butt up, butt up, bum.

Brent (00:41:49 - 00:42:11): Oh, uh, let’s get into the meat of this episode, and that is, uh, our review of Supergirl. Uh, it came out, uh, a little while ago. Um, you guys sort of said that you wanted me to go first. Do you wish that to stand or do you want somebody else to go first?

Supergirl Movie Review

Ryan (00:42:11 - 00:42:14): Yes, I want to hear your thoughts on it. Please go first.

Brent (00:42:14 - 00:42:45): Okay. Um, so I, I have 2 little, little like elevator short takes on this. One was it was okay. Um, the second is Uh, this really seemed like a movie that, uh, I want a James Gunn movie. We have a James Gunn movie at home and this is the James Gunn movie at home. And the, the, the third is people are hating this movie for the wrong reasons.

Kevin (00:42:45 - 00:42:46): Mm-hmm.

Brent (00:42:46 - 00:43:03): Um, I, I think from my brief discussions with Kevin, we’re probably in kind of alignment. He and I is, I really wanted to like this movie. Um, I thought, uh, is it Millie Alcock? Uh, Miley? I’m not sure how to pronounce it.

Kevin (00:43:03 - 00:43:04): Millie.

Brent (00:43:04 - 00:43:14): Okay. She is awesome. I think the casting in this movie is the strongest point to it. I think like everybody is really well done in this.

Gen (00:43:15 - 00:43:16): I—

Brent (00:43:16 - 00:45:12): this movie is half-baked at best for me. Um, the, the bad guys come— like, I heard a quote and I’ve been using it as well, like something similar. They come from the, you know, the former Eastern Bloc of space. They’re just like space Russian mobsters. They’re very generic. Um, it’s a lot of brown. As much as like, I think Jason Momoa’s casting as Lobo is perfect. I think he would do a great Lobo movie. However, you can take Lobo out of Supergirl, it will not change a thing. It does not improve or, or add to this movie. It doesn’t take away from it. It’s just kind of— it’s obvious it’s there because they wanted to get Lobo in sooner rather than later, and this was their first opportunity that made any sort of sense. Yeah, I, I think the story is— despite the fact that it’s based on a really good comic book, I think the story, the adaption of it, is kind of weak and generic. And it was like, it was okay. I, I hate the fact that like I have to say that because like there’s so many people online trashing this movie because it stars a girl and they’re like completely picking apart her appearance. Everything from her hair to like how she looks in the suit. And it’s like, it like, this movie’s not great. You can pick on it for other reasons in my mind. She is fantastic in it. I like— I’m really looking forward to seeing her in a better movie, to be honest. So, um, I wouldn’t say exactly thumbs down, but it, it’s fine. It’s definitely not as good as Superman from last year. Who wants to go next? Who’s got a positive review?

Kevin (00:45:12 - 00:45:51): Well, I, I, I’ll follow up what you said because I, I’m on exactly the same page. I want— I went into this movie I loved Superman so much last summer that I wanted more of that. Um, and we— that’s not what we got. And I get that they wanted to show that there are going to be tonal differences between all the different films in the new DC Universe, and they wanted to show that Kara and Clark are 2 different kinds of heroes. But the movie was brown. The, the whole movie was brown. And she didn’t even put on the blue and red until like, what, the last 15 minutes of the film?

Ryan (00:45:51 - 00:45:51): Hmm.

Kevin (00:45:51 - 00:46:21): The movie was short. I think there was a longer version. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a director’s cut of this eventually because I have a feeling that there was a lot taken out of this film. Um, the director of the movie, Craig Gillespie, he’s got a strong, a strong, if, if not but quirky um, filmography. He directed Cruella and I, Tonya and Lars and the Real Girl.

Gen (00:46:21 - 00:46:22): So I mean, that was a good movie.

Kevin (00:46:23 - 00:46:28): Yeah, these are good movies. These are all good movies. He also did the 2011 Fright Night.

Brent (00:46:28 - 00:46:36): So I mean, which is an underrated remake, honestly. Like, I like the original one, and the remake might be better.

Kevin (00:46:36 - 00:47:24): I, I did— I mean, because Superman had so many cameos and minor heroes that were in the film. I was expecting some of that from this, and I know that’s playing into fanboy fan service, but you know, we were in the ex— the DC Space Universe and there was not a mention of Oa. There was not a mention of Thanagar or Rann, you know, that would have made my little um, 12-year-old comic book nerd’s heart go, oh my God, there could be hawk people or Green Lanterns. Uh, but we got none of that. We got— it felt like generic, um, generic, uh, um, Star Wars cantina band, cantina scene aliens.

Brent (00:47:24 - 00:47:25): Mm-hmm.

Kevin (00:47:25 - 00:47:42): Um, the— I did like, um, I liked Ruthie. I thought she was a great character. Um, they, you know, the, the comic is a sci-fi adaptation of True Grit, the, the Western.

Gen (00:47:42 - 00:47:42): Yeah.

Kevin (00:47:42 - 00:49:06): They didn’t play into the Western trope enough either. Um, so I feel like while they may have been going for something new, they just missed the mark. And I hate saying that because I want— I, again, I agree with you, Brent. I thought Millie Alcock was great. I thought Momoa as Lobo was good. I, I, I just felt like the trappings of it around it were, uh, but that being said, I hope she shows up in Man of Tomorrow. She’s living in Clark’s apartment now, so she better. Um, sorry, spoiler for the end of the film, but— And also, here’s the other thing, we, we had it all set up for it, for Krypto, uh, in the, in the first, in the Superman. Oh, it’s clear it’s her dog. And yes, the, the bat, the, the fight to find the antidote for Krypto was her motivation, but I wanted to see joyful Krypto out on the plains with Supergirl. And I know, I, again, that’s the plot in the book too, I think, that’s— that Krypto is ill. But I, I wanted more. I wanted something to bring a little joy to this film. and it was dour and brown. Uh, but she was great. So yeah, somebody save us from this, um, mire of mediocrity.

Gen (00:49:06 - 00:49:07): Yeah, Ryan, you go next.

Ryan (00:49:07 - 00:49:08): I’ll go next.

Gen (00:49:08 - 00:49:13): You and I, I think, had very different— uh, well, not very different, but had a little different perspective on this movie.

Ryan (00:49:13 - 00:49:49): Yeah. Um, so just to touch on your guys’s point about, you know, there being a different cut or the, uh, the James Gunn— the James Gunn version of this movie. Uh, I did read some stuff this week where that it sounds like the original— there was what we got was the— as what they referred to it, the James Gunn cut of this movie. There was an earlier cut of the movie that was tested, but it scored worse or on the same level as what that Batgirl movie that they canned was scoring.

Gen (00:49:49 - 00:49:49): Mm-hmm.

Ryan (00:49:49 - 00:51:30): Um, so that’s why they decided to go with the James Gunn cut of the movie. So it would be very interesting to see how different, how different they are. Um, I thought Supergirl’s story arc in this movie was very— was well done, was good. Like you said, the fact that she didn’t wear the suit until near the end of the third act because she wasn’t there mentally. It’s like she wasn’t Supergirl. She was Kara, you know, from Krypton, where really she wasn’t from Krypton because she wasn’t born until after it was destroyed, which I thought was a very interesting new take on her origin. But like, she was very much dealing with survivor’s guilt. Yeah, PTSD. And this this little adventure she went on with this girl kind of helped her by helping this girl and, you know, trying to teach her not to do things. And also talking to herself that, hey, you know, maybe I don’t need to do things this way too. Or, you know, I can let myself— you know, I can, I can let myself go. Like, I can— I don’t have to carry all this guilt for surviving. And then by the end, she finally puts on the suit, and that’s when she comes home and So yes, I very much look forward to the next appearance of Supergirl. Out of 10, I’d give this movie like a 7, 7.5. It wasn’t bad. I’ll watch it again. I don’t know if I’ll be buying a copy of it. Back to our earlier discussions, it did make me want to watch Superman again, which I did this week on my vacation, on my week off, which I did buy a copy of when it came out.

Brent (00:51:33 - 00:51:33): But yeah, I—

Ryan (00:51:34 - 00:52:12): it’s different than the graphic novel, which I don’t know if that’s to my, you know, to the detriment. I had recently read. So like you said, you know, yes, the Krypto being sick is a plot point in the, in the graphic novel, kind of helps to why she starts with this girl. Spoiler for the comic book version, by the time we reach the end She, you know, Kara’s already— lets the girl know, it’s like, yeah, no, Krypto’s fine. I had him brought, you know, I dealt with, you know, it’s like she, she had him brought to a yellow sun. She doesn’t need the cure for him. He’s already been taken care of.

Kevin (00:52:12 - 00:52:13): Right.

Ryan (00:52:13 - 00:52:45): So the fact that like this movie takes place over 3 days versus the comic, which took a lot longer time, right, they spread that out. And it was also retelling. Like, the comic book version was the, the girl, now an old woman, retelling— like, she wrote a book, or she wrote the story of her time with Supergirl. So it’s kind of like, you know, changed a bit that way, which they didn’t do here. This is just— I guess we’re seeing it as it happens. Like Brent said, yeah, Lobo was great. Was he needed?

Gen (00:52:47 - 00:52:47): No.

Ryan (00:52:47 - 00:53:08): He could have been— it could have been incorporated better. But, you know, yeah, I still liked it. But as I said, I’ll see it again. I’ll watch it again. I, you know, I still look forward to what we’re gonna get from the DC Cinematic Universe or whatever you want to call this thing again. Gen, what did you think?

Gen (00:53:08 - 00:55:26): So I’m gonna preface my review by saying I usually have pretty low expectations for DC movies. Just because I’m not a DC fan, um, as much as I am a Marvel fan. I always feel like, um, and Brent and I were kind of talking about this, it’s like they’re products of their time almost. DC is the somber ’30s and Marvel is the drug-induced ’60s. So Marvel tends to be a little bit more fun, more colorful, more light, and DC tends to be more dark and heavy, in my opinion. People are entitled to their opinions. You may have a different opinion because— anyway, so I went into this movie after seeing, uh, Kara’s appearance in that Superman movie. I’m like, oh goody, she’s gonna be a drunken frat girl, that’s gonna be a fun movie, whoop-de-doo. Uh, and I was actually very pleasantly surprised by this movie. I quite enjoyed it. I thought it was, uh, entertaining and it kept— I know nothing about the comic. never— don’t know anything about Supergirl’s background other than what I maybe got in a TV show at some point, um, like one of the cartoon shows. So I had no idea where this movie was going. I didn’t know like what the plot was, which I think is probably a good benefit for me enjoying it because it kept me kind of guessing and on the edge of my seat. Um, I like what Ryan was saying. I really loved that this was a big— and this may be why a lot of people didn’t like it, but it was not action-driven, even though there was a lot of action. It was very much character-driven, and it was Kara’s, like you said, trying to get over her survivor’s guilt, trying to work through her demons, trying to, uh, you know, fulfill her dying mother’s request of be good. Uh, like, you don’t have to be kind, but you need to be good. And her really struggling with how do I do that when, you know, everything I know and love is gone. Um, so I really love that it was her story and the, the way she found out— she found to be good, and it took her a bit to get there— was by helping Rufy.

Ryan (00:55:26 - 00:55:26): Yeah.

Gen (00:55:27 - 00:58:44): and telling herself and Ruthie, you do not want to be me. You know this. You’ll get screwed up if you do this path. You know, I’m gonna save you from the path that I ended up on because you don’t want to be where I am. And I really, I really liked that. Um, I don’t— I, I don’t know if I liked Ruthie. She was very— she didn’t have a whole lot of character. And maybe they were, they were uh, they didn’t want to like overstuff the character development too badly. Uh, but I don’t— and maybe I’m just misremembering because I said it’s been like a million years since I saw this movie. It’s been 2 weeks, but a lot has happened in 2 weeks. And, um, Ruthie seemed to not evolve too much. She was like, vengeance, vengeance, vengeance, vengeance, vengeance. And Kara’s like, no, no, no, no. Kara evolved, but Ruthie kind of seemed stuck. Um, and actually, I kind of want to rewatch it to see, now that I know the whole progression, to kind of see how things were, were different. Um, 100% agree with Lobo. They either needed to be more Lobo or none. He didn’t really integrate into the movie at all. It was almost like Momoa showed up on set in costume and went, I’m gonna film scenes now. Um, and they went, okay. Uh, I liked his character. I liked him as Lobo, but he needed to integrate better with the plot instead of just showing up. Uh, I was sad Krypto wasn’t in it as much, but like, again, not knowing— I was fairly certain Krypto wasn’t gonna die, but not knowing the end of the movie, um, you know, you still had that tension through the whole thing. Um, you don’t think about, oh, you know, Krypto’s not gonna die, blah blah blah. You, you get into the, into the story and you kind of go through Kara’s pain with her because he is literally the only thing she has left of her past life. He— Krypto is her family. Krypto is more of a family than Clark was because she didn’t meet Clark until way later. Um, and I also loved the fact that anytime there were scenes on Krypton they were not speaking English. They were— it was subtitled. And I loved when she arrives on Earth and meets Clark for the first time. She doesn’t understand English, and she’s faced with this stranger. And again, the only thing she has for comfort is Krypto. So the whole relationship between her and Krypto and her coming to grips with her survivor’s guilt, her trying to um, reshape her life on an alien planet, and Clark really not helping. I found that whole part of the movie really interesting. So I agree with, with Kevin, it was very brown. Um, but I also understand why she didn’t get the suit until the end. She wasn’t ready, like Ryan was saying. But I just found the movie, uh, pretty entertaining when you kind of think of it from, from that perspective. And, and as far as DC movies go, I quite liked it. So I guess thumbs up for me and Ryan, and, and maybe I’m sideways from the other 2. Yeah, palm sideways from the other 2.

Kevin (00:58:44 - 00:58:57): I, I want to say I did like the Krypton stuff. I thought the— I saw— I thought the Argo City scenes were really good. Uh, you know, that was David Krumholtz playing her father.

Ryan (00:58:57 - 00:58:58): Yep.

Kevin (00:58:58 - 00:59:00): Um, Bernard the Elf from The Santa Clause.

Gen (00:59:01 - 00:59:01): Um, no.

Brent (00:59:01 - 00:59:05): Yeah, he was also in Numbers. Numbers.

Kevin (00:59:05 - 00:59:06): Num, uh, Num Threers.

Brent (00:59:07 - 00:59:08): Uh, Num Threers.

Kevin (00:59:08 - 00:59:50): Num Threers. That’s how it’s, uh, shown on TV. Um, I like the Krypton stuff. I liked that we got confirmation that Jor-El really was a prick. And yeah, uh, so we did follow up on a plot point from the last— from the Superman film. I thought that was nice, actually. And That, uh, and that there was a rift between the brothers Jor-El and Zor-El, and, uh, yeah, uh, and that it was Kara’s mother who said, you don’t have to be nice, but be good. I thought that was a really nice way to give Kara, uh, um, a personality that’s different from Clark’s, and she’s still gonna do the right thing.

Brent (00:59:50 - 00:59:50): Yeah.

Kevin (00:59:50 - 01:00:00): Clark’s— Clark’s goodness comes from his Earth upbringing, and Kara’s comes from the teachings of her mother, which I thought was very nice.

Gen (01:00:00 - 01:00:00): Yeah.

Brent (01:00:00 - 01:00:04): I, I just thought this movie needed more time in the oven.

Kevin (01:00:05 - 01:00:05): Really?

Brent (01:00:05 - 01:00:28): Yeah, like, it’s like if— or if they had followed— like, and normally I’m one of those people who, if you like, the comic and the movie are separate things, but kind of if they had followed the comic a little bit more, like, the planets in the comic are, are much brighter in color sometimes. Like, you can— it would have made it more visually interesting for sure.

Gen (01:00:28 - 01:00:37): Yeah, yeah, it was very— and the fight scenes were dark and it was hard to see what was going on, but that might just be old lady complaint.

Ryan (01:00:37 - 01:00:39): Well, it could also be we saw it in 3D.

Brent (01:00:39 - 01:01:13): We saw it in 3D and it wasn’t shot in 3D, so that’s— I, I am giving it like a little bit of the benefit of the doubt for it because I had the same problem. problem, Gen. But it’s one of those things, like, maybe when I see it when it comes to streaming, it’ll be like, oh no, it’s just the, the projection in 3D is garbage. And they— okay, I’m standing on my soapbox. You guys can clearly see this. Dear theater companies, I know that you listen to our show and take our words as gospel, so here it goes.

Ryan (01:01:13 - 01:01:13): You should.

Brent (01:01:15 - 01:01:48): We do not need movies in 3D that were not shot in 3D. Yes, I know it’s a way for you to make an extra couple bucks and theaters are having a hard time, but at the same time, 3D added nothing to this experience other than a couple of my friends who wear glasses when they go to the movies had to put a pair of glasses over their glasses to see the exact same projection that we would see if it was a normal projected movie. Please stop doing this.

Gen (01:01:48 - 01:01:50): Glasses gives you a headache.

Brent (01:01:50 - 01:02:22): I, I am almost at the point that unless your name is James Cameron, you cannot have a 3D movie. You’re not allowed. Sorry. And then when James Cameron passes away, one of you— or stops making movies, one of you guys can pick up his mantle and make movies in 3D. Not, not translated to 3D, like actually shot with that in mind, because this was not. Okay, I’m stepping off the soapbox now.

Ryan (01:02:22 - 01:02:24): Nice soapbox.

Gen (01:02:24 - 01:02:34): Yeah, no, I 100% agree with that because, yeah, it’s just so annoying. Yeah, and you’re not even wearing glasses under the glasses.

Brent (01:02:34 - 01:02:42): It would be one thing if it added something to it. But it doesn’t— like, in this case, it didn’t. Like, there was nothing added on it.

Gen (01:02:42 - 01:02:48): It’s like wearing a movie where— where— through sunglasses. Like, if you put on and it just makes everything dark.

Brent (01:02:50 - 01:02:50): Yeah.

Gen (01:02:51 - 01:03:02): Or at the very least, they need to invent like clip-on 3D glasses, but then it depends on what frames you have. And, um, yeah, anyway, it’s a pain, literally.

Brent (01:03:04 - 01:03:22): So, um, yeah, um, as, uh, Gen kind of pointed out, Kevin and I kind of meh on the movie, and, uh, she and Ryan rather liked it. So, you know, the good thing is, is you can have opinions that differ from one another and not hate one another.

Ryan (01:03:22 - 01:03:23): And still be friends.

Brent (01:03:23 - 01:03:27): And still be friends, except, you know, deep down we all know they’re wrong.

Ryan (01:03:28 - 01:03:32): We were Right.

Patreon and Community

Brent (01:03:32 - 01:05:44): Well, if we were going in the— down the split from the middle, uh, my fake daughter did join us for seeing this movie, and, uh, she was in this firm camp of like me and Kevin. So, and that like, I think she went in with pretty low expectations or knowing nothing going in because she did ask me a couple DC comic-related questions as we were watching it. Um, but, uh, yeah. Alrighty, so, uh, that’s it for this episode. Uh, we shall be returning in 2 weeks, but before we get to, uh, Geek Picks and the final, final end of the episode, shoutouts for Patreon, patreon.com/TrueNorthNerds. If you would like to, uh, help support the show, $3 a month gets you everything Uh, it gets you, uh, I’m going to start posting, uh, because we now post on Spotify, a few of our episodes have, uh, had to be pulled due to various copyright infringements according to them. Um, could I fight this and argue with them for the next 6 months? Yes. But I’ve chosen, for the most part, they are much older episodes that very few people Uh, get back to. So I am going to start putting some of those episodes up on Patreon. Um, you— I’m going to put them in the section where all members of the Patreon can get at them, so free and paid members, but you have to at least join the Patreon in order to be able to hear them. Uh, to that end, you also get a shout out. So, uh, shout outs go to Drew, Karina, Alex, Team Woods, who did our wonderful website, Maple Printing, or Maple 3D Printing, and our good friend Rex, who still is our friend after putting together our latest episode of the Patreon exclusive Listen to This, which, trust me, as a producer and him doing it, he had much more patience than I had. And he’s still talking to me and Alex, so—

Gen (01:05:44 - 01:05:46): For now.

Brent (01:05:46 - 01:06:33): And I, I will, as a teaser for those of you who have not joined the, the Patreon, I would, uh, definitely join it for at least the episode of Listen to This that’s coming out because it’s all on, uh, songs that we, uh, Alex and I feel you blast out of the car the minute, uh, summer rolls around and you can roll down the windows. I tell a story on it about something, like it revolves everything around one of those songs, and Rex’s production on it, making it into like an audio story, is fantastic. So I would definitely join it for then. That episode should be up within the next week of this show coming out. Anybody got some geek picks they want to start with?

Geek Picks

Kevin (01:06:35 - 01:06:36): Oh sure, I’ll go.

Ryan (01:06:36 - 01:06:37): Go for it, Kev.

Kevin (01:06:37 - 01:08:07): Okay, um, I think I mentioned, uh, I’m— no, I— in fact, I know I mentioned that, uh, how much I loved, uh, Dungeon Crawler Carl, the first book in this, uh, audiobook series that I’ve been listening to. I just finished book 2, and I can say it is just as good. It deepens the mystery of what’s actually going on behind the scenes with the Galactic Corporation that dumps these dungeons onto planets and makes the residents of the planet fight to the death in giant dungeons. It’s very awesome. Again, I love, love, love the voice acting in them. The second, the second book takes him through level 3 of the dungeon, and it is— it’s called Carl’s Doomsday Scenario. And, uh, it is just wonderful. Princess Donut is still as arrogant as a, uh, a Persian cat can be as a, as a 20th level, um, um, magic-wielding, um, uh, video game character. But, um, yeah, it’s, um, it is good. Very good. So Carl Saves the Universe, uh, it’s not Carl Saves the Universe, that’s Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, but 2. I love it. I will— I’m gonna, I’m gonna cleanse my palate with something else before I start on book 3, but I am really enjoying audiobooks. Thanks, Gen, for keep— for you keep pushing audiobooks because they’re great.

Gen (01:08:07 - 01:08:10): They are, especially if you have long commutes.

Kevin (01:08:10 - 01:08:18): Yeah, I, um, I mean, I listen to podcasts all day at work and then I finish my day, drop my drive home by listening to a book book.

Gen (01:08:18 - 01:08:20): So yeah, that works too.

Kevin (01:08:20 - 01:08:23): Yeah, that’s what I do. But yeah, so who’s next?

Ryan (01:08:23 - 01:10:10): Yeah, so I had the week off this week, so I spent a lot of time hiding from this heat wave in my air-conditioned condo, and I was able to watch season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix. I loved the original cartoon, I enjoyed season 1, and I Season 2 did not disappoint. In season 2, they introduced Toph, so the earthbender. So we have interactions with her, and her character is great, and the actress playing her did a great job. The first— like in the cartoon, the first time we see her was in the like underground earthbending fighting league thing, and where she’s fighting the boulder. And the guy, the The Boulder was great. It’s now with it being live-action, so it’s only like 8 episodes, I think, long. I don’t think it was even 10. The seasons compared to the cartoon are, you know, condensed. They cut out a lot, all the fluff. And I think I saw there’s only one season left, so there’s— I guess it’ll be a total of 3. I don’t remember. I thought the cartoon was Or maybe it just felt longer because it was your traditional 22-episode type seasons in the cartoon. So you got a lot more in it. But I look forward to season 3 where we get the firebending and the war, the final war with the, you know, against the Fire Nation. Well, we’ll get our— I can’t remember their the firebender when he finally completely comes over to the good side and with his uncle.

Gen (01:10:10 - 01:10:11): And Zuko.

Ryan (01:10:12 - 01:10:28): Yeah, Zuko. That’s it. Thank you. When he joins Team Avatar, his uncle, who’s played by Paul Lee from, you know, Mr. Kim from Kim’s Convenience and from Star Wars: The Mandalorian, he was great this season.

Gen (01:10:28 - 01:10:29): I really got—

Ryan (01:10:29 - 01:10:39): Yeah, you really didn’t sit down and watch it. You do, Gen. You’ll, you’ll like it. But, uh, yep, so go out there, it’s on Netflix now. Go watch it. Next.

Gen (01:10:39 - 01:10:53): Uh, I’ll go. Um, hmm, uh, I’ve been watching, and I’m not done yet, but I’ve been watching season— I think it’s 4 of Vox Machina.

Kevin (01:10:53 - 01:10:55): Oh yes, it’s so good.

Gen (01:10:55 - 01:12:07): It is so good. Uh, and I don’t really have much to say other than if you liked seasons 1 through 3, you’ll like season 4. Um, not done it yet, but I really like that there were tie-ins to things in Mighty Nein, and Mighty Nein had a couple tie-ins with Vox Machina too because it’s all in the same world. Um, but like, they don’t— as far as I know, maybe later in the season they do— they don’t— the 2 groups don’t really interact. But you can tell, like, in Mighty Nein they mentioned the, the Chromatic Conclave, and then Vox Machina, they’re now, uh, they went to the, uh, the monks that one of the characters from the Mighty Neins, from that, that character’s order. So I love that there’s a little bit of crossover if you’ve seen both, but it’s not necessary to see both. Uh, so yeah, so far I’m really enjoying this, uh, season. I’m kind of trying to do it more slowly than I usually do by just— I usually just binge it, uh, because I’m kind of letting it, you know, trying to enjoy it a bit more. Uh, so yeah, um, I would recommend watching season 4 of Vox Machina, and I want Brent to watch the whole thing, so I’m gonna have to sit him down at some point and get him to watch it. Hey, Brent?

Brent (01:12:07 - 01:12:12): Uh, I’ve been trying to reach for something and I still don’t have anything.

Kevin (01:12:13 - 01:12:13): I feel so bad.

Gen (01:12:13 - 01:12:15): What about the movie we watched last night?

Brent (01:12:15 - 01:13:37): Oh yeah, actually, that’s a good one. Um, to To reiterate a past, uh, pick of Gen’s, I saw The Sheep Detective last night on Amazon Prime. It is wonderful. I don’t want to give away too much. It’s a simple detective movie, you know, because sheep are in it. But, um, I’m also getting very sentimental in my old age, and it nearly made me cry a couple times. Uh, but, uh, yeah, I highly recommend it. I’m very curious if they make the— apparently there’s 2 more books in the series. Uh, the next one, the sheep are, uh, in France investigating a werewolf, apparently. So I, I’d be all for it. But, uh, the, the other thing this one does in a weird way, there’s a couple things that I now feel can be Done on film that weren’t available before. Like, I love a comic called Be Suburban, uh, that Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson did, where it’s like kind of like Homeward Bound mixed with The X-Files. A long time ago, you could have— the only way you could have done it was like just straight-ahead animation. But now I feel like you could do it in a reasonable manner, much like this movie, but with more like actual superpowers.

Gen (01:13:37 - 01:13:37): Yeah.

Brent (01:13:37 - 01:13:52): supernatural stuff in it. So, um, yeah, so that’s it for this episode. Join us in 2 weeks where we are going to talk about The Odyssey. Hopefully Gen either liked it or has calmed down enough that she will be able to talk about it.

Gen (01:13:52 - 01:14:05): I already have thoughts and it hasn’t even aired yet. I went on a little mini rant when Brent and I were driving home the other day. Um, Yeah, so you guys have that to look forward to.

Brent (01:14:05 - 01:14:09): And it’s the movie that comes out before my birthday.

Gen (01:14:09 - 01:14:11): Yay!

Brent (01:14:11 - 01:14:15): Um, there’s that. And then a couple weeks later we got Spider-Man, right?

Kevin (01:14:15 - 01:14:16): We do.

Ryan (01:14:16 - 01:14:17): Yeah.

Gen (01:14:17 - 01:14:54): So, uh, I do have homework for you guys though. Oh, speaking of podcasts, it’s, it’s a really short homework. Um, before or after the OC, whatever you prefer, you need to find the podcast Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics and go through her catalog. It’s not that big, but she did one on The Odyssey. It’s 35 minutes. I think it was 4 years ago. It basically runs through the plot of The Odyssey in 35 minutes, and she’s an author, classicist, and stand-up comedian, so it is hilarious. Uh, even if you—

Kevin (01:14:54 - 01:14:54): that—

Gen (01:14:54 - 01:15:05): just listen to that episode either before or after if you want to go into The Odyssey without any preconceived notions, go for it. But it’s a quick little summary of The Odyssey for you.

Brent (01:15:05 - 01:15:09): Okay, I will do it after.

Ryan (01:15:09 - 01:15:09): There we go.

Brent (01:15:10 - 01:15:21): Because I told you my Lord of the Rings story, so I don’t want to spoil the ending of The Odyssey. I kind of want the Trojan horse popcorn bucket.

Gen (01:15:21 - 01:16:02): Yeah, it’s— so here’s a slight aside. It’s interesting, and this isn’t a complaint. It’s very interesting to me that they made the Trojan Horse in this movie as a rearing horse instead of a horse on all fours. Obviously in the epic poem it described what position the horse was in, as far as I’m aware. I honestly don’t remember in that much detail. Um, but in all previous versions of The Odyssey, or any time that the Trojan Horse is created or mentioned or shown, I should say, It’s always been on all fours, uh, so it’s interesting that they chose to do it as a rearing horse. That’s just my little comment.

Ryan (01:16:02 - 01:16:03): There you go.

Gen (01:16:03 - 01:16:12): Probably fit less people in it though, because either people are up at the nose like holding on for dear life, or everybody is crushing the people who are in the horse’s butt.

Kevin (01:16:13 - 01:16:13): Hmm.

Gen (01:16:14 - 01:16:17): So practically, we’ll have to see the movie.

Ryan (01:16:18 - 01:16:18): Yep.

Brent (01:16:22 - 01:16:29): All right, so, uh, see you guys in 2 weeks. And until next time, obamaste.

Kevin (01:16:29 - 01:16:31): See ya.

Ryan (01:16:31 - 01:16:32): Bye.

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