Speaker 1: Warning today's episode canad spoilers for The Acolyte episode four. Hello.
Speaker 1: My name is Jason Seccion and I'm Rosie Night. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the xt revision of the podcast, where we
Speaker 1: dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, collings, and pop culture.
Speaker 1: Coming from aur Podcast, we'll bring you two episodes a week,
Speaker 1: every Tuesday and Thursday.
Speaker 2: In today's episode, it is your summer TV guide for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Because time is a myth and it's
Speaker 2: already halfway through. There in the airlock, we are going
Speaker 2: to be talking about some of our most anticipated returning series.
Speaker 2: In the previously on we're gonna be recapping episode four
Speaker 2: of The Acolyte.
Speaker 3: What an episode we're gonna be talking about it.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the airlock. Okay, let's dive in to
Speaker 1: the TV show calendar, starting with this June fourth, which
Speaker 1: is already it's already mid June. But let's talk about
Speaker 1: a show that early June on FX and Hulu, Clipped,
Speaker 1: which you can watch on Disney Plus if you bundle
Speaker 1: Hulu and Disney Plus. Clipped is the story of the
Speaker 1: Donald Sterling incident. The Donald String, the former and very
Speaker 1: racist owner of the Los Angeles Clippers and the activism
Speaker 1: that came from the reveal of just how racist he was.
Speaker 1: The series is based on ESPN's thirty for thirty podcasts,
Speaker 1: The Sterling Affairs and Folks. I've watched the first episode,
Speaker 1: and there's some really interesting I think there's some really
Speaker 1: good performances here. That said, if you are a basketball fan,
Speaker 1: what you will come away with is how and I
Speaker 1: think in this sense this series is actually ground breaking.
Speaker 1: How little this show cared about one the real life
Speaker 1: people who are depicted in the show actually resembling the
Speaker 1: real life people into the basketball Like, oh yeah, most
Speaker 1: most shows that are set in a world of basketball
Speaker 1: like make a gesture. Is it trying to like produce
Speaker 1: sort of like realistic seeming basketball scenes. This show doesn't care.
Speaker 3: It is soap opera.
Speaker 2: But it is also like it is also incredibly engaging,
Speaker 2: Like it is a well made soap opera. You will
Speaker 2: watch it, but yeah, it is. It's kind of wild
Speaker 2: when you like actually look at how you know obviously
Speaker 2: the basketball players we know, so you know, there's there
Speaker 2: is some fun stuff here with like the inner beefs
Speaker 2: of the basketball players and like who hate too? And
Speaker 2: but The really funny stuff is like it's Ed Harris
Speaker 2: who plays Stirling, right, and they still don't even manage
Speaker 2: to make him look gross enough. And then they also
Speaker 2: don't necessarily represent his right hand arm man. You know,
Speaker 2: she even looks very different from the real woman. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I have been watching this show and it is it's
Speaker 2: like really great Presty's trash if you want to walk.
Speaker 1: Very very trashy. I think the show would have been
Speaker 1: seventy percent better if the great Lawrence Fishburne had done
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers voice had docs So.
Speaker 2: Isn't it interesting yet that whenever they use quotes from
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers, they just play the real Doc.
Speaker 4: Rivers quotes And I'm like, guys, Lawrence is not even
Speaker 4: doing this. Just just get Larry to like read them again,
Speaker 4: because there's no consistency here. Like whenever they play Doc
Speaker 4: River's voice, you're like, oh, that's Doc Rivers, and then
Speaker 4: Larry comes on stage and you're like, oh.
Speaker 3: Wait, no, this he's not doing the voice. He's not
Speaker 3: doing the voice.
Speaker 2: Next.
Speaker 1: Sub Orphan Black Echoes premiers June twenty third on AMC
Speaker 1: AMC Plus in America. The show spinoff of or from
Speaker 1: Black Takes place in twenty fifty two, thirty seven years
Speaker 1: after the original Orphan series. It follows a group of
Speaker 1: women as they weave their way into each other's lives
Speaker 1: and embark on a thrilling journey unraveling the mystery of
Speaker 1: their identity or From Black and uncovering a wrenching story
Speaker 1: of love and betrayal and a fishco who was involved
Speaker 1: with Fear the Walking Dead takes the reins, as showrunner
Speaker 1: John Fawcett, creator of the series, says, quote, the spinoff
Speaker 1: is a very different show. If you go with expectations
Speaker 1: that you're gonna see Or From Black, you're gonna be disappointed.
Speaker 1: It's got its own feel, it's got its own identity.
Speaker 1: What makes it or From Black. There's a bit of
Speaker 1: a slow burn to it. I think it'll be exciting
Speaker 1: for fans to discover. John Fawcett, get better at selling
Speaker 1: your show.
Speaker 5: This was not It sounds like a very lukewarm veiled
Speaker 5: my friend, do not tell literally, the only reason this
Speaker 5: show exists is because your fandom is so passionate that
Speaker 5: they have made this show exist.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that for the show via the fact they listen
Speaker 2: to the podcasts of the show don't tell them that.
Speaker 2: Tell them this is gonna make you feel like you're
Speaker 2: in the world of Orphan Black, but having a totally
Speaker 2: new experience.
Speaker 3: My friend, my.
Speaker 1: Friends, please, I want to show exist because of the fandom.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 2: It's something new. I love these kind of shows or
Speaker 2: that I'm not necessarily in the deep in the fandom
Speaker 2: for always make me excited. Like we're knowwna up Orphan
Speaker 2: Black shows that people love so much that they will
Speaker 2: just keep fighting for them to come back. So I'm
Speaker 2: sure it will be great. John Fossett get a writer's room,
Speaker 2: and I'm more excited.
Speaker 1: It's as simil as this. Did you love Orphan Black,
Speaker 1: You're gonna love Orphan Black echoes exactly.
Speaker 3: My friend, You're too honest.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, though, I appreciate Next up, Cobra Kai
Speaker 1: season six, Season six.
Speaker 2: The final season. Now I have to say I am
Speaker 2: like that. I am a huge Cobra Stan. I love
Speaker 2: these little children and their martial arts fights. I also
Speaker 2: think it's really funny because if you do live in
Speaker 2: La and you go to the valley, there is like
Speaker 2: a dojo on every corner, Like it is like it's
Speaker 2: very specific valley culture. But yeah, sixth and final season
Speaker 2: of Cobra Kai premiering on Netflix and will consist of
Speaker 2: fifteen episodes, so you can tell this is like a
Speaker 2: truncated like two seasons. Interestingly, Netflix, they're doing the old
Speaker 2: three part drop the old suddenly they can do not
Speaker 2: a binge model situation. So it's gonna be fIF experimenting.
Speaker 2: They're dabbling, Yeah, and they're gonna see how it goes.
Speaker 2: I think it's because they know this is a big
Speaker 2: show for them. If you haven't watched the show, it's
Speaker 2: basically like a sequel to Karate Kid, and it features
Speaker 2: a ton of great kids and I love them all
Speaker 2: and I would die for them, and I love I
Speaker 2: love teenagers.
Speaker 3: We've got another John here. Let's see if he does better.
Speaker 1: John Herwitz, showrunner quoteles to stop thinking of season six
Speaker 1: as one final season and instead view it as three
Speaker 1: distinct mini seasons. Each mast was written knowing the release plan,
Speaker 1: so the experience was designed to be enjoyed in five
Speaker 1: episode chunks. It's okay, well, listen, anything that gets us
Speaker 1: towards a weekly release model, I'm for. And certainly it
Speaker 1: seems like Netflix, and the way they've been dealing with
Speaker 1: their reality offerings and Stranger Things and some other shows
Speaker 1: is trying to find that middle ground between binge and weekly.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm for this. Next up, The Bear season three.
Speaker 1: When I saw The Bear season three is shortly to
Speaker 1: premiere June twenty seventh on FX and Hulu, I sat
Speaker 1: back in my seat and went, wasn't the Bear just on?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Wait, dude, shit out there making it. And also
Speaker 2: they were like, is your June not busy enough? Do
Speaker 2: you already have to, you know, cover the Acolyte? Do
Speaker 2: you already have to cover House the Dragon? Well, now
Speaker 2: you're gonna be covering the Bear too, because it's one
Speaker 2: of the biggest shows on TV. The trailers for this
Speaker 2: are giving tragedy because the official synopsis is like, the
Speaker 2: new season will follow Karmie, Sydney, and Ritchie as they
Speaker 2: do what it takes to elevate the Bear, their beef
Speaker 2: stand turned fine dining establishment to the highest level, or
Speaker 2: while doing their best just to stay in business. Call me,
Speaker 2: I can already tell you it's gonna go wrong. I
Speaker 2: see you in there with your little You've got your
Speaker 2: little tweezers going on.
Speaker 3: Just keep making sandwiches.
Speaker 2: It was going great. I don't know why you have
Speaker 2: to do fine dining. I know you're gonna be acting
Speaker 2: like a toxic chef. I've already seen it happen once.
Speaker 2: If you throw marcus Is donuts on the floor again,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a problem. But I do love this
Speaker 2: show and I love these characters, so I'm excited to
Speaker 2: see what happens.
Speaker 1: Driven around town yesterday, and you know, La is the
Speaker 1: town of billboards, and specifically you know billboards for the television.
Speaker 3: And yeah, they love.
Speaker 2: The execs love to see a billboard of a show.
Speaker 1: They love to see a billboard. Everybody involved with the
Speaker 1: show loves to see a billboard because it's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: they really care about us, they're promoting. I saw a
Speaker 1: bear billboard. I'm Niel Bolvard, and you know, I'll be
Speaker 1: interested to see this season because it feels like the
Speaker 1: bear is a little too high on its own supply. No,
Speaker 1: so the billboard was this. The billboard was Jeremy Allen
Speaker 1: White and I owe very natural, naturalistic lighting and it's
Speaker 1: them like just hanging out, clearly talking about the restaurant.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't say the bear anywhere. There's no writing,
Speaker 1: it's just a there's just like a circular logo that's
Speaker 1: like an illustration of like a bear's head that's actually
Speaker 1: really small. This is my note and this is what
Speaker 1: I When I saw that, I'm like, Wow, this show
Speaker 1: is like it's almost like arrogance. They're like, you know
Speaker 1: what this I don't even have to tell you. What
Speaker 1: I know is a huge star. Jeremy is a huge star.
Speaker 1: Now you know what it means when those two are together.
Speaker 1: You know what our show is. You don't even need
Speaker 1: to look it up. You don't even need the title.
Speaker 1: You know it's the Bearer because you just see them
Speaker 1: and you know it.
Speaker 2: Let's hope there's no pride before this fall, dude, and
Speaker 2: Io is gonna be getting her directorial debut this season,
Speaker 2: which I love.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to see.
Speaker 2: That they're pushing the the Sydney Krmi together because I
Speaker 2: am a Sydney Krmi shipper and I understand it, but
Speaker 2: I am also a big notes. Rumor has it that
Speaker 2: we're gonna learn what happened to Carmi's dad that the
Speaker 2: Bears given extremely like scarce details on Karmi's father, which
Speaker 2: is probably because when they do that big casting every
Speaker 2: season they'll they'll do like a huge cameo, like the
Speaker 2: first one was having the reveal that John Byrnethall was
Speaker 2: the brother. Then we got Jamie Lee Curtis as Karmi's mom,
Speaker 2: And it will be interesting to see if season three
Speaker 2: has that kind.
Speaker 3: Of heartbreaking episode but it being about the dad.
Speaker 2: Who would you cast if you were casting the Dado
Speaker 2: John Goodman? Oh wow, Yeah, I would love to see it.
Speaker 1: Next up Batman Cape Crusader premiere's August First on a
Speaker 1: Time video. Here is the synopsis. Welcome toc Gotham City,
Speaker 1: where a corrupt out number of the good criminals run
Speaker 1: rampant and law abiding citizens live in a constage stud
Speaker 1: of forging the fire of tragedy. Wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne
Speaker 1: becomes something both more and less than human.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: This is intended to be a spiritual continuation of Batman,
Speaker 1: the animated series produced by JJ Ammerm's Matt Reeves and
Speaker 1: Bruce tim.
Speaker 2: Wow Team Wow and the Team.
Speaker 1: Continues with the involvement of Ed Brubaker, James Tucker, Daniel Pipski,
Speaker 1: Rachel rush Rich and Sam Register as executive producers on
Speaker 1: this series. I'm excited.
Speaker 3: Looks great. I love I love the visually.
Speaker 2: That taking hints from Batman the animated series, but it
Speaker 2: is going to be its own kind of noir. We
Speaker 2: got the different version of Selina Kyle in the Variety pictures.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just don't see a world where this
Speaker 2: isn't great because we're living in an animation heyday right now,
Speaker 2: and the original series is so iconic and it's got
Speaker 2: a great team.
Speaker 3: Can't wait for it.
Speaker 1: Did you think that I could get a good like rent?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: I think about this all the time. I think the
Speaker 2: rent is so good.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 2: I know your rent is cheap, but your car insurance
Speaker 2: premiums are high.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't even have it. You can't have a
Speaker 1: broken into a million times Fane's throwing your.
Speaker 2: Car like Batman's landing on the roof of your car.
Speaker 2: But I do think you could get a nice, affordable.
Speaker 1: Five hundred dollars I think you could.
Speaker 2: I think in Gotham you're still getting a five hundred
Speaker 2: dollars rent.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's possible.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, next up, Umbrella Academy Season four.
Speaker 3: Coming out, Final season Baby on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Final season of course, The adaptation of the comic series
Speaker 1: of the same name by the multi talented grord Way.
Speaker 1: The show premiered in twenty nineteen and follows a group
Speaker 1: of Estrange siblings with superpowers who were reunited after the
Speaker 1: death of their father. I'm excited for the final season
Speaker 1: of this. I really enjoyed the comic book. Did you
Speaker 1: have any any Umbrella Academy.
Speaker 2: Thoughts as fine, Okay, they're good kids.
Speaker 1: I like him.
Speaker 3: Good for them.
Speaker 1: Next up, Netflix's anime Treasures continued to accrue as its creators.
Speaker 1: Zero debuts on August twenty ninth. Terminator zero is a
Speaker 1: brand new story set in the Terminator universe, following a
Speaker 1: brand new cast of characters. It seems like it's going
Speaker 1: to be an eight episode anime focused on, you know,
Speaker 1: Humanity's relentless struggle against Skynett and the Terminator.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thoughts, I've seen it.
Speaker 2: It's really good. It's by production ig who made Ghost
Speaker 2: in the Shell, so really like, you couldn't want anything better.
Speaker 2: Also interestingly written by Matt's and Tomlin, who had worked
Speaker 2: He's done some comic stuff, he worked on The Batman
Speaker 2: early on, and yeah, it's really it looks beautiful it's
Speaker 2: basically about it's set in Japan, which I think is
Speaker 2: really cool, and it kind of gives us an insight
Speaker 2: into Japan in the lead up to Judgment Day, and
Speaker 2: it feels like the kind of show where they could
Speaker 2: just do like ten seasons in each one set in
Speaker 2: a different country as the kind of lead up.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I thought it was great. If you like hard.
Speaker 2: Sci fi anime, you'll probably love it. If you like
Speaker 2: The Terminator, you'll probably love it. I didn't know this
Speaker 2: show was even happening till I got to write a
Speaker 2: cover story about it for Den of Geek, So a
Speaker 2: nice surprise. I think it could. I think it could
Speaker 2: be in that realm of Scavenger's Rain and kind of
Speaker 2: those anime animated series that hit and kind of get, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, is on Netflix.
Speaker 3: Now, so you better watch it.
Speaker 1: Go watch it, because I don't want to tell you
Speaker 1: anything about it. Just it's a wonderful surprise if you
Speaker 1: haven't watched it, which I don't think anybody. I think
Speaker 1: there's like twelve people that watch Scavengers Rain.
Speaker 2: When it was HBO Max Situation, But now it's on Netflix,
Speaker 2: so go watch.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic one of the terminators. The voice of the
Speaker 1: main terminator apparently will be Timothy Olifant.
Speaker 3: Yes, if you watch the dum which.
Speaker 1: Raises the question, Rosie, who kills more characters? A flat
Speaker 1: out terminator voiced by Timothy Oliphant or Timothy Olifan as
Speaker 1: Raylan Gibbons. Definitely Raylan gives you know, Raylan Gibbons, shout
Speaker 1: out to the Marshall, Raylan Gibbs, that guy shot two
Speaker 1: people a week, that at least.
Speaker 2: At least please that man doesn't take his gun away.
Speaker 1: Stop shooting everyone, please. Next, The Rigs of Power Season
Speaker 1: two obvious prime video. Here's the synopsis. Uh set in
Speaker 1: Middle Earth second Age, thousands of years before the events
Speaker 1: of the Lord of the Rings books, The season follows
Speaker 1: the Dark Lord Surahon and Sexy sal On his strength
Speaker 1: Sexy Sexy Souron as he rebuilds his strength and creates
Speaker 1: more Rings of Power to control no more people of
Speaker 1: Middle Earth.
Speaker 3: Saren has returned. I want to see Sexy Soury's hotter
Speaker 3: than ever.
Speaker 2: He's hotter than ever. I love Gladrielle. I was a
Speaker 2: big fan of the first season of this show.
Speaker 3: I do think it's quite hilarious.
Speaker 2: Though, where they're like, you know, guys, you gotta you
Speaker 2: gotta watch this next season because he's gonna be making
Speaker 2: more rings. He's gonna be I'm like, guys, really, I'm
Speaker 2: like that's yeah, he's gonna be making some more rings.
Speaker 3: Baby.
Speaker 2: But yeah, all female team of directors this season, which
Speaker 2: I think is really cool and I am ready to
Speaker 2: see some more rings getting made. Also, our favorite singing
Speaker 2: character from Lord of the Rings has been revealed.
Speaker 1: Done done, Tom Bombernill he's here and Tommy Lee he's
Speaker 1: gonna be doing some singing.
Speaker 2: I hope we get a musical episode. One of my
Speaker 2: favorite things about the show last season was the Hobbit,
Speaker 2: so I'm hoping we get some Hobbit action.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm sure it will be a fun show
Speaker 3: that costs.
Speaker 2: More money than the GDP of like a small country.
Speaker 1: Big Tom Bombs said, how dare you cut me out
Speaker 1: of the Lord.
Speaker 2: Of the Rings films? I got you singing. He got
Speaker 2: his agent to call them up. He was like, I
Speaker 2: gotta have at least one song an episode.
Speaker 1: I'm ready and let's go quick fire through the rest
Speaker 1: of the upcoming series. Star Trek Prodigy season two on
Speaker 1: Netflix Monday, July.
Speaker 3: First, Love that good for them.
Speaker 1: Exploding Kittens animated series premiere on Netflix.
Speaker 2: Even though they were making now, okay, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: Marvel's hit Monkey season two.
Speaker 3: I say, had no idea.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe Marvel's hit Monkey Guy the second season,
Speaker 1: but shouts everybody involved and I'm.
Speaker 3: Good for you for getting paid. I am proud of you.
Speaker 2: This is the lost vestiges of Marvel TV as it
Speaker 2: used to be known.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I hope all the anime has got paid a ton
Speaker 2: of money.
Speaker 3: Love that for you, guys.
Speaker 1: Snow Piercer season four, July twenty first, the final season.
Speaker 2: Wow, still good good. I'm glad you're all employed and.
Speaker 1: Super excited about this. And it could only happen in
Speaker 1: Affel TV plus, where they threw millions and millions and
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars into bottomless bits. Time Bandits
Speaker 1: the adaptation of Terry Gilliams one film.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 2: I believe this is a Taiko W. T. T. Jermaine
Speaker 2: Clement team up.
Speaker 1: Love Time Bandits.
Speaker 3: Futurama season twelve.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing Tody got paid for that one, so big
Speaker 2: got Cody, Big Up the characters in Futurama. Big up
Speaker 2: the fact that animation is still getting made.
Speaker 3: Love this for everyone.
Speaker 1: Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series premiere Friday,
Speaker 1: August ninth, on the on the streaming play that form
Speaker 1: currently known as Paramount Plus that who knows if that
Speaker 1: will exist also in two years, but it's still Paramount
Speaker 1: Plus for now.
Speaker 2: How soon do you think that that is going to
Speaker 2: be like that's on Netflix, because I feel like now
Speaker 2: everything's just ending up on Netflix, so I feel like shortly,
Speaker 2: I'm excited for this. I think it looks great. I
Speaker 2: love the Ninja title, so thank you for more Ninja titles.
Speaker 1: Solar Opposite Season five, Hulu, Monday, August twelfth.
Speaker 2: Huge smash for Hulu if you haven't watched this kind
Speaker 2: of sci fi Rick and Morty esque like comedy. When
Speaker 2: I was writing a big animation piece for IGN, I
Speaker 2: learned that it's like one of their biggest shows. So again,
Speaker 2: good for those animators. I hope you're all getting paid.
Speaker 1: Here it is, folks, the long awaited Agatha all along.
Speaker 2: It's had twenty names, and it was all to do
Speaker 2: a joke that the name was Chie Agatha all along and.
Speaker 1: I love that September eighteenth, just in time for Halloween.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping that this is like a crazy, incredible, amazing
Speaker 2: show and we can just lose our minds about it
Speaker 2: because I feel like one division was such a a
Speaker 2: high point and I would love if it even captured
Speaker 2: a little bit of that strange magic.
Speaker 3: And the cast is incredible. I can't wait for it.
Speaker 2: And last, but not least, I made sure this was
Speaker 2: I made sure this was on here because it is.
Speaker 2: It's hard to put into words what this show is.
Speaker 2: Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder. They've made an animated series for Netflix.
Speaker 2: It took them about five years to make. It's called
Speaker 2: Twilight of the Gods. It looks like a cartoon saloon movie,
Speaker 2: but it is like an R rated hardcore There are threesomes,
Speaker 2: there are people's heads getting chopped off, like there is
Speaker 2: a main character who never wears a shirt and her
Speaker 2: boobs are just out the whole time. This is a
Speaker 2: crazy show and I can't wait for people to see
Speaker 2: it because it really is like proof that we are
Speaker 2: in like an adult animation wave in America that we
Speaker 2: kind of have never seen before. And the fact it
Speaker 2: got made is kind of a miracle, I feel like,
Speaker 2: so I'm very interested to see where people land on it.
Speaker 3: And the cast is great.
Speaker 2: You got like Rool Cahuli, There's a bunch of other
Speaker 2: great people. It's got a hands in a score because
Speaker 2: the Netflix timeline. So yeah, I mean, just like a
Speaker 2: crazy summer of TV.
Speaker 1: Just absolutely com up next Acoly.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's get into it. On the planet Kofar
Speaker 2: the Wookie Jedi kow Knacker. Love him going about his
Speaker 2: cool undercut business. I don't know why he has an undercut.
Speaker 2: He's just a trendy guy, so he lives.
Speaker 1: He's a very trendy They were more trendy during the they.
Speaker 3: Were more steazy, you know, they were not just.
Speaker 2: Like and he was like, I'm just gonna get some
Speaker 2: head tattoos. So he's he's doing some cool stuff. And
Speaker 2: then we go into his house and shot horror on
Speaker 2: his wall.
Speaker 3: He has the witches kind.
Speaker 2: Of spider in Sydney. Is he a magic force us?
Speaker 2: Does he care about the witches or did he keep
Speaker 2: it as a trophy because he's like a crazy psycho
Speaker 2: and he killed them all.
Speaker 1: I think he cares about the Force. I think he
Speaker 1: cared about the witches. He and Osha had that kind
Speaker 1: of bonding connection. He is more, you know, the Wookies
Speaker 1: are more connected to the natural realm. And I think
Speaker 1: he's a he's a Have you ever seen a wookie
Speaker 1: be like a piece of ship.
Speaker 3: Like that? He's not a serial killer.
Speaker 2: On chrusson good News, Jackie's back, Love Jackie, Jackie, we
Speaker 2: missed you. She's training with other Padawans as Osha watches on,
Speaker 2: and I have to say, I feel like they're really
Speaker 2: leaning into the ship here. These two have very good.
Speaker 3: Chemistry, you know. Don't you miss me?
Speaker 2: You know? And I was just like, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2: I learned that my sister's alive. I clear my name,
Speaker 2: I'm innocent. Let me go back to being a funny
Speaker 2: mechanic in the Trade Republic. And she is goodbye to
Speaker 2: Jackie because clearly there's something between them, but she doesn't
Speaker 2: want to say goodbye to Saul. She's like, I don't
Speaker 2: want to do it. If I say goodbye to him,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna end up stay that. That's too much, it's
Speaker 2: too much. On Kofar, Kaimer and may have arrived and Kaymer.
Speaker 3: Is like, oh yeah, don't worry.
Speaker 2: I just I know it so well here because like
Speaker 2: I really care about you, and you know, I came
Speaker 2: here to like just specifically so you could find the
Speaker 2: Wookie kal Naka. And they have a very interesting conversation
Speaker 2: about what Kaimer did or didn't do to be indebted
Speaker 2: to the Master. So we'll talk a little bit about
Speaker 2: that well, because I.
Speaker 1: Mean, here's where we here's where we put it out
Speaker 1: on Front Street. It feels increasingly possible that Kimeer is
Speaker 1: the big bag is the Master.
Speaker 2: Right, there's definitely hints, more so than in any other episode.
Speaker 2: And I will say people in our discord, people on
Speaker 2: the internet since the first episode, they were like, this
Speaker 2: is some drunken master stick, Like he's just pretending he
Speaker 2: doesn't know what's going on so he can kind of
Speaker 2: guide her without her being able to finger him as
Speaker 2: the Master.
Speaker 1: You know, it's very Palpatine.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, man, I dropped the bed as we arrived
Speaker 6: on the planet and oh I got caught in this
Speaker 6: Wookie track.
Speaker 2: I'm so silly and I'm drunk. Interestingly, May is like
Speaker 2: May and Kymer are talking about how the Wookie kown
Speaker 2: Knacker he has been living in this deep ass forest
Speaker 2: and he hasn't been heard from from a year. So
Speaker 2: let's be real. This man has a guilty conscience. I
Speaker 2: will say, I feel.
Speaker 1: Like there's something there, So I love I love you
Speaker 1: just calling him as his complete name, the Wookie Count.
Speaker 3: He's a Wookie Jedi. We gotta respect. H yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Kaimer then says something to May that I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: gonna regret later an episode. But he's like, look, just
Speaker 2: because Oshan is alive, it.
Speaker 3: Doesn't change anything. You made a deal. You got to
Speaker 3: kill the Jedi.
Speaker 2: And also like, how would you do that? How would
Speaker 2: you kill a Jedi without the Force force choke? You know?
Speaker 1: And by the way, obviously it's very hard. It would
Speaker 1: be very hard.
Speaker 2: But like you could, you could totally do you specifically,
Speaker 2: I don't want to say anything, but and so this
Speaker 2: is those two are on their little journey and at
Speaker 2: the Jedi Temple. Wow, we get a big reveal here.
Speaker 2: Fans call him lumpy Head. His real name is kai
Speaker 2: Ade Monday and he is a fan fave dark Horse
Speaker 2: Comics character turned prequel fave.
Speaker 3: He's literally on the front of.
Speaker 2: Like every dark Horse nineties Star Wars comic love to
Speaker 2: see his big lumpy head.
Speaker 3: He is working with Vernon Soul and they're watching.
Speaker 2: A hologram of May fighting, and interestingly I didn't really
Speaker 2: catch the first time I watched this episode, I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: they know it's me.
Speaker 3: But in this one they're.
Speaker 2: Like, she was trained by a Jedi. Venestra's like, I've
Speaker 2: seen that fighting star before.
Speaker 3: She was trained by a Jedi. This is not this
Speaker 3: is not anything else.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: This is helped. So does that mean that May's master
Speaker 3: is an ex Jedi? And it would make sense with
Speaker 3: what we know?
Speaker 1: I think so. Also, Vinestra continues to be on listen
Speaker 1: the optics around this terrible dude. She's like, pa, can't
Speaker 1: we can't tell the Jedi Council. First of all, when
Speaker 1: did the Jedi Council stop keeping secrets?
Speaker 2: Like, I'm like, please, this is a I love the
Speaker 2: I love the Higher Public era, I love the Jedi,
Speaker 2: and I love this show for showing that the Jedi
Speaker 2: is really just the shit show, Like they're trying their best,
Speaker 2: but like, what do you do in this situation? So
Speaker 2: I another shady Jedi move. Vanestra's like, you ain't going.
Speaker 2: This is like you got a problem, Yeah, you're too much,
Speaker 2: you can't. But then Soul's like, ah, but like she's
Speaker 2: not gonna give herself up, and if you kill her
Speaker 2: then we won't know about her. Master, just let me
Speaker 2: use Osha. Vanestra's like, do you have something she wants?
Speaker 2: And they're like, yeah, we've got Osha. I'm not a
Speaker 2: fan of that, Soul. I think it's a bad idea
Speaker 2: on kofa. Kimra and May are still trying to work
Speaker 2: out how to kill a Jedi with a weapon. May
Speaker 2: laments the fact her sister is Jedi scum, which I
Speaker 2: think is very interesting because she's rolling, you know, because
Speaker 2: her sisters roll them into Jedi, but she's not wearing
Speaker 2: those cloaks. May, you should know the difference. And also,
Speaker 2: just you guys, just make up your sweet Twin Force babies.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be fine. Your hoard rejoice. He's back.
Speaker 2: He's bossing everyone around as usual.
Speaker 1: I like him. I will say I've grown, he's grown
Speaker 1: on me, and I have a take on your Tord.
Speaker 1: He is a copse of course, yes, he's one of
Speaker 1: the most police officer Jedi we've ever seen. But he
Speaker 1: is the good app like, yeah.
Speaker 2: He is, he's doing he's doing it for the ideal.
Speaker 3: He's doing it for the idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is the one who read the manual and like,
Speaker 1: we got this is how we do it by the book.
Speaker 1: Don't we have to do it this way? Don't we
Speaker 1: have to follow rules? Am I gonna say?
Speaker 3: I respect it? You know what he's trying to respect?
Speaker 1: I respect it.
Speaker 2: And Charlie Barnett, who plays him, is so good that
Speaker 2: I understand why the exist. Plus everyone loves like a funny, weird,
Speaker 2: awkward character, and YOURD is extremely awkward.
Speaker 3: So he's bossing everyone around.
Speaker 2: But in even more important news, we've got a new
Speaker 2: addition to the team and his name is Basil. He's
Speaker 2: a cheeky little rodent alien. He's already inspired a fandom.
Speaker 2: It's called the Basil Battalion. I am a member, and
Speaker 2: I want to say thanks to the Your Toward Discord
Speaker 2: channel for a welcoming us into this specific funny character
Speaker 2: fandom so kindly as they are allowing in our discord.
Speaker 2: Basil Battalion posts this week in the yourd Hord channel, So.
Speaker 3: If you want to join, you want to be in
Speaker 3: love with these things.
Speaker 2: These weird characters that probably are in the show for
Speaker 2: five minutes join our discord. Speaking of Basil, he warns
Speaker 2: the Jedi about something in the forest, specifically large bulbous
Speaker 2: growths on trees, and the team survives thanks to Saul
Speaker 2: just dropping that in half, and in a big moment
Speaker 2: for Osha that again kind of ties back to her
Speaker 2: sister and also to this idea of the force and
Speaker 2: how it manifests. She realizes that now she's kind of
Speaker 2: opened her mind again. She can sense animals and living beings.
Speaker 3: She sensed the bug and then the bug attacked and
Speaker 3: the bug.
Speaker 2: Died, and she's feeling guilty about it, but it's all good.
Speaker 3: Kaimer keeps leading May.
Speaker 2: On his suspicious little forest adventure, being much the Jack
Speaker 2: Sparrow esque like I'm a.
Speaker 3: Pirate, what am I doing? I'm just I'm just mute,
Speaker 3: like I don't know what could happen.
Speaker 2: And I think it's really interesting here because we're kind
Speaker 2: of seeing obviously, if Kimeer is the Master, then he's
Speaker 2: playing May. But what I think is interesting about May
Speaker 2: is like they're so far away from any kind of
Speaker 2: like Sith law or Sith appearances that they can't even
Speaker 2: like comprehend force choking, which is like such a huge
Speaker 2: part of what we know and sort of the way
Speaker 2: the Jedi fight, And it's very interesting to kind of
Speaker 2: be in this new era where they don't even have
Speaker 2: a context for what that would be.
Speaker 1: Of course, that's very interesting.
Speaker 2: Kimer is like, brou, I just need to go and
Speaker 2: get you some water.
Speaker 3: You're too tired.
Speaker 2: You can't do this, like you're never She's like, I
Speaker 2: can't do it. It's impossible. It's a lesson. The lesson
Speaker 2: is you can't do it. He's like, Bait, just I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get you some water. Don't worry about it. You
Speaker 2: got And then you hear May screaming and you're like,
Speaker 2: oh no, what happened to May? I hope nothing bad happened.
Speaker 2: It was a trap. She laid a trap for Kaime.
Speaker 2: He's trapped in that Wookie trap. Leaving, She's like, fuck you,
Speaker 2: I don't care that you came here and you helped
Speaker 2: me out with all this. She's like, my only loyalty
Speaker 2: to my sister, not your master, not the dark side
Speaker 2: or the light side. I'm gonna snitch on myself and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give up the Master and the Jedi is
Speaker 2: gonna let me back in.
Speaker 3: Speaking of the Jedi, they are.
Speaker 2: On Kofar and they are not doing as well as
Speaker 2: May and Kimeer. They're struggling to keep track of Basil.
Speaker 3: Lol.
Speaker 2: Why is he always wandering off? That's like what we
Speaker 2: learn about him. They're like, they're like, oh, not again.
Speaker 2: I'm like, why did you bring him on the mission.
Speaker 1: He's so many rich sens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just just sniffing for some truffles, guys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So interestingly, OSHA's like, I don't know if I'm ready
Speaker 2: to face May, and he's like, you won't face me,
Speaker 2: You'll be facing You're past.
Speaker 3: We both will. She's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Why can we come clean? Read what is going?
Speaker 1: He's like, I will.
Speaker 2: Come clean once we get to the ship and we
Speaker 2: get May safely there. I'm gonna tell you everything sounds
Speaker 2: ominous and probably untrue, but sure Basil, we were just
Speaker 2: dragging him. Said he was sniffing around, but you know
Speaker 2: what he finds May and he does a very loud scream,
Speaker 2: and you realize that's why they bring him on this trip,
Speaker 2: so he can alert them to things that they need,
Speaker 2: and May heads to kal nakas. She makes it there,
Speaker 2: but heartbreakingly, as she enters the Wookie kar Naka's home
Speaker 2: in hopes of confessing her sins and her crimes and
Speaker 2: basically being able to reunite with her sister, she discovers.
Speaker 3: He is dead.
Speaker 2: He's dead, slain by somebody with a glowing red lightsaber.
Speaker 2: Rip Wokie kal Naka, we barely knew you now. I
Speaker 2: just have to say this character is so cool that
Speaker 2: I'm kind of hoping this is like a fake out,
Speaker 2: like he faked his own death.
Speaker 3: But I don't know why he would do that. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I just don't I don't want him to do.
Speaker 1: He seemed pretty dead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sad that he died. And as the episode
Speaker 2: comes to it end, the Jedi surround the house.
Speaker 3: You is doing some very your dish talking.
Speaker 2: And May come out here, Me and Asiah come out
Speaker 2: of that house. Nobody's really wondering why the Wookie hasn't
Speaker 2: come out yet. I feel like they're not thinking, well,
Speaker 2: May is obviously going to be found guilty if they
Speaker 2: go into this house and see the dead Wookie. But
Speaker 2: luckily they're distracted because as they stand outside waiting for
Speaker 2: the masked Master with his little zipper face, as Aaron
Speaker 2: so perfectly called him, he kind of baffles the Jedi.
Speaker 2: He sneaks up on them. They don't realize he's their
Speaker 2: only Osha realizes as she turns around, but even then she's.
Speaker 3: A bit too late.
Speaker 2: He stares very deep well, they stare very deeply into
Speaker 2: Oshana's eyes before kind of flinging them into the forest.
Speaker 2: And then they force fling all the Jedi who light
Speaker 2: up those cool light different colored high Republic lightsabers, and boom,
Speaker 2: coming to a closed credits roll. You ain't getting that
Speaker 2: fight scene this episode. That's what they said.
Speaker 3: They said you bear weight till episode five.
Speaker 1: I will say this episode felt uniquely. It was the
Speaker 1: not the worst, no no, but it was the most
Speaker 1: incomplete episode of this of the series yet. It definitely
Speaker 1: felt like a part one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really does. Right. I'm very interested.
Speaker 1: Because there was a lot of like woods bumbling around
Speaker 1: and unnecessary.
Speaker 2: It's very I mean in that way, it's very like
Speaker 2: a Kisawa like hidden fortress, Like it's.
Speaker 3: Definitely taken from those things.
Speaker 2: But I still want to know, you know, when Disney
Speaker 2: shares screens with the press, you know, we talk about
Speaker 2: this like they usually share just the chunk, and that's
Speaker 2: usually because they don't want you to know what's gonna
Speaker 2: happen in the second half of the season.
Speaker 3: But I'm really.
Speaker 2: Interested to see if we will get like a Leslie
Speaker 2: Headland Russian Doll style big swing for episode five that
Speaker 2: kind of reframes everything we know.
Speaker 1: Well, here, let's let me throw out a couple of
Speaker 1: options for who is the person behind.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, let's that that can be.
Speaker 1: Who is the person and because to your point with
Speaker 1: the big Leslie henlet big swing, big weird stuff, So
Speaker 1: here's option one. It's Kimer.
Speaker 3: Obviously.
Speaker 1: The way that the zipper face bad bad guy like
Speaker 1: floats down to the trees suggests further that it could
Speaker 1: be Kimer, who was tied up in the trees whence
Speaker 1: last we saw you.
Speaker 2: He's incredibly very similar, He's incredibly powerful. This is probably
Speaker 2: not apprentice Sith. This is somebody who knows that business
Speaker 2: if they can be force floating.
Speaker 1: Kimier always seems to be around when the Master is around,
Speaker 1: although not and you don't see them together.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen him in the same room.
Speaker 1: We've never seen them in the same room. And also
Speaker 1: Kimer seems to be driving a lot of knows a
Speaker 1: lot about the Master's plans.
Speaker 3: He gave me the poison to kill Toby.
Speaker 1: Gave me the poison, is driving a lot of May's actions. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's Kymer option two to the Leslie Headland weird stuff. Notably,
Speaker 1: we also don't see May with I know I have
Speaker 1: considered it. Also, May is like inside in what it
Speaker 1: like feels like a very like, uh, a potential like
Speaker 1: split personality kind of thing where her personality is fractured
Speaker 1: and maybe she she is not aware of herself as
Speaker 1: this person that there's also that.
Speaker 2: I do like that as like a super weird one. Also,
Speaker 2: I think, like early on my real thought had been
Speaker 2: in the first episode was like, maybe there's not twins.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're just one person and there's different sides to them, right,
Speaker 2: or the idea that what the Jedi did when they
Speaker 2: went there was they actually put all of the dark Side.
Speaker 2: They specifically did something to make May like a representation
Speaker 2: of the dark Side, And so I would think that
Speaker 2: would be a cool twist, an unexpected twist. Maybe there's
Speaker 2: a Tripler. I don't know that would be a very
Speaker 2: lifetime style twist. Okay, so people in the Discord had
Speaker 2: been putting soul forward, but he is there.
Speaker 3: With the Jedi.
Speaker 2: So unless he's like force puppeteering the character, I don't
Speaker 2: think so Venestra the High Republic fans would be mad.
Speaker 2: But she's not there.
Speaker 1: She's not there either, and she continues to be extremely
Speaker 1: shady and clearly knows more about what's going on. I've
Speaker 1: seen Mother carel Mother.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I like the thought that another part of the coven survived,
Speaker 1: and maybe is this person, although using a lightsaber would
Speaker 1: seem to say no. And also the mother chral thing.
Speaker 1: I said this before, it feels like racist towards dathamri.
Speaker 2: Are you like, just because she's got those horns, you're
Speaker 2: blaming her?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they look evil, and and they've had a
Speaker 1: very famous evil members. He is notoriously evil. But just
Speaker 1: because they look evil doesn't mean that they're the bad, right.
Speaker 1: But maybe I like the idea of it being one
Speaker 1: of the Covent But I think all signs at this
Speaker 1: point unless it's something really mind blowing and weird. Point
Speaker 1: to Kimer, I agree.
Speaker 2: Also, let's let's put out so that other there's other options.
Speaker 2: Someone we don't know at all, which I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people in our discord on the internet would be.
Speaker 3: They're kind of into that.
Speaker 2: It seems unlikely Star Wars likes to be connected. But
Speaker 2: I think the idea, uh, someone we do know but
Speaker 2: haven't seen yet, like someone from the Cannon or the
Speaker 2: law or the world. I mean some people have even
Speaker 2: been talking about, you know, as I call him dath Plagius,
Speaker 2: but as our discord wishes, I called him darth Plaguious
Speaker 2: with the hard g darth plague us because he's a plague.
Speaker 2: Could it be him, I don't know, but he could
Speaker 2: have been the one who taught the witches how to
Speaker 2: make it's life.
Speaker 1: The person seems extremely powerful. He's extremely powerful. Then the
Speaker 1: Jedis are ready for you.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm very interested to see where they go. But
Speaker 2: at the moment, I think Kaimera is our best bet.
Speaker 2: But we'll see what is episode five gonna be. I
Speaker 2: hope episode five is either a massive battle episode with
Speaker 2: the Lightsabers, or I hope episode five is May's version
Speaker 2: of what happened the night that the fire occurred, because
Speaker 2: I feel like there's a very rational tinged potential there
Speaker 2: of somebody of what may experience, and that would kind
Speaker 2: of open the second half of the season to being
Speaker 2: a little bit more transparent about whatever the central.
Speaker 3: Mystery of, like what did the Jedi do?
Speaker 1: So that can I make it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Please rip Yord will go to meet the Lord. I
Speaker 1: think Ord, if you just looking at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the only good.
Speaker 1: He he it feels like he's gonna get got Wow.
Speaker 3: Sorry to the yourd Hord. He's going to see the Lord.
Speaker 1: Sorry to the Hord.
Speaker 3: I hope he's joining the guy.
Speaker 2: Have grown on me, But yeah, he's he's a he's
Speaker 2: a charming, awkward little fellow.
Speaker 3: But I could see that, and.
Speaker 2: He does have a great connection with Osha, so that
Speaker 2: would be a good tragic Ton. But yeah, we'll have
Speaker 2: to wait and see what happens next week on the
Speaker 2: Accolyte episode five. This is officially halfway through the season.
Speaker 7: Guys, Yeah, coming in, Hey guys, Okay, so we wanted
Speaker 7: to get your reaction to some news based off of
Speaker 7: the final segment we have in here. Uh like literally
Speaker 7: five minutes ago. Alamo Draft House has been acquired by
Speaker 7: Sony Pictures and Entertainment all thirty five locations across twenty
Speaker 7: five cities. It's still gonna be run by the current CEO. Uh,
Speaker 7: they're not changing anything. They announced the move as an
Speaker 7: opportunity to bolster their anime site, Crunchy Role.
Speaker 2: Oh oh my god, that's insane.
Speaker 3: So they're just, oh my gosh, Okay, so.
Speaker 1: This is that way they closed. This is why they
Speaker 1: closed all the a bunch of theaters in Texas.
Speaker 2: Five of them were closed down by the franchise holders,
Speaker 2: and the whole company is like bankrupt, so it doesn't
Speaker 2: surprise me. But this is kind of blowing my mind
Speaker 2: because also I get invited to a lot of Crunchy
Speaker 2: Role movie premieres right and I love to go to
Speaker 2: them and see anime. But most of those movies will only.
Speaker 3: Get like a few days release.
Speaker 2: So I guess they could base if they see this
Speaker 2: as a way to bolster Crunchy Role, they could essentially
Speaker 2: be doing like a a Haiku wide release at every
Speaker 2: animent rock house. But I mean, this is really wild
Speaker 2: because people have been hoping that it would get bought
Speaker 2: by somebody, But I don't know if they were hoping
Speaker 2: it would get bought by a studio.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's all kind of crazy now because Amazon, I
Speaker 7: think brought the arc light if I'm not mistaken, And
Speaker 7: so now that the and I.
Speaker 2: Did not know that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we said these laws with the pairmountccords, I think
Speaker 7: is what they were called, where they were like, hey,
Speaker 7: you can't be a studio and also purchase theaters for
Speaker 7: distribution because you know, monopolies. But those got overturned.
Speaker 1: So now I think, yeah.
Speaker 2: Well Netflix was actually the first one, I think because
Speaker 2: they bought the Egyptian mm hmm. And that's that's now
Speaker 2: because now I will say in that case, you know,
Speaker 2: very much a drill tweet here where you like you
Speaker 2: don't have to hand it to Netflix, but in this
Speaker 2: case I will hand it to Netflix. They have done
Speaker 2: a good job where they do premiers there they do programming,
Speaker 2: but they have let the American Cinematique still program a
Speaker 2: lot of really great stuff. I've been to see Batman
Speaker 2: returns there. I've they've been doing these studio ghibli all
Speaker 2: day marathons that have been really incredible.
Speaker 3: I don't the vibes of it are a bit too
Speaker 3: bougie now.
Speaker 2: It used to be great when it was kind of
Speaker 2: a Rundown Old Rep Theater, but they have done a
Speaker 2: good job of balancing that programming. So I wonder if
Speaker 2: I wonder how so, I wonder if Sony's gonna kind
Speaker 2: of follow that that ruling of Like the Alamo Draft
Speaker 2: Houses is really like a cult cinema place.
Speaker 3: That's where I went to go.
Speaker 2: And see the Clones of Bruce Lee documentary. I did
Speaker 2: a Yeah, it was generally like it.
Speaker 1: I think that there's I think it's pretty good. I
Speaker 1: think it's also like the it's the where movies are
Speaker 1: going because like you have to, you have to provide
Speaker 1: extra value to get people to the movie theater now,
Speaker 1: and so how do you do that? Yeah, and Alamo
Speaker 1: Draft Food.
Speaker 2: The interesting thing is the food is actually really good
Speaker 2: there this, but the cinemas are quite small. I'm definitely
Speaker 2: interested in this too, because Alamo Draft House has a
Speaker 2: lot of connections within these like movie communities and.
Speaker 3: Indie movie communities.
Speaker 2: I'll be very interested to see if those are able
Speaker 2: to continue Undertood.
Speaker 7: I think it's gonna say the same given that they
Speaker 7: said they're gonna keep the CEO and in this intact,
Speaker 7: so the person who's running it still running it. Uh,
Speaker 7: they're keeping open all the theaters for now least, fingers crossed.
Speaker 7: None of those are closing except the ones they closed
Speaker 7: last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right on those, so hopefully hopefully it's better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure completely unrelated to the to the takeover was closing,
Speaker 1: just like, not at all connected, no.
Speaker 2: Matter, I know, I'm definitely I'm definitely always suspicious of
Speaker 2: the studios, and honestly, like, well.
Speaker 1: I think it was actually smart of them to go, hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to close these, but you should close them
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 2: We'll buy Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly because maybe they don't
Speaker 2: want franchisees orever. I'm very interested to see how this goes, because,
Speaker 2: for example, the Egyptian buyout right made a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: It's on Hollywood Boulevard, it's a huge space. Netflix can
Speaker 2: run screenings that The Acolyte d I mean The Acolyte.
Speaker 3: The Alamo Draft House.
Speaker 2: La Cinema is like in a mall in downtown LA.
Speaker 1: We're parking situation.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Every time I'm in there, I feel like I'm in
Speaker 2: a Twilight Zone episode and I will just be driving
Speaker 2: up a spot.
Speaker 3: For my whole life.
Speaker 1: Situation.
Speaker 2: It's it's not very big. I've actually done multiple events there,
Speaker 2: and I have to say I hope Sony is able
Speaker 2: to keep the A twenty four aspect there because I
Speaker 2: have eaten a lot of great I have eaten a
Speaker 2: lot of great free food at Alamo draft Hoouse screenings
Speaker 2: of A twenty four movies. But also I did, like
Speaker 2: one of the coolest things I ever did was I
Speaker 2: did a Q and A for a movie called VH
Speaker 2: Yes that was made by Tim Robin's son, all filmed
Speaker 2: on VHS.
Speaker 3: It was really great put out by a Scilloscope.
Speaker 2: He's the one who's always doing funny videos about being
Speaker 2: an EPO baby where it's like his parents don't like him.
Speaker 3: It's very funny.
Speaker 2: But the thing was so great and it was like
Speaker 2: really full, and it was a premiere, but that was
Speaker 2: like ram packed for the premiere of an indie movie
Speaker 2: no one's ever heard of. So I don't really know
Speaker 2: that the La Alamo Draft House has the space to
Speaker 2: be doing like anime premieres and big movie premieres, but
Speaker 2: this is very interesting and I am like also calm,
Speaker 2: and I have to say this. Carmen says that she
Speaker 2: had that the Netflix Theater aka the Egyptian has been
Speaker 2: streaming from Amazon Prime, and if that is true, that
Speaker 2: is legit one of the funniest things I've ever.
Speaker 3: Heard, and I also believe it. I have seen many
Speaker 3: funny videos.
Speaker 2: Of people who've paid to go to REP screenings at
Speaker 2: like local theaters and then somebody's like logging into Amazon to.
Speaker 3: Like stream the movie at the beginning.
Speaker 2: Like, honestly, again, don't got to hand it to him,
Speaker 2: but in this case, I will hand it to Quentin
Speaker 2: Tarantino that the Vista and the New Beverly are like
Speaker 2: fucking amazing, and I go to them as much as
Speaker 2: I possibly can, always thirty five mail or seventy mil like,
Speaker 2: those are great REP spaces.
Speaker 1: I am the videos, Oh my gosh, yeah videos any
Speaker 1: American cinematy go to all of those places, and I'm
Speaker 1: very interested. I wonder, like we live in the center of.
Speaker 3: Oh no, we're very lucky. It's not like for everyone.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see what this strategy portends for
Speaker 1: Alamo draft Houses outside of the La bubble, and how
Speaker 1: that part of the strategy, how that part of it
Speaker 1: plays into the strategy. Because it's very it's very easy
Speaker 1: to say, like hero it makes a lot of sense
Speaker 1: as a as a way to streamline distribution and as
Speaker 1: part of the marketing and promo for events, et cetera.
Speaker 1: How what what that works for LA? But I have
Speaker 1: no idea what it means outside of LA. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: Mike Scott, be very interesting to see.
Speaker 2: My My dream is that it means that people are
Speaker 2: going to get to access great cinema outside of like
Speaker 2: obvious cultural hubs like LA.
Speaker 3: Let's see how that goes. I don't ever trust.
Speaker 2: The corporation, but it's interesting that they specify crunchy role
Speaker 2: because I'm just like, guys, the streaming is already so
Speaker 2: popular for crunchy role, Like, what does that look like?
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 2: I guess we're going to get to go and see
Speaker 2: a lot more anime at the cinema.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really Netflix versus Sony in that space.
Speaker 2: It's like those two Yeah, intriguo.
Speaker 1: Yeah. In the next couple of episodes of X ray Vision,
Speaker 1: we are of course diving into House of the Dragon,
Speaker 1: continuing our conversations about the accolade, recapping every episode of
Speaker 1: those shows weekly for the durations of each respective series,
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