Speaker 1: On today's episode, coming from very sweaty San Diego Comic Con,
Speaker 1: we are here talking about Lantern's renewed seasons of some
Speaker 1: of our favorite shows, Adult Avatar, A Gang, and The
Speaker 1: Wolverine Game. Hello, lovely listeners, my name is Rosie Knight
Speaker 1: and I'm Joel Monique, and welcome back to xtra Vision,
Speaker 1: the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies,
Speaker 1: comics and pop culture. We are here at iHeart Podcast,
Speaker 1: where we'll be bringing you three episodes a week, plus
Speaker 1: news on Saturdays.
Speaker 2: In today's previously on episode, we're catching up on the
Speaker 2: biggest geek news of the weekend. Asterisks. We're recording this
Speaker 2: on Saturday. We're gonna try in the middle of the day,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna try to get you guys some more
Speaker 2: of the late night Saturday early Sunday news as it
Speaker 2: comes out. But as of what we have now in
Speaker 2: front of us, we've got some big trailers, Rings Power trailer,
Speaker 2: we got a lot, just so much information about the
Speaker 2: new Lantern series coming up on HBO, plus some Avatar stuff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Let's do it, Okay, So let's start with Lantern's There
Speaker 1: was a big Lanton's activation here at San Diego. You
Speaker 1: could actually go and train to be a Lantern. You
Speaker 1: could get Lanton rings. I saw one of my friends,
Speaker 1: Morgan Hampton, who writes Green Lenton currently Green Lantern Corps.
Speaker 3: They went there. Looked like he had a great time.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of information about this Joelle. We
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be the buddy cop true detective series.
Speaker 1: Aaron Pierre, Kyle Chandler, Damon Lindon Loft, Tom King behind it.
Speaker 3: What's very interesting.
Speaker 1: To me here is not only do we learn that
Speaker 1: Sinestro is going to be in it, and that Laura
Speaker 1: Linny will also be starring as some kind of galactic
Speaker 1: guardian scream you know we love that.
Speaker 2: But clean a guardian. I Yes, we love Lauri, Yeah.
Speaker 3: We love her. Also, Aaron Pierre said, she's like an auntie.
Speaker 1: She's a phenomenal artist and creative and we were massively
Speaker 1: blessed to have her Grayson presence and her talent, which
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 3: There was also some footage in the room.
Speaker 1: We didn't get in their whole hsad to get into,
Speaker 1: but it seems like there was a Red Lantern intervention.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of conversation coming out all.
Speaker 2: Right, moving on television, bigger, better than ever we got,
Speaker 2: and we got some new trailers, so some announcements and
Speaker 2: some trailers we wanted to do before we got into
Speaker 2: some specific ip we're excited to see. So first Vampirelist
Speaker 2: that came back, everyone was kind of shocked because it's
Speaker 2: the end of the series. Typically you don't do a
Speaker 2: lot of promo after your series has ended. I think
Speaker 2: the last year when they were here, huge reaction from
Speaker 2: the fan base. I think the reaction here is what
Speaker 2: inspired them to do a live show later in New York, definitely,
Speaker 2: so you can get an announcement that season four is
Speaker 2: coming down the pipeline and it's not a Part two
Speaker 2: of the Vampirelist, that it's going to be Queen of
Speaker 2: the damn. They gave us the most hardcore feminist command
Speaker 2: eating like Goddess Rising trailer of my personal human existence.
Speaker 2: I thought it was amazing. I'm really excited for it.
Speaker 3: Literally, so crazy, so timely.
Speaker 1: Also, I'm usually very wary of anything that does this
Speaker 1: like chromosomal genocide stuff, because it is often very transphobic.
Speaker 1: But I think this show is so fucking tapped into
Speaker 1: the queer community that I think that is going to
Speaker 1: be the big push behind why this is an issue
Speaker 1: is I think that's actually going to be the thing,
Speaker 1: is that Akasha is going to imagine that all women
Speaker 1: are women biologically or whatever, and the stat and Louis
Speaker 1: and like the modern vampires are going to be like, bitch,
Speaker 1: that's not how it works.
Speaker 3: And I think that.
Speaker 1: Actually could be a big pushback against you know, the
Speaker 1: Great Conversion, all this kind of crazy genocide.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it looked incredible.
Speaker 1: Joe. I've watched it like fifty times. She let him
Speaker 1: come get your delicious gems and jewels that you deserve.
Speaker 1: And also, I actually kind of love this because I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people felt like this was going
Speaker 1: to be a push for Sam's like award season because
Speaker 1: it was at the end of the series.
Speaker 3: And while Sam does definitely really, really really deserve that,
Speaker 3: I love the new season.
Speaker 1: I kind of love that they're like, hey, this is
Speaker 1: still a show that began about a black man and
Speaker 1: now has finally come to one of the most famous
Speaker 1: characters who's a black woman. So let's give her her
Speaker 1: own space, Like it would have been such a shame
Speaker 1: to see her hemmed in to the stat story rather
Speaker 1: than getting a story of her own. And also something
Speaker 1: I really loved that Roland Jones said on the panel
Speaker 1: was you're about to start seeing a lot of different
Speaker 1: people's opinions about what happened and what is about to happen.
Speaker 1: So I think that he's implying that if the show
Speaker 1: continues to do well, like Akasha is not going to
Speaker 1: be the lost person who gets their own series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think with you know, we were all sort
Speaker 2: of surprised to see Sam not in attendance, and so
Speaker 2: that kind of made me. I thought it was interesting
Speaker 2: he didn't attend, most likely because of his play. So
Speaker 2: he's in a show in Australia. It's you know, almost
Speaker 2: a full day to get to California from Australia, and
Speaker 2: so that's at least two performances, probably three he would miss,
Speaker 2: and so he just decided not to attend. He's been
Speaker 2: on record as having loved these events, so I think
Speaker 2: it was disappointing not to see him get that like
Speaker 2: big hall Ah standing ovation for the incredible season he gave.
Speaker 2: But also I think it's understandable how that, like, like
Speaker 2: why he chose not to come. The other thing we
Speaker 2: have coming up is the Rings of Power season three.
Speaker 2: She's coming back from here now. We're considering how to
Speaker 2: cover it here over at X ray, but we're stupid
Speaker 2: excited for it. It's gonna be amazing. The trailer looks really,
Speaker 2: really good, Rosie, I okay, highlights for me. I think
Speaker 2: seeing Galadriel literally in tears destroys me. She's so hard
Speaker 2: in the movies, and I think in the text too,
Speaker 2: you can kind of see her lived experiences through a
Speaker 2: lot of her dialogue and so to kind of be
Speaker 2: walking through them and see how crushing they are, it
Speaker 2: moves me. It makes me sad. It's really I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think she's incredible. I'm looking forward to watching her
Speaker 2: evolve into the like hard and bad ass we see
Speaker 2: her as later. I also really the Dwarfs and seeing
Speaker 2: their turn for this moment when they decide to like
Speaker 2: turn in and back to the K's and cut themselves
Speaker 2: off from the Elves. The hate that bruise between them,
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, the tension is mounting, and I'm really
Speaker 2: really excited for those flashes to continue to brew. So yeah,
Speaker 2: lots to look forward.
Speaker 1: To, Honestly, like, I'm just most excited. We've talked about
Speaker 1: Hot Sour on ever since the show began. He's here,
Speaker 1: He's souring. It's gonna be great, and I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be clearly like a fall of anti heroes. Because
Speaker 1: we also got a new clay Faced trailer. This was
Speaker 1: DC's other big moment. Now I'm not gonna lie. I
Speaker 1: think this was the big moment for them. I think
Speaker 1: the Lantern's tall h Like, it didn't hit for me
Speaker 1: in the same way this did. Because what they actually did,
Speaker 1: Joelle was they had Jim Lee go to a panel
Speaker 1: that was Jimley and Friend's comic book panel that he
Speaker 1: always does. It's his legendary DC panel, but they had
Speaker 1: him bring out the director, James Taylor of Clayface, and
Speaker 1: then they.
Speaker 3: Had him them.
Speaker 1: Show the trailer and they actually got to talk about
Speaker 1: making the movie. And I just think that is like
Speaker 1: fucking cool to tie it back to the comics, to
Speaker 1: where it comes from, to gym to DC, and to
Speaker 1: also like reward people who go to the real comic
Speaker 1: book panels like that to me was a big win
Speaker 1: for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was really impressed with the clay based trailer
Speaker 2: I think I think it has the ability to tap
Speaker 2: into that other audience. I think it doesn't have to
Speaker 2: just be DC fans. I don't think it needs to
Speaker 2: be uh even people who are just like reading for
Speaker 2: James Gunley. I think the horror audience is going to
Speaker 2: gravitate towards this in a major way. It just looks
Speaker 2: like he has to douce to me, it was scary.
Speaker 2: I thought the prosthetics looked good. The story is interesting,
Speaker 2: I think, particularly in the time of Instagram Face and
Speaker 2: sort of this obsession with looks Maxing. I was like,
Speaker 2: I have not seen a Moron brand horror film since
Speaker 2: maybe Weapons. When it came out and people were like,
Speaker 2: protect the fucking children, this is crazy. I think this
Speaker 2: might have the ability to really speak to an audience
Speaker 2: in a way that most superhero films have struggled to.
Speaker 2: And it's led me to a insane conspiracy theory, which
Speaker 2: is maybe a superhero IP franchise in cinema could exist
Speaker 2: strictly on its villains. Penguin Rock, Yes, Playface looks like
Speaker 2: it's gonna hit Joker for a while was booming. Okay,
Speaker 2: not two hit or miss, but no one can deny
Speaker 2: number one box office banger. So I would you know? DC?
Speaker 2: I think your villains have always been your strongest suit.
Speaker 2: I think it's completely different than what Marvel is doing.
Speaker 2: I think these are brave, interesting choices. I know people
Speaker 2: are like, why would you roll the dice like this?
Speaker 2: I'm like, look at the state of things. Why not
Speaker 2: all the day? Is that? Why not making crazy decisions?
Speaker 1: So also, it was always meant to be called gods
Speaker 1: and monsters.
Speaker 3: If the gods didn't work, do the monsters.
Speaker 2: It's what we've been waiting for, to be honest.
Speaker 1: Literally, Joelle, Okay, we're gonna toss to a quick adbreak. Guys,
Speaker 1: we're gonna enjoy some sponsorships, and then we're gonna be
Speaker 1: right back to talk a little bit more about some.
Speaker 4: Of the big.
Speaker 1: News about some of our favorite franchises.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're back.
Speaker 1: Okay, We're gonna start with a controversial panel.
Speaker 3: It was an interesting panel because it was about the
Speaker 3: Avatar Ang movie.
Speaker 1: People wanted to talk about the relationship, like basically, who's.
Speaker 3: With who, what she hips lasted?
Speaker 1: What didn't mid twenties Ang and Korra did they decide
Speaker 1: finally to do a little a little change there.
Speaker 3: No, that's still.
Speaker 1: You guys are gonna be living with the ships that
Speaker 1: you probably dealt with your whole Uh wait, not Aang
Speaker 1: and Korra because Cora's from a different Katar Katara.
Speaker 3: Yes, sorry, but yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Ag and Katara they're still together. They're not You're
Speaker 1: not getting your Katara Zuko here. It's not happening for you.
Speaker 1: You for it might happen, it's not gonna happen. I
Speaker 1: am gonna tell you the thing that was most talked
Speaker 1: about in my community and on the internet, which was
Speaker 1: unfortunately they it was very clear that on the character
Speaker 1: sheets there were multiple different times when they.
Speaker 3: Referenced chat GTP.
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, Unfortunately people got screen graps right. It
Speaker 1: said chat GTP says blah blah blah about like a character,
Speaker 1: and it's like, who the fuck descriptions of the characters
Speaker 1: on the character sheet that was posted behind them at
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does. It does not bode well, but you
Speaker 3: know what, it's all good. I'm sure the movie is
Speaker 3: gonna be beautiful.
Speaker 1: We're hoping that it's gonna get If you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a chance to see it, I think just only in
Speaker 1: a couple of theaters in New York and LA. It's
Speaker 1: not getting that full release, but you'll be able to
Speaker 1: watch it on Paramount Plus of course. And they add
Speaker 1: a lot of Avatar and stuff out and about today
Speaker 1: they had raps on the buildings.
Speaker 3: You were really getting to see it.
Speaker 1: We also got the Seven Heavens news. I was excited
Speaker 1: about this disabled a disabled Avatar. She's a young earth
Speaker 1: Bender and it looks like it's gonna be kind of
Speaker 1: an ecological story. She is the Avatar after Korra. It
Speaker 1: looks fucking amazing. And she is basically perceived by being
Speaker 1: the Avatar as like the greatest in the world.
Speaker 3: Like a villain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's marked as a villain, and.
Speaker 1: She's basically like your evil. It's basically like your evil
Speaker 1: if you have these powers.
Speaker 3: Not good.
Speaker 2: Yes, and then she connects with her long lost twin sister,
Speaker 2: my favorite trope. Yeah, I can't help but whatever twin
Speaker 2: shows up. But like it's cinema, it's all right, let's go.
Speaker 3: It is giving the Acolyte.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think I can't remember how many episodes
Speaker 2: they said, twenty six. There are twenty six episodes of
Speaker 2: this two deep animal series. They're giving us genuine it
Speaker 2: looks it's not like a slightly like adventure time like
Speaker 2: anime e look to it. I'm so excited, you know,
Speaker 2: in both of these series are well sorry, the movie
Speaker 2: and this series are both productions from Avatar Studios, which
Speaker 2: is really exciting to me. I think it's something we've
Speaker 2: wanted to see for a long time. This is a
Speaker 2: franchise that really lends itself to these expanded IP universes.
Speaker 2: Just from jump with that doesn't feel an authentic at all.
Speaker 2: And I think there's a ton of characters. You know,
Speaker 2: the comic book series have been hitting for a long time.
Speaker 2: I know, the Earth Venders, the fighters. Why am I
Speaker 2: going up like this? After Kyoshi got her own series
Speaker 2: and people were like, oh banger.
Speaker 3: Those Kyoshi books, Yeah, unbelievable. I cannot recommend enough.
Speaker 1: They're actually I believe they just started doing one about
Speaker 1: a fire nation Avatartoo that I haven't read.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean those books are unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Like the stories here have never stopped and the creators
Speaker 1: have never stopped trying.
Speaker 3: To tell these stories.
Speaker 1: I will tell you, Joelle, you actually recommended me for
Speaker 1: a writing gig and I did submit obviously, I did
Speaker 1: not get. I'm not a professional TV writer, but it
Speaker 1: did lead to me writing my first ever animation pilot,
Speaker 1: and I later found out it would have been likely
Speaker 1: for this show. That is incredible because they needed a
Speaker 1: disabled writer. So yeah, they really took care to put
Speaker 1: together a team who knew it. I'm so excited to
Speaker 1: see it look gorgeous and guys, probably the biggest visual
Speaker 1: activation kind of moment outside San Diego this year, which
Speaker 1: was a little bit run down, I would say, compared
Speaker 1: to the usual amount studios were spending. You had your
Speaker 1: Percy Jacksons, you had your adult swims. But the big
Speaker 1: big rap was a big Wolverine rap. Very hilariously, PlayStation
Speaker 1: have decided to go for.
Speaker 3: This new slogan.
Speaker 1: It happens on PlayStation, so go Wolverine happens on PlayStation.
Speaker 3: Happens on PlayStation, No discs.
Speaker 1: But the funny thing is it made it seem quite polite.
Speaker 1: So we were all looking at it all wee can going, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: Wolverine happened upon a PlayStation, you know. But they had
Speaker 1: this really fun madripor set up there. You could get
Speaker 1: like a madropor Sunrise slushy. It was one of the
Speaker 1: activations people loved to do for free, and they had
Speaker 1: a massive sentinel head and you could see the differences,
Speaker 1: kind of different sorts of eyes, lots of smoke coming off.
Speaker 3: It at different times of the day.
Speaker 1: And that was all to promote the upcoming Insomniac Wolverine game,
Speaker 1: maybe by the same team and kind of in that
Speaker 1: shape shared continuity with the Spider Man universe. Is going
Speaker 1: to be a younger version of Wolverine, which we did know.
Speaker 1: He's going to be around two hundred years old when
Speaker 1: the game starts, but he is gonna be a Wolverine
Speaker 1: who was raised by mister sinister.
Speaker 2: I would like to see.
Speaker 3: Oh it's and to players.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be he's gonna be having another classic
Speaker 1: amnijiack event he loves to do it. Then he's gonna
Speaker 1: basically end up on a little Team X Action. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get Nathaniel Essex, Mystique Sabertooth, and who do they
Speaker 1: have to stop classic X Men villain Bolivar Trusk perfect.
Speaker 3: This is so exciting.
Speaker 1: Because even the Mars Morales and Spider Man games, even
Speaker 1: though the combat is incredible and I love it, it
Speaker 1: is not very violent and it's something also known for
Speaker 1: making like Spiro and Ratchet and Clang and ship like sounds.
Speaker 1: So creative director Marcus Smart was on stage kind of
Speaker 1: explaining like this is a big deal for us because
Speaker 1: we want to set out to create the ultimate Wolverine game,
Speaker 1: which meant making sure that we bought to.
Speaker 3: Life all the actually that make the character so beloved.
Speaker 1: Our Wolverine a cynical candid and he keeps blood a distance,
Speaker 1: not just because he knows he's dangerous, but also because
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to get hurt again. He's got a
Speaker 1: big heart and that gets him into trouble. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then we want to see him stab a guy through
Speaker 1: the head five times. It's gonna be great, Joel, Will
Speaker 1: you be playing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely on the extra bloody version that they have.
Speaker 2: Coraer like you could play regular blood or extra blood,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, i want extra Blood. I was like,
Speaker 2: I'll just the see of what people who have like
Speaker 2: game tested it have been saying that it's just like.
Speaker 3: The pictures I saw were like insane.
Speaker 2: So over the top, so messy. So I'm forward to
Speaker 2: the chaos. I think they've had a great run of games.
Speaker 2: The new spiral fucking rock. So like, yeah, no, I
Speaker 2: think this is gonna be a good one.
Speaker 3: Me too. Okay, So I believe in that case.
Speaker 1: That it is almost the end of this very special
Speaker 1: SDCC episode. So what I want to do is I
Speaker 1: want to thank you Come, our super producer who sat
Speaker 1: through a weekend to wait for this to help us.
Speaker 3: Thank you Come.
Speaker 1: You can check out an episode of me and Jason
Speaker 1: interviewing him about his incredible superhero poetry collection.
Speaker 3: And I want to.
Speaker 1: Shout all the volunteers, all the people working at San Diego,
Speaker 1: all the booths, all the talent who showed up, all
Speaker 1: of our friends.
Speaker 3: I also want to thank Joel, who threw a very
Speaker 3: lovely dinner. But yes, we love San Diego Comic Con.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll all be there next year together and love
Speaker 1: you guys. Have a great week, and of course come
Speaker 1: back next week. We're gonna be talking about House of
Speaker 1: the Dragon. We're gonna be talking about some other cool
Speaker 1: stuff that you love, and of course we'll be back
Speaker 1: with news again next time on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Our usual name Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2: By Boo.
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