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15 November 2019 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE MANDALORIAN: A brief check-in to the release of Disney+ this week as Andrew reacts to the first episode of their original, Star Wars show, The Mandalorian. He is surprised more at how much it pulls from Westerns than Star Wars.

A LONG TIME AGO, WE USED TO BE FRIENDS: Veronica Mars was always a show that hovered just below wide popularity, but its fans were devoted and supportive. From the original three seasons that aired on UPN/the CW to its Kickstarted movie, to Hulu’s revival with a fourth season, Andrew and D. Bethel did a rewatch of the show and have some thoughts on what it has been, what it is now, and what it could be in the future.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What I Learned Writing for Veronica Mars.” The Hollywood Reporter. 15 Aug. 2019.
McMillan, Graeme. “Veronica Mars Kickstarter Breaks Records, Raises Over $2M in 12 Hours.” Wired. Condé Nast, 14 Mar. 2013.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
“District Four” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)
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01 March 2019 – Empty Justice

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HIGHER, FURTHER, FASTER (THAN THE TROLLS CAN FOLLOW): As with many nerdy movies lately that have been labeled as being damaging to the field, Marvel’s upcoming tent-pole film, Captain Marvel (the first from Marvel Studios to have a woman in the lead role), aggregate review site Rotten Tomatoes have been targeted by these organized hate campaigns by getting “review bombed.” This means people have taken the steps to make sure sites like Rotten Tomatoes––a site many people visit to see how upcoming movies are trending and reviewing––show a low anticipation or review score with the hope of scaring off potential viewers and condemning the film to low box office receipts. Star Wars: The Last Jedi was victim to this as was 2016’s Ghostbusters reboot and, in possibly in a successful campaign, Solo: A Star Wars Story got hit hard. However, Captain Marvel is on track to break records with ticket presales and be a big smash at theaters.

Andrew and D. Bethel investigate this continuing trend, how Rotten Tomatoes is actually, finally, doing something about this habit, and discuss how and why Captain Marvel seems to be beating the odds.

AS MENTIONED:

A brief overview from Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics‘ episode about Milestone Comics:

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Shortcast 43 – “The # Age”: Where D. Bethel discussed AMC’s Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Dumaraog, Ana. “Trolls Are Already Review Bombing Captain Marvel on Rotten Tomatoes.” Screen Rant. 18 Feb. 2019.
Jackson, Matthew. “Captain Marvel Presales On Track to Beat Aquaman, Almost All Previous MCU Films.” SyFy Wire. SYFY, 21 Feb. 2019.
Romain, Lindsey. “Rotten Tomatoes Is Ditching Its ‘Want to See’ Function Following a Wave of Trolling.” Nerdist. 26 Feb. 2019.

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-“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-“District Four” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
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04 January 2019 – Increasingly Without a Difference

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LOOKING FORWARD: With 2018 behind them, Andrew and D. Bethel discuss what they’re looking forward to in 2019. Andrew is interested in the upcoming premium Disney streaming service, Disney+, as well as to Bethesda Game Studios adding more content to Fallout 76, while D. Bethel can’t wait for It, Chapter 2 to hit theaters as well as playing the new game from Firewatch‘s Campo Santo, In the Valley of the Gods.

What are you looking forward to in 2019? Let us know in the comments!

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Episode 84 – Your Cursor is My Prisoner (19 Feb. 2016): Where D. Bethel discussed his time with Campo Santo’s Firewatch.
Shortcast 17 – YouChoob (08 July 2016): Where Andrew discusses his experience playing Gone Home.
Shortcast 31 – The Secret Was the Clap (29 Sep. 2017): Where D. Bethel enjoyed the first installment of the new It movie.
Shortcast 54 – Cameo Train (11 May 2018): Where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss Avengers: Infinity War.
Shortcast 76 – A Sense of Place (30 Nov. 2018): Where Andrew talks in depth about playing Fallout 76.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Fienberg, Daniel. “The Duffer Brothers Talk Stranger Things Influences, It Dreams, and Netflix Phase 2.” The Hollywood Reporter. 01 Aug. 2016.

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Shortcast 70 – Mr. Moustache

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FALL (TV IS) BACK: With the summer doldrums of tv coming to a close, Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the Fall tv they’re looking forward to, including the debut of a new Doctor (and production team) with series 11 of Doctor Who, Andrew’s circumspect approach to the reboot Magnum and quizzical anticipation for Alton Brown’s Good Eats Reloaded, D. Bethel’s blind eagerness for the new season of The Gifted and Outlander, and both hosts’ skepticism of the new Riggs-less third season Lethal Weapon. It’s nerdy Fall tv front to back.

RELEVANT LINKS:

D. Bethel’s post on Long John recounting his time at CrockerCon 2018.
D. Bethel’s drawing of “Doctor Cthulwho”, done originally to celebrate Andrew’s birthday:

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Episode 55 – Ga-Don’t-Ken: Where Andrew first discusses his love of Alton Brown’s Good Eats.
Episode 128 – His Curry Name: Where Andrew recounts seeing Alton Brown’s live show, Eat Your Science.
Episodes 147 – Whatever We Bring, We Bring It: Where D. Bethel shared his thoughts on the pilot episode of The Gifted.
Shortcast 40 – Shortcast Your Mom: Where D. Bethel reflects (SPOILER-filled) on the first season of The Gifted.
Con Artists #01
Con Artists #02

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-“District Four” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-“Main Theme” by Sylvester Levay (Theme song from Airwolf).
-“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
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Shortcast 65 – Find a Cheap Show

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GOING BACK: Having played Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, D. Bethel has since gone back and played the first game in the Uncharted series and was rather frustrated by it. This experience got our hosts thinking about entering series (of games, movies, tv shows, etc.) mid-stream––what’s the value of going back to the start?

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 69 – Two Matching Ties: Where Andrew first talked about playing Uncharted.

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-“District Four” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
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Episode 155 – Captain Host

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WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew braved populated movie theaters to see Ant-Man and the Wasp while D. Bethel eagerly went to the theaters to see Incredibles II.

DISNEY FLOOD: This summer was a packed house in terms of big-budget blockbuster-intended films with Avengers: Infinity War, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Incredibles II. But with Solo and Ant-Man and the Wasp underperforming, it has Andrew and D. wondering, did we have too many big nerd movies this summer?

RELATED LINKS:

Brad Bird defends his approach to animated films on Twitter:

With all due respect, it is NOT a “kids movie”. It is animated, and rated PG. https://t.co/a6tGzoWvzy

— Brad Bird (@BradBirdA113) July 2, 2018

Guerrasio, Jason. “MoviePass to Introduce Surge Pricing on Popular Movies by July.” Business Insider. Insider Inc, 21 Jun. 2018.
Kroll, Justin. “Black Widow Finds Standalone Film Lands Director Cate Shortland.” Variety. Variety Media, 12 Jul. 2018.
Dan & Rusty Video Game Power Hour #25: Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, part 3:

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Shortcast 61 – All-New, All-Same

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OBI-WAN KE-NOPE-Y: It was made known that Lucasfilm has put its anthology series, subtitled A Star Wars Story, on hold after the lower box office of The Last Jedi and, most recently, Solo. While the cause hasn’t been confirmed, there are a few factors to look at, one of which could be the box office performance of these films. Another, more sinister, reason has to do with the cultural backlash to Rogue One, The Last Jedi, and Solo. A segment on the internet is convinced that Lucasfilm has a political agenda it wants to push and it’s using the Star Wars series to do so. These dissenters have responded in a few interesting ways: some have banded together and made an official decree to “destroy” Lucasfilm, others have started a crowdfunding/social media campaign in order to remake The Last Jedi. Either way, it’s a complicated issue that Andrew and D. Bethel try to find the knots of.

WORKS CITED/REFERENCED:

Bacon, Thomas. “Solo: A Star Wars Story Can Beat the Hate.” ScreenRant, 09 Apr. 2018.
Verhoeven, Beatric. “Alt-Right: We ‘Rigged’ Last Jedi Low Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score.” The Wrap, 21 Dec. 2017.
Weintraub, Steve. “Exclusive: Future ‘A Star Wars Story’ Spinoffs on Hold at Lucasfilm.” Collider, Complex Media, 20 Jun. 2018.

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Shortcast 60 – Turn Up This Hotness

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WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew sees the latest Star Wars Story, Solo, while D. Bethel gushes about the recent God of War reboot.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 96 – Applejacks. Hot Dogs. Thursday. Fire Truck.: Where D. Bethel throws some shade on Jurassic World.
Episode 120 – Where the Hands Touch: Where Andrew and D. Bethel talk about the last Star Wars Story, Rogue One.
Episode 131 – A Magical Failure: Where D. Bethel talks about playing God of War III, and some of the troubles that came from streaming that game.

RELEVANT LINKS:

God of War‘s Kratos voice actor, Christopher Judge, telling dad jokes:

D. talks about his experience buying and listening to Bear McCreary’s God of War score long before ever actually playing the game.
Dan & his dog, Rusty, play a bit of God of War III:

Taylor playing Fallout 4 with Andrew heckling:

Watch live video from TK4TCH on www.twitch.tv

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Shortcast 48 – My Smokey Timbre

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RECYCLE, REDUCE, REUSE: This week, Andrew and D. discuss revisions that happen to works after they are released. From the canon-bending Star Wars re-releases from the late 1990s to the archival efforts of the Mega Man Legacy Collection, works are “preserved” in some form or another, but attention could (and should) be paid to the reasons for such preservation and re-release: is it in the interest of the creator? Of the owner? Of the audience? While they don’t generate any answers, our hosts certainly probe the topic for its diversity of impetus, goals, and cultural impact. Well, they do decide that pop culture needs some sort of library, but that’s about it.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 12 – Our Best Work: The last time Dinosaucers was mentioned.
Episode 80 – Alien Control Party: Where D. and Andrew discuss the attempts made (in their myriad forms) to archive video games.
Episode 98 – Less-Impressive-Than-You-Expected No. 7: Where D. talks about the Mega Man Legacy Collection.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Dinosaucers. ‘Nuff said.

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Shortcast 45 – The Cure for Canon Shift

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THE LONG CON-TINUITY: After years of teasing the topic, Andrew and D. finally sit down to talk about continuity. It starts with the continuity issues surrounding Star Wars and Disney’s purge of their Extended Universe, before it descends into talk about its benefits, its setbacks, and why it can be used as a weapon.

RELATED LINKS:

The ending to St. Elsewhere (re: the reference to the “snow globe ending” in this episode, referring to the very end of the show, St. Elsewhere, where it was revealed that the show was actually just a fictional universe imagined by an autistic child):

Polo, Susana. “Marvel Comics Announces Line-Wide Relaunch ‘Fresh Start’ (Update).” Polygon. Vox Media, 20 Feb. 2018.

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