SERIES REVIEW: The Last of Us Season 1

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,860 Hey everyone, this is Jennifer Hale and you're listening to the number one show on the Citadel the oblivion bar podcast 2 00:00:06,860 --> 00:00:08,860 I should go 3 00:00:08,860 --> 00:00:36,620 Welcome to the oblivion bar podcast with your host Chris Hacker and Aaron Knowles 4 00:00:36,620 --> 00:00:42,860 Hello everyone, welcome to episode 111 of the oblivion bar podcast the official podcast of the fantasy shop in st 5 00:00:42,860 --> 00:00:43,580 Charles, Missouri 6 00:00:43,580 --> 00:00:49,060 I am Chris Hacker and we have your co-host here and joining me this week as he does every single week my BFF 7 00:00:49,340 --> 00:00:52,780 Aaron Knowles Arby's doesn't give free lunches Chris 8 00:00:54,420 --> 00:01:00,580 What what Arby did Arby's doesn't give free lunches, all right, where does that come from it's from our topic today 9 00:01:00,580 --> 00:01:08,420 Okay, that's so that is extremely obscure and does that talk they talk about that in the show and 10 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:16,860 We're talking about the last of us today. And did they say that during the series? It's literally the first like it's in the scene where where 11 00:01:18,220 --> 00:01:22,280 It's in the most beautiful scene of the entire show, you know 12 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:28,980 Nick Offerman's character Frank says it to Bill. Okay. All right. I don't remember that I you want to start over 13 00:01:28,980 --> 00:01:30,980 No, that's fine. Okay 14 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:33,920 Well, give it a hand we're gonna keep it in oh 15 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:42,180 Everybody so Aaron I were talking before we started the show today and we have not done a normal episode in so long 16 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,880 Chris honestly, I can't even think of the last time that we actually did a like a full-on regular episode 17 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,720 What I was never afraid before you showed up 18 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,300 Okay, there's a good recovery. Good job. That is definitely the last of us 19 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:59,460 So like you said we are talking about the last of us the brand new hit series from HBO Max 20 00:02:00,420 --> 00:02:05,060 Aaron pretty much binge the entire thing the last couple days. I'm very curious to hear your thoughts. So tired 21 00:02:07,060 --> 00:02:12,260 We've had a busy couple weeks, right? Let's kind of go over things before we get into the patreon and forget the news and notes 22 00:02:13,060 --> 00:02:19,060 So we had an official comic drop Fanta Road number one by Christian Ward the official drop on what not went really well 23 00:02:19,060 --> 00:02:21,780 We had a lot of cool people shout out to beachside hobbies for 24 00:02:21,780 --> 00:02:27,060 Rating us at one point. We just had like a hundred hundred random people just pop into that was insane 25 00:02:27,060 --> 00:02:32,340 Beachside hobbies like literally brought the thunder. Yeah, it was really awesome. So shout out to beachside and 26 00:02:32,940 --> 00:02:37,700 Shout out to Christian Ward for being here and just enjoying it and also like really given the people 27 00:02:37,940 --> 00:02:41,900 Good information terms of like his process and and kind of how he created this cover for us 28 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:43,140 He's such a nice dude 29 00:02:43,140 --> 00:02:48,980 Like I'm so jealous that you've known him for so long compared to how long I've known him. He's such a nice dude 30 00:02:48,980 --> 00:02:51,900 So he's a sweetie. He's a sweetheart 31 00:02:52,420 --> 00:02:57,340 He's like competing with Daniel Warren Johnson as maybe one of the nicest people in the US for us 32 00:02:57,340 --> 00:03:02,260 Like he just he offers so much of himself to his fans and people that he knows that really love his work 33 00:03:02,260 --> 00:03:06,140 And that's how we became friends. He and I and it's just it's been very 34 00:03:06,660 --> 00:03:09,140 It's been a great friendship thus far and also 35 00:03:09,460 --> 00:03:13,060 We could not have picked a better artist to do this cover for us or Fanta Road number one 36 00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:15,060 Like it just turned out so well, who's a better friend? 37 00:03:15,060 --> 00:03:19,500 Yeah, I mean you I you're my best friend. Okay, don't worry Christian is not coming for your best friend title 38 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:24,860 But if he asked me to be his best friend, I might do it. All right. No, I'm just joking 39 00:03:24,860 --> 00:03:28,580 He's in the UK. I can't even I can't even go see I you can be pen pal across the pond 40 00:03:28,580 --> 00:03:33,940 I will fly to the UK and I will like pick a fight with him just because like I'll stake my claim 41 00:03:34,460 --> 00:03:36,460 That ass is mine. That's right 42 00:03:37,020 --> 00:03:41,940 Well before we get into our review of the last of us, let's go and talk about patreon 43 00:03:41,940 --> 00:03:45,740 Aaron patreon.com forward slash oblivion bar pod. That's how you can support the show 44 00:03:45,740 --> 00:03:52,340 It's kind of speaking on the whatnot cover that we got for Phantom Road number one all patrons that one-on-one got one for free 45 00:03:52,340 --> 00:03:53,340 So there's an incentive for you 46 00:03:53,340 --> 00:03:58,460 If you were kind of on the fence about whether you want to support us on patreon now is the time to get in because we do 47 00:03:58,460 --> 00:04:01,860 Send out stickers. We send out t-shirts 48 00:04:01,860 --> 00:04:06,980 If you support us at the highest here and you get a free comic now a comic that's extremely rare and also for a comic that 49 00:04:06,980 --> 00:04:08,980 Has gone to second print 50 00:04:08,980 --> 00:04:15,180 Phantom Road note, there's no more first prints out. It's only second prints and we have the most exclusive version of that first print 51 00:04:15,180 --> 00:04:19,540 but and we got a few of them and we will be selling more of them and so be on the lookout for those because 52 00:04:20,340 --> 00:04:27,780 You know we throw up a whatnot stream. You're not gonna find a first print really anywhere. Yeah, that's exactly right 53 00:04:27,780 --> 00:04:31,460 So along with all that for your contribution of supporting us over on patreon 54 00:04:31,460 --> 00:04:37,100 You could get access to the grid which is Aaron eyes kind of oblivion bar after don't you know 55 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:39,140 Eyes kind of oblivion bar after dark 56 00:04:39,140 --> 00:04:41,560 We like to talk about things that we wouldn't generally talk about here on the show 57 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:46,040 They're there box we can like call it a hoot and a half over here in Indiana who nanny moved here 58 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,380 It's a it's a real hoot nanny. It's a cornucopia of hoots if you will. It's a veritable 59 00:04:51,180 --> 00:04:53,180 plethora of 60 00:04:53,460 --> 00:04:55,460 hoots and hollers 61 00:04:56,260 --> 00:04:59,460 So yeah, that's probably the best way to describe the grid 62 00:04:59,860 --> 00:05:04,360 So you talk to us grid you talked about episode transcripts? No, not yet 63 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,320 You know, you get episode transcripts things that were you know 64 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,940 The way that Aaron I stay on track here on the oblivion bar 65 00:05:10,980 --> 00:05:13,780 We those are our transcripts that we create for each episode 66 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:18,180 You will have access to that you basically will be able to follow along on the show with us, right? 67 00:05:18,180 --> 00:05:21,060 Mm-hmm. You also get a special shout out which Aaron will do here in just a bit 68 00:05:21,620 --> 00:05:26,300 For every single oblivion bar episode. So once again patreon.com forward slash a billion bar pod 69 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:29,280 Please check it out. If you want to support the show, that's a great way to do it 70 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:34,220 So without further ado Aaron, we haven't done in a while. Let's go ahead and get into our news and notes 71 00:05:44,060 --> 00:05:48,160 All righty our news and notes are sponsored by whatnot you we just we were just talking about them 72 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,580 But whether you are looking to buy or sell comics Funko pops trading cards or even shoes 73 00:05:52,580 --> 00:05:59,020 What not has you covered you can download what not any iOS or Android device and please use the referral link in our show 74 00:05:59,020 --> 00:06:01,300 Notes to get $15 upon sign up 75 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:03,660 So that's free money for you 76 00:06:03,660 --> 00:06:07,380 If you go into our show notes right now and click that link and sign up for whatnot 77 00:06:07,460 --> 00:06:11,900 Also, you're already gonna go and bookmark our show for that Phantom Row number one 78 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:18,120 So why not go ahead and get $15 for free right Aaron? Yeah, and that basically pays for your comic right there 79 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,320 So yeah what not buy sell and go live. Yeah, that's right 80 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:26,340 So a little bit of sad news kind of starters off here John wick and the wire star Lance Reddick 81 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,720 Passes away at 60 years old 82 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:34,720 So very tragic. It was it really honestly swept the entire internet the day that it happened 83 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:36,720 It was it was very out of nowhere 84 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,780 Officials still actually don't even know what the cause is of the death 85 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:47,160 But according to TMZ the actor's body was found at his home the morning of March 18th and law enforcement believes that he may 86 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:53,960 Have died from natural causes so redic has been probably one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood over the last 87 00:06:53,960 --> 00:07:00,320 You know decade or so appearing in high-profile films and TV shows including the wire Bosch fringe 88 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,720 lost Oz 89 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,920 And probably his most memorable performance as Sharon over on the John wick franchise 90 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,240 Which Aaron we were talking about this before the for the recording here 91 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:17,360 John wick for comes out next week this guy passes away a week before a big big movie for him this year 92 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,440 It's extremely sad. So what are your thoughts Aaron? 93 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:26,560 We're what is your relationship with mr. Reddick and what's the first, you know performance that you think of when you think of this actor? 94 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,560 So I would say for me it was fringe 95 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,560 He was just like a one of them 96 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,820 I think he was in almost every single episode of fringe except for like two or three 97 00:07:36,820 --> 00:07:42,740 And a great actor in that lost. I love lost obviously great in the John wick series 98 00:07:43,060 --> 00:07:49,660 Yeah, and I would say out of anybody that I've seen in a lot of these series like like when you he 99 00:07:49,660 --> 00:07:54,420 He has a he is iconic like you you know him you see his face. You're like, oh there he is 100 00:07:54,620 --> 00:07:57,220 You know, and so Lance reddick also 101 00:07:58,260 --> 00:07:59,340 destiny 102 00:07:59,340 --> 00:08:05,700 You know, he was such a prominent character like he was one of the commanders of the Guardians in 103 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:07,700 Destiny and I 104 00:08:08,460 --> 00:08:10,980 Didn't participate but I do know that there was a huge 105 00:08:11,540 --> 00:08:18,500 Like memorial like event that occurred in the game that the the game developers like like put together 106 00:08:18,940 --> 00:08:22,380 Like not sloppily, but just did it real quick and got together in memoriam 107 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:28,220 So he was a he was apparently playing the day before he passed. So his character was still in the world 108 00:08:28,260 --> 00:08:32,540 yes, and people were like basically like you said kind of created like a 109 00:08:32,540 --> 00:08:34,940 Memorial around his character and that's just really awesome 110 00:08:34,940 --> 00:08:38,380 You know, that's a that's a great way to immortalize him the thing that's really interesting for me 111 00:08:38,380 --> 00:08:40,700 It's like I actually saw like I read an article about it 112 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:47,500 It was talking about how there was an award show that he was apparently invited to but decided not to go to and he 113 00:08:47,980 --> 00:08:51,580 Tweeted a picture of himself and his his dogs 114 00:08:51,980 --> 00:08:56,780 You know, he's like sitting there in his bathrobe with his dogs like on his lap and it's just like I 115 00:08:57,340 --> 00:09:01,900 I wonder if he knew yeah something, you know again natural causes is very common 116 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:04,780 Natural causes is very vague. I'm sure we'll learn more as time goes on 117 00:09:04,780 --> 00:09:08,460 But I think the best way that we can kind of go about this is just remember 118 00:09:08,620 --> 00:09:12,620 You know the type of actor that he was a type of man. He was genuine genuine man 119 00:09:12,620 --> 00:09:14,260 I mean you never heard anything bad about him 120 00:09:14,260 --> 00:09:18,900 You just I mean you listen to all look at all the posts and and what everyone's saying about him in Hollywood 121 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:22,260 he was apparently was just the nicest guy ever so it really is unfortunate and 122 00:09:23,260 --> 00:09:29,280 Hopefully John Wickford does really well and this raises this raises some awareness for how amazing he was as an actor 123 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,500 So Aaron, why don't you go and take us into our next bit of news a little bit of a lighter piece of news here 124 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:37,260 So Stephen youn talks about joining Marvel's Thunderbolts 125 00:09:37,780 --> 00:09:45,660 Pretty excited about this the walking dance alum. Steven Nguyen is set to make his big debut in the MCU in the Thunderbolts film 126 00:09:45,860 --> 00:09:47,860 His casting was first announced 127 00:09:48,060 --> 00:09:54,300 And described as being not only significant to the film, but also could play a role going forward in future films of the MCU 128 00:09:54,300 --> 00:10:00,820 You and talked about joining the film to Empire and he said I don't know if it was explicitly on my bucket list 129 00:10:00,820 --> 00:10:04,180 It was more of the story getting to work with Jake Shrier again 130 00:10:04,580 --> 00:10:11,020 Who directed beef and what what his intentions were the intentions of the particular character that they wanted me to play were very clear 131 00:10:11,020 --> 00:10:13,020 And that's what drew me to this film 132 00:10:13,940 --> 00:10:17,260 Nguyen joins an ensemble of a cast and Chris 133 00:10:17,260 --> 00:10:23,940 I mean you're already many people already know about the Thunderbolts you got Sebastian Stan is Bucky Barnes David Harbor is Red Guardian 134 00:10:23,940 --> 00:10:29,060 Which I'm extremely excited about Julie Lewis Dreyfus as contestant Valentina Allegra de Fontaine 135 00:10:29,580 --> 00:10:34,380 Otherwise, otherwise, no, I'm pretty sure she's Madame Hydra. Madame Hydra is what we're kind of thinking 136 00:10:34,380 --> 00:10:39,740 Yeah, it hasn't been as explicitly said but the purple and the black and the very like sneakiness 137 00:10:40,100 --> 00:10:44,180 Very much alludes for her to be some part of some faction of Hydra 138 00:10:44,180 --> 00:10:49,260 Yes, Wyatt Russell is John Walker aka US agent or the old guy from up 139 00:10:49,260 --> 00:10:56,540 Hannah John came in as ghost which good to see her back. Yeah, that's the that's she's the phasing one from yeah from 140 00:10:56,540 --> 00:10:59,420 From Ant-Man and the Wasp which I'm pretty excited about 141 00:11:00,060 --> 00:11:05,060 Olga Curry Lenko as taskmaster, which I'm excited to see her back 142 00:11:05,060 --> 00:11:12,380 I'm excited to see taskmaster back because taskmaster and Olga as the actress or I guess as the as the as the character 143 00:11:12,380 --> 00:11:17,580 Not the actress but Olga gets like she gets come comes back. She I feel like her character 144 00:11:17,580 --> 00:11:24,060 Was cheated like taskmaster very sure handed is so such a prominent character in in Marvel 145 00:11:24,860 --> 00:11:25,740 Oh 146 00:11:25,740 --> 00:11:28,860 The the the the capabilities of Olga is gonna be amazing 147 00:11:28,860 --> 00:11:34,780 I hope they really well really well and also we don't actually even know that it's Olga playing taskmaster this time around remember 148 00:11:34,780 --> 00:11:38,940 This character was kind of a plate like they basically just placed a body in 149 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:46,060 And they kind of like transformed the mind to do. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yes master does and of course is taking place in present-day 150 00:11:46,060 --> 00:11:49,100 Whereas the Black Widow movie took place in early 90s. So 151 00:11:49,740 --> 00:11:54,940 Could be someone else. I mean it's very possible that it could be cura lingo again, but could be someone else completely 152 00:11:54,940 --> 00:11:59,820 Which I know a lot of people were kind of you know, the incels were upset about the the gender swap 153 00:11:59,820 --> 00:12:03,420 It doesn't really matter taskmaster is awesome regardless of what gender you are 154 00:12:03,420 --> 00:12:09,180 But I'd love to see her come back and get a redemption for sure from what happened in Black Widow and last but not least 155 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:13,420 We're gonna just say Chris's favorite character my muse 156 00:12:13,420 --> 00:12:15,420 Florence Pugh is 157 00:12:15,740 --> 00:12:22,700 Yelling at baloney. Yeah, Yelena below. Yelena. The one the one thing I'm sad about but also 158 00:12:23,980 --> 00:12:29,820 Excited for is the recasting of General Thaddeus Thunderbolt Ross from yeah 159 00:12:29,820 --> 00:12:31,820 John Hurt to Harrison Ford 160 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:37,340 So I'm pretty excited about that Ford will also be in Captain America New World Order 161 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:41,100 And the Thunderbolts is set to premiere on July 26, 2023 162 00:12:41,100 --> 00:12:43,100 and Chris and I had a 163 00:12:43,580 --> 00:12:48,620 Minor discussion with a few disagreements prior to the show. We should have just saved it for the show 164 00:12:48,620 --> 00:12:51,980 Yeah, we should I told you I say everything content. Um, who do you think is gonna? 165 00:12:52,540 --> 00:12:56,380 who do you think Stephen yin yuen is going to be playing in Thunderbolts and 166 00:12:57,820 --> 00:12:59,740 I feel bad because like, you know 167 00:12:59,740 --> 00:13:05,260 One of the one of the the characters that I am excited to see would like to see especially, you know 168 00:13:05,260 --> 00:13:11,420 It's Amadeus Cho and and which I said was not possible. It's not possible but but 169 00:13:12,060 --> 00:13:15,500 Chris is not in charge of the MCU. I 170 00:13:16,140 --> 00:13:20,700 Okay spoiler alert. I am not saying there's a chance. So you're saying there's a chance 171 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:26,700 Yeah, yeah, I hope it's Amadeus Cho because I don't think we have enough hulks Chris thinks we have too many hulks 172 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:32,460 We have too many hulks to name all the hulks and we've got we've got Bruce Banner, right Bruce Banner Jennifer Walters 173 00:13:32,460 --> 00:13:37,100 You got um, damn it. You got abomination. I forget what his you know 174 00:13:37,740 --> 00:13:43,020 And then you have then you're gonna have Harrison Ford's, uh, you know, Thaddeus Ross. He's gonna be Red Hulk 175 00:13:43,900 --> 00:13:48,060 And then who knows I mean, obviously that's the other thing. I have scar from the end of she hawk 176 00:13:48,060 --> 00:13:52,940 Yeah, this could absolutely lead into a world war hulk situation. Sure. Yeah 177 00:13:53,660 --> 00:13:55,660 Bring on the shell baby 178 00:13:56,620 --> 00:13:59,180 Okay, so I will say that 179 00:13:59,180 --> 00:14:06,460 I think the the the sexy answer right now is century everybody wants century in the marvel universe 180 00:14:06,940 --> 00:14:10,940 Century if you're not familiar is basically this character who is put through a similar 181 00:14:11,500 --> 00:14:14,220 Program as the weapon X but it goes extremely wrong 182 00:14:14,780 --> 00:14:20,780 Um, it's he was experimented on around the same time that man thing was so they've they've basically veered off so hard 183 00:14:20,940 --> 00:14:25,900 From what weapon X was originally to where they're now just like let's just see what fucked up thing we can do 184 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:29,340 To these people and what hap let's just see what happens, right? 185 00:14:29,740 --> 00:14:33,100 They fucked around and they found out because century is essentially 186 00:14:33,740 --> 00:14:37,100 Just superman in the marvel universe, but with two 187 00:14:37,660 --> 00:14:42,860 Very different personalities and in most comic runs like jeff lemire's you actually don't know 188 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:46,940 If the void which is this other version within the century's brain 189 00:14:47,820 --> 00:14:53,100 Is an actual entity you don't know if he's actually crazy or if that is an actual like darker 190 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:57,900 Being inside of him a lot of creators will play with that and I think that would be a really compelling 191 00:14:58,220 --> 00:15:01,100 character to bring into the MCU not only with the thunderbolts because 192 00:15:01,660 --> 00:15:06,140 There was a run by bryan michael bendis called the dark avengers where 193 00:15:06,700 --> 00:15:10,140 A bunch of villains it was right after the events of the original civil war 194 00:15:10,460 --> 00:15:16,540 Where all the heroes were kind of scattered or dead or just like on the run because of the superhero registration act 195 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:20,060 That norman osborne actually recreated the avengers 196 00:15:20,060 --> 00:15:23,020 with villains, so it looked like heroes 197 00:15:23,020 --> 00:15:28,780 It looked like iron man. It looked like captain marvel. It looked like spider-man, but in reality it was the scorpion it was 198 00:15:29,420 --> 00:15:33,580 Norman osborne in the iron man suit that's actually where iron patriot comes from if you remember from iron man 2 199 00:15:33,580 --> 00:15:40,060 And also you had century on the team as well who is a good dude, you know, the the character of century is a good dude 200 00:15:40,860 --> 00:15:45,820 Robbie rayes is his name. Excuse me. Robbie rayes. That's um, that's ghostwriter. Yeah, robbie reynolds 201 00:15:45,820 --> 00:15:50,540 You love your little ration marvel. We all know this uh, robbie reynolds is a good dude, but 202 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:53,580 Anytime that the void takes over it's dunzo 203 00:15:53,580 --> 00:15:58,940 He is just on a rampage and I think that would be really fun for steven to come in and play that character. Okay, that's 204 00:15:59,740 --> 00:16:01,980 That's an insurance insurance nightmare 205 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:06,940 And actually that's kind of like the big plot line in that dark avengers storyline is 206 00:16:07,260 --> 00:16:13,100 Every time these villains because like bullseye is hawkeye and you've got you've got what's called the dark avengers 207 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:18,540 Well, you know, the name of the character is darken. I think that's what you're talking about. Okay, so 208 00:16:20,060 --> 00:16:25,420 You know, the bullseye is hawkeye and you've got you've got wolverine's son who i'm forgetting his name right now 209 00:16:25,420 --> 00:16:30,780 But he plays he's walking dakin. Yeah, it could be yeah, I think it is dakin or however you say his name 210 00:16:31,180 --> 00:16:35,020 But anytime they go somewhere they just complete they just make complete mayhem 211 00:16:35,340 --> 00:16:40,300 I want some kind of like scoring system that every time I come up with a comic name 212 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:44,700 I want to be like oh my gosh, I have a comic name I have a comic name 213 00:16:45,260 --> 00:16:49,740 I have a comic name. I have a comic name. I have a comic name. I have a comic name 214 00:16:50,140 --> 00:16:52,140 I've got this thing right here 215 00:16:52,860 --> 00:16:57,820 And that's from now from now on whenever aaron does something when he does something surprisingly like 216 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:02,300 Really awesome. I can't think of we're gonna hear this 217 00:17:03,580 --> 00:17:05,580 I'll include that in posts. So 218 00:17:05,580 --> 00:17:08,040 comic book properties out right now, which is invincible. Right. 219 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,520 Incivile. I cannot wait. When do we get? Sorry. That's a topic for 220 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,880 now. We don't even know. Honestly, they've released a teaser, but 221 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,680 they were saying sometime this year. Honestly, I am tired of 222 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,920 waiting as well, but I'm willing to wait for that show. Like it 223 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:25,320 needs to be perfect. My heart will go on. All right, let's go 224 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,280 into our last bit of news here, Aaron, which is Ben Affleck 225 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,640 says that the Justice League was the worst experience and it's 226 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:35,040 why he did not direct the Batman. So as many know, Affleck 227 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,240 was developing a standalone Batman movie for around two 228 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,240 years and that he was actually going to direct. And then all 229 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,720 of a sudden he dropped out of the project. Not long after 230 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:45,580 dropping out, Affleck explained that one of the reasons he 231 00:17:45,580 --> 00:17:49,420 stepped away from the Batman is from, excuse me, not the Batman. 232 00:17:49,420 --> 00:17:52,440 He was directing a Batman film and he didn't want to overlap 233 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,840 with the Batman, which is of course with Matt Reeves and 234 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:59,640 Robert Pattinson. So, but now in present day, 2023 in a recent 235 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,180 interview with THR, he gets brutally candid about why he 236 00:18:03,180 --> 00:18:06,380 dropped out of the Batman. And another reason was the Justice 237 00:18:06,380 --> 00:18:09,940 League was the worst experience of his movie making career. He 238 00:18:09,940 --> 00:18:12,540 said here in a quote, you can teach a seminar of all the 239 00:18:12,540 --> 00:18:15,940 reasons why this is how not to do it, ranging from production 240 00:18:15,940 --> 00:18:19,440 to bad decisions to horrible personnel tragedy, just ending 241 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,980 with the most monstrous taste in my mouth. Affleck continued, 242 00:18:22,980 --> 00:18:25,680 but I was going to direct a Batman and Justice League made 243 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:27,840 me go, I'm out. I'm never, I never want to do this again. 244 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,880 I'm not suited. That was the worst experience I've ever seen 245 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,780 in the business, which is full of some shit experiences. It 246 00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:37,580 broke my heart. There was, there was an idea of someone, 247 00:18:37,580 --> 00:18:40,880 Joss Whedon coming in, like I'll rescue you and we'll do it in 248 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:44,580 60 days of shooting and I'll write a whole thing around what 249 00:18:44,580 --> 00:18:48,080 you have. I've got the secrets and it wasn't secrets. That was 250 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:53,280 hard. So yeah, Ben Affleck coming out, no holds barred, 251 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,780 pretty much saying, fuck you DC. And you can't blame him. 252 00:18:55,780 --> 00:19:00,080 Honestly, you know, Aaron, as someone who was like the, the 253 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,780 show hater for Zack Snyder and anything that has to do with 254 00:19:02,780 --> 00:19:06,680 Zack Snyder's DC universe. I really liked that flick and I 255 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,080 would have loved to have seen him in other hands because the 256 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,280 only two versions, the only two times we got to see bat flick 257 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,980 on film was Batman V Superman, Dom justice, which is today a 258 00:19:15,980 --> 00:19:19,580 fucking travesty and justice league and the Zack Snyder 259 00:19:19,580 --> 00:19:21,980 justice league ultimate. We'll see him for five minutes in the 260 00:19:21,980 --> 00:19:25,180 flash. We do see him for five minutes in the flash. Yes, we 261 00:19:25,180 --> 00:19:28,580 do. And that, and actually it says here that in those five 262 00:19:28,580 --> 00:19:30,980 minutes of the flash, Ben Affleck says he finally figured 263 00:19:30,980 --> 00:19:34,280 out how to play the character and I nailed it. And after that 264 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,280 we shouldn't expect to see Affleck and any other DC project 265 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,680 going forward. The flash actually hits theaters on June 266 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,380 16th, 2023. So don't get the 267 00:19:42,980 --> 00:19:44,480 Well, I remember it was already delayed. It was supposed to 268 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,380 come out in November of last year and it got delayed again. 269 00:19:46,780 --> 00:19:48,480 It'll get delayed again. Yeah, we're going to, we'll be 270 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,580 watching in December of 2023 for sure. So, uh, Aaron, just 271 00:19:52,980 --> 00:19:56,480 obviously this is not good. This is not a good look for the 272 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,180 DCEU or what, what it was. And we kind of already saw the 273 00:19:59,180 --> 00:20:01,480 writing on the wall a long time ago, but what are your thoughts? 274 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,780 What is your, actually, what is your attachment to Batfleck? 275 00:20:03,780 --> 00:20:06,180 Did you have a good time with him when he was in the universe? 276 00:20:06,180 --> 00:20:08,880 I really enjoyed him. Okay. 277 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,280 Bat, Bat, okay. I keep wanting to call him Batfleck. 278 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:13,880 Mental gymnastics. 279 00:20:14,380 --> 00:20:18,480 Ben Affleck is not somebody that you can like look at and 280 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,480 be like, could he be Batman? Like he's 281 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,980 I mean, for a minute he was, for a second he was. 282 00:20:23,980 --> 00:20:26,380 I'm saying like, like if you, if it was, if you were in the 283 00:20:26,380 --> 00:20:28,980 DCU and you looked at him and said, is he Bruce Wayne? 284 00:20:28,980 --> 00:20:32,680 Like that's Bruce Wayne. Is he Batman? No, like he was 285 00:20:32,780 --> 00:20:34,780 fucking ripped in that movie. 286 00:20:34,780 --> 00:20:39,280 That crossfit, you know, he was ripped and like, how do you 287 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:43,180 not look at Bruce Wayne being the monstrous like figure 288 00:20:43,180 --> 00:20:45,780 that he was in that movie and not go that's fucking Bruce. 289 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,680 That's Batman. Like, yeah, he's wide. He's built like a 290 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,480 fucking like a Mack truck shit. 291 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:55,680 Brick house. Yeah, like he so so for me, I would say that 292 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,480 was the only thing that wasn't like believable for me. 293 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,280 I think he did a phenomenal job. 294 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:01,780 He was kind of an asshole. 295 00:21:01,780 --> 00:21:04,880 He was brooding. He was very much like I would say if he 296 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,780 took after any other Batman, it would have been the the 297 00:21:08,780 --> 00:21:11,880 the you know, Batman the animated series, Kevin Conroy's 298 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:14,880 maybe the one towards the end. 299 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,980 Yeah, the Batman like kind of leading into Batman Beyond. 300 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,180 Yeah, I would say like that was that was where he maybe 301 00:21:21,180 --> 00:21:24,080 took a lot of his because he was just kind of dark and 302 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,180 brooding and less of a silly billionaire. 303 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,380 And and so I but I liked it. 304 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,580 I really liked it and maybe a little too brooding at times, 305 00:21:34,580 --> 00:21:36,480 but that's we always say that about Batman. 306 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,280 We always see he's so that's also Snyder as well. 307 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,580 Yeah, the Batman he wanted. 308 00:21:40,580 --> 00:21:43,480 I mean, look, look at Robert Pattinson. 309 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,180 That dude was brooding. That dude was. 310 00:21:45,180 --> 00:21:48,180 Yeah, that guy was I'm brute. 311 00:21:48,180 --> 00:21:52,980 He was he was one eye shadow mark away from being like 312 00:21:52,980 --> 00:21:57,280 complete emo. Yeah, no, you know exactly like yeah, 313 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,780 they should have my chemical romance playing in the Batcave 314 00:21:59,780 --> 00:22:01,680 24 7 in the Batman. 315 00:22:02,580 --> 00:22:04,380 But again, I enjoyed both of those. 316 00:22:04,380 --> 00:22:05,780 I enjoyed both versions. 317 00:22:05,780 --> 00:22:08,880 I really did and I'm excited to see him and what his five 318 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,380 minutes of amazing Batman. 319 00:22:11,380 --> 00:22:12,980 What do you figured out you could play really excited about 320 00:22:12,980 --> 00:22:13,680 these five minutes? 321 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:13,980 Yeah. 322 00:22:15,780 --> 00:22:17,180 Yeah, like I said, Affleck's awesome. 323 00:22:17,180 --> 00:22:18,980 It really sucks that he got the short on the stick with this. 324 00:22:18,980 --> 00:22:20,880 I know he really really wanted to play this character. 325 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,680 He's like been a longtime superhero fan. 326 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,680 He he was like campaigning for Batman for a long time and 327 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,880 when he finally got it, it just so happened that he was under 328 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,680 the thumb of Zack Snyder, which is really unfortunate. 329 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:33,580 It's the same with Henry Cavill. 330 00:22:33,580 --> 00:22:35,480 It's the same thing with Gal Gadot who apparently we're 331 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,780 going to see here soon and Shazam for some reason. 332 00:22:37,980 --> 00:22:40,080 So let's let's give it to Nicolas Cage. 333 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:40,980 He wanted it right. 334 00:22:40,980 --> 00:22:42,080 Yeah, we'll just go to Nick Cage. 335 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,480 Well, Nick Cage want to be Superman, but you know, whatever 336 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,980 any either way he needs to be Superman in the DC Universe 337 00:22:46,980 --> 00:22:49,480 and then Batman Noir or not Batman Noir Spider-Man Noir 338 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,280 Spider-Man the Marvel Universe. 339 00:22:51,380 --> 00:22:53,680 I like to light matches and let them burn down to the 340 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,980 bottoms and feel the pain when they burn my finger. 341 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:57,180 So I can feel something. 342 00:22:58,980 --> 00:22:59,380 All righty. 343 00:22:59,380 --> 00:23:00,680 Well, that'll do it for our news and notes this week. 344 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:01,080 Aaron. 345 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:03,480 Thank you to what not once again for sponsoring our news 346 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:03,980 and notes. 347 00:23:03,980 --> 00:23:06,780 Make sure you use that link in our show notes to get $15 348 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:08,680 off or not actually not even off. 349 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,980 You just get $15 to use in the what not app. 350 00:23:10,980 --> 00:23:12,080 It's free money people. 351 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:12,680 Jesus. 352 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:13,080 That's right. 353 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365 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,580 That's KYB ER and the word culture hope to see you there 366 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:54,880 and may the force be with you. 367 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,680 Hey everyone Aaron Knowles here co-host of the Oblivion 368 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:01,780 Bar podcast. 369 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,880 Have you ever wondered how you can support those who have 370 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,380 served or serve our country currently if you have listen 371 00:24:07,380 --> 00:24:10,180 up shred the stress is a nonprofit that I started which 372 00:24:10,180 --> 00:24:12,880 is dedicated to supporting the mental emotional and physical 373 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,980 health of our military communities using one wheels electric 374 00:24:15,980 --> 00:24:17,980 scooters and other personal electric vehicles. 375 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,180 You can support several ways following us on social media 376 00:24:21,380 --> 00:24:24,580 at shred the stress on all platforms 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Keep going for family. 391 00:25:15,780 --> 00:25:16,580 I'm not family. 392 00:25:16,980 --> 00:25:17,280 No. 393 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:19,180 Cargo. 394 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,180 Why are you so important? 395 00:25:27,380 --> 00:25:28,180 Somewhere out West. 396 00:25:28,980 --> 00:25:30,080 They're looking on a cure. 397 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,080 I think what really impressed them was the fact that I didn't 398 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,180 turn into a monster. 399 00:25:34,180 --> 00:25:36,680 She so much as torches. 400 00:25:45,380 --> 00:25:46,280 Taking you with me. 401 00:25:47,380 --> 00:25:48,580 Do what I say when I say. 402 00:25:51,380 --> 00:25:53,780 Got any advice on the best way West? 403 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,680 Yeah, go East. 404 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:00,880 You come this far. 405 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,580 Then you know what's out there. 406 00:26:06,580 --> 00:26:07,780 You're not going to scare us. 407 00:26:08,580 --> 00:26:09,580 Scared him? 408 00:26:17,180 --> 00:26:19,780 You have a greater purpose than any of us could have ever imagined. 409 00:26:19,780 --> 00:26:27,080 Be careful who you put your faith in. 410 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:33,880 It might not be her father. 411 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:35,280 She was someone's. 412 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:45,280 Trust me. 413 00:26:57,380 --> 00:26:58,380 Alrighty, Aaron here. 414 00:26:58,380 --> 00:27:02,080 We are talking about HBO Max's brand new series, The Last of 415 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,180 Us spoilers ahead. 416 00:27:03,180 --> 00:27:07,280 If you have not seen The Last of Us yet, which was Aaron 72 hours 417 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,680 ago, make sure you stop here and you go watch the series before 418 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,680 you listen to this review because we are going to go spoilers 419 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:14,180 AF. 420 00:27:14,580 --> 00:27:17,680 So as we do, Aaron, every time we review anything here on the 421 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,880 show, initial thoughts on The Last of Us. 422 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,280 So actually we should probably before we get into our initial 423 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,480 thoughts, we should probably go ahead and say that Aaron, have 424 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:27,680 you played the video game before? 425 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:33,280 I've played about 10 to 15 minutes into the game. 426 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:37,280 Mind you, this game came out in 2013 everybody and I will also 427 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,180 admit that I have only played the first one. 428 00:27:39,180 --> 00:27:41,780 I haven't played any of the DLC and I have not played part two. 429 00:27:41,780 --> 00:27:45,980 Aaron is funny because actually I think The Last of Us, the 430 00:27:45,980 --> 00:27:49,580 first installment was kind of the end of my video game playing 431 00:27:49,580 --> 00:27:53,680 like hardcore gaming, you know, going going into yeah, going 432 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,580 into the end of the PS3 that the life of the PS3 is 433 00:27:57,580 --> 00:28:00,280 kind of where I hopped off, you know, I was very much in the 434 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,480 video gaming whether it be online play or I would just whatever 435 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:04,380 the latest game was. 436 00:28:04,380 --> 00:28:05,180 I was picking it up. 437 00:28:05,180 --> 00:28:06,580 I was very much in the video games. 438 00:28:06,580 --> 00:28:10,580 I guys and I think I just popped off with The Last of Us because 439 00:28:10,580 --> 00:28:11,380 popped off it. 440 00:28:11,780 --> 00:28:12,480 I popped off. 441 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:17,680 Yeah, I popped off and I hopped off because it was I popped 442 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,780 locked and dropped it out of there because The Last of Us is 443 00:28:20,780 --> 00:28:23,680 just one of the greatest video games of all time. 444 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,380 I think like you ask anyone and we'll talk about it here in 445 00:28:26,380 --> 00:28:29,080 just a bit with their accolades and the critical acclaim awards. 446 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,980 So many awards like it's kind of insane how many awards it 447 00:28:32,980 --> 00:28:35,780 won some of them that they won before the game even came out. 448 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,080 But once I played that game, I was kind of out, you know, I 449 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,180 eventually bought a PS4 but it was very much just like way 450 00:28:42,180 --> 00:28:44,480 after the fact after the PS4 already been around for a while 451 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:45,480 and I was just done with it. 452 00:28:45,780 --> 00:28:48,180 So all that being said, Aaron, what are your thoughts here 453 00:28:48,180 --> 00:28:48,980 on this new series? 454 00:28:48,980 --> 00:28:50,580 Could you kind of win in a little bit cold, right? 455 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,080 You could say I went in cold, but I also went in like a like 456 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,980 a bad out of hell just to get it done coming in hot. 457 00:28:58,380 --> 00:29:04,480 So if like it like I okay, I feel it was good. 458 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,680 I feel like there's a butt coming though. 459 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,680 Is there a butt coming at the end of this sentence? 460 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,480 I it was I swear to God, if you say something bad about this 461 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,080 series, I'm going to come to this camera and smack you. 462 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,480 I just I okay, it was really good. 463 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,180 The first half was amazing. 464 00:29:20,180 --> 00:29:22,880 The first half of the season was amazing and the second half 465 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,880 kind of just like fizzled a little bit for me. 466 00:29:26,380 --> 00:29:28,480 I don't think they really knew exactly where to end this. 467 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,180 Yeah, because there is a very definitive thing that happens 468 00:29:32,180 --> 00:29:35,280 at the end of the first game that they could not include 469 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,480 in the first season of the show mostly because a certain 470 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,280 character had to be around longer. 471 00:29:40,580 --> 00:29:41,280 I'll just say that. 472 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,180 Yeah, I won't say I already know what it is. 473 00:29:43,580 --> 00:29:44,180 You know what it is. 474 00:29:44,180 --> 00:29:45,980 Yeah, should we spoil what happens in the game? 475 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,980 I mean, we did we do a spoilers Ahoy spoilers Ahoy. 476 00:29:48,980 --> 00:29:49,380 Okay. 477 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,280 I don't know though because I don't want to spoil season 478 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:52,780 two though for people. 479 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,080 That's the thing. 480 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:55,680 I want to make sure that people have a good experience. 481 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,480 We don't even know how they're going to do season two. 482 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,780 I know, but I'm almost positive that they're going to do 483 00:29:59,780 --> 00:30:02,080 whatever this is at the at some point in season two. 484 00:30:02,580 --> 00:30:03,380 Well, hold off. 485 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,080 I'll tell you what we'll talk about at the very end. 486 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:06,680 Just remind me to go back to it because I don't want to 487 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:07,380 say forget. 488 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:08,280 Yeah, we will. 489 00:30:08,780 --> 00:30:10,380 We're going to fucking forget. 490 00:30:10,780 --> 00:30:13,080 But my initial thoughts is that it's incredible. 491 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,980 This is like a true Marvel and today's you know, the landscape 492 00:30:16,980 --> 00:30:18,480 of amazing television. 493 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,580 We are in the golden age of television right now. 494 00:30:20,580 --> 00:30:22,980 And this is this is the moniker at the top. 495 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,780 This is like peak television. 496 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,780 This is it's not perfect. 497 00:30:26,780 --> 00:30:28,480 Don't I don't think I'm about to give it a five out of five 498 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,080 David a whiners, but it is near perfect in a lot of aspects. 499 00:30:32,380 --> 00:30:35,480 We're going to get into some of what you know, someone who 500 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,580 is a fan of the property and a fan of these, you know, these 501 00:30:37,580 --> 00:30:40,580 actors Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey shout out Game of Thrones 502 00:30:40,580 --> 00:30:44,980 alum, but I will say that from a technical standpoint, that 503 00:30:44,980 --> 00:30:47,780 is really what pushes it over the edge for me watching this 504 00:30:47,780 --> 00:30:51,180 show. There's nothing that looks as good as this show on 505 00:30:51,180 --> 00:30:52,080 television right now. 506 00:30:52,180 --> 00:30:54,780 Let me ask you this though as as the person who's played the 507 00:30:54,780 --> 00:30:55,480 video game. 508 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,280 Do you think that that contributed to you liking it more 509 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,380 than I did maybe a little I think I would be I would be 510 00:31:03,380 --> 00:31:05,580 hyper bowl if I was if I would be a little hyper bowl if I 511 00:31:05,580 --> 00:31:09,480 said that this me my love for the property probably enhances 512 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,080 my watching experience that being said though, I think some 513 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,380 of the very distinct differences they changed from the video 514 00:31:15,380 --> 00:31:18,280 game to the series also made it really good. 515 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,480 Again, there are certain things that happen, you know, during 516 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,080 that show or excuse me things that happen during the video 517 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,280 game that don't happen in this series and I just I everything 518 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:28,580 about it. 519 00:31:28,580 --> 00:31:31,680 I loved I don't know the acting is incredible Bella Ramsey 520 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,780 as Ellie is spot-on right and when they announced Pedro 521 00:31:35,780 --> 00:31:36,680 Pascal is Joel. 522 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,780 I was thinking, okay, you know, this is again before the Pedro 523 00:31:39,780 --> 00:31:42,580 Pascal like craze started happening. 524 00:31:42,580 --> 00:31:46,080 We all liked him still because of Game of Thrones and I was 525 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:46,580 daddy. 526 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:47,380 Yeah, he's daddy. 527 00:31:47,380 --> 00:31:49,480 He's I think they call I think the kids call him zaddy. 528 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,480 I don't know what that I don't know what the difference is 529 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,380 between daddy and zaddy is but he is definitely both of those 530 00:31:54,380 --> 00:31:56,480 things but daddy is a state of mind. 531 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:57,280 You know what I'm saying? 532 00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:59,080 I'm your daddy. 533 00:31:59,380 --> 00:32:00,680 Am I the daddy is daddy. 534 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:01,080 Yep. 535 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,280 I am your cool slutty daddy. 536 00:32:03,380 --> 00:32:04,480 I just don't understand. 537 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,980 Why do you make sparkly fast romantic montages of me every 538 00:32:07,980 --> 00:32:08,880 single day? 539 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,080 I would you like to ride home on a real cowboy. 540 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,780 I got a six pack of cold ones all night so my room is out all 541 00:32:13,780 --> 00:32:14,080 night. 542 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,280 You can scream my name as loud as you need to sugar. 543 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,580 Do you ever look at Instagram accounts devoted to you being 544 00:32:19,580 --> 00:32:21,080 a heartthrob when you're feeling down? 545 00:32:22,580 --> 00:32:23,480 Yes, I do. 546 00:32:25,380 --> 00:32:26,880 Is Pedro Pascal death? 547 00:32:27,180 --> 00:32:28,180 He certainly is. 548 00:32:29,180 --> 00:32:30,880 Oscar would say that I was. 549 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,780 Oscar calls you his sweet girlfriend. 550 00:32:33,380 --> 00:32:34,780 Do you have a nickname for him as well? 551 00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:36,780 Yeah, but I can't say it. 552 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,180 I can bring you in warm. 553 00:32:38,180 --> 00:32:40,580 I can bring you in cold. 554 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,180 I'm just going to sit here and say I love you and say hi and 555 00:32:45,180 --> 00:32:47,480 slay and yas. 556 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,680 Can I go on a quick small tangent before we continue on 557 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:50,180 with the review? 558 00:32:50,580 --> 00:32:53,680 I really hate when people on the red carpet ask him very 559 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,480 inappropriate questions just because he is zaddy. 560 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,480 That doesn't mean you can ask him like have you seen the 561 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,880 clip like on tick tock on tick tock or Instagram where it's 562 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,580 this interviewer showing Pedro Pascal on the red carpet quotes 563 00:33:07,580 --> 00:33:11,080 from people who are like they're saying stuff like I want 564 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,980 Pedro Pascal to rail me from behind or crazy shit like that. 565 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,380 And he's like he doesn't know how to respond because he's 566 00:33:16,380 --> 00:33:17,580 a fucking awesome, dude. 567 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,380 He's not going to be like he's not going to get in an outrage 568 00:33:19,380 --> 00:33:22,680 and throw his arms up and be like you disgusting pig, but 569 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,880 now he like he like just takes it good for him for having 570 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,680 the fortitude to be able to do that, but it's ridiculous. 571 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,180 It's still it really sucks because we need to protect this 572 00:33:32,180 --> 00:33:33,280 man at all costs. 573 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:34,880 He's a fucking Jim. 574 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,580 Yeah, protect Pedro Pascal at all costs people at all costs. 575 00:33:39,580 --> 00:33:40,080 That's right. 576 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,980 No, I and so for me it was just like, I don't know, man. 577 00:33:43,980 --> 00:33:46,580 I have a particular thing that really stuck out to you for 578 00:33:46,580 --> 00:33:50,580 that just kind of didn't do it for you in the series. 579 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,780 I'm curious because I don't have anything that I can really 580 00:33:53,780 --> 00:33:56,180 think honestly, it was just like maybe the pacing like I 581 00:33:56,180 --> 00:33:59,580 feel like they try to do so much in the first like four or 582 00:33:59,580 --> 00:34:05,280 five episodes and the last like four really kind of just like 583 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,780 the pace changed so much that it was just kind of like weird 584 00:34:09,780 --> 00:34:12,480 and and and I'll be honest like I just it was almost like 585 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,880 it took a complete u-turn and and I would say that that 586 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,480 was right about right like right after what's her name. 587 00:34:21,180 --> 00:34:25,980 Is it it's not Valerie is it the the the leader in Kansas 588 00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:28,580 City of the Kathleen? 589 00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:28,980 Yeah. 590 00:34:28,980 --> 00:34:31,480 Pretty much after that episode. 591 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,380 Listen, you don't have to you don't have to be delicate. 592 00:34:35,780 --> 00:34:36,880 We're here to discuss this. 593 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:37,380 Yes. 594 00:34:37,380 --> 00:34:37,780 Okay. 595 00:34:37,780 --> 00:34:40,080 I see what you're saying and I there were some moments 596 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,580 that that that absolutely crushed me. 597 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:44,980 Absolutely crushed me. 598 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:45,380 Huh? 599 00:34:45,380 --> 00:34:49,980 Most notably obviously the the Frank Frank and Bill the 600 00:34:49,980 --> 00:34:55,380 entire episode 3 as in its entirety is one giant kick in 601 00:34:55,380 --> 00:34:56,080 the nuts. 602 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,680 It's just I it is beautiful and sad. 603 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:01,680 It's the best episode of the series, right? 604 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,580 But it is also just like a fucking that episode alone that 605 00:35:05,580 --> 00:35:08,680 episode alone start to finish was one of the most beautiful 606 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:09,780 things I've ever watched. 607 00:35:09,780 --> 00:35:10,180 Mm-hmm. 608 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,980 But and and that's one of the problems with it. 609 00:35:12,980 --> 00:35:17,080 It was like that one episode was so good that it just kind 610 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:21,380 of overshadows the rest of the series as well. 611 00:35:21,580 --> 00:35:21,680 Sure. 612 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,980 And then you have you know, and again like the entire 613 00:35:24,980 --> 00:35:27,380 episode they handled that relationship. 614 00:35:27,580 --> 00:35:29,280 They handled those two together. 615 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,480 They handled their strife their pain their arguments their 616 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,580 love so well and even their death. 617 00:35:35,980 --> 00:35:36,380 Mm-hmm. 618 00:35:36,580 --> 00:35:42,380 Yeah, they handle it so respectfully and well and like 619 00:35:42,380 --> 00:35:44,980 I that's that was the most beautiful and then and then 620 00:35:44,980 --> 00:35:47,080 the other I would say another episode is I want to say 621 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,380 was episode five endurance. 622 00:35:50,380 --> 00:35:54,480 It's the same one where where we see we meet Henry and 623 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:55,180 his little brother. 624 00:35:55,180 --> 00:35:56,180 Yes, of course brother. 625 00:35:56,180 --> 00:35:58,780 We also see the we see our very first bloater as well, 626 00:35:58,780 --> 00:36:01,580 which is that yeah, I am clicker the ending of that one. 627 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:02,480 Oh, yes. 628 00:36:02,580 --> 00:36:05,680 Yeah, was just fucking brutal man. 629 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,380 And again, like these I got really emotional at the end 630 00:36:09,380 --> 00:36:12,680 of eight whenever Joel says I got you baby at the end 631 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,480 where he we finally recovers and saves her from David 632 00:36:15,780 --> 00:36:17,780 the weirdo fucking whatever. 633 00:36:17,780 --> 00:36:18,680 What would you call it? 634 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,280 Like a Christian is what even Christian it was well, 635 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,480 I mean what it was religious in nature, but it was mostly 636 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,080 a cult that where they are cannibals, but that that 637 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,780 scene really really really got me and also the scene 638 00:36:29,780 --> 00:36:32,180 where we get to meet Riley we get to meet Ellie's, 639 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,480 you know friend that she you know, she's in love with 640 00:36:35,980 --> 00:36:39,080 and eventually has to kill has to kill. 641 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,780 Yeah, so we're getting a little out of our self there. 642 00:36:41,980 --> 00:36:42,280 I'm sorry. 643 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:42,480 Go ahead. 644 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:42,980 What were you gonna say? 645 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,080 I was just gonna say but that that also leads into it 646 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,780 to where okay, so I don't know again, you'll have to 647 00:36:49,780 --> 00:36:52,280 tell me this if it's from the game or not, but 648 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,480 mind you I have not played the game since 2013. 649 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,480 So but you don't know the basics like sure like Joel's 650 00:36:58,980 --> 00:37:02,780 character in this game or in this in this in this show 651 00:37:02,780 --> 00:37:05,780 and I'm going to say this Joel as a character is not a 652 00:37:05,780 --> 00:37:06,480 good guy. 653 00:37:06,780 --> 00:37:10,180 No, and he is a he is a hardened jerk. 654 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,580 He is he is a definitively a horrible dude. 655 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:19,180 Yeah, and we see that and I think that's that might be 656 00:37:19,180 --> 00:37:22,580 one of the lessons that that this like show is I mean 657 00:37:22,580 --> 00:37:25,280 maybe trying to portray or put across the fact that 658 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:30,680 despite how much you love somebody and despite how good 659 00:37:30,980 --> 00:37:33,180 they think they are when they're trying to take care 660 00:37:33,180 --> 00:37:35,580 of somebody it does not mean that they will do the right 661 00:37:35,580 --> 00:37:35,880 thing. 662 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:36,480 Right. 663 00:37:36,980 --> 00:37:39,880 We see that in that series and exactly and that's what's 664 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,580 fucked up about all of this. 665 00:37:41,580 --> 00:37:45,080 Yeah, it's kind of a an idea of what are you willing to 666 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,080 do to protect those that you love right and sometimes 667 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,880 as you know, we've all been lied to by our parents at 668 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,180 some point in our lives whether it's for our own good 669 00:37:54,180 --> 00:37:57,880 or for theirs, but you know Joel has to make the decision 670 00:37:57,980 --> 00:38:02,780 and you know save humanity or save Ellie right. 671 00:38:03,380 --> 00:38:04,380 Her name was Riley. 672 00:38:05,580 --> 00:38:09,280 She was the first to die and then it was Tess and then 673 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,980 Sam that's not on you know, look sometimes things don't 674 00:38:11,980 --> 00:38:16,380 work out the way we hope you can feel like like you've 675 00:38:16,380 --> 00:38:20,280 come to an end and you don't know what to do next. 676 00:38:22,780 --> 00:38:27,780 But if you just keep going you find something new to 677 00:38:27,780 --> 00:38:30,580 fight for and maybe that's not what you're going to me. 678 00:38:33,780 --> 00:38:36,180 Swear to me that everything you said about the fireflies 679 00:38:36,180 --> 00:38:36,680 is true. 680 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:42,580 I swear. 681 00:38:58,480 --> 00:38:58,980 Okay. 682 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,180 All of this we've discussed before even talking about 683 00:39:02,180 --> 00:39:02,880 the synopsis. 684 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:03,880 So how about we get into that? 685 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:04,980 Let's go ahead and get the synopsis. 686 00:39:04,980 --> 00:39:06,180 Let's get into this a little bit here. 687 00:39:06,180 --> 00:39:08,280 Go ahead and tell the people, you know what the series 688 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:08,780 is about. 689 00:39:08,980 --> 00:39:09,280 Okay. 690 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,880 So in 2003 which obviously was 20 years ago. 691 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:17,180 So hey look topical topical a parasitic fungal infection 692 00:39:17,180 --> 00:39:19,980 ravages the planet turning humans into mutated cordyceps 693 00:39:19,980 --> 00:39:23,380 known as the infected 20 years later hardened survivor. 694 00:39:23,380 --> 00:39:26,680 Joel played by Pedro Pascal is hired to smuggle 14 year 695 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,680 old Ellie played by Bella Ramsey to the rebel fireflies 696 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,480 the last of a series premiered on January 15th, 2023. 697 00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:35,280 It received a claim from critics who praised the 698 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,380 performance writing production design and score several 699 00:39:38,380 --> 00:39:41,480 called it the best adaptation of a video game across 700 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:42,980 linear channels and HBO Max. 701 00:39:42,980 --> 00:39:45,880 The series premier was watched by 4.7 million viewers 702 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,080 on the first day. 703 00:39:47,580 --> 00:39:51,680 The second biggest HBO are for HBO since 2010 and almost 704 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,680 40 million within two months by March. 705 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,480 The first six episodes average over 30 million viewers 706 00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:57,880 in January 23. 707 00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,880 The series was renewed for a second season. 708 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:05,980 Now the one thing that I wanted to say about the initial 709 00:40:05,980 --> 00:40:09,580 scene in this and it goes kind of hand-in-hand with the 710 00:40:09,580 --> 00:40:12,880 synopsis is this is this is the reason that this show 711 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,980 kind of like at the beginning really hit me and was like 712 00:40:16,980 --> 00:40:17,680 I was like, oh shit. 713 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,280 I'm going to watch this and love it was because when 714 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,180 they're talking about cordyceps and the parasitic 715 00:40:24,180 --> 00:40:27,980 funguses that thrive in nature and take over about the 716 00:40:27,980 --> 00:40:29,480 flashback of the being the first episode. 717 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,880 Yeah, the television show with the two scientists and 718 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,080 they're talking about the 60s. 719 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,580 I think yeah, we're talking about the fungus and what 720 00:40:35,580 --> 00:40:37,180 it does it takes over the and it takes, you know, 721 00:40:37,180 --> 00:40:41,080 eats the flesh of the ant and I've been I'm not trying 722 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,080 to say like I've been saying anything and I'm definitely 723 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,880 not like a like a prepper or like, you know, you're 724 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:46,380 no bill. 725 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:47,680 I'm no bill. 726 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,480 But that's one thing that I've thought about for a 727 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,580 long time was that was ever since I found out that 728 00:40:51,580 --> 00:40:54,180 there is a fungus that does this and I know that somewhere 729 00:40:54,180 --> 00:40:55,980 somewhere on this planet. 730 00:40:55,980 --> 00:40:57,880 There is some scientists who's probably fucking around 731 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,080 with something that he shouldn't be messing with and 732 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,180 the moment that they go in there with a needle that 733 00:41:02,180 --> 00:41:05,180 they cannot see or some kind of excision and make some 734 00:41:05,180 --> 00:41:09,080 kind of change in one of these things and break that 735 00:41:09,180 --> 00:41:13,280 boundary that stops this from leaping to humans like 736 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,080 that's I were fun and then guy lives in everything 737 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:16,880 lives in grass. 738 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:17,680 It lives in trees. 739 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,480 It lives everywhere lives in our air. 740 00:41:19,580 --> 00:41:21,180 Obviously, that's how this transfers. 741 00:41:21,180 --> 00:41:22,780 That's how the cordyceps infect. 742 00:41:22,780 --> 00:41:25,180 Everyone is through either the yeast, which we'll talk 743 00:41:25,180 --> 00:41:25,780 about later. 744 00:41:25,780 --> 00:41:28,780 A lot of the the food that people are eating is the 745 00:41:28,780 --> 00:41:30,080 reason why they became infected. 746 00:41:30,180 --> 00:41:32,480 But also a lot of it travels through air as well. 747 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,980 Yeah, but it made so much sense this discussion about 748 00:41:34,980 --> 00:41:39,080 what happens if the world warms up and things have to 749 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,080 adapt like we're not the only creatures that have to 750 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,080 adapt to a warmer climate, right? 751 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,780 This and this is so it's like it's so prevalent and 752 00:41:47,780 --> 00:41:50,080 it's so like topical. 753 00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,680 It's it's it's scary. 754 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,280 Yeah, it's terrifying that opening scene with the two 755 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,780 gentlemen talking in the 60s that flashback is not part 756 00:41:57,780 --> 00:41:59,080 of the the the video game. 757 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,580 They include that just for the TV series, which a lot 758 00:42:01,580 --> 00:42:04,080 of people were praising it for that and also that that 759 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,580 pilot in general is just a really good jumping on point 760 00:42:06,580 --> 00:42:09,180 for the series in terms of you know, oh my God meeting 761 00:42:09,180 --> 00:42:13,080 Joel meeting Tommy meeting Sarah guy almost forgot her 762 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,080 name meeting all these characters and obviously we 763 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:17,980 lose Sarah in that first episode, which is a big big 764 00:42:17,980 --> 00:42:21,580 deal in the video game as well that whole scene where 765 00:42:21,580 --> 00:42:23,780 they're in the truck and they're driving through the 766 00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:26,380 city and trying to find a way out that is ripped 767 00:42:26,380 --> 00:42:28,880 straight from the video game everything down to Sarah's 768 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,980 death where where he got where the you know, the 769 00:42:30,980 --> 00:42:34,180 Fedra officer goes to shoot Joel and ends up shooting 770 00:42:34,180 --> 00:42:36,580 Sarah on accident that is straight out of the video 771 00:42:36,580 --> 00:42:36,880 game. 772 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,580 I have a question though, and I wanted to ask us like 773 00:42:39,980 --> 00:42:42,180 episode one his watch breaks. 774 00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,680 Yes, but we see like I feel like we see flashes of his 775 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,480 watch that the show and it's not broken. 776 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,580 Well, that's remember that's what Sarah was doing in 777 00:42:49,580 --> 00:42:49,980 that episode. 778 00:42:49,980 --> 00:42:50,980 She went to go get it fixed. 779 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:52,080 She got it fixed. 780 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,980 It was it was I thought it was but it got broken after 781 00:42:55,980 --> 00:42:59,080 like when he got when like the whole chase scene it 782 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:00,880 was broken at the end of the first episode. 783 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:01,780 Maybe he got it fixed again. 784 00:43:01,780 --> 00:43:02,180 I don't know. 785 00:43:02,180 --> 00:43:03,680 I know that was like the whole thing was remember 786 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,480 because the the the watch fixer or whatever his 787 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,180 name is he was like she just take it stole the money. 788 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,280 Yeah, she stole the money and went it for his birthday. 789 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,080 But anyways, I just like something I got to look 790 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,180 back in and see again because something to me that 791 00:43:16,180 --> 00:43:16,880 was sorry. 792 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:18,380 I was just say something I found really interesting 793 00:43:18,380 --> 00:43:22,080 though was in that scene where Tommy is driving both 794 00:43:22,180 --> 00:43:26,080 Sarah and Joel there's they actually created a car 795 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,880 or truck where the stunt driver was actually on top 796 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:29,680 of the truck. 797 00:43:29,780 --> 00:43:30,880 Yes, I saw that. 798 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,080 Yeah, so that was really cool. 799 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:33,780 So they can just act normally then I have to worry 800 00:43:33,780 --> 00:43:37,280 about like hurting anyone or you know driving in 801 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:37,680 general. 802 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:38,280 They're crashing. 803 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,380 Yeah, they really just had to act the entire time 804 00:43:40,380 --> 00:43:42,080 while they had somebody on top actually doing it, 805 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:42,680 which is incredible. 806 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,280 So the show runners you honestly probably couldn't 807 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,680 have picked a better to to run the show initially got 808 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,780 crazy Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann Mazin is was a 809 00:43:50,780 --> 00:43:52,980 showrunner on HBO's hit miniseries Chernobyl. 810 00:43:53,180 --> 00:43:54,880 I know as soon as that announcement came through 811 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,880 the wire Aaron everybody was excited because if 812 00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,880 you've seen Chernobyl it is very last of us vibes 813 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,680 right like a lot of the nuclear waste that got into 814 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,480 that town after Chernobyl like I guess Chernobyl 815 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,880 was the town but all that to be said like it all 816 00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,480 feels that opening scene of the last of us feels 817 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,280 like that is the entire series of Chernobyl. 818 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,280 It's all flashbacks and like it's intense. 819 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,580 Yeah, it's really it's really great weirdly enough 820 00:44:18,580 --> 00:44:19,580 Mazin's freshman. 821 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:20,880 Okay, this is sorry everybody. 822 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:21,580 We're gonna get a little political. 823 00:44:21,580 --> 00:44:24,080 I just thought this is really funny Mazin's freshman 824 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,680 year roommate was at Princeton was Ted Cruz now 825 00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:28,380 the junior US Senator from Texas. 826 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,780 He openly despises Cruz on a personal level and 827 00:44:30,780 --> 00:44:32,780 frequently disparages him on Twitter. 828 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,480 I just thought that was hilarious that they were 829 00:44:34,580 --> 00:44:37,480 they were roommates and Ted Cruz is a piece of 830 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,580 shit moving on both Mazin and Druckmann are creators 831 00:44:40,580 --> 00:44:42,580 writers and executive producers of the television 832 00:44:42,580 --> 00:44:45,380 series Druckmann has been creative director designer 833 00:44:45,380 --> 00:44:47,980 programmer and co-president along with Evan Wells of 834 00:44:47,980 --> 00:44:49,380 Naughty Dog since 2020. 835 00:44:49,780 --> 00:44:52,180 He is best known for his work on the game franchise's 836 00:44:52,180 --> 00:44:54,680 Uncharted and of course the last of us having co-created 837 00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,180 the ladder with Bruce Stratley. 838 00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:01,180 So why not just get the creator co-creator of the 839 00:45:01,180 --> 00:45:03,980 series the video game and bring him on to basically 840 00:45:03,980 --> 00:45:06,080 do everything on the TV series and I think the 841 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,680 adaptation is so perfect for me Aaron. 842 00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,680 I think that the way they didn't just verbatim take 843 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:13,680 what was in the video game. 844 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,080 Okay, but they done it. 845 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:15,780 They kind of did though. 846 00:45:15,780 --> 00:45:17,180 That's the that's the crazy part is that there are 847 00:45:17,180 --> 00:45:20,080 certain parts of this series that is ripped directly 848 00:45:20,380 --> 00:45:22,180 like dialogue and everything from the video game 849 00:45:22,180 --> 00:45:23,880 and put into live action. 850 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,480 But then there's other weird aspects not weird 851 00:45:26,780 --> 00:45:30,280 interesting aspects of the of the series that make 852 00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:31,680 it its own thing. 853 00:45:31,980 --> 00:45:33,380 You know, again as someone who's played the first 854 00:45:33,380 --> 00:45:33,580 game. 855 00:45:33,580 --> 00:45:34,980 I again, I haven't played the second one. 856 00:45:34,980 --> 00:45:36,080 I haven't played in the DLC. 857 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:37,080 So don't come at me. 858 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:38,380 Everybody's listening right now. 859 00:45:38,580 --> 00:45:40,880 I will I want to at some point and I know maybe 860 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:41,980 maybe I shouldn't honestly Aaron. 861 00:45:41,980 --> 00:45:43,780 I want maybe I should just like go in with everybody 862 00:45:43,780 --> 00:45:46,080 else and just not play a video game and then be 863 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,780 surprised on what happens later on in the you know, 864 00:45:48,780 --> 00:45:50,180 and maybe we'll switch roles. 865 00:45:50,180 --> 00:45:52,480 I'll play it now and then I'll play the DLC and 866 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:53,880 everything and we'll go forward. 867 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:54,880 There you go. 868 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:56,480 That way you'll be the subject matter expert on 869 00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:56,780 this. 870 00:45:56,780 --> 00:45:59,280 We're gonna have one at least on the show, but it 871 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:00,580 just it does such a great job. 872 00:46:00,580 --> 00:46:03,380 I think in terms of balancing what what was great 873 00:46:03,380 --> 00:46:06,280 about the video game and and and trying of transplanting 874 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,880 it to the series and then everything that wasn't 875 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,080 part or anything that they wanted to change from 876 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:11,880 the video games. 877 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,280 They did a great job of kind of pivoting in the 878 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:14,680 series. 879 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:15,980 I feel like they should be standard. 880 00:46:15,980 --> 00:46:18,080 You know, you pull if somebody somebody was done 881 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,480 so well, you bring on the team and fucking made it 882 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:22,980 right exactly. 883 00:46:22,980 --> 00:46:23,680 Yeah, it's not broke. 884 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,080 Don't fix it, you know, yeah. 885 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,680 So the the score was composed by Gustavo Santa 886 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,980 Olala and David Fleming who also composed the video 887 00:46:32,980 --> 00:46:34,980 games soundtrack as well. 888 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:36,780 Chris I'm going to go to your kid. 889 00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:37,880 Why was going to ask you really quick? 890 00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:38,880 What are your thoughts on the soundtrack? 891 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:39,580 What do you like? 892 00:46:39,580 --> 00:46:43,780 Kind of like banjo like I rushed through this thing 893 00:46:43,780 --> 00:46:46,580 so fast that I have thoughts that are going to pop 894 00:46:46,580 --> 00:46:48,580 back into my head once you like trigger them. 895 00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:49,580 Okay. 896 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:49,880 Okay. 897 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,680 So as soon as I as soon as the show came on and I 898 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,580 got probably one and a half maybe even just one 899 00:46:56,580 --> 00:46:58,580 episode in one and a half to two episodes. 900 00:46:58,580 --> 00:47:00,580 I was like I need this this on vinyl. 901 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,780 Yeah, the the soundtrack for this show is phenomenal. 902 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,680 Yeah, it's great and it's almost exactly like the 903 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,380 soundtrack from the video game again, like they 904 00:47:09,380 --> 00:47:10,880 took something that worked really well in the video 905 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,280 game and just supplanted it into the series and it 906 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,180 works like there's no reason to fix it because 907 00:47:15,180 --> 00:47:16,080 it's already really good. 908 00:47:16,380 --> 00:47:16,780 Yeah. 909 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:18,580 So let's go to the cast real quick. 910 00:47:18,580 --> 00:47:20,380 I'm just going to run through these real quick. 911 00:47:20,580 --> 00:47:23,980 Pedro Pascal, Joel Miller, Bella Ramsey as Ellie 912 00:47:23,980 --> 00:47:27,480 Williams, Merle Dandridge as Marlene, Anna Torv as 913 00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:31,180 Tess Servopoulos, Nico Parker as Sarah Miller, 914 00:47:31,180 --> 00:47:35,080 Gabriel Luna as Tommy Miller, Nick Offerman as 915 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,880 Bill, love that guy, Murray Bartlett as Frank, 916 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,180 loved him to Lamar Johnson as Henry Burrell, Kavon 917 00:47:41,180 --> 00:47:44,580 Montreal Woodard as Sam, Melanie Linsky as Kathleen 918 00:47:44,580 --> 00:47:45,180 Koglut. 919 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:50,180 She was just like she's on the level of like the 920 00:47:50,180 --> 00:47:52,280 truncheable and what is that? 921 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:53,880 Madeline. 922 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:54,580 No, not Madeline. 923 00:47:54,580 --> 00:47:55,780 I'm sorry, Matilda. 924 00:47:55,780 --> 00:47:56,180 There it is. 925 00:47:56,180 --> 00:47:56,780 Yeah, I don't know. 926 00:47:56,780 --> 00:47:57,380 I'm gonna do that. 927 00:47:57,380 --> 00:48:00,080 She just like Umbridge in Order of the Phoenix. 928 00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,680 Like she's just that type of you hate her so much, 929 00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:04,080 right? 930 00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:08,180 Yeah, but she's like she reminds me of wallowitz 931 00:48:08,180 --> 00:48:11,080 his wife in the Big Bang Theory because she's got 932 00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:12,480 like that sweet voice. 933 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,280 Yes, that's the worst, you know, whenever they come 934 00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,880 in real soft and they're just like completely 935 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,580 evil deranged and evil. 936 00:48:18,580 --> 00:48:18,880 Yeah. 937 00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:19,280 Yeah. 938 00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:22,880 And then you got Jeffrey Pierce as Perry, Scott 939 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,080 Shepherd as David, Troy Baker as James and Ashley 940 00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,080 Johnson as Anna Ellie's mother. 941 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,080 There are many voice actors from the game who 942 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,080 return to play different characters in the show. 943 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,080 Troy Baker who voiced Joel in the game is James, 944 00:48:35,380 --> 00:48:37,680 one of the disciples and implied second in command 945 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,480 of cannibalistic group led by David as Chris was 946 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:41,580 talking about in episode 8. 947 00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,980 Ashley Johnson who voiced Ellie in the game is 948 00:48:43,980 --> 00:48:46,980 actually Ellie's mom in episode 9, but I'm pretty 949 00:48:46,980 --> 00:48:48,480 sure she also played. 950 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,980 I want to say she played like a like a teen mother 951 00:48:51,980 --> 00:48:53,180 in some movie. 952 00:48:53,180 --> 00:48:55,780 Oh, you're thinking of Juno, which okay, so here's 953 00:48:55,780 --> 00:48:56,380 no, not Juno. 954 00:48:56,380 --> 00:48:56,780 No, no, no. 955 00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:00,180 Okay, is she is Ashley Johnson not the girl from 956 00:49:00,180 --> 00:49:01,880 like Divergent? 957 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,480 So she played no, I'm thinking sorry. 958 00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:05,580 That's Shailene Woodley. 959 00:49:05,580 --> 00:49:07,380 So no, it's completely wrong person. 960 00:49:07,380 --> 00:49:11,780 So yeah, Ashley Johnson voiced Ellie in the game. 961 00:49:11,780 --> 00:49:14,180 And then you got Jeffrey Pierce who voiced Tommy 962 00:49:14,180 --> 00:49:17,480 in the game and that was Kathleen's anti-federa 963 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:21,980 second in command Perry who is just like that dude. 964 00:49:21,980 --> 00:49:23,880 I don't know if he was in love with her or what. 965 00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:24,780 I don't know what the deal was. 966 00:49:24,780 --> 00:49:25,080 Yeah. 967 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:25,480 Yeah. 968 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,180 He's like we will follow you everywhere, you know, 969 00:49:28,180 --> 00:49:31,480 got a cool beard and some some black gloves. 970 00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,080 The only person to reprise both roles in the game 971 00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:38,880 and on the show is Merle Dandridge as Marlene. 972 00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,180 Is it Merle or like something else? 973 00:49:41,180 --> 00:49:42,380 Merle Marley. 974 00:49:42,380 --> 00:49:43,080 I don't know. 975 00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,880 We don't know Merle sounds so masculine and you 976 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:46,380 don't know. 977 00:49:46,380 --> 00:49:47,380 I definitely don't know. 978 00:49:47,380 --> 00:49:49,580 You know, I can't pronounce it. 979 00:49:49,580 --> 00:49:50,880 Oh, yeah. 980 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:52,880 No, it's I think everybody across the board is a great 981 00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,180 job Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey's chemistry is off 982 00:49:56,180 --> 00:49:57,080 the charts in this series. 983 00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,480 What their relationship is at the beginning of the series 984 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:03,380 and what it eventually becomes at the end is something 985 00:50:03,380 --> 00:50:06,880 that I knew was coming and yet I still fell for like is 986 00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:08,780 this what happens in the game is a relationship. 987 00:50:08,780 --> 00:50:09,780 What kind of thing? 988 00:50:09,780 --> 00:50:11,780 Yes, they absolutely cannot stand each other in the 989 00:50:11,780 --> 00:50:13,980 beginning of the series or in the video game and then 990 00:50:13,980 --> 00:50:16,380 throughout the video game as things happen to them and 991 00:50:16,380 --> 00:50:18,580 they have to trust each other and they proved to each 992 00:50:18,580 --> 00:50:19,780 other that they're there for each other. 993 00:50:19,780 --> 00:50:22,580 They slowly start to, you know, earn each other's affection 994 00:50:22,580 --> 00:50:24,280 and it's beautiful. 995 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:28,980 It's like it's such like like as as as the third party 996 00:50:28,980 --> 00:50:32,680 in the relationship as the outside view on this. 997 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:37,680 It's like it's it's there's such a like dichotomy. 998 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:39,980 I want to say it's like dichotomy inside of me where 999 00:50:39,980 --> 00:50:43,580 it's like part of me loves the fact that that he's 1000 00:50:43,580 --> 00:50:46,180 like healed from Sarah and some wounds he's had in 1001 00:50:46,180 --> 00:50:46,980 the past. 1002 00:50:46,980 --> 00:50:52,380 But at the same time, I know that he is crazy as fuck 1003 00:50:52,380 --> 00:50:55,280 like because he's doing some he's like he's you know, 1004 00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:59,180 he's doing he's in that end-all be-all protector of her. 1005 00:50:59,180 --> 00:51:02,580 Well, the thing is, yes, he is a product of what the 1006 00:51:02,580 --> 00:51:03,480 world has become. 1007 00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,480 But think about Ellie. 1008 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,980 She was born into this world and we see very early on 1009 00:51:07,980 --> 00:51:11,080 in the series that she's okay doing some crazy shit 1010 00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:12,280 because that's all she's ever known. 1011 00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,580 Innocence is no longer a thing for these young young 1012 00:51:14,580 --> 00:51:14,980 people. 1013 00:51:14,980 --> 00:51:17,680 True kids are these kids are born into violence and 1014 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,980 mayhem and clickers and Fedra and all this shit. 1015 00:51:20,980 --> 00:51:22,580 So Ellie we see it at one point. 1016 00:51:22,580 --> 00:51:24,380 I think it's at the beginning of episode 3 where she 1017 00:51:24,380 --> 00:51:26,680 just goes downstairs and she's like messing with the 1018 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:30,280 clicker like opening it up and like, you know, cuts it 1019 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:31,380 open to see what will happen. 1020 00:51:31,380 --> 00:51:34,080 Like she's she's got a little fuckery in her too. 1021 00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:37,880 And Joel is not helping that if nothing else Joel is 1022 00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,080 showing her that that type of behavior is how you 1023 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:41,080 survive in this world. 1024 00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:44,180 And I think again as someone who's not played part 2, 1025 00:51:44,180 --> 00:51:46,880 I think that is explored much heavily in the second 1026 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:47,180 game. 1027 00:51:47,180 --> 00:51:49,480 I think the second game very much leans into the idea 1028 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,580 of how far is too far for Ellie, right? 1029 00:51:51,780 --> 00:51:55,180 Especially when someone again, no spoilers is not 1030 00:51:55,180 --> 00:51:56,080 around to help her. 1031 00:51:56,180 --> 00:51:58,980 So yeah, I want to and I want to talk about shooting 1032 00:51:58,980 --> 00:52:01,880 during COVID-19 because again, this show was shot 1033 00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,480 during COVID-19 and a lot of shows and movies have 1034 00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:08,180 not well, let's say they haven't gone super well outside 1035 00:52:08,180 --> 00:52:10,580 of like a Top Gun Maverick and Avatar the way of 1036 00:52:10,580 --> 00:52:13,280 water, you know, a lot of a lot of these movies and 1037 00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,580 television series have we've seen the downfall of 1038 00:52:16,580 --> 00:52:18,780 trying to work in these, you know, during a pandemic. 1039 00:52:18,780 --> 00:52:21,580 So for decades HBO has set countless standards for 1040 00:52:21,580 --> 00:52:22,680 the rest of the TV world. 1041 00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:24,680 The Last of Us is reportedly one of the most expensive 1042 00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,680 series ever costing HBO about 10 million dollars per 1043 00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,980 episode while shooting most of the series in person 1044 00:52:29,980 --> 00:52:30,680 in Calgary. 1045 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,080 They also utilize the same Industrial Light and Magic 1046 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:36,880 I L M virtual production that the Mandalorian used 1047 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,980 actors performed in immersive and massive 20 foot 1048 00:52:39,980 --> 00:52:44,880 high and to sub 270 degree semi-circular LED video 1049 00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:48,080 wall and ceiling with a 75 foot diameter performance 1050 00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,580 space where the practical set pieces were combined 1051 00:52:50,580 --> 00:52:53,480 with the digital extensions of the screen the clickers 1052 00:52:53,580 --> 00:52:55,880 and even the giraffe and episode 9 are all practical 1053 00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:57,180 though, which I thought was really incredible. 1054 00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:58,680 It was a real giraffe wasn't it? 1055 00:52:58,680 --> 00:52:59,580 It was a real giraffe. 1056 00:52:59,580 --> 00:52:59,880 Yeah. 1057 00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:02,480 And I think for anyone who's interested, please go 1058 00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,180 watch the making of of this series on HBO. 1059 00:53:05,180 --> 00:53:07,680 It's currently they they basically premiered it right 1060 00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,680 after episode 9 premiered and it is a really really 1061 00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:12,980 cool in-depth look at how they made this series look 1062 00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:14,080 as great as it looks. 1063 00:53:14,580 --> 00:53:17,380 Industrial Light and Magic is the same like that's 1064 00:53:17,380 --> 00:53:18,880 that's like a studio, isn't it? 1065 00:53:19,180 --> 00:53:21,880 So it is a studio but it's also it creates technology 1066 00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:22,580 for film now. 1067 00:53:22,580 --> 00:53:24,480 So it's not yeah, you know, of course it was created 1068 00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,180 by George Lucas and was Lucas Lucas art Lucas Films 1069 00:53:28,180 --> 00:53:28,580 or whatever. 1070 00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,380 Yeah, a lot of it was sold to Disney of course, but 1071 00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,680 for the most part it's like the MacGyver's of the 1072 00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,380 of Hollywood now they are they're often changing how 1073 00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:40,080 we film and how we create, you know film and television 1074 00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:41,780 they are just pioneers in that sense. 1075 00:53:41,780 --> 00:53:44,780 So Aaron I'd love to have you talk about kind of the 1076 00:53:44,780 --> 00:53:47,280 accolades of the video game and what the series had 1077 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:50,380 to eventually try to shoot for in terms of a claim. 1078 00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,880 So the Last of Us received a universal acclaim meaning 1079 00:53:55,580 --> 00:53:58,480 everyone in the universe acclaimed it every everyone 1080 00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:02,680 loved even Aaron who didn't play it upon its initial 1081 00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:07,080 release exclusively on the PlayStation 3 in 2013. 1082 00:54:07,580 --> 00:54:08,780 Hey, we were still in the army together. 1083 00:54:08,780 --> 00:54:10,380 We were still hanging out in Savannah, Georgia 1084 00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,080 within seven days of its release Last of Us sold over 1085 00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,580 1.3 million units becoming the biggest video game 1086 00:54:17,580 --> 00:54:20,480 launch of 2013 at the time three weeks after its 1087 00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:24,180 release the game sold over 3.4 million units and was 1088 00:54:24,180 --> 00:54:26,280 deemed the biggest launch of an original game since 1089 00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:30,580 2011's LA Noire, which was boring as hell and the 1090 00:54:30,580 --> 00:54:33,280 fastest selling PlayStation 3 game of 2013 at the 1091 00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,680 time, which I think we already said the Last of Us 1092 00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:37,980 won over 200 game of the year awards. 1093 00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:39,680 Holy shit. 1094 00:54:39,980 --> 00:54:42,680 Why are there 200 like more than 200 game of the is 1095 00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:43,880 that every single award? 1096 00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:44,580 I think it's every day. 1097 00:54:44,580 --> 00:54:45,680 I think it's every single game award. 1098 00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,280 Yeah, just Last of Us Last of Us just cut the show. 1099 00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:48,780 Everything goes. 1100 00:54:48,780 --> 00:54:51,280 It was like it's like it was like everything ever 1101 00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,380 wrote once at the Oscars this year is like pretty 1102 00:54:53,380 --> 00:54:54,180 much everything. 1103 00:54:54,180 --> 00:54:54,680 It doesn't matter. 1104 00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:55,580 We all know it's great. 1105 00:54:55,880 --> 00:55:00,580 Yeah, over 200 Jesus making one of the most acclaimed 1106 00:55:00,580 --> 00:55:03,980 and successful games of all time time time its 1107 00:55:03,980 --> 00:55:04,480 sequel. 1108 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:06,980 The Last of Us part two would go on to beat that 1109 00:55:06,980 --> 00:55:13,180 record. Exactly would go on to beat that record in 2020. 1110 00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:15,380 Wow. 1111 00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,880 I didn't even gave it a 10 out of 10 score called 1112 00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,880 it a masterpiece that evolves the gameplay cinematic 1113 00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:26,080 storytelling and rich world design of the original in 1114 00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:27,780 nearly every way. 1115 00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:30,480 I'm sorry for that Kermit ask voice that Kermit or 1116 00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,180 was that kind of sound like the frog from WB at the 1117 00:55:34,180 --> 00:55:37,480 time burger burger? No, that's a racist racist frog. 1118 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:39,380 Hello, my baby. 1119 00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:42,680 I think it's racist. 1120 00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:44,180 Okay, that is racist. 1121 00:55:44,180 --> 00:55:46,580 How dare you bring up that goddamn frog. 1122 00:55:47,780 --> 00:55:49,980 So like I mean you could go to Wikipedia you go to 1123 00:55:49,980 --> 00:55:51,680 wherever you can go to the video games award. 1124 00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,780 You can look all this stuff, but it's all of it. 1125 00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,780 It's all of it New York Game Awards Big Apple Award 1126 00:55:57,780 --> 00:55:58,380 for for me. 1127 00:55:58,380 --> 00:55:59,180 I'm just going to name a few. 1128 00:55:59,180 --> 00:56:01,180 Okay, so outstanding innovation and gaming at the 1129 00:56:01,180 --> 00:56:04,180 dice Awards February 7 2014 and there's like 1130 00:56:04,180 --> 00:56:06,580 eight more that say outstanding achievement and 1131 00:56:06,580 --> 00:56:12,180 sound game of the year writing performance innovation 1132 00:56:12,180 --> 00:56:17,180 and gaming narrative audio sound design here game of 1133 00:56:17,180 --> 00:56:19,580 the year best game. 1134 00:56:20,180 --> 00:56:27,280 It's sweat 2014 and 2020 best narrative audio mix game 1135 00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:27,880 of the year. 1136 00:56:28,580 --> 00:56:30,580 It's everything audio the year you guys get it. 1137 00:56:30,580 --> 00:56:31,080 I'm sorry. 1138 00:56:31,180 --> 00:56:31,580 You get it. 1139 00:56:31,580 --> 00:56:32,180 You get it. 1140 00:56:32,380 --> 00:56:33,280 It's it's incredible. 1141 00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:34,380 And like I said, Aaron, I'm excited. 1142 00:56:34,380 --> 00:56:35,080 Go go. 1143 00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:38,380 No, so the everyone for everyone at home the transcript 1144 00:56:38,380 --> 00:56:40,480 I have all the awards for both the first and second 1145 00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,280 the second like I like we just said beat the first 1146 00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,080 game in terms of like and I think it's only because 1147 00:56:46,180 --> 00:56:48,480 there were more video game Awards in 2020 than there 1148 00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:50,680 were in 2013 or 2014. 1149 00:56:50,980 --> 00:56:53,480 Never that you know that award season came around. 1150 00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:56,580 So yeah, it's it's incredible. 1151 00:56:56,580 --> 00:56:58,380 Like I said, the first one is probably one of my 1152 00:56:58,380 --> 00:56:59,380 favorite games of all time. 1153 00:56:59,580 --> 00:57:01,780 I haven't played it in years and I feel like I still 1154 00:57:01,780 --> 00:57:04,580 think about how immersive and how amazing the 1155 00:57:04,580 --> 00:57:07,280 gameplay is like not only are the cutscenes amazing 1156 00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,880 and not only did it look amazing for 2013 but the 1157 00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:12,580 storyline really draws you in it really honestly. 1158 00:57:12,580 --> 00:57:14,880 I think the era that we're in right now in terms of 1159 00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:17,580 cinematic video gaming is because of the last of us 1160 00:57:17,580 --> 00:57:20,380 and because of uncharted like video games like that 1161 00:57:20,380 --> 00:57:22,380 are the reason that we're in the era that we're in 1162 00:57:22,380 --> 00:57:22,780 right now. 1163 00:57:23,180 --> 00:57:25,580 So I definitely like I said, I do want to play the 1164 00:57:25,580 --> 00:57:26,580 second one at some point. 1165 00:57:26,580 --> 00:57:28,380 I'm kind of I'm kind of divided now because I kind 1166 00:57:28,380 --> 00:57:29,880 of want to I don't know if I want to be surprised for 1167 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:31,780 the video game or if I want to be surprised for the 1168 00:57:31,980 --> 00:57:32,580 the series. 1169 00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,580 So Aaron is there a particular episode you want to 1170 00:57:34,580 --> 00:57:36,880 talk about because I think again kind of in relation 1171 00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,380 to a lot of our series reviews. 1172 00:57:38,380 --> 00:57:39,880 We don't really go through every single episode 1173 00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:42,980 anymore, but outside of episode 3 which everyone 1174 00:57:42,980 --> 00:57:43,680 knows is amazing. 1175 00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:45,480 That's of course the Bill and Frank episode. 1176 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,080 Is there another episode that really you know kind 1177 00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:48,680 of sticks out in your brain in terms of really you 1178 00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:51,580 really loving I mean honestly like I think I want 1179 00:57:51,580 --> 00:57:53,880 to say that number 3 was obviously the standout. 1180 00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:58,180 I loved number one number one was just a very from 1181 00:57:58,180 --> 00:58:02,580 God that just the beginning wasn't slow. 1182 00:58:02,580 --> 00:58:03,780 I was kind of worried. 1183 00:58:03,780 --> 00:58:07,380 It would kind of like slowly creep in but it was 1184 00:58:07,380 --> 00:58:09,080 just it was phenomenal acting. 1185 00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:10,680 It was phenomenal effects. 1186 00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:14,980 I remember the moment that I you see the plane like 1187 00:58:14,980 --> 00:58:16,180 kind of falling out of the sky. 1188 00:58:16,180 --> 00:58:19,080 You see it before the characters on screen, right? 1189 00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:22,380 And so like you're like you're like is nobody 1190 00:58:22,380 --> 00:58:24,380 seeing this plane coming out of the sky like look 1191 00:58:24,380 --> 00:58:24,780 hello. 1192 00:58:24,780 --> 00:58:28,480 Hello McFly, you know, and I'm just like and then 1193 00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:29,780 she sees it and they start screaming. 1194 00:58:29,780 --> 00:58:31,480 They're driving and it's just like I'm just like 1195 00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:35,080 Jesus like it literally had me and I'll say it 1196 00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:36,580 for the second episode as well. 1197 00:58:36,980 --> 00:58:37,680 Chris, you know me. 1198 00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:38,880 I'm not a horror movie. 1199 00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:40,080 Like I don't love horror. 1200 00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:44,680 Sure, but from any time I say like I like obviously 1201 00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:46,980 fungus thrives on moisture. 1202 00:58:47,380 --> 00:58:48,580 We see that I think what was it? 1203 00:58:48,580 --> 00:58:49,580 I think it was episode 5. 1204 00:58:49,580 --> 00:58:51,380 Also, we see the ground just like kind of like 1205 00:58:51,380 --> 00:58:53,880 breathing from the moisture dripping into it. 1206 00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:58,280 It's like we literally have weaponized fungus in 1207 00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,380 this and I'm just like wondering what the next 1208 00:59:00,380 --> 00:59:01,580 creature is going to look like. 1209 00:59:01,580 --> 00:59:03,180 What's the next thing going to look like? 1210 00:59:03,380 --> 00:59:06,880 And so like I really I would say that episode 2 1211 00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,880 really cemented in the fact that wherever you're 1212 00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,680 going like there's something in that corner possibly 1213 00:59:12,780 --> 00:59:15,180 like yeah, and those clickers look amazing by the 1214 00:59:15,180 --> 00:59:15,480 way. 1215 00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:16,980 Oh, yeah, the first time seeing the clickers for 1216 00:59:16,980 --> 00:59:17,680 the first time. 1217 00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:19,280 I'm surprised they showed us an episode 2. 1218 00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:20,580 I was I was thinking they weren't going to show 1219 00:59:20,580 --> 00:59:23,080 us until later down, you know into the series, 1220 00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:25,480 but that whole scene with with Tess and with Ellie 1221 00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:53,480 and Joel is it's nail biting. 1222 00:59:55,480 --> 01:00:22,880 Oh and like the you know that scene with Tess 1223 01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,580 when when she sacrifices herself. 1224 01:00:26,180 --> 01:00:29,880 Yeah, and also RIP RIP to the the actor who played 1225 01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:30,180 Tess. 1226 01:00:30,180 --> 01:00:31,280 She also passed away. 1227 01:00:31,380 --> 01:00:33,380 She passed away the same week that episode premiered 1228 01:00:33,380 --> 01:00:35,980 to there's a lot of that really yeah, I know that 1229 01:00:35,980 --> 01:00:39,080 she she passed away the week of that episode 2 1230 01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:39,580 coming out. 1231 01:00:39,580 --> 01:00:41,580 So kind of a weird parallel in terms of her 1232 01:00:41,580 --> 01:00:43,380 character dying the same week that she passes away 1233 01:00:43,380 --> 01:00:47,180 but and she also she had died from an undisclosed 1234 01:00:47,180 --> 01:00:48,980 form of cancer, which I think we'll talk about here 1235 01:00:48,980 --> 01:00:50,780 in just a bit during our fun facts, which is not 1236 01:00:50,780 --> 01:00:51,480 really a fun fact. 1237 01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:52,980 They were both from fringe. 1238 01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:53,380 Yeah. 1239 01:00:53,380 --> 01:00:53,780 Oh, yeah. 1240 01:00:53,780 --> 01:00:54,180 Yeah. 1241 01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:54,880 Yep. 1242 01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:56,580 I loved her in fringe. 1243 01:00:56,580 --> 01:00:57,380 That's so wild. 1244 01:00:57,380 --> 01:01:00,380 I didn't I honestly had no idea that she she had 1245 01:01:00,380 --> 01:01:00,980 passed. 1246 01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:01,480 Yep. 1247 01:01:01,580 --> 01:01:02,180 Yeah, it's crazy. 1248 01:01:02,180 --> 01:01:05,280 I'll say though episode 5 and Durn Survive was 1249 01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:07,180 probably my second favorite episode of the series. 1250 01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:09,280 I love the pilot as well, but just for the sake 1251 01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:10,580 of talking about another episode. 1252 01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:12,780 Yeah, when everybody's kind of bum rushing our 1253 01:01:12,780 --> 01:01:14,980 leads in that cul-de-sac and we of course see the 1254 01:01:14,980 --> 01:01:17,880 bloat the the bloater for the first time and all 1255 01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,280 of those practical clickers and everything. 1256 01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:21,180 It's awesome. 1257 01:01:21,180 --> 01:01:22,980 And obviously we get to see Kathleen and Perry both 1258 01:01:22,980 --> 01:01:23,880 die, which is incredible. 1259 01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,180 So yeah, I'd say that's probably my my either my 1260 01:01:26,180 --> 01:01:27,880 favorite or my second favorite episode of the series. 1261 01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,380 So and let's go and get into fun facts here. 1262 01:01:30,580 --> 01:01:33,480 Some fun facts about the last of us in the games. 1263 01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:36,280 The this is one thing that I definitely knew that 1264 01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:38,780 they had changed was because I remember seeing 1265 01:01:38,980 --> 01:01:40,280 why I think when I played like the first couple 1266 01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,680 minutes of the game, they talked about the fungus 1267 01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:45,480 spreading through spores in the air the show. 1268 01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:49,480 They they deliberately and and wanted to replace 1269 01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:50,680 them with tendrils. 1270 01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:52,680 Neil Druckmann explained that this was deliberate 1271 01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,880 decision he made early on during the show's development 1272 01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:56,780 as he wanted to make the world more believable and 1273 01:01:56,780 --> 01:01:58,080 the fungus more frightening. 1274 01:01:58,380 --> 01:02:01,380 I'm going to be honest for me spores in the air is 1275 01:02:01,380 --> 01:02:02,380 way more frightening. 1276 01:02:04,180 --> 01:02:05,680 Yeah, little mouth tendrils. 1277 01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:06,080 Okay. 1278 01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:09,680 So Pedro Pascal was working on this and the Maloran 1279 01:02:10,180 --> 01:02:12,880 and the Malorian and the Mandalorian season 3 at 1280 01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:13,580 the same time. 1281 01:02:13,580 --> 01:02:16,880 He is reportedly earning $600,000 per episode on 1282 01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:22,580 the last of us and $720,000 per Mandalorian episode 1283 01:02:23,580 --> 01:02:26,380 making one of the highest paid American television 1284 01:02:26,380 --> 01:02:27,580 stars working today. 1285 01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:32,480 That's nearly a million dollars a million dollars 1286 01:02:32,780 --> 01:02:33,280 a week. 1287 01:02:33,780 --> 01:02:36,080 Bella Ramsey vowed not to look at social media 1288 01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,880 comments when her casting was announced saying it 1289 01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:40,780 was her first experience with a lot of negative 1290 01:02:40,780 --> 01:02:43,680 reactions that she was aware of all of it. 1291 01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:46,180 So while not part of the episode itself, Naughty 1292 01:02:46,180 --> 01:02:48,080 Dog dedicated the release of the third episode to 1293 01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,080 Annie Wershing Tess's voice and motion capture 1294 01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:55,280 actor who sadly passed away from the from unspecified 1295 01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,480 form of cancer on the eve of airing of the eve of 1296 01:02:58,480 --> 01:02:59,980 the airing of season one episode 3. 1297 01:02:59,980 --> 01:03:01,180 She was just 45. 1298 01:03:01,380 --> 01:03:03,780 So the clicker sound that is made by is actually 1299 01:03:03,780 --> 01:03:06,680 made by the same two actors Misty Lee and Philip 1300 01:03:06,980 --> 01:03:10,080 Kovacs that performed the male and female clicker 1301 01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:10,980 voices in the video game. 1302 01:03:10,980 --> 01:03:12,280 So basically the same people who made those 1303 01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:13,780 noises in the video game make them awesome. 1304 01:03:13,780 --> 01:03:15,680 I could do that job. 1305 01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:20,780 So we got Matthew Conahay Mahershala Lee Hugh 1306 01:03:20,780 --> 01:03:23,680 Jackman Michael Fassbender John Bernthal Gerard Butler 1307 01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,180 Josh Brolin John Ham David Harbour Keanu Reeves 1308 01:03:26,180 --> 01:03:28,980 Chris Hemsworth Harrison Ford Tom Hardy and Joel 1309 01:03:28,980 --> 01:03:31,480 Edgerton were all considered an audition for the 1310 01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,680 role of Joel Miller before Pedro Pascal was cast. 1311 01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:35,780 Wow, that's that's kind of incredible. 1312 01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,180 Both Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey appeared in the 1313 01:03:38,180 --> 01:03:41,380 HBO series Game of Thrones Pascal obviously 1314 01:03:41,380 --> 01:03:44,280 portrayed Oberon Martell and Ramsey appeared as 1315 01:03:44,580 --> 01:03:48,080 Leanna Mormont who gets crushed by a giant in 1316 01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,680 the battle for Winterfell and obviously Oberon 1317 01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,080 gets his skull crushed by the mountain which is 1318 01:03:53,180 --> 01:03:53,980 Jesus. 1319 01:03:53,980 --> 01:03:56,080 Yeah, but at least Mormont she like went out with 1320 01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:59,080 a bang, you know, yeah, so she was such a badass 1321 01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:00,080 in that show too. 1322 01:04:00,180 --> 01:04:00,580 Yep. 1323 01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:00,980 Yep. 1324 01:04:00,980 --> 01:04:02,780 So speaking of Game of Thrones, both Maisie 1325 01:04:02,780 --> 01:04:05,280 Williams and Caitlin Dever were both up for the 1326 01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,580 role of Ellie before the two aged out of the long 1327 01:04:07,580 --> 01:04:10,980 gestating project the titles of the first and 1328 01:04:10,980 --> 01:04:12,580 last episodes of the first season complete the 1329 01:04:12,580 --> 01:04:14,980 message when you're lost in the darkness look for 1330 01:04:14,980 --> 01:04:16,280 the light, which is really cool. 1331 01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:18,480 Eagle-eyed viewers spotted that in the first 1332 01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,780 episode the Miller family unconsciously or 1333 01:04:20,780 --> 01:04:23,080 somewhat consciously in Joel's case as he has 1334 01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:25,380 been on a high protein low carb Atkins diet 1335 01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:27,680 avoided food with flour in it for the day of the 1336 01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:29,880 outbreak and in later years adopted the theory 1337 01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,880 that a fungus spreading via invested flour. 1338 01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:34,980 This theory was furthered by the beginning of the 1339 01:04:34,980 --> 01:04:37,880 second episode as one of the first people to fall 1340 01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:40,180 victim to the fungus worked at a flour and grain 1341 01:04:40,180 --> 01:04:42,280 factory the third episode all but confirmed this 1342 01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:45,080 theory as Joel says the best guess about how the 1343 01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:45,680 outbreak spread. 1344 01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:48,280 It was that the fungus got into key food ingredients 1345 01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:50,880 that hit the shelves at around the same time all 1346 01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:53,480 over the world and finally Pedro Pascal and Bella 1347 01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:55,480 Ramsey formed a friendship so strong that the duo 1348 01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:57,880 and their fans refer to them as a real life Joel 1349 01:04:57,880 --> 01:04:59,080 and Ellie, which is really nice. 1350 01:04:59,380 --> 01:05:01,480 You see the lot on social media a lot on Instagram 1351 01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:03,880 where they are posting behind the scenes stuff and 1352 01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:06,180 it seems like Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey have 1353 01:05:06,180 --> 01:05:08,480 really honestly formed a really great friendship. 1354 01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:11,180 So I had this city and everyone in it. 1355 01:05:11,580 --> 01:05:13,480 Let's go ahead and round this thing out Aaron. 1356 01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:17,180 So final thoughts on the last of us overall did us 1357 01:05:17,180 --> 01:05:19,180 talking about the series change anything for you? 1358 01:05:19,380 --> 01:05:20,080 Not really. 1359 01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:23,280 I mean, I think I still very much enjoyed it again. 1360 01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:24,280 I think it was just for me. 1361 01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:27,680 It was a it was a pacing issue from the first four 1362 01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:30,880 to five episodes and the last four for sure. 1363 01:05:31,180 --> 01:05:33,780 Yeah, so but I did I really enjoyed it. 1364 01:05:34,180 --> 01:05:35,380 I will say this. 1365 01:05:35,380 --> 01:05:39,380 I did not expect to cry at all and as much as I 1366 01:05:39,380 --> 01:05:41,680 did on some of these episodes and just the sheer 1367 01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:43,480 like amount of times where I was like, oh shit, 1368 01:05:43,580 --> 01:05:45,580 like, you know, jump scares and stuff. 1369 01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,780 Is it the greatest video game adaptation to be put 1370 01:05:48,780 --> 01:05:49,280 on film? 1371 01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:51,780 I would have to play the video game to give you 1372 01:05:51,780 --> 01:05:52,580 that answer. 1373 01:05:52,580 --> 01:05:52,980 Sure. 1374 01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:53,580 Is it? 1375 01:05:53,580 --> 01:05:55,680 They said not Tech of Pikachu answer the question 1376 01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:58,280 Aaron stop dodging Super Mario Brothers the original 1377 01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:01,080 one Bob Hoskins Mario Mario and Luigi Mario. 1378 01:06:01,380 --> 01:06:01,780 Yes. 1379 01:06:01,780 --> 01:06:03,280 Yeah, you know your final thoughts, sir. 1380 01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:04,080 I loved it. 1381 01:06:04,180 --> 01:06:05,980 I really really loved it. 1382 01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:08,580 I think it's exactly what I wanted from the series 1383 01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:11,080 again as someone who was a fan of the first game 1384 01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:12,480 and someone who has not played the rest of it. 1385 01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:15,580 I'm glad that they only went up to not even not 1386 01:06:15,580 --> 01:06:17,080 even to the end of the first game, which is really 1387 01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:17,480 awesome. 1388 01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:19,680 There's a lot of material there and I'm really happy 1389 01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:20,980 with the the cast. 1390 01:06:20,980 --> 01:06:22,780 I'm happy with the people who are show running the 1391 01:06:22,780 --> 01:06:23,380 series. 1392 01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:27,080 I think that this is if we can get five similar 1393 01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:28,780 seasons to what we got here or better. 1394 01:06:28,780 --> 01:06:31,580 I'll be it'll be you'll be hard-pressed to find a 1395 01:06:31,580 --> 01:06:34,080 better adaptation of any medium whether it be video 1396 01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:34,980 games or otherwise. 1397 01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:36,980 I have one more question for you though. 1398 01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:37,380 Okay. 1399 01:06:38,980 --> 01:06:42,380 Are you not getting tired of post post-apocalyptic 1400 01:06:42,380 --> 01:06:44,180 zombie type shows? 1401 01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:45,980 No, not really. 1402 01:06:45,980 --> 01:06:49,380 Not yet only because a lot of times what we have 1403 01:06:49,380 --> 01:06:51,580 are zombies, you know the undead. 1404 01:06:51,780 --> 01:06:53,580 This is a slightly different. 1405 01:06:53,580 --> 01:06:56,980 I like a I like a slight you know, a little bit 1406 01:06:56,980 --> 01:07:00,180 of I like a slight, you know pivot from whatever 1407 01:07:00,380 --> 01:07:02,580 whatever the mainstream is or whatever, you know, 1408 01:07:02,580 --> 01:07:04,980 people are starting to get a little sick of like a 1409 01:07:04,980 --> 01:07:07,180 slight deconstruction of what that genre is and I 1410 01:07:07,180 --> 01:07:09,180 think the last of us offer something really interesting 1411 01:07:09,180 --> 01:07:12,580 that a lot of the zombie stuff doesn't good answer. 1412 01:07:12,580 --> 01:07:13,380 You see a lot of people. 1413 01:07:13,380 --> 01:07:15,480 Yeah, you people who have like compared this to 1414 01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:16,280 the walking dead. 1415 01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,480 I don't think this is even close like the walking 1416 01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:22,180 does not even close to this the walking dead season 1417 01:07:22,180 --> 01:07:24,880 one is pretty good and then the rest of it is a 1418 01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:29,480 hard hard nosedive into average or bad and this is 1419 01:07:29,980 --> 01:07:33,380 fucking top-tier television as somebody who who 1420 01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:35,380 thrives in resolution. 1421 01:07:35,780 --> 01:07:38,080 I cannot stand the walking dead because there is 1422 01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:38,780 no resolution. 1423 01:07:38,780 --> 01:07:40,880 There's no exactly at no point. 1424 01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:43,580 They say, oh, this is what started it and I know 1425 01:07:43,580 --> 01:07:46,180 that the discussion between you know, Ellie and 1426 01:07:46,180 --> 01:07:50,280 and Joel is is purely speculation, but it's speculation 1427 01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:51,080 that makes sense. 1428 01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:55,980 It's it's you know, why like you don't know how it 1429 01:07:55,980 --> 01:07:59,080 necessarily started but you know why it did and they 1430 01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:00,980 explain that almost right at the beginning and 1431 01:08:00,980 --> 01:08:02,180 that's what I Indonesia. 1432 01:08:02,380 --> 01:08:04,580 Yeah, that's that whole beginning that oh yeah, 1433 01:08:04,580 --> 01:08:05,780 cold opening of episode 2. 1434 01:08:05,780 --> 01:08:08,180 I think is kind of explains a lot of that exactly 1435 01:08:08,180 --> 01:08:10,480 that and the discussion between the scientists like 1436 01:08:10,480 --> 01:08:12,380 there's there's so many things that build upon a 1437 01:08:12,380 --> 01:08:14,980 little bit of a little bit of it a foundational, 1438 01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:18,480 you know world building that you don't get in other 1439 01:08:18,480 --> 01:08:22,680 series. That's that's what will definitely put this 1440 01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:25,680 above what the walking dead ever was for me because 1441 01:08:25,780 --> 01:08:27,980 I can't watch a show when I know that they're never 1442 01:08:27,980 --> 01:08:29,980 going to reveal the answer of what started it. 1443 01:08:30,180 --> 01:08:32,280 I don't think I don't even like there's not even a 1444 01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:34,680 comparison my brain when I think of the show the 1445 01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:36,680 walking dead doesn't even creep into my mind because 1446 01:08:36,780 --> 01:08:38,080 it's not even close to my opinion. 1447 01:08:38,480 --> 01:08:41,180 Cary Cora Cora. 1448 01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:46,380 Okay, spoilers for the end of episode of the first 1449 01:08:46,380 --> 01:08:48,380 video game everybody remember we were going to 1450 01:08:48,380 --> 01:08:49,280 talk about at the beginning. 1451 01:08:49,380 --> 01:08:51,780 Yeah, so if you don't want to know skip to Aaron's 1452 01:08:51,780 --> 01:08:53,180 arcade before we rate this thing. 1453 01:08:53,180 --> 01:08:55,380 I'm gonna tell everybody that and I've already kind 1454 01:08:55,380 --> 01:08:57,480 of basically told everybody Joel dies fucking dies 1455 01:08:57,480 --> 01:08:58,380 Joel fucking dies. 1456 01:08:58,380 --> 01:09:01,380 All right, and Ellie has to die. 1457 01:09:02,580 --> 01:09:04,480 He is in a fight with someone at the end of the 1458 01:09:04,480 --> 01:09:04,880 first one. 1459 01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,080 I can't remember who he fights, but he ends up kind 1460 01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:08,880 of semi-sacrificing himself for Ellie. 1461 01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:10,780 So it's the last final. 1462 01:09:10,980 --> 01:09:13,280 It's the it's the final boss or whatever of the 1463 01:09:13,380 --> 01:09:14,480 of the first game. 1464 01:09:14,980 --> 01:09:17,180 So Aaron out of five day by day winers, we're going 1465 01:09:17,180 --> 01:09:18,580 to rate this thing. 1466 01:09:18,580 --> 01:09:20,480 Of course David I want to being our documentarian 1467 01:09:20,480 --> 01:09:25,280 of the universe are Lord and Savior director writer 1468 01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:27,880 search of tomorrow and search of darkness out of 1469 01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:29,080 five David a winers Aaron. 1470 01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:30,280 What are you going to give the last of us? 1471 01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:34,080 I'm going to give it a three and that's because 1472 01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:36,380 again, I thought it was amazing. 1473 01:09:36,480 --> 01:09:38,980 I almost wanted to give it a 2.5. 1474 01:09:38,980 --> 01:09:39,680 I'm going to be honest. 1475 01:09:40,580 --> 01:09:42,180 I almost wanted to get out of my side. 1476 01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:43,280 No, sir. 1477 01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:45,980 I decided I decided don't don't tell me how to rate 1478 01:09:45,980 --> 01:09:47,480 my show my good man. 1479 01:09:47,780 --> 01:09:52,880 I gave it a three simply because again, and I guess 1480 01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:54,480 you know, you asked me a few minutes ago. 1481 01:09:54,780 --> 01:09:57,980 Did any of our discussion adjust how I looked at 1482 01:09:57,980 --> 01:10:00,780 this show and and just the few minutes alone the 1483 01:10:00,780 --> 01:10:02,680 last few minutes it did so I'm going to give it a 1484 01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:07,080 three because yes world building resolution to the 1485 01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:11,080 cause the the scenery the the the practical effects 1486 01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:14,580 all that stuff really did did such a good job for 1487 01:10:14,580 --> 01:10:17,380 me and I will say that again, the only thing that 1488 01:10:17,380 --> 01:10:21,280 really kind of didn't give me a 3.5 was mainly 1489 01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:24,180 because of like pacing in those last four episodes. 1490 01:10:24,480 --> 01:10:28,280 But yeah, so I mean again, I didn't I did enjoy I 1491 01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:30,980 really I would recommend it totally but I'm going 1492 01:10:30,980 --> 01:10:31,980 to leave it at a three. 1493 01:10:32,180 --> 01:10:35,780 Okay, I'm going to give it a 4.5 out of five. 1494 01:10:35,780 --> 01:10:36,680 Holy shit. 1495 01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:37,480 I really love this. 1496 01:10:37,480 --> 01:10:38,380 I told you I loved it. 1497 01:10:38,780 --> 01:10:39,880 You are such a giver. 1498 01:10:40,480 --> 01:10:42,180 No, I just I think it's that good. 1499 01:10:42,180 --> 01:10:45,480 It's it is going to be I think going into our last 1500 01:10:45,480 --> 01:10:47,580 call awards at the end of the year as probably my 1501 01:10:47,580 --> 01:10:48,880 favorite TV series of the year. 1502 01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:51,580 And again, we're just now getting into Mandalorian. 1503 01:10:51,580 --> 01:10:52,780 We've got some Marvel shows. 1504 01:10:52,780 --> 01:10:55,280 We've got just the bear season to like there's a 1505 01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:57,380 bunch of shit coming out this year that could easily 1506 01:10:57,380 --> 01:10:57,980 compete with this. 1507 01:10:57,980 --> 01:10:59,980 But I think as of right now it is definitely the 1508 01:10:59,980 --> 01:11:03,580 best show of 2023 and I just I love everything 1509 01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:04,080 about it. 1510 01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:06,680 I think if there's one shortcoming is there's like 1511 01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:08,980 a couple episodes were a little slow for me. 1512 01:11:09,380 --> 01:11:10,980 There are certain bits of episodes that were a 1513 01:11:10,980 --> 01:11:11,780 little slow for me. 1514 01:11:11,780 --> 01:11:14,180 But I understand the reasoning for that. 1515 01:11:14,180 --> 01:11:15,980 That's that I don't really even consider that a 1516 01:11:15,980 --> 01:11:17,680 hampering of the the show itself. 1517 01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:19,880 I think it's just that they had to do the leg work 1518 01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:21,280 for you to care about these characters. 1519 01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:22,980 So you had to like sit down and talk to these 1520 01:11:22,980 --> 01:11:23,580 characters. 1521 01:11:23,580 --> 01:11:25,180 You had to sit down with them for a minute to care 1522 01:11:25,180 --> 01:11:25,980 about them, right? 1523 01:11:26,580 --> 01:11:28,480 So yeah, I'm going to give it a 4.5. 1524 01:11:28,480 --> 01:11:29,580 I think it's worthy of that. 1525 01:11:29,580 --> 01:11:30,880 I told you the beginning it wasn't going to be a 1526 01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:31,780 five there. 1527 01:11:31,780 --> 01:11:34,780 There are some small things but overall really 1528 01:11:34,780 --> 01:11:37,280 really solid really love it one of my favorite 1529 01:11:37,280 --> 01:12:06,280 video game adaptations of all time. 1530 01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:13,980 All righty. 1531 01:12:13,980 --> 01:12:15,680 Well, that'll do it for our review of the last 1532 01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:15,980 of us. 1533 01:12:15,980 --> 01:12:18,280 Let's go ahead and get into a segment of the show 1534 01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:20,780 that we have not done in a hot minute and I'm 1535 01:12:20,780 --> 01:12:22,680 very very excited to see what's going on in 1536 01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:23,680 errands arcade. 1537 01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:29,080 It's time for errands arcade. 1538 01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,780 Welcome to errands arcade pull up a chair or 1539 01:12:35,780 --> 01:12:38,980 stool put that quarter right next to that player 1540 01:12:38,980 --> 01:12:41,680 to challenge button today. 1541 01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:43,980 I'm going to be talking about Clark'sville con 1542 01:12:43,980 --> 01:12:46,380 which just happened recently here in where I 1543 01:12:46,380 --> 01:12:48,180 live right outside of Fort Campbell Clark'sville 1544 01:12:48,180 --> 01:12:52,680 con is a local convention amazing turnout. 1545 01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:55,980 It's only a one day convention and I actually 1546 01:12:55,980 --> 01:12:59,880 have the the luck of knowing the the coordinator 1547 01:12:59,880 --> 01:13:02,480 for the for the convention my good buddy car 1548 01:13:02,480 --> 01:13:02,780 mine. 1549 01:13:02,780 --> 01:13:06,580 So he lets me volunteer and help my dog. 1550 01:13:06,580 --> 01:13:09,780 No, not that car mine, but he lets me help out. 1551 01:13:09,780 --> 01:13:12,180 I will sometimes, you know, you know take cash 1552 01:13:12,180 --> 01:13:15,380 at the door for tickets this time actually had 1553 01:13:15,380 --> 01:13:18,480 the really amazing pleasure of hanging out with 1554 01:13:18,480 --> 01:13:21,080 some of the guest celebrities. 1555 01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:22,280 I thought it would be a good idea to kind of 1556 01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:24,380 get some practice for some CSA stuff that I 1557 01:13:24,380 --> 01:13:24,980 might be doing. 1558 01:13:24,980 --> 01:13:26,580 Yeah, comic sketch art. 1559 01:13:26,580 --> 01:13:29,480 So I actually got to kind of be a gofer slash 1560 01:13:29,480 --> 01:13:33,180 helper for Catherine Sutherland who is actually 1561 01:13:33,180 --> 01:13:35,180 one of the Pink Rangers. 1562 01:13:35,180 --> 01:13:39,480 I want to say Dino Thunder Linda Young who is 1563 01:13:39,480 --> 01:13:42,880 the American voice actress or actor for Frieza 1564 01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:45,280 from the Dragon Ball Z series. 1565 01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:47,980 Free that you're going to die dirty. 1566 01:13:47,980 --> 01:13:50,280 A carotid. 1567 01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:52,980 Cynthia Kranz who actually did the voice for 1568 01:13:52,980 --> 01:13:56,680 she's the American voice actress for Chi Chi 1569 01:13:56,680 --> 01:13:58,680 from Dragon Ball as well. 1570 01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:00,980 And so and then there was I want to say his 1571 01:14:00,980 --> 01:14:02,280 last name was Nemo. 1572 01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:03,580 I didn't really talk to him very much. 1573 01:14:03,580 --> 01:14:04,780 He was much further down the road. 1574 01:14:04,780 --> 01:14:08,980 He was very self self-sustaining. 1575 01:14:08,980 --> 01:14:10,180 He was like the Silver Ranger. 1576 01:14:10,180 --> 01:14:14,680 I want to say from from something from Power Rangers 1577 01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:15,980 one of the generations of Power Rangers. 1578 01:14:15,980 --> 01:14:18,280 Yes, one of them one of the 1889 generations 1579 01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:20,580 of Power Rangers, but I will say this Catherine 1580 01:14:20,580 --> 01:14:27,480 Sutherland amazing super nice Cynthia Kranz just 1581 01:14:27,480 --> 01:14:29,580 Linda Young amazing people. 1582 01:14:29,580 --> 01:14:31,180 I actually got to take Linda Young and Cynthia 1583 01:14:31,180 --> 01:14:34,480 Kranz to the airport this morning and and and 1584 01:14:34,480 --> 01:14:37,180 yeah, so it's just kind of cool to have two very 1585 01:14:37,180 --> 01:14:41,180 very prominent voice legends in the anime 1586 01:14:41,180 --> 01:14:44,380 industry in the back of my Hyundai Kona. 1587 01:14:44,380 --> 01:14:47,680 So so it's very and they got they hug me when 1588 01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:48,780 I when I dropped off the airport. 1589 01:14:48,780 --> 01:14:49,880 I wasn't sure I was getting my brain. 1590 01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:51,980 I was like I'm going to help to get their bags 1591 01:14:51,980 --> 01:14:53,480 out and they're like, oh, thank you so much for 1592 01:14:53,480 --> 01:14:53,880 the ride. 1593 01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:54,680 And then they gave me a hug. 1594 01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:57,280 They were so sweet loved them. 1595 01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:58,680 You didn't even get a stinger. 1596 01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:01,980 I didn't I didn't they were so like honestly, 1597 01:15:02,380 --> 01:15:07,080 I've never seen somebody work so hard for so long 1598 01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:07,980 throughout the day. 1599 01:15:07,980 --> 01:15:09,680 Yeah, just to please and it's like, you know, 1600 01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:11,680 getting up and sitting down and taking selfies 1601 01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:13,980 and photos and signing just about everything 1602 01:15:13,980 --> 01:15:15,880 that people brought like they were so loving 1603 01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:17,480 and considerate to their fans. 1604 01:15:17,580 --> 01:15:19,180 It was amazing to talk to them and I honestly 1605 01:15:19,180 --> 01:15:22,380 just didn't want to ask for too much of them. 1606 01:15:22,380 --> 01:15:23,680 Sure, you know, it makes sense. 1607 01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:27,280 But and so but I did give them each a set of 1608 01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:30,080 our of our trading cards to have our characters 1609 01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:32,380 on ourselves on them and our contact info. 1610 01:15:32,380 --> 01:15:33,580 And I asked them, hey, if you're ever interested 1611 01:15:33,580 --> 01:15:35,180 in doing a podcast, feel free, you know, 1612 01:15:35,180 --> 01:15:36,080 I'll reach out to you. 1613 01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,880 Maybe you want to come on and talk and you know, 1614 01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:40,280 so they're they seemed interested. 1615 01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:41,480 I know they're very tired. 1616 01:15:41,480 --> 01:15:43,480 So we'll see what happens going forward. 1617 01:15:43,480 --> 01:15:45,280 I tagged them on some stuff on social media. 1618 01:15:46,380 --> 01:15:47,980 But yeah, it was just again, it was just a really 1619 01:15:47,980 --> 01:15:48,780 good experience. 1620 01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:50,180 Now, if you guys want to hear me talk about video 1621 01:15:50,180 --> 01:15:51,480 games, I will talk about the fact that I've been 1622 01:15:51,480 --> 01:15:53,880 playing Returnal via Steam. 1623 01:15:54,580 --> 01:15:56,680 And I'll say this as much as I love that game. 1624 01:15:56,780 --> 01:15:57,880 I really do love the game. 1625 01:15:57,880 --> 01:15:58,580 Fuck that game. 1626 01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:00,680 I love it. 1627 01:16:00,780 --> 01:16:01,780 I really love it guys. 1628 01:16:01,780 --> 01:16:02,680 I love fuck it. 1629 01:16:02,780 --> 01:16:05,580 So it's so frustrating. 1630 01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:08,180 I love like that's my whole new thing now is 1631 01:16:08,580 --> 01:16:10,680 rogue light games where basically you you know, 1632 01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:12,480 you just do the almost the same stuff. 1633 01:16:12,580 --> 01:16:14,580 And it's weird because I normally I would never 1634 01:16:14,580 --> 01:16:17,880 think that oh, I love very, you know, repetitive 1635 01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:19,580 games, but it's never the same. 1636 01:16:19,580 --> 01:16:20,480 It's never the same. 1637 01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:21,580 And that's what's amazing about it. 1638 01:16:21,580 --> 01:16:23,980 So if you have any tips, feel free to hit me up 1639 01:16:23,980 --> 01:16:25,780 on social media at better actions. 1640 01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:27,880 That's on Instagram or on Twitter. 1641 01:16:28,480 --> 01:16:30,880 And that way hopefully one day I can win. 1642 01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:32,680 I can beat the game because right now I'm just 1643 01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:34,780 literally doing the same like shit over and over 1644 01:16:34,780 --> 01:16:36,880 again and get my but I'm a anyways. 1645 01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:37,380 I love it. 1646 01:16:37,380 --> 01:16:38,480 It's so much fun. 1647 01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:41,580 So saying that appreciate guys listening. 1648 01:16:41,580 --> 01:16:43,280 Let's get into my favorite part of the show, 1649 01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:44,680 which is Chris's Corner. 1650 01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:47,980 It's time for Chris's Corner. 1651 01:16:52,780 --> 01:16:54,280 All righty for Chris's Corner. 1652 01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:56,180 We're going to be talking about uncanny X-Force, 1653 01:16:56,180 --> 01:16:59,180 which is the run from 2010 to 2012 is written by 1654 01:16:59,180 --> 01:17:01,480 Rick Bremender and illustrated by Jerome Opinia. 1655 01:17:01,980 --> 01:17:05,680 And this is a very notorious run of the X-Force. 1656 01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:07,780 People love this series mostly because of the team, 1657 01:17:08,180 --> 01:17:10,080 which I will go over here in just a moment. 1658 01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:12,380 But this is my first time reading Chris's Corner. 1659 01:17:12,380 --> 01:17:14,880 Just a moment, but this is my first time reading through 1660 01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:16,280 and I really liked it. 1661 01:17:16,380 --> 01:17:16,580 Aaron. 1662 01:17:16,580 --> 01:17:19,180 I think the first two series are the first two arcs. 1663 01:17:19,180 --> 01:17:19,580 Excuse me. 1664 01:17:19,580 --> 01:17:22,580 We're like really what we're like really totally my my 1665 01:17:22,580 --> 01:17:23,080 jam. 1666 01:17:23,380 --> 01:17:25,880 But after that it gets once you get into like the 1667 01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:27,880 Dark Angel Saga, which is the third arc. 1668 01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:29,180 I kind of fell off a little bit. 1669 01:17:29,180 --> 01:17:30,780 Maybe someone can out there listening. 1670 01:17:30,780 --> 01:17:34,180 If you've read the uncanny X-Force run, maybe you 1671 01:17:34,180 --> 01:17:36,180 can help me kind of reattach myself to it, but I 1672 01:17:36,180 --> 01:17:37,480 just haven't really loved it as much. 1673 01:17:37,480 --> 01:17:38,280 So I kind of hopped off. 1674 01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:40,980 But here's the synopsis for the series killing to 1675 01:17:40,980 --> 01:17:42,680 save a world that hates and fears them. 1676 01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:44,480 This is this is not the X-Men. 1677 01:17:44,580 --> 01:17:46,080 This is the uncanny X-Force. 1678 01:17:46,380 --> 01:17:49,580 Psylocke, Archangel, Deadpool, Phantom X sign up 1679 01:17:49,580 --> 01:17:52,080 for Wolverine's secret squad of assassins, but their 1680 01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:54,880 first mission to find and deal with the reborn child 1681 01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:56,380 version of Apocalypse. 1682 01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:58,680 As the members of the X-Force struggle to come to 1683 01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:01,480 terms with their actions, one among them unravels 1684 01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:05,280 in what could be called only as the Dark Angel Saga. 1685 01:18:05,480 --> 01:18:08,180 Familiar faces like Deathlock, a return to the 1686 01:18:08,180 --> 01:18:11,280 age of Apocalypse, a warring other world and an all 1687 01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:13,480 new all deadly Brotherhood of evil mutants await 1688 01:18:13,580 --> 01:18:16,580 and reminders extraordinary exploration of the ethics 1689 01:18:16,580 --> 01:18:17,680 of execution. 1690 01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:20,080 So Aaron, we were kind of talking about it briefly 1691 01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:21,080 before the show here. 1692 01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:23,380 This is essentially the X-Men's death squad. 1693 01:18:23,380 --> 01:18:24,580 Like this is their hit squad. 1694 01:18:24,680 --> 01:18:25,680 They do the dirty work. 1695 01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:27,880 So the X-Men don't have to and they can keep their 1696 01:18:28,180 --> 01:18:30,580 you know, their brand nice and clean and shiny. 1697 01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:33,380 I really really enjoy the art here by opinion and 1698 01:18:33,380 --> 01:18:35,280 the writing by recommender, especially in the first 1699 01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:36,680 arc is really incredible. 1700 01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:39,580 He gets every voice really really well. 1701 01:18:39,580 --> 01:18:42,780 Like I'm not super familiar with Phantom X before 1702 01:18:42,780 --> 01:18:43,380 the series. 1703 01:18:43,380 --> 01:18:45,980 I was going to say that Phantom X is kind of the 1704 01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:47,480 the highlight in this series. 1705 01:18:47,480 --> 01:18:49,980 I especially in the first two arcs like who he is 1706 01:18:49,980 --> 01:18:53,080 and his role on the on the team is really compelling. 1707 01:18:53,480 --> 01:18:56,580 I feel like he kind of represents what the X-Force 1708 01:18:56,580 --> 01:18:59,380 should be and what the other four characters kind 1709 01:18:59,380 --> 01:19:01,980 of are afraid to become in a way. 1710 01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:04,380 And I just I highly recommend it. 1711 01:19:04,380 --> 01:19:06,380 If you for some reason not read uncanny X-Force 1712 01:19:06,380 --> 01:19:09,080 like me up until last week, I highly recommend it. 1713 01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:10,180 Something you should definitely check out. 1714 01:19:10,180 --> 01:19:11,580 They have collected editions. 1715 01:19:11,580 --> 01:19:14,780 I think one and two and it's really good, especially 1716 01:19:14,780 --> 01:19:16,380 if you love any one of these characters. 1717 01:19:16,580 --> 01:19:19,480 It's a fun recommender does something really special 1718 01:19:19,480 --> 01:19:20,580 with the back and forth. 1719 01:19:20,580 --> 01:19:22,380 You really get to know these characters really well. 1720 01:19:22,580 --> 01:19:26,180 And although they are all pretty terrible people you 1721 01:19:26,180 --> 01:19:28,480 get to love each one of them because of because you 1722 01:19:28,480 --> 01:19:31,180 see who they really are like each of them have had 1723 01:19:31,180 --> 01:19:33,480 something very terrible happen to them at some point 1724 01:19:33,480 --> 01:19:35,980 in their lives and they do this. 1725 01:19:35,980 --> 01:19:38,980 They join the uncanny X-Force because they are characters 1726 01:19:38,980 --> 01:19:41,580 that have seen the terrible in the world and are not 1727 01:19:41,580 --> 01:19:43,880 afraid to look in its face when it's time to do what 1728 01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,280 needs to be done and a lot of the other X-Men can't 1729 01:19:46,280 --> 01:19:46,680 say that. 1730 01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:50,080 So once again uncanny X-Force the recommender run. 1731 01:19:50,180 --> 01:19:50,980 Definitely check it out. 1732 01:19:50,980 --> 01:19:51,780 Aaron has a question here. 1733 01:19:51,780 --> 01:19:52,380 He's raising his hand. 1734 01:19:52,380 --> 01:19:52,880 What do you got? 1735 01:19:53,480 --> 01:19:54,980 I got two questions for you, sir. 1736 01:19:54,980 --> 01:19:56,980 Okay, what are Phantom X's powers? 1737 01:19:58,180 --> 01:20:02,480 Phantom X is a clone of some sort and he has like an 1738 01:20:02,480 --> 01:20:05,280 alien ship that he speaks to like he puts like this 1739 01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:07,080 gel thing on his head that he likes. 1740 01:20:07,380 --> 01:20:09,580 I think it's called Eve and I'm not mistaken and he 1741 01:20:09,580 --> 01:20:10,880 can control it with his mind. 1742 01:20:11,780 --> 01:20:14,480 He's basically just like a super badass assassin who 1743 01:20:14,480 --> 01:20:16,880 is like, yeah, that's essentially his deal. 1744 01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:20,080 I think he has some other oh he can like regenerate 1745 01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:21,880 like he has like regenerative powers as well. 1746 01:20:22,280 --> 01:20:25,080 So I think he might have been a failed weapon X thing 1747 01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:25,480 as well. 1748 01:20:25,480 --> 01:20:27,680 There's a lot of a lot of a lot of the coolest 1749 01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:29,680 characters in the Marvel Universe are all failed 1750 01:20:29,780 --> 01:20:32,780 weapon X including Deadpool including Wolverine like 1751 01:20:32,780 --> 01:20:35,580 I think it just failed weapons because weapon X is 1752 01:20:35,580 --> 01:20:36,480 yeah, what an X is right. 1753 01:20:36,480 --> 01:20:36,880 You're right. 1754 01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:37,080 Yeah. 1755 01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:38,780 So it's the weapon program. 1756 01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:39,180 Yeah. 1757 01:20:39,180 --> 01:20:39,580 Yeah. 1758 01:20:39,780 --> 01:20:40,080 Hold on. 1759 01:20:40,080 --> 01:20:41,180 Is it ready for another ding? 1760 01:20:41,380 --> 01:20:44,280 Here's another Aaron was right ding right here. 1761 01:20:45,980 --> 01:20:48,880 Next question is Deadpool an asshole in this in this 1762 01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:49,780 comic series too. 1763 01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:51,480 Yeah, he's a he's a dick for sure. 1764 01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:54,180 He's mostly he's kind of a lovable one on the on 1765 01:20:54,180 --> 01:20:54,680 the team though. 1766 01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:57,180 Like he he if anything, it's kind of crazy that he's 1767 01:20:57,180 --> 01:20:59,180 the one who has most heart like he's the one who 1768 01:20:59,380 --> 01:21:01,180 like when certain things happen in the series. 1769 01:21:01,180 --> 01:21:03,980 He's the one that's like yo, this is not what I 1770 01:21:03,980 --> 01:21:06,680 signed up for like this is definitely not what I 1771 01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:08,880 was hoping to do which is kind of interesting 1772 01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:10,480 because again Deadpool is usually the one to just 1773 01:21:10,480 --> 01:21:11,980 do whatever he's hired to do. 1774 01:21:12,480 --> 01:21:15,480 So Wolverine ironically enough is the one who's 1775 01:21:15,480 --> 01:21:18,480 like pretty level-headed about doing the terrible 1776 01:21:18,480 --> 01:21:18,880 shit. 1777 01:21:18,980 --> 01:21:21,880 So yeah, I know I really love it and I highly 1778 01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:22,280 recommend it. 1779 01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:24,480 So Aaron that'll do it for episode 111. 1780 01:21:24,480 --> 01:21:27,280 I think we are out of here episode 112 coming in 1781 01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:27,680 next week. 1782 01:21:27,680 --> 01:21:29,980 We're going to be speaking to Christian Ward and 1783 01:21:29,980 --> 01:21:31,480 Patrick Reynolds like we had talked about earlier 1784 01:21:31,480 --> 01:21:31,780 today. 1785 01:21:31,780 --> 01:21:34,180 We sat down with the creative team behind Blood 1786 01:21:34,180 --> 01:21:35,880 Stained Teeth excited to bring that conversation 1787 01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:39,580 you guys Aaron is officially a die-hard fan of 1788 01:21:39,580 --> 01:21:42,080 Patrick Reynolds now and Christian Ward there. 1789 01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:44,380 They they won him over during that conversation. 1790 01:21:44,580 --> 01:21:46,680 We're all best friends now, especially Patrick 1791 01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:47,980 Reynolds because he likes the same games. 1792 01:21:47,980 --> 01:21:50,080 I do we have a really funny video of us dancing 1793 01:21:50,080 --> 01:21:52,380 to our intro music and I I hope that I can post 1794 01:21:52,380 --> 01:21:54,880 that and it'd be okay, but it's really is very 1795 01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:55,280 wholesome. 1796 01:21:55,280 --> 01:21:57,880 So but yeah, that'll do it for episode 111. 1797 01:21:57,880 --> 01:21:58,080 Aaron. 1798 01:21:58,080 --> 01:21:59,080 Why don't you go and take us out of here? 1799 01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,480 All right, subscribe to our podcast Apple podcast 1800 01:22:01,480 --> 01:22:03,480 stitchers, Spotify, Google podcast, Amazon music 1801 01:22:03,480 --> 01:22:06,480 Amazon music and I heart radio pretty much anywhere 1802 01:22:06,480 --> 01:22:08,480 you can find your podcasts. 1803 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