Speaker 1: Warning, Today's episode contains spoilers for Rings of Power episode four. Hello,
Speaker 1: my name is Jason Concepsion.
Speaker 2: And I'm Rosie Night And welcome back.
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Speaker 3: In today's episode, which is huge, too huge. In the
Speaker 3: previously on, we're talking about the Xenomorph coming to Earth
Speaker 3: in the newest teaser for the Alien TV show on
Speaker 3: FX made by Legions Noah Hawley. Also Minecraft is coming
Speaker 3: to the big screen and it looks cursed. Plus Sony
Speaker 3: pulls the plug on the newly released concord Lots of
Speaker 3: o's today and in the airlock Rings of Power episode
Speaker 3: two O four, what's going on in midleth We're gonna tell.
Speaker 1: You first news. First up, new alien series coming to
Speaker 1: Hulu of course, Alien Earth as mentioned up top, written
Speaker 1: directed by Noah Hawley of Legion and Fargo fame, and
Speaker 1: the new teaserers up and you don't get much, but
Speaker 1: you do get the the terrifying visage of the Xenomorph
Speaker 1: screaming at you with that double mouth.
Speaker 2: And it's looking at Earth, and it's gonna look.
Speaker 1: On Earth, starring Sydney Chandler, Alex louthor Timothy Ola Fant,
Speaker 1: sc Davis and Moore. And you know that we love
Speaker 1: the xenomorphs. I think I will be watching this.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm very excited.
Speaker 3: It's set about seventy years of where we are now,
Speaker 3: so it's a close future. And it's gonna be about
Speaker 3: a mysterious spaceship craft crashing to Earth and kind of
Speaker 3: how that impacts wail In Utani. And obviously I think
Speaker 3: we will see some xenomorphs on Earth. So yes, I
Speaker 3: think this will be the first alien project that's not
Speaker 3: an alien versus predator project that will have the xenomorphs
Speaker 3: on Earth.
Speaker 1: Right, which is I was going to ask, do you
Speaker 1: think the alien predator lore will be enforced here?
Speaker 3: It is alien predist Holy come on the show and
Speaker 3: ask answer whether it is canon or not?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 1: Next up, Minecraft movie trailer long awayed. Minecraft Movie coming
Speaker 1: to theaters April fourth, twenty twenty five, will be a
Speaker 1: massive hit. I'm calling it now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kids like past stuff out, I can.
Speaker 1: Tell you to be a huge hit and for those
Speaker 1: of you who have played Minecraft or grown up with Minecraft,
Speaker 1: or watch someone grow up with Minecraft, you will notice
Speaker 1: that the graphics look more move afied, more smooth, and therefore,
Speaker 1: as Rosie said, mentioned kind of cursed a little curcast.
Speaker 3: I do have questions. I'm not entirely sure how the
Speaker 3: humans are in there. I'm guessing it's some kind of
Speaker 3: Jumanji situation, some tron j Jumanji situation. This is gonna
Speaker 3: come out next year April fourth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: They are pulled into a portal and sent to Minecraft World.
Speaker 2: So they've jumanjid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've JUMANJID.
Speaker 3: They've Jumanji and they have to relearn the important lessons
Speaker 3: about themselves and also like crafting and the power of imagination,
Speaker 3: That's what I'm guessing. And they gonna meet Steve played
Speaker 3: by Jack Black, who I will say, when this casting
Speaker 3: was announced, everyone was like best casting ever. But I
Speaker 3: think in the trailer when it's just Jack Black just
Speaker 3: wearing a T shirt and he doesn't look like a
Speaker 3: square or and I think people are kind of like,
Speaker 3: what is going on here?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: I this is probably gonna be like the Mario movie,
Speaker 3: a movie I didn't fully understand why it made so
Speaker 3: much money, but it made so much money.
Speaker 2: Good for the industry. I love it.
Speaker 3: Also, I enjoyed Jason Momoa's outfit here, like they really
Speaker 3: he's looking like he's from the Game.
Speaker 2: I will say, Oh.
Speaker 1: They cut his hair. Everything he's wearing like a crazy wig.
Speaker 3: He's got the rageous jacket, like you know what. Who knows,
Speaker 3: maybe it will have the most banging script of all
Speaker 3: time and we'll all be there like, wow, this was
Speaker 3: so hilarious, Like I want to make things again because
Speaker 3: there were many toy movies that we did not Lego movie.
Speaker 2: Who knew that was gonna be like.
Speaker 3: A modern classic, very fun, fantastic movie. So yes, interesting.
Speaker 3: As Forbes said, the trailer was utterly horrifying in almost
Speaker 3: every Concen.
Speaker 1: I will tell you, speaking of banging, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what's banging. Jason Momoa's bangs. He got straight across bang
Speaker 1: cut page boy life out here looking like a fifteenth
Speaker 1: century dutch Man.
Speaker 2: Looking Mikey Coumpy in Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, next up, Concord, I hardly knew you. Oh my god, wow,
Speaker 1: So Concord, Sony's uh, you know, much marketed Overwatch team
Speaker 1: based shooter game has had its plug pulled and it
Speaker 1: will end its services to the video gaming community after
Speaker 1: only like three weeks. There was a point where, like Boom,
Speaker 1: there was a point where it had just dropped and
Speaker 1: there was like six hundred and fifty four concurrent players like.
Speaker 2: On Steam and they were like, this is the highest
Speaker 2: that it's been.
Speaker 3: Uh ah.
Speaker 1: And the game I have not played it, but the
Speaker 1: reviews and from places that I trust seem like it's
Speaker 1: a solid game. I'll say this, this is it is
Speaker 1: a mark of how toxic conversations in the video game
Speaker 1: space are. That like there's a lot of creators and
Speaker 1: articles and comments of people just yet fuck them good.
Speaker 1: It's failed good, which I don't understand personally, but there
Speaker 1: goes concord.
Speaker 2: I also think that you make a good point.
Speaker 3: A lot of conversations drive reactionary choices on both sides,
Speaker 3: and I wonder, you know, if there's a different version
Speaker 3: of the discourse, or different version of the numbers, or
Speaker 3: a different version of the conversation where Concorde gets to
Speaker 3: live a little bit longer and see if it gets
Speaker 3: that ground swell, if it gets the games, if it
Speaker 3: gets you know, the streams. I'd even seen some people
Speaker 3: coming out and being like, what does six hundred and
Speaker 3: ninety seven concurrent players really mean? Like are those numbers real?
Speaker 3: What does that really equate to as players? But you
Speaker 3: never get to find out because they were like brow
Speaker 3: a pull and this shit, this embarrassed us. It's very
Speaker 3: reactionary and very quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you make a good point in because we live
Speaker 1: in I mean, we were talking about this series before
Speaker 1: we started the mic, like, we live in a world
Speaker 1: in which the conversation that the tone created by the
Speaker 1: whole gamer Gate controversy, which we won't go into now,
Speaker 1: but is now over almost a decade or about a
Speaker 1: decade old story has invaded the rest of pop culture.
Speaker 1: And I think you made a good point, which is
Speaker 1: the narrative itself around Concord became the story and became
Speaker 1: the brand, and apparently Sony judge that it had become
Speaker 1: such an unshakable brand that there was no way to
Speaker 1: salvage the ip. He she's a shame because people worked
Speaker 1: very six years on this. Well. Up next, we're stepping
Speaker 1: out of the air lock to talk about a bunch
Speaker 1: of rings that someone toiled for many many years of
Speaker 1: Many Rings of Power Episode two, Rings of Power Episode
Speaker 1: two O four. Here we go, Rosie. We opened in Lindon,
Speaker 1: Elrond and Galadriel are preparing for their mission to a region,
Speaker 1: sent of course, by King gilgalad. Galadriel doesn't like the
Speaker 1: fact that Elrond has been named the commander of this mission.
Speaker 1: She keeps like saying, okay, command, okay.
Speaker 2: Come on, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: And my gal Gavrett, you bought Sadar onto Lyndon Bay,
Speaker 3: like you're lucky you're still involved at all.
Speaker 1: Yes, let's like, like, let's a little bit of humility.
Speaker 1: I get it. You are a capable and fearsome military
Speaker 1: leader and soldier. That said, we can we can call
Speaker 1: your judgment into question. I think that's absolutely fair for
Speaker 1: you to take a back seat for a little while.
Speaker 3: Also, everyone does like your best thief for like two
Speaker 3: thousand years, so like, get like, just be okay, be
Speaker 3: happy that he feel happy for you actually wanted him
Speaker 3: to come along on this mission anyway, You're just upset
Speaker 3: that he got a different like uh rank than you
Speaker 3: were expected.
Speaker 1: You know, quite surelish from me, very childish. The elves
Speaker 1: sit out on foot and we get some wonderful, wonderful,
Speaker 1: classic Peter Jackson esque landscape scenes of elves running across
Speaker 1: valleys and up the top mountain ridges and down into woods.
Speaker 1: It's wonderful. The elves come to a point where they
Speaker 1: discover that the bridge that they need to take the
Speaker 1: direct route to region has been destroyed. This is the
Speaker 1: work of my good friend burnt up. This is the
Speaker 1: work of my good good friends Saron, friend and companion, Yes,
Speaker 1: my companion of many weeks, many Souron. I recognize his signature.
Speaker 3: And then I will say, look, I will say, anyone
Speaker 3: probably could have guessed that, seeing against the whole bridge
Speaker 3: is just burnt up, Like yes, and he is a
Speaker 3: you know, there's a mad wizard about and his name's
Speaker 3: sourn But I.
Speaker 2: Will say Elwand he too is struggling.
Speaker 3: With the churlish nature of like being pissed off, the
Speaker 3: rightfully pissed off that Galadriel bought sour in it because
Speaker 3: he's like, okay, so we can go The guy with
Speaker 3: the map is like, we can go north, which will
Speaker 3: add two weeks to our thing, or we can go
Speaker 3: south and that will be like quick.
Speaker 2: And Gladriel touches hello, Ring, and she's like it's.
Speaker 3: Gonna South's gonna be bad man, and Alron's like, fuck,
Speaker 3: you were going to South. He's like, I don't believe
Speaker 3: that ring. I don't believe it's sourn. I don't believe
Speaker 3: any of this, Like I don't care we're going South.
Speaker 3: And I will say, Elron, you probably should have listened
Speaker 3: to Galadr. You two just need to work it out,
Speaker 3: like kiss, It's something.
Speaker 1: It's just like a tough situation because Elron is like, hey,
Speaker 1: would you stop like consulting the Evil Ring? This is
Speaker 1: your ring? If this is your advice, fine, but I
Speaker 1: can't be sure if it's like the Evil Rings advice.
Speaker 2: And also like we know South. Okay, so actually let's
Speaker 2: talk about that. I want to know what is your
Speaker 2: feeling about the Rings at.
Speaker 3: This situation in time during this episode, because I am
Speaker 3: starting to wonder, like, yes, you know sarn.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that.
Speaker 3: I would be wearing the ring even though that was
Speaker 3: look very nice. Maybe I'd be perceiving it. But I
Speaker 3: will say I do feel like this episode makes the
Speaker 3: argument that the Rings themselves are conflicted, like sometimes they
Speaker 3: are definitely doing sourns kind of like manipulation and sending
Speaker 3: people in the way.
Speaker 2: He would want. But sometimes they do seem to be
Speaker 2: helping the.
Speaker 1: Way interesting I disagree. I have a different take. I
Speaker 1: think of it like our phones. Our phones are track
Speaker 1: us everywhere we go. They share they could potentially share
Speaker 1: information about your health, about if you're ovulating.
Speaker 2: With if you're a sleeping Wow.
Speaker 1: It's this massive invasion of privacy, but they're so convenient
Speaker 1: and they really help with stuff. And I think of
Speaker 1: the rings as like that. They have an overarching purpose,
Speaker 1: which is to further Sourn's aims, but in order to
Speaker 1: get people to wear them, they have to be useful,
Speaker 1: and they are. They they made the leaves come back,
Speaker 1: they heal a I We'll get to that later. But
Speaker 1: and all of that is extremely useful and convenient, but
Speaker 1: ultimately doesn't really hurt Sarn more than it helps him
Speaker 1: because you continue to wear it and depend on it.
Speaker 1: And so that's how I think.
Speaker 2: I think that's very real.
Speaker 1: So we go to Rune, the wastelands of Rune. Gandalf
Speaker 1: is off looking for Norri, who blew away in the
Speaker 1: sandstorm he created, Norri and Poppy both gone. He comes
Speaker 1: across a farm and a bearded man who is definitely
Speaker 1: humming the melody to cash by leads ups and I
Speaker 1: was like, Tom, Tommy, are you are you humming Cashmere
Speaker 1: by leeds up let And he does it throughout the episode.
Speaker 2: Well you know what he.
Speaker 3: Is, as we will find out, a very powerful old man,
Speaker 3: maybe he's been in the post who knows.
Speaker 1: Gandalf is like, can you help me? Uh? I have
Speaker 1: this map and it's a star map and I'm looking
Speaker 1: for these stars? Do you recognize this stuff?
Speaker 2: Stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You do?
Speaker 1: You recognize this? And a sudden gust of wind carries
Speaker 1: the map to a nearby tree and then the tree
Speaker 1: eats Gander. What the fuck?
Speaker 2: I I'm out of that. That shit was scary as hell.
Speaker 1: It was really cool looking and absolutely scary. Nori wakes
Speaker 1: up somewhere off in the desert. Poppy is like right
Speaker 1: nearby in a bush. They're fine, but they have to
Speaker 1: go running because the evil wizards hen cheese are right there.
Speaker 2: By the way.
Speaker 3: Terrible trackers, like their literal only job is to be
Speaker 3: tracking people, and they're just terrible at our.
Speaker 1: Harfoot's dive into ravine, where they find a desert Hearfoot,
Speaker 1: another pre hobbit people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is that they have a big connection to,
Speaker 2: like a fan fave of character.
Speaker 1: That's right. So this this guy is named Merrimac. Poppy
Speaker 1: is immediately like oh hello, oh hi, hello there, and
Speaker 1: Mac is busy stealing water. He's absconding with like a
Speaker 1: wagon full of stolen water. He agrees to take them
Speaker 1: to his dwell leader. Uh. And he tells them various
Speaker 1: rules about this meeting and is like, just don't lots
Speaker 1: of rules, but the number one rule is don't call
Speaker 1: the dwell leader the goon, which is like their actual title,
Speaker 1: but don't call them, don't call them that. Don't do
Speaker 1: that in this village. There are a lot of other
Speaker 1: proto hobbits around. These are the people are called the stores,
Speaker 1: and they are very very mad at Mac for bringing
Speaker 1: these strangers here, what with the stalkers stalking them. It's
Speaker 1: not smart, no good. Pobby says, Uh, don't be mean
Speaker 1: to my new hottie Mac, like I love him, Why
Speaker 1: are you being rude to him? NEWI tells the stores
Speaker 1: that they need their help finding their friends and who
Speaker 1: is a wizard And apparently wizards have a bad reputation
Speaker 1: around here because of the Dark Wizard play by Rome's
Speaker 1: Kieren Hines. We go to Kieren Hines, Kieren Heines, a
Speaker 1: dark Wizard is just getting the latest news about where
Speaker 1: the person that we are absolutely calling Gandalf is, and
Speaker 1: he's unhappy with the lack of progress and he tells
Speaker 1: his minions like, fuck it, you guys are idiots. You
Speaker 1: go find the Harfoots. I'm gonna that'll be easier. I
Speaker 1: will find the Ista. Let me ask you this, There's
Speaker 1: been like how many like five wizards in Middle Earth
Speaker 1: history total? Who do we think this is?
Speaker 3: I don't know, because they're very distinctly just calling him
Speaker 3: the dark Wizard, right, So I feel like, also timing wise,
Speaker 3: that istar Wizards were not like supposed to fully show
Speaker 3: up yet, but they clearly are here.
Speaker 1: So this is one of the blue Wizards.
Speaker 3: I think so, because when we were guessing from Law
Speaker 3: Lost season, I think that the butterflies and the connections
Speaker 3: to Ruin were kind of pointing us in that direction.
Speaker 2: But I do think it's quite hilarious that we're like
Speaker 2: almost I think we're like halfway through this season and
Speaker 2: they're just like this dark Wizard.
Speaker 3: They're like, he's a wizard, but you don't know his name,
Speaker 3: and everyone just calls him the dark wizard, which I
Speaker 3: do think is interesting too because have we seen him
Speaker 3: do any magic? Is he actually a dark wizard or
Speaker 3: is he just someone who's like threatening people by saying
Speaker 3: he's a dark wizard?
Speaker 1: Right, Maybe he's just wearing the roads.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's just wearing the roads like that he knows sourn.
Speaker 1: We go back to bearded farmer guy who shock of shocks,
Speaker 1: folks sit out. It is the ancient, the long lived,
Speaker 1: the ni immortal, the person who's been here since the
Speaker 1: beginning of time. Tom Bombadill. It's him.
Speaker 3: Everyone who watched The Lord of the movies and was like,
Speaker 3: where is that little guy? Just where's Tom's he wearing
Speaker 3: his They'll singing his little songs, wearing the ring, not
Speaker 3: being impacted.
Speaker 2: That's the funny thing about Tom Bombadil. We don't know
Speaker 2: a lot about him, but what we do know is
Speaker 2: he loves to sing, and also he can wear.
Speaker 3: The one ring and he's just like, oh, this looks nice.
Speaker 3: It's just a nice bit of jewelry. He's not impacted
Speaker 3: by it. So here they expand that to being like
Speaker 3: this man's like the most ancient and powerful of all,
Speaker 3: and that's that's why he couldn't wear that ring.
Speaker 1: Gandalf takes a bath and he's hearing Tom talk to
Speaker 1: someone else, sing along with someone else in the other room,
Speaker 1: a woman's voice. He comes out. Tom's like, you forgot it? Nope.
Speaker 1: Tom speaks in riddles. Is the other thing. He never
Speaker 1: gives you a straight answer about what's going on. He
Speaker 1: tells Gandalf that he is the eldest. He says that
Speaker 1: he was here before the river and the trees and
Speaker 1: the mountains and the sky and all that stuff. Gandalf
Speaker 1: is like, can you teach me, man, because it's appears
Speaker 1: that you're a very powerful magician, and Tom again, it
Speaker 1: just answers in various riddles, and then Gandolf realizes that
Speaker 1: wait a second, maybe you're the person that I was
Speaker 1: meant to find, and maybe you were meant to find
Speaker 1: this ad. We'll be back after this, and we're back.
Speaker 1: Tom and Gandolf are about to get down to brass
Speaker 1: tacks when the dark wizards hen Chies arrive and Tom
Speaker 1: tells Gandalf that, oh, I've this dark wizard. I know
Speaker 1: him from years ago, from back in the day, which
Speaker 1: is very interesting because how.
Speaker 2: This man is old h.
Speaker 1: And he says, listen, this dark wizard, it's the same
Speaker 1: with all the other dark wizards. He hungers for power,
Speaker 1: and he's probably gonna lie with Sourn because that's how
Speaker 1: he's gonna win. Tom taels Gandalf that Gandalf's mission is
Speaker 1: to face both Sourn and this dark wizard of Root
Speaker 1: in the hills on the Southern Path that Galadriel told
Speaker 1: everyone was fucking evil. We're in the woods on this
Speaker 1: Southern Path, and guess what it looks.
Speaker 3: Obviously, I will say we mentioned that we get those lovely,
Speaker 3: like you know, beautiful green rolling like Peter Jackson esque hills.
Speaker 3: Allie and I do feel like in this sequence they're
Speaker 3: really leaning into that kind of spooky forests and the
Speaker 3: team having to like look around. It felt very Peter Jackson.
Speaker 3: They were definitely invoking that. To me.
Speaker 1: Here lots of fog, lots of you know, gee looking trees,
Speaker 1: spooky trees. This is apparently. One of the elves says
Speaker 1: the barrow downs where in ancient times men buried their kings,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's weird. Things start to happen. One
Speaker 1: of the elves thinks he sees glowing eyes in the
Speaker 1: dark Gladriel. He tells Gladriel, I think I heard a song.
Speaker 1: L Rond then comes across that crushed tube that King
Speaker 1: Gilgilad had put his message to kelibrinborn, and they realize,
Speaker 1: oh my god, the messenger has never made it to
Speaker 1: a radion. Then the barrow the dead barrow Whites attack.
Speaker 1: Chains wrap around one of the elves, drag him around
Speaker 1: the earth. He is gone, he's dead. The barrow Whites emerge.
Speaker 1: The Elves have to fight them, but their weapons don't
Speaker 1: work at all, and we learn that only the weapons
Speaker 1: that the Whites wielded themselves when they were alive can
Speaker 1: beat them.
Speaker 3: Very good fantasyla of that, I felt like I was wonderful.
Speaker 3: I was like, this is exactly right, totally a logical thing.
Speaker 3: But in the moment you're like, yes, a jose sounds.
Speaker 3: This is why your Kamanda, this.
Speaker 1: Is why that's right. Get in those coffins and and
Speaker 1: pull out whatever is in there. Elsewhere in the south Lands,
Speaker 1: we go to Aran Deer and a sil door. They're
Speaker 1: still searching for theo who has been captured in what
Speaker 1: was probably an end attack. Under tells Isildur that don't
Speaker 1: worry about THEO. He's been through worse. He started this
Speaker 1: whole thing with Saraon and was touched by his evil,
Speaker 1: so he's fine, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Right after, I know you're upset about the mom, but like,
Speaker 2: chill out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, we don't need to We don't need
Speaker 1: to support this guy. Right after that, Aran Deer after
Speaker 1: around Heer had just gotten done, saying, oh, he's probably fine.
Speaker 1: They find like a body all torn apiece, uh and sadly.
Speaker 2: It's not there.
Speaker 1: Back in town, Aeron Deer and a sel Door are
Speaker 1: like rallying the town folk. They're trying. They're like, listen, okay,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of wild men brigands in the woods,
Speaker 1: and also we don't know what killed them, but we
Speaker 1: gotta go in there because Theo's in there, and also
Speaker 1: a horse.
Speaker 2: The best boy.
Speaker 1: But Estrid, who it was recently revealed has the mark
Speaker 1: of Adar, had the mark of a Dar on her.
Speaker 1: She burned it off. It's like, no, no, no, no, let's
Speaker 1: let's go to the north where the woods are very old,
Speaker 1: because that's that's why the guy there are They're over
Speaker 1: there probably and she and a sil Dour are vibing.
Speaker 1: I got to love in this episode. You've got Poppy
Speaker 1: and Merrimac, and you've got Isildur just like hearts coming
Speaker 1: out of flying out of his eyes and find what
Speaker 1: was he missing.
Speaker 3: In his life that he is so deaf, but to
Speaker 3: find a love connection because I look Astro, she's pretty,
Speaker 3: she's cool, she's bob woman.
Speaker 1: I know nothing about her.
Speaker 2: You know nothing about her.
Speaker 3: You've spent like maybe thirty minutes of your day with
Speaker 3: her or something like chill out a Silda.
Speaker 1: Now is Sildor feels like he's getting the vibes back
Speaker 1: and he's like now he just like flat outs, like
Speaker 1: what about your fiance? And she's like what who?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 3: What? Man?
Speaker 1: Aarn Deer is suspicious of Estrid correct a little correctly,
Speaker 1: so she came out of nowhere and his friend de
Speaker 1: Sildeur is getting smitten and he feels weird. Estrid realizes
Speaker 1: that Arondier is on too him. She shows she's like
Speaker 1: oh shit, yev and tries to run. Doesn't work because Rondier,
Speaker 1: like we've seen him take down like thirty orcs, like
Speaker 1: he's not going to be thrown by this, he finds
Speaker 1: the mark of a Dar, the burned of mark or
Speaker 1: whatever it was, and it knows immediately that Estrat is
Speaker 1: one of these wild folks who you know, was probably
Speaker 1: in the thrall of a Dar. People of the Southland
Speaker 1: zoom and captured by a Dar and gave him their allegiance,
Speaker 1: not that they had a choice. Aaron dear and a
Speaker 1: sil Dor handcuff her and they're like, lead us to
Speaker 1: the wild men in the woods. Okay, we see THEO
Speaker 1: and he's trapped in the top of a tree with
Speaker 1: a bunch of these wild dudes. On the way to
Speaker 1: finding them, a sil Do gets caught in quicksand ver
Speaker 1: story here guy, very never earning story stuff. He drags
Speaker 1: Arondier down with him. Estra is standing there like what
Speaker 1: the fuck just happened. She grabs a stick and tries
Speaker 1: to like I guess, pull them out, but instead, like
Speaker 1: a huge gross crawfish emerges and Arondier has to cut
Speaker 1: his way out of its belly and later they eat it. Dude, wi,
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 3: This is such a traumatic moment, Like the creature work
Speaker 3: is horrifying. Everyone's just trying to, you know, get out
Speaker 3: alive estrians like what the fuck's going on? It still
Speaker 3: does like, oh my god, Like what was that. I've
Speaker 3: just come out of this guy's belly. And then Ronde's like,
Speaker 3: we'll call this one supper and he likes good, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: he has to show off to his new little bro.
Speaker 3: He's like yeah, and also we get a nod kid
Speaker 3: to the Nameless Things, which we kind of talked about
Speaker 3: before that lived deep under mid life, you know, but
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: Ronde was like, we'll call this supper. He was like
Speaker 2: really happy for that one.
Speaker 3: But you know what, crawfish delicious, so probably it probably
Speaker 3: was delectable.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you his quick story and a side
Speaker 1: about crawfish. Once upon a time, I was playing a
Speaker 1: show when I was in a band. I was playing
Speaker 1: a show in New Orleans at this indie music festival,
Speaker 1: and the festival promoters had like made this whole like
Speaker 1: gumbo and crawfish like spread dinner for like everybody who's
Speaker 1: there at this small festival, and the musicians. You got
Speaker 1: a little ticket so you could go and if you're
Speaker 1: a musician and get a bowl of this. And I
Speaker 1: got a couple three tickets somehow because I think my
Speaker 1: band members. Other people didn't want to eat. So I
Speaker 1: went back and I was like I never had crawfish
Speaker 1: and gumbo before, and I was like, holy shit, this
Speaker 1: is really good. So I went back a second time
Speaker 1: and I was like, fuck, this is still really good.
Speaker 1: I went back the third time and the promoters were like,
Speaker 1: you need to stop. There's like other people who I
Speaker 1: got cold to stop. They were like, you've had enough enough. Anyway,
Speaker 1: back to our story, the stores decide to throw Nori
Speaker 1: poppy and merrimac, which is God, and like, come on
Speaker 1: out into the wilderness because and as they're doing so,
Speaker 1: Nori mentions, oh, this reminds me of you know, I
Speaker 1: should have listened to Sadock Burrows our leaders. And the
Speaker 1: gooned is like, oh wait, hold on, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: wait what and the gooned takes them over. I know
Speaker 1: the goon would not like mean calling her the goon,
Speaker 1: but you don't.
Speaker 2: They called her the good so what else could you say?
Speaker 3: So now I'm obsessed with like you know that in
Speaker 3: the mo in the critically lau died financially successful movie
Speaker 3: The Crow, Yeah scars, God wears this jacket that says
Speaker 3: goon on the back for no reason. And now I'm
Speaker 3: just obsessed with a jacket that looks like that, but
Speaker 3: it says the gooned, and she's just wearing it all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: So somebody get me that jacket.
Speaker 1: So the goon takes him to a rock painting that's
Speaker 1: been there apparently forever and done by ancient stores, and
Speaker 1: it basically is a prophecy kind of about the Harfoots,
Speaker 1: about how someone very much like Satock Burrows would lead
Speaker 1: the stores home to the proms Land. And she's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Nori, are you the one who's gonna
Speaker 1: lead us there? And she's like no, because actually, like
Speaker 1: we Harflets, we never found it. Still we're still looking
Speaker 1: and we just kind of wandering circle.
Speaker 3: They do mention Hobbit fans that the promised Land looks like,
Speaker 3: you know, land that's so easy to dig in. You
Speaker 3: can build a hobbit hole with a door in less
Speaker 3: than a month, a circular door, so you're getting.
Speaker 1: In a beautiful garden.
Speaker 2: Beautiful garden. You can be eating smoking on your little pipe.
Speaker 1: You know, blowing beautiful smok rings, beautiful smoking.
Speaker 3: So you know what they're talking about. They're talking about
Speaker 3: the future home of the Hobbits that.
Speaker 1: You know and love. That's right, the future development coming
Speaker 1: to you soon the shire. But they don't have time
Speaker 1: to discuss this because the Dark Wizard hen she's arrived.
Speaker 1: So the Dark Wizard hen she's arrived, and the goon
Speaker 1: goes to welcome them, and they immediately slap the.
Speaker 3: Gird and you remember, you remember the size difference between
Speaker 3: like a human man.
Speaker 2: And terrible half, Like this is unnecessary.
Speaker 1: It's so mean. It was awful, and they're like, where
Speaker 1: are the harfoots?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: I don't know the stores? The stores shouts to them
Speaker 1: they were about to throw these people into the wilderness,
Speaker 1: but they cover for them and they say, we don't,
Speaker 1: we have no idea. What are you talking about? And
Speaker 1: the stalkers say, okay, well fine, we'll leave, but if
Speaker 1: you're lying, you're gonna be in big fucking trouble. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: el Rond is like, am I a bad leader? We
Speaker 1: just lost the guy he's like going through feeling.
Speaker 2: Like a demon grave like it was it was he
Speaker 2: chewed up.
Speaker 1: We don't even have his body. And maybe I should
Speaker 1: have listened to Gladriel in that Cursed Ring. Glad Reel
Speaker 1: tell you know is a way to kind of like
Speaker 1: booy her friend's or it's just like, listen, the ring
Speaker 1: is guy, but it's on the ring.
Speaker 3: I mean, just for a minute, just be like, bro,
Speaker 3: it wasn't your fault. We're on this mission Souran's evil
Speaker 3: for a day. Instead, she's like, guess what, bro, the
Speaker 3: ring is guiding me. The ring did try and tell you,
Speaker 3: Like she can't help.
Speaker 2: Its obsessed with this fucking ring.
Speaker 1: Elron is like, listen, you're never going to convince me
Speaker 1: that the rings are good or even worth using to
Speaker 1: fight Sarahn, so just drop it. Meanwhile, Galadriel has another vision,
Speaker 1: and this one is very harrow and she sees like war.
Speaker 1: She sees a reggaeon being torn down. She sees Elron
Speaker 1: getting killed, and she makes him promise. Elrond, promise me
Speaker 1: that before you do anything else, you will defeat Sarn.
Speaker 1: That's before you destroy the rings, that's before whatever else
Speaker 1: that you you know, go back to building boats like
Speaker 1: you were doing. Whatever defeats Sourn first, and he's like,
Speaker 1: I promise. Is Sildurur, after eating the crawfish dinner, decides
Speaker 1: that you know what, I'm gonna let Estrad go because
Speaker 1: I'm kind of fucking in love with her.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 3: He's like, he's like, maybe we could just do like
Speaker 3: a little smooth way.
Speaker 1: He brushes her hair away like hi, And just as
Speaker 1: he's like going in, she steals his sword and she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not like Meanwhile, Iran Deer is like fifty feet
Speaker 1: away on a boulder, aiming as bow at her like
Speaker 1: a silverer bro. I told you so, did I not
Speaker 1: tell you? Fish Is? Sildur is like listen, I won't
Speaker 1: I won't let your people cast you. I won't let
Speaker 1: anybody cast you out because you used to work for
Speaker 1: a dar because like I am in love with you, okay,
Speaker 1: And just then an end wife shows up and punches
Speaker 1: Estrid like across.
Speaker 2: She's dead. Sorry, there's no way she survives that irl Like.
Speaker 1: It was like he was very very destructive and powerful, budget.
Speaker 3: Hilarious, tiving, like so just like cannot fucking catch a break,
Speaker 3: this guy, He cannot catch a break or a kiss.
Speaker 1: It was like the impact was much like the impact
Speaker 1: taken in The Fall Guy. Yes when uh if anybody
Speaker 1: has seen the kind you know what on rewatch, you
Speaker 1: can watch it for free on Peacock and subscribe to
Speaker 1: that service. The actually kind of fun.
Speaker 2: It's married.
Speaker 1: I saw in the theaters and was a little disappointed
Speaker 1: by but I have since rewatched it and been like,
Speaker 1: you know what, perfect rental movie, perfect Friday night movie.
Speaker 1: But it's much like the stunt in the early part
Speaker 1: of that movie. And yes, you're right estrad should Be
Speaker 1: should Un talks to the en wife and and husband
Speaker 1: and is like, listen, can we calm down a second?
Speaker 1: I was like, have you ever cut down a tree?
Speaker 3: She said, have you ever you ever put a blade
Speaker 3: to a branch?
Speaker 2: And Aaron is like a fuck.
Speaker 3: He's like he's I hate to say it, I'm ashamed,
Speaker 3: but I have.
Speaker 2: And she's like we did.
Speaker 1: We did cook a crawfish last night on some branches,
Speaker 1: and I'm so sorry. But and so the end is like, listen,
Speaker 1: we are very angry right now because an army of
Speaker 1: orcs came through the woods and they've been chopping down
Speaker 1: trees and making us very upset. Auran Deer is like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. He puts his hand on the wife's branch
Speaker 1: and he's like, I am so sorry. And with whatever
Speaker 1: we can do in our power, I promise you that
Speaker 1: the trees will be left him peace and we will
Speaker 1: make this right. Released their prisoners, including THEO, and just
Speaker 1: just just.
Speaker 3: As it goes about to smooch Estrad and he's like,
Speaker 3: oh I did, We're free, We got THEO. And then
Speaker 3: who should show up? But no medieval husband, say he's
Speaker 3: wearing the classic Horrible Histories medieval style hat you only
Speaker 3: see in this specific circumstance. I don't write somebody, but
Speaker 3: this man has been trying to kill a child, like
Speaker 3: we have seen this man kill a child.
Speaker 1: Husband first solo horse and has been trying to kill
Speaker 1: a child. And yes, you're exactly right. He is wearing
Speaker 1: the entire outfit of somebody who dies of body. Yes,
Speaker 1: History Channel's remake. And there he is, and he shows
Speaker 1: up and fucking Arondier's smile fades away instantly, and and Estrad.
Speaker 3: Is like, ah, like yourn, she is so so stressed
Speaker 3: you because I was like in Neumanov we have like
Speaker 3: aqueducts and we have got to come to in our houses.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be so great.
Speaker 3: And then here comes her bubonic plague future victim fiance,
Speaker 3: and he's like, let's go back to the wild woods
Speaker 3: where we can occasionally serve oda for some orcmeat.
Speaker 2: And she's like, oh, yes, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's let's just be like highwaymen in the woods. It's
Speaker 1: like capturing small children and killing them taking It's like
Speaker 1: you could have running water, babe, you could have running water.
Speaker 3: So I feel like, anyway, it's not gonna go out there.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see has some splaining to do. Aaron dear
Speaker 1: wisely says, fuck all this drama. I'm going off to
Speaker 1: kill the Orc army. I'm not dealing with all this
Speaker 1: ship THEO you want to come, and Theois says, I
Speaker 1: have somewhere else where.
Speaker 3: Where are you gonna go help sour on a on
Speaker 3: one of your famis.
Speaker 1: Clearly, I think that's I think that's the subject. That's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got other sour On business that I need to
Speaker 1: attend to elsewhere. Elrod's party discovers the Orc army that's
Speaker 1: been moving through the woods and upsetting the ends. The
Speaker 1: Orcs just fire a blind arrow like into the night
Speaker 1: and it absolutely finds the guts of one of the elves.
Speaker 1: Lucky shot one in a million. Elron is like, oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm losing another elf. What are we gonna do? And
Speaker 1: just like instinctively, as a way to comfort this dying elf,
Speaker 1: Galadriel and Ellron just like put their hands over the wound,
Speaker 1: and Galadriel's ring heals him and she looks at out
Speaker 1: around like, what are you gonna fucking say? Now? What
Speaker 1: are you gonna say? Now?
Speaker 3: A right?
Speaker 1: She tells Alron, Okay, listen, take the ring. I am
Speaker 1: gonna fight these Orcs. I'm gonna hold them off. You
Speaker 1: go to Lindon and tell them it seems like this
Speaker 1: incredibly beauty selfless the beautiful selfless thing.
Speaker 2: And all the healths are like wow.
Speaker 3: She saphrifies herself for us, and I was like, you
Speaker 3: know what, that's Galadriel from the first season.
Speaker 2: She would do that, no question. Bro. Elron sees straight
Speaker 2: through that shit.
Speaker 1: Elrond is like, nah, she doesn't want the ring to
Speaker 1: fall into the Orcans. She just doesn't want to live.
Speaker 1: It is so hot broken.
Speaker 3: He is like, ah, He's like, my girlfriend, I have
Speaker 3: lost my two thousand year old will we won't we?
Speaker 1: Like, joh know, I've lost that to this fucking ring
Speaker 1: and how brand hel brand uh And you know, Galadriel
Speaker 1: is a great soldier and she makes some tay here
Speaker 1: but there's way too many works and also a Dar
Speaker 1: is there and a Dar takes her prisoner bomb bomb bum.
Speaker 1: Fun episode of the Rings of Power.
Speaker 2: Just really fun.
Speaker 3: I think I'm not surprised this one is so much
Speaker 3: higher rated on by critics.
Speaker 2: I think the first season had some pacing.
Speaker 3: Issues with balancing all the stories, even though I was
Speaker 3: a huge fan of it, And I think it's this
Speaker 3: is just a very fun, fast paced, action packed season
Speaker 3: that's giving us like a lot of fun moments.
Speaker 2: To react to.
Speaker 3: You get a lot of kind of twists and turns
Speaker 3: of whether it's big ones or little ones, whether it's
Speaker 3: those action moments like that and wife punching Estrid, Like
Speaker 3: I cracked up.
Speaker 2: When that happened.
Speaker 3: You're just like okay, like a Silda, no kisses for you,
Speaker 3: Like this is not happening. A giant tree is gonna
Speaker 3: slam her out of the way. Yeah, just a really
Speaker 3: fun episode and I'm excited to see I thought Ada
Speaker 3: was one of the most interesting kind of additions to
Speaker 3: the first season, and I'm interested to now see him
Speaker 3: in Gladriel kind of facing off again. And maybe if
Speaker 3: I'm interested to see whether she will be able to
Speaker 3: convince him, like, well, guess what, you've already met Sarah
Speaker 3: Bib Like saran'salbrand, he doesn't have no way to help you.
Speaker 3: I mean also, I gotta say when you know, when
Speaker 3: are we gonna check back in with the old Calibrimble
Speaker 3: because that man is he is going through it, bro,
Speaker 3: He's going through it, and I'm gonna be excited next
Speaker 3: episode to check back in with him.
Speaker 1: And just Calebrinborg is like he's got the mountain dew,
Speaker 1: like he's got the doritos, and he's just like pulling
Speaker 1: and all he's got like the.
Speaker 2: The pulling, the undercover all night.
Speaker 1: The coffee. Yeah, he's just pulling in all night or
Speaker 1: just like rings ringing.
Speaker 3: Him and Anata like together causing problems. But yeah, great time,
Speaker 3: very fun.
Speaker 1: On the next episode of X ray Vision, we're diving
Speaker 1: into Star Wars, Outlaws, and more video game news. Thursday
Speaker 1: we continue our Animation Month coverage, and of course Friday,
Speaker 1: we're back with Rings of Power episode five. That's it
Speaker 1: for this episode. Thanks for listening. Bye. X ray Vision
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